Bryan Masters was a psychiatric patient and enforcer working for Serbian scientist, Slaven Kurjak. The character served as a henchman in Dynamite Entertainment's first James Bond comic arc, Vargr, which ran between 4th November 2015 and 6th April 2016.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Held in a secure institution, Masters was an extremely violent psychiatric patient who suffered from chronic chemical anhedonia; a neurological condition which rendered him unable to experience or process pleasure in any way. At some point he escaped the facility, presumably assisted by his subsequent employer, scientist Slaven Kurjak. While attempting to find a cure for his condition, Kurjak weaponized Masters — using him as a private assassin. During his time at Kurjak's medical firm (Kurjak Medizin) in Germany, Masters met fellow-enforcer and amputee, Dharma Reach, and began a romantic relationship with her.
Vargr[]
During the mid-2010s, Kurjak began experimenting on the British population — smuggling tainted illegal drugs into the country. MI6 sent James Bond to shut down the operation. After two failed attempts to kill the spy via Reach and the Al-Zein gang, Kurjak dispatched Mr. Masters, accompanied by Reach, to assassinate Bond and the staff of MI6's Berlin intelligence station. While unable to locate Bond, the station massacre provided the dysfunctional Masters with fleeting amorous feelings; which ultimately went nowhere, much to both his and Reach's despair. Later that evening, Masters located Bond and, posing as station staff, encouraged him to come with him to Kurjak Medizin; ostensibly to use the CIA-affiliated location to report the massacre, which Masters blamed on Al-Zein. On arriving Bond found the staff murdered and, his suspicions piqued, reached for his firearm. He was immediately countered by Masters and the pair violently brawled through the laboratories. The fight culminated with 007 injecting a syringe of the hormone oxytocin into Masters; which his body was incapable of processing. Bond threatened him with more and, after he divulged the location of Kurjak's drug foundry, injected Masters with a massive overdose of the hormone, killing him.