Eddie "Killbane" Pryor is the leader of the Luchadores, and along with Matt Miller, Viola and Kiki DeWynter, and Phillipe Loren, a member of The Syndicate.[9] He is also a professional masked wrestler and the main antagonist of Saints Row: The Third. Killbane is a tall, muscular man who wears a Lucha libre mask with matching green clothes, whether his wrestling tights or a custom-made business suit. He never removes the mask, as per Lucha libre tradition, but the player can choose to humiliate Killbane by unmasking him in Murderbrawl XXXI. Lead writer of Saints Row: The Third, Steve Jaros, explained, "[Killbane's] always embracing that luchadore spirit and never wants to let it go".[1]
Killbane is an extremely egotistic, violent and short-tempered man. He considers it highly disrespectful when people call him "Eddie" rather than "Killbane", as per Lucha libre tradition, which is one of the main reasons he abruptly and hastily kills Kiki DeWynter, along with her threatening to leave the gang. Immediately after, he patronizes a distraught Viola DeWynter by offering her tickets to Murderbrawl XXXI.
Early in his career, Killbane beat an opponent to death during a match and subsequently fled to Mexico,[1] where he befriended fellow Lucha libre Angel De LaMuerte. As tag-team partners, they were known