User blog:M(G)P/Alternate Universe Challenge No 9

There was rather little interest in no 8, but maybe I did make it a bit too difficult, by asking for a non-American character. However, someone did ask if there would be another one, so here it is. This one's a bit tricky too...

I call for a morally ambiguous hero. So, somebody who believes himself to be a hero, who acts in many respects heroically, but yet is not a true paragon of justice and all that is good in this world. Some examples are the Punisher and Deadpool, Venom (at some points in its career), Red Hulk, or perhaps Tony Stark during Civil War, but I'd like to go maybe even a step further. If you can come up with a character who is both admirable and despicable at the same time, you got it. The point is to make it unclear whether we want to like this guy (or gal).

Since this all may seem a bit vague, I'll make an exception and present my own character as an example.

THE WHITE EAGLE Tomasz Sęk sees himself as Poland's national hero. And he is in many respects very heroic. He is incredibly brave, has a very strong moral code (he is particularly sensitive to crimes against children and women), he would not think twice about laying his life in defense of the weak and the oppressed. He is certainly the right kind of person to save the world. He is also deeply religious and a devoted patriot.

On the other hand, he used to be an active member of extreme right-wing racist and nationalist organisations (although, we have to hand it to him that he is not stupid enough to think shouting 'Heil Hitler' is in any way patriotic). He despises non-European foreigners (especially Jews and Gypsies), homeless people (to whom he refers as "dirt"), gay people and mutants. Before he got powers, he had been involved in a number of racist demonstrations and even violent attacks. Although he would not go as far as killing somebody, which is the main reason why he no longer takes part in such activities. However, he has a tendency to assume that mutants are super-villains, who need to be punished. He is also suspected of murder (killing a child rapist).

He comes from a very poor urban neighborhood. He says that being a skinhead saved him from drugs and drunkenness (which his peers see as unclean) and there is some truth to that, as many of his school colleagues became addicted.

His powers are: superhuman strength, flight and super-humanly keen vision (including 'X-ray vision").

And he looks like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/69506353/MSHAG/WhiteEagle.jpg