Ivan Wilinski/IvanRider

Ivan Wilinski was once a humble, kind, friendly man living in a small Balkan village in the 1930s and operating a pet shop that specialized in exotic birds. Then, fascist outsiders raided his town and seized control. The townsfolk operated in secret, but couldn't quite figure out how to undermine the new regime. Ivan, witnessing all his birds savagely murdered and his shop burned, retreated into the forests outside of town, filled with bitterness and a longing for vengeance. He discovered a secret bunker underground, where a predecessor had prepared for the day that a man like Ivan would one day find it. Realizing his new destiny, he helped from the shadows to organize the resistance to take back their town - and became very skilled with rifles to defend his forest from the regime. One day, he and a crew of insurgents seized a construction firm's hanger and made off with all the vehicles. Three bulldozers - "a dozer fleet" - were repurposed as tanks. On an evening of torched buildings and guerilla warfare, Ivan and his new allies took back their town and eradicated the fascist regime. Amidst the chaos, the three bulldozers survived. A statue of the fleet was erected in the new town as a symbol of what it took for them to preserve their faith and freedom. Ivan himself vanished back into the forest, observing world news meticulously to aid resistances all around the world in vanquishing similar evils to the one that once took his town. Ready to fight or inform as need be. His own townsfolk rarely ever saw Ivan again, and he was rumored to have faded into myth and legend. Mysteriously, however, a Percolation xerox of him was spotted in Earth-12131.