Ammo is intelligent, ruthless, charismatic, ambitious and a military veteran. He’s an excellent hand-to-hand combatant, but couldn’t do anything against the vastly superior Daredevil.

History

Ammo, a disenfranchised ’Nam vet, was first seen when Apocalypse’s craft crashed over New York, engendering a power failure and various riots. Much of the population was convinced that nuclear Armageddon had struck New York, and that it was the end of the world ; anarchy reigned over most of the area.

Seizing the occasion, Ammo started assembling a very large gang, with which he raided an armory and later an hospital’s drugs supply. Within a few days he had two hundred heavily armed guys, an entire National Guard arsenal and lots of fuel at his disposal, and his crews were busy welding armour plates on vans to turn them into urban assault vehicles. Many considered him to be the king of Manhattan, but his reign was broken by a small band of ’Nam vets, the Black Widow and Daredevil ; the latter brutally mauled Ammo after he opened fire on a defenseless crowd.

A few days after power and civilization had been restored, Typhoid Mary broke Ammo out of jail so he could join a group of criminals who took turns ambushing and hitting Daredevil, very nearly killing him and delivering him into Typhoid’s hands.

Ammo and his Wildboys remain a force on the street, and aspire to become a major force in NYC again.

Description

Ammo is a muscular black man in his early 30’s, with a blonde crewcut shaved into stripes on the sides. He wears skintight white, zebra-stripped pants and matching “sleeves” on his forearms, along with a tactical vest, combat boots and some jewelry. He nearly always packs a gun and a baseball bat on his belt. His torso and shoulders thus remain bare.  He wears a patch over his missing left eye.

Ammo usually had red war paint on his face ; this motif was imitated by many in his gang during the short collapse of civilization in Manhattan.

Personality

Ammo is a hardcore, Hobbesian survivalist. For him civilization is a lie, and real power belongs to the strong ; the weak can either follow or get killed. He enjoys violence, has right wing opinions and is convinced the cold war will go nuclear sooner or later - but that there will be real survivors who will be able to control the ruins. Everyone else is just meat, and he absolutely doesn’t care about victims.

Ammo is familiar with extreme survival circumstances from Viet nam, and was quite competent at commanding a large gang of armed barbarians drugged to the gills.

DC Universe History

The main problem is that he’s the product of the Vietnam war and the fears of nuclear annihilation, tying him strongly to a specific era.

Bringing him to the quake in Gotham and having him become a major warlord in the No Man’s Land after coming out of nowhere is probably the smoothest way, although its lacks the pathos and patina of the original character. His fear of nuclear war could be replaced by the fear of superhuman annihilation (perhaps even supernatural visions of the Kingdom Come events), or the fear of a fascist state ruled by the Batman in Gotham.