El Jaguar had catlike eyes that could see in the dark, and seemed to have borderline superhuman strength, durability and speed. He keeps his HPs for LDD (not a bad tactic given his Conditional Soaking Advantage), further enhancing his remarkable resilience ; Daredevil punched him a lot and threw him into practically everything across the room, yet the only clear result was Stunning el Jaguar twice.

He fared less well after a full-power Widow’s bite point blank to the face — but survived even this.

His military skills and the Iron Nerves in the game stats are speculative — but then this guy only appeared once.

History

After Nick Fury managed to destroy HYDRA and Baron Strucker with their own Spore Bomb, the dreaded terrorist organization laid shattered for years. Various players tried to revive it, including various surviving HYDRA agents who proclaimed themselves Supreme Hydra or simply headed factions and cliques.

Some such factions eventually degenerated so that they became controlled by insane criminals or organized crime. In particular, a faction on the U.S. East Coast decided to make Maggia don Silvio “Silvermane” Manfredi its new Supreme HYDRA, and concentrated its operations on New York City.

Appreciating the value of good lieutenants, and knowing that he would frontally oppose powerful interests and superhumans, Silvermane made costumed criminals into chiefs for the various sections of his reorganized HYDRA splinter arm ; those were the Fox, the Fixer, Jackhammer, el Jaguar, Man-Killer and Mentallo. However, the overconfident Silvermane outstretched himself by trying to kill the candidates for the board of directors of S.H.I.E.L.D., and his HYDRA splinter was swiftly taken out by S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, Daredevil and the Black Widow.

El Jaguar managed to blindside and knock out the Widow, then battle Daredevil to a standstill, and to flee when S.H.I.E.L.D. arrived.  When Daredevil and the Widow attacked the base of Silvermane’s HYDRA, the Widow engaged him solo. He nearly killed her, but she took him out with a blast in the face. He recovered, but at that point was utterly out of HPs and he, Blackwing and Man-Killer where captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. troops led by Dum-Dum Dugan.

Little is known about the past of el Jaguar before he was recruited to head the HYDRA Bravos Commandos — though he was apparently Spanish, and genetically enhanced by HYDRA at some point in the past to have the proportionate strength and agility of a feline. Likewise, little is known about his career after the Silvermane HYDRA was taken down — its is possible he spent years in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.

El Jaguar was at the Bar With No Name, discussing with Commander Kraken how HYDRA had become too conservative for a man like him, when the Scourge of Crime opened fire with two special .50 machineguns, killing everyone in the bar.

Given the endurance he displayed previously, his hazy superhuman abilities, and the propensity of feral characters in the Marvel Universe to have healing factors, it is *possible* that el Jaguar could come back, a la Norman Osborn.

Description

See illustrations.

Personality

A bit of an embarrassing racist cliche, I’m afraid. He’s a bombastic, verbose, brash, misogynistic, macho thug whose speech is laden with — not always correctly used — Spanish terms. He seems very proud to be the leader of a crack unit, and quite protective - paternalistic, in fact - toward his soldatos. He does not quite command them ; he tags along with them and let them do their thing, springing from the woodwork when they encounter potentially dangerous resistance.

While el Jaguar prefers to make indirect and dramatic entrances, such as climbing outside a building and barging in through the window, he becomes very straightforward once in combat — he just kept pouncing at Daredevil, slashing him and refusing to stay down.