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Well that’s my job! I’d noticed he’d become quite beloved, so thus we’ve got to shake his life up a little bit and put some drama into it! And you know, if one gets drama inserted into one’s life that’s often a very terrible thing. So it’s my job to make you love these characters and then to hurt
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basement, being tempted to give his soul for an unknown desire. He was freed by and joined Pete Wisdom's strike team. However, this was a ploy by
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When MI:13 refocused itself against a supernatural pandemic, Captain
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the representative of my dad's generation, those who fought in World War II, which is still big in the
British psyche. He also tends to look backwards, while Pete Wisdom looks forwards, thus also representing that trait of the
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man with a body of a superhero. He has got the opinions and a personality of an eighty-year-old man but the abilities and strength of
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