Written by Kal-El
We all know she was probably the hottest lady villain in X-Men 2 Movie played by Kelly Hu next to the Silky Sexy Smooth Mystique, She may not have to ability to Shape Shift or transform to any human as a disguise. But she sure could put up a good fight with Wolverine. We take a look on what is the story behind Lady Deathstrike’s origins this week.
Ladydeath Strike or also known as Yuriko Oyama, daughter of a Japanese crime lord and criminal scientist named Kenji Oyama also known as Lord Dark Wind, who manages to create the process by which adamantium that could be bonded to the body’s bone itself. Her father was a former Japanese Kamikaze pilot during World War II who failed suicide attack mission on an American battleship. Feeling shamed by his failure decades earlier, he scarred the faces of Yuriko and her two brothers in a ritual design. Her two brother would later die while in the service of their father.
Yuriko once teamed up with Matt Murdock (To whom we know as The Man without Fear Daredevil) to free her lover, Kiro, from her father’s servitude, and to have vengeance for her scarring and for the death of her two brothers. During battle with her father, Yuriko slew her own father when Lord Dark Wind was just about to kill Daredevil; the devoted Kiro chose suicide to honor his Master.
Distraught by Fear, Yuriko belatedly embraced her Father’s ideals and went off to hunt down whoever dishonored him. The trail had led to Wolverine, whose skeleton had been bonded with adamantium. Lady Deathstrike vowed to kill Logan to right the wrong of the theft and thus restore her Family’s honor. Yuriko initiated the attack, but failed as Wolverine has defeated Yuriko. Yuriko then went to the Mojoverse and Spiral’s “Body Shoppe” where she had received and extensive cybernetic enhancements including adamantium bones and talons.
Lady Deathstrike is a cyborg with superhuman strength, speed and agility. Deathstrike's skeleton has been infused with adamantium, rendering her skeletal structure practically unbreakable. Initially, it was a mystery as to how Deathstrike survived this process, as it is generally believed that without a healing factor, the process would be fatal to a human.
Lady Deathstrike was once a member of the team of Criminal Cyborgs called The Reavers, led by Donald Pierce, who once had managed to successfully defeat the X- Men. The Reavers have since been annihilated by a Squad attack from the Sentinels, ever since then Yuriko has been operating independently.
Although her main quest in life is to kill Logan, but often times had worked corporately with the X-Men towards a common goal as she did in X-Men Annual 2000, for which they were to defeat Stryfe. In an encounter with Logan shortly after Magneto removed the adamantium from his skeleton, Lady Deathstrike nearly defeated him, but ended the fight upon seeing his bone claws. As Logan no longer possessed the adamantium stolen from her father, she felt there was no honor to be gained by killing him. However she still remains a mercenary and assassin. Despite all this, Yuriko is set apart from many of the X-Men's foes in that she adheres to an honor code, despite being emotionally disturbed.
Lady Deathstrike resurfaced again in 2003 as an ally of William Stryker in the "God Loves, Man Kills II" story arc in X-Treme X-Men for which possibly done as a tie-in to Kelly Hu's character and allegiance in the X-Men 2 movie. She displayed a new ability to access the Internet via her cybernetics but this led to her being co-opted and controlled by Mount Haven's computer systems.
Deathstrike was responsible for mutilating and nearly killing Sunfire, whose legs she severed in battle. Dying, he had Rogue absorb his powers so she could battle Lady Deathstrike. The X-Men later went to see where Sunfire's body had been left, only to see it had disappeared. He later resurfaced as one of the new Horsemen of Apocalypse.
Deathstrike has since resurfaced as a member of one of the United States government's New Thunderbolts in the super hero Civil War, temporarily released from prison in order to go after the Secret Avengers, who resisted the Superhuman Registration Act. She fights alongside other criminals such as Venom, Jester, Bullseye, Jack O'Lantern, Taskmaster and Songbird. She participates in the final battle of the Civil War in Times Square, New York, before being sent to the Negative Zone Prison once again.
Let's just leave her alone there for now...Who knows where she would re-surface again.
Ladydeath Strike or also known as Yuriko Oyama, daughter of a Japanese crime lord and criminal scientist named Kenji Oyama also known as Lord Dark Wind, who manages to create the process by which adamantium that could be bonded to the body’s bone itself. Her father was a former Japanese Kamikaze pilot during World War II who failed suicide attack mission on an American battleship. Feeling shamed by his failure decades earlier, he scarred the faces of Yuriko and her two brothers in a ritual design. Her two brother would later die while in the service of their father.
Yuriko once teamed up with Matt Murdock (To whom we know as The Man without Fear Daredevil) to free her lover, Kiro, from her father’s servitude, and to have vengeance for her scarring and for the death of her two brothers. During battle with her father, Yuriko slew her own father when Lord Dark Wind was just about to kill Daredevil; the devoted Kiro chose suicide to honor his Master.
Distraught by Fear, Yuriko belatedly embraced her Father’s ideals and went off to hunt down whoever dishonored him. The trail had led to Wolverine, whose skeleton had been bonded with adamantium. Lady Deathstrike vowed to kill Logan to right the wrong of the theft and thus restore her Family’s honor. Yuriko initiated the attack, but failed as Wolverine has defeated Yuriko. Yuriko then went to the Mojoverse and Spiral’s “Body Shoppe” where she had received and extensive cybernetic enhancements including adamantium bones and talons.
Lady Deathstrike is a cyborg with superhuman strength, speed and agility. Deathstrike's skeleton has been infused with adamantium, rendering her skeletal structure practically unbreakable. Initially, it was a mystery as to how Deathstrike survived this process, as it is generally believed that without a healing factor, the process would be fatal to a human.
Lady Deathstrike was once a member of the team of Criminal Cyborgs called The Reavers, led by Donald Pierce, who once had managed to successfully defeat the X- Men. The Reavers have since been annihilated by a Squad attack from the Sentinels, ever since then Yuriko has been operating independently.
Although her main quest in life is to kill Logan, but often times had worked corporately with the X-Men towards a common goal as she did in X-Men Annual 2000, for which they were to defeat Stryfe. In an encounter with Logan shortly after Magneto removed the adamantium from his skeleton, Lady Deathstrike nearly defeated him, but ended the fight upon seeing his bone claws. As Logan no longer possessed the adamantium stolen from her father, she felt there was no honor to be gained by killing him. However she still remains a mercenary and assassin. Despite all this, Yuriko is set apart from many of the X-Men's foes in that she adheres to an honor code, despite being emotionally disturbed.
Lady Deathstrike resurfaced again in 2003 as an ally of William Stryker in the "God Loves, Man Kills II" story arc in X-Treme X-Men for which possibly done as a tie-in to Kelly Hu's character and allegiance in the X-Men 2 movie. She displayed a new ability to access the Internet via her cybernetics but this led to her being co-opted and controlled by Mount Haven's computer systems.
Deathstrike was responsible for mutilating and nearly killing Sunfire, whose legs she severed in battle. Dying, he had Rogue absorb his powers so she could battle Lady Deathstrike. The X-Men later went to see where Sunfire's body had been left, only to see it had disappeared. He later resurfaced as one of the new Horsemen of Apocalypse.
Deathstrike has since resurfaced as a member of one of the United States government's New Thunderbolts in the super hero Civil War, temporarily released from prison in order to go after the Secret Avengers, who resisted the Superhuman Registration Act. She fights alongside other criminals such as Venom, Jester, Bullseye, Jack O'Lantern, Taskmaster and Songbird. She participates in the final battle of the Civil War in Times Square, New York, before being sent to the Negative Zone Prison once again.
Let's just leave her alone there for now...Who knows where she would re-surface again.
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