Cole (the New Avengers)

ORIGIN

 Cole’s childhood was very nice. He was an only child so his parents gave him all the attention he needed. He moved out of his parents’ home fairly quick and started living in New York City. Cole got a nice amount of money from his parents, which is what he bought his shooting range with. Cole was always fascinated by fire-arms, he knew how to shoot a gun very well. Though he didn't start using his skills to fight crime until one specific day.

It was a rainy day that day and Cole was outside for a walk. He was just enjoying his alone time outside, thinking to himself that he was very lucky as a kid to have two parents that cared so much about him. He went to sit on a bench somewhere, to enjoy the rain. Eventually he saw some shady looking people across the street, they seemed to be discussing something. Cole could see that they had guns with him. Cole didn't trust the way those people looked so he decided to follow them.

He ended up following them all the way to the docks. What were they doing here? As the men opened up a container, Cole realised what they were doing. Human trafficking. 'Damn it', Cole thought to himself. 'Why can't I just stay out of things like normal people'. Cole quickly counted the men. There were about 6 of them, all carrying guns. 
He decided he should take them all out. He took 3 of them out, silently. The other 3 were having a conversation near the container. They looked up as Cole approached. "You should have never come here, stranger", one of the men said. 'I could say the same about you guys', Cole said as he reached for his guns. It all happened in a split-second but the three men were all dead. They all had a bullet in their brain. Cole felt the adrenaline in his body and he never felt better. 'God, do I love shooting these', he said to himself.

It didn't stop there though. Cole enjoyed the rush of being a vigilante so much that he started doing it every day. He would go outside, sit on benches, listening to conversations closeby. His hearing was very good, after all. He would silently follow the bad guys and take them out at their base of operations. 
Cole got so excited about this whole vigilante thing that he even made an outfit for himself. It wasn't anything special but he felt like it would be better to keep his identity a secret. 

Cole would train with his guns in his shooting range whenever he could. He also opened the shooting range for visitors so he could earn a little money, and so that it wouldn't raise suspicion that a man would be all alone in a shooting range all day. He felt like besides helping the citizens by taking out bad guys, he should also teach people how to defend themselves from the bad guys. 

When the shooting range closes at night, Cole either goes out to listen to more conversations, or go to his basement to make a plan on how to take out bad guys.
This was Cole's life now. Every night, Cole would get excited to fight crime in his city. Cole usually worked really fast, he couldn't stand the thought of people doing other people harm with guns and fists.
Cole's biggest achievement was taking down the entire N.O.V.I. organization. He took that organization out from the inside. 
This day, people from the N.O.V.I. organization are still looking for Cole to find him.

Weeks went by and Cole felt like he's really helped this city a lot. He was actually kind of proud of himself. 
Then one day, Cole received the letter. 
An invitation to meet and join the Avengers.

Cole became the Black Marksman.