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| “ | Remember your training, Bagra-Ghul. Just like the military, Hell has a hierarchy. We serve Mephisto. Hellfire is our banner and arsenal. Fall in line, boy! | „ |
| ~ General Harms revealing his allegiance to Mephisto. |
General Harms is the main antagonist in Vol. 1 of Hellverine.
He is the current leader of Weapon Plus' Hellfire Project and a high-ranked general in the U.S. military who continued off the previous experimental procedures under his jurisdiction and direction. Using the corpses of dead soldiers, he infused Hellfire energy with them to create weaponized zombies out of them called the "Destroyers", only for it to backfire as they were unleashed and began rampaging elsewhere outside the Pentagon. In order to track them all down and bring them back, he manipulates the Wolverine into hunting them all down on his behalf. Harms is eventually revealed to be in leagues with a demonic relic that granted him his abilities upon resurrection.
Personality[]
| “ | General Harms was not always this way. He used to wear his ugliness on the inside. He was the commander of a shadow unit. They waged the wars that took place outside the media's gaze. What they did was not only unaccountable but unimaginable. In Asia. In South America. In Africa and the Middle East. In Eastern Europe. He was said, in some circles, to put the red in red, blue, and white. On one mission, he learned that the families of the enemy fighters were holed up in an ancient church. They had hung a white flag of surrender in the entry. He tore it down... and he tore them up... with no regard for their helplessness... or for the sacredness of the holy site. | „ |
| ~ A description summarizing General Harms' cold personality. |
General Harms is a stoic, manipulative, emotionless, and cold-hearted general who prioritizes power for himself and any sense of security to his needs best suited. Completely apathetic and indifferent to the deaths of soldiers he claims to "respect" as heroes of the US' nation, Harms, in truth, Harms sought nothing more than to corrupt and withhold power in his position so as long as he continued spreading as much war and chaos as he pleases. So much that he sees his soldiers, including the fireteam, as pawns and stepping stones for him to meet up with certain expectations and achieve great results.
Shown to be manipulative, he comes off acting out on the best interests of safeguarding the country and trying to recapture the Destroyers under sincerest intentions as told to Wolverine, when actually, he got him to do his dirty work. Harms is never one to uphold any compromises and lacks in good faith, as he prepares having one of his Hellhounds dispose of Wolverine afterwards and is shown to be pragmatic in sense, working with the US Secretary as a means to ensure he stays in power, as well as well-restraint and strategic, albeit his logic and quick-thinking aren't of the best timing. However, Harms' allegiance with the US shifted for the worst when he swore to pledge an oath of serving Mephisto as his top priority, all under fanatical circumstances. Believing himself to have full authority in his position, especially when controlling the dead through overseeing the very operational experiments, Harms had the conceit that the Destroyers were his to command, later proven to be his own undoing in the end.
Biography[]
Throughout his time serving at the U.S. Military, Harms is known for ruthlessly and mercilessly massacring the enemy factions and their loved ones during past wars throughout the globe under the US Government's behalf. Throughout his career, Harms lays siege wherever country he go, from Asia, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, gunning down enemy fighters and innocent people along the way, especially under brutal means. One time, General Harms and his men infiltrated and located an ancient church where the families of the opposing faction were staying and already held up the white flag for surrender. Unfortunately, General Harms mercilessly threw a flash grenade inside after tearing the flag apart, soon gunning down the families inside before he laid eyes on a seemingly sacred relic laying on the altar.
Unbeknownst to Harms, the relic was revealed to be a skull of a demon after being slain by a saint, thus grabbing hold of it. However, a surviving refugee guns him in his left eye for dead before she was shot down, only giving the skull relic's demonic essence to begin emerge, revealing to be one belonging to Mephisto. It whispered that should Harms enlist himself and pledge loyalty into performing sacrifices on Hell's behalf - with Hell first and the US government second. He would live again with power unforeseen inside him, to which Harms agrees to and is resurrected through hell's dark magic, turning him into a semi-demon. At some point after the past failures of Father Pike, General Harms was approached by Weapon Plus and Orchis through unknown means and was declared the new head of Project Hellfire, replacing Pike.
Harms would later get the US Secretary involved to give him the funding needed to begin Project Hellfire's operations underneath the Pentagon at D.C., Washington, thus called "the Pentangle" - a hidden underground facility and the new, current location of Project Hellfire, where he would oversee experimental weaponization at hand, as a mean of being given a second chance over what he had done if he could meet up with good results and keep his pension, otherwise, he would be discharged from the military and the government as a whole. At another point, he would often request Dr. Spivey, the lab's chief scientist, into forging weapons specialized in neutralizing or taking down anything demon-related.
During the funeral held at the Arlington National Cemetery dedicated to six young soldiers - an elite fireteam of the military - who lost their lives at the time of war from an ambush, General Harms is seen amongst the mourning crowd and waited for the families and loved ones to leave the graves afterwards. Once the funeral was done, Harms is informed by his driver that the time was right and ordered his soldiers to dig up the corpses of the elite fireteam. Back at the Pentangle, he would have Dr. Spivey initiate the experimental procedures of having the corpses he dug out, having said the experiments costed over sixty million and ensuring their bodies are clean of formaldehyde to keep their muscle memory intact.
Upon gathering the corpses together, Harms would have their bodies modified with robotic body-parts converged with hellfire energy, and proceeds to activate the machine containing hellfire energy right into them, resulting in the process as they are revived as they screamed with the energy surging through them. Once it was done, General Harms and Dr. Spivey would check on the corpses, reassuring the latter that diagnostics would be acquired for observation until the started moving. Attempting to order them to stand down and obey his every command, the zombified elite fireteam - now named as the Destroyers - would end up massacring several of the scientists present, then to killing the middle-rank government members and security guards of the Pentagon as they made their escape, leaving fifty dead. General Harms and Dr. Spivey tried to evacuate the labs before the exit route got triggered, only at some point, managed to recover two of the Destroyers' corpses after their fight with Hellverine yet allowing to roam freely to massacre anyone in their way.
Instead, General Harms decided on recapturing the newly-revived soldiers through other means, tasking Dr. Spivey with capturing Logan Howlett/Wolverine due to his connections with Bagra-Ghul and suspecting he is still Hellverine. Once subdued in an ambush by Spivey knocking him out with syringe, he is placed in an interrogation room where Harms questioned whether he was still the Hellverine for the past four weeks and forward to showing him evidence of Hellverine's existence, all while taunting him with the fact prior that Project Hellfire made him who he formerly was. Asking for his cooperation, Wolverine questions about his zombified soldiers as seen on the footage, only responding he doesn't know them or their motive, in actuality, lying about it as Wolverine recognizes the second Hellverine to be his dead soon, Akihiro.
Coming to introduce Wolverine the Pentangle and giving him a tour, General Harms shows him the lab where Spivey noted through observation that the hellfire energy infusion converted their entire beings that their bloood became more similar to jet fuel, their skin become more like leather, and have blackened organs. When Wolverine remarked what they're doing is similar to the creation of Weapon X and to himself once before, Harms justifies and insisted that it was done out of "respect" to the originally deceased elite fireteam, then further manipulatively talks Wolverine into gathering the remaining Destroyers out there and "retire" them after this. Once Wolverine gets notes on the Destroyers and leaves to hunt them down alone in a one-man job, Harms advises Spivey to keep an eye on the former, granting her access to have his personal Hellhounds to help keep track of Wolverine's steps by having one of them sniff his scent and later intend to have him fed to the Hellhounds once he decides he's no longer of use to them.
General Harms is later seen with the US Secretary at the Arlington Cemetery, calling him out for digging up the fireteam's graves, now telling him that he is no longer to be permitted inside the White House as she is not interested in keeping up with whatever Project Hellfire contains, retorting Harms to remember that what he's done to the fireteam is better off buried and left in peace for a one reminder within the graveyard; "this is a place where heroes were buried", and that he made them into villains. Harms points out she was the one who funded the project, making her just as guilty, but the secretary also responds that these weren't the results she wanted and warns with what would happen if news of this gets out. Just as Harms corrects that what [we've] done gets out, the secretary once again berates him that this was his second chance to make things right for what he's done in the previous war overseas, also warning him of the consequences if he doesn't set things straight, especially since he almost got tried in Hague.
When Wolverine hunted down a Destroyer named Peter Marmon trying to reunite with his family and Harms' men accompanied with one of his Hellhounds where they nearly got Peter's wife and daughter harmed before two other Destroyers got rid of them, all three of them started to gain their sense in tact and remember General Harms bringing them back to life, now seeking to track him down and declaring war against the US. General Harms, meanwhile, is seen back in his office, lighting a candle as he loomed over the very relic that commenced his transformation, before he got a call from Dr. Spivey requesting his presence at the lab. Seeing Spivey at gunpoint by Lieutenant Leland Townsend, the former commanding chief of the elite fireteam, who was enraged by what Harms did to his team on the news, then goes on threatening on sending this to news reporters or he could help him become a Destroyer, which Harms nonchalantly agreed.
Stating they have not tested the hellfire energy on a living subject so far, Leland insists that his team knows him well and that he'll be sure to bring them back to the labs as he leads and give them a purpose and mission again, seeing this would Harms welcome Leland into Project Hellfire. Shortly after this, he gets called onto meeting with the US Secretary in private outside a nearby river stream, discussing current matters of the situation, stating to him that she silenced the media into releasing news about the Destroyers, but issues the fact that the President wants the complete disbandment of Project Hellfire should they not manage to handle capturing the escaped subjects - resulting in both the secretary's resignation and whether between Harms is sentenced to death or locked in a federal prison. Harms ensures he found another solution in the project's latest development of Leland Townsend joining them until the two remaining Destroyers found them. Harms and the secretary get in their car as the former tries luring them back into the Pentangle. Unfortunately, one of them already bit off half of the secretary's head, killing her, and later restrains Harms with chains when he tried to escape.
Hellverine eventually arrives to take care of the remaining Destroyers as it gave Harms time to bring out a specialized rifle loaded with holy water ammo designed by Dr. Spivey, using it to shoot down Hellverine as he fled away mid-battle, reverting him back into Akihiro and forging back into Wolverine, though costed Akihiro his lifeforce as Wolverine becomes Hellverine once again, only to then undo the transfer and revive him. Back at the Pentangle, where Dr. Spivey initiated on infusing hellfire energy onto Leland after crafting modifications to his body, Harms comes back with the secretary's corpse, asking Spivey of Leland's whereabouts, responding that he left to track down and find his fireteam. Harms, relieved of the outcome, states to Spivey about the potential shutdown of Project Hellfire if they don't get the Destroyers back on their control and tells her to bring back the secretary to life through hellfire energy. Shocked by this revelation and saying she is no soldier, Harms reveals his new intentions of no longer wishing to dominate the battlefield, rather but use the power of hellfire to take full control over the leadership of the US.
Back at his office, General Harms would don the skull relic on his head and enters the Pentangle, listening to the relic's whispers onto what he's instructed to do next, reminding Dr. Spivey of their deadline by dawn and begin infusing hellfire energy onto the secretary. Dr. Spivey reluctantly began doubting Harms' ways of conducting the project and the idea for it, as she only joined because she thought what they're were experimenting on was for the protection of the country, only for Harms to swat her in a fit of anger, ranting that Hell itself is a kingdom in comparison to their country, along with the rest of Earth, being beneath its reign. Getting on a vehicle as he drove with the secretary's corpse now modified to begin his plans in the next phase - testing the theory of a demon's nature expanding more than just possessing a body and have the relic possess an entire country at hand, Harms eventually spots Hellverine chasing after him, managing to blow up his car's tires, crashing them as Wolverine ambushes the secretary's corpse and has her caught into his bike's tires, turning her into roadkill.
Once General Harms survives the crash, he begins demonstrating a brink of his power, unleashing flames and begins firing fiery bullets directly at Hellverine, all while taunting Bagra-Ghul from the inside about his training, declaring Hell is the hierarchy and that they lived to serve Mephisto. When Lt. Leland Townsend and his remaining Destroyer - Corporal Jamie Doedon - arrived, Harms believed they came around to assist him as he tries strategizing an arms tactics against Hellverine before he is suddenly chained and restrained, with Leland firing a single shot at him and the skull relic destroyed by Hellverine. At his final moments, Harms was at Hellverine and Wolverine's mercy, with the latter mocking how this can now "qualify as a dishonorable discharge", which Hellverine incinerates him to death.
With General Harms dead, Project Hellfire's current state in the Pentangle will be conducted on much nobler terms with Lt. Leland Townsend and Dr. Spivey put in charge while being aware of the potential risks there on out.
