Jason Wynn
Jason Wynn is one of the primary villains from the
Todd McFarlane comic series
Spawn. Wynn is the director of the United States Security Group, an umbrella agency encompassing the
CIA,
NSA, and
NSC. He is perhaps the most powerful man in the world. He has politicians throughout the government on his payroll. He also runs a heavy trade within the
black market, and has formed himself a multitude of underground alliances, some of which include the
chinese triads, the
Mafia, whose boss Tony Twist answered directly to Wynn. Jason is depicted in many ways to be a reincarnation of the tyrant,
Ghengis Khan.
Wynn is responsible for the death of Al Simmons, who would later become Spawn. Simmons had been questioning Wynn's orders on several occasions. Al had been ordered to carry out too many bloody missions and atrocities with fewer and fewer satisfactory explanations. To Wynn, the master controller, this was intolerable. While on a mission, Jason Wynn had Simmons ambushed by his partner Chapel and Priest, and burned alive.Spawn came back seeking revenge, but Wynn somehow always manages to escape, and torment Spawn further.
Wynn is a man who craves one thing above all else: control. He uses
machiavellian intrigue and subtle machinations to expand his power base. Wynn provides weapons to rebel armies in different countries sometimes playing two factions off against one another so that whoever wins will be in debt to him. Wynn is cold, calculating and utterly ruthless. He favors and encourages the sociopathic tendencies of agents like Jessica Priest and uses them to fuel his corrupt and self serving agendas.
Jason Wynn also had an agreement with
Malebolgia, in which he traded the soul of his best soldier, Al Simmons, in exchange for psychoplasm. This supernatural substance has profound powers and is the very essence of what Hell is made of in the Spawn universe. The sample that Wynn obtained from the demon lord was combined with the memories of Al Simmons and transformed into a training ground made up of building from his past known as "Simmonsville," which was a small piece of Hell on Earth and a very important project run by the US Government. Simmonsville was destroyed by Spawn during Wynn's brief stint as Anti-Spawn/Redeemer I. Because Wynn was tainted by evil he could not attain his full potential as Redeemer and was defeated, had his memory wiped and was returned to Earth two days after his disappearance. After this, Wynn would continue to work off and on with The Clown to try to bring about Spawn's second death.
Wynn was a tall man, with intense dark menacing features. He was also a political genius, and has used his brilliance and evil, to make him the most powerful man on the planet. Everyone serves Wynn's purpose, and those who don't quickly wind up dead. He has no scruples when it comes to increasing his personal power, even using child killer Billy Kincaid to target the daughter of Senator Jennings, who was threatening Wynn's position at the time. Wynn was an expert martial artist, and a weapons expert. Many people have fallen victim to his charm and his cool demeanor in the past. Wynn also possesses a mind of significant strength. He was able to repel possession by the ghost of Billy Kincaid, but not before Kincaid forced him to commit a few murders. However, after the numerous mental tortures that Spawn has put him through, including a forced hallucination in which he believed his skin was flayed completely off, which left him in a mental asylum in constant pain Wynn's mind was left quite weak.
When Mammon restored The Clown's existence on earth and gave him a pass to take a new body, Clown chose Wynn and assumed a dominant role in his psyche. The Clown took the form of a hallucination which allowed Wynn to collect himself enough to return to the NSA. He then went on a killing spree in his spare time, brutally murdering women that resembled Wanda Blake. Wynn was caught in the act, and The Clown's facepaint, at a construction site. Spawn beat him and saved the woman. The Clown finally made his play for Wynn's body. By "stepping on his hands" he caused Jason to let go of the steel girder he was clinging to and fall to his apparent death, and then took full possession of his body.
At this time it is unknown if Wynn is truly dead, or possibly laying dormant inside his own body, trapped in his subconcious.
During the torture of Spawn by Grand Inquisitor Thamuz, Wynn was seen in the assembled rogues gallery alongside Clown and The Violator, but it was revealed that they were lower-level demons, masked in the visage of Spawn's enemies through the magic of Thamuz rather than the real deal.
At 57, Jason Wynn is probably the most powerful man alive. He heads the United States Security Group, an umbrella organization which includes the CIA, NSA, NRC and NSC. He advises presidents, but is beholden to none. He tutors killers, but is free from their taint. When a secret operation is carried out, with or without congressional approval, the responsibility falls to his desk. At the same time, as a convenient way of justifying his presence at key times or places, he's established a 'cover' identity as an obscure department head at the CIA. Jason Broderick Wynn is at heart a simple man, with simple desires. His only goal is to be the brain, with the world as his body. He's never lifted arms to fight an enemy nor fired a shot in anger, yet there is blood on his hands beyond imagining. If he were asked to sum his life up in one word it would be "guts". The guts to do whatever it takes to get the job done. From the very start, Wynn was an ambitious man. In high school, he was captain of the ROTC, defensive tackle for the football team and number one on the karate team. He went to West Point and graduated cum laudae. However, instead of pursuing his promising career in the Army, he went into government service, where he was first recruited by the CIA. In his initial assignment he served as a vice-presidential aide for Richard Nixon from 1958 to 1960, advising him on National Security issues from the Agency's point of view. Many assignments followed, from Dallas in 1963 to the Gulf of Tonkin the following year. Wynn sky-rocketed in the ranks of the intelligence community, helped along by a photographic memory and access to Hoover's files at the FBI. But serving the country was not enough. He wanted the country to serve him. Wynn has overseen projects from assassinations to interference in other nations' internal affairs. He can be at once aloof and yet earthy, befriending agents even as he sends them off to die. There is no remorse, merely cold calculation. Al Simmons was one of his operatives: recruited, manipulated and then disposed of by yet another temporary player. Then, over the past several months, a cascade of events has diminished his effectiveness: Wynn's place on the world stage is under siege. He contrived to put operative Terry Fitzgerald in a position to take the fall, but Spawn intervened, threatening to leak a dossier of his activities to the press. Wynn is now grudgingly in league with the Clown, as they move in counterpoint to reestablish Wynn's sphere of influence while working aggressively to thwart and humiliate Spawn.
In the 1997
Spawn movie, he was played by
Martin Sheen.
