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Attributes

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Eyes: Unknown

Hair: Dark, Short/.Medium

Features: Male, Moderate Build and Height

Summary

Created By: Terry Kavanagh, Alex Saviuk, Stephen Baskerville, Al Milgrom

Real Name: Unknown

Current Aliases: Unknown

Former Aliases: Unknown

Dual Identity: Totally Secret

Current Occupation: Unknown

Former Occupation: Unknown

Citizenship: Unknown

Legal Status: Wanted for Murder

Place of Birth: Unknown

Marital Status: Unknown

Known Relatives: Unknown

Known Confidants: Unknown

Known Allies: Unknown

Major Enemies: Spider-Man

Usual Bases: New York

Former Bases: New York

Current Groups: None

Former Groups: None

Education: Unknown

Powers & Paraphenalia

Strength Level: With F.A.C.A.D.E. armour - exceptional.

Powers: With F.A.C.A.D.E. armour - ability to shoot green bio-bolts.

Abilities: None

Equipment: F.A.C.A.D.E. armour (Full Acclimation Combat And Defense Explo-skeleton)

Weapons: Bio-Lasers

Limitations: None

Background

Terry Kavanagh was responsible for scripting a number of abominations in his painful run on Web (from 77 thro. The pointless murder of Lance Bannon, the unintrigueing mystery of Facade's irrelevant identity, the "Private Eyeing, Tight-Skirted Machine-Gun Toting" absolutely unbelieveable changes to Betty Brant... the list goes on.

Terry was particularly fond of tough-talking, two-dimensional armoured characters, belonging to groups with lots of Acronyms. He was also responsible for Firebrand, The Rose and The Blood Rose rubbish, The Spider-Armour, a ton of Pointless Character Appearances from trendy types like Ghost Rider, and Gambit - and he also carries the stigma of having written the Web stories from Maximum Carnage.

But Facade was surely his worst effort. Facade will be remembered only as the answer to three questions... "What happened to Lance Bannon?", "Who was the most pointless Spidey Villain ever?" and "Surely nothing could be worse than a clone of Aunt May?"

So who is Facade? Well, F.A.C.A.D.E. actually refers to the body armour - a prototype manufactured by Morelle Pharmaceuticals, under the auspices of Dr. Thomas Haney. It has "non-concussive paralytic arcs", "bio-integrated systems", and "groundbreaking techno-organics". Cool, eh? Thanks, Terry.

Anyhow, somebody steals it, Lance Bannon gets a photo of them, but is killed after developing it but before he can reveal it. Oh, yeah, Dr. Haney is killed too. The candidates were: J. Jonah Jameson, Mike Wilson, Cole Cooper, Victor the Butler, Archer Bryce, and John Jameson. Read the review, if you want to try and figure it out - but unless T.K. spills the beans, I don't imagine we'll get a satisfactory answer. This ain't Sherlock Holmes, ya know!

Thanks To:

The assistance of the Marvel Chronology Project is gratefully acknowledged.

Character Appearances