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Weapon

NOTABLE MEMBERS

WOLVERINE Mutant healmg factor. enhanced senses. adamantiunvbond©d skateton. retractabte ciaws. SABRETOOTH Similar powers to Wołv©ńne.

MAVERICK/AGENT ZERO

Absorbs and dtschargo ©nergy; ag© suppressant.

SILVER FOX Artific«al healing factor and age suppressant. DEADPOOL Artitioai heabng factor. enhanced reftexes. tełeportation device.

MARROW Bon© growth agility. recuperativ© powers.

MESMERO Hypnosts.

SAURON Drains Irfe forc© from others; transforms mto pterosaur. CHAMBER Biasts of psiontc eoergy from chest fumac© BASE Weapon X fac.lrty, Alberta. Canada

Weapo

!n 1945. a libcratcd conceturation tramp uncarthcd che gcnctics rcscarch of Mister SiMSTER,giving birth to the US governmcnt s Weapon Plus program.The governments previous Super-Soltlicr projcct (which produced Capiain Amfkk a) rctmspcctivelv became Weapon I. Wcapons II .nul III used animal subjects,Wcapons IV. V. andVI experimented on ethnic minorities. and Wcapons VII.VIII. and IX relied on mucants. In the 1960s. Weapon X (conducted m conjunction with the Canadian governments Department K) produced memory-wiped operatives includingWoLVERiNK and Saurlhk>tii, and used Sima robots to eliininate rogue agents. Wolvcrinc escaped and became a member ofche X-Mi.n.

Weapon X eventually disbandcd, but Weapon Plus continued under the leadership ofjohn Sublimc. who took the program up to Weapon XV. Sublimc reopened Weapon X. reeruiting mutants as field operatives and executing surplus mutants in the Neverland concentration camp. Wolterinc teamed with Ac;eni Zero and Fantomex (a product of Weapon XIII) to invcstigate the program, but found that it had seemingly gone underground. DW

FIRST APPEARANCE

Marvel Corncs Prosents Vo>. 1 *72 (March 1991)

WEAPON X

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Mobite in Canadian wiłdemess

HEIOHT 9ft 7 In WEIGHT 1,800 Ibs EYES Red

Wendigo

HAIR Whrte

FIRST APPEARANCE

Incredible Hulk Vol. 2 *162 (April 1973)

Mystically ©nhanced strerłgih, stamina. and r©flexes: nearty ifKłestnxttbie, slashmg ciaws on handsandfeet.

Au ancient curse dootm anyone who consumes human Hesh in the Canadian wilderness to bccome a Wendigo. a savage and near-mindless being eovcred with shaggy wbite fur. The hunter Paul Cartier became one of the carliest Wcndigm, a flet resorting to cannibalism to survive in a snowed-in cave. Cartier tried to transfer the curse to the Hulk. but his hunting companion Georges Baptiste voluntarily became the new Wendigo.

Many morę Wendigos have sińce appeared. including fur trapper Franęois Lartigue and eryptozoologist Michael Fleet.The Canadian government, apparently hoping to exploit the creatures superhuman attributes.

employed a Wendigo operative codenamcd Yeti as part of its Weapon PR IMF. program.

I )uring its timc with Weapon PRIME.Yeti attacked Cables X-Force as well as the hero Nortiisi ak. Most recently. the sorccrcr

Mauvais assumed the identity of a Wendigo. and was dragged into the otherdimensional realni of the Great Beasts after a figlu with WOLYKRINE. DW

Wendigo us©s his mystically poworód strength togotoe-to-to© with suporpowered opponents.

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