Death Locket
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Death Locket | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Avengers Arena #1 (December 2012) |
Created by | Dennis Hopeless Kev Walker |
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Alter ego | Rebecca Ryker |
Team affiliations | Babysitters Club Young Masters, Avengers Undercover (Formerly) |
Abilities | Nanobionic augmentation
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Death Locket (Rebecca Ryker) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
Death Locket first appeared in issue #1 of the
Death Locket appears as one of the main characters in Avengers Undercover beginning in 2014.[1]
Fictional character biography
A female teenage version of
An earthquake separates Bloodstone and Anachronism from Apex, Nara, Kid Briton, and Death Locket. An injured Reptil wakes up and clears Chase's reputation, saying that Death Locket was the one who attacked him. Meanwhile, Rebecca goes dormant as her Death Locket cybernetics take over and she blasts Nara off a cliff and into the ocean. Kid Briton is enraged by this and tries to kill her until Apex orders him not to.[5] Nara, Anachronism, and Bloodstone manage to survive falling into the chasm and come to the conclusion that Apex is manipulating Death Locket and Kid Briton to her own ends. Nara and Apex later start arguing and Apex confirms that she was the one who ordered Death Locket to attack Nara.[6] Juston Seyfert is revealed to have survived the attack from the cybernetic creature, but is now paralyzed below the waist due to the injuries sustained when the Sentinel crashed. Distraught at the loss of his best friend, Juston salvages the remains of the Sentinel and creates a suit of battle armor which he uses to attack Death Locket.[7] Apex uses Death Locket to help her kill Nico.[8] After the Staff of One resurrects Nico, she disassembles Death Locket's cybernetic arm, and traps her and Apex underground. Death Locket explores the facility she and Apex end up in.[9] Apex's brother Tim repairs Death Locket's arm, giving her a new cannon, and she unleashes Chris Powell, the original Darkhawk, to attack Arcade.[10] Arcade soon escapes and talks Apex into finishing the game. She regains control of Death Locket and uses her to blast Chris.[11] Apex unleashes bugs, sentient typhoon, and weaponized sand to attack the remaining teens on Murderworld.[12] Tim soon breaks Death Locket free, and she becomes enraged enough to attack Apex. Apex soon reverts to Tim and asks Death Locket to shoot him, thereby stopping the games. She is shocked at first, but soon complies, and everyone is able to escape Murderworld and disperse.[13]
Avengers Undercover
Once news broke about Arcade's kidnappings, Death Locket and the other Murder World Survivors became infamous. Death Locket was the subject of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents gushing over her actions in the Arena, which was something she did not appreciate.
War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery
Rebecca would be seen again at the helicarrier she had downed back in her
Rebecca and her new crew, called the Babysitter's Club, trekked across northern America in an effort to elude the recently resurrected war god,
While on their cross-country road trip, Thori speculated that the youngest daughter of the house of Odin had been instinctively guiding her protectors and influencing their actions at certain points along the way for an as yet unknown purpose (i.e., guiding them towards an encampment populated by
All of this culminated in an epic final battle with the grieving Ares after he had managed to kidnap Laussa. The god of war participated in Sindr's scheme only in order to die a warrior's death so he could be reunited with his son in the Elysium. But Sebastian Druid and others manage convinced him otherwise, insisting he should instead help them stop the War of Realms with the army they had inadvertently gathered.[28]
Powers and abilities
Her left arm can transform into a powerful ray-gun.[29] She is vulnerable to control by Apex's technopathy, and also may generally lack control over her abilities.[30] It is not yet revealed whether she has cybernetic uplink and other Deathlok abilities, but she was able to shut down Arcade's complex computer systems.[31] She is seen struggling to use her cybernetic uplink to take control of the computer systems in Arcade's mansion.[32] After several months, she has gotten better with her uplink and is able to take over a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier and pilot it single-handed,[33] and hack into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s worldwide communication network in a matter of minutes.[34]
She is seen having the ability to alter the form of her cybernetic arm into different shapes, such as a spiked mace.[35] A razor blade or simply a regular human shaped hand.[36][37] She can hyperextend her limb over great distances to broaden her reach as well.[38]
Her Deathlok cybernetics use nanite antibodies to turn any prosthetic limbs designed by SHIELD into weapons, each version more powerful than the previous.[39] Indicating she has some technoforming abilities given how she merges with and assimilates any nearby technologies.[40][41] Death Locket has grown more proficient in the use of her abilities, able to project holographic images from her right index fingertip as well as remotely sync up with wireless systems in order to control web connected technologies.[42]
While she gained some combat experience fighting alongside the Young Masters, she is still inept at combat, and was easily bested by Hazmat.[43]
Other versions
House of M
During the Secret Wars: battleworld event where all of reality had died in a mass Incursion event triggered by the Beyonders.[44] What remained of the Multiverse had been condensed onto a singular planet within the greater totality which remained afterwards, Rebecca is a guerrilla freedom fighter within the Monarchy of M ruled by King Eric Magnus whom brutally enslaves and incarcerates Homo Sapians both innocent and guilty simply for being human.[45]
Seeking to aide fellow rebels in the Human Resistance Movement Hawkeye, Black Cat and Misty Knight as the three are evading capture by S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Red Guard.[46]
In other media
- Death Locket appears in Marvel: Avengers Alliance.[citation needed]
- Death Locket appears as a playable character in Lego Marvel's Avengers.[47]
References
- ^ "NYCC EXCLUSIVE: HOPELESS IS SEDUCED BY EVIL IN "AVENGERS UNDERCOVER"". Comicbookresources.com. 2013-10-11. Retrieved 2013-10-12.
- ^ Avengers Arena #1
- ^ Avengers Arena #2
- ^ Avengers Arena #3
- ^ Avengers Arena #5
- ^ Avengers Arena #6
- ^ Avengers Arena #8
- ^ Avengers Arena #10
- ^ Avengers Arena #12
- ^ Avengers Arena #16
- ^ Avengers Arena #17
- ^ Avengers Arena #18
- ^ Avengers Arena #18
- ^ Avengers Undercover #1
- ^ Avengers Undercover #2
- ^ Avengers Undercover #3
- ^ Avengers Undercover #4
- ^ Avengers Undercover #5
- ^ Avengers Undercover #6
- ^ Avengers Undercover #7
- ^ Avengers Undercover #8
- ^ Avengers Undercover #9
- ^ Avengers Undercover #10
- ^ War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery #1
- ^ War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery #2
- ^ War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery #3
- ^ War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery #4
- ^ War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery #5
- ^ Avengers Arena #5
- ^ Avengers Arena #6
- ^ Avengers Arena #18
- ^ Avengers Undercover #3
- ^ Avengers Undercover #9
- ^ Avengers Undercover #10
- ^ Avengers Undercover #6
- ^ War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery #1
- ^ War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery #3
- ^ War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery #2
- ^ Avengers Undercover #1
- ^ Avengers Undercover #3
- ^ Avengers Undercover #9
- ^ War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery #4
- ^ Avengers Undercover #8
- ^ New Avengers vol. 3 #29 (March 2015)
- ^ House of M vol. 2 #1-4
- ^ House of M vol. 2 #1
- ^ "Characters - LEGO Marvel's Avengers Wiki Guide - IGN".
External links
- Death Locket at Marvel Wiki
- Death Locket at Comic Vine