Horacio Barrionueve was always big for his age, and grew up through school as the boy you didn't dare mess with. He wasn't a bully, but he also wasn't one to mess with. If the mood struck him, he may have defended those who were being picked on, but more often he simply watched impassively. He began to suspect that he may have an active ubergene, and although he was always underestimated by his teachers and peers, Horacio was a keen learner and studied hard outside of school.

Unfortunately, his family was poor and began to slide even further into poverty as Horacio neared his graduation. To help supplement his family's income, Horacio began to steal from the more affluent neighbourhoods. It wasn't long until he was confronted in the act of stealing, and Horacio made a fateful decision to strike out at the security guard. There was no contest. From that night, Horacio embarked upon a string of crimes, always taken from the rich areas, never the poor.

He was dubbed the Blue Bandit and managed to appear regularly on nightly news programmes across South America. He didn't feel the need to restrict his illicit activities to Argentina, especially as there were richer, more corrupt societies to the north.

Eventually Horacio met Miguel Laguardia, an idealistic uber who planned to apprehend the Blue Bandit. And Miguel did manage to do so, but after being mistreated by the police and mesmerised by the stories of the Blue Bandit, young Miguel turned the tables on the police and whisked Horacio away. The two struck up a firm friendship and after some months of training and planning, took on the monikers of Hit and Run: partners in crime.

Horacio doesn't scare easily, and considers the law enforcement agencies to be slightly less effective than parking meter attendants. He has no respect for authority, but does hold a small flame for his home city of Buenos Aires. He wants to make sure the people on his old neighbourhoods are looked after, while at the same time he couldn't care less about the welfare of the rich and famous. He has made a career out of stealing from the rich and doesn't feel any kind of remorse.

He was dashing and risqué as the Blue Bandit, but now with the more youthful and extroverted Miguel, Horacio has become the older more responsible 'brother'. He doesn't like to think of himself as growing older, but some times he will appreciate the new role he has chosen and the perspective he brings to the partnership. And he retains most of his swashbuckling attitudes, rarely keeping quiet as he goes about his pillaging.

“I've never met a wall safe I didn't like."

Hit has an archetypal strength uberene, granting him strength and durability far beyond the scope of normal humans. He has experimented with these sometimes limited powers so that he can cause a vibrational shockwave punch which he uses to catch superheroes off guard. Hit and Run usually employ guerrilla tactics and prefer not to engage super teams for any kind of prolonged period.

Hit wears a patriotic suit of aqua and white, including mask and gloves to obscure his identity. Out of uniform he is a tall and impressive man, with a crew cut and pronounced cheek bones. He wears black a lot, out of costume, and prefers to blend in during social occasions.