M-Force
Back to Villains Main > M-Force
Real Identity: Various
Appearances (BTAC Comics): Mayor Mayhem Part One
Skills: Armed Warfare
Mayor-Force, or M-Force for short, was Mayor Mayfield's paramilitary elite squad, in essence a second S.W.A.T. team, but independent of the police commission and answerable only to the Mayor's Office. Mayfield touted them as the answer to his platform of restoring law and order to Gotham City. Despite his claims there were outstanding soldiers, most members were ex-military with blemished records, one court martial. A couple were Arkham Asylum patients with anger issues. The leader was nicknamed "Shotgun" and Mayfield used his influence at Arkham to get him released despite his transfer from Stonegate Penitentiary for violent tendancies. In reality, they were just Mayfield's private army tasked with obliterating criminal elements and stealing their stolen loot for their own gain and to assassinate any threats, like Batman. Mayfield gathered city officials into City Hall to pitch his M-Force, something that would excite the people and could shake up the criminal element. Commissioner Gordon brought up how people were already scared with Batman around.
By the time M-Force was unveiled to the press, Summer Gleeson already heard a rumor that Gordon disapproved of it. Mayfield lied he was one of its greatest champions. Gordon secretly met with Batman and shared the results of his background check on the squad members. M-Force soon hit one criminal enclave after another. It became clear they had no real tactical planning and just attacked with an all-out assault with take-no-prisoners bloodlust. Their brutality and massacres were easily covered up. Commissioner Gordon watched as the morgue was lined with bodies. Mayfield had the press office working overtime, making the M-Force sound like Gotham's godsend. Several days after the Z Street Gang hit Gotham National, they were the next target of M-Force. Batman intervened and saved the life of one gangster, taking a squad member with a haymaker. He was surrounded outside the hideout but Batman's smoke pellets went off and he took the gangster from the scene with his grappling gun.
At 3 am that night, Batman followed Shotgun to a meeting with Mayfield. Shotgun presented a briefcase filled with $400,000, half of what the Z Street Gang stole from the bank. He reported the rest was turned over to the police under the guise of the rest already having been distributed among the gang. Batman set up a miniature projector displaying an image of himself to distract the pair. Shotgun opened fire while Batman stole the briefcase and left. The money was turned over to Gordon. Mayfield put M-Force on high alert. He got wise to Batman and set up a trap at the old Gotham County Jail. Batman arrived two hours before the supposed midnight meeting and was immediately shot at. He ran right into their trap and an electrified cell door was closed on him. Batman refused to work for him. After Mayfield left, Batman fired his grappling gun and reeled in a squad member into the cell door. The sustained charge shorted out the prison's faulty electrical system and the door fell on several of M-Force. Batman applied smoke pellets and started to take each one down but watched as they all died in crossfire. Their deaths were covered up and pinned on "unknown assailants." On the day of his resignation, Mayfield proclaimed the memory of M-Force's heroic sacrifice on the war on crime would live on forever in the people's hearts.