Donald Pierce
Donald Pierce | |
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The Uncanny X-Men #132 (April 1980) | |
Created by | Chris Claremont John Byrne |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | Donald Pierce |
Species | Human cyborg |
Team affiliations | Purifiers Reavers Hellfire Club |
Notable aliases | White Bishop, White King, Cyclops |
Abilities | Cyborg body Superhuman strength and reflexes Bionic senses Mechanical genius Able to create numerous types of energy Technoforming Mechanical regeneration Advanced technology Incredibly wealthy |
Donald Pierce is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted as a cyborg and is commonly an enemy of the X-Men.
Donald Pierce appears in the 2017 film Logan, portrayed by Boyd Holbrook.
Publication history
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Donald Pierce first appeared in
Fictional character biography
Donald Pierce was born in
The Reavers
Many months later, Pierce is violently liberated from the holding facility.
The Reavers take over the X-Men's headquarters in their absence, but after the X-Men leave through the
The
Pierce would remain with the Hellfire Club for some time, eventually showing a more adversarial relationship with Shaw as the current Black King. He heads out to an outpost in Switzerland believed to be the immortal tyrant
Pierce later re-emerges, employing cyborgs Pico, Lady Deathstrike, and Skullbuster in an attempt to abduct Milo Thurman (Domino's estranged husband) from his US government holding facility. As Thurman has the genius ability to predict future events accurately from current data, Pierce wishes to integrate Thurman into his cybernetic brain so he may use this ability to exert further control of the world's future.
As a Purifier
Pierce next tries to take over Sebastian Shaw's new Hellfire Club, launching an attack and slashing Shaw's chest. Though Shaw is left critically injured and later needed to be hospitalized, Shaw is able to punch off Pierce's head.[17] Pierce later is forcibly recruited into the Purifiers' ranks and infected with the Technarch transmode virus.[18] Being under the control of the mutant-hunting robot Bastion, he shows his mutant target: the newly formed Young X-Men.[19]
Young X-Men
He appears in a nightmare of the precognitive mutant
With face's synthetic skin restored, he is kept captive by the Young X-Men.
Second Coming
It was eventually revealed that Pierce was only captured to act as Bastion's mole inside the X-Men's headquarters, all the while building several structures that surround Utopia.[25]
Later after receiving the green light from Bastion to proceed with their plan, Pierce provokes an explosion that decimates all the X-Men's jets and the Blackbirds. Pierce stands amid the debris, and muses to the X-Men that he is sorry that he will not live to witness the decimation of the mutant race. Cyclops eliminates him with an optic blast.[26]
Uncanny Avengers
Donald was seen alive again with the rest of the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle on a pleasure cruise reserved for super criminals and cabals. He along with his compatriots were seen at a gambling den aboard the vessel as the Avengers Unity Division were searching for The Red Skull across the world.[27]
Hunt for Wolverine
Shortly after his return as seen during the "Hunt for Wolverine" storyline, Pierce and the Reavers were left in dire straits since they failed a couple of jobs as a unit. Worn down and nearly broken by hard times the cyborg posse took up one last job to earn enough cash for a total refit - exhuming the grave for the deceased Wolverine. They were disappointed to find that Logan's body had been removed from the Adamantium casing after Cylla Markham had cracked it open using a Molecular Rearranger, to which after a lengthily battle with the X-Men, Pierce and the others were rounded up and deposited into the care of Alpha Flight, as their attempt at grave robbery happened upon Canadian soil.[28]
O*N*E Conscription
Due to lack of resources and proper jurisdiction however, Pierce and the rest of the Reavers were eventually turned over to the Office of National Emergency. The mutant related activity hating General Robert Callahan had Pierce run a couple of missions for the mutant crimes task force bureau on the false promise of freedom and much-needed system overhauls.[29] With the latest acquisition of Miss Sinister however, General Callahan revealed the duplicity by triggering remote fail-safes installed during the Reavers' refitting.[30] Pierce and select members of his crew were forced to impart their technologies and mechanical skills into building up Callahan's mutant-hunting gear, the rest of whom had been given the kill order by the corrupt commander to his soldiers, an event which soon made public news and garnered the attention of some ragtag X-Men.[31]
After many of these mutants had been captured on live television, the remains of Pierce's cyborg crew, led by leftover mutant heroes
A deadly new modification which Pierce's forces put to horrifying use as they assimilated the Squad Sentinels, turning them into new bodies for their penultimate use.
During the
Powers and abilities
Donald Pierce is a cyborg originally with four artificial limbs which provide him with superhuman strength. His speed, reflexes and agility are also inhumanly high, attributes which are derived from his replacement extremities. His body has great resistance to damage and even if it is destroyed, as long as his head is intact he will probably survive. Before and after securing some of Cable's technology from the future and incorporating it into himself, he boasted a wide cadre of skills and abilities, such as generating a shocking plasma current through his cyborg limbs or hurling it as electrical force over short distances.[17] His bionic body once hosted adamantium as an outer shell which further bolstered his resistance to damage.[15] He also boasts bionic optics which feed into his Technarch mind to memorize and relay information, giving him an eidetic memory and photography vision.[36][37] Pierce can plastically morph his arms into weapons like skeins, cannons, pincers, finger missiles and razor claws; likely through nanotechnology.[15][36] His elongated nails can channel the electrical energies he generates into them increasing his cutting edge.[17]
There is nothing left of his original human body, save for his head, which was given fake flesh and bone structural appearance through a synthetic skin hiding a robotic skull underneath.
During his indoctrination into Bastion's Purifiers Donald was also modified with a Transmode Virus infection that made him subservient to the killer A.I.'s command code.[36] While he hasn't shown any mechamorphing abilities of the Technarch, he has shown the ability to simulate Scott's optic blast power while disguised as him.[40] Aside from his physical advantages, Donald Pierce is a genius in robotics, cybernetics and electronics. In these fields he has developed technology that exceeds that of conventional science by approximately two centuries. He is also a seasoned leader with vast financial and human resources (a prerequisite for membership in the Hellfire Club). He is a college graduate in geological engineering and business administration, and is an accomplished strategist and business administrator. Pierce is a fair hand-to-hand combatant, but mainly relies on his cyborg strength and is more prone to letting others fight his battles for him rather than fight on the front lines. In later publishing after coming under the services of the Office of National Emergency, Pierce as with all of his Reavers gained the ability to cyperpathically possess and/or assimilate any piece of engineered conveyance he can get his hands on.[32] Effectively rebuilding and bulking himself up from any and every automated fabrication around him, I.E. commandeering a Sentinel for a new body or turning a truck into an arm cannon.[33]
Reception
- In 2017, WhatCulture ranked Donald Pierce 9th in their "10 Most Evil X-Men Villains" list.[42]
Other versions
Age of Apocalypse
In the
A human team known only as X-Terminators had used Pierce's blood sample before he was infected by the techno-organic virus to create several clones of him to help the fight against the mutants.[44] One such clone began operating under the codename "Goodnight" and infiltrated the Hellfire Club, becoming a great friend of Sebastian Shaw. The general public and Club members think he is in fact a mutant.[45]
House of M
In the House of M, Donald was a member of the Human Liberation Front, one of the many human resistance groups labeled as terrorists by the House of M. Alongside Seiji Ashida, the father of Surge, he was part of the HLF's base in Tokyo, which had targeted Project Genesis, a plan of Emperor Sunfire to forcefully mutate baseline humans.[volume & issue needed]
In other media
Television
- Donald Pierce appears in the X-Men: The Animated Series four-part episode "The Dark Phoenix", voiced by Walker Boone.[46] This version is younger than his comic counterpart and is a member of the Inner Circle Club.
- Donald Pierce appears in the Wolverine and the X-Men three-part episode "Foresight".[citation needed] This version is a mutant and member of the Inner Circle who is capable of emitting energy blasts. He joins the Inner Circle in an attempt to harness the Phoenix Force's power for themselves, only to be killed by falling debris while unsuccessfully transferring it from Jean Grey to the Stepford Cuckoos.
Film
Donald Pierce appears in . After Laura and several mutant children escape from Transigen, Pierce leads the Reavers in an attempt to get them back, only to be killed by them.
References
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- ^ N'Duka, Amanda (October 10, 2016). "Boyd Holbrook's Villain Character In Wolverine Sequel Unveiled". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
External links
- Donald Pierce at Marvel.com
- Donald Pierce at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
- Cerebra's files: Donald Pierce