Wesley Gibson is a loner cubicle employee who is abused by almost everyone in his life, including his female African-American boss Janice, a local Latino gang, his adulterous ex-girlfriend, and his best friend with whom his girlfriend is having an affair. Wesley was raised by his pacifist mother after they were abandoned by his father, causing him to grow up into a wimp. All this changes when he is visited by the Fox, an assassin who shoots everyone in a grocery store before revealing herself to be a member of the Fraternity, a powerful organization of myths, wizards, sorcerers, monsters, creatures, and immortal supervillains that rules the world. So long as they maintain secrecy, they are able to commit any crime without any consequences. The Fraternity wishes to recruit Wesley to replace his father name Cross, a supervillain known as the Killer, who was killed by an unknown assassin
