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Wesley Gibson
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Wesley Gibson, also called "The Killer" is a fictional character, a comic book super-villain and the protagonist in Mark Millar's Wanted mini-series. Fictional character history 25-year-old account manager, Wesley Gibson, was a pathetic, cubicle-dwelling hypochondriac. His boss frequently chewed him out and his girlfriend regularly cheated on him with his best friend. His depressing life plodded on interminably and it seemed to him that he would never amount to anything. However, one day, Wesley was contacted by The Fox, who revealed to him that his father, who had been absent throughout Wesley's life, was actually a super-criminal called The Killer who had been recently assassinated, and that Wesley had inherited his perfect aim and uncanny skill with any weapon in addition to the name, twenty-five million dollars and his father's place in the fraternity. Wesley entered a new life amongst his father's former associates, a group of super-villains who secretly ruled the world. He starts training to be a killing machine to avenge his father's killer. Ultimately, this lifestyle leads him into conflict with a subgroup of these super-villains led by the insane Mr. Rictus. In other media Wesley is portrayed by actor James McAvoy in the 2008 . 
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