Reginald Sonny Terns was a U.S. Senator and enemy of Stormwatch Team Achilles.
History
Sonny Terns is the product of Southern Royalty. His family owned large tracts of land dating back several generations, beginning with his great-great-great-great grandfather, Augustus Terns who started the family fortune with his success in the slave trade.[1] In 1934, Terns was part of a conspiracy that attempted to overthrow the government of President Franklin Roosevelt and replaced it with a fascist government modeled after Nazi Germany. They tried to recruit the Citizen Soldier to lead their coup, but the Citizen Soldier refused to support their coup and threatened to kill them.[2] In 1947, Terns helped the government in murdering Citizen Soldier after they deemed him a threat.[3]
He first encountered Benito Santini during a hearing regarding United Nations funding of his new Stormwatch unit, Team Achilles. Terns was opposed to Stormwatch due to their anti-post-human stance which threatened America's super-human strategic superiority, in which he was steadfast in his resolve to quash the unit by delaying the budget approval for quite a while. Eventually, he collaborated with Ivana Baiul to back a group of superpowered Islamic terrorists to attack Stormwatch's headquarters in the United Nations building in an attempt to kill Santini.[1]
Shortly after the attack on the U.N., Santini discovered Terns' role in the attack in which he and along with Stormwatch operatives Jaeger Weiss and Khalid Tefibi confronted and kidnapped the Senator, and had his identity taken over by the shape-shifting Stormwatch operative Alias; Terns was imprisoned in a secret wing of Stormwatch's detention facilities beneath the UN until Santini stranded him on a tropical island in Project Entry's Earth along with Deadhead and Dhul Fiqar, two other prisoners, after the Authority took over the United States.[4]
He remained on the island until he escaped with the help of Deadhead. Terns then contacted Baron Chaos and the incarnation of Citizen Soldier, and together the trio hatched a plot to finally do away with Santini and Team Achilles.[5] Unfortunately, the plan became a dismal failure and Terns was personally attacked and killed by Flint via decapitation.[6]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Telepathy: Terns was also a low-grade "psychic broadcaster" capable of projecting his thoughts into the minds of others.
Related
- 6 Appearances of Reginald Terns (Wildstorm Universe)
- 1 Images featuring Reginald Terns (Wildstorm Universe)
- Quotations by or about Reginald Terns (Wildstorm Universe)
- Character Gallery: Reginald Terns (Wildstorm Universe)
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Stormwatch: Team Achilles #7
- ↑ Stormwatch: Team Achilles #19
- ↑ Stormwatch: Team Achilles #14
- ↑ Stormwatch: Team Achilles #20
- ↑ Stormwatch: Team Achilles #23
- ↑ This is summarize in the unpublished 24th issue of Stormwatch: Team Achilles.