Brass (comics)
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Marvel Comics Presents #67 (December 1990) |
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| Alter ego | Sean Watanabe |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations | Navy SEALs |
| Abilities | Telepathy, Combat expert |
Brass (Sean Watanabe) is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in Marvel Comics Presents #67.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Brass is the son of Yuji Watanabe, the karate tutor of Ghost Rider's alter ego, Dan Ketch. An expert martial artist, Sean was trained by his father as soon as he could walk as a child. Sean then joined the Navy and trained as a commando operative in the United States Navy SEALs which is where he earned the nickname "Brass".
After leaving the Navy, Sean met a girl named Theresa and fell in love, but she was accidentally killed by a car attempting to escape an attack by the Mandarin on the Avengers. Sean learned that the Mandarin had been working with other villains as part of the "Acts of Vengeance", and swore revenge on all the villains that had taken part.
He began by hitting the Mandarin's operations in Chinatown, and ended up aiding Wolverine and Ghost Rider in rescuing his father's other pupil, Jack D'auria, from Deathwatch and his ninja forces. Brass lost his mutant powers after the M-Day (power loss confirmed in New Avengers #18).
[edit] The Initiative
Sean is being considered as a "potential recruit" for the Initiative program, according to Civil War: Battle Damage Report.
[edit] Powers and abilities
He is an expert martial artist and was a low-level telepath who could read the thoughts to anticipate his opponent's moves.
[edit] Other Marvel characters named Brass
Watanabe isn't the only character to be called Brass. These include:
- Selbert, a member of Project: Glamor (an attempt to re-create the Super-Soldier Serum) was know as Brass up until he was killed by Railsback. He first appeared in Marvel Comics Presents #1 and was killed in #12.
- In Iron Man vol. 1 #330, a large robot controlled by Morgan Stark was known as Brass.
[edit] Bibliography
- Marvel Comics Presents #65-71
- Avengers vol. 1 #313
- New Avengers #16-19
