Now, for those of you who don’t follow Valiant Comics (we have a guide to them here) or don’t know who Bloodshot is, here’s the gist. Created by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin, and Bob Layton back in the early ’90s, Bloodshot is essentially RoboCop meets Wolverine meets Hardcore Henry meets someone who hates shirts. He’s a seemingly unkillable soldier filled with billions of nanites that constantly heal him as long as he sustains them with protein. For a time, he was used as the ultimate weapon for shadowy government organization Project Rising Spirit. They programmed him with seemingly a dozen different lifetimes’ worth of memories so that they could manipulate him into playing the hero and doing their dirty work.

Need an enemy base cleaned out? Make him think his “wife Nancy” or “best friend Bill” is being held captive behind enemy lines. Then once that’s done with, put him on ice and wake him up for the next mission with a different made-up scenario for motivation.

But of course, nothing lasts forever and Bloodshot eventually broke free. Now, with so many false memories in his head, he doesn’t know who he truly is and what his role in the world is supposed to be. There’s rarely a dull moment with him because his status quo changes every four issues or so.

While that’s what he’s about in the comics, here’s a new official synopsis of the movie:

[Bloodshot] follows Ray Garrison aka Bloodshot, a deceased soldier resurrected by weapons contractor Rising Spirit Technologies through the use of nanotechnology. Suffering from total memory loss but imbued with an array of staggering new abilities, Ray struggles to reconnect with who he was while learning what sort of weapon he has become…aided by a team of fellow augmented combatants codenamed Chainsaw.

The movie co-stars Guy Pearce, Eiza Gonzalez, and Sam Heughan. It’s directed by Dave Wilson, written by Eric Heisserer, and produced by Neal Moritz, Toby Jaffe, and Dinesh Shamdasani.