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Benjamin Turner (Prime Earth)

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Ben Turner. The Bronze Tiger. Two counts manslaughter. Twenty years without parole. Suffers from delusions of being a graduate of the..."League of Assassins." Also thinks he's an agent of several intel services. All of which deny these claims.
— Jeremiah Arkham src

Benjamin Turner is the vigilante known as Bronze Tiger. Turner largely focuses on stopping crime bosses and drug lords in Gotham City. He has occasionally worked alongside Batman.

Suicide Squad

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With the Suicide Squad

As the Bronze Tiger, Turner was a member of the Suicide Squad, a team of costumed criminals pressed into the service of its director Amanda Waller. With the Squad, he participated in a mission to recover an item from Brainiac,[1] and eventually took over as its leader. During his tenure, the Squad was betrayed by Lashina, an infiltrator, costing the life of team member Florence Crawley.[2] During his time with the Suicide Squad, Turner entered into a romantic relationship with his teammate Mari McCabe, Vixen.[3]

The New 52

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DC Rebirth

Bronze Tiger was joined in battle against a group of ninjas by Batman, who had come to him for information on KGBeast. With reluctance over the danger he posed, the Tiger directed him to Kanto, the Beast's only living instructor.[4] He was later among the assassins gathered in Metropolis by the criminal Mister X for his announcement of a three-million-dollar contract on local reporter Jimmy Olsen,[5] and was forced by the global polar vortex unleashed by the ancient Frost King to seek refuge in the nation of Kahndaq. He joined its ruler, Black Adam, and a number of supervillains, in rescuing the superhero the Flash from the Frost King's forces.[6]

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Infinite Frontier

The Tiger was unfairly defeated by the Blue Shrike in a qualifying bout for the League of Lazarus' fighting tournament,[7] and a sample of his DNA came into the possession of the Network, a criminal organization planning to create genetically-spliced supervillains under their own control.[8]

While the Justice League missing and much of the rest of the superheroic community occupied by a crisis, Bronze Tiger was recruited into Task Force XX, a team gathered by the billionaire Luke Fox to destroy a sample of the Apokoliptian Element X contained within the abandoned Justice League Watchtower on the Earth's Moon. Following an extended pursuit, the Tiger and Task Force XX retrieved prospective team member Harley Quinn, and set out in a spacecraft of Fox's design.[9] At the Watchtower, the element proved sentient, assimilated the Tiger's teammates Lashina and Solomon Grundy, and escaped to Earth via Justice League Teleporter.[2] Following their target, the rest of their team fought their way through United States Army forces under its control[10] and tracked it to Blackgate Penitentiary, where the Tiger and Fox were nearly overcome by possessed inmates until Task Force XX member Killer Frost absorbed the creature's life force, ending the threat.[11]

One Christmas, Turner reconnected with Mari McCabe. At his suggestion of a more whimsical gift, she gave him a hand-carved bracelet inspired by their mutual love of poetry, while he gave her a scarf—unbeknownst to him, a previously-considered-but-rejected gift from her to him.[3]


Abilities

  • Martial Arts: A superb fighter, Ben Turner is known to be one of the world's leading martial artist.[12] He has gone toe-to-toe with the Batman multiple times, stalemating the Dark Knight, with Batman admitting that he's faster.[13] Although it seemed that Ben bested Bruce in their little sparing match, it turns out he was actually on Venom. Which allowed him to get the better of Batman.[14] Bronze Tiger evens admits that Batman is better than him.[4]
  • Espionage
  • Peak Human Condition
  • Swordsmanship
  • Stealth

Other Characteristics

  • Drug Addiction: During a mission infiltrating in Santa Prisca it is revealed that Bronze Tiger relied on the highly addictive strength enhancement drug Venom to get out of a tough situation.[14][15]

Equipment

Weapons


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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Suicide Squad 2021 Annual (Volume 7) #1
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harley Quinn (Volume 4) #20
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 DC's Batman Smells, Robin Laid an Egg #1
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Batman (Volume 3) #56
  5. ↑ Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (Volume 2) #10
  6. ↑ The Flash #767
  7. ↑ Robin (Volume 3) #1
  8. ↑ The Joker (Volume 2) #15
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Harley Quinn (Volume 4) #18
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Harley Quinn (Volume 4) #21
  11. ↑ Harley Quinn 2022 Annual (Volume 4) #1
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 DC Comics Encyclopedia: All-New Edition
  13. ↑ Batman (Volume 3) #9
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Batman (Volume 3) #11
  15. ↑ Batman (Volume 3) #13


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