Honor Guard III

Honor Guard III is Ted Cobalt, Great-grandson of the pulp hero Doc Cobalt, Grandson of the first Honor Guard and Son of the second Honor Guard. He took up the heroic identity of the Honor Guard after his father finally retired.

Backstory
Ted Cobalt was born in 1999 and began showing signs of having inherited the same powers as his father and grandfather when he was around 14, after accidentally spilling a pot of boiling water on himself while cooking and not being burnt. He was already aware of his father being Honor Guard II and his main reaction to this was less shock and more excitement that his powers had finally developed.

The next 8 years would see Ted's father training him in how to use these powers and at age 22, when his father officially retired as Honor Guard, he took up the mantle. He was later asked to join the New Champions.

Personality
Honor Guard is...a bit confident in his abilities, arguably overconfident, but not to the point of stupidity. He tends to be a bit of a wisecracker sometimes during fights though he doesn't seem to actually carry any malice towards most villain's he crack jokes at.

In combat and conduct he is also a bit of a boy scout with a sort of honor code that includes


 * Reasonable Force - Use of fire arms in general when crime-fighting, or excessively injuring criminals, is something he looks down on and attempts to avoid. However this rule is more bent than most others since supercriminals with enhanced durability makes figuring out the amount of force reasonable a bit hard.
 * Minimizing property damage caused by him and his opponents. Just because its insured doesn't mean we need to drive people's insurance premiums up
 * Beat the criminal, do not attempt to humiliate the criminal. Depending on the nature of the crime and/or the criminal themselves behavior this one is also regularly bent.

Powers and Equipment
The Honor Guards all share a similar set of powers and the newest one is no different


 * Superhuman Stamina
 * Superhuman Strength
 * Above Human speed

Honor Guard is also trained in the combat style of Escrima and uses 2, nigh unbreakable gold colored clubs for this fighting style.

Trivia

 * Beyond the Mantle of the Honor Guard, another thing Ted will eventually inherit is Cobalt Industries, which is one of the few industrial companies from the period to survive the great depression and a nation leader in chemical and metallurgic research.