Bloodshot trivia: 84 facts about the superhero comic

Bloodshot is a superhero comic published by Valiant Comics, which is an American publisher. It was recently made into a feature lenght film.

So let’s find out trivia and facts about the comic.

1. Bloodshot is a fictional superhero
2. He appears in books published by the American publisher Valiant Comics
3. The character was created by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin and Bob Layton
4. Bloodshot was created by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin, and Bob Layton during a wave of popularity for Valiant Comics
5. The character’s name was suggested by artist David Chlystek
6. The character first appeared in three panels on the last page of Eternal Warrior #4 (November 1992)
7. He made his first full appearance in Rai #0 (November 1992) a week later
8. Bloodshot is a former soldier with powers of regeneration and meta-morphing made possible through nanites injected into his blood, hence the name Bloodshot
9. After having his memory wiped numerous times, Bloodshot is out to discover who he really is and get vengeance on those who did this to him
10. Bloodshot’s bloodstream contains a billion nanobots, enabling him to heal from injuries quickly, interface with technology, and shape shift his mass
11. Project Rising Spirit’s program to create the ultimate soldier stretches back decades, and reached critical mass in the depths of World War II
12. Though the initial products of the program were crudely enhanced and highly expendable foot soldiers suitable only for the simplest scenarios
13. These early subjects were able to complete high-intensity missions regardless of any obstacles
14. Over the decades, these results ensured that the “Bloodshot” program was consistently earmarked for future development and continued to break new ground
15. Throughout the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, P.R.S. redefined the nanotechnology that would power Bloodshot
16. And develop a new artificial intelligence system that allowed him to be deployed in a wider array of off-the-battlefield counterintelligence and espionage missions
17. While Bloodshot was self-aware to a degree, the human-machine hybrid was still deemed to inflict unacceptably high levels of collateral damage
18. In 2007, another P.R.S. scientist, Dr. Emmanuel Kuretich, discovered his employers’ intention to redirect the Bloodshot program in to a new area
19. This area was the targeting and capture of the extremely rare, psionically powered children called “psiots”
20. Alarmed, Kuretich fled P.R.S. for Toyo Harada’s Harbinger Foundation, where he secretly began forging a plan to undo P.R.S
21. Several years later, while on a routine mission in Afghanistan, Bloodshot is captured by Kuretich, who forcibly extracts the records of Bloodshot’s missions with the intent of exposing Project Rising Spirit to the world
22. The process, however, unlocks all of Bloodshot’s false memories, which had been used to motivate him in war zones throughout the world, all at once
23. For Volume One, Angelo Mortalli has become the ultimate killing machine
24. His memories have been erased and his blood has been infused with microscopic computers called nanites
25. These nanites allow him to heal wounds quickly, dominate electronic devices, and fully control every aspect of his body to maximize his physical capabilities
26. A modern-day Frankenstein’s monster, he wages a one-man war, taking out the mob, the police and his covert government creators, in his struggle to find out who he was and what he has become
27. For Volume Two, Angelo Mortalli has been subjected against his will to a scientific experiment that has remade him into the ultimate killing machine, an engine of destruction codenamed Bloodshot
28. But, in the process, his memories were lost
29. His creators mean to use him as a weapon, an unstoppable assassin. But he breaks free and escapes
30. In this rendition, the writer, Len Kaminski, elaborates on BloodShot’s nano technology
31. The nanites turn out to be like sentient beings that see him as their God and provoke him to self-induce a trance-like state using a mixture of substances in order to communicate with him directly
32. Deadly operatives of the super-secret government agency that sponsored his creation hunt him down
33. Following a broken trail of fragmentary recollections, Bloodshot fights a running battle against them, the mob and the police
34. Volume One and Volume Two of Bloodshot keeps the same core story elements with different settings and plots
35. There are 25 issues in volume three, including #0
36. A 2012 relaunch by Valiant Publishing: Bloodshot is a man searching for his identity
37. He is a weapon, one built for military destruction
38. Using false memories the government has motivated him to do things while believing to himself that he was protecting an imagined family
39. When the weapon awakens, it malfunctions thus beginning a war over the control of Bloodshot’s mind
40. Leaving a trail of destruction he breaks away from the military base he is being held at
41. A man marked with gray skin and a red mark on his chest, Bloodshot chooses to trust no one as he fights to figure out who he used to be, and what it is he has become. Series written by Duane Swierczynski
42. The series tied into the Harbinger Wars event with issues 10 through 13
43. Starting with issue 14, the series was retitled Bloodshot and Hard Corps
44. With the character as a member of the Hard Corps team
45. The series crossed over with Archer And Armstrong in a story arc titled “Mission: Improbable”
46. Relaunched in 2015 by Jeff Lemire and Mico Suayan it ran for 18 regular issues, plus a #0, and annual, and the Bloodshot Island 4 issue miniseries
47. Bloodshot has had his nanites removed by Kay McHenry (Geomancer) and is trying to live a normal life
48. But when a number of shootings are carried out by men who look like Bloodshot, he must go back into the world he tried to leave behind
49. Relaunched again by Jeff Lemire and Mico Suayan, this time in 2017 with the addition of artist Lewis LaRosa
50. It ran for 12 regular issue plus a number of event tie ins
51. Following directly on from Bloodshot Reborn, Bloodshot must now protect his girlfriend Magic and their daughter from Magic’s sadistic family
52. In 2018 the writing trio of Kevin Grevioux, Lonnie Nadler and Zac Thompson, with artist Ken Lashley launched a new volume
53. It ran for 8 issues and as of January 2020
54. It has not been collected in paperback or hardcover
55. Another relaunch happened in 2019, with Tim Seeley writing and Brett Booth on art duties
56. This is the current ongoing Bloodshot volume
57. Generally, the characters published by Valiant inhabit a shared universe/continuity
58. Characters appear or are referenced in each other’s books
59. For example, there is a very definite connection between Rai and Bloodshot
60. Bloodshot’s silicon based, nanite powered blood flows through Takao Konishi’s veins (the last Rai)
61. It grants him some of Bloodshot’s memories and all of Bloodshot’s powers
62. The entire line of warriors who were known as Rai were created by Grandmother in the image of Bloodshot to honor his heroism
63. Bloodshot is one of the best selling Valiant characters
64. With total sales in all languages approaching seven million comics
65. Shortly before the debut of the Bloodshot series the title character made two introductory appearances in popular titles Rai and Eternal Warrior
66. Based on these appearances there was a groundswell of demand for the character to return and high anticipation for the premier issue
67. Bloodshot #1 (February 1993) was a much anticipated comic that became a best selling issue
68. It has gone on to sell approximately one million copies
69. The original series was written by Kevin VanHook and drawn by Don Perlin
70. The premiere issue featured the first “Chromium” comic book cover
71. Bloodshot #1 (July 2012) was awarded “Best Comic” by Diamond Comic Distributors (the American comics industry’s leading distributor)
72. And “Best Innovation” for its chromium cover
73. Bloodshot was named one of the Top Ten Comic-Book Series of 2012 by Nerdage
74. A film based on Bloodshot, starring Vin Diesel
75. The film is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on March 13, 2020, by Sony Pictures Releasing
76. It is intended to be the first installment in a series of films set within a Valiant Comics shared cinematic universe
77. The film is directed by David S. F. Wilson (in his feature directorial debut)
78. From a screenplay by Jeff Wadlow and Eric Heisserer
79. And a story by Wadlow
80. In the film stars Vin Diesel, Eiza González, Sam Heughan, Toby Kebbell, and Guy Pearce
81. A Bloodshot video game was in development between 1997 and 1998 at Iguana Entertainment UK for PlayStation and Microsoft Windows
82. It was cancelled by publisher Acclaim Entertainment due to late development issues
83. Bloodshot appears as a secret unlockable playable character in the Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast versions of Shadow Man
84. Bloodshot appears in Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe, portrayed by Jason David Frank