SCARE

SCARE
Biographical Information
Official Name	Special Committee for Ace Resources and Endeavors
Aliases	Senate Committee for Ace Resources and Endeavors
Type	Government agency
Purpose	Wild card regulating body
Operational Information
Origin
First Appearance	Wild Cards

The Senate Committee for Ace Resources and Endeavors (later Special Committee for Ace Resources and Endeavors, acronym SCARE) is a United States government force formed around the regulation of aces. It has also employed many aces throughout the years, even in the 1950s when anti-wild card hysteria was at its peak.

Known Members

Directors

• Carnifex - Director.
• Lawrence Hague - Director, retired. An ace telepath.
• Straight Arrow - Director, retired. An ace capable of mentally conjuring arrows of flame out of thin air.

Agents

• Crypto - Can break any code.
• Huginn - Identical twin brother to Muninn with whom he shares a unique telepathic link.
• Justice - Liaison to BICC.
• Lady Black - Energy vampire capable of expending surplus bioelectricity as powerful electrical discharges.
• Midnight Angel - Summons a flaming sword and fiery wings. Has super strength and is able to fly.
• Moon - Can transform into a wolf, dog, or fox.
• Muninn - Identical twin brother to Huginn with whom he shares a unique telepathic link.
• Stopwatch - CIA analyst turned infrequent SCARE field agent, Franciszek "Frank" Majewski remained embedded with the CIA while secretly working for SCARE under the codename, Special Agent Stopwatch. He could separate himself from the passage of time for 11 minutes at a stretch.
• Stuntman - Nearly indestructible. Former American Hero contestant.

General

• Ink - Director's secretary. Can manipulate her tattoos.
• Gregg Hartmann - Chairman. Telepathic ace-in-the-hole.
• Dr. Thatcher - Physician. A small, hairless pot bellied joker who could assess patients partially through tasting their blood samples.

Selected Reading

• Wild Cards Volume I: Wild Cards
• Wild Cards Volume XIX: Busted Flush
• Wild Cards Volume XXIII: High Stakes
• Wild Cards Volume XXIV: Mississippi Roll