Chimera (City of Heroes)

"Your trivial words mean nothing to me. Look around you. Imperial City burns. The people, when given their freedom, abuse it. You all do not deserve such a luxury."

- Chimera

Justin Sinclair code-named Chimera, or more commonly addressed by the people of Praetoria as Praetor Sinclair, is an antagonist in the MMO City of Heroes. He is a part of an alternate reality to the game's main one referred to as "Praetorian Earth" by the main reality, which the Praetorians refer to as "Primal Earth". Justin is a member of Praetoria's extremist government where the heroes of Primal Earth took over the world in order to better protect it (to varriying levels of sincerity). Chimera is the Praetorian version of the Primal Earth Manticore. Even amoung his fellow extrimest meta-humans Chimera was always a ugly side of "what needed to be done" for Emperor Cole.

Manticore Deviant
In Primal Earth, Justice Sinclair was a wealthy heir. He saw his parent killed in front of him in their private home when a super-criminal broke-in and killed them when caught. Justin remained unseen on the stair-case overlooking the grizzly scene. He has stated he cried out his life-quota of tears and so owes the world no more. Mr. Sinclair had taken-up the super-hero alter-ego "Manticore" and taken to fighting crime secretly, though the murder was not retribution - just a theft. Mr. Sinclair's old nanny, Virginia Bowman, found young Justin when she visited the estate, she was also listed as his legal guardian and so took to raising Justin as she had his father. As a proper English woman of good breeding she had raised Mr. Sinclair with a variety of skills like archery practice, martial training and proper movment - it was these skills that Mr. Sinclair honed into a crime-fighting-style. With his father's trainer and motivation to stop crime by any means, Justin took-on the mantle of 'Manticore' when he grew-up as well - his training with Ms Bowman was far more specfic though, as he knew exactly what he wanted to put it towards when he grew-up. In Praetoria Justin's life played out very differently because of one crutial difference in his parent't murder - the super-villain who murdered them noticed young Justin. The criminal - a shape-shifter named Protean or "Doppelgänger" in Praetoria, saw the small wittness to his crimes. Doppelgänger was not the type to leave witnesses, while killing him was an option he instead kidnapped him and raised him instead of Ms. Bowman. (As Doppelgänger was a shape-shifter it is unclear if he took-over the Sinclair's estate or he took Justin away with him to the city's seedy under-belly. Whatever the details, a life raised by the man who killed his parent made the Praetorian version of Manticore into a highly-trained criminal who applied himself as an assassin. He would eventually be picked up by Marcus Cole when forming his new government.