Oliver DiFool (Character)

Oliver DiFool, was John DiFool's father. He was an inventor, who often used his creations to commit illegal acts and get quick money. After spending two years in prison he reunited with his son, using him for one of his criminal schemes, which once again landed him in prison, where he was turned into a hunchback as punishment.

He made his first appearance in the first issue of Before the Incal: Farewell, Father.

Early life
After meeting his future wife (a prostitute), Oliver DiFool had a son with her, which they named John DiFool. Usually the Techno-technos would take the newborns away from the lower-level prostitutes, but in this case Oliver and his wife decided to keep their son hidden away from the Techno-technos. Thus, their son spend the first seven years of his life under the care of Sofiah, although they would often come to visit him.

At one point, Oliver DiFool was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison.

Release from prison and new arrest
After being released from prison, he asked John's mother for money, and used it to buy material for new inventions. He was reunited with his son John, and came up with a plan to use counterfeit haloes to get into the aristo ball and steal their jewels.

At the ball his counterfeit halo run out of battery and he was discovered and arrested by the Prezident's hunchbacks.

Oliver received the standard sentence of 30 years and a day. According to clause 36FXK6 he could choose between completing the sentence on a tablet at morgue-wall, where he would sleep away the 30 years, or "remolding", which entailed wiping out his entire memory. His public condemantion was later shown on TV.

Death
When the Prezident was infected with the meropa virus his illness was blamed on the mutant population, and he allowed his Hunchback Army to raid the Mutant GTO. Oliver, who was now one of the troops of the Hunchback Army was sent to the Mutant GTO, where he witnessed how other hunchbacks raped and killed Bandtiih and captured John, his son. Since Oliver's memories were not completely wiped out yet, he managed to save his son from the massacre. After freeing John Oliver's remodeling started to kick in, and he asked his son to kill him before he could harm him. John complied, and shoot his father just when he was about to completely turn into ruthless murderer.

After his death, John used one of the remaining counterifeit halos to get inside the aristo-maternity.

Symbolism
Issues of parenthood are a recurring motif in Before the Incal, in this case John kill his father, commiting parricide, which would go later become a major theme in The Saga of the Metabarons.