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Fictional character biography

Brass is the son of Yuji Watanabe, the karate tutor of Ghost Rider's alter ego, Dan Ketch. An expert martial artist, Sean was trained by his father as soon as he could walk as a child. Sean then joined the Navy and trained as a commando operative in the Navy SEALs which is where he earned the nickname "Brass". Ghost Rider may refer to: Ghost Riders, Ghost Riders Motorcycle Club an MC dating back to the 60s from Washington State. ...

After leaving the Navy, Sean met a girl named Theresa and fell in love, but she was accidentally killed by a car attempting to escape an attack by the Mandarin on the Avengers. Sean learned that the Mandarin had been working with other villains as part of the "Acts of Vengeance", and swore revenge on all the villains that had taken part. The Mandarin is a Marvel Comics supervillain and archenemy of Iron Man. ... The Avengers are a fictional superhero team that appear in the Marvel Universe. ...

He began by hitting the Mandarin's operations in Chinatown, and ended up aiding Wolverine and Ghost Rider in rescuing his father's other pupil, Jack D'auria, from Deathwatch and his ninja forces. Brass lost his mutant powers after the M-Day (powerloss confirmed in New Avengers #18). For other uses, see Wolverine (disambiguation). ... Decimation event logo, as shown on the covers of tie-in comics Decimation is the name of the late 2005 Marvel Comics crossover spinning out of the House of M limited series, that focuses on the ramifications of the Scarlet Witchs stripping nearly all of the mutant population of...

Powers and abilities

He was a low-level telepath who could read the thoughts somebody just thought.

Notes

Watanabe isn't the only character to be called Brass. These include:

• Selbert, a member of Project: Glamor was know as Brass up until he was killed by Railsback. He first appeared in Marvel Comics Presents #1 and was killed in #12.
• In Iron Man vol. 1 #330, a large robot controlled by Morgan Stark was known as Brass.

Bibliography

• Marvel Comics Presents #65-71
• Avengers vol. 1 #313