Bravest Villains: The Palate of Comeuppance

Origin: Three people can be more dangerous together than apart. The Palate of Comeuppance are proof of this. It all started when three highly skilled individuals all bumped into one another at a rally against a corrupt company. The three realized that they had three things in common: They each had a name that sounded like a different food, each wanted to do more than just chant against corruption, and each were capable to do some real damage if they really tried. The three became a team and set out to kill the corrupt politicians of America and destroy the businesses of the people who abused and manipulated the public. Their greatest asset is their strategic brilliance, which has allowed them to succeed in their missions on various occasions. The Bravest caught wind of one of their more bombastic plots and were able to keep them from killing two long term United States senators. Since then the Palate of Comeuppance, the name they had given to themselves, has been fought by various members of the Bravest as they continue their bloody war. 

Candy Caine: Candy Caine was a teenage girl from a small town in Oregon where she was raised by a single mother. After school she worked as a barista in order to provide extra money for her mother. Candy was a prodigy in school and sports, as well as a cheerleader and a skilled martial artist. All was well until one day when Candy learned that her mother was once a call girl and that her biological father was a judge named Liam Sheppard. This devastated her, as Sheppard was infamously abusive towards women and had a history with several anti-Jewish hate groups. Sheppard had friends in high places that targeted and slandered those who spoke out against them. Candy ran away from home and became an activist, which led to her meeting her future teammates. Candy wanted to punish her father for his corruption, which became the Palate of Comeuppance’s first goal. The three acquired individualized costumes and gear from various scientists and tailors who Candy either charmed, seduced, or swayed to their cause. Candy gained a candy cane-themed outfit and a series of weaponized canes with various functions such as a cane that could release a peppermint-scented smokescreen, a cane that could turn into an electrified rapier, a cane that could turn into nunchaku, and a cane that could shoot out sticky red slime snares. She quickly proved to be the perfect leader for the Palate of Comeuppance.

Denny Deng: Denny Deng was born to a Chinese father and an Indonesian mother who raised him in a thriving immigrant community in California. His parents both died due to a sudden gas leak in their apartment that poisoned them while he was out on the town with a friend. Denny was taken in by an Indonesian immigrant who ran her own restaurant, who had been friend’s with his mother. The woman taught Denny to be a butcher and he became a valued member of her staff. Things took a turn for the worse when the bank foreclosed on the restaurant despite not having the legal authority to do so. The woman fought against it and the bank retaliated by having her deported. Denny lost everything and ended up on the streets, where he was picked up by a group of creeps who kidnapped homeless teenagers and forced them to fight to the death for their amusement. Denny was slashed by knives in his fights and eventually even lost an eye, forcing him to kill his opponents in order to not lose his other eye. He then learned that the owner of the bank that had ruined his life was in on the illegal activities of the fight organizers. Denny escaped and hacked the man to death. He fled up to Oregon to hide out and try to start a new life, but then realized a protest going on was against a company that had been in league with the bank. He joined in the protest and ended up meeting his future teammates. His individualized costume is designed to resemble dried meat, specifically dendeng, an Indonesian meal, that can cause those who strike it to break into a burning rash. He also gained a new butcher knife made of steel and a dust that he can throw at people that makes them feel extremely dehydrated. 

Cole Cannon: Cole Cannon was born to a poor family and never went to school, but was a well of potential for espionage. At a young age he was recruited by a group that claimed to be freelance government secret agents and trained to be a spy/saboteur for them. Cole became one of their most valued members as an adult. His speciality was planting or concealing tools and weapons for himself in plain sight. He was devoted to the job of helping the agents defeat terrorist cells. Only that wasn't what Cole actually doing, as the “freelance secret agents” who trained him were actually corporate saboteurs who eliminated the highest bidder’s competition for them. When he discovered this he used a needle shooting bomb to kill the people who had taught him how to make and use it. Cole retired from his occupation to Oregon using money he stole from his late controllers to try and start a new life running a game and prize booth. When he learned one of the corporations he had unwittingly helped was being protested, he journeyed there to join in and ended up meeting his soon-to-be teammates. His individualized outfit is modeled on the on the traditional Irish dish colcannon that is able to hide his muscles in order to make him look skinny and unthreatening. He also gained new tools like picking needles and explosives that he can disguise as other things like pans, vegetables, and more.