History:
LOUIS PERNOT
Real Name: Louis Pernot
Identity/Class: Human (Canadian) (World War I Era)
Occupation: Fur trapper, soldier
Group Membership: Canadian Expeditionary Force
Affiliations: British Army, French Army, Tuclan
Enemies: German Army
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: North section of the Hudson Bay region, Canada; France during World War I
First Appearance: Battleground I#6/2 (July, 1955)
Powers/Abilities: Louis Pernot was an experienced hunter and trapper who was accustomed to survival in lonely, snowy conditions. He was experienced with hunting firearms and received further training from the British Army. He was excellent at reconaissance. Louis was a strong fighter who enjoyed using his fists. As a soldier, he carried a rifle and binoculars.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 6'2")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 195 lbs.)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Dark brown
History:
(Battleground I#6/2) - Louis Pernot was trapping fur in the north section of Canada's Hudson Bay region and had been out of touch with other human beings for eight months when he happened to meet Tuclan, an indigenous man, who informed him England had declared war on Germany and Canada had thus been made to join the conflict. Louis reacted with immediate enthusiasm and asked Tuclan to run his trapline while he went to enlist in the army, determined he would teach "those Germans a lesson!"
On October 3, 1914, a convoy left Canada transporting the first soldiers to join the fighting. Private Louis Pernot was among the soldiers in the convoy and was eager to get into the conflict, so was surprised to learn they were being sent to England for training first. "A man can fight or he cannot fight! What is there to train?" Louis wondered. Aboard ship, Louis kept largely to himself as he was accustomed to solitude. His superior officer was frustrated by Louis' lack of military discipline and once threatened to have him put under arrest. Louis had little regard for the officer because he had already faced danger several times and didn't understand why a man who had never been in battle should be obeyed. When the ship arrived in England, Louis was sent for training. Because of Louis' familiarity with firearms he was put through training quickly because more men were needed in France. As the officer who had been commanding Louis was staying in England, he was glad to be seeing the last of Louis, considering him a "good man, but he doesn't seem able to conform!"
Louis's squad of reinforcements landed at St. Nazaire and were rushed to the front line to fill gaps in the French defenses. Louis was sent to fight alongside a squad of the French Army that was stationed in trenches. Still a longer, Louis disliked being so close to other people and was constantly pulling away on his own. The French soldiers believed Louis was a "savage" who took to many risks. They once had to drag him into the trench when they found him trying to look over the line. When another soldier told Louis he was always getting into trouble and threatened to "fix" him, Louis responded to the challenge with a fistfight. The squad's captain broke up the fight and threatened to make an example out of Louis.
Louis fought with the French soldiers against an attempted German advance and were able to drive them back. Realizing Louis was a good fighter, the French captain went to speak with him but Louis had separated himself from the squad and climbed the nearby rocks so he could spy on the Germans, despite having received no orders to do so. Seeing the Germans were going to launch a gas attack on his company, Louis returned to the other soldiers and warned them of the attack. Ignoring the captain, Louis ordered the men to climb the rocks so they'd be above the gas when it landed. Louis' plan worked and when German soldiers wearing gas masks advanced, Louis's company fired down on them from the rocks and forced them to retreat.
As the Germans prepared for an all-out attack, Louis volunteered to scout the German positions. Another soldier mockingly agreed he should do it and Louis took that as permission, although he once again hadn't been issued orders. Louis scouted the Germans and returned to the trenches two hours later with valuable intelligence on the German placements. Louis' captain wanted to court martial him but the captain's own general needed Louis' information. Louis told the general they should use some of the company as bait in a ravine to draw the Germans into the open so their main forces could spring a trap on them along the edges of the ravine. The general agreed to the plan and it proved successful in practice, leading to another German defeat.
For his efforts, Louis was awarded the Croix de Guerre and remarked how "confusing" it was to him, as a "simple man" because some of the things he did got him into trouble while others won him a medal.
Comments: Created by an unidentified writer and Mac Pakula.
This profile was created to observe Remembrance Day, 2026.
As a French-Canadian, Louis could have been trapping in the Quebec region of Hudson Bay but with the reference to "north section" it seems more likely he was in Ontario, Manitoba or even in what was then called the Northwest Territories.
Profile by Prime Eternal.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Louis Pernot should not be confused with:
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Battleground I#6/2, page 2, panel 6 (main)
Battleground I#6/2, page 5, panel 1 (face)
Appearances:
Battleground I#6/2 (July, 1955) - unidentified writer, Mac Pakula (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
First posted: 11/11/2026
Last updated:
11/11/2026
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