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Quote1 ...I got off the smack. I got out. I can get you out. I wish I could get everyone out. All this, "I was born in a crime infested ghetto and I'm going to stay in the ghetto" BS has got to stop for the sake of the black and Hispanic communities! You know what I'm saying, Larry. Please. We were friends. I can't lose anymore to the street. Quote2
Raul Quentino[1]

An heroin addict, Raul Quentino grew up in poor Los Angeles and, dropping out of high school, got mixed with the Jackclubs gang, also forging a friendship with fellow gang member Larry Arnold. When his fellow gang members were shot dead and Quentino barely survived, he was sent to rehab, where his natural talent for technology that he had barely taken advantage of was discovered. The caseworkers put Quentino in touch with Silver Sable International, a company that hired him to design and test new weapons for his mercenary group, Wild Pack.

Eventually, Quentino joined the Pack as a member of Silver Sable's personal elite team, serving primarily as the pilot of their vehicle, the Stealthcraft, a task in which he stood out; yet Quentino, a competent soldier and streetfighter, also participated in field missions. Quentino worked with the Pack confronting the assassin Gattling; invading Doctor Doom's Castle; fighting several times against the criminal organization Genesis Coalition, a splinter group from Hydra, and sometimes against Hydra itself; chasing and disabling the cyborgized weapons Cyberwarriors; and confronting enemies like the Human Torch and Venom. During the course of his missions, Quentino discovered that he had been HIV-positive since before detoxing, but hid this information from his associates.

In a battle against an organized group of Los Angeles gangs that later involved armored supervillains, Quentino met again with Arnold, who reproached him for abandoning "his people." Quentino convinced Arnold not to confront him, but shortly after Quentino was injured by an attack by Spymaster trying to protect Arnold. Quentino's injuries left him wheelchair-bound and unable to have children, and his hidden disease was discovered; but instead of firing him, Sable only reassigned him to his R&D team and, on Quentino's recommendation, replaced him as a field agent with Arnold. Quentino occasionally actively collaborated on missions, even piloting a Stealthcraft in Japan.

History

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As G-Wiz

Raul Quentino[1][2] grew up in districts of Los Angeles with a high incidence of poverty, antisocial behavior, and crime, including multiple homicides. Due to poverty, he went hungry for extended periods of time.[20] Quentino left high school after ninth grade,[1] and like many people around him, he became frustrated because the prevailing system did not give them alternatives nor did they allowed him to survive.[8] At some point, he lost his entire family. During his early life, after dropping out of school, Quentino developed an amazing knack for electronics that allowed him to fix technological devices and invent new products with loose parts, including sound-systems.[1] Under the street name "G Wiz" ("Gangster Wizard", due to his technological ability), he became a member of at least one violent gang, the Jackclubs,[1] although he possibly had been a member of others gangs before,[21] and developed a heroin addiction.[20][8][1][2] He became friends with Larry Arnold, a short, violent African-American also living in Los Angeles.[8] At some point, Quentino contracted AIDS, but it would take a long time for him to show symptoms.[21][1]

The Jackclubs were virtually wiped out by a rival gang who shot at them from a drive-by. Quentino survived but, because of his heroin addiction, he was sent to Los Angeles County Rehabilitation Center. Social workers, impressed by his talent for electronics, kept Quentino off heroin for ten months and encouraged him to try to earn a high school degree. Quentino however believed that an uneducated ex-gang member with a heroin addiction would never receive a decent contract, although he did try hard not to return to his old life, and he trained as a boxer. The Rehab Center put Quentino in touch with the company Silver Sable International, and one of their agents, possibly Mortimer, approached Quentino to offer him a month of testing and training as a technician, under the conditions that Silver Sable imposed, in exchange for a one-time salary of ten thousand dollars. Quentino accepted and was taken to the company's base, Castle Sable, in the small country of Symkaria, where he worked on developing weaponry for mercenaries. In a matter of days, he advanced rapidly, improving technology that was considered perfect, and at the same time learning more than he had in the previous four years. The other technicians, initially skeptical, were favorably impressed by Quentino. Since Silver Sable International managed groups of mercenaries, Quentino also trained for field work, being used to be under enemy fire.[1] Quentino was pleased with this new opportunity in life, without which he would possibly have had an early and meaningless death.[20]

After an attack by the terrorist organization Hydra on Cranewood School for Girls, the leader of Silver Sable International, Silver Sable, decided to assemble a team of elite agents to accompany her on missions as part of her mercenary group, Wild Pack.[2] Quentino was chosen for this group, along with the professional assassin Amy Chen, former Ku Klux Klan bodyguard Douglas Powell,[2][22][23] and shortly after bounty hunter the Crippler and ex-supervillain Sandman. They all received uniforms (although Sandman, due to his powers, was exempt from wearing these).[4] Although Quentino admitted to himself that his job put him under a lot of pressure,[21] he also recognized that it was the opportunity needed to break the cycle of poverty and violence of the ghettos he had come from,[1] so he made an effort to stay clean and focused on his work so as not to return to his previous life.[21]

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With the Wild Pack

In one of Quentino's first operations with the Wild Pack, the group was hired to protect Reverend Donald Smithfield from organized assassins. As Smithfield was going to make an appearance at Madison Square Garden, the Pack was distributed in various areas, and Quentino was on the sensors to inform them of unforeseen movements; Sandman posed as Smithfield in case someone shot him. Quentino warned Powell when he detected intruders - the far-right organization Watchdogs. Armored assassin Gattling shot at Smithfield (really at Sandman), but by doing so revealed his position, and at Sable's urging, Quentino directed a spotlight at Gattling to blind him. Gattling attempted to escape using the stealth capabilities of his armor, but even then Quentino knew how to use the technology to keep him located. Chen tried to put a tracer arrow on Gattling, but Gattling managed to take it off and escaped.[4] The Wild Pack regrouped at the Symkarian Embassy in New York City, and there Quentino and Powell worked together reviewing files computer scientists to find an unexpected connection: Both Smithfield and his rival Reverend George Chesterford had been seen with cocaine dealer Maxwell Wilson, a piece of information that Sable found useful in her own research. Before continuing this work, however, the Embassy was attacked by a group of Watchdogs who wanted to free their captured comrades at Madison Square Garden. Quentino and the rest of the Wild Pack took up arms to repel the attack, under the tactical command of Powell, and defeated not only the Watchdogs but also their associate Gattling, who joined the battle afterwards. During this operation, Sable recruited the African American superhero Battlestar into the same group.[6]

During Infinity War, Quentino and his companions Crippler and Sandman, along with Morty, saw news stories about how many well-known American superheroes were facing their own evil duplicates. At the time, Sable was visiting Doctor Doom in Latveria, but the team was unable to contact her or her driver (because Doctor Doom's doppelganger had killed the driver and was attacking Sable). Quentino told them that this lack of response could be due to a mere technical glitch, but Morty insisted that the Wild Pack go to Latveria to confirm that Sable, his niece, was okay. The group prepared a Stealthcraft, piloted by Quentino; but Sandman had been replaced by his own doppelganger before boarding it.[10] En route, the fake Sandman attempted to attack Quentino, causing the vehicle to go into power dive without control. Battlestar stopped this, saving Quentino, and Quentino managed to regain control before crashing into the mountains while the others fought with the fake Sandman and managed to destroy him. Quentino took them to Castle Doom, but the defenses there shot down the Stealthcraft. Thanks to Quentino's excellent piloting skills, they crash-landed into the castle courtyard relatively unscathed, and emerged from the vehicle to help Sable, causing her to survive the attack and revealing the fake Doom.[11]

At some point, Quentino began collaborating through computer networks with a freelance consultant named Doctor Donut on intelligence operations, establishing a working relationship. Although Doctor Donut took many security measures to protect his identity, Quentino managed to discover who was hiding under the pseudonym "Doctor Donut": Michael Collins, the superhuman cyborg known as Deathlok. When Sandman took a personal leave and the Wild Pack was hired to investigate the theft of the Statue of Liberty and recover it, Sable searched for a "replacement muscle" and, when her first choice, Paladin, was unavailable, Quentino proposed Doctor Donut. The agreement was satisfactory, Deathlok joined the mission and found the Statue hidden in Grand Canyon; Sable even allowed Deathlok to pilot a Stealthcraft to the lair of the villain who had committed the robbery. Quentino accompanied the Pack and Deathlok into the enemy base,[12] but the villain controlling it, Cathode, shrank all the intruders, except Deathlok and Sable, and teleported them inside a transparent container. Quentino observed that they had been transported through the lens they were stepping on, and attempted to access the circuitry in an attempt to reprogram it to take them out. Battlestar, with his superhuman strength, helped Quentino reach those devices. Before he could accomplish anything, however, Deathlok found them, freed them, and returned them to their previous size. Quentino collaborated against Cathode and her hitmen, but when Cathode activated the base's self-destruct, Sable ordered the Pack out of there, and Quentino and the others obeyed. Deathlok and Sable also survived, and Sable agreed to owe Deathlok a favor.[13]

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In field operations, Quentino used both his brawn and his brain

Paladin, hired by Sable to track down her old enemy Dmitri Petrovich, found Petrovich in South America, associated with the criminal group Genesis Coalition,[12] which also counted with war criminal Franz Lubischt. Sable organized a Wild Pack mission there to search for the Coalition base with Paladin's help. Hidden in the jungle, Quentino launched an electrified net at one of the Coalition agents. Once they found the Coalition's secret base, hidden behind a waterfall, the entire group entered via zipline, and Quentino disabled exterior alarms to gain entry. They found victims of Lubischt's inhuman experiments, man-animal hybrids, and Quentino noticed that a man-tiger hybrid could speak, while Battlestar noted that some were barely alive. Following Sable's orders, the Wild Pack helped free the prisoners, while she and Paladin tracked down and killed Lubischt; but while they did so, Petrovich revealed to Sable that her father, who was believed dead, was really alive and a prisoner of the Coalition.[24] This came as a shock to Sable, to the point that, shortly after that mission, while training against Chen in Symkaria, Sable lost control and Battlestar has to stop her - but even then Sable turned on Battlestar. In that same gym, Powell and Quentino stopped their own wrestling to convince Sable not to face the super-strong Battlestar. Sable apologized for that outburst.[25]

Showing symptoms of illness, Quentino decided to temporarily excuse himself from his own training to secretly undergo medical tests. Although Quentino believed he had contracted malaria, he discovered that he was HIV-positive from his days as a gang member.[21] Afraid to tell his peers,[1] he decided to keep his diagnosis a secret, and also decided to resist using drugs again.[21] At this point, Quentino was combining his field work and training with the development of new weapons for the Wild Pack.[14]

Sable agreed to collaborate with Deathlok in an operation that he requested, as payment for his previous favor. Sable and the Wild Pack accompanied Deathlok to Paris to track down Deathlok's enemies, former employees of Cybertek who were building cyborgs called Cyberwarriors to sell them as weapons. Through computer networks, Deathlok found the base of one of the buyers, the terrorist organization ULTIMATUM. Quentino participated in the attack on the ULTIMATUM base, where they discovered the location of the base of his true enemies,[26] and later Quentino also collaborated in the attack on this place. After putting the Cyberwarriors' manufacturers to flight, Quentino and Sable entered their computers to find out where they were going, an information they passed on to Deathlok. Sable also discovered that the Genesis Coalition had purchased Cyberwarriors, and decided to focus his attention on finding the Coalition.[27]

When Sable learned that the Genesis Coalition was on a stolen Hydra mobile base sailing the Mediterranean Sea, she organized an attack, using new models of blasters provided by Quentino. In the operation, the Pack approached the base by air, so that they would be detected and shot down, but then they met their ally, oceanographer superhero Stingray, who brought them closer to Hydra's base on his cloaked submarine. The Pack defeated base guards, and then Sable ordered Quentino to find a way into the enemy base, with Powell's protection. While Quentino used a tool to open a door (which he could then seal), Powell covered him. Although the Pack was careful, at that moment a second group of mercenaries hired by Hydra, Next Wave, were also entering the base and activated the alarms, causing the Coalition to attempt to eliminate them with Cyberwarriors. The Pack managed to escape while Quentino also discovered that the Coalition was sending Cyberwarriors to Mount Wundagore, Transia. Sable had the Pack follow them, and ordered a relatively unharmed Cyberwarrior captured so Quentino could attempt to analyze the software and use it to send a shutdown signal to all Cyberwarriors in that unit. Quentino proved his worth, the operation was a success and all of the Genesis Coalition Cyberwarriors were destroyed, although the Coalition leaders escaped.[15]

Amy Chen (Earth-616), Carl Striklan (Earth-616), Douglas Powell (Earth-616), Lemar Hoskins (Earth-616), Raul Quentino (Earth-616), Silvija Sablinova (Earth-616), Wild Pack (Earth-616) from Silver Sable and the Wild Pack Vol 1 15 0

With the Wild Pack

A few months later, the Wild Pack tracked down the anarchist Viper in the United States, in which Quentino and the rest of the team faced Pit-Viper impersonator and his hitmen to rescue an ambassador. While the Pit-Viper was defeated, they still needed to find the real Viper. Quentino's responsibilities in that operation included keeping Sable in contact with other Wild Pack units, such as elite superhuman team Intruders, who were searching for Viper elsewhere. Shortly after, the Crippler encountered another Pit-Viper in Bronx, meeting superhero Captain America in the process, and the Crippler called for backup. Sable went to help him with Battlestar, Chen, Powell and Quentino. The Pit-Viper was killed by the real Viper, whom they captured, and then[17] Captain America revealed to Sable that she had been hired by the supervillain Red Skull to deliver him to Viper, so he should not hand Viper over to that employer.[17][28] The Pack surrounded the Captain, awaiting instructions from Sable. She agreed to collaborate with the Captain against Skull, while Quentino and the rest of the Pack turned Viper's thugs over to the authorities.[28]

Sable was hired to protect shipments of food and medicine that were supposed to reach victims of the war in Somalia. The Wild Pack and the Intruders went there. Quentino coughed at his illness, worrying Chen, but he claimed that he had simply been unwell by the change in weather and continued her work. Quentino was attentive to communications and detected an attack on a marine compound ten miles from his position, which put Sable on alert. A nearby U.S. Marine outpost was attacked by the Somalian mutant team Bio-Genes, and several of the soldiers in the area refused to fight because of the Infinity Crusade's goodwill wave; Quentino observed this anomaly. Quentino participated in the fight against the Bio-Genes, using a sonic disruptor to successfully protect his partner Paladin from one of the Bio-Genes. The battle became complicated when Hydra attempted to conquer Somalia,[20] but the Wild Pack prevailed.[29]

Shortly after, J. Jonah Jameson of the newspaper Daily Bugle hired the Wild Pack to capture the superhero Human Torch, at that point a fugitive after causing a wrecking fire. Powell and the rest of Pack[30] stocked up on specialized weapons; Quentino piloted an armed helicopter through the city with Powell on board having further specialized weapons, while Battlestar, Chen, and Crippler had individual jetpacks. They harassed the Torch but were humiliatingly defeated when the Torch destroyed the helicopter, with Battlestar, Chen and Crippler injured; while Powell reported the failure to an especially unhappy Sable, Quentino bandaged Chen's wounds.[31]

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With the Wild Pack

Jameson later hired the Wild Pack again to track down the vigilante Venom, in a new attempt to get the scoop of the year. Quentino outfitted the Pack with sonic weapons, since they knew that Venom was especially vulnerable to sonic attacks (Crippler kept his flamethrower). Quentino found and tracked Venom's ex-wife Anne Weying, and the Pack followed her to Brooklyn, to find Venom arguing with Spider-Man; when the Pack revealed their presence, Venom believed that Spider-Man had betrayed him by bringing people to apprehend him. Unstable, Venom started a fight. When Venom grabbed and strangled the Crippler, Quentino pointed his sonic gun at Venom and ordered him to drop the Crippler; Venom threw the Crippler on Quentino, stunning both of them. Quentino recovered and discovered that Chen's gun, which had been discarded after being grazed by Powell's shot, was still operational, and shot Venom with it; but Weying hit Quentino from behind with a stick, knocking him out. The Wild Pack was defeated again, and Venom and Spider-Man reached an agreement not to pursue each other.[32]

Back at the Embassy, Sable reviewed the mistakes made by the Wild Pack in the Human Torch and Venom operations, especially because they had damaged her group's reputation and encouraged clients to seek alternatives from competitors. Battlestar had been in command, but did not coordinate teamwork, allowing for solo, emotion-driven actions. Reminding the group that the Torch was no longer a target as he had cleared his name, Sable prepared a new mission to capture Venom in San Francisco but, should they failed, she would kick them off the elite team. Quentino and others were given jetpacks and sonic weapons to attack Venom. They found Venom harassing criminal bikers who tried to escape, and Quentino apprehended these. The Pack next fought Venom, but suddenly all of them were surrounded by magical smog,[33] and then attacked by monsters. Venom offered to help them to show them that he acted heroically without expecting payment, unlike the Wild Pack mercenaries did, and made a deal with Sable so that she and the Pack would stop harassing him, in exchange for an alliance. Quentino then defined a plan: If he could climb over the Golden Gate Bridge, he would possibly be above the fog and summon the Stealthcraft using a remote control. Sable ordered Powell to cover Quentino during that job, and Powell complied. On the way up, they were attacked by flying harpy-like monsters that injured Powell. Sable ordered Sandman to help Quentino, but Venom beat him to the punch, grabbing Powell and Quentino, and carrying them to their destination; Powell was unhappy that he had to owe Venom anything, but Quentino just appreciated anyone who helped him survive. The plan worked, and the smog disappeared thanks to other superheroes, after which Sable agreed to let Venom go, and not punish the Pack for the outcome of that mission.[34] Instead, she gave them a night off.[9]

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In civilian clothes for a free night

Quentino and his allies dressed to go out.[9] Sable, who had reconciled with Girard, had a date with him. By then, Sable had hired Lightbright,[34] one of the superhumans who had fought against the Pack in Somalia.[29] Seeing Lightbright elegantly groomed, Powell offered Lightbright his company, only to discover that Battlestar and Lightbright were on a date with each other, much to Powell's disappointment. After a brief mockery of his new failure, Chen, Crippler, and Quentino took Powell with them, to get drunk at the Naked Soul, a seedy joint in Greenwich Village. Under the influence of alcohol, Powell acknowledged that he liked Chen and Quentino at times, and that he did not like to be racist. A gang of small-time criminals tried to rob the Naked Soul, but the Wild Pack easily defeated them; even if Quentino would have rather not be involved in a bar fight, he was not shy to participate. To cheers from the other patrons, the Wild Pack left when Chen suggested that someone might want to collect damages from the fight. They returned to the Embassy next.[9]

A group of more than one hundred teenage gangs from South central Los Angeles attacked the city and took over the Beverly Hills Police Precinct, overpowering the LAPD. The heist had been secretly organized by crimelord Justin Hammer, with Latisha Arnold managing the attack. Rich people who saw their properties affected, hired Sable to eliminate this threat. She sent the Wild Pack to rescue the precinct, with Battlestar, Chen, Crippler and Powell storming the building while Quentino covered them. As Quentino had been a Los Angeles gang member and knew the issues they faced, he sympathized with them and felt he was betraying his own people in that fight; but still fought, with non-lethal techniques and weapons. As the Pack was recovering the precinct, Hammer reacted by sending a team of supervillains in battle armor as reinforcements.[8]

Meanwhile, Quentino found himself fighting his old friend Larry Arnold. Arnold accused Quentino of siding with "the white man" against his own people, with Quentino defending his moral position and prompting Arnold to look for a way out of crime-infested ghettos instead of clinging to a bad situation, bandwagoning due to a self-destructive culture; Quentino convinced Arnold he had left heroin and wanted to help the communities. Arnold then revealed how Latisha was backed by someone who aimed to buy Beverly Hills, and then Quentino had Arnold wonder about what would happen with the gangs when Latisha's sponsor had achieved that. Understanding how the gangs were going against their own interests, Arnold helped Quentino, covering him. Quentino then protected Arnold from fire from one of Hammer's supervillains, the Spymaster, but Quentino himself was injured by doing so.[1]

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When Quentino was hospitalized due to severe injuries, he could not hide he was HIV positive

Quentino suffered serious injuries in that battle[1] that left him permanently crippled. Quentino immediately recommended Arnold to replace him, and Sable accepted and hired Arnold.[2][1] Quentino was hospitalized and had several surgeries; he lost a kidney and a lung, and would never walk again or have children. Furthermore, he was found to be HIV positive. When Quentino was able to receive visitors, Sable went to see him; He feared she was to officially fire him, but instead she kept Quentino on her Research & Development team,[1] a position in which he would not be in constant contact with Sable.[35] With unusual kindness, she rebuked Quentino for not telling the team about his illness.[1] The Wild Pack, meanwhile, continued using the weapons developed by Quentino.[36]

When he was completely discharged from the hospital after a time in rehabilitation, Quentino began his new job, although since then he moved only in a wheelchair. On his night off, since he couldn't go out easily, he decided to stay at the Symkarian Embassy, listening to communications in case he had the chance to talk to any of his former colleagues. In that position, he discovered that one of the Intruders, Man-Eater,[35] the human-tiger hybrid that Quentino had found in South America,[25] had run away and was scaring people because NYPD had summoned their anti-superhuman police strike force Blue to chase him. Quentino had tried to contact the Intruders and the Wild Pack, but no one had responded. Sable called to ask the Embassy to notify the police to pick up the people she had captured; and Quentino informed him of the situation. Sable and Battlestar went to try to stop Man-Eater and stop Code: Blue from using lethal force; Sable asked Quentino to get him reinforcements, and Quentino managed to talk to two of the Intruders members, Sandman and the superhuman Fin. With that help, the Wild Pack captured Man-Eater without harming him.[35] Quentino and Dr. Phil Newkirk then performed multiple tests on Man-Eater. They discovered that Man-Eater had a chemical imbalance[35][3] in his brain,[35] and tried to cure him but without success.[3] Man-Eater was saddened and tormented, but also willing to undergo any procedure, because he knew that many of his supposed memories were not really his.[35][3]

Shortly afterward, Sable spent a month in prison before being exonerated,[37] after which she went solo on a mission to Japan. Sandman, who was visibly infatuated with Sable, asked Quentino to dig into her confidential files to find out what had happened to her. Even knowing Sandman's romantic motivations, Quentino accepted and discovered that Sable was pregnant.[18] Sandman wanted to go help her, even without permission and knowing how Sable took these interventions, so he convinced Quentino to pilot a Stealthcraft there; Quentino played along, pretending that Sandman had coerced and kidnapped the helpless cripple,[16] although Sable's father, Ernst Sablinov, found the insubordination unacceptable.[19] They found Sable in the high-speed train Fujiyama Emperor, in which the criminal Hammerhead had hidden bombs, and she accepted the help of Quentino and Sandman to find and disable the explosives; She threatened to leave Quentino without pay for a year if she didn't find the bombs, and in the time it took to justify Quentino's presence as a kidnapping, Quentino found the bombs. Quentino did his best to deactivate the bombs remotely and jam the online control, but he warned them that the enemies could reactivate them manually, and he, who could not leave his chair in the Stealthcraft, was not going to be able to do anything about it.[16] The operation was successful and many lives were saved.[19]

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After the Beverly Hills operation, Quentino was wheelchair-ridden

After that operation, Sable gathered her entire team, including Quentino, at Castle Sable, to notify them that she was withdrawing from active missions;[19] Ernst Sablinov took Sable's position on tactical tasks.[38] Dissatisfied with her new life and worried about her old companions, Sable soon afterward asked Quentino to allow her to spy on what was happening in the current mission, connecting her to the mission status uplink without anyone noticing; Quentino did so without problems, deciding that Sable had the privileges to do that audit but also anticipating that she would join the mission shortly after. Sable realized that Sablinova was putting the Pack unnecessarily in danger with outdated tactics, and decided to go in person to the Pacific Ocean to support her people; She ordered Quentino to prepare a Stealthcraft and, when he told her that she needed time to move, she literally carried him on her back. While Sable appeared to help his people in the field, Quentino spontaneously decided to scramble the enemy communication, with eardrum-breaking feedback in case they managed to override him. Sable took command of the mission, captured an enemy destroyer but discovered that the enemy had locked the controls. With support from Quentino via comms, she disabled the onboard autopiloting, and the Wild Pack achieved new success, after which Sable resumed her previous position.[7]

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Quentino, no longer in uniform, pilots the Stealtship after losing the use of his legs.

After that, Quentino continued his work in R&D, but occasionally accompanied the Wild Pack as a pilot, for example on a mission against the Dreadknight in Latveria. He was unable to actively participate because he could not easily move from his plane seat, but Quentino learned that the Dreadknight's soldiers had surrendered immediately after the Dreadknight's defeat, before Sable knew it. Following the mission, Quentino informed Sable of this and took her, along with her ally Spider-Man and the rescued prisoner Betty Brant, to the United States.[5]

Eventually, Sable decided to dissolve the Wild Pack[2] and became a solo mercenary.[39] Quentino has not been seen since, and his later activities are unknown.

Personality

Quentino grew up on the bad streets of Los Angeles, along with other racialized youth who never received opportunities. After losing his gang and detoxing from heroin, he saw a great opportunity to leave that life behind. Although he sympathized with the young people who lived as he had lived, he lost contact with the survivors,[8] and developed friendships with the people he worked with,[9] learning to live with their quirks: The Crippler was a brutal, deranged sadomasochist, but Quentino simply mentioned how weird he was, without trying to change him.[10][11][12][13] He didn't like knowing that Powell had worked for the Ku Klux Klan,[6] but that did not stop Quentino from treating Powell cordially.[12] He became interested in the abilities of Battlestar,[12] and treated Amy Chen's skill with respect;[14] he had even more respect for Silver Sable,[14] whom he occasionally called Ms. Sable,[15][16] but indulged in the occasional joke when dealing with her.[17] Quentino had complete confidence in Sable's decisions.[16] As for his other friends, Quentino was trying to offer a helping hand to underprivileged communities,[1] and was surprised to meet Deathlok in person after only dealing with him online.[12]

Quentino's style of dress, when not in uniform, was elegant but informal.[9] After becoming wheelchair-bound, Quentino wore a bolo tie with the image of a cow's skull.[18]

After it was revealed that he had HIV, Quentino decided that he was not ready for a non-physical relationship.[19]

Quentino said that he hated televangelists, without elaborating on his reasons, but he had no problems working for one.[6]

Attributes

Abilities

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Developing new technology for Silver Sable International

Quentino had an extraordinary knack for electronics, with a natural talent for repairing existing technology and inventing new designs with available parts. After his month-long trial working for Silver Sable International, he learned even more and became an excellent weapons developer.[1] Quentino generated new equipment for the Wild Pack, both weapons that he himself used[26] and others that were designed for third parties. He developed a type of blaster that replaced his group's standard weapon,[14] as well as a two-handed weapon that fired an electrocution-capable cable and was used to shoot down a Hydra Issue Fighter in flight.[36] Silver Sable had Amy Chen ask Quentino to develop a hypodermic tracking device that Chen could shoot with her bolts; it is not revealed whether Quentino reached any result with this.[4]

In addition to that, Quentino was described as an expert in computers, including computer security:[18] He could use computers to deactivate the alarms of an enemy base,[24] discover what his enemies were doing with great precision,[15] jam the controls of other weapons,[16] and find secrets that his enemies were trying to hide,[27][16] in addition to, of course, relating information in databases.[6] Quentino also used technology skillfully to handle communications[17] and sensors, and he knew how to improvise so that the devices at his disposal were useful against an enemy.[4]

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Quentino as a boxer.

Quentino was in good physical shape to participate in the missions of his mercenary group. He excelled at boxing against people taller and more muscular than he was,[1] and was good at wrestling (although his partner Douglas Powell surpassed him).[25] Quentino was a good climber[12] and had experience in zipline.[24]

Quentino demonstrated higher than normal willpower, as he was able to resist the temptation to relapse into heroin,[21] and was unaffected by the goodwill wave during the Infinity Crusade.[20]

In other skills that Quentino has demonstrated, he was also:

  • an excellent Stealthcraft[11][16] and combat helicopter pilot.[31]
  • capable of performing first aid on a colleague.[31]
  • medical researcher who tried to cure the chemical imbalance problems of Man-Eater,[18] and who identified Silver Sable's pregnancy in the documents found.[18]
  • a perceptive man who could read the people around him; he realized that Sandman had a crush on Silver Sable,[18] and that the soldiers in Somalia were too reluctant to fight for it to be natural[20]

Weaknesses

Quentino's combat capabilities were limited and, even though he had sensor technology, he was surprised with an attack from behind by Anne Weying (who had no combat training).[32]

After the mission in Los Angeles, Quentino lost a kidney and a lung, as well as the abilities to walk and have children.[1] Besides, he was HIV-positive[21] and sometimes showed symptoms.[29]

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Raul Quentino (Earth-616) from Silver Sable and the Wild Pack Vol 1 21 001

Some of the gear he had in field operations with the Wild Pack

Quentino usually wore a communication headset[30] and a visor over his eyes during his operations.[33]

When Quentino was hospitalized, Sam Powell, the Pack's public relations officer, sent him a customized stuffed toy that looked like a cartoonish version of Quentino himself.[33]

Weapons

Throughout his career with the Wild Pack, Quentino has used multiple weapons. In general he used a two-handed blaster rifle,[6] with capabilities that he knew in detail and that allowed him to take advantage of it even to knock down walls.[33] Eventually, the Wild Pack changed their blasters for a new model developed by Quentino.[14] Quentino also used other weapons, including one that launched an electrified web,[24] a sonic disruptor that affected certain super-powered mutants by locking them into a solid form,[20] a "sonic knuckle",[8] and sometimes weapons that shot stun and tear guns for non-lethal attacks.[8]

Transportation

Quentino was an excellent pilot, both of the combat helicopter[31] and of the Stealthcrafts used by the Wild Pack.[11][16] Since he lost use of his legs, he needed a wheelchair to move.[35]

Notes

Raul Quentino (Earth-616) from Silver Sable and the Wild Pack Vol 1 3 001

Quentino's skin color has not been stable in the comics

  • Quentino's skin color has varied throughout his appearances. He seems to be a Caucasian in a few of his first appearances[4][6][10][11][13] and some guest appearances in other series;[30][31] once, his skin color could be either Caucasian or Asian.[12] He then appeared to be an African American,[25][21][14][15][20][9][8] in a few cases with a color that could be Native American.[26][26][32][33] In a couple issues, his skin color varies depending on the panel.[24][17] In his later appearances, he seems dark-skinned[35][18][16][19][7] but clearly lighter than African Americans like Battlestar[34] and Larry Arnold, with whom Quentino shared panel.[1] Quentino made a remark about how he was familiar with black and Hispanic communities,[1] suggesting that he was Hispanic.
  • His name is spelled Raoul Quentino in Avengers Assemble #1 (Man-Eater's profile), possibly due to a typo.
  • In
    Douglas Powell (Earth-616), William Baker (Earth-616) from Thunderbolts Vol 1 41 001

    Not Quentino.

    Thunderbolts #41, Sandman attacks the Wild Pack, defeating Chen, the Crippler, a person who can be identified as Powell, and a person who looks like Quentino. This last person is seen standing on his own two feet, so it cannot be Quentino, who was wheelchair-ridden at that point, but simply some other Wild Pack member who was physically similar to him (even if the artist, Mark Bagley, possibly intended for him to be Quentino).

Trivia

  • During the Beverly Hills Police Precinct fight, the Spymaster's attack injured Quentino; immediately after that, Quentino was hospitalized and would never walk again.[1] It is however unrevealed whether the Spymaster's attack was the direct cause of Quentino's crippling; Quentino was also battered by Larry Arnold in that fight, and he may have received other injuries, either that day or before, not to mention the possible effects of his combat life while being HIV-positive.
  • Only in his last appearance in the Dreadknight operation, Quentino wore a domino mask.[5]

See Also

Links and References

References

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #22
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #10 ; Silver Sable's profile
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Avengers Assemble #1 ; Man-Eater's profile
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #2
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Spider-Man Unlimited #16
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #3
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #35
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #21
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #20
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #4
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #5
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #6
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #7
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #11
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #12
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 16.7 16.8 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #32
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #15
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  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #33
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  21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 21.7 21.8 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #10
  22. Ultimate Secrets #1 ; Silver Sable's profile
  23. Marvel Encyclopedia #Spider-Man ; Silver Sable's profile
  24. 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #8
  25. 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #9
  26. 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 Deathlok (Vol. 2) #18
  27. 27.0 27.1 Deathlok (Vol. 2) #19
  28. 28.0 28.1 Captain America #419
  29. 29.0 29.1 29.2 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #17
  30. 30.0 30.1 30.2 Fantastic Four #372
  31. 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 31.4 Fantastic Four #373
  32. 32.0 32.1 32.2 Amazing Spider-Man #375
  33. 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #18
  34. 34.0 34.1 34.2 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #19
  35. 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 35.5 35.6 35.7 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #27
  36. 36.0 36.1 Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #24
  37. Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #30
  38. Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #34
  39. Shadowland: Blood on the Streets #3
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