NAME: JAWZ
REAL NAME: Leroy Jonze
COUNTRY: Detroit, USA
POWERS: Super-elastic jaws filled with razor sharp adamantium teeth which can open up to two feet in diameter and crush several tons; super-tough shark-like skin; he can also swim fast as a shark and can control the actions of sharks and other dangerous sea creatures.



HISTORY: Not much is known about Leroy Jonze, a.k.a. JAWZ, the Indomitable Shark Man, other than the fact that he was once a gang member on the streets of Detroit who later became a crimefighter after a vicious crime boss fed him and his family to a privately owned tank full of great white sharks as punishment for a perceived bad cocaine deal. Unbeknownst to the crime boss, the largest of the sharks which nearly swallowed Leroy whole had consumed a barrel of toxic waste just prior to its capture. This chemical waste somehow combined the genes of Leroy Jonez and the great white shark on the molecular level, transforming Jonez into a hideous but powerful man/shark hybrid. This allowed Jonez to escape and wreak vengeance upon his would be killers.

After catching and biting off the head of the crime boss, Jonez vowed never to commit another crime and dedicated his life instead to bringing the likes of the man who killed his family to justice, cruel and swift. Jonez's teeth were later outfitted with adamantium caps by the clandestine vigilante organization known as The Enclave in order to allow Jonez more of a fighting chance against some of that organization's more dangerous adversaries.