Editing Blood Syndicate (section)

==Membership==
* '''Aquamaria''' - Maria (last name unknown) survived the Big Bang while floating in the James River; as a result, she gained the ability to manipulate and transform into water. She also has substantial control over water in all its forms, being able to create tsunamis and geysers, and shape near-freezing vapor into ice sculptures.
* '''Boogieman''', or '''Boogie''' - Martin Berger is able to transform into a giant humanoid rat. He is also able to communicate with the hyper-intelligent rats of Dakota, even when untransformed.
* '''Brickhouse''' (or '''Brick'''): Marta (last name unknown) survived the Big Bang while pressed up against a brick wall; as a result, she took on its characteristics, becoming a 10-foot-tall, super-strong woman of living brick, but this led to a substantial amount of brain damage, and she was subject both to [[epilepsy]] and [[retrograde amnesia]].
* '''DMZ''' - DMZ's name is an abbreviated form of the term, demilitarized zone. Little is known about him. He has superhuman strength and durability and is able to fly; furthermore, his eyes glow red. DMZ never speaks (except during the ''[[Worlds Collide (comics)|Worlds Collide]]'' [[Intercompany crossover|crossover]], when he said the word "Damn"); nor does he ever take off his mask. Dwayne McDuffie stated that DMZ is a human who teamed up with a member of the D'amsi police force when she chased a criminal to Earth. He was severely wounded saving her life, so she used her technology to optimize him, unlocking his full human potential. She left the Earth to chase the villain as he healed, promising to return for him.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 27, 2011 |title=DMZ |url=http://worldofblackheroes.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/dmz/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302145451/http://worldofblackheroes.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/dmz/ |archive-date=March 2, 2011 |access-date=February 27, 2011 |website=World of Black Heroes}}</ref>
* '''Dogg''': Originally Texador's/Tech-9's pet dog, Dogg gains human-level intelligence and speech, while remaining a dog in shape, personality, and abilities.
* '''Fade''': Carlos Quinones Jr. is the brother of Sara Quinones (Flashback). He can fly and pass through solid objects ([[quantum]] tunnelling), and frequently has difficulty becoming substantial. He is actually "spread out" over a three-second interval, and is thereby able to, for instance, punch someone and leave them unharmed until after he has left. He is a deeply closeted [[gay]] man, and was in love with Texador (Tech-9).<ref>{{cite web |date=February 27, 2011 |title=Fade - Carlos Quinones |url=http://worldofblackheroes.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/fade-carlos-quinones/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302145750/http://worldofblackheroes.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/fade-carlos-quinones/ |archive-date=March 2, 2011 |access-date=February 27, 2011 |website=World of Black Heroes}}</ref>
* '''Flashback''': Sara Quinones is a sister of Carlos Quinones (Fade). Flashback can fly and can travel back in time three seconds, an ability she uses to change the past. She considers herself responsible for the welfare of the Syndicate as a whole because she has witnessed (and reversed) their deaths and severe injuries on multiple occasions.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 24, 2011 |title=Flashback - Sara Quinones |url=http://worldofblackheroes.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/flashback-sara-quinones/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728232933/http://worldofblackheroes.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/flashback-sara-quinones/ |archive-date=July 28, 2012 |access-date=February 27, 2011 |website=World of Black Heroes}}</ref>
* '''Holocaust''' (later '''Pyre'''): Leonard Smalls, Jr. is the illegitimate son of Dakota mayor Thomasina Jefferson. A superhumanly strong pyrokinetic, Smalls left the Syndicate after a leadership struggle with Texador/Tech-9, and chose to abandon the small-scale world of gangs for the greater possibilities offered by organized crime.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 7, 2011 |title=Holocaust (Character) |url=http://worldofblackheroes.com/2011/04/07/holocaustpyre-leonard-smalls-jr/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902155434/http://worldofblackheroes.com/2011/04/07/holocaustpyre-leonard-smalls-jr/ |archive-date=September 2, 2011 |access-date= |website=World of Black Heroes |language=en-US}}</ref> As an initiation ritual, he was obliged to surrender something of great value to him: his name, and the reputation that came with it. Unable to call himself Holocaust, Smalls renamed himself Pyre.
[[Image:Bloodsyndicatemsu1.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Kwai, art by [[ChrisCross]].]]
* '''Kwai''' (Shen Hsien Pu Kwei) - one of the two non-Bang Babies in the Blood Syndicate (DMZ being the other), Nina Lam was the 77th - and last - incarnation of a Chinese mystical being. Originally a 9-year-old girl, Lam was mystically transformed into a 7-foot-tall adult woman with pale skin, long hair, and pointed ears.
* '''Masquerade''': A shapechanger able to assume the form of any animal (including humans), Masquerade is a [[Trans man|transgender man]]. He kept his assigned gender (female) to himself, using his abilities to present himself as the man he truly was. He fled the Syndicate after reflexively stealing several thousand dollars from them. A brief encounter later failed to convince him the Syndicate had changed their ways, and he would not be killed for his betrayal. He returned in the guise of a resurrected Rolando Texador (Tech-9), hoping to be accepted as their leader. As leader, Masquerade was responsible for the Syndicate instigating the Utopia Park riot.
* '''Oro''': Miguel Medina is a former police officer who survived the Big Bang as a member of the Riot Squad. After the Big-Bang, he was for a time a member of the [[Shadow Cabinet (comics)|Shadow Cabinet]] but was kicked out, and later framed for the murder of his ex-partner. He subsequently sought refuge with the Syndicate and helped protect their territory. He can fly, project energy blasts and produce blinding visual displays.
[[Image:Bloodsyndicatemsu2.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Tech 9, art by [[ChrisCross]].]]
* '''Tech-9''' (or '''Tech'''): Rolando Texador, formerly leader of the Force Syndicate, had the ability of "talismanic telekinesis", making him able to shoot endless quantities of bullets from any and all guns, with perfect accuracy. He could also materialize guns in his hands; his favored was the Tech-9 semi-automatic handgun, which he takes his name from.  Charismatic and with military training, he masterminded the Syndicate's formation and led them in their raids on crackhouses, but his flesh spontaneously melted off his bones when his superpower destabilized.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tech-9 - Rolando Texador |url=http://worldofblackheroes.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/tech-9-rolando-texador |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302145756/http://worldofblackheroes.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/tech-9-rolando-texador/ |archive-date=March 2, 2011 |access-date=March 9, 2011}}</ref>
* '''Third Rail''': The son of Korean immigrants, Pui Chung is able to absorb any form of energy and use it to grow in size and strength.
* '''Wise Son''' (or '''Wise'''): Hannibal White, leader of the Syndicate after Texador's death and a Black Muslim ("Wise Son" is a [[Qur'an]]ic reference), is invulnerable and has superstrength. He has also shown the ability to resist mental manipulation, and to survive the draining of large quantities of life force. He is the father of Edmund White, and has sole custody of him.