A highly covert operative only accessible online under the codename "The Agent," Rick Mason was a free-lance agent specializing in data on the non-lethal handling of superhumans. His clients included American, British, Japanese, French, and Israeli government agencies, as well as international agencies such as S.H.I.E.L.D. Son of the criminal machinesmith Tinkerer, Rick grew up exposed to the latest technologies and their criminal users.