The Watchlord is a mutate with telekinetic and matter reshaping/animation powers. He has turned wooden planks into a straightjacket, turned wooden beams into a sort of metallic cage, blasted people with energy beams from his hands, animated tree roots to hold prisoners, set fire to buildings with his mind, that sort of things.

History

Pieter Altmann was but a child when Germany fell in 1945. His hometown was overrun by Soviet troops, and his father was killed despite being non-political. The boy fled to a church operated by a friend of his father, and the priest hid him in his warehouse.

Unknown to either the priest or the boy, one of the crates there was full of experimental radioactive isotopes abandoned by the Nazis. The lengthy exposure had a mutagenic effect, but this wouldn’t be apparent until Altmann was well into his teens.

When he discovered that he had powers well beyond those of normal men, he decided it was a sign that he should rid the West of “all of Stalin’s brood”, meaning any person associated with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He later moved to the US, and apparently was naturalized as a citizen there.

Itsy bitsy spider

In the early 1970s, the Watchlord captured Ivan Petrovitch Bezukhov and used him to lure the Black Widow to an upstate New York chalet. Both Russians were left to die in the burning chalet and the Watchlord moved on to his next target, a nearby lodge owned by the Soviet embassy.

Ivan and Natalya escaped and took down the Watchlord’s henchmen. However the Widow fell into an ambush set by the Watchlord - she dodged the boulder he had blasted off-balance, but that left her open and Altmann’s shot grazed her head. Out of power, the Watchlord walked to her and was about to execute her with his handgun when he was caught in an avalanche triggered by the boulder he had previously blasted.

The Watchlord was never seen again and likely perished in the avalanche.

Description

See illustration.

Personality

Dastardly !