History
The Trustees of Hate were a group that occupied a castle in the Balkan Mountains between the nations of Borsia and Gratzia. They were led by the evil Doctor Vortex who sought to push the two nations into warring with each other for unrevealed reasons. Their members included a thug named Weasel, female operative Lara, and a green skinned executioner named Lor. Those who would oppose them were tossed into a lime pit that was outside of their castle.
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Lara using the hate ray
Their evil deeds attracted the hero known as the Blue Blaze who rose out of the lime, scaring Lor to the point of fainting. Attempting to stop the Trustees' plot, he was held at gun point by Lara. She drove him into Borsia to give the hero a show of the Trustees' powers. Using a special hate ray, she caused Borsia's greatest speaker to break out into an anti-Gratzia tirade, hoping to push the two countries to war.
With their plot revealed, Lara forced the Blue Blaze to return to the Trustees' castle to be eliminated. The Blue Blaze defended himself; however, the Trustees' minions piled onto the hero, and Dr. Vortex attempted to kill them all by detonating his lab. Only the Blaze survived and was chained to a wall. Seeking to kill the hero still, Vortex allowed one last cigarette; however, the Blue Blaze tricked him into allowing him to activate his blue flame, allowing the Blaze to break free. Then he grabbed Vortex and forced him into the limp pit to a fitting death.
With the hate ray destroyed, hostilities between the two nations sorted itself out and without their leader the Trustees disbanded.[1] Weasel was possibly killed in the lab explosion; the fate of Lor and Lara remain unrevealed.