D.A. Sinclair

Slim and only average in height, Sinclair carries a pale complexion and slicked-back black hair that reaches his neck, framed by a pronounced widow's peak. His face pairs blue-grey eyes with a hooked nose and a pointed chin.

The beating Invincible dealt him left lasting marks. A dislocated jaw and broken nose put him in a neck brace by the time Cecil brought him aboard, and the swelling across his mandible, cheek, and one blackened eye robbed him of speech for a stretch, reducing him to muffled grunts until roughly a month of recovery had passed.

Off duty he favors greyish-mauve business attire, a matching tie, trousers, laced shoes, and a white undershirt. In his private lab he pulls on an apron, plastic gloves, and a surgical cap, while operating inside GDA facilities he switches to a hooded white coat over a blue collared top, blue gloves, and yellow goggles.

Sinclair treats his research as gospel, certain that surgery and machinery are the answer to every human shortcoming. That conviction makes him condescending and quick to insult, a trait he shows off the instant he humiliates a professor during a lecture and then writes off the whole class as fools while praising his own mind.

Criticism wounds him. When William questions the ethics of the work, he takes it as a personal attack and gripes that people wrongly cast him as a monster. His conduct, though, is exactly that: he strips others of any say, seizing and dismantling ordinary college students, and when one of his creations kills itself he feels nothing beyond a technical note on building more compliant models. A rare crack shows when William mentions his intimacy with Rick, leaving Sinclair flustered and hinting that a few personal lines still make him squirm.

His time with the Global Defense Agency softens him. There he engineers a refined line of ReAnimen, grows close to Daphne, and, still oddly proud of his handiwork, comes to genuinely regret the cruelty that first produced it.

A special scholarship carried Sinclair into Upstate University, where his intellect quickly outran his peers and his obsession with curing human frailty took a monstrous turn. Working in secret, he kidnapped living people and converted them into ReAnimen, an operation that collapsed once Invincible tracked him down.

Rather than lock him away for good, Cecil Stedman put his talents to use, commissioning a whole army of the creatures to stand as a defense against a possible Viltrumite assault. This second generation differed in one crucial way: the corpses of the dead replaced the living subjects of his earlier crimes. Across the seasons that follow, he shifts from an early threat toward slow redemption.