Rick Daik

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As a reporter for the Hope City Chronicle, Rick Daik was expected to produce a significant article in order to be promoted to a junior editorial role. He chose to investigate the rumours of superheroes in the city, which at the time lacked sufficient material evidence to be mentioned in the newspapers. (Legislation in Hope City was very strict about the accuracy requirements for newspapers) Daik decided to collate all eyewitness accounts he could find for the appearance of supernormal individuals, and determine whether there was enough of a consensus to suggest a grain of truth behind all the urban myths.

During the events of Hope City Stories, Rick investigated the possible existence of supernormals, as well as interviewing a number of them including Antique Blaze, Catgirl, Captain Ultimatum, Papillon, The Guardian, and eventually Professor Normal. During his research, the creation of an official hero for the city was announced, meaning that supernormals were no longer a matter of speculation. As Daik had already been researching in the area, he was able to get the first interview with Captain Ultimatum before the story was officially public; as well as being one of the first journalists to legally report on a superhero/villain fight. He later published his full report as a five-part editorial, and was promoted to Assistant Chief Editor on Supernormal Events.

Although released more than a month after the fact, his story on the Hope Tower Incident is generally taken to be the definitive record of the events, and of the stories which led up to it.

Five years later, he published an expanded version of the report on the Incident, as well as all of his previous research, as the in-universe book A Catalogue of Supernormal Phenomena. This includes the stories of all the masks he could find, as well as his own adventures trying to uncover the facts, and all the different sequences of events that climaxed with the destruction of Hope Tower. It is suggested that the in-universe book is almost, but not quite, a complete record of what he found (still omitting the fact of Hank Nostromo's survival, as well as Crusader's identity). The books appendices, which are larger than the main text, includes an index of all known or rumoured masks, their themes, costumes, and abilities; as well as a treatise on how supernormal powers interact with each other, extrapolating patterns from all known data.

It is highly likely that the text of Daik's book (excluding the appendices) is close to Hope City Stories itself, which casts Daik as the narrator.