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W.H.O.'s west coast headquarters is located in California in Golden Bay City's W.H.O. Tower. It serves as a control center for the hundreds of heroes who patrol the western half of North America. The patrol region expands as far north as Canada and Alaska, and further south into Mexico. The tower contains apartments for its heroes, mission control rooms, training facilities, and of course, a gift shop in the lobby. The city's civilian population is welcome for tours, as well as the hiring of heroes for all sorts of situations, even including birthday parties. The building itself contains walls ten-feet thick that are reinforced by the latest metal-mantium defensive technology and can withstand most kinds of super villian attacks. Many super-powered individuals find it difficult to juggle a life as a crimefighter as well as make the necessary money needed to live their lives. That is where W.H.O. comes in. W.H.O. provides its members with a base of operations, secret-identity insurance, psychically controlled super-suits, and the financial income needed to make a living. In turn, W.H.O. employees are expected to represent the corporation by keeping their assigned cities safe as well as setting examples as model citizens. In addition, W.H.O. retains the right to create merchandise based on its employees, such as comic books, actions figures, movies, cartoons and video games. W.H.O. also sees fit to market its heroes in ways that fit its ideals and values. W.H.O. is presided over by an elected president and a board of chairmen made up of older, retired heroes as well as non-powered people. It offers benefits, retirement plans and has recruiters who scout for powered individuals who might not join otherwise. Managers, accountants and agents handle merchandising, the company's primary source of income. Advertising plays a huge role, as a result hero's faces can be seen practically everywhere from t-shirts to gossip magazines. W.H.O. also produces various T.V. shows and movies to further promote its heroes. Operation
Super-Couples
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The
World Hero Organization is the largest, most successful hero management
company
in the world. Its membership is primarily human beings,
but occassionally alien and supernatural heroes have been employed throughout its history. W.H.O., as it is more commonly
referred to, was founded in 1947 in order
to
provide
financial
support for
fledgling
super-powered
people. Over the years, W.H.O. has grown into a multi-million
dollar corporation that owes its success to the marketing of hero
related
merchandise.
W.H.O.
views its heroes as highly marketable assets and since hero
couples are considered hot commodities, one of W.H.O.'s top marketing
agents,
Mr. Willhelm Agnew, devised a plan to rake
in more
profit.
He initiated the "Operation Super-Couples", which
urged popular male and female heroes to become romantically involved
for
the
benefit of their adoring public, which in turn would generate
more interest in the
hero's
related
merchandise. Being a shrewd businessman, Agnew knew that the
media would grant
plenty
of free publicity
as
they
desperately
scambled
over the juiciest bites of gossip.