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153-463: During the 1940s the existence of mutants was not yet known to the general public. A few individuals were aware of the coming of Homo superior and the fact that they had the potential to replace baseline humans as the dominant species of Earth. Thus Weapon Plus was created to address the so-called mutant problem. What was unknown by everyone involved in Weapon Plus is that its mastermind, John Sublime ,

306-559: A private investigator on Earth. The creative team consisted of writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Joe Quinones. Howard the Duck (vol. 5) ran for 5 issues before Marvel relaunched many of their existing titles with the All-New, All-Different Marvel line of comics. This led to a reboot produced by the same creative team starting with Howard the Duck (vol. 6) #1 in November 2015. This series included

459-552: A "SNUKT" sound compared to Wolverine's "SNIKT"). Weapon II also sports a visor and many of Wolverine's mannerisms. In Wolverine and Captain America Weapon Plus #1 (July 2019), it is implied that the team Brute Force , made of animal cyborg hybrids, was part of the Weapon II program. Like Weapons II and IV, Weapon III was originally said to be experiments on animals, however, this was later retconned. Weapon III (Harry Pizer)

612-516: A Gun creates thousands of clones of Howard during a fierce battle. As Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck escape the warehouse, they reveal that they rescued the "real" Howard and Beverly, while Spider-Man left with one of the clones. Howard has his feathers dyed green, and is renamed "Leonard the Duck", and Beverly has her hair dyed black and is renamed "Rhonda Martini". Leonard later had a cameo appearance in Savage Dragon #41, and Leonard and Rhonda have

765-634: A cargo of five mutant-eating creatures to the X-Men on Utopia. In the new status quo for mutants post House of X and Powers of X , Professor X and Magneto invite all mutants to live on Krakoa and welcome even former enemies into their fold. Sometime later, during the Krakoan Age , he joins a loose group of outcast mutants, operating under Mister Sinister: the Hellions , which also comprise Havok, Kwannon, Empath, Wildchild, Nanny and Orphan Maker. CBR noted that

918-750: A character called the Critic, travels to a dimension known as the Baloneyverse and again battles a group called the Band of the Bland, whom he had previously battled with the Defenders. In an encounter with Peter Parker and Ben Reilly (the then-current Spider-Man), Howard gets a rematch with the Circus of Crime and the Circus is defeated. During the fight, Howard and Beverly get stuck in

1071-453: A chemical facility of Doctor Bong's. Beverly is hired by Bong's Globally Branded Content Corporation, which manufactures boy bands from protein vats based on the sexual arousal of a focus group of gay men. Attempting to destroy an escapee whom Beverly has taken in, Bong inadvertently knocks Howard into a vat, which changes him, unstably, into a rat. When Howard later showers, he changes his form multiple times before again permanently returning to

1224-656: A child, and oversaw his conditioning. Weapon VII also experimented with adamantium bonding, which helped create Cyber . The United Kingdom also had its own version of Project: Homegrown, a.k.a. the Black Budget, which managed to create the team known as the Super Soldiers : Dauntless, Gog, Dreadnaught, Revenge, Victory, Invincible, Challenger, and some unnamed super-soldiers. The Mercy Corporation, an offshoot of S.H.I.E.L.D. that worked on super-soldiers and eventually broke off, also had its own unit of super-soldiers, using

1377-517: A cover identity) managed to produce Captain America (Steve Rogers). However, Erskine was murdered moments after Rogers was successfully enhanced. The refinements he introduced which made the process successful were lost with his death. With his demise, Koch took over the American program. Two other subjects, Clinton McIntyre, a.k.a. Protocide , a failed experiment who was placed in suspended animation and

1530-457: A degree of creative autonomy when he became the comic series' editor in addition to his usual writing duties. With issue #16, unable to meet the deadline for his regular script, Gerber substituted an entire issue of text pieces and illustrations satirizing his own difficulties as a writer. The Walt Disney Company contacted Marvel in 1977 over concerns that the visual design of Howard infringed on their trademark for Donald Duck . Marvel agreed to

1683-419: A female clone of Wolverine created using genetic material salvaged from the original project. No character under the official title of Weapon XI has been revealed. However; according to artist Rob Liefeld, Weapon XI was originally intended to be Garrison Kane , who went on to be better known as simply Kane, or confusingly Weapon X. Weapon Plus created Weapon XII (a.k.a. Huntsman , real name Zona Cluster 6) at

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1836-499: A large army of mutant zombies, soon revealed to be infected by Weapon XVI, "Allgod". Noh-Varr is rescued by Fantomex, who is there to retrieve the World's brain to help reprogram it into becoming a more benevolent and peaceful being. The two make their way to the World's brain, where they are confronted by the Allgod zombies, which now include Wolverine. Noh-Varr is able to disarm Allgod by kissing

1989-451: A lawsuit against Marvel; these included Destroyer Duck with Jack Kirby . The lawsuit was settled on September 24, 1982, with Gerber acknowledging that his work on the character was done as work-for-hire and that Marvel parent Cadence Industries owned "all right, title and interest" to Howard the Duck and the Howard material he had produced. On November 5, 1982, Judge David Kenyon approved

2142-435: A mercenary unit hailing out of Eaglestar International as waiting test subjects for virochemically neutered symbiote samples. The Klyntar used would purposely have their hive link severed so that the presence behind their proginator wouldn't irrevocably madden its hosts. But it was again put on ice when the demiurgically anointed Dark Carnage went on a killing spree, collecting & harvesting Klyntar derived codex samples from

2295-606: A mouse (as a parody of Mickey Mouse , in retaliation for the Disney-mandated redesign), and entering a chain of events parodying comics such as Witchblade , Preacher and several others, with Howard ultimately having a conversation with God in Hell. Howard had cameo appearances in She-Hulk (vol. 2) #9 in February 2005 and in She-Hulk vol. 3 #3/#100 in February 2006 (issue #3 was also

2448-519: A plot by Psycho-Man to use the Man-Thing's volatile empathy to create a weapon. Howard and Beverly are brainwashed and forced to work for Save Our Offspring From Indecency (S.O.O.F.I.) as Cynical Duck and Swizzle. They promote S.O.O.F.I. at a public speech held for them by J. Jonah Jameson. Spider-Man later interrupts a S.O.O.F.I. indoctrination at the New York Public Library, and Beverly and

2601-434: A population (with its own religion, history and culture) that is led to believe that beyond the World's limits there's nothing, other than endless rock and mutants who are coming to destroy them. Those who are selected for termination believe there is a reward awaiting them at the other side. The World is also filled with numerous experiments and prototypes of Weapon Plus, such as techno-organic human-animal car-cops. The World

2754-511: A race are on the brink of extinction. Weapon Plus appears again as Sublime attempts to use the Stepford Cuckoos to wipe out the surviving mutants. Project: Rebirth began as a collaboration between the American, British and German eugenicists led by Doctors Josef Reinstein (later known as Abraham Erskine) and Koch. When World War II began, Koch took over the German program, and Reinstein moved to

2907-455: A redesign of the character by Disney artists. A key feature of the redesign was that the character would wear pants. In 1978, Gerber was removed from the newspaper strip and the comic-book series due to chronic problems with deadlines. His final issue of the comic-book series was #27 (September 1978). The series continued for four more issues with stories by Marv Wolfman , Mary Skrenes , Mark Evanier , and Bill Mantlo . The final episode of

3060-552: A script for the issue, but withdrew it after it had been revised to conform to editorial guidelines. Issue #33 (October 1986), scripted by Christopher Stager, featured a parody of the film Bride of Frankenstein . Howard co-creator Val Mayerik co-plotted the story and provided the art. It was released alongside an adaptation of the Howard the Duck feature film, which was published in Marvel Super Special #41 (November 1986) and

3213-575: A serum similar to previous derivatives of the Super-Soldier Serum from Weapon I. Their agents included Jack Reno, Keel, Kyle, Agent Villarosa, Agent Davis and Agent Milo. Weapons VIII experimented on criminals and psychopaths. Weapon IX (according to artist Rob Liefeld) was originally supposed to be Wade Wilson, a.k.a. Deadpool . Weapon IX is later revealed to be project 'Psyche', none other than Typhoid Mary . The Weapon X Program experimented on mutants , most notably Wolverine . Later, however,

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3366-422: A similar super soldier by Project Hellfire so that he can stop his former team. After Townsend is converted, he tracks down the last surviving Destroyer, Corporal Jamie Doeden, and helps him regain his humanity. Townsend and Doeden help Hellverine and Wolverine kill the demonic empowered Harms, putting an end to Project Hellfire's plans. To prevent Project Hellfire from going rogue again, Hellverine leaves it under

3519-713: A single-panel cameo when they meet Gerber's Nevada in Vertigo Comics ' Winter's Edge #2. In 2001, when Marvel launched its MAX imprint of "mature readers" comics, Gerber returned to write a six-issue Howard the Duck miniseries illustrated by Phil Winslade and Glenn Fabry. Featuring several familiar Howard the Duck characters, the series, like the original one, parodied a wide range of other comics and pop culture figures, but with considerably stronger language and sexual content than what would have been allowable 25 years earlier. The series has Doctor Bong causing Howard to go through multiple changes of form, principally into

3672-566: A steamroller, the result is blood on asphalt." Gene Colan became the regular penciller with issue #4. Gerber later said to Colan: "There really was almost a telepathic connection there. I would see something in my mind, and that is what you would draw! I've never had that experience with another artist before or since." Sporting the slogan "Get Down, America!", the All-Night Party was a fictional political party that appeared in Gerber's Howard

3825-633: A three-issue comic-book series. Gerber returned to Howard in 1989 in The Sensational She-Hulk #14–17. The character was again living with Beverly Switzler, now working as a rent-a- ninja . How they got back together was never explained. Beverly was not involved in the story, in which She-Hulk takes Howard on a trip through several dimensions with a theoretical physicist from Empire State University. Gerber's next story featuring Howard appeared in Spider-Man Team-Up #5 (December 1996), around

3978-656: A two-part crossover with The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl . The 11th and last issue was released in October 2016. Howard's first appearance in comics is when he is abruptly abducted from his home planet by an unseen force and randomly dropped into the Florida Everglades by the demon-lord Thog the Nether-Spawn . He meets the Man-Thing , who had been attacked by Korrek of Katharta, and the three of them are confronted by warriors of

4131-478: A warehouse full of anthropomorphic ducks, briefly meeting the Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck . Parker and Reilly leave the warehouse believing that they have the correct versions of Howard and Beverly with them. However, in the Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck companion story that takes place simultaneously and that was written by Gerber, it is explained that the version of Howard and Beverly that left

4284-544: A way to land safely in a nearby dumpster. Howard returns to his business as a private eye, working in the same building as She-Hulk, in Brooklyn. One of his first new clients is Jonathan Richards, who hires Howard to retrieve a necklace stolen by the Black Cat. With the help of Tara Tam, his new friend and assistant, Howard manages to recover the necklace. However, on his way to give it back to Richards, he finds himself kidnapped by

4437-580: Is a cyborg who previously lived in the Tibetan town of Anavrin before being banished by his father Tong Zing. Scintilla (originally named Midget ) is a member of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard . Created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum , the character first appeared in X-Men #107 (October 1977). Scintilla has the ability to shrink to five percent of her normal size, and any size in between. Like many original members of

4590-437: Is a "living religion", a virus that "attacks the faith reserves". People infected by Allgod worship the World, and become fanatically devoted slaves to it. Wolverine, Fantomex, and Noh-Varr team up to shut down the World (which has now become sentient), its weapons production, and Allgod along with it. Weapon Infinity, also known as Project: Deathlok, is the cyborg conversion of both ordinary citizens and then all superheroes in

4743-695: Is a character in the MC2 universe who first appeared in J2 #8 (May 1999). He is the half-brother of Wild Thing and son of Wolverine . The character has claws (similar to Sabretooth ), a healing factor, enhanced physical capabilities and a temper (similar to Wolverine). His healing factor allows him to rapidly regenerate damaged or destroyed areas of his cellular structure and affords him virtual immunity to poisons and most drugs, as well as enhanced resistance to diseases. He has superhuman strength, naturally sharp fangs and claws reinforced with adamantium sheaths. Lynn Sakura

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4896-400: Is a creature half-id and half-superego, while Iprah is an all-ego promoter of self-indulgent pop psychology. Considering her dangerous, Gabriel sends the cherub Thrasher to resurrect Sigmund Freud, whose cigar blasts out half of Thrasher's brains (being immortal, this just makes him act drunk). Iprah destroys Freud, but Howard blasts her with the cigar, separating her from Deuteronomy. Puffing on

5049-501: Is a fictional New York City Police Lieutenant. The character, created by Chris Claremont and Pat Broderick , first appeared in Marvel Premiere #23 (August 1975). Rafe is a Vietnam War veteran who returned to New York to become a police officer. He grew close to his partner Misty Knight and when she lost her arm in a bomb explosion, Scarfe never left her side. He was a recurring ally of Iron Fist , and later Luke Cage when

5202-517: Is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Scaleface is a mutant who can turn into a large dragon-like reptilian creature. She was a member of the Morlocks . After the Morlock Massacre storyline, she and the surviving Morlocks come into conflict with the X-Men and the police before she is killed by the latter. Scaleface is later resurrected as a zombie by

5355-559: Is a member of the Comanche tribe of Native Americans who originally fought in World War II for the United States but was to be executed for murdering his fellow officers. He is shot by a firing squad and is believed dead. However, he survives and is found and recruited by enigmatic mastermind Mister Sinister early on. Later, apparently not working under Sinister, he kills the employer of

5508-692: Is a minor character within Marvel Comics . The character, created by writer Fiona Avery and artist Mark Brooks , first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #1 (August 2004 ). She is Anya Corazon 's childhood friend, and both are classmates at Milton Summers High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn . Lynn often supports Anya who juggles a double life as Araña with the Spider Society. Jon Kasiya (the Sisterhood of

5661-501: Is again working at a diner as a cook. He fears the X-Men are going to kill him and has fully gone into hiding. A preacher begins to eat at the diner, and constantly plagues Scalphunter with incessant chatter. One night, Nightcrawler attacks Scalphunter in his trailer, revealing that he was the preacher, in disguise. Scalphunter tries to kill him but is easily defeated. Nightcrawler tells him that he sought him out to kill him, but changed his mind as he realized that Scalphunter had no soul – he

5814-486: Is an actual variant or the real Howard the Duck posing as a variant in order to mooch off their food. Lady Araña throws Howard the Duck out of the building. After tossing his Spider-Man outfit into the garbage can, Howard the Duck leaves stating that it was worth the shot. Howard has no superhuman powers, but is skilled in the martial art known as Quak-Fu, enough to defeat, or at least to hold his own against, far larger opponents. He has shown some degree of mystic talent in

5967-580: Is approached by Richards in the middle of his fight against the Ringmaster and Richards reveals himself to be Talos the Untamed, who reveals that the necklace was part of a marginally powerful item known as the Abundant Glove. With help from Doctor Strange, Howard and Tara locate the final piece of the Abundant Glove, but are unable to put it back together when Talos grabs it and proceeds to use it to wreak havoc on

6120-617: Is depicted as a master of bladed weapons , serving under Master Khan . He is a mercenary initially hired by the sorcerer to eliminate Iron Fist , and later a recurring adversary of the superhero. Scimitar is a mercenary from Halwan and an enemy of Iron Fist . Little is known about his past, except that his name has been used by many other people in Halwan. In his first appearance, Scimitar kills several civilians to lure Iron Fist out of hiding. The plan works and Iron Fist reveals himself, and despite Scimitar's speed and fighting skills, Iron Fist

6273-587: Is hired as a dishwasher by Beverly's uncle, Lee Switzler. Howard is later reunited with Dakihm the Enchanter, the Man-Thing, Korrek and Jennifer Kale, and they all battle the demon Bzzk'Joh. Korrek pilots the ship the Epoch Weasel and drops Howard back off at Cleveland before he and their allies fly away. Howard finally meets up with the cruise ship that rescued Paul and Winda from Doctor Bong, and finds that Paul and Winda have befriended socialite Iris Raritan. Howard

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6426-456: Is later kidnapped by the Ringmaster and his Circus of Crime . Winda is abandoned by Paul and Iris and Paul is shot and left in a coma. After defeating the Circus of Crime, Howard is plagued by pessimistic dreams and goes his way alone, just as he had at the series' beginning. Writer Bill Mantlo, beginning with issue #30, returned the series to its former status quo, bringing Beverly back into

6579-528: Is left desiccated and practically dead. Howard then encounters Namor , who thought he had slain Man-Thing, but Howard explains that he would not be lugging his friend's body around if that were the case. Howard sets the Man-Thing down in the water, and he revives during Howard's conversation with Namor. Once he sees that the Man-Thing is alive and well, he bids Namor farewell and says that he is returning to Cleveland. Years later, back with Beverly, he undergoes further shapeshifting experiences after an accident at

6732-408: Is no joke: "... that life's most serious moments and most incredibly dumb moments are often distinguishable only by a momentary point of view." Gloria Katz , producer of the notorious, ill-fated 1986 film adaptation of the comic, expressed a diametrically opposed opinion of the character, "It's a film about a duck from outer space ... It's not supposed to be an existential experience." Howard

6885-475: Is on the side of mutants in this case, as they are in danger of becoming extinct. In the " X-Men: Messiah Complex " storyline, following Apocalypse's defeat, Scalphunter returns to his master and rejoined the Marauders. Scalphunter is involved in the initial assault on Cooperstown, Alaska for the mutant child. During the X-Men's search for the mutant child he shoots and badly injures Nightcrawler . He later assists

7038-474: Is one of the still-powered mutants living in tents on the Xavier Institute lawn after almost all mutants were depowered during the " Decimation " storyline. When immortal mutant Apocalypse comes, Scalphunter leaves and serves him. When Havok warns Scalphunter and fellow Apocalypse recruits Fever Pitch and Skids that they are in over their heads, Scalphunter replies that Apocalypse has explained that he

7191-508: Is ordered to ambush Spider-Man and Daredevil, who had infiltrated their base. She wears them down but is then betrayed by Silvermane, who shoots her in the back. Scorpia follows Spider-Man and Daredevil to Silvermane's location and immediately attacks him. Mainframe, another of Silvermane's mercenaries, takes control of Scorpia's cybernetic enhancements and uses her to attack Spider-Man. However, she soon regained mobility and blasted Silvermane. An explosion created by The Punisher knocked Scorpia off

7344-517: Is revealed that Chip and Lectronn engaged in a three-hour fight over New York that ended in a stalemate. The Schizoid Man was among several super-powered criminals housed in an unnamed, ill-equipped prison in the Avengers Vs. X-Men storylines. Rogue and Mimic had to fight the two off during a prison riot where the Schizoid Man was trying to get control of himself. The Schizoid Man possesses

7497-460: Is still able to defeat him. He has a few more run-ins with Iron Fist and his partner Luke Cage , but always ends up defeated. Scimitar disappears from the comic pages for a long time, until returning in the 1990s Iron Fist limited series. Scimitar later joins the Weaponeers, a terrorist group who use him as a "super-agent" due to his highly skilled ways with his sword. Scimitar resurfaces with

7650-569: The Iprah show with the topic "Why Women Give It to Men Who Don't Get It", guest starring Dr. Phlip . Upon leaving the House of Mystery, Howard is once again transformed into an anthropomorphic mouse. It is revealed that Iprah has been merged with an experiment by the Angel Gabriel called Deuteronomy, intended to replace God, because God has been spending all his time in a bar in Hell since 1938. Deuteronomy

7803-594: The Black Talon to fight She-Hulk . After She-Hulk defeats the zombies, Scaleface is buried and magical charms are placed to keep her body from rising again. However, Scaleface is among the dead mutants resurrected by Selene 's transmode virus during the Necrosha storyline. Scalphunter ( John Greycrow ) is a fictional mutant villain character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Scalphunter

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7956-493: The Cult of Entropy , who wrap him in swaddling clothes. Although last seen in the swamp, Howard states that he was thrown into baggage and transported on a plane. The cult wants Howard because he has part of the Nexus of All Realities , which shattered during Heroes Reborn , inside of him. Man-Thing then enters Howard's mouth, and Howard vomits him back out with the fragment, but Man-Thing

8109-522: The Defenders . A doctored-photo scandal leads him to Canada where he defeats a supervillain, the Beaver, who caused the scandal. The Beaver falls to his death in a battle with Howard. Howard then suffers a nervous breakdown and flees Bev and their situation on a bus. Unfortunately, the bus' passengers are all believers in various weird cults, and try to interest Howard in them. His seatmates are Winda Wester and

8262-627: The Disney+ series What If...? (2021–present). Howard the Duck was created by writer Steve Gerber and penciler Val Mayerik in Adventure into Fear #19 (Dec. 1973) as a secondary character in that comic's " Man-Thing " feature. He graduated to his own backup feature in Giant-Size Man-Thing #4–5 (May and Aug. 1975), confronting such bizarre horror-parody characters as Garko the Man-Frog and Bessie

8415-452: The Endless , Spider Jerusalem , and Gerber's own Nevada (called Utah), all characters from DC Comics ' Vertigo imprint . The downside to the House is that everyone staying there gets their every wish; so Che Guevara can have his revolution, but someone else can easily slaughter him. One tenant, a writer named Mr. Gommorah (a parody of Spider Jerusalem), later takes Beverly and Howard to be on

8568-512: The England -based facilities of The World . He was the first living weapon created employing artificial evolution and nanosentinel technology. Weapon XII was "accidentally" unleashed on the Channel Tunnel and fought X-Corporation members Cannonball , M , Darkstar , Rictor , Siryn and Multiple Man . Weapon XII was eliminated by Fantomex with the aid of Jean Grey and Professor X , but at

8721-520: The Hellions series retired Greycrow's racist Scalphunter codename, which debuted during the 1986 Mutant Massacre storyline, in the second issue of the series and that Greycrow had major "character development" with a shift towards redemption and heroics during this series. Scanner was a member of the Spaceknight Squadron beginning in ROM Annual (1982 Series), #2 in November 1983, in which she

8874-550: The Man-Thing . Weapon V was originally believed to have been performed on ethnic people, but then during the Vietnam War, then S.H.I.E.L.D sponsored program under the pseudonym of Sym-soldier used pieces of the ancient symbiote named Grendel and bonded them to various able bodied operatives in order to fight in the conflict. However, the program was shut down after said enhanced specimens were driven mad by their second skins, having later been captured by Nick Fury and Logan. When

9027-459: The S. S. Damned , a cruise ship returning from scenic Bagmom, Howard and Beverly are taken captive by Lester Verde. Verde had known Beverly in college and had a crush on her and had assumed the identity of the supervillain Doctor Bong , who illegally marries Beverly against her will and transforms Howard into a human. After escaping back to New York and being restored to his natural form, Howard

9180-534: The Vietnam War . Some of the known participants who died in Project: Homegrown included Andrew Perlmutter, Michael Labash, John Walsh, James MacPherson and fourteen other unknown recruits. The only known successful subject of Project: Homegrown was Nuke , who had armored implants under his epidermis and was addicted to powerful narcotics. Logan, who would later become one of Weapon Plus' victims, kidnapped Nuke as

9333-451: The American program. John Steele , also known as American Soldier, was a Super-Soldier of unknown origin who fought in World War I. His body was kept in stasis by Nazi scientists, including Abraham Erskine, who sought to replicate his abilities as part of Project: Nietzche, but with little success. Project: Rebirth , headed by Professor Abraham Erskine (given the alias Josef Reinstein as

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9486-568: The Collector and allied with the Guardians of the Galaxy to escape the villain, who was attempting to add Howard to his collection of rare space objects and entities. Upon returning to Earth, Howard is robbed by May Parker , Spider-Man's aunt, and later re-encounters the Ringmaster, who is revealed to have brainwashed the elderly into committing robberies. After recovering the necklace for a third time, Howard

9639-441: The Congress of Realities. He then meets Dakimh the Enchanter and Dakimh banishes the warriors and transports Howard, Man-Thing, and Korrek to his castle, where they are joined by Jennifer Kale . They then travel to the realm of Therea and destroy Thog the Nether-Spawn. Howard then accidentally falls off the inter-dimensional stepping stones that the group were traveling on and materializes in Cleveland, Ohio, where he battles Garko

9792-426: The Destroyers reject their programming and rampage throughout Washington, D.C. . The Destoyers' activities catch the attention of the recently escaped and reformed Bagra-ghul, who is now possessing Wolverine's son Akihiro as the new Hellverine, engaging in a massive conflict that kills most of the Destroyers. The Destroyers' former commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Leon Townsend, volunteers himself to turned into

9945-414: The Duck Howard the Duck is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character was created by writer Steve Gerber , based very loosely on his college friend Howard Tockman, and artist Val Mayerik . Howard the Duck first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 ( cover-dated Dec. 1973) and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of

10098-582: The Duck series during the U.S. Presidential campaign of 1976 , and led to Howard the Duck allegedly receiving thousands of write-in votes in the actual election. Gerber addressed questions about the campaign in the letters column of the comic book and, as Mad Genius Associates, sold merchandise publicizing the campaign. Marvel attempted a spin-off with a short-lived Howard the Duck newspaper comic strip from 1977 to 1978, at first written by Gerber and drawn by Colan and Mayerik, later written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by Alan Kupperberg . Gerber gained

10251-405: The Duck is a three-foot-tall anthropomorphic duck . He generally wears a tie and shirt and is almost always found smoking a cigar . Originally, like many cartoon ducks, he wore no pants; Disney threatened legal action due to Howard's resemblance to Donald Duck , and Marvel redesigned that aspect of the character by writing into the script that Howard was the target of anti-nudity protests, and

10404-423: The Duck is among the building tenants that learn from Patsy Walker what happened to She-Hulk following the fight against Thanos . Howard's last name of Duckson is revealed in War of the Realms : War Scrolls #1. Howard the Duck later attempted to pose as a spider variant of himself called the Spectacular Spider-Duck in the building where the Great Web of Life of Destiny is only for Spider-Boy to ask if that

10557-407: The Duck is briefly seen as part of the superpowered army gathered to battle invading Skrull forces. He is seen armed with a pistol and wearing a Skrull's hand around his neck. He is later seen kicking a Skrull during interrogation after the invasion. Brian Michael Bendis has commented when asked of Howard: "That character has shown up in six issues I've done, and I've never typed the words Howard

10710-407: The Duck was portrayed by Ed Gale and voiced by Chip Zien in the critically and commercially unsuccessful 1986 self-titled film . Starting in 2014, the character , voiced by Seth Green , appeared in cameos in several Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, the Disney XD animated series Guardians of the Galaxy (2015–19) and Ultimate Spider-Man (2016; with Kevin Michael Richardson ), and

10863-422: The Duck." In Marvel Zombies 5 , Howard the Duck of Earth-616 teams up with Machine Man to travel across the multiverse fighting zombies. During the Fear Itself storyline, Howard forms a team called the Fearsome Four with She-Hulk, Frankenstein's Monster and Nighthawk to stop the Man-Thing when he goes on a rampage in Manhattan, due to the fear and chaos he senses on the citizens. They later discover

11016-564: The Fantastic Four and everything returns to normal. Afterwards, with the help of new arrival Gwenpool , Howard prevented HYDRA from infecting the world with a deadly virus. He also has a crossover event with The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl . Howard the Duck is shown to be living in the She-Hulk's apartment building when Patsy Walker moved out. During the Civil War II storyline, Howard

11169-693: The Guard steals from the dead hero's tomb. This bomb is capable of devastating an area equivalent to that of the Kree Empire (which is supposedly located throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud ). Ultimately, the Nega Bomb device is successfully detonated, devastating the Kree Empire, with 98% of the Kree population dying instantaneously. The Shi'ar annex the remnants of the Kree Empire, with Deathbird becoming viceroy of

11322-550: The Hellcow , before acquiring his own comic book title with Howard the Duck #1 in 1976. Gerber wrote 27 issues of the series (for the most part ditching the horror parodies), illustrated by a variety of artists, beginning with Frank Brunner . For Gerber, Howard was a flesh-and-blood duck and explained that "If Wile E. Coyote gets run over by a steamroller, the result is a pancake-flat coyote who can be expected to snap back to three dimensions within moments; if Howard gets run over by

11475-518: The Imperial Guard, Scintilla is the analog of a character from DC Comics ' Legion of Super-Heroes : in her case, Shrinking Violet . Midget was amongst the first of the Imperial Guard encountered by the team of superhuman mutants known as the X-Men who sought to rescue the Princess Lilandra from her insane brother emperor D'Ken . Following the orders of their emperor, the Guard clashed with

11628-478: The Imperial Guard, in such storylines as " Emperor Vulcan ," "Secret Invasion," X-Men: Kingbreaker , " War of Kings ," and the "Trial of Jean Grey." Scorpia is a supervillain . Elaine Coll is recruited by Silvermane from a mental hospital to become the new Scorpion . She opts to call herself Scorpia instead and is given robotic scorpion-like armor which enhanced her strength and speed by 500%. Scorpia successfully brings Deathlok to Silvermane and

11781-475: The Kidney Lady, a woman who believes that the soul of a person lives in their kidneys and attempts to stop anything she sees as "anti-kidney health". After the bus crashes, Howard and Winda are sent to a mental institution. There he meets Daimon Hellstrom, and is briefly possessed by Hellstrom's demonic soul, becoming the new Son of Satan . Beverly and Paul manage to get them both back to Cleveland. Later, while on

11934-561: The Kree territories. Vulcan , a powerful mutant intent on conquering the Shi'ar Empire, fights the Guard beginning in The Uncanny X-Men #480 (2007). Tragically, Vulcan kills Cosmo and Smasher (and seemingly Impulse , Neutron , and Titan ) before he is defeated by Gladiator , who puts out his left eye. Despite Scintilla's desire for revenge, Gladiator takes Vulcan into custody and imprisons him. Scintilla has many further adventures with

12087-408: The Man-Frog. Howard is arrested at this time for disturbing the peace and is mistaken for a mutant during a strip search, but is released because the police fear he has mutant abilities. Howard also briefly encounters and kills a vampiric cow named Bessie the Hellcow . Howard makes friends with an artists' model named Beverly Switzler and a bizarre series of encounters follow. He battles Pro-Rata ,

12240-481: The Man-Thing. Because of his experience with zombie-infested worlds and his leadership of Machine Man, Howard is chosen as the leader of, as he dubs them, the Ducky Dozen. The team is composed of him, several Golden Age heroes, Dum-Dum Dugan , and Battlestar , who is also a veteran of a zombie incident. Upon entering Earth-12591, the Ducky Dozen fight hordes of zombie Nazis and Asgardians , but suffer grave losses as

12393-477: The Marauders later fight dimensionally-displaced Nate Grey after trying to assassinate Sinister's former servant, Threnody , he is killed and then cloned. When Sinister poses as Dr. Robert Windsor a scientist in the Weapon X program, Scalphunter is still helping him obtain mutant captives for their DNA, as Sinister supposedly helps prisoners escape, only to take them to his own labs for experimentation. Scalphunter

12546-633: The Marauders' attempt to assassinate Sinister's former pawn, Madelyne Pryor , in San Francisco . Failing, they try once more in New York City during the demonic invasion Inferno event. During this time, Sinister cloned the entire band of Marauders, to replace any members of the team who are killed with exact replicas (as was done in the case of the Marauder known as Riptide ). Scalphunter manages to live throughout his encounters with heroes, ⁣ but when

12699-553: The S.H.I.E.L.D. Giant-Man Reserves. Captain America and Wasp defeat all of the Schizoid Man's bodies that were "scattered all over the Triskelion". Eric Schwinner is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Eric Schwinner is a human scientist at GARID (Galannan Alternative Research for Immunization Development). He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962). Schwinner ran

12852-468: The S.O.O.F.I.s to throw the pair into the special Blanditron at Guantanamo Bay, but Beverly keeps them at bay with a whip. Spidey attacks the S.O.O.F.I.s and unmasks the Supreme S.O.O.F.I., while the others escape through their teleporter. Howard states that he believes S.O.O.F.I. will lay low for a while after such a defeat and he also hopes that the group's Florida Everglades base might lead them to meet up with

13005-550: The Super Soldier formula. Only five men survived the original trials; hundreds of test subjects left behind at Camp Cathcart and the camp's commander were executed by US soldiers in the name of secrecy, the families of the three hundred were told that they had died in battle. Isaiah Bradley was the lone survivor. Although there were many later attempts to recreate or reverse-engineer Project: Rebirth's Super-Soldier Serum, none are known to have been involved with Weapon Plus except for

13158-542: The Wasp's assassin prodigy Amun) threatened Anya's loved ones, Lynn and Gil Corazon, after enrolling at their school. Lynn tried to start a relationship with Kasiya, not knowing about the threat. Anya tried to interfere with the budding relationship and saved Lynn and Kasiya from a gunman. Sandmanatee is an anthropomorphic manatee and animal version of Sandman. Savage Steel is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Disillusioned by

13311-523: The Weapon X Program branched off into other fields, employing and/or experimenting on a number of test subjects such as Sabretooth . Eventually the program was shut down and became a part of the Canadian government known as Department K. Deadpool , who was a Weapon X reject, was created by Department K. The Facility, a civilian project with connections to the military Weapon X program, would eventually create X-23 ,

13464-563: The Weapon X program, Weapon H was created by Reverend William Stryker and Dr. Aliana Alba of the Batch-H division as mutant-hunting cyborg infused with the DNA of the Hulk and Wolverine and subjected to the same adamantium-bonding process as Weapon X. During the " Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons of Vengeance " crossover event, the occultist Father Pike led Project Hellfire to bond the demon Bagra-ghul onto

13617-536: The Weaponeers in Zanzibar and attempts to kill its president, who is a retired superhero. Thanks to X-Men member Archangel and his allies from Genosha , Scimitar and the Weaponeers are defeated. Scimitar and the Weaponeers are then defeated by the X-Men shortly before the beginning of House of M . Scimitar appears in The Incredible Hulk episode "The Lost Village", voiced by Tom Kane . This version

13770-442: The World's brain, showing it some compassion. Immediately after this, Osborn's agent, a remote controlled robot zombie, plunges its fist into the World's brain, removing part of the brain, only for Wolverine to slice the robot zombie's arm off. Fantomex then uses a shrink-ray he stole from Doctor Doom to shrink the brain, and he takes the brain for his own currently unrevealed purposes. Sublime (Marvel Comics) Sabreclaw

13923-508: The X-Men on a nameless Shi'ar Empire planet, and were on the verge of winning when the band of interstellar freebooters known as the Starjammers arrived to turn the tide of battle in the X-Men's favor. Sometime later, when Deathbird was empress, Midget joined the other Imperial Guard members in the battle against Excalibur and the Starjammers. Later, on Deathbird's behalf, Midget assisted

14076-706: The assassin Bellona to help out the Heat, and is provided a prototype arm cannon. Rafael Scarfe appears in Luke Cage , portrayed by Frank Whaley . This version is a corrupt NYPD detective at the 29th Precinct partnered with Misty Knight who secretly works for Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes . After internal affairs begin investigating him, Scarfe attempts to blackmail Stokes, who shoots him and leaves him for dead. Before dying, Scarfe tells Luke Cage and Claire Temple everything he knows about Stokes' criminal activities. Scaleface

14229-402: The attempt that resulted in the creation of Isaiah Bradley's son Josiah X . Weapon Plus considers Captain America as its most successful creation, despite the fact that Rogers has been at odds with the United States government a number of times. Project: Rebirth was retroactively made a part of the Weapon Plus after WWII when Weapon Plus was actually formed. Weapon II experimented on animals. It

14382-405: The building they were on, but a mentally conflicted Deathlok saved her. She then decided to flee the area rather than be put in prison. Scorpia then joins the new Sinister Six (though there were seven members total). The team's main purpose was to stop Kaine from killing any more of Spider-Man's enemies. When Kaine disguised himself as Spider-Man and attacked Hobgoblin, Scorpia immediately joined

14535-613: The care of the Destroyers and its sympathetic head researcher Dr. Spivey. The World is a secret lab owned by the Weapon Plus Project, in which the program scientists intend to create superior humans employing eugenics, nanotechnology and artificial evolution technology (time is "artificial" at the World and it can be frozen or altered in any way the Program Scientists desire). The artificial time technology employed by Weapon Plus

14688-621: The case of Weapon XII, Fantomex's powers derive from Nanosentinel technology. In New X-Men #154 (May 2004), Grant Morrison 's last issue of New X-Men , the telepathic quintuplets called the Stepford Cuckoos were identified as Weapon XIV. The Stepford Cuckoos' link to Weapon Plus has finally been addressed in the Phoenix: Warsong miniseries, written by Greg Pak, which explores unresolved storylines from Morrison's New X-Men and Pak's Phoenix: Endsong . Weapon XV, a.k.a. Ultimaton ,

14841-508: The cigar, Howard disintegrates and arrives in Hell. He is eventually freed by Yah, a being who claims to be "God". Sometime later, Howard attempts to register under the Superhero Registration Act during the superhero Civil War , but learns his socially disrupted life has created so many bureaucratic headaches that the government's official policy is that Howard does not exist. This lack of government oversight delights him: "For

14994-486: The city before being subdued by Ghost Rider (Daniel Ketch) . Howard says that he relates to the pair being trapped in a world they never made before wandering off. After a brief series of adventures with Generation X , Howard gets a job as a department store Santa Claus, which gets him dragged to the North Pole where the real Santa Claus has sold out to HYDRA . Howard goes through several dimensions, apparently through

15147-475: The city. Talos is confronted by numerous heroes while Howard and Tara take cover. Howard is able to point out that Tara, who is revealed to possess shapeshifting powers similar to that of a Skrull, could help him defeat Talos. Tara used her powers to impersonate Skrull Emperor Kl'rt (the Super-Skrull ), distracting Talos long enough for Howard to snatch the Abundant Glove from his hand. Talos is later apprehended by

15300-459: The cosmic accountant, then meets Spider-Man at the end of the battle. He battles Turnip-Man and the Kidney Lady, who would become a semi-recurring character over the years, then learns the fictional martial art of "Quack-Fu". Howard then encounters the Winky Man, who is actually the sleepwalking alter-ego of Beverly's artist friend, Paul Same , who would become a series regular and later become

15453-500: The cost of Darkstar's life. Huntsman was created to be part of the Super-Sentinels , a mutant-hunting team of superheroes with a base in a Weapon Plus space station. This team, a brainchild of John Sublime, was intended to be a publicity stunt to make the genocide of mutants much more acceptable to the public. Weapon Plus created Weapon XIII, also known as Fantomex , at The World. However, Fantomex rebelled against his creators. As in

15606-454: The course of the adventure, Howard has a romance with Tana Nile, culminating in a kiss, after which he apologizes and tells her of his attachment to Beverly. When Franklin understands that he has shaped all of these worlds, the group finds themselves back in the Man-Thing's swamp. While Man-Thing becomes a self-appointed guardian to Franklin Richards, Howard goes off on his own and is captured by

15759-571: The creation of the last living weapons operating in the clandestine facilities of The World , employing Bolivar Trask 's Sentinel technology. Throughout the decades, Weapon Plus has used increasingly more extreme methods to create its super-soldiers. Captain America was enhanced to peak human levels. Weapon X employed genetic alteration, brainwashing and memory implants. The latest creations were bred specifically to become mutant-hunting weapons much deadlier than Sentinels. Following M-Day , most of mutantkind has been rendered powerless, and mutants as

15912-661: The doucheblade. The doucheblade causes its holder to grow enormous bare breasts and armor in a parody of Witchblade , and, possessed by this, Howard kills the male lover of a businessman who works with Verde as he and Verde break into Suzy's house. Arriving at the Boarding House of Mystery, Howard and Beverly encounter Cain and Abel , the latter with a rock stuck in his head that allows him only moments of lucidity. There, they are granted their every wish, including Howard's return to his true form, and Beverly never being poor again, and meet parodies of John Constantine , Wesley Dodds ,

16065-562: The final issue of the original 70s Howard the Duck series (issue #31). Howard later encounters Dracula and even once returns to Duckworld. At the end of the nine-issue magazine series, Howard leaves Beverly (at her request) and is later offered a genetically-constructed female duck mate, whom he does not take to. On a later occasion, She-Hulk accidentally pulls Howard though a cosmic wormhole along with theoretical physicist Brent Wilcox and they are able to prevent other universes from crowding out Earth-616 . During this time, Howard meets

16218-533: The form of the giant rat. Verde then goes to the press and claims that his building was attacked by Osama el-Barka ("Osama the Duck" in Arabic). Howard and Beverly are sent back on the road after the junkyard office where they are living is destroyed by a S.W.A.T. team. Denied admittance to every possible shelter due to lack of funds, the pair and their dog find a sign for the Boarding House of Mystery , but are taken to

16371-504: The future. The first steps were the reanimation of military corpses, then the wholesale conversion of dead bodies into "Deathloks", modelled after the hero of the same name . The Deathloks were then used to hunt down and convert all heroes of the future. Project: Deathlok was first seen in Dark Reign: The List: Wolverine, and later fleshed out in the final arc of Wolverine: Weapon X. Uncanny X-Force has since elaborated on

16524-525: The government got hold of the Venom symbiote , they decided to use it as part of Weapon V under the name of Project Rebirth 2.0 to create a new soldier with symbiote augmentation. They bonded the suit to former veteran Flash Thompson which resulted in the creation of Agent Venom. Project Rebirth 2.0 is later shut down by Captain America. The project would resume behind closed doors under the Weapon + director William Junger's supervision. Supplanting volunteers from

16677-508: The horde back with nothing but a broken sword, a rubber chicken with nails in it and a gun that shoots bees. After the death of Uatu the Watcher and the activation of the secrets buried in his eye, Howard discovers that he has the potential to be the most intelligent being in Duckworld. After evading a squirrel while driving, he is thrown flying from his vehicle but uses his intellect to calculate

16830-413: The hospital. Beverly's uncle Lee brings everyone back to Cleveland and employs Howard as a cab driver, while Paul, back to being a somnambulist after his release from the hospital, becomes Winda's boyfriend. Howard dons a suit of "Iron Duck" armor made by Claude Starkowitz, a man who has delusions of being related to Tony Stark and dreams of being the personal armorer to Iron Man , and battles Doctor Bong in

16983-404: The ill-tempered anthropomorphic animal trapped on a human-dominated Earth. Echoing this, the most common tagline of his comics reads 'Trapped In a World He Never Made!'. Howard's adventures are generally social satires , while a few are parodies of genre fiction with a metafictional awareness of the medium. The book is existentialist , and its main joke, according to Gerber, is that there

17136-629: The justice system and what they viewed as its lenient stance on crime, several New York City Police Department officers came together to form an organization that would kill criminals, rather than simply jailing them. Savage Steel is a powered armor created by Stane International for them based on technology stolen from Stark Enterprises and used by several members of the Cabal, including Paul Trent and former members Harry Lennox, Johnny Leone, and Jimmy Zafar. Zafar later reforms and becomes an ally of Darkhawk as Savage Steel. Lt. Rafael 'Rafe' Scarfe

17289-499: The motion and dismissed the case. The only new story featuring the character between 1981 and 1986 appeared in Bizarre Adventures #34 (1983) Scripted by Steven Grant , it featured a suicidal Howard being put through a parody of It's a Wonderful Life . The original comic book series reappeared with issue #32 (January 1986). It featured a story that had been written by Grant four years earlier. Steve Gerber had submitted

17442-399: The newspaper strip was published on October 29, 1978. Issue #31 (May 1979) of the comic-book series announced on its letters page that it would be the final issue of Howard the Duck as a color comic. Marvel then relaunched the series that year as a bimonthly black and white magazine, with scripts by Mantlo, art by Colan and Michael Golden and unrelated backup features by others. The magazine

17595-531: The numbered as the 100th total issue of all the various She-Hulk series). In 2007, he returned in Howard the Duck vol. 4 #1-4, a miniseries by writer Ty Templeton and artist Juan Bobillo . This series was rated for ages 9 and up, though one issue was published with a Marvel Zombies tie-in cover with a parental advisory claim. In November 2014, Marvel announced an ongoing series starting in March 2015 featuring Howard as

17748-559: The other Imperial Guardsmen in the battle against the X-Men and Starjammers, but was defeated by them. Midget is renamed Scintilla at the outset of Operation: Galactic Storm , an intergalactic war between the Shi'ar and the Kree . The Imperial Guard are integral to the Sh'iar creating a massive super weapon — the "Nega-Bomb" — using Kree artifacts, including the original Captain Marvel's Nega-Bands , which

17901-466: The other S.O.O.F.I.s see Spidey as a semi-demonic figure and attack him. Spidey escapes with Howard and breaks his brainwashing when Beverly is threatened. Howard quickly explains S.O.O.F.I.'s goals to Spider-Man. As Spider-Man publicly announces his long-standing support for S.O.O.F.I., Howard confronts Bev as she stands beside the Supreme S.O.O.F.I. Howard is able to break through to Beverly, reminding her of their past together. The Supreme S.O.O.F.I. orders

18054-408: The others are terminated. Also natural selection in the form of the survival of the fittest is possible by exposing the population to different forms of selective pressure. This way, new breeds of superhumans can be evolved within a few months, instead of hundreds or thousands of years. Half a million years inside The World represents only eighteen months on the outside. The World's facilities contains

18207-405: The others in the battle. However, they were not accustomed to working together, much to Scorpia's disdain. Spider-Man eventually entered the battle and was able to defeat Scorpia. She also participated in another battle against Spider-Man with some of her former allies and new ones such as Boomerang and Jack O' Lantern . She was defeated when Spider-Man threw Jack O'Lantern at her. Howard

18360-505: The pair's roommate. Howard also briefly becomes a wrestler. Howard and Beverly hit the road, seeking shelter in a gothic mansion where they battle a girl named Patsy and her giant, animated-to-life gingerbread man. They eventually end up in New York City, where Howard is nominated for President of the United States by the All-Night Party and he later battles the Band of the Bland , alongside

18513-400: The past, to the point that Stephen Strange taught some spells to Howard and even offered to train him, but Howard declined. On one occasion, Howard used a suit of powered armor known as the "Iron Duck", designed by Claude Starkowitz. Besides its property as body armor, the suit was equipped with foot-mounted leaping coils, a chest-mounted searchlight, and arm-mounted flamethrowers. Howard

18666-406: The picture and having her divorce Doctor Bong. Howard's creator Steve Gerber, who left the series after issue #27, originally intended for Beverly and Bong's marriage to be lasting and for Beverly to be written out of the series from that point on. Howard and Beverly's friend Paul, who had ended up in a coma after he had previously been shot by the Ringmaster, awakens from his coma and is released from

18819-410: The police station for questioning and strip searches by Suzy Pazuzu, with whom Beverly had attended high school. One of the officers on the case is the same beat cop who mistook Howard for a mutant many years before. Suzy is the inheritor of the doucheblade , which starts to take her over when she wears an enchanted bracelet. In a skirmish, the bracelet is caught by Howard causing him to be the wielder of

18972-445: The power of Man-Thing, who can now talk but does not understand this new, unknown ability, and lands on a version of Duckworld where his parents are essentially Ward and June Cleaver , he has a sister named Princess, and he is regarded as a hero because his activities on Earth-616 were recognized by Duckworld's version of Reed Richards . This origin traces the source of these dimensions to be projections from Franklin's mind. Throughout

19125-475: The power of building and animating solid constructs with his mind. An Ultimate Marvel equivalent of the Schizoid Man is an unnamed genetically modified French citizen thanks to Jamie Madrox 's stolen stem cells. He uses his similar self-replication powers to control a riot before joining the Liberators . His team leads a large army to invade and conquer the United States, leading to the deaths of some members of

19278-452: The project, Mars Team and its supervisor Dr. Breen. Whom offered himself and what remains of the symbiote clad armorines in willing sacrifice to Knull's chosen after being corrupted by the Grendel samples he'd used on himself. Weapon VI was led by Dr. Noah Burstein and was responsible for giving Luke Cage his powers. Weapon VII, a.k.a. Project: Homegrown, experimented on human soldiers during

19431-484: The project, revealing it to be Weapon Infinity during the 'Deathlok Nation' arc. A number of scientists were funded by S.H.I.E.L.D to counteract the Weapon Plus program in case it went rogue. In what was explicitly labelled the Weapon Minus program, one of these scientists, when his branch of the project had his funding and materials cut, was forced to test the resultant mixture of Super-Soldier Serum and LSD on himself,

19584-510: The public demonstration that led to Peter Parker being bit by a radioactive spider. He works with Peter in the lab to understand the radioactive spiders, as well as to defeat Tendril, an escaped patient with mutated powers. Scimitar is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne , the character first appeared in Iron Fist #5 (March 1976). Scimitar

19737-497: The recaptured Wolverine, turning him into Hellverine and controlling him into hunting down other mutants. However, Hellverine resists his programming and kills Pike while Ghost Rider exorcises Bagra-ghul from Wolverine and seals him in stone. Project Hellfire is taken over by General Harms, who changes the Program to convert five deceased soldiers as undead cyborgs known as the Destroyers by resurrecting them with hellfire. However,

19890-457: The rest of my life, no more parking tickets, or taxes, or jury duty. Heck, I couldn't even vote if I wanted to!" In this story, Howard says he was pressured to give up his cigars. After he defeats the supervillain M.O.D.O.T.'s ( M obile O rganism D esigned O nly for T alking) scheme to control the public through mass media, his attorney, Jennifer Walters , successfully restores his citizenship, including all relevant responsibilities. Howard

20043-557: The result was named Doctor Mindbubble , who had the psychic ability to create miniature mind-universes that could trap almost anyone. He was intended to counter Weapon VII. This program used already existing substances in order to create a new super-soldier. They used the Gamma radiation , Beast 's Mutant Growth Hormone, Pym Particles and the Lizard formula which resulted in U.S. Army Corporal Todd Ziller becoming American Kaiju . An offshoot of

20196-506: The same time he was writing a " Savage Dragon /Destroyer Duck" crossover for Image. He had the idea to create an unofficial crossover between the two issues, where the characters would meet momentarily in the shadows, but which would not affect either story. Soon after, Gerber discovered that Howard was scheduled to appear in Ghost Rider vol. 3, #81 (Jan. 1997) alongside Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy , and issues of Generation X , as well as

20349-525: The savage mutant Sabretooth and offers Sabretooth money to join Scalphunter's boss as a mercenary, which Sabretooth accepts. Years later, he reunites with his old friend Gambit and joins his Marauders. During the Mutant Massacre , the Marauders clash with the X-Men and the original X-Factor team, as well as Thor and Power Pack , leaving several Marauders dead. Subsequently, the X-Men thwart

20502-401: The scientists have absolute control over the time inside The World (according to Fantomex the time is "liquid"), both freezing it and speeding it up so that decades and centuries can pass within it while time runs normally in the real world, this opens up for new possibilities within the areas of eugenics and genetic engineering. The most promising individuals in each generation are selected while

20655-403: The team in their defense of Sinister's base from the X-Men on Muir Island. During the battle, he shoots Wolverine in the head, but subsequently is pinned to the wall with one of Warpath 's knives when he tries to kill Hepzibah. In X-Men: Divided We Stand , after Sinister's defeat and the death and disbanding of the rest of the Marauders, Scalphunter flees to a small town in the desert, where he

20808-632: The team's members are either killed or zombified during the battle. After successfully accomplishing their mission, Howard, Dugan, Taxi Taylor and Battlestar are the only members to survive and return to Earth-616 along with the Riveter, the only survivor of Earth-12591's resistance team, the Suffragists. Howard later teams up with his friend Doop to battle the Robo-Barbarians in Dimension ZZZ. They beat

20961-574: The three issue Daydreamers miniseries by J.M. DeMatteis . Gerber was not pleased with this development, and changed the "unofficial crossover" somewhat. In Spider-Man Team-Up #5, Spider-Man , Beverly and Howard meet the Elf with a Gun and two shadowy figures (presumed to be Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck) in a darkened warehouse, grab a disc, then leave shortly afterwards. But in the Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck crossover comic, Elf with

21114-504: The two came together to form Heroes for Hire. Years later, in the " Shadowland " storyline, Scarfe later went rogue and tried to frame Daredevil for the murder of several criminals. He is later captured by his former partner Misty Knight. During the " Gang War " storyline, Scarfe is revealed to be the leader of the Heat , a group of police officers operating in Hell's Kitchen. In addition, he receives aid from an anonymous benefactor, who sent

21267-508: The warehouse with Parker and Reilly are simply clones taken by mistake and that the real Howard and Beverly actually left the scene with Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck. The sorceress Jennifer Kale , in a weekly attempt to return Howard to his home world, inadvertently teleports Devil Dinosaur and Moon-Boy into her New York apartment. The disoriented dinosaur attempts to eat Howard, but spits him out when shot with Johnny Blaze 's hellfire gun. Devil Dinosaur and Moon-Boy then rampage through

21420-498: Was a mutant with elastic multi-sensory skin. Originally a barrister , he was recruited by the Weapon Plus program to help protect his nation from the approaching Cold War . His skin's durability and elasticity was enhanced. He originally worked in espionage , gathering intelligence from the Soviets . He was eventually sent to Otherworld in order to retrieve the Orb of Necromancy . However he

21573-482: Was actually the host body for a sentient bacteria present in every living creature on the planet, save for mutants, who were genetically immune to the Sublime infection. The first nine instalments of Weapon Plus were partially successful. Weapon X produced a number of agents, though it branched off and even became opposed to Weapon Plus's interests. To prevent subsidiary programs from going rogue, Weapon Plus directly oversaw

21726-473: Was also called Skera. In subsequent issues, she was called Vera. Scarlet Pooch is an anthropomorphic dog and animal version of Scarlet Witch. The Schizoid Man is an alias used by two fictional supervillains who appear in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The mainstream version, Chip Martin , first appeared in Spectacular Spider-Man Volume 2, #36 (November 1979), and

21879-526: Was canceled after nine issues. On August 29, 1980, after learning of Marvel's efforts to license Howard for use in film and broadcast media, Steve Gerber filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Marvel corporate parent Cadence Industries and other parties, alleging that he was the sole owner of the character. This was one of the first highly publicized creator's rights cases in American comics, and attracted support from major industry figures, some of whom created homage/parody stories with Gerber to fund

22032-625: Was created by Bill Mantlo , John Romita, Jr. and Jim Mooney . A graduate student at Empire State University , he suffers from psychological instability and has the power of building and animating solid constructs with his mind. His father is Senator Robert Martin, a possible suspect as the Hobgoblin . The Schizoid Man joined Vil-Anon, a twelve-step program dedicated to helping individuals overcome criminal tendencies which also consisted of Armadillo , Equinox , Hypno-Hustler , Jackson Weele and Man-Bull . In Civil War : Battle Damage Report , it

22185-659: Was designed to be the Super-Sentinels' grand powerhouse. He was killed after Wolverine destroyed the Weapon Plus space station that was designed as the Super-Sentinels HQ. Ultimaton was recently resurrected in The World and tasked by Fantomex with guarding a hidden chamber which held a child Apocalypse clone created from a blood sample taken from the one previously executed on the Celestial Ship. Weapon XVI, a.k.a. Allgod,

22338-462: Was forced to do business with "Wally Sidney", a failed cartoonist who made his fortune through a chain of conservative clothing retailers known as "Sidney World". Howard tries on various outfits, including ones akin to Donald Duck's sailor uniform and Uncle Scrooge 's coat and top hat , before settling on his new attire of a business suit complete with trousers. Although Howard sulks that he has lost, Beverly reassures him that she does not want him to be

22491-412: Was implied by Grant Morrison that these animal weapons were the animal cyborgs in the comic We3 , not published by Marvel. Weapon II was later captured as part of a group of semi-animal characters including Howard the Duck , Squirrel Girl , Beast , and Rocket Raccoon . He appeared as a squirrel with Wolverine's "Adamantium skeleton, claws, intelligence, and healing factor" (though his claws make

22644-420: Was just a copy of a copy. He then forgives Scalphunter for all his sins, past and future, then leaves. The next day, Scalphunter is seen back in the diner cooking, now wearing a gold cross. He also has tried to mend fences with the X-Men, notifying them of a break-in at one of Sinister's old labs. During the "X-Men: Utopia" storyline, Scalphunter is captured by a group of non-mutant superhumans and forced to fly

22797-491: Was known as the Skinless Man . He developed a hatred of Fantomex, who he blamed for his current state. He later murdered Fantomex by ripping out his heart. He was later killed in retaliation by Deadpool . Weapons IV, was said to be employed on various criminals that were ethnic minorities as test subjects . However, Weapon IV is actually 'Project Sulfur' - the project spearheaded by Ted Sallis, whose research led him to become

22950-499: Was partially destroyed when agents of AIM attacked the facilities in order to recover the technology Weapon Plus stole from them. They are soon killed by Weapon XV. After years of being uninhabited the World itself, still operational though abandoned, has itself became sentient, and is continuing to make super advanced Weapons. Wolverine and Noh-Varr head to the World to try and stop Norman Osborn from claiming it and its creations as part of H.A.M.M.E.R. While there they are attacked by

23103-686: Was revived in the modern era by AIM , and the first mutant experiment designated Queen seem to have occurred prior to the Super Soldier Serum being tested on Steve Rogers. Early attempts to recreate the formula resulted in African American super soldiers (most prominently Isaiah Bradley ). Three hundred African-American soldiers were taken from Camp Cathcart and subjected to potentially fatal experiments at an undisclosed location, as seen in Truth: Red, White & Black in an attempt to recreate

23256-416: Was stolen from AIM . A low level of gamma radiation is constantly present to produce mutations in the population. The human DNA of the inhabitants' ancestors in this artificial environment was spliced with sentinel microtechnology, meaning they are no longer humans in the traditional meaning of the word, as they have evolved into a race of mutated and naturally born cyborgs refined through eugenics. Because

23409-540: Was stopped by Fantomex and, for the many deaths he caused, subsequently punished by the Captain Britain Corps and flayed alive, his skin machined off and used to form sentient bullets, some of which came to be possessed by Genoshan soldiers. He survived, however, and taught his muscles to function in a similar manner to his former mutant skin. He later worked with Black Air and the Brotherhood of Mutants and

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