History
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Henry Gyrich was assigned by the President of the United States to eliminate the threat posed by Mary Richards, the daughter of Reed and Sue Richards and a powerful healer. Young Mary had begun a movement known as Unite which supported feeding the hungry and ending pollution on a global scale. Her action brought her into direct conflict with both world leaders and crime lords, who all wanted her done away with.
Gyrich forbid the members of the Avengers from attending her Unity Rally in Washington, D.C. (a move which made most of the Avengers resign in disgust). He then dressed in Captain America's uniform and attacked young Mary while she was making a speech at the Lincoln Memorial, stabbing her through the stomach. In retaliation, he was attacked by the Thing who broke his arm before he spirited away by F.B.I. agents as a foreplanned ploy to get him to safety. Before they did so, Gyrich sent out a signal to agitators hidden in the crowd, who started a violent riot, in the hopes of thoroughly discrediting Mary's philantropic movement.
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