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Warhawk
Personal Info:
Real Name: Mitchell Tanner
Also Known As: The Ultimate Soldier
Place Of Birth: Gainsville, Florida
First Appearance: Marvel Premiere Vol.1 #23 (1975) Bronze Age Villain
Known Associates: Sebastian Shaw, Constrictor, Tombstone, Man-Bull
Group Affiliation: Former agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. II
Base Of Operations: Mobile
Grudges: Power Man, Iron Fist and the X-Men
Creators: Chris Claremont and Pat Broderick
Gallery: Click

Powers:

Warhawk is a highly trained assassin, soldier, marksman, and armed and unarmed combatant. He's also experienced with explosives, electronics, and computers.

Enhanced Abilities: Warhawk has enhanced strength and endurance

Body Armour: Warhawk has steel hard "omnium skin" which is bulletproof.

Weapons: Warhawk uses a standard high-powered rifle, but has also used a gun firing tranquilizer darts, and a fletchette pistol, which fired rocket-powered darts.

Origins:

During military action in Vietnam, Mitchell Tanner was a career soldier, one of the best. He was a bloodthirsty soldier, but his men were intensely loyal to him, until they were all wiped out in an ambush. Only Tanner himself survived, and he was wounded, completely cut off from help. The people of a nearby village took him in and nursed him. After a time, he went "native" and virtually became one of them, marrying a local girl, Liu Thanh. Then, like his battalion before him, his new home, and his wife, were wiped out. This time, Tanner wasn't so lucky: he was shot to pieces, living on nothing more than willpower. The military valued him and they brought him to army surgeon Noah Burstein. Burstein used his "process" to heal Tanner, granting him steel-like skin at the same time. Dubbed Warhawk he became a virtual killing machine, but his experiences, or the process, unhinged his mind.

Notes:

Warhawk at Marvel Database

Warhawk at Marvel Universe: The Appendix

Warhawk at Comic Vine