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William Bendix was the Weatherman of StormWatch Prime, like his father before him.

The spitting image of his father Henry Bendix, William Bendix was the child of a call girl that Henry paid off to raise on her own in secret. William was recruited by Jackson King to be the new Weatherman (no longer a leadership role) for the reconstituted StormWatch Prime. This was due to most of the cybernetic integration systems having been designed for Henry's physiology, so William was a wise choice. Williams was deeply concerned that he would turn into his father despite King's faith that he is his own man.

William's main goal has been to crack his father's "memory tower," containing his most secret files. He managed to do this, uncovering a secret bunker in the Nevada desert and leading to a battle between The Authority and Stormwatch Prime for custody of its contents.[1] During the battle, an AI copy of Henry Bendix activated in response and proceeded to release zombie-like clones of his secret StormWatch team, StormWatch Zero (including copies of Apollo and Midnighter), seduced Rose Tattoo to his side yet again and installed itself in a younger cloned body which had been engineered with the powers and abilities of every superhuman present. William decided to help, ordering his personnel to transport him to the site. He arrived on the scene and convinced Rose to save Swift, which she had fatally wounded, to get rid of his father chains and kill the clone of his father. Not only that: William also engaged the clone hand-to-hand, overwhelming him with all Stormwatch's systems in his head, but he was seriously wounded by the reborn Henry Bendix. Although his body was not found by either of the teams after the resulting destruction of the bunker; however, after both the Authority and Stormwatch had departed, six miles far from the bunker, a secret gate opened and the horrifically scarred William emerged from the wreckage, his father having psychically grafted his own consciousness onto William's mind. In control of his son's body, with William's's consciousness having been shattered, giving him free rein, Bendix mused that the body was young and strong enough.[2]

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