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Diehard

Diehard
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Diehard
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President Diehard
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Youngblood
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President; Formerly Government Agent
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Quote1 This time, I must make better use of my freedom. Quote2
-- Diehard[1]

HistoryEdit

Origin

In the 1940s, Diehard was chosen to be the first of America's genetic experiments, and became the first successful fusion of man and machine. In 1944, Diehard joined Glory and Superpatriot to found the Allies, a superhero team that fought against the forces of the Axis. Diehard acted as the leader.[2] In 1984,[3] Diehard joined the original Youngblood program.[4]

In Summer 1988, Diehard worked alongside Riptide, Raines, Battlestone, Boggs, Gamble and Chapel. They were deployed to Kuwait to prevent Hassan Kussein's Iraqui Army from invading. Although they defeated the first strike, Boggs and Raines were killed by a booby trap when checking out an underground supply bunker. When Gamble confronted Battlestone's authority over this tragedy, Stone murdered him, and Diehard pulled rank and arrested Stone, ending the mission.[5]

In 1989, Diehard welcomed his new field leader, Shaft, who lead him and Chapel, Bedrock, Vogue, Combat and Link.[5]

1992

On March, 1992, when supervillains Strongarm and Gage tried to break out the other half of their supervillain team, The Four, composed of Deadlock and Starbright, Diehard was freed from his secret underground vault in Arlington. He vowed to make better use of his freedom this time. Diehard travelled to Washington, where he joined his teammates and they attacked The Four,[1] who were captured and put in holding cells in the Pentagon.[6]

A week later,[7] Diehard received an alert informing him there was a breakout going on at The Pentagon, but he was too busy receiving an emergency beacon from the Away Team, who was under attack in Germany. By the time Diehard met up with the Home Team to inform them of the news, they had already taken care of the Pentagon situation.[6] For this mission, Diehard and the Home Team were joined by Photon.[8]

After flying for ten hours to Germany, Diehard and the Home Team found the Away Team knocked out in a G.A.T.E. International laboratory where the they had been called to supervise the transport of a super-soldier named Jonathan Taylor Prophet. Prophet was the only remaining combatant against an army of robotic soldiers called Disciples of Doom, who were arriving through a portal from the planet D'khay. Sentinel, leader of the Youngblood Away Team, informed Shaft they needed to close the portal, so Shaft sent Bedrock and Diehard to do that. Crossing into planet D'Khay, they met its ruler, Darkthornn, who knocked out Diehard immediately.[8] Right before the portal closed, Diehard was thrown back to Earth by the Berzerkers, a group of freedom fighters from D'Khay. By the time Diehard made it back, the Disciple crisis was over.[9]

On August 9, 1992, Diehard joined his teammates Chapel, Bedrock, Shaft, Vogue and Combat to guard vice-president Dan Quayle at Strategic Defense Initiative Astronomics along with two mercenaries named Pike and Hestia. There, the VP was assaulted by a rogue Covert Action Team.[10] Diehard and Bedrock tackled the terrorist named Maul, who started growing in size to the point of almost bringing the building down on everybody, but one of his teammates, Voodoo, put him to sleep psychically. Seeing she had saved them, Combat was willing to entertain the possibility that there was more going on there than met the eye. When the Vice-President tried to execute Voodoo, Shaft told him to let them handle the terrorists, but the Vice President, outraged at being touched and questioned, shot at Shaft and grazed his skull. With Youngblood turning against him, Voodoo extracted an alien named B'lial from inside the Vice President, exposing the being who had been controlling his actions.[11] Shortly after, Youngblood received an energy blast from the alien in charge, named Lord Helspont. As the Wild C.A.T. left to take care of him, Youngblood directed its attention to his cronies, Pike and Hestia. Shortly after, the facility started self destructing, and Youngblood was forced to run with the Vice-President, praying the C.A.T. could make it out on their own. After the explosion, there was no sign of any of the involved parties, but Shaft commented the C.A.T. seemed like a resourceful bunch, and that he wouldn't be surprised if their paths crossed again.[12]

In December, Diehard and Shaft had to fly to Chicago to bail Bedrock out of jail after he started a fight with Police Officer Dragon to see if he was strong enough to join Youngblood.[13][14]

Later, Diehard was called to stop a being who was approaching Earth's atmosphere alongside Bedrock, Sentinel, Combat, and Photon. The being identified himself as Supreme, but Combat couldn't believe he was the legend who had helped his people, so he attacked him. Supreme engaged in battle against Youngblood, ending with a collision with Diehard equal to a 500 megaton explosion. After that, Sentinel admitted they had acted hastily and requested Supreme to allow them to escort him to a conference on Earth. There, scientists ran tests and determined he was the real Supreme. Sentinel offered him a contract to join Youngblood, but Supreme was disgusted at the government's genetic engineering of superhumans and flew away from the building, something Sentinel took as a "no."[15]

1993

On October 29, 1993, Diehard appeared on TV playing bass drums.[16]

He was later contacted by the retired Glory, who let him know their World War II teammate Superpatriot had been kidnapped by Cyberdata. Diehard accepted the mission to rescue Superpatriot on behalf of the U.S. Government.[2] Diehard assaulted the Cyberdata Corp. Philadelphia branch, where he fought his way through S.H.O.C. troops until he reached Superpatriot, who had been turned into a cyborg and attacked Diehard against his will.[17] When Cyberdata realized they couldn't win, they shut down Superpatriot's programming, and Diehard was able to deliver him to The Pentagon, who hooked him up to an inhumane recovery system. Looking at his old war buddy hanging from wires, Diehard felt vulnerable and knew that could easily have been him and that some suit could decide to pull the plug on him at any time. He and Glory walked out together, comforting each other.[18]

Later events

Eventually, Diehard began a relationship with Vogue.

While Diehard was away leading a mission against Cybernet (which resulted in the apparent death of Combat), a totally robotic Diehard was created to replace the original one, an idea that Shaft disliked.[19]

During Knightsabre's trial for the death of Riptide, Diehard reunited with his former WWII teammates the Allies, who were attending the trial. After Sentinel was found as the real culprit, Youngblood was disassembled and Diehard joined the re-formed Allies.[20]

Youngblood Reality TV drama

Some years later Diehard is recruited to be apart of a government supervised Youngblood team. During his time with team the government and media attempt to turn Youngblood into a reality TV show where everything is coordinated and planned.[21]

Youngblood Revival 2012

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Youngblood Revival 2017

Some time later, Diehard joined a new version of Youngblood and after it disbandment he became the president of the USA.

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