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Helspont"First thing you must learn about Helspont is that he takes what he needs and regards those who help him."

Real Name: unknown
First Appearance: WildC.A.T.s #1
Affiliation: The Cabal

Vital Stats
Species: Daemonite in possession of an Acuran body
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 175 lbs
Date of Birth:
Birthplace: Daemon
Known Family: none.


Powers/Abilities:
Helspont, like all Daemonite possess the ability to take over another life form's body and manipulate it from within. Helspont possesses an Acuran body which grants him abilities that are much greater than other Daemonites. He can fire blasts of pure energy and has powerful telekinetic abilities. Additionally, he has enhanced strength and speed.

It is theorized that Helspont is a collective of Daemonite intelligence and will appear when the Daemonite population reaches a certain level. This entity possess the total knowledge of the entire Daemonite race.


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Bio:
Helspont is a Daemonite, an alien with the ability to possess other creatures. The Daemonites were at war with the Kherubim. Helspont managed to take over a powerful Acurian, a species with incredible mental powers, as his host body. As a Daemonite Lord, Helspont was appointed military commander of a Daemonite spaceship, though he had to share command with two other Daemonite Lords. The vessel encountered a Kherubim vessel near Earth and a battle begun that ended with both vessels crashlanding on Earth, killing one of the Daemonite Lords.

On Earth, Helspont took control over most of the surviving Daemonites, claiming the title of High Lord. Helspont's first major battle on Earth took place in the Dardanelles, the straights between Turkey and Greece, durin the Hellenistic times. It was named 'the Hellespont' in his dubious honour.

Helspont would go on to found the Cabal, a criminal organisation, aimed at world conquest and the ultimate goal of Daemonite Reunification: a return to Daemon. He constructed a submarine, known as the Behemoth, as his base of operations. Helspont battled the surviving Kherubim on Earth for centuries, but without much success.

Team One
In the 70's, Helspont made his first documented move against humanity. Helspont tried to start a nuclear war between the most powerful nations on Earth in order to get humans to destroy themselves so the planet would be empty for the Daemonites. Lord Emp, a Kherubim, created Team 1 to combat Helspont and the villains he had gathered to help him. Team 1 was made up of key figures in the Wildstorm Universe, but their first fight against Helspont was to be their last.

 Since Helspont wasn't acting alone, he was more dangerous than they had expected. Along with some Daemonites he had working for him, Helspont had also allied with a man that was known as Slaughterhouse Smith. Smith was a super powered human that could shoot lasers from his eyes and hands as well as fly. He ran a large gang that pretty much owned New York. Helspont thought he would be good to have working with him so he recruited him and his men (one of which would go on to become Pike, a member of Helspont's second The Cabal) to help him. Slaughterhouse Smith knew that helping Helspont meant betraying his race and he was perfectly fine with it. He had never felt like he was part of the human race to begin with, so killing everyone to make way for the Helspont's Daemonites was not a problem. Helspont led Smith, his men and some Daemonites in an attack against a US missile base in order to get access to a nuke. In less than half an hour they had complete control and Team 1 was sent to stop them. Before they showed up though, Helspont turned on Smith. He announced that he planned to launch the first missile at New York City, where Smith's family and only friends lived. Smith tried to stop him, but Helspont had control of his men so Smith could do nothing but stand there.

As Helspont got ready to launch the missile, Team 1 arrived and a fight ensued. Various Team 1 members paired up with named and unnamed villains on Helspont's side, but Helspont himself was locked in battle with Mr. Majestic. Helspont was winning and he launched the missile while he fought Majestic. What exactly happened next is unknown since the story ends after the missile is launched without telling the reader anything. Since Mr. Majestic shows up after the fight in other books, he obviously wasn't killed by Helspont. Helspont also failed to destroy New York. Before the comic ends, Regiment, a member of Team 1 is seen riding the bomb and New York is still in place in following comics so he must have disarmed it, though he may have died in the process. After the Team 1 incident, Helspont disappears for a while and isn't seen for decades.

WildC.A.T.s: Reunification
Helspont returned with a new plan in the 90's. Instead of eradicating the human race on his own, he planned on contacting a Daemonite armada. Once contact was established, the next stage of his plan was to open a stargate in Earth's orbit so the fleet of alien ships at Daemon could reach Earth quickly and attack from space. The name of the process was the Reunification. In order to create and maintain the portal needed for the Reunification, Helspont needed one of several magical orbs of power. One of the other orbs was carried inside the body of Void, a member of the WildC.A.T.s. Since she carried an orb inside her, she knew when another one was being targeted and was able to warn Lord Emp, leader of the WildC.A.T.s before it was too late, and they fought to prevent Helspont from succeeding. In order to help him get the orb before the WildC.A.T.s could stop him, Helspont created his own group, a new incarnation of The Cabal. This Cabal was made up of Helspont, a Coda, Pike, a psychic named Providence, and a few humans and numerous Daemonites.

 The first battle between the WildC.A.T.s and Helspont's people occurred in the first issue of WildC.A.T.S: Covert Action Teams, when Grifter was sent to get Voodoo to join the team. During his attempt at recruiting her, he was attacked by Helspont's hired Coda warrior and two Daemonites. The attack ended with the entire area destroyed in a fiery explosion and the death of Helspont's soldiers and the escape of the WildC.A.T.s. Helspont thought they were dead though, and continued with his plan for Reunification. The next stage involved having one of his Daemonites break into a NASA compound and steal the orb. After that was done, the last step was getting a Daemonite into the body of Dan Quayle, the Vice President of the United States. This went without incident and now, with an inside man, he was able to secure a military base where he could access the right machinery to operate the orb in order to create the stargate.

To keep the WildC.A.T.s off his back, he'd tricked them into fight the Youngblood, another Wildstorm Team. Before the two teams could figure out they had been tricked, Spartan was almost totally destroyed. Voodoo and Maul were also incapacitated and the rest of the team was forced abandon them and go after Helspont alone. Just as Helspont and his scientists had started to activate the machines to begin the Reunification, the remainder of the WildC.A.T.s (Emp, Zealot, Grifter, Warblade and Void) arrived and attacked. While Helspont tried to hurry up the process of Reunification, the super powered members of his Cabal (Pike and The Coda and a Daemonite) fought the WildC.A.T.s. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the base, another member of Helspont's Cabal arrived with his own minions. Gnome had planned on betraying Helspont from the start so he could wield the power of the orb on his own. He'd hired the Troika and his own Coda warrior and while Helspont's people fought the C.A.T.s, he made his way towards them. Unbeknown to all of these people, back where the Youngblood and WildC.A.T.s had been fighting, Voodoo, Maul and Spartan had all regained enough strength to kill the Daemonite in the body of the Vice President and fill the Youngblood in on what was happening. Back in the heart of the base, Helspont saw Emp for the first time that night and recognized him as an enemy he'd thought he'd killed when he fought Team One. This obviously angered Helspont and he started fighting on his own, no longer relying on Pike and The Coda to do it for him. With a few energy attacks and psychic assaults, he quickly took down the WildC.A.T.s on his own. With all his enemies out of the picture, Helspont activated the orb, opened a stargate in Earth-space and the night sky began to fill with Daemonite ships.

 As Helspont basked in his victory, Voodoo, Maul and the entire Youngblood team (accompanied by Dan Quayle) attacked. This didn't bother him though. He laughed as he created a powerful energy shield that stopped the combined attack and then disabled the entire team in one blast. As the orb continued to bring in more ships, Emp used a hidden communicator to contact Spartan, who was at the buildings core, where the machines that powered the whole place were. Still damaged from before, he used the last of his power to shut down the entire compound. As a result, the orb stopped working properly (destroying ships in transit as well as ones near the stargate) and the machines that had been powering it exploded. Helspont was thrown back by the explosion but wouldn't give up on his chance to take over the world. He went to get what was left of the orb so he could use it, but when he reached the machine, he found Gnome and his men. Gnome revealed that he had rigged the whole place to blow and before anyone could react, he unleashed all of the power of the orb onto Helspont in an attempt to kill him. As Helspont lay motionless on the ground, the WildC.A.T.s attacked Gnome and the Troika. Emp blew off the arm of Gnome and he dropped the orb down a shaft. He dove after it while everyone that was still alive escaped the building. The entire compound exploded moments later and Helspont, Gnome and the orb were all assumed dead or destroyed.

WildStorm Rising
Wildstorm Rising involved most of the other Wildstorm Universe characters and teams and gave Helspont a chance to become the enemy of them all. During the crossover event, rumors of a Daemonite vessel from the original crash to Earth started to fly around. Characters from all over the place were investigating these rumors and everyone wanted the ship. Along with all the good guys that were after it, there were many villains who wanted it too, and Helspont was just one of them. He wanted to take the ship and get to Daemon where he could gather a force to come back to Earth to take over or just leave the planet and never return. The ship turned out not to be a Daemonite one, but a Kheran one. This didn't deter Helspont (or anyone else) and they all continued to fight over it. At one point, Helspont stood against every Wildstorm hero and was ready to take them all on. In the fight that followed, he effortlessly swept most of them aside with his amazing telekinetic and energy manipulation powers, but eventually got locked in a battle with none other than Mr. Majestic. The battle was going nowhere but while Majestic kept him busy, the WildC.A.T.s were able to get aboard the ship and take off, but not before shooting Helspont with the ships lasers. Though he survived, he failed to get the ship.

WildC.A.T.s: Time Travel
Helspont has tried many times to either take over or destroy the world, but most of them weren't major enough to get their own stories. His plan to use America's own nukes to jump start a nuclear holocaust and wipe out all of humanity was very nearly successful and prompted the creation of a super hero team, so the event was cataloged. Likewise, Project Reunification actually did work, and, if not for the last minute interference of Spartan and the work of a traitorous ally, Helspont would have ruled the world. These were the major attempts, but there were others. Going by human history, his very first plot involved him traveling through time. It's unknown when he started from, but he arrived Ancient Rome. This was just a stop on his way to when the Daemonites and Kherubim first landed on Earth, though. He planned on traveling back to the Kherubim ship and using his Acurian body and powers (which he didn't have originally at that point in time) to take out the Kherubim ship and stop his from crashing. This plan was foiled by the WildC.A.T.s who were also traveling back in time to stop someone else from rewriting history. Helspont was prevented from traveling further back in time, but one of his henchmen, a Daemonite named Mortuus, was able to make it back as planned. He made it back to the Kherubim ship, but was killed by Zealot in the past before he could do anything.

Gen 13
Returning to Earth, the Daemonites soon came to learn of their defeat. Helspont visited Gen¹³, claiming to be a superhero now that the war was over, but it turned out to be a ruse. He was defeated and retreated.

Majestic
Recently Helspont has taken the human disguise of Mr. Wyvern, a rival of Mister Majestic's friend Desmond. Both Desmond and Wyvern lead large companies that produce extraterrestrial technology for human use. When investigating a Kherubim World Shaper Engine, Wyvern revealed his true self and used Desmond's cybernetic body to communicate with the Shaper Engine. He discovered that the Daemonites were created as a servitor race to the Kherubim. He battled Mister Majestic and Zealot and escaped when the Kherubim Shapers Guild arrived on Earth. When the Shapers Guild attacked Daemonites, Helspont forged an alliance with Mister Majestic against their common enemy.

He engaged in battle against the Shaper's Guild and his physical body was destroyed, forcing him to transfer into the body of Desmond, who was still connected to the World Shaper. He tried to secure the artifact for himself, but became locked into a contest of endurance with Majestic, who continually initiated lock-out codes to thwart Helspont's hacking. Over the course of several weeks, Majestic was pushed to the limits of his endurance, until the Engine shut down of its own accord, as all animal life on the planet Earth mysteriously disappeared. Majestic destroyed Desmond's body with Helspont in it.

WorldStorm
In the first issue of WildCats vol. 4, it has been revealed that in the rebooted WildStorm Universe, Helspont is not only alive, but reportedly allied with Kaizen Gamorra. It has also been stated that rather than being a Daemonite possessing an Acurian host, Helspont is a Daemonite central mind given body when the population reaches a certain density.


Alternate Versions:
  • World War 3: In the Heroes Reborn: World War 3 event, Helspont joined forces with Doctor Doom and the Skrulls to take over Earth. After Doom went back in time to avert a disaster, the Wildstorm and Marvel realities mixed. Doom seized an opportunity and took advantage of being the first to know about the melding of the universes. He forged an alliance with Helspont in order to have access to Daemonite troops. Helspont was his second in command in all things and together with the Skrulls, they succeeded in taking over this new world. They ruled from Latveria and thanks to Daemonite troops and special genetic monstrosities that Helspont provided, there was almost no force that could stop them. The only reason they lost control was because they were separated, and also because of Deathblow and the Thing. Doom went to the The Negative Zone to stop the heroes from destroying a device he had hidden there. If they destroyed it and similar device in the real world, the universes would go back to normal. While he was gone, Deathblow, who had only just appeared in this universe tackled Helspont into the device in the real world, destroying it. With one device weakened, the other was easy to destroy, so as usual, the combined forces of all of Earth's heroes was able to set things right. The universes were split and all the Wildstorm characters were sent back to their own world, with neither universe remembering what had happened.

Trivia:
  • Helspont was created by Jim Lee & Brandon Choi.

 Appearances:
  • Avengers Vol 2 #13
  • Backlash #8
  • Captain America Vol 2 #13
  • Gen 13 Vol 2 #48, #50
  • Grifter Vol 2 #9
  • Iron Man Vol 2 #13
  • StormWatch Vol 1 #22
  • Team One: StormWatch #1, #2
  • Team One: WildC.A.T.s #1, #2
  • Wetworks Vol 1 #8
  • Wild Times: Grifter #1
  • WildC.A.T.s #1, #2, #3, #4, #45, #46
  • Wildcats Vol 4 WorldStorm #1
  • WildC.A.T.s Adventures #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #8, #10
  • Wildcats: Mosaic
  • WildC.A.T.s: Spartan vs. Helspont Special Edition #1
  • WildStorm Rising #2

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