The incarnation of Bloodshot bring transferred to the big screen, Ray Garrison, came to life during Valiant Entertainment’s “Summer of Valiant” reboot in 2012.

Related: The Most Anticipated Sci-Fi Movies of 2020 The character was created by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin, and Bob Layton though Bob Layton attributes the name Bloodshot to David Chlystek. Bloodshot became a major part of the fabric of Valiant’s heroes before the publisher ran into some troubles. Bloodshot made his first appearance in the earlier days of Valiant with a cameo in Eternal Warriors #4 and his first full appearance in Rai #0. During testing as part of Project Rising Spirit (founded by Hideyoshi Iwatsu), Mortalli was injected with the “Blood of Heroes,” a nanite formula that gave him incredible powers of regeneration and combat.

The codename was originally given Angelo Mortalli, a mobster forced to become a test subject after being sold out by his cronies. Like many comics characters, Bloodshot has more than one origin story.

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