Stallion is a corn-fed, steroids-bolstered hulking mass of muscle. He doesn’t have real combat training, but he doesn’t really need it - beyond his huge strength and mass he’s a natural at brawling, has lots of fighting experience and has genuine aggression and killer instinct.

Stallion will probably not fare well against real masters of unarmed combat such as Nightwing, but he can kill several armed men with his bare hands without major difficulty. He also excels at intimidation - also more through mass and ferocity than real training.

When he expects serious opposition, Stallion tucks one or two steel nunchaku in his belt. He’s decent with these, and they further increase his reach and strength.

Hanrahan’s knees are in a terrible state. He can run for a bit, but if he has to put more stress on his knees - or if he’s hit there - he’ll likely become unable to walk until he sees a doctor.

History

Gifted with an impressive frame, Randy “Stallion” Hanrahan was a promising gridiron football player - a wide-receiver. He was recruited by the Dallas Cowboys, and was looking toward a Super Bowl ring. However, his career was destroyed by a severe anterior-cruciate ligament injury to both knees during pre-season scrimmage. One suspects that his marriage collapsed in the wake of his injury.

Hanrahan ended up a criminal enforcer and moved North. He was good at this new job too, and found employment in Gotham at the Iceberg Lounge, where the Penguin had him work as “repossessor of defaulted loans”. Stallion soon moved from faceless muscle man to colourful enforcer with a rep. By 1997, he was working in Gotham’s neighbouring city, Blüdhaven, for the new local crime lord Blockbuster (Roland Desmond).

Blockbuster paired Stallion with a much more technical fighter, Lady Vic, but while attempting to repel an attack on their employer’s property they ran into Batman himself and were swiftly defeated. Some months later Blockbuster send Stallion and another hitman, Brutale, to an hospital to kill a patient thought to be Nightwing - but the real Nightwing defeated Stallion by kicking his right knee out.

Call me hoss, I’m the boss, with the sauce and the horse

In 1999 a pair of French thieves-acrobats, the Double Dare, stole from Blockbusters, who sent Stallion, Brutale and the Electrocutioner after them. They located the circus where the Double Dare worked and welded their trailer shut, hitched hit to a truck and drove away to dump the trailer off a cliff. However Nightwing was also present in the trailer. In the subsequent fray, Stallion was accidentally hit by a discharge from the Electrocutioner, but survived.

Some months later, Blockbuster managed to track his enemy Oracle (Barbara Gordon) down, and Stallion was one of the operators in the ground, leading a fire team in storming possible Oracle hideouts. She tricked them to gain time, and one such raid led Blockbuster’s men straight into a stronghold of the Lucky Hand triad. Stallion was the only man left standing.

Blockbuster and his men did find Oracle, though Stallion was briefly incapacitated by a nausea-inducing gas trap. Nevertheless the operation was successful, though Black Canary passed herself for Oracle to save the real Oracle.

By 2001, Blockbuster tired of the failure of his enforcers against Nightwing, Batman and their allies and pitted them against his newest recruit, Shrike (Boone). Stallion was the first to charge in, and was easily beaten by Shrike. Though he survived the blows, Stallion was presumably fired.

Give me a minute and I’ll tell why I’m a rough boy

In 2004, Stallion had somehow been re-hired by Blockbuster, though presumably not at the same rates. He was leading a fire team when they ran into an enraged Nightwing, who thrashed them without giving them a chance to fight back.

Whether Hanrahan was in Blüdhaven during the city’s destruction in 2006 is unknown, but it seems likely that he moved on to another area to rebuild his rep back in 2004. In any case, he hasn’t been seen in years.

Description

Officially Stallion is 6‘4” and 263 lbs - the value in the Background block above are higher to represent how he’s usually drawn.

Personality

Stallion is a 100% Texan jock and good ol‘ boy, and he loudly advertises that. He has a strong Texas accent, goes out of his way to wear cowboy stuff (large hat, big shiny belt buckles, riding boots, a vest styled after a Confederate officer’s, etc.) and makes a point of peppering his speech with references to horses, the prairie, the rodeo, etc.

Stallion is not outright stupid, but he’s clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer. This will become quite evident after two or three minutes of talking with him - or about thirty seconds for attractive young women, or ten seconds for blondes. He’s both a womaniser and a racist, and has a tendency to state the obvious while munching on a matchstick or drinking a Bud.

Though he has his shortcomings, Stallion is a loyal and courageous employee with a taste for fighting and killing.

Writeup redone on the 6th of September, 2012.