Da'vante Pope

Da-vante Pope was the Head of the Torchwood Institute and Director of Torchwood Eleven in Birmingham. He was also the reason in which Ethan Griffith was initiated into Torchwood. Furthermore, this was the alias chosen by the Vanguard Master, which was able to fool all forms of extraterrestrial monitoring upon the Earth.

Previously, Pope worked with UNIT, having military experience, and after his daughter died; committing suicide, this led to his rise through the ranks of Torchwood Birmingham; his aim? To get the organisation ready for the 21st century.

Pope encountered Torchwood after the fall of Harriet Jones, where he met Government officials, and was initiated as the head of Torchwood Eleven. Da'vante Pope combated a number of extraterrestrial threats and presided over the long-awaited capture of the Alternate Eleventh Doctor before, finally, he was killed during Androvax's attack within Torchwood Eleven. Before his death, he passed on his responsibilities as Director in Chief to Ethan Griffith.

Early Life
Da'vante Pope is British born, with African heritage, and served in the British Army. Intern, Pope would normally tell people that this meant, that he came "from all over". His mother was Qwanisha Pope [Maiden: Simmons], his grandfather was Frazier Pope, and his father was Ferando Pope, who ran acquisitions for The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limite. Further more, he had a brother who went on to work as a bouncer.

He had little love for his relatives and lamented that one could not choose their family. Once an aspiring child with pleasant ambitions to look forward to, he was undermined by his austere father for many years and descended into the mentality of a cold and extremely detached miserly fellow. Following an encounter with the Eleventh Doctor, he entered into a kinder stage of his life, where he would often be less aggressive to individuals; although this later ended in his death. Pope was especially angry with his father; who would often strike Pope on a daily basis, in order to teach his young son that no one cares.

Torchwood
Before Pope was brought on board, he would often work with Torchwood One in his younger years in the British Army, alongside UNIT, meaning that he was well-known in Torchwood One, as Pope.