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{{Character Template
| Title                   = Lord Defile
| Image                   = Lord Defile % 28giant-size% 29 .webp
| RealName                = Defile
| CurrentAlias            = Lord Defile
| Aliases                 = Adolfo Koch
| Identity                = Secret
| Alignment               = Bad
| Affiliation             = Formerly the [[Cabal]]
| Relatives               = 
| Universe                = Wildstorm Universe
| BaseOfOperations        = 

| Gender                  = Male
| Height                  = 6'5"
| Weight                  = 230 lbs
| Eyes                    = Red
| Hair                    = Bald
| UnusualFeatures         =Red goat-like horns 

| Citizenship             = 
| MaritalStatus           = 
| Occupation              =Daemonite Royalty 
| Education               = 

| Origin                  = [[Daemon]]
| PlaceOfBirth            = Daemon
| Creators                = Jim Lee
| First                   = StormWatch #1
| Last                    =

| HistoryText             = '''Lord Defile''' was a leader of the [[Daemonite]] forces on [[Earth]].

There were three High Lords aboard the [[Daemonite]] ship that crashed on Earth: the ship captain who died in the crash, [[Helspont|Helspont]] was the military leader and Defile was the political leader.

Unlike his fellow surviving Daemonite High Lord, Defile didn't seek the destruction of mankind. He wanted its ultimate corruption to obey his free will, or its death for resisting. For that, he had constantly plotted in the shadows of History. For example, he was the one to introduce gas bombs during the First World War. He usually maneuvered other influential people to do his biddings.

He put in motion a long time scheme by getting the three captured members of [[Stormwatch Prime|StormWatch Prime]] ([[Foster McClane (Wildstorm Universe)|Flashpoint]], [[Maya Royko (Wildstorm Universe)|Nautika]] and [[Karl Hansen (Wildstorm Universe)|Sunburst]] captured by the MERCs during the Gulf War), and brainwashing them. As his puppets, they sent [[StormWatch]] classified information to pit the UN's organization against his long time foe: [[Emp]] and his [[WildC.A.T.s]]. By capturing [[Jeremy Stone (Wildstorm Universe)|Maul]], brainwashing him to carry a nuke in a volcano, he got [[Jackson King (Wildstorm Universe)|Battalion]] "killed", and aroused StormWatch's wrath against the WildC.A.T.s. By sending [[Mister White (Wildstorm Universe)|Mr. White]] to impersonate Maul in the lap of the WildC.A.T.s, he expected to kill Emp. This plan was exposed by [[Benito Santini (Wildstorm Universe)|Ben Santini]] and his [[Black Razors]]. The fact that Maul had been captured by StormWatch after the nuke incident, the WildC.A.T.s were also mad at them. And they start fighting each other.

That's when the third key to the Daemonite warship was uncovered. If the three keys could be reunited, and the warship found, the owner had access to the destructive potential of the dreadnought. As Daemonite High Lords, Defile had one, Helspont another, the third was the captain's. The race for the keys and the ship began, involving all of Earth's heroes. Even StormWatch and the WildCATs worked together, because the [[Adrianna Tereshkova (Wildstorm Universe)|Void]] had a vision of the outcome of the crisis if the ship fell in the wrong hands. In the end, it appeared that the ship was the Kherubim's but it still held great firepower. In the struggle for its control, Defile unleashed his StormWatch pets (minus Flashpoint who was in custody for having killed a MERC in cold blood). Sunburst destroyed [[Spartan]]'s body, then managed to break Defile's influence and was crippled by his wife Nautika. As his plan failed again, Defile retreated and was never heard of again.

===Worldstorm===
Defile emerged once again after Stormwatch set up it's latest incarnation, [[Stormwatch P.H.D.|Stormwatch P.H.D. (Post Human Division)]]. He led an assault on the N.Y.P.D. 18th Precinct where P.H.D. member [[John Doran (Wildstorm Universe)|John Doran]] was stationed.<ref>[[Stormwatch: Post Human Division Vol 1 6|''Stormwatch: P.H.D.'' #6]]</ref> After fending off the assault, Doran and the others escaped.<ref>[[Stormwatch: Post Human Division Vol 1 7|''Stormwatch: P.H.D.'' #7]]</ref> Unfortunately, Defile and his agents were later successful in destroying the station.

===World's End===
After [[World's End|Armageddon]], Lord Defile took the opportunity in seizing what was left of Earth for his own rule. While stationed in New York, Defile sensed the Daemonite sorcerer Rapier who came to Earth to take it for Daemon and its High Council. Defile refused to see this happened, confronted the sorcerer and told him that the planet belonged to him. Unfortunately, Rapier manipulated Defile and used his mind as an anchor to channel a portal between Earth and Daemon in allowing a Daemonite force to invade Earth sometime in the future. A vengeful Defile vowed to be ready for this invasion.<ref>''Defile: A Narrow Pass''</ref>

Defile later brought an army of Daemonites to [[Los Angeles]], which was occupied by the Wildcats. After a confrontation with the Wildcats, Defile agreed to a truce between him and his adversaries but his true motivations behind this agreement to the truce still had yet to be revealed.<ref>[[Wildcats: World's End Vol 1 7|''Wildcats (Vol 5)'' #7]]</ref> When the Wildcats left the [[Halo Corporation|Halo Building]] and leaving only [[Maxine Manchester (Wildstorm Universe)|Ladytron]] on guard, Lord Defile took the chance to invade the building with his Daemonite army. Defile and Lady Decadence arduously fought Ladytron and almost had her destroyed when the Wildcats returned, along with an enraged Majestic. Upon seeing their respective enemy, Defile and Majestic immediately attacked each other. As Defile was locked with Majestic, Spartan took the opportunity to open a portal into Otherspace in sending Defile, Decadence, Majestic and the Daemonties into the said dimension. In the process, the Halo Building was destroyed along with Defile and Decadence.<ref>[[Wildcats: World's End Vol 1 12|''Wildcats (Vol 5)'' #12]]</ref> However, the High Lords survived their ordeal and later built a new Cabal, in which Defile plotted in creating powerful hybrid Daemonite warriors mixed with the genetic codes of [[Vampires]] against the Daemon High Council. In doing so, Defile forced Daemonite scientist [[Slyxx (Wildstorm Universe)|Slyxx]], who affiliated with the [[Number of the Beast]] incident, into creating his hybrids and as well attracting the attention of [[Wetworks]] after capturing their members [[Cord Dexter Lemoyne (Wildstorm Universe)|Jester]] and [[Salvador Joel Alonday (Wildstorm Universe)|Grail]] as hosts for the hybrids. Ultimately, Wetworks confronted Defile and his experimental hybrid was killed and its toxic blood spilled on Lady Decadence, causing harm to her. Defile then retreated with his Cabal before forewarning Wetworks that the High Council will invade Earth unlike any other alien invasions that the planet had ever seen.<ref>''[[Wetworks: Mutations|Wetworks: Mutations]]''</ref> 
  

| Powers                  = {{Daemonite Powers}}
* {{Magic}}: Defile is a practitioner of Daemonite sorcery, an art not common among the Daemonite race, but exists none the less. He has reportedly said that the Daemonite version of sorcery is not as flashy as earth magic but it gets the job done. 
**{{Eldritch Blast}}: Defile can projects lethal bolts of magical energy.<ref>{{c|Union Vol 2 4}}</ref>
* {{Pheromone Control|Bio-Physical Manipulation}}: A unique ability to physically control Daemonites via their natural aspect of communication through chemical secretion. Due to his high station of birth Defile's able to override the free will of lower level Daemonites and control them through force of will even half-breed Daemonites, Like '''[[Mordecai Shaw (Wildstorm Universe)|The Monstrosity]]'''.
* {{Molecular Reconstruction|Cellular Disruption}}: Defile has the ability to release a degenerative energy that causes the cells of objects and living beings to start to degrade and rot from the cellular structure outward. In objects, they begin to break down as if worn by time and environments and in living beings it literally rots the flesh from their bones at its extremes and withers at less application.
* {{Size Alteration}}: Being of Daemonite royalty Defile has powers other Deamonites do not. in particular he's shown he can alter his size to an unknown degree, he has fought Maul when he went big during a fight near the Halo Corporation building.
| Abilities               =* {{Charisma|Master Manipulator}}
* {{Leadership}}
| Strength                = 
| Weaknesses              = 

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| Notes                   = *Possibly the only Wildstorm villain to appear in almost every major Wildstorm team-based comic series.
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|AlienRace=Daemonite}}

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