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Gideon Mace is a trained soldier and a skilled strategist. He is an excellent shot with his left hand and an adept unarmed fighter. His right hand has been replaced by a foot-diameter titanium steel, spiked mace, which has also been adapted to spray chemical mace or to fire like a cannonball from his
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for insubordination, mental incompetence, and suspicion of combat activity independent of orders. Mace replaced his lost hand with a spiked mace, and formed a private army by recruiting ex-soldiers loyal to him. Needing financing, he arranged
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to him by claiming he had recovered the weapon and would detonate it. Cage worked with
Burgandy—a former agent of Mace's who turned against him after learning her husband had died in Mace's unauthorized mission—to expose Mace's plans. Mace next convinced illicit organizations, such as the
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for a day by seizing control of strategic points throughout the city. Mace secretly intended them to be decoys, diverting police away from Wall Street while his elite troops looted it. When one veteran, Owen
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as his first target, murdering most of Ayala's immediate family to lure the hero into his trap and shoot him. Mace's men dumped Ayala out of a speeding car outside the
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