MISTER MINOS (Earth-7)

Biography 

Early Life

 As children, Vitor and Valentin Ricci became known around the world as the young heroes Más Y Menos, hailing from Argentina and ready to take on missions across the globe.

In their early years as heroes, they frequently teamed up with the Teen Titans, of whom they were considered honorary members. This led to a close relationship with heroes like Wally West, Kid Flash, and especially  Dick Grayson, Robin—a hero whom Valentin always held in some contempt due to his arrogance, despite lacking superpowers himself.

End of the Line

 They retired from their heroic careers around the same time as the team mentioned earlier, and both for very similar reasons.

Vitor Ricci ended up being one of the victims of the mercenary Deathstroke, an outlaw wanted internationally for his high-profile work as a hired assassin, but who also became a particular target of the heroic world due to his involvement with girls and boys who acted as child heroes at the beginning of the decade.

He contacted them secretly and began having recurring meetings with his so-called “pupils”; during these meetings, the brutality behind his training and methods was destructive and deadly. Dick Grayson was one of the many young people he approached, but when Batman found out, Deathstroke vanished from the country and remained inactive for some time.

It was in Argentina where he met Vitor, who wanted to pursue a heroic career—unlike his brother—and, to stand out, accepted the proposal from the so-called “superhero trainer.” In the end, Vitor ended up weakened, both mentally and physically, and dependent on the chemical drugs used during training, which made his abilities unstoppable but also had a destructive rebound effect after use.

He died shortly after the start of his training from heart failure, which was the final straw that led Valentin to walk away from the life of a hero entirely.

Powerless

 Over time, living as an ordinary civilian, Valentin came to realize that his powers had been completely drained, atrophied from lack of use, and it was this situation that caught the attention of powerful figures, such as Amanda Waller.

The Head of State Defense offered treatment through CADMUS, which would seek to rehabilitate his abilities to some extent, but in exchange, she wanted scientists to have access to his body to conduct experiments and document his condition, because if their theory were proven correct, it could change everything.

CADMUS believed that the metagene could be effectively suppressed if it remained inactive for an extended period of time; this could be the key to ending the era of metahumans, which was of great interest to Waller, and also to Valentin, who became her protégé.

As a member of Spyral

 Cadmus’s experiments irreversibly altered the young man’s body, which was now deformed and twisted into spiral shapes, causing him to lose his face, fingerprints, and identity entirely. But he never missed any of it.

Every day he became more ruthless, and that was the key to Waller seeing him as a asset with great potential for her plans.

By infiltrating him as an agent of Spyral—the U.S. government’s division of elite agents for high-risk operations across the globe—he gradually rose through the ranks of the organization, eventually becoming head of operations and also the group’s highest-ranking agent, since, despite not possessing the metagene in his body, he still retained enhanced speed and unshakable reflexes.

Fouding Leviathan

Behind the scenes, while Waller was making plans for him, Agent Mister Minos was devising his own strategy, secretly founding Leviathan, a pharmaceutical company focused on scientific testing and biological manipulation.

In secret, the company conducts inhumane experiments to discover the key to manipulating the metagene and elevating it to its highest level.

The group’s actions do not appear to be a high priority for the national government, but they catch the attention of vigilantes like Nightwing, who will do anything to find out more about the group.