Liam
DiCapa
(deceased)
General Facts
Age: 45
Gender: M
Cause of Death
Fell from his
thirty-story building after a struggle with Deyon Davis
in Book 40.
Occupation
President of DiCapa Enterprises
Crime Boss
Appearances
Regular Titles: Books 21, 25–27, 32–37, 40, and 52 (in some of Goril’s memories)
Super Battlers: None
Immediate Family
Susan
DiCapa (wife, deceased)
Desmond
DiCapa (son)
Vivian
DiCapa (daughter)
Philip
DiCapa (son)
Thomas “Tom” DiCapa
(father, deceased)
Louise “Lou” DiCapa (mother, deceased)
Maurice “Maury”
Eazel IV (grandson by Vivian)
Character Summary
Liam DiCapa is a new-in-town businessman. He
fooled everyone in Alexandria
with his claims of uniting the business world racially (his business has an
equal balance of races to promote a new sense of equal employment opportunity).
But the Battlers found out his true intentions after being kidnapped by
four agents from UNITY. Liam hopes to
greatly reduce the Caucasian population by any means possible. This first came
about when his father was killed in front of him by members of the KKK when he
was a kid.
The first time he showed his true colors was when newcomer Jon Crawley
found a secret panic room in his study in Book 21. The room contained hard
evidence of his anti-Caucasian sentiments. When he realized that Jon now knew about it, he tried to shoot him to keep
him quiet. But Kesse saved him at the last second by knocking Liam out and escaping with him.
Liam has a past with Jon’s parents, Eric
and Janice, that he can’t let go of.
The two then-friends fought for the love of Janice
once — and Liam lost. He’s hated the Crawley family ever since then and has tried to get even
with them by any means possible, thus beginning the Crawley–DiCapa feud.
In Book 24, he had a
few of his henchmen steal a poison from a local laboratory that’d been
originally planned to be used for biochemical warfare. Although the Battlers thought they’d
stopped him, they found out that only a decoy had been stopped from being
delivered to the office building. The
poison was being chemically altered in Book 25 to affect any human individual
who was fifty percent or more Caucasian.
In Book 26, Liam was forced to help Predator,
White Battler J.J.’s ultimate enemy, in his plans to conquer his enemy kingdom,
Crocoa. All he had to do was illegally supply him with weapons powerful enough
to defeat the Crocoans and, if Gatora won, Predator would give him the names of
all six Battler boys. Liam agreed to
the deal and began supplying Predator with the weapons, but in the end, the war
was lost by Gatora, and the deal was called off.
In Book 27, Liam and some henchman stole some samples from an
animal testing laboratory. When the Battlers tried to stop him, he sicced Albert Labinnac,
his right-hand man, on the boys by forcing J.J.
to sneeze. During their struggle, Liam and his men slipped away and put his
samples to use — by genetically altering a gorilla named Goril
Primus to serve as his newest killing machine. He and the scientists in his
building’s lab were the only ones who knew that his killing machine’s first
target . . . was the Green Battler.
In Book 32, DiCapa
set a trap that Gold Battler Deyon Davis and Green Battler Aaron Rountree
easily fell into. He made them think he was holding a West Coast Branch UNITY
agent named Miranda Hawkins in his office building. When they arrived there to
save her, he quickly ordered them to be subdued and tried to force them to
ingest a truth serum so they would tell them who he was. But their new friends,
Richard Montgomery
and Jay Dixon,
saved the day with their unique fighting skills, which intrigued DiCapa enough
to have them kidnapped not too much later by Albert Labinnac.
He attempted to have them brainwashed into thinking they were on his side, but
it was foiled when Deyon and the other Battlers found them in his secret panic
room and sprung them. When he was bringing up a truth serum to force the
Battlers’ identities out of them, Kesse accidentally drank it and spilled all
instead. Satisfied at this, he vowed to bring down the Battlers one member at a
time and even threatened to start with one of the ones closer to Deyon.
In Book 33, DiCapa
appeared long enough to join Maurice’s
family for dinner with Susan and Vivian. The reason for this was, after an argument
with Maurice’s mother, Terre, to be that they were planning to tell everyone
that Vivian was pregnant — and Maurice was the father of her baby. DiCapa tried
to retaliate then, but was forced to postpone it when his newest flunky, Les B.
Ian, attacked Maurice’s house with
gunfire. A few nights later, though, he ambushed Maurice
while he was taking a walk outside and put him into a coma with a coma-inducing
drug.
In Book 34, DiCapa
sent Deyon a clue as to which Battler he would be targeting next — White
Battler J.J. Rountree. He had a picture of a key and a lock right over a
picture of J.J., but no one could figure out what his clue meant. He made an
actual appearance when he chloroformed and kidnapped J.J. Rountree
and carried him home to his secret panic room, where he strapped him to a cot
locked him in and said he’d be in there for a long time. He took his Battler
Crystal from him so that he couldn’t try using it to get out.
DiCapa sent Deyon an
E-mail telling them that he had J.J.
in Book 35, and that he’d be targeting Aaron
next. Then, he used the poison he’d stolen from the lab in Book 24 to poison
the white population of Alexandria.
When he was bringing Vivian in for a
prenatal checkup, he got into a confrontation with Regina Rountree, J.J. and Aaron’s
mother, regarding J.J.’s whereabouts. The fight nearly sent her into premature
labor. But then, he whispered to her that he’d taken her son and that she’d
never see him again.
The next night, he
and Labinnac attempted to poison a reservoir up in Washington, D.C.,
so that all Caucasians in the tri-county area would die. When the Battlers
tried to stop him, he sicced Labinnac on them — but he was overpowered by Aaron, who’d originally been ordered to sit the
mission out because he’d been named DiCapa’s next target. DiCapa’s plans were
ultimately foiled when Jon and Aaron used separate spells to destroy a vial
containing the poison. But to turn a loss into a victory, he revealed that his true
target was Kesse, shot him up with a gun, and, when he tried to heal himself by
changing out of his Battler form, hit him with a dart that contained a
paralysis-inducing drug. So his mission was accomplished — three Battlers were
now out of the fight against him.
DiCapa was waiting
for Deyon, Aaron, Jon, Richard,
and Jay in his office building in Book
36 when they came looking for the antidote to Kesse’s paralysis. He ordered
them captured by his guards, but they were saved by two teenagers he had never
seen before — Blue Battler Shauna Davidson and Purple Battler Diahandra
Christian! His desperation to find out who they were put the Battlers at
somewhat of an advantage.
DiCapa had bigger
problems when, after naming Aaron as his next target — for real, this
time — and after he ran him down in his SUV, Vivian accidentally stumbled upon
his secret panic room — and J.J.! Fearing for the safety of himself and his
empire, he used his kiss on Vivian — but
he just put her to sleep and tried to make her forget seeing J.J., which she didn’t. When Vivian
saw him after she came to, she severed all ties with him and decided to move
out of the DiCapa mansion. But DiCapa more than cheered himself for that after he
had J.J. transferred to his yacht and, after the Battlers had dealt with a
returned-to-town Goril, struck Aaron by injecting him with a twelve-hour
poison.
It seemed that
things were going Liam’s way until he
(off-page) found out that J.J. had
been kidnapped from his captivity. When Deyon later confronted him, warning him
that one by one, the Battlers were getting back into the fight, Liam wondered if Deyon had rescued J.J. But when
Deyon didn’t answer after being asked that, he knew he hadn’t. (It was actually Gamester.)
But while the Battlers were becoming eight again, Liam
decided to turn his attention toward the ultimate target: taking over the White
House in Washington, D.C.
However, his plan
went awry almost from the get-go when, after trying to get himself smuggled
into the White House in a box addressed to the President, the Battlers opened
it up and found him inside. With his plan essentially ruined, Liam used a bunch of knives he’d saved for the
President to stick the Battlers to the wall by their arms. When Shauna and Diahandra later came in (only the boys had
been present before) with the news that they’d met and advised the President to
evacuate the White House, Liam stuck them to the wall, as well. And there, he
unmasked them, learning their identities. He had Labinnac take pictures of the
girls to run through a computer later.
With a new advantage
under his belt, Liam announced in a
live press statement that he knew the identities of all eight Battlers and had
“persuaded” them to come to his office building to reveal them to the country
live on television that same night on the roof of the DiCapa Enterprises
Office Building.
Of course, “persuaded” meant “kidnapped,” as he sent groups of armed guards to
each Battler’s home to kidnap them. In the end, only five ended up in his grasp
— Maurice, Aaron,
Jon, Shauna,
and Diahandra. The other three — Deyon, J.J.,
and Kesse — were still free.
The three still-free
Battlers arrived to save their friends later that night. But they’d just gotten
up to the roof when J.J. and Kesse
were also captured by Liam’s guards.
Deyon was about to be, too, but he engaged Liam in their final battle,
unbeknownst to him that Deyon was trying to keep him distracted long enough for
UNITY agents disguised as members of the press to get there. At times, Deyon
got the upper hand in the battle, and at other
times, Liam got the upper hand. But
Deyon got the real advantage at one
point. He lost it, however, when his Battler Crystal powered down on him just
as he was about to throw Liam. Seeing
that the tide had now turned in his favor and pummeled Deyon with punches and
kicks before finally shooting him eight times with a gun.
Everything pointed
to Deyon dying and Liam being the
victor, but Deyon suddenly managed to pull himself back from the brink of death
and used a Crystal
Advance to turn his Battler
Crystal into a Battler Emerald. He became a new, stronger Gold Battler at that
moment, and his increased abilities made it much easier for him to defeat Liam. Just as he was about to strike a fatal blow,
Susan (who’d been in attendance with Philip and Vivian) jumped in the way and,
out of loyalty to her husband, ended up taking the fatal blow for him, dying mere seconds after she
was struck.
Susan’s death sent Liam
into a rage. He went on a tirade in which he confessed to every crime he’d ever
committed, wishing he’d committed them on Deyon and the other Battlers.
Unfortunately for him, he forgot that Philip
and Vivian were present. Even more
unfortunately, however, so did several members of the press, most of whom were
UNITY agents in disguise, who’d just gotten the battle — and his confession —
live and on camera. Knowing he was screwed, either way, Liam
grabbed Deyon in a headlock and tried his best to unmask him while the cameras
were still rolling — a last-ditch attempt to turn lemons into lemonade. But
Deyon was stronger than he was and managed to pull himself away from the
psychotic man. However, he pulled himself away so hard, the snapback effect
sent Liam barreling toward the edge of
the roof — and right over it! With no one around to help him, Liam plummeted thirty stories to his death. And so
ended the war between his organization and the Battlers.
Liam had a special method of killing
anybody — male or female — who annoys him without incriminating himself — with
a simple kiss. He applies a Chapstick to his lips that is, in reality, a poison
that can be transferred to the victim and kill them moments after he pulls
away. (He’s taken the antidote ahead of time, so it doesn’t hurt him when he
puts it on.) Jon and UNITY agent Jeri Wilkes
saw him do this to one of his white employees and realized it was a way of
killing Caucasians on his own.
Liam’s wife, Susan,
knew about his plans for the white race, as did the Battlers and the agents of
UNITY. His children — his daughter, Vivian,
and his son, Philip — found out just
minutes before his death. So did his heretofore-unseen son, Desmond, who would later come to town in Book 41.
Unfortunately, Liam
and Susan both died without ever getting to meet their grandson, Maurice
“Maury” Eazel IV, who was born to Maurice and Vivian on Halloween, just several
months after their deaths.
In Book 52, DiCapa
emerged again, this time in a slew of memories that Goril was forcibly passing
on to Aaron as part of his plan torture him. The memories mostly contained what
he went through during the experiments that altered his body, but DiCapa
appeared in a few of them, as well.
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