Viceroy

Real Name: Miguel Morales-Rojo

First Appearance: November 6, 2010 (where is unknown to me -cb)

Created by: Vito Delsante

Origin: A viceroy is a high ranking official that governs in the King’s place. Miguel Morales-Rojo, however, has no king and the power has gone to his head. He isn’t time displaced… just a little crazy! Good? Evil? Depends on the day!

Notes: In 2010, comic book writer Vito Delsante chose to create 35 new characters that he would voluntarily release into the public domain. The Viceroy was #7.

The open source character of Viceroy, created by Vito Delsante, has been released to the Public Domain, and is available for use by anyone with only the following conditions: this paragraph must be included in any publication involving Viceroy, in order that others may use this property as they wish, following the same rules as Public Domain properties. The main rule being that your version's story cannot be like the story of anyone else's version (meaning: you may not reference elements from the story you find the character in, because they belong to that story's author, and are not open source).

There are the following "Viceroy" characters listed on Comic Vine:

• .Viceroy. (Avatar Press)
• .Viceroy. (DC Comics)
• .Viceroy. (Oni Press)
• .The Viceroy. (Bonus! Comics)
• .The Viceroy. (DC Comics)

"Viceroy" is a word in the dictionary, and therefore cannot be trademarked. As long as your version is not like these other versions, it should be fine. Considering that it is based on this OSC, that shouldn't be a problem.

There are two "Viceroy" OSCs that I know of:

• This character, whose real name is Miguel Morales-Rojo, by Vito Delsante.
• Viceroy, whose real name is Victor Roy, by Christian Dimaapi.