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Flint (Victoria Ngengi)
"You know what you learn in not very good countries ? The rules don't work. Not for you. I joined StormWatch because I wanted to help show people that there are a bigger set of rules."Real Name: Victoria Ngengi
First Appearance: StormWatch Vol 1 #28
Affiliation: StormWatch PHD
Former Affiliation: StormWatch, StormWatch: Team Achilles, United Nations
Vital Stats
Species: Human/Seedling
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 172 lbs
Date of Birth: 1971
Birthplace: Kenya
Known Family:
- Husband: Benito Santini
Powers/Abilities
Flint's skin is rock-hard, and she seems to be pretty much invulnerable. Bullets affect her about as much as a stiff rain, and even a rocket can at most knock her back and damage her costume. Dropping her from a great height will result in a crater and an unfazed Flint. She does seem more vulnerable to energy weapons. Her skin can also be damaged by concentrated molecular acid, though it will not be destroyed completely and the scarring will repair itself given sufficient time.
Although she doesn't display extreme super-strength, her blows have impressive power - presumably a combination of her strength, speed and rock-hard hands. She can behead a normal man in a single punch, and has been known to kill bulletproof superhumans with a good rush-by punch to the jaw.
In recent years, Flint has displayed super-speed - she can do easy things faster than humanly possible (such as changing clothes), and is superhumanly good at catching projectiles in mid-flight. She is also very proficient at grabbing large objects and throwing them with great fluidity, power and accuracy.
She is able to create a brutal, vectorized shockwave by slamming her hands together - the resultant blast of pressurized air was enough to break the back of a cybernetically enhanced man.
SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
Bio:
Origin
Flint is Kenyan, and has survived much of the worst in Kenya's recent history. Her father and brother were killed in border skirmishes with Tanzania in the mid '70s, and her mother was murdered two years later. She thus was brought up as a ward of the State. Her remarkable strength was noticed early, and she was thought as a potential Olympic competitor for Kenya; a few years after, her Seedling powers began to emerge, and she was noticed by the UN.
StormWatch
When the superhuman members of the StormWatch agency were decimated during the Despot crisis, the UN found itself facing a severe shortage in metahuman manpower and hired or recruited various superhumans from all over the world. She eventually made it to full StormWatch operative status when the superhuman assets were reorganized; Flint was assigned to StormWatch Red. At this point, Bendix's madness was taking its toll. This affected Flint personally, as she was sent in by part of a small team to attack Kaizen Gamorra's island nation in response to a terrorist bomb that killed 223 innocent aircraft passengers and crew. Though Flint and teamate Fahrenheit's role was to destroy abanonded property, they had to watch as ally Rose Tattoo obeyed Bendix's orders to kill 223 Gammoran citizens. Any citzens, man, woman or child. The organization eventually went into a crisis when the madness of Bendix became obvious. Jenny Sparks from StormWatch Black had to kill him and assume command. Or so it is thought, Bendix actually survives Sparks' attack.
A new StormWatch rose from the ashes of Bendix's organization - headed by Jackson King, who succeeds Bendix as StormWatch's Weatherman. Flint became a core member of the team. Despite the considerable talents on roster, this version of StormWatch lasted for but a few months, though they accomplished many things during this time, mostly thwarting superhuman-creation schemes. Much of what they confronted was engineered behind the scenes by Bendix. Soon they intercepted a massive asteroid getting close to Earth, StormWatch's super-satellite was breached and invaded by hundreds of Aliens. The situation quickly became catastrophic, and most of the crew died. An intervention by the WildCATs allowed the surviving StormWatch personnel to reach the bridge and evacuate, while Winter remained behind to pilot the compromised station into the Sun, incinerating the Aliens. As for Flint herself, she fell during the early hours of the battle, defending the escape pods so the crew could evacuate. She burst open an Alien with a punch, and to her surprise the acid blood of the creature proved capable of wounding her. She fell back into an escape pod, which then launched as she was struggling to stop the acid from burning her. She was safe, but considerably dismayed by her involuntary retreat from the battlefield. The damage was enough to leave her with large, permanent scars on the face and shoulder.
At that point, StormWatch was shut down. StormWatch Black became The Authority; the only other superhuman operatives of StormWatch were Jackson King, Christine Trelane and Victoria N'Gengi. They were retained reserve status, but StormWatch was dead. After StormWatch fell, Flint was only seen once, at a party held by the Authority - and although she was happy to be reunited with Jenny Sparks and Swift, she seemed bitter about so many people not even remembering StormWatch.
StormWatch Team Achilles
One or two years later, as the threat from superhuman operatives failed to recede, the UN assembled a new superhuman crisis control team as the new StormWatch - though the budget was but a mere shadow of the old StormWatch. The new Weatherman was American veteran Benito Santini. Santini was extremely wary about superhumans, and his core team were elite soldiers from all over the world without superhuman powers. Given the small size, lack of budget and extreme danger of the missions, Santini eventually added superhumans to his team to replace losses - but mostly as a part of the support team. Flint was the first obvious superhuman Santini recruited for his team in a front line capacity. He had chosen her due to her idealism - she was fighting to change the world and for the common good. Flint proves a professional, efficient and disciplined member of the team, and an invaluable assets.
In the wake of the Authority taking control of the USA, when the new StormWatch seceded from the UN and went rogue, Flint followed Santini. The team went underground and fled to Europe, where Flint marries Santini. After a series of mostly successful missions, the new StormWatch found itself stranded on a parallel Earth where the entire population had been killed by a rogue super powered being.
It took them several years to walk out of Project Entry universe, but Team Achilles managed to return to the original WildStorm Universe, only to watch it destroyed by the events of Number of the Beast. Flint also noticed that her former StormWatch teammates were revived, and she rushed to see them again and join StormWatch, much to the chagrin of her husband, Ben Santini.
World's End
She is next seen during World's End, in a new Stormwatch: Post Human Division team fighting alongside Deathblow and Fahrenheit on a post-apocalyptic Earth.
Alternate Versions:
- The Bleed Universe: Flint was still a member of StormWatch and was apparently killed along with the rest of the team when they tried to stop a Kherubim invasion.
Trivia
- Flint was created by Jeff Mariotte & Ron Lim
Appearances:
- The Authority Vol 1 #21
- The Authority Vol 5 World's End #6, #9, #18,
- Coup D'Etat #2
- Number of the Beast #8
- StormWatch Vol 1 #28, #29, #30, #31, #32, #33, #37, #40, #42, #46, #47, #50
- StormWatch Vol 2 Preview, #1, #2, #3, #5, #6, #9, #10, #11
- StormWatch PHD #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24
- StormWatch: Team Achilles #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23
- Wetworks Vol 1 #40, #41
- Wildcats Vol 5 World's End #9,
- WildC.A.T.s Annual #1
- WildC.A.T.s/Aliens
- WildStorm Spotlight #4
Sources
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