Loophole

Loophole
Biographical Information
Real Name	Edward St. John Latham
Aliases	Prime, Loophole
Gender	Male
Class	Ace
Wild Card Traits	Jumper power infusion
Social Information
Occupation	Lawyer, criminal
Affiliations	Latham-Strauss, Jumpers
Allies	Astronomer, Kien Phuc
Origin
Creator	Lewis Shiner

Edward St. John Latham (Loophole) is a fictional character from the Wild Cards series of books.

He is the ace responsible for the creation of the Jumpers.

Wild Card Traits

Latham is one of a particular type of ace with the ability to give others superhuman abilities, though they do not perform superhuman feats themselves (see Damsel). Latham's own ace infuses the jumper ability into anyone he has sex with. Essentially,a jumper is able to intitiate an exchange of bodies with any target they can lock eyes with. It is unknown if Latham's ace ability to bestow this power is under his conscious control or not. As a side effect of this ability Latham is immune to the jumper power himself.

Personality

Latham is an emotionless and overconfident megalomaniac who views his profession as a game. He has a tendency to think of himself as a modern day samurai and the courts of law are his battlefield.

Trivia

• Though he did become an ace after coming into contact with Typhoid Croyd, Latham was already the subject of various wild card related rumors. One was that he was one of the rare "reverse jokers," a person who was physically hideous prior to infection and became attractive. The other rumor was that his wild card had stripped him of all human emotions or, in other words, made him like every other lawyer.