Karl Starr is a U.S. metahuman (interdimensional communication). He had short, badly cut hair.
Starr was born in 1974 and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He was had an inactive metagene until 2001, when at age 27 he was possessed by an otherdimensional being called K'tl, who caused people's heads to spontaneously explode. At first he was placed in a psychiatric hospital, but before his planned release into the custody of the MCCA, he escaped the asylum while still possessed by K'tl. Another inmate of the asylum, Mick Harrison, was possessed by K'tl's good counterpart M'xy.