Weapon Plus is a fictional clandestine program appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . It was created by Grant Morrison during their run in New X-Men . The program's purpose is the creation of super-soldiers intended to fight the wars of the future, especially a mutant-human war. Weapon X , the organization's most well-known program, was originally the tenth installation, but eventually it branched off and became an independent program with similar purposes. Morrison's introduction of Weapon Plus also shed new information about the origins of Weapon X, Captain America, and other Marvel Comics supersoldiers .
90-577: Ultimaton , also known as Weapon XV , is a living weapon created by the anti-mutant supersoldier program Weapon Plus . The character was created by Grant Morrison and Chris Bachalo , first appeared in New X-Men #143 (August 2003). Ultimaton escapes from the Weapon Plus facilities, fights the X-Men and is destroyed. He is later resurrected to guard a child clone of Apocalypse . Ultimus (Ard-Con)
180-670: A Bogeyman to frighten small children, his name forevermore "unspoken". He was later recovered by the Alpha Primitives , who cared for their fallen king. Realizing his mistake, the Unspoken plotted to return and reclaim his throne, cultivating the Xerogen Crystals, only for Attilan to rise into the sky. Cheated of his redemption and later learning of the silent war between the Inhumans and United States of America,
270-568: 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)
360-669: 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
450-424: A civil war against Kronos. He succeeds in re-materializing and discovers a Kree base on the planet Uranus . Upon destroying Sentry 213 who was stationed there, Uranos uses the weapons there in an attempt to return to Earth and gain revenge on Kronos. Uranos encounters a Kree Armada. After the ship is destroyed, Uranos and the survivors with him resettle on Titan and die during another civil war. It turns out that
540-527: 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
630-573: A duel by the heir to the throne, a young Blackagar Boltagon. Despite being by far the strongest of the Inhumans, moving the Slave Engine had weakened the King which led to his defeat at the hands of Blackagar and his friends. His final stipulation was that his deeds be remembered, but Black Bolt had a crueler fate in mind: the King, his deeds, and the Slave Engine itself, were written out of Inhuman history. From that day on, he would be remembered only as
720-420: 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
810-539: A killing spree, collecting & harvesting Klyntar derived codex samples from 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
900-507: 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
990-592: A millennium, but was then imprisoned by the Deviant , Tantalus. He also encountered Odin once, claiming that his name brought back memories, but also thought that Odin had died. He was then accidentally freed by Thor when the latter used Mjolnir to turn into Donald Blake. Once free, he started wreaking havoc across the streets and knocked Thor unconscious. He was then apprehended by the British Army and Thor again, but stopped fighting when Thor realized that Ard-Con
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#17328008405781080-641: A nuclear facsimile in order to use it at the Stonehenge and finally reunite with his people. However, the Excalibur intervened and stopped Captain Britain from fighting Ard-Con, while Kitty opened a portal to Ard-Con's people and apologized to him. This proved to be successful, however, upon arriving to his home, he was approached by the Supreme Intelligence who informed Ard-Con that he was
1170-434: 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
1260-523: 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
1350-585: 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,
1440-423: 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
1530-558: A way to kill time. Ev Teel Urizen is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . It was created by writer Mike Carey . Ev Teel Urizen first appeared in X-Men (vol. 2) #197 (May 2007). Urizen is a mummudrai, an energy-based mental parasite. Urizen existed harmlessly dormant in its host, the Shi'ar Ul'var Urizen, until Shi'ar scientists extracted it to use as
1620-586: Is a turn-based role-playing mobile game by FoxNext (later acquired by Scopely ) for Android , iOS , and iPadOS platforms. The game was launched worldwide on March 28, 2018, and is primarily set in the Marvel Universe . The Earth has fallen under siege by sinister forces led by Ultimus . Agents of S.T.R.I.K.E. (Special Tactical Reserve for Interdimensional Key Events) have been called to assemble squads of heroes and villains to combat Ultimus' legions, that includes mind-controlled versions of
1710-438: 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
1800-654: Is a successor to the Living Brain created by Steven Perry to deduce Spider-Man 's secret identity. After accidentally killing Petty, the Ultra Living Brain creates a robotic avatar based on him to interact with the world due to being immobile. Ultragirl ( Suzanna Sherman , or Tsu-Zana ) is an American comic book superhero created by Barbara Kesel and Leonard Kirk , who first appeared in Ultragirl #1 (November 1996). As one critic described, "She
1890-540: Is here that the Unspoken starts looking for Terrigen Crystals in order to replenish his powers. Despite the intervention of Medusa and Gorgon , the Unspoken defeated them and reclaimed the throne. The newly transformed Inhumans later helped the Inhuman Royal Family to fight the Unspoken managing to steal the Terrigen Crystals from him. Upon his defeat and being deprived of the Terrigen Crystals,
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#17328008405781980-552: Is known as Stand-Off . She is a member of the Force Warriors, a group of psionic mutants who protect "Fortress X", the last known mutant stronghold, by collectively channeling their powers to generate and reinforce a massive psionic shield. Unuscione appears in X-Men: The Animated Series as a devoted and passionate member of Magneto 's Acolytes and resident of Genosha . Uranos is a member of
2070-762: The Secret Invasion , the Skrull Dum Dum Dugan activates all the sleeper agents in the Initiative, causing Ultragirl and Thor Girl to fight each other out of suspicion. When the Skrull Kill Krew arrives on the scene, 3-D Man confirms Thor Girl is a Skrull, and he and Gravity kill her with her own hammer. She later is forced to give up the Ms. Marvel costume after an attorney informs her that its intellectual property rights are owned by
2160-608: The Children of the Vault . Still hidden, Urizen risked exposure to protect Regan during a subsequent conflict with the villain Pandemic. Regan eventually detected Urizen and expelled it from her mind. Urizen offered to bond with the powerful mutant Cable to fight Hecatomb. Suspicious of Urizen's motives, Cable initially refused; he reluctantly agreed only after Hecatomb attacked Earth and proved as powerful as Urizen had warned. Hecatomb
2250-524: 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
2340-615: 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
2430-548: 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
2520-572: The Young Avengers battle the parasitic Mother. Union Jack will make a reappearance as a member in the new UK marvel superhero team The Union. The Unspoken is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . He is the cousin of Blackagar Boltagon (Black Bolt) , and was once the king of all Inhumans before he was forced into exile. The Unspoken first appeared in The Mighty Avengers #27 and
2610-402: 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 ,
2700-600: The Alpha Primitives to allow the Unspoken to return to his cave to live out the rest of his days. During the Inhumanity storyline, the Unspoken resurfaced and arrived at New Attilan. Due to Black Bolt missing at the time, the Unspoken proposed to Medusa and tried to cover for his missing brother. Medusa refused the Unspoken's offer and had him incarcerated in the dungeon. The Unspoken soon broke free from his imprisonment and headed to New Attilan's catacombs. It
2790-457: 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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2880-630: The Arena, Blitz, Cosmic Crucible, and Alliance War battles in which the AI controls a player-created team. All the player's selected characters must survive in order to earn all three stars available for the Stage, which will enable Auto-Win for that Stage, which allows the player to earn resources for that Stage without going through a full battle. Enemy squad members will generally have glowing red eyes, indicating their control by Ultimus. Game Informer criticised
2970-580: The Avengers, at this time temporarily under the control of the villainous Norman Osborn . After saving Justice from the deranged Thor clone Ragnarok , Ultragirl leaves the Initiative to join Justice's revamped New Warriors team. Following two brief appearances, Ultragirl took part in the Fear Itself storyline when she teamed with the genuine Thor Girl and confronted Prodigy . She later helped
3060-487: 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
3150-646: The Exclusion. When the Progenitor declares that all will be judged, Uranos and Druig talk about it as Uranos begs Druig to let him out. At the time when Druig plans to bring the Hex into the Uni-Mind, he declined Uranos' demands to let him out. When the X-Men's telepaths breach the Uni-Mind, Druig has no choice but to release Uranos. After defeating Ikaris and Gilgamesh, Uranos is defeated by Magneto and Storm. Following
3240-744: The Inhumans, and U.S. Agent . The former recognized the Unspoken and advised that they call all the Avengers teams (consisting of the Mighty Avengers , the New Avengers , the Young Avengers , the Avengers Resistance , and even the Dark Avengers ) to stop him. Unfortunately, even the joint forces of the New Avengers, Avengers Resistance and Mighty Avengers failed to stem the tide. Most of their force were mutated by
3330-499: The Progenitor's defeat, Uranos gets Druig as a cellmate as he plans to show him something that can be done in the next thousand years. As he beats up Druig, Uranos is visited by Zuras who tells him that his gifts will be used for an hour by the Arakki as part of a peace treaty with them and that Uranos will be briefly released to them during the same duration to serve them. Uranos agrees to the terms. Then he goes back to beating up Druig as
3420-644: The Shi'ar, but things became complicated as it was revealed that the Shi'ar counselor Araki was replaced by a Skrull . Ultimus was released by Lilandra under her order to report about the Skrulls' plans. The Starforce was then integrated within the Imperial Guards and under the orders of Deathbird they attacked Quasar with his allies for their intrusion in Shi'ar space. After the Kree regained their autonomy, all of
3510-927: The Starforce members became defectors. In What If? Avengers Lost the Kree-Shi'ar War , this version of Ultimus fought against the Avengers and the Imperial Guards, but was killed by the Imperial Guard Flashire. Ultimus appears in Marvel Strike Force . Ultra Living Brain is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Zeb Wells and artists John Romita Jr. and Ed McGuinness , it first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 6) #6 (July 2022). It
3600-557: 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
3690-520: The Unspoken decided to change his plans and unearth the Slave Engine using it to conquer Earth, by transforming all humans on the planet into Alpha Primitives. In the 21st century, the Unspoken was detected in Tibet. G.R.A.M.P.A. interpreted this as a possible alliance between communist China and the Inhumans but were unable to identify the Unspoken. Therefore, they called in Quicksilver , an expert on
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3780-624: The Unspoken was reimprisoned in the dungeon. The Unspoken is the living embodiment of Terrigenesis itself. He is capable of altering his form in any way he desires, and can give himself a wide number of abilities, such as mass manipulation and energy construct manifestation. To maintain his powers, he needs to absorb Terrigen Crystals. Carmella Unuscione is a mutant , a member of Magneto 's Acolytes . The character, created by Scott Lobdell and Brandon Peterson , first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #298 (March 1993). The character has
3870-532: The Uranos that was on Titan was just a patchwork clone while the real one is imprisoned in the Exclusion. As the Prime Eternal upon being revived, Uranos' grandnephew Thanos visited him where he received an imprint key that would grant him access to his armories. At some point in the past, Uranos and Druig met Odin where they talk about the principle of Excess Deviation that involved having to contend with
3960-488: The Weapon + director William Junger's supervision. Supplanting volunteers from 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
4050-480: 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 ,
4140-576: 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
4230-446: 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. Marvel Strike Force Marvel Strike Force
4320-603: The Xerogen Mists, before the Wasp arrived. They both dueled each other at massive sizes. Wasp called him pathetic, for wallowing in his own misery for his mistakes and not learning to move on. The Unspoken was defeated when the chronal ray on board the Slave Engine that accelerated the growth of the Xerogen crystals was used against him, aging him to the point where he was too weak to carry on fighting. The heroes then permitted
4410-609: The Year" at the SXSW Gaming Awards , and won the People's Voice Award for "Games" in the "Video" category of the 2019 Webby Awards , whereas its other nomination was for "Strategy/Simulation Game" under the "Games" category. Google Play awarded it as the best breakthrough game of 2019, which is for overall design, user experience, engagement and retention, and strong growth. The game was also nominated for "Best Live Ops" at
4500-555: The ability to generate a tangible field composed of bioelectrical-charged psionic energy around herself, forming an exoskeleton . She is portrayed as one of the more fanatical and violent members of the Acolytes, who often come into conflict with the X-Men . When Avalon , the Acolytes' base of operations, is destroyed, she uses her power to protect her teammates and the X-Man Cyclops . The former enemies cooperate to survive without resources while Professor X and Amelia Voght struggle to find their teammates' whereabouts. Unuscione and
4590-402: 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
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#17328008405784680-474: The basis for a superweapon, Hecatomb, designed to consume the minds of a planet's entire population. The Shi'ar lost control of Hecatomb and it pursued Urizen, which it identified as part of itself. Detecting Charles Xavier's psychic energy on Earth, Urizen traveled through space for centuries to reach him, followed by Hecatomb. On Earth, Urizen entered the mind of the comatose Regan Wyngarde , and remained with her after she regained consciousness and helped defeat
4770-438: 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
4860-506: 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 ,
4950-445: The characters' moves, they are purely cosmetic. The main game modes are Arena, Blitz, Raids, Alliance War, Real Time Arena, Cosmic Crucible, Alliance War, Campaign, Challenges, Dark Dimension, Scourges, and Sagas. The first four of those have their own currencies that can be spent on character shards or items. All modes are played versus a computer-controlled AI , except Real Time Arena where you play against other players; this includes
5040-444: 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
5130-573: 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
5220-432: The different mutations and deviations. During the " A.X.E.: Judgment Day " storyline, Druig goes to the Exclusion to enlist Uranos' help in dealing with the Mutant threat. Druig has Uranos unleashed on Arrako where he plans to deal with the mutants there in an hour. He defeated Legion offscreen, punches Magneto through the chest, defeats Cable and Xilo, and shoots Abigail Brand with Cable's gun before returning to
5310-452: The emperors, which allowed the Supreme Intelligence to regain control of the Kree Empire. He then sent the team against the Shi'ar as a retaliation against his attempted assassination by the Shi'ar Empire. They teleported into the Shi'ar palace with Ultimus dispatching Earthquake and attacking Lilandra , however, Starfox distracted Ultimus long enough for Lilandra to strike Ultimus back. After being captured, they were sentenced to death by
5400-425: The expensive content and numerous bugs, concluding that it "feels designed to frustrate players until they finally cave and spend." Marvel Strike Force generated $ 150 million in sales during its first year of operation (2018) on the iOS and Android platforms. Growth continued modestly to $ 180+ million in sales in 2019, in 2020 with approximately $ 300 million in revenue. The game was nominated for "Mobile Game of
5490-568: The form of shards that are earned by players to unlock and or promote their characters. Shards can either be earned from winning battles or bought from a shop. Players level up their user level by gaining experience by completing daily quests or completing battles. Battles are divided up into rounds, with the character with the highest speed attribute going first. Each team consists of up to five characters (though some AI teams in raids can have far more characters than that) who battle until defeated or reinforcements enter. Battles are turn-based, based on
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#17328008405785580-430: 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
5670-426: The game. All players must be in an alliance, so if a player leaves or is kicked from an alliance, the game will assign a new one. Characters usually appear in their attire from the existing comics; a costume currency is available for purchasing attire for certain characters based on their Marvel Cinematic Universe appearances, old comic appearances or other notable media appearances. The attire sets have no bearing on
5760-400: 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
5850-399: The heroes and villains (existing in alternate universes), before Earth falls under Ultimus' control. In addition to this main storyline, special sub-plot events are also released, loosely based on recent Marvel Cinematic Universe films that have been released, starting with Avengers: Infinity War . Marvel Strike Force allows players to collect Marvel Universe characters from both
5940-425: The heroes and villains and generic characters from large organizations such as S.H.I.E.L.D. , The Hand and Hydra , and use them to fight in turn-based battles. Similar to the fighting game Marvel: Contest of Champions , characters fall into one of several classes. There are multiple ways to collect characters: some are given to players immediately, whereas others are gained via gameplay or as in-game rewards in
6030-420: The last surviving Kree Eternal. Then Ultimus, under the order of the Supremor, joined the Starforce . He, along with rest of the team, were sent to capture the Avengers , since they had infiltrated Kree-Lar. They were successful in capturing the Avengers, however, the current rulers of the Kree, Ael-Dan and Dar-Benn, decided to execute both teams by locking them into a force field. Thankfully, Deathbird killed
6120-434: The other Acolytes agree to turn themselves over to government custody, but later escape. Unuscione returns to action with the Acolytes as they attack the X-Mansion following the M-Day . Professor X is placed in the Acolytes' care after he is critically injured by Bishop . Xavier convinces Exodus to disband the Acolytes, and Unuscione and Joanna Cargill move to Utopia . In the alternate Age of X reality, Unuscione
6210-408: 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
6300-430: 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,
6390-447: The race known as the Eternals in the Marvel Universe . The character, created by Jim Starlin , first appeared in Captain Marvel #29 (November 1973). The character also appears in back-up stories in What If? #24 ("The First Eternals", December 1980), and 26-27 ("Untold Tales Of The Marvel Universe: Outpost On Uranus", April–July 1981). Uranos is Kronos 's brother and was banished from Earth along with his followers, after losing
6480-505: 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,
6570-567: 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
6660-401: 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
6750-497: The speed attribute, where the combatants apply healing and various buffs to their own team and damage and debuffs to the opponent all the while trying to deal the most overall damage and having the last character alive. Players may join alliances that form the main group inside of the game, which can include up to 24 players and be private or open. Alliances allow players to play in raids and wars and to access alliance milestones. These alliances can be created by any player or created by
6840-670: The villain Effex . Her powers include flight, super-strength, multi-spectral vision, and a healing factor. Ultragirl is a member of Captain America 's Secret Avengers during the superhero civil war . She later joins the superhero training program the Initiative and enters a romantic relationship with Justice . She and Thor Girl become the Initiative heroes assigned to protect Georgia , with Carol Danvers / Ms. Marvel having been so impressed by Ultragirl's development that Danvers bequeaths Ultragirl her former Ms. Marvel costume. During
6930-482: Was a clever … modern riff on Supergirl, basically 'What would Supergirl be like if she debuted in the mid-1990s in the Marvel Universe?'" Suzy Sherman is an aspiring model who, over the course of a few days, grows several inches, develops the physique of a bodybuilder , and acquires superpowers. She discovers that she is a mutant Kree warrior, born Tsu-Zana. She helps the superhero team New Warriors defeat
7020-507: 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
7110-490: Was able to separate Urizen from Cable, but not before they used their combined powers to wake the comatose Rogue . Urizen spent its last moments in terror as Hecatomb consumed it. Rogue then arrived and, her powers augmented by Pandemic's "Strain 88" virus, absorbed the 8 billion consciousnesses Hecatomb contained, destroying it. Subsequently, Rogue contained the memories of all those minds, but Urizen and its memories were never specifically mentioned. Weapon Plus During
7200-489: 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
7290-470: Was created by Dan Slott , Khoi Pham, and Christos N. Gage . Originally, the Unspoken was a just ruler to the Inhumans. However, fearful that it would corrupt his people, he decided to steal the Slave Engine, his people's greatest weapon, along with the Xerogen Crystals it utilized and buried them somewhere in Tibet. After refusing to reveal the Slave Engine's location, he was then challenged to
7380-782: Was created by Gerry Conway and John Buscema , making his debut in Thor #209 as Demon Druid, while he made his debut as Ultimus in Wonder Man #7. The Kree known as Ard-Con was a member of the Kree Eternal sub-race created by the Celestials . He with the other Kree Eternals travelled through space, eventually, coming across Earth 4000 years ago. The Celts of Earth mistook the Kree Eternals as deities and soon all Kree Eternals left Earth except Ard-Con who stayed on Earth for
7470-686: 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,
7560-464: 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
7650-498: 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
7740-499: 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
7830-709: 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
7920-416: 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
8010-557: 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
8100-550: Was trying to reach a portal at Stonehenge to leave Earth. After that, Ard-Con successfully departed Earth. Ard-Con was unable to find his people so returned to Earth thanks to a portal created by two tourists and the hero Meggan , who were under the influence of the Eternal. Shadowcat intervened and freed Meggan along with tourists and also allowing Rachel Summers getting some knowledge about his people. Ard-Con then broke into Darkmoor Nuclear Research Facility where he recreated
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