Difference between revisions of "James Bronson"
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|Name = James "Doc" Bronson | |Name = James "Doc" Bronson | ||
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|Role = Doctor | |Role = Doctor | ||
|Group = [[:Category:PCs (OWTD)|PCs]] | |Group = [[:Category:PCs (OWTD)|PCs]] | ||
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===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
| − | * | + | * Born in [date], to a upper middleclass family. |
| − | * For reasons TBD, family moved West when he was a teen. | + | * For reasons TBD, family moved West, to Columbus, OH, when he was a teen. |
* Parents wanted him to go to have a proper education and he went to medical school | * Parents wanted him to go to have a proper education and he went to medical school | ||
* Mom or dad or both were killed by bad people that were trying to extort his family | * Mom or dad or both were killed by bad people that were trying to extort his family | ||
* Doc goes on killing spree a la "Punisher" and kills most of the bad guys earning him the nickname "The Butcher of Purgatory" ([https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident Noodle Incident]) | * Doc goes on killing spree a la "Punisher" and kills most of the bad guys earning him the nickname "The Butcher of Purgatory" ([https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident Noodle Incident]) | ||
| − | * | + | * Chief Deputy US Marshal Charles C. Tompkins of the Southern Ohio District captures Doc and gives him a chance to capture the rest of the gang legally |
* Doc becomes a deputy marshal and turns a new leaf to capture the remaining bandidos | * Doc becomes a deputy marshal and turns a new leaf to capture the remaining bandidos | ||
* Doc becomes a respected lawman for several years; overlapping time of civil war | * Doc becomes a respected lawman for several years; overlapping time of civil war | ||
| − | * Meets a nice Mexican girl and they get married, have 1 kid | + | * Meets a nice Mexican girl and they get married, have 1 kid (Marisol) |
| − | * Job is too hazardous, bad guys he puts in jail threaten his family | + | * Job is too hazardous, bad guys he puts in jail threaten his family; wife killed |
| − | * Doc feels he has too much to lose and decides to retire as lawman and put his education to use and become a doctor | + | * Doc feels he has too much to lose and decides to retire as lawman and put his education to use and become a doctor; moved to Tompkins' district, just appointed US Marshal of Colorado |
| + | :* Marisol remains in Columbus with the grandparents | ||
* '''## Sep 1876:''' He opens up or takes over a small clinic in [[:Category:Babylon|another town]] away from the bad guys. Builds up successful business and gains reputation as doctor (Healer 3); not many people remember he was once the "butcher" | * '''## Sep 1876:''' He opens up or takes over a small clinic in [[:Category:Babylon|another town]] away from the bad guys. Builds up successful business and gains reputation as doctor (Healer 3); not many people remember he was once the "butcher" | ||
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AKA "Doc"; "Butcher of Purgatory"
Actor: Charles Bronson
Concept
Small-Town Doctor with a Dark Past
Tropes
Retired Monster; Starting a New Life
Details
Causa Vitæ
Background
- Born in [date], to a upper middleclass family.
- For reasons TBD, family moved West, to Columbus, OH, when he was a teen.
- Parents wanted him to go to have a proper education and he went to medical school
- Mom or dad or both were killed by bad people that were trying to extort his family
- Doc goes on killing spree a la "Punisher" and kills most of the bad guys earning him the nickname "The Butcher of Purgatory" (Noodle Incident)
- Chief Deputy US Marshal Charles C. Tompkins of the Southern Ohio District captures Doc and gives him a chance to capture the rest of the gang legally
- Doc becomes a deputy marshal and turns a new leaf to capture the remaining bandidos
- Doc becomes a respected lawman for several years; overlapping time of civil war
- Meets a nice Mexican girl and they get married, have 1 kid (Marisol)
- Job is too hazardous, bad guys he puts in jail threaten his family; wife killed
- Doc feels he has too much to lose and decides to retire as lawman and put his education to use and become a doctor; moved to Tompkins' district, just appointed US Marshal of Colorado
- Marisol remains in Columbus with the grandparents
- ## Sep 1876: He opens up or takes over a small clinic in another town away from the bad guys. Builds up successful business and gains reputation as doctor (Healer 3); not many people remember he was once the "butcher"
