Method

"Tactics exist inside strategy, and strategy counters tactics."

Webster Smart was a failed journalist that was kicked out of the publishing industry for writing a smear piece on a government agent's son. Forced into the position of poverty, he picked up the old tools of literature, cinema, and drama that he had studied as a child that gave him the gift of the common word, and used them to become a highly vaunted Cobra assassin. Method sees the world as fictitious references, modifying them to his own needs, setting up complex schemes based on simple leverages and moving himself about in them to perform minimal effort murders. His primary concern is the publicity of the kill, used to perform kills that, although they may include innocent victims, aren't questioned by the establishment or the common man. Any movie, video game, comic book, novel, or even short story may be his tool in this, setting up capers in the mold of one he selects. He threads the line through the system, then performs a pull and extracts himself, allowing the resultant disruption to cover his hand.

Canonical/Pre-MUX/Theme History:
Webster Smart was born in Chicago, Illinois, the child of a conservative factory foreman and a failed novelist. He had a hard but fair father, and a distant but loving mother. He was taught to oppose handouts and corruption early, and his principles of understanding the United States government were based on fairness, objective logic, and work ethic. If he was fair, universal, and hard working, he'd get anywhere. His mother introduced him to rare cinema and novels very young, and he graduated highschool well, although with a rebellious streak that came about as a result of a dabbling with recreational substances. Webster became an investigative journalist for the local paper, and quickly became acclaimed for digging deep where the local government didn't like. Union payoffs, corrupt police, even rival journalists cutting dishonest deals for stories, he hacked them all to death in the press, using manipulation and guile and eloquent writing. And then, one day, he met an Army civilian contractor's son, who was selling drugs at a party. Little did Webster suspect, the entire thing was a con. The kid selling drugs posed as a serial killer and got himself written into the paper as a false profile, before disappearing off the grid as a Defense Department cover operative. Webster was burned from employment ever again - the United States government loves a hero, but hates one that is willing to go after one of their children. Webster failed a test that could've made him a government employee, and instead found himself joining Cobra and undergoing assassin training. He distinguished himself in the Crimson Guard as a hitman coverup artist, before receiving a codename: Method.