| "Without
the valiant sacrifice of Captain Broaden, we might
be fighting a new war now. A war against fear. Fear
itself came to the White House on January 1, 1942,
and Captain Emil Broaden stared it down and said,
'Not on my watch.'" — Lloyd
Arthur Feit (Bulldog), 10 January 1942.
Name: Lloyd
Arthur Feit. AKA Bulldog.
Nationality: British.
Political Affiliation: None.
Education: Grade School.
Rank: Major (British Army.)
Decorations: Distinguished Service
Medal (U.S.) OBE, (England.)
DOB: 9/22/12, Coventry, England.
DOD: 11/11/99, Coventry, England (Natural
Causes.)
Known Parahuman Abilities: Feit was super-humanly
strong. At his “physical” peak, he dry
lifted a 64-ton crane, and held it over his head
for nine minutes. Basic physical laws were circumvented
by his power. For instance, Feit needed no leverage
to lift weights, and could affect objects with much
greater mass than himself. He once stopped an oncoming
10-ton halftrack moving at 40 miles an hour with
an outstretched hand, and his feet did not even
dig into the dirt.
In addition, Feit
was super-humanly resistant to damage, but this
power was far more unreliable than his Hyperstrength.
As far as SSO scientists could determine (they were
not willing to risk injuring him by truly pushing
the limits of his power), Feit was nearly invulnerable
to damage when frightened or particularly motivated,
but this invulnerability soon faded.
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History:
Lloyd Feit was the fifth son of Nathaniel Feit,
a well-known boxer, and later, a well known beer
brewer from Coventry, England. Unlike his brothers,
Lloyd did not inherit his father's physique, and
was always small and sickly.
Lloyd
was also not much in school, but his endless determination
and stick-to-it-iveness impressed both his father
and brothers, who called him “Bulldog”
as a nickname. Many scraps at school were prevented
by his brothers coming to their “little one's”
aid, but Lloyd never backed down, no matter the
danger.
When conscription
began in the late 1930s the Feit boys joined up,
or tried to... and all but Lloyd were accepted for
military service. He stayed in Coventry working
at his father's brewery, continuously re-applying
for entry into the armed forces. Rejected three
more times, he finally began working on improving
his physique, a task with which his father was quite
familiar.
The elder Feit
tried to help get his son into some semblance of
physical fitness and as always, Lloyd gave his all,
but little changed. He remained the classic 98-pound
weakling.
Trying to gently discourage
the boy (which proved impossible), the elder Feit
and Lloyd had a screaming match in March 1941 that
ended with Lloyd lifting a 200-pound weight in one
hand and throwing it through a wall in anger.
At his father's urging,
Lloyd returned to the local recruiting office. This
time, after he lifted the recruiting officer over
his head in one hand, the military reconsidered
their decision.
After
a brief stint at Hedge Manor for study, Lloyd was
signed over (much to his own consternation) to diplomatic
missions for the British Army.
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Lloyd Feit (right) confers with Cordell Hull two
days after the Normandy invasion.
The SSO classified his Talent as “unreliable,”
and he was recommended for non-combat duty. His
trip to the United States (along with three other
Talents) proved to be a huge boost to the British
war effort.
At
the direct request of Prime Minister Churchill,
Feit was signed over as a bodyguard for President
Roosevelt in August 1941. He remained loyally by
the side of the President until Roosevelt's
death on April 12, 1945.
Feit lost two of his
four brothers in the war, and in 1945 lost his father
to brain cancer. “You've no idea what it is
like to lose a father twice,” Feit commented
to the New York Times, referring to his close relationship
with President Roosevelt.
Feit volunteered for service
in the Far East to continue the war against the
Japanese, but by the time the paperwork was filed
the war suddenly ended.
Feit returned to England
in 1947 and ran the family business happily until
the late 1960s, when he retired. In 1988 he sold
the lucrative “Bulldog Beer” license to
a consortium for a huge amount of money.
Feit died at the age
of 87 in Coventry, England, father of four, grandfather
of nine, and hero of the British Crown.
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