"Gentlemen...I suggest we have ourselves a fine hunt tomorrow morning!"
Frank Giordino: Come on, Jessie. You know me better than that. Brian will know that if he betrays me...his mother and sister will pay the price.
Jessica "Jessie" Martin: So, you're ready to sacrifice your sister's son—your own nephew—to set up this operation!
Frank: I don't give a damn about that! And I told you it was none of your business!
Jessie: You know what, Frank Giordino? You're the worst son of a bitch I've ever met!
Jessica "Jessie" Martin: So, you're ready to sacrifice your sister's son—your own nephew—to set up this operation!
Frank: I don't give a damn about that! And I told you it was none of your business!
Jessie: You know what, Frank Giordino? You're the worst son of a bitch I've ever met!
Jason Fly, aka the XIII impostor, constantly finds himself in battle against fascists, vile criminals, and corrupt politicians. Despite the overall nastiness of them all, a few manage to stand out as the vilest enemies Jason has encountered.
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Comic Books
- Calvin Wax, aka Number II, is the true founder of the "Conspiracy of the XX" and the one responsible for the events of the story. A racist advisor to the President of the US, William Sheridan, Calvin was shocked when William, growing weary of his extreme views, choose to replace him. Deciding to assassinate William, Calvin convinced his brother, Walter Sheridan, to join him and become Number I, as he created a plan of installing a fascist government in the US, where anyone who isn't white is either subjugated or executed. Killing his partners, who knew that Walter has become the Number I, Calvin has the titular Number XIII assassinate William, afterwards ordering him to be executed as well. When the XIII impersonator started to go on his trail and Walter wanted to quit their scheme, Calvin captured the current president, Walter, fake XIII and his friends and gleefully revealed to them his scheme of using SPADS soldiers to take over all strategic points of the US to declare Martial Law across the country and then cause World War III to wipe out entire cities, before he left all his captured enemies to die in the explosion.
- Colonel Juan Peralta is the main enforcer of the tyrannical government of Ortiz in a third world country. Oppressing the population and slaughtering the resistance, Peralta in reality simply uses Ortiz to get as much money as possible. Peralta controls a large prison complex in Roca Negra, where he regularly tortures his prisoners and has them endure inhumane conditions. After Ortiz was killed and his regime overthrown, Peralta leads his loyalists in attacking the large city of Puerto Pilar, planning to wipe out everyone in it and take over the country, installing himself as the next dictator.
- Frank Giordino is the sleazy head of national security, who regularly engages in criminal activities to get himself more fame and power. In the past, Giordino assisted the head of FBI to frame the Black Panthers for murder, solely to justify their arrest, which led to multiple black people being brutally killed, Frank also—inadvertently but without remorse—killed his own sister, later on blackmailing her son, his own nephew, Jason Fly, into working for him, fully ready to have him killed should he refuse. When his attempt to save the President ended up killing him instead, Frank decided to kill Jason Fly and his friends to stop them from talking, not caring when one of these attempts nearly killed his assistant and lover Jessie. In his most heinous attempt to cover his tracks, Frank sent a black ops team to blow up a dam in the foreign territory Jason Fly was in, which would have destroyed the whole valley and everyone in it.
- Walter Sheridan, Number I, is the leader of "The XX", who plans to take over US and turn it into a totalitarian state. To this end Walter has his brother, the current US President William Sheridan, assassinated by the titular XIII and then also has the assassin himself killed. Upon learning that someone has assumed XIII's identity, Walter ordered him to be hunted down, which led to the death of dozens of people. Planning to take over the country during the operation "Total Red", Walter intended to use his SPADS to slaughter personnel in key military facilities of the US, after which he intends to declare Martial Law.
- Calvin Wax, Number II, poses as a counselor to President Galbrain, while in reality he happily goes along with Number I's plan to turn America into a totalitarian state. Organizing the hunt for the XIII impostor, Calvin sends the Mongoose and his men to massacre anyone he suspects might ally with the false XIII. Leading the invasion of the key facilities where "Total Red" took place, and posing as Number I, Calvin decided to activate the self-destruct sequence, which threatened to kill off any survivors in the facility and everyone around it, while the true Number I was still inside the base, simply out of spite for the false XIII beating him.
- Colonel MacCall, Number XI, is the head of the SPADS units, the Conspiracy of the XX's personal army. Creating the SPADS units out of the most thuggish and brutal killers he could find, MacCall harshly abuses them, often threatens them with death, and sends the ones who anger him to Dr. Johansson to be tortured to the point of insanity. Leading his SPADS units to slaughter everyone in the Emerald Base without the approval of his superiors, MacCall later on gathered a large number of weapons for the Conspiracy of the XX's scheme of turning the US into a fascist state.
- Dr. Johansson, Number XX, is the head of an asylum where he regularly tortures dozens of innocent people to the point of insanity, where they can't say anything coherent and scream from their pain. Happily torturing anyone "The XX" sends to him as a prisoner, Johansson also allows his guards to constantly beat his prisoners to near-death. When the false XIII escaped from his cage, he reaches Johansson's office, where he hears Johansson torturing one of his prisoners with a drill and discovers that he also locked one of his nurses in a cell with a dangerously insane patient.
The Conspiracy TV series
- Calvin Wax is Number II of "The XX" Organization, who desires to turn America into a fascist regime due to his belief that US has grown weak over the years. To this end, Calvin assists with the assassination of Sally Sheridan, the President of the US, to give her brother Walter Sheridan, aka Number I, more power. Becoming advisor to the new President Galbrain, Calvin organizes terrorist attacks upon American soil, which claimed the lives of dozens of people. In an effort to declare Martial Law upon the country, Calvin tasked Number XX with building a small nuke, which he planned to detonate in the heavily populated Washington, D.C. suburb of Bethesda, Maryland and kill over ten thousand people, with the radiation spreading across the entire state. Sending the Mongoose after the fake XIII, which claimed the lives of several people, Calvin killed a fellow member of "The XX" for wanting to quit.
- Number XX is the nameless female terrorist who is tasked by Calvin with building the small nuke and planting it in Bethesda. Killing the man who delivered her the components, Number XX managed to build the nuke and use the disguise of the guard to plant it. Setting the timer, Number XX tried to prevent the fake XIII from disarming the nuke, fully intending to let it explode and kill several thousand people and spread destruction and death across the entire state.
