(Yes, they 'shot' the tech into his 'blood'.

They have their fingers firmly wedged in all sorts of unethical mumbo-jumbo-including a good old-fashioned ancient secret society called The Sect-but their crowning achievement is Bloodshot, an ordinary man injected with state-of-the-art nanite technology. In his final form, 'Bloodshot' is a super-soldier, the end result of an experiment conducted by the shadowy government agency Project Rising Spirit. Throughout the years, Bloodshot's backstory has been fleshed out, but the basics remain the same.

He received a pretty lengthy 52-issue solo run, which was rebooted in 1997, and then again in 2012. Created by writer Kevin VanHook and artist Yvel Guichet, the character first briefly popped up in 1992's Eternal Warrior #4 and was an immediate hit with readers. Here's everything you need to know about this pale-skinned badass with nanites in his blood.īreaking down Bloodshot's 'identity' is more complicated than it sounds because he's a man with layers, like an onion, or an extremely deadly Shrek. It's understandable if your immediate reaction to a Bloodshot movie isn't 'whoo!' but 'who?', and we've got you covered. (Or third, if you consider Xander Cage a personal hero, as everyone should.) Unlike the usual box office giants of the comic book genre, the title character hails not from Marvel or DC, but the pages of Valiant Comics.

Guardians of the Galaxy star Vin Diesel will step into a superhero role for the second time when Bloodshot debuts on March 13.

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