Vigilante (Earth 41)

Simon Morrison (c.1986-May 17, 2017), known under the alias Adrian Chase, was the former District Attorney of Gotham City and a former close employee of Selina Kyle, aiming to help clean up the streets through the legal system. However the death of his brother Dorian Chase, a police officer in the GCPD, Chase became Vigilante since he was enraged at what happened to his brother and started to use lethal weapons to carry out his acts.

Personality

As a civilian

Adrian has appeared to be a kind, caring, selfless, moral individual. He takes his job as a district attorney very seriously, though does have a tendency to lose his temper and is willing to use more extreme methods at achieving justice. After Oliver refused to throw him under the bus for political reasons, Adrian stated that Selina is not just his assistant, but also his friend.

As Vigilante

Vigilante has shown so far that he has little-to-no morality or care for many of his actions. His view of criminals, particularly in organized crime, is that all of them are dangerous and should be eliminated; this matches the outlook of Bruce Wayne during his early days as "the Knight", killing mercilessly and without care. Though Vigilante seems to be less moral than Bruce, who later became known as the Batman and caused less bloodshed than he did before, he still seems to consider himself equal to Batman, as they are both vigilantes rooting out criminals. While Batman interrogated a mobster, Vigilante, not caring that he could provide information about his connections to other gangs in Gotham City, shoots him dead while Batman watches. Batman condemned his actions, but Vigilante didn't care for his words. He also seems to want to kill his father Justin Claybourne because of his corruption and out of remorse for not doing anything about it. However, another motive for Chase is because of his feelings being hurt when Justin disowned him as his son which brought him into conflict with Dorian and Chase's mother Amanda Westfield. As Vigilante, firmly believes that the wicked deserve to be punished and stopped permanently, and that their deaths - no matter how brutal and even illegal are needed as they better the world. He is brutal, cold, and efficient. He would use extreme tactics such as torture, brutality and eventually kill them. He firmly believes that the truly evil deserve no mercy, and as such he holds no regret in the deaths of any heinous criminal he kills. However, despite this Chase greatly values the lives of innocents, and will do his absolute best to make sure that civilians are not harmed. Despite his cold and ruthless demeanor, beneath it all, Chase a man who strongly and deeply misses his brother, and wishes only to make up for his inability to protect him. Chase also appears to believe in returning favors, since him helping Batman defeat former League of Assassin members as a way of repaying the Dark Knight for rescuing him.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

None known.

Abilities

Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced): Vigilante is shown to have excellent combat skills. He is able to defeat multiple bandits and thugs, ex-soldier John Stewart. He was able to fight on par with Batman.
- Martial Arts
Expert marksman: Vigilante prefers guns and rifles as his favorite type of weapons, and has great proficiency with them.
Computer hacker: Vigilante has at least basic computer hacking skills.
Intimidation: Vigilante is shown to effectively terrorize people, both his enemies and unwilling allies like a gun shop owner. The latter said that Vigilante was much more frightening than Guardian.
Peak Human Condition: The Vigilante is in top physical condition and well-trained.
Stealth: Vigilante is shown to have great skills in stealth. His skill also allows him to seamlessly disappear from sight without a trace, making it difficult to keep up with him.

Strength level

Unknown.

Weaknesses

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment:

Vigilante suit: Vigilante's suit is comprised of black leather and computerized orange goggles that resemble ski goggles.

Transportation: None known.
Weapons: Vigilante uses guns while on patrol in Gotham City.

Heckler & Koch MP5K: Vigilante's main submachine gun.
FN SCAR-L: Vigilante's main assault rifle with a mounted FN MK 13 Mod 0 grenade launcher.
Glock 17: Vigilante's main sidearm.
Nemesis Arms Vanquish: A suppressed sniper rifle handled but not fired.
Tear gas: Vigilante onetime had to use tear gas to subdue a bunch of police officers to kill his target during a police escort.

Notes

Unlike in the comics, he is not married to a woman named Doris Chase or someone who has children. His mother doesn't appear in the series, but the only family members who do are his brother Dorian and father Justin Claybourne. He is somewhat similar to his Earth-1 doppelganger and to the Earth-1 version of Vigilante. His mother is only mentioned in The Knight of Gotham.

Trivia

No trivia.

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