Wesley Gibson

Wesley Gibson starts out as another cubicle drone until his life is changed in the plot of the supervillain narrative Wanted.

Comics Version
Wesley is ushered into the secret world of the Fraternity when he is approached by the vulgar assassin The Fox (a Catwoman analogue who fittingly shoots several patrons in the process). He is shown the truth of things, that the Fraternity operates in secret with countless supervillains that are able to commit horrific atrocities while escaping each time. Being introduced to Professor Solomon Selzer (a Lex Luthor analogue), he learns further that superheroes and supervillains once existed and battled each other. Tired of being defeated, the supervillains teamed up and defeated/killed most of the superheroes. Selzer went further by creating a device that altered reality itself so that the remaining superheroes were literally retconned into only being actors with the memories of portraying said superheroes.

With this knowledge in mind, Selzer reveals that Wesley's disappeared father was The Killer and that he was seemingly killed (an event witnessed at the beginning of the comic). Wesley is then inducted to become the new Killer and becomes a far more malevolent individual who revels in causing death and destruction (such as murdering an old neighbor that'd always reassure Wesley things would be alright and bragging about having raped an A-list celebrity). He becomes a full-fledged member and joins them in rallies and raids, including ones extending into other dimensions.

The plot is ushered further by the conflict with Mr. Rictus, one of the Fraternity heads who wishes for the supervillians to work out in the open. Knowing that his father once worked for Rictus and that Rictus is very likely the man behind the murder, Wesley becomes wary. He is hired as Selzer's personal bodyguard during a villains convention wherein Rictus and his Nazi associate and fellow Fraternity head The Future try to propose their plot to openly conquer and devastate their worlds and others. Rictus is declined which leads to be Selzer being murdered by Shit-Head, one of Rictus' underlings and a Clayface-analogue. Following this, Rictus and The Future's underlings murder most of Selzer's supervillains and rebel against the other factions.

Wesley and The Fox fight back, murdering other supervillains in various ways (such as destroying Shit-Head with bleach and stalling Sucker, a Parasite analogue, so he'd lose his gained ability of flight and fall to its death). At the headquarters, Wesley and the Fox kill several more of the villains and the final (if not a bit anticlimatic) battle culminates with Wesley shooting Rictus through the throat.

However, his father The Killer appears from the shadows, revealing that he had faked his death to start Wesley down a Social Darwinist path of toughing up. Hating his pacifistic mother for "making him a pussy", The Killer worked with Fox to mold Wesley into the sadistic Killer he is now. Satisfied with this, The Killer then requests that Wesley kill him. Wesley complies and seemingly experiences an emotional epiphany which surprises Fox, only to then reveal he was just bullshitting her. Wanted then ends with Wesley directly addressing the reader, calling them a pathetic loser for seeking escapism in the story.

Film Version
Wesley's film incarnation, portrayed by James McAvoy. As opposed to being a supervillain, the Fraternity in the film incarnation is a brotherhood of assassins led by Sloan. Like in the comic, Wesley is brought into the world of assassins by the Fox who informs him that his father had been a member and was murdered by Cross.