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Bengal
Personal Info:
Real Name: Duc No Tranh
Also Known As:
Place Of Birth: Vietnam
First Appearance: Daredevil Vol.1 258
Known Associates:
Group Affiliation: Shadow Initiative, 50-State Initiative
Base Of Operations: Camp Hammond
Grudges: New Warriors
Creators: Fabian Nicieza and Ron Lim
Gallery: Click

Powers:

Bengal is a martial arts master and an exceptional athlete. He is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant, trained in various martial arts, and an excellent acrobat, skilled archer and tracker.

Weapons: Bengal typically fights with bow and arrows, or shuriken. His favourite weapons are paired sai-like weapons with blades that collapse or expand at the press of a button.

Tracking: Bengal has an unusually well defined sense of smell and can track people by scent.

Origins:

Duc No Tranh was a boy growing up in a Vietnamese village during the Vietnam War. During the war, American soldiers, including Red Wolf, Willie Lincoln, and the future Reverend Michael Janes, massacred his village and parents. The boy tried to climb aboard the Americans' helicopter, but was kicked off by Private Janes, despite the pleas of other soldiers on board.

Years later, the boy became the costumed Bengal and travelled to America for revenge on the soldiers involved in the destruction of his village.

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