EVELYN NECKER
Real
Name: Dr. Evelyn Clarice Sarah Necker
Identity/Class: Alternate Reality (Earth-8410) human, advanced and unconventional
technology-user;
US citizen
Occupation: Research scientist, inventor/weapons designer
Group Membership: Earth-8410's Omni Corporation;
formerly Earth-8410's
AIM (Advanced Idea Mechanics ((Duffy (assistant), Gaffney, Sebble,
unidentified members of the Executive
Committee))
Affiliations: Formerly Avengers of Earth-9939, Death's Head-93926, Duffy-8410 (assistant), Serene Miami-616, Mr. Fantastic-616 (Reed Richards), Thing-616 (Ben Grimm), Wadlow-616, Warheads Virago troop
Enemies:
Burgen of Earth-928, Charnel
of Earth-8410 (also as Kite),
Death's Head
(Freelance Peacekeeping Agent), Olivia de Diamond-9413, Dredge
of Earth-93122, Lord High Protector of Lionheart,
Major Oak,Tuck of Lionheart,
U-Foes-616 (Ironclad/Mike Steel, Vapor/Ann Darnell, Vector/Simon Utrecht,
X-Ray/Jimmy Darnell)
occasionally Death's Head-8410 (Minion) & Death Wreck-8410
Known Relatives: Unidentified father (Earth-8410 counterpart of Smart), Eliza Clare Necker (mother; Earth-8410 counterpart of Stealth);
her cybernetic creations could be considered
"children": Death's Head (Minion), Death Metal-8410, Death Wreck
Aliases: Lady Evelyn Clarice Necker of Aym (used while on Lionheart)
Base of Operations: Mobile throughout
time and space, Omni Mega-Corporation Tower, Los Angeles', Earth-8410;
formerly A.I.M. Central, Earth-8410;
formerly Pacific Vista Laboratories, California (another
A.I.M. installation in the modern day);
First Appearance: Death's Head II I#1 (March 1992)
Powers/Abilities:
While Dr. Necker doesn't have any superhuman physical attributes
or powers, she has extraordinary genius in multiple intellectual areas.
She is a
certified genius with a PhD in robotics and possesses vast knowledge in
engineering artificial intelligence, computer science, computer vision,
cybernetics and advanced weaponry/weapons engineering. She is also a skilled
biologist and neurosurgeon.
Utilizing 21st century Earth-8410 technology, she
often wears bulletproof body armor and a visor with various scanning
capabilities and breathing equipment.
She is trained in the use of a wide array
of advanced energy weapons and explosives, and has some hand to hand combat
training.
Using hand-held time discs and similar teleportation devices, she can teleport through time, space and realities.
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 128 lbs.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Auburn
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History: (FF: Fifty Fantastic Years#1) - Raised by her loving parents, Evelyn excelled in many scientific fields and, after gaining a PhD in robotics, was approached by her parents' former employers AIM (Advanced Idea Mechanics). (Death's Head II I#1 (fb) - BTS) - A.I.M.'s pre-cognitive division informed their executive division of their prophecy that an unrevealed threat would obliterate them in the near future. To prevent this they agreed to fund Necker's Minion project for their defense. (Death Wreck#1) <October 1, 2018> - A.I.M. told Necker that she needed to light a fire under Project: Minion and get a cyborg up and running ASAP or she would lose her funding. While she had estimated five years until expected completion, she was forced to cut a few corners to get it completed within the month. Rather than using a cold fusion or other nuclear power device as she might have wanted, she went with an internal combustion engine, taken from a 1992 model automobile. (Death Wreck#1) <October 12, 2018> - Dr. Necker and Duffy completed the Minion cyborg, but as her project hinged on the successful use of Bio-Organics, she needed a human brain. (Death3 #1(fb) - BTS) <October 12, 2018> - Controlling Minion under voice command, she took him out into an alley where they found a homeless alcoholic man. In an effort to catch the man, Minion nearly crushed him. Necker stopped him in time and instead shot and killed the man. She then rushed both Minion and the "donor" back to A.I.M., where she transplanted the donor brain into her cyborg. (Death Wreck#1) <October 13, 2018> - Dr. Necker loaded Minion up with fuel and activated him. Surprisingly enough, Minion awoke with the mind of a drunkard and began swinging wildly, breaking Duffy's nose, before Evelyn could calm him down. While she began figuring he'd be ok after he had a few days to dry up, Minion began searching around for something to drink. He stumbled across Dr. Necker's time disc, which he activated, sending him to the future of Earth-928's 2093 AD. (Death Wreck#3) - Dr. Necker, having managed to trace Death Wreck's time disk, traveled to Earth-93122's New York circa 2053 AD in time to save Death Wreck from Dredge, a futuristic cop who tried to bring Death Wreck in. She then prepared to take Death Wreck back to Earth-8410's 2018 AD with her, but he again activated his own disk, heading forward to Earth-9413 circa 2159 AD. Before she could follow him, Dredge attacked her from behind and gave her the beating of her life. (Death Wreck#4 (fb) - BTS) - Dredge nearly strangled Necker, but she managed to nail him with "a copious supply of tranquilizing darts" and escape back to her lab in 2018 AD. (Death Wreck#4) - In Earth-928's 2085 AD, Dr. Necker traced Death Wreck again and found him in Burgen's holding
cell. She instructed DW to come with her, but he refused to leave
without his new friend Olivia de Diamond, and threatened to
activate his time disk and escape from her once again if she
tried to force him. Evelyn conceded to him, and DW broke out of
his cell and located Olivia. Burgen tried to hold Olivia hostage,
but she kicked him into his Gene Pool, which was a device that
kept him eternally young and healthy. Evelyn blew up the Gene
Pool's generators as they teleported away, and Burgen was mutated
into a hideous mockery of his once-perfect form. He swore
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(Death's Head II I#1(fb)) <2020 AD> - Dr. Necker created the next Minion cyborg. She sent Minion out to acquire the instincts of 106 of the most deadly individuals in the galaxy. (Death's Head II I#1, Death's Head II II#9 (fb)) - Minion returned from a mission and displayed a flippancy that worried Dr. Necker. He mentioned that he had encountered the mechanoid Freelance Peacekeeping Agent known as Death's Head's on his last mission, before vanishing off on his next one without her consent. Dr. Necker had Gaffney get a fix on him with the continuum tracker while Sebble called a virtual reality conference of A.I.M.'s executive committee. She gave them a progress report and asked for more backup facilities and a higher budget. The conference tied her up longer than she would have liked, and on her return to the project lab she asked after Minion's progress. The cyborg was mid-jump on a time-loop through Zeta Reticula circa 2456 AD while hunting Lehdrox. The fact that the length of the mission had been estimated at seventeen minutes, and he was overdue by nine minutes, concerned Dr. Necker. When Minion returned, he was followed by Death's Head. Minion assimilated the mechanoid's instincts, but they began to overload his systems. He teleported after his next target, Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic in Reality-616's modern era. Dr. Necker prepared to follow him. |
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(Death's Head II I#2) - Dr. Necker found Reed Richards at Le Maison St. Jaques, a French restaurant in Manhattan, only shortly before Minion arrived. As Necker and Reed fled, she explained about the Minion project and how the cyborg had assimilated Death's Head's instincts. Reed remembered Death's Head from their many previous encounters (see comments). Dr. Necker slowed Minion down briefly with a bomb, which attracted the attention of Ben Grimm, aka the Thing. While Ben attempted to slow down Minion's progress, Necker and Richards went to Four Freedoms Plaza. Reed theorized that the reason the assimilation process had gone wrong with Death's Head was because as a mechanoid his instincts were part of his self, and so the Minion cyborg had not only absorbed his skills, but his personality too. He set up a machine to bring Death's Heads personality to the fore. As Minion approached, Dr. Necker gave Richards a kiss on the cheek, saying what a privilege it was to have met him in the flesh. The machine worked, and Death's Head's personality started to gain control of the Minion cyborg. He assimilated all data known to Richards from the computer mainframe and time jumped away before Necker could stop him. She time-jumped after him, asking Reed to remember her fondly. As the remaining members of the Fantastic Four entered the laboratory, Reed's wife, Sue Richards, noticed Dr. Necker's lipstick on Reed's cheek.. |
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(Death's Head II I#3) -
Dr. Necker traveled to Lionheart to find Death's
Head. She met with the Lord High Protector in order to gain
information on the outlaw, Hood, who she suspected was Death's
Head. She watched as Major Oak and his men ambushed Hood (who was
indeed Death's Head). Knocking the Lord High Protector out with a
sword, she blasted Major Oak from behind with a big gun in order
to save Death's Head. She convinced him to return to A.I.M.
central with her. However, by the time Death's Head, Necker and
Tuck had reached the installation Charnel -- necromancer Baron Strucker V who
had merged with the Death's Head mechanoid's remains -- had already devastated
it and time jumped into the modern era to destroy A.I.M.'s past. |
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(Death's Head III#10 (fb)) - After returning to the modern era of Earth-616, Dr. Necker spent six weeks scouring A.I.M.'s Ice Borg archives for a potential host body for a new Minion cyborg and chose Kite from a shortlist of ninety potential candidates. (Death's Head II II#2) - As Kite wandered from Paxton, Oregon, towards Chicago, Illinois, in pursuit of the Sapphire Lotus, Dr. Necker and an assistant located and began observing him. (Death's Head II II#3) - They were still observing him when the trail of the Sapphire Lotus vanished as it was teleported into another dimension. Still, Necker just continued to watch and wait. (Death's Head II II#5 (fb) - BTS) - Necker reviewed the recent history. (Death's Head II II#5) - Dr. Necker and her assistants observed and tracked the mutant known as Kite during a brawl with several truckers in Illinois, America. (Death's Head II II#6) - Necker and her assistants continued to observe as Kite brawled with more people during his travels in America. (Death's Head II II#7) - Eventually, they approached Kite in a New York diner, where they fought him. (Death's Head II II#10 (fb) - BTS) - They captured Kite and transferred him to Pacific Vista Laboratories, California. |
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(Death's Head II II#8) <July 3rd> - Dr. Necker unveiled her latest creation: the endo-frame of a new Minion cyborg she intended to call Death's Head. |
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(Death's Head II II#10-12) - Necker observed Kite in his holding tank. She began bragging to her assistant, Serene, about how later that afternoon she would bond Kite to the endo-frame and create the new Minion cyborg. Serene mentioned a series of attacks on A.I.M.'s Ice Borg installations and told Dr. Necker the committee wanted the cyborg on line as soon as possible to counter the attacks (does this plot development sound familiar? if not see comments)! Dr. Necker refused to authorize use of the cyborg until it had been triple-checked, and inquired who might be behind the attack. Serene's description of a mechanoid and a young girl with a crossbow sounded hauntingly familiar... like Death's Head and Tuck to be precise! (Death's Head II II#11) <July 4th>> - Shortly after, Kite escaped from his holding cell, only to be stopped by a synaptic disrupter Dr. Necker had implanted in his brain-stem. They took Kite into surgery. Dr. Necker stripped away his flesh and bone and bonded his body to the Minion combat-chassis. On leaving the operating theater, Serene informed her of a visitor... named Tuck! Necker rushed to meet her in a panic, and questioned her as to why she had come to the laboratory. Suddenly the light of day dawned on Dr. Necker as she looked at the car Tuck had arrived in. As she stood there, Death's Head burst out of the trunk. She ordered the A.I.M. security guards to blast him, but they were stunned by the Requiem Sharks. Death's Head asked who he had been before Necker had murdered his host body and turned him into the Minion cyborg. Serene arrived with more security troops before Necker could answer, and the doctor escaped. Death's Head followed while Tuck and the Requiem Sharks fought the troops. As Death's Head approached, Dr. Necker attempted to activate her new creation, but Kite was gone. When Death's Head learned that the new cyborg had been based around Kite, he started to realize who Kite was. Kite reappeared, bringing his future self with him, merging with him to become Charnel and confirming Death's Head's fears. (Death's Head II II#12) - Dr. Necker watched as Death's Head, Tuck and the Requiem Sharks fought Charnel. Smart was struck by one of Charnel's blasts, and his partner Stealth flew down to help him. She asked Dr. Necker for help, and as she removed her helmet Dr. Necker was shocked to realize Stealth was in fact her mother. Furthermore, as they took Smart to safety they removed his helmet too. Dr. Necker had yet another shock when she realized Smart was actually her father. Serene reminded Dr. Necker of the synaptic disrupter in Kite's brain stem, and she activated it, saving Death's Head. While Charnel was temporarily immobilized she set an A.I.M. time-dish to overload in the hope it would destroy the villain. Charnel began to absorb energy from the temporal warp, but a blast from Death's Head made him lose control and explode. When the survivors recovered from the explosion, Dr. Necker was gone, presumed caught in the time-flare. (Death3#1(fb) - BTS) - After six years of working for AIM, four of which were spent on the Minion project to protect them, Necker decided to cut ties with them after the Charnel debacle and began working for Earth-8410's Omni-Corporation. She believed she would be safe from any surviving branches of the AIM organization of that time by sheltering in the protection of a rival organization. |
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(Loose Cannons#1) <November, 2020> - Necker was working at Omni Megacore Tower, Los Angeles, when she accessed information from the records of Gena-Sys labs. She was filled with admiration for the work of Doctor Oonagh Mullarkey, and excited about a bacterial strain brought to Earth by Virago troop. Mullarkey had named the strain Pandora. (Loose Cannons#2 (fb) - BTS) - Necker triangulated Virago's location in the continuum from when they had found the Pandora strain. (Loose Cannons#2) <2021> - Necker prepared for an excursion, taking three battlemech drones. She was accompanied by Abram Stalker of the resource committee, who had been sent by Omni to supervise expenditure. They used time belts to travel to the coordinates Necker had triangulated. They arrived in the middle of a battle between Virago troop and some creatures in the distant future. (Loose Cannons#3) <2390> - Stalker was taken by the creatures, who were actually descendants of the human race. Necker's drones gave herself and the others the chance to retreat to an area that was easier to defend. Unfortunately one of the creatures grabbed at Necker, damaging her time belt, before she could get free. She got to safety with Virago and her drones, and began to explain to the Warheads why she was there. (Loose Cannons#3(fb) - BTS) - Necker and the Warheads examined an archive that they presumed to be an advanced alien device. (Loose Cannons#3) - They discovered that the year was 2390, and they were on a planet Earth that had died due to the release of the Pandora strain in 1994. The Earth had been plunged into a black hole and sealed off from the rest of the galaxy by the Kree, the Shi'ar and the Skrull. Necker realized that the creatures could access the past using Stalker's time belt. Virago decided to go back into the creatures lair to retrieve the belt before going back to their own time to ensure that the Pandora strain wasn't released. Necker and her drones remained with the archive to continue researching with the Warhead called Sphinx. They discovered that the Death's Head (Minion) of the alternate future timeline had been trapped on the Earth, and was believed dead. Necker realized, however, that it was more likely that the cyborg had survived, and began looking for him. (Loose Cannons#4) - Necker correctly reasoned that Death's Head would've retreated to a well protected area and powered down, and soon found him. (Loose Cannons#4(fb) - BTS) - Necker was able to get Death's Head to power back up, and went with him to help Virago troop. (Loose Cannons#4) - Death's Head swiftly defeated the creatures. Necker used Stalker's time belt to transport herself, Virago and Death's Head to Omni Megacore in 2021. She made a point of destroying all her information on the Pandora strain and the location of the black hole where the alternate Earth had been banished to. She then sent Virago troop back to their own time, telling them to destroy the information in Mullarkey's possession too. She gave the alternate Death's Head a new time belt, and he left. |
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(Death3#1(fb) - BTS) - Necker took up a new post as the director of Omni's Cybernetics Division. They believed she would advance their bio-weapons program. (Death3#1) <6/11/2021> - Death Wreck returned to Necker,
giving her an opportunity to resume the Minion project. Her primary concern was
to see if it was the trauma of time-travel that threw out Death's Head's
programming and caused him to go rogue. She tried
out her time travel device on Death Wreck, sending him to an alternate
timeline of Earth-9939. He was immediately attacked by the
Spawn of Charnel, and when his time jump returned it to Necker's
lab, the arm of one of the Spawn of Charnel was brought back as
well. (Death3#2 - BTS) - While searching for Death Metal, Death Wreck encountered his other "brother," Death's Head (Minion). (Death3#3 - BTS) - Upon learning that Death Wreck was his "hideous older brother," Death's Head exclaimed that one day he would catch up with Dr. Necker and make her pay. (Death3#4) - Death Metal's promethium form was purged by the Ghost Rider of Earth-9939, allowing him to see clearly for the first time. He allied himself with his "brothers" against the Charnel of Earth-9939, the very foe foreseen by AIM that had led to the creation of the three "brothers." (Death3#4) - Death Wreck ultimately returned to Necker's laboratory at Omni, but there was no sign of Death Metal. Death Wreck promptly asked Necker for something medicinal. --@ 2050, Dr. Necker was set to be dying in Time Stryke series, with her only salvation to find Badhand:
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Comments: Created by Dan Abnett and Liam Sharp for Marvel UK.
The full name
Dr. Necker meets Reed Richards, introducing her
self as: "Evelyn Necker."
Reed Richards: "My mothers name was Evelyn..."
Dr. Necker meets the Lord High Protector of Lionheart and
introduces herself as: "Lady Evelyn Clarice Necker of Aym."
Lord High Protector: "Clarice? That's my mothers name..."
Dr. Necker meets the Avengers from Earth - Charnel and Captain
America exclaims: "As for Evelyn Clarice Sarah Necker, well,
Sarah was my mothers name, but that's as far as that goes..."
To which Necker replied: "Shame."
Thankfully that was
as far as her habit of revealing a new name (that coincidentally
was that of somebody's mother) each issue went!
Reed Richards asked Dr. Necker if Death's Head is the same bounty hunter he has encountered "many times before." Many times? I'm only aware of two such meetings...
Dr. Necker seemed to be something of a trouble magnet, if it wasn't for her there would be no Charnel. However, she was rushed her to create her Minion cyborgs (A.I.M. of Earth-8410 did so because of the threat they had predicted, modern day A.I.M. did so to combat the threat of Death's Head) and perhaps with a bit more preparation time she could have created cyborgs that didn't rebel against their programming, or realized that assimilating the Death's Head mechanoid would result in his personality taking over the Minion cyborg.
When first seen in the Death's Head mini-series, A.I.M. central in the year 2020 was originally meant to have been built on the site of a Manhattan shopping mall within the former World Trade Center. In the regular series when Death's Head traveled back to the point of his own "creation" (the point at which Minion absorbed Death's Head's personality) A.I.M. central was described as being in Los Angeles conurbation. The two buildings are meant to be the same, but I've no explanation as to why the location was changed.
I'm not 100% certain whether the creation of Death Metal was meant to come before or after the reformation of Charnel, but that's where we put it! This placement made it into the official profile in FF: Fifty Fantastic Years -- Changeling.
The young Dr. Necker later appeared in the pages of Nova as an
employee of Project PEGASUS, and occasional employee of AIM. Ultimately,
it was confirmed in the Death's Head IV series that she was the
Earth-616 counterpart of Dr. Necker-8410, rather than just being her
younger self.
The evolution/convolution of Dr. Necker:
Dr. Necker first
appeared in the Marvel UK's Death's Head II I#1 (1992), which took place
in the alternate reality of Earth-8410 circa 2020 A.D. (In this
reality, which lacked a sliding timescale, the heroic age ended in the
1980s). She created the Minion cyborg that soon after destroyed and
assimilated the Freelance Peacekeeping Agent Death's Head and then
adopted the identity as the new Death's Head (Minion). Necker was very
active in Marvel UK until that line's collapse in the mid-1990s.
The young counterpart of Dr. Necker later appeared in Reality-616 in the pages of Nova IV#17 (2008) as an
employee of Project PEGASUS, and occasional employee of A.I.M.
It seemed that she was actually the past self of Dr. Necker, and it was
reasoned that she at some point in her future would relocate to
Earth-8410. The Evelyn Necker profile in Fantastic Four: 50 Fantastic
Years in 2011 indeed treated them as the same being, as did the
Appendix's Evelyn Necker profile. The Revolutionary War further
identified the Evelyn Necker who built Minion as her future self.
Additionally, as
Necker-8410 had met the Reality-616 counterparts of her parents in a
story that came out in 1993 in which they had not had kids yet. With
Reality-616's sliding timescale, that would present a major problem, as
maybe 3-4 years would have passed from Eliza Necker's childless
appearance until the appearance of the adult Necker. As a result the Fantastic Four: 50 Fantastic Years Evelyn Necker entry included the following: Note: Due to her parents appearing on Earth-616 without child only a few years before an adult Evelyn
joined Project: PEGASUS it is very likely her parents raised her in
Earth-616’s past or another reality.
Even if there were not a sliding timescale, she still would
have only been less than 15 years old when she appeared in 2008, but
she was clearly an adult woman and a doctor.
I've also added information from the unpublished Loose Cannon's series featuring Virago troop, an all female team of Warheads. Although it was never published, a character called Bo from the series appeared in Revolutionary War: Warheads#1 and confirms that Virago troop existed. The Loose Cannons series is available to read online, though parts of issue 4 are only rough uncolored sketches. Check it out here: Loose Cannons.
All of the numbering of the
Death's Head mechanoids is based on the thought the the Death's Head
freelance peacekeeping agent is "1," and they ignore Paxton Page, who
preceded them all as Death's Head.
New and additional images by Markus Raymond.
Profile by Changeling and Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Dr. Evelyn Necker-8410 should be distinguished from:
A.I.M. 2020 refers to the organization in the alternate future timeline of Earth-8410 from which Necker created Death's Head (Minion) and should not be confused with the modern day organization or any alternate versions of said organization.
Pacific Vista Laboratories should not be confused with:
A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics) 2020
(Gaffney, Sebble, unidentified members of the Executive
Committee)

AIM Central was apparently based out of a former shopping mall
in Manhattan's trade area, New York, USA
OR
the Los Angeles conurbation (see comments)
A.I.M.'s P.D.C. (Precognitive Data Collection) unit picked up an unrevealed threat (later identified as Charnel - possibly Charnel-9939) which would totally demolish the organization in their near future. The Executive Committee had Dr. Necker step up Project: Minion in order to combat that threat. Her first creation was the alcoholic Death Wreck. Her second Minion cyborg killed the mechanoid Death's Head and assimilated his instincts. While Death's Heads personality eventually came to control the Minion cyborg, his original mechanoid body was taken from A.I.M. central by former partner Spratt. The body fell into the hands of Baron Strucker the Fifth, who used it to become Charnel. Charnel was the threat the P.D.C. had picked up, and he not only demolished A.I.M. central but traveled back in time to attempt to erase their past for turning their corporate back's on the Strucker family.
--Death's Head II I#1 (2, 3)
Wadlow (left) and
Serene Miami (right)
(Dr. Necker's Assistants)
Wadlow and Serene were Dr.
Necker's assistants while she worked at Pacific
Vista Laboratories. Serene was also Security Administrator of
Pacific Vista Laboratories. Wadlow monitored Kite as they flew
over Illinois, using hi-tech goggles, watching as he fought and
killed a gang of truckers. They followed Kite to a petrol station,
and Wadlow observed as he got involved in another brawl. They finally
apprehended Kite in Henry's 24 hour diner, New York. After they had returned to
Pacific Vista and put Kite in his holding cell, Serene and Dr. Necker began preparing the new Minion cyborg.
Serene later relayed a message to Necker from A.I.M.'s committee
about a series of attacks on their Ice-Borgs. The committee wanted them to speed
up the Minion project to counter the attacks. Later Serene watched as Dr. Necker
dealt with the escaped Kite using the synaptic disrupter in his brain-stem.
Serene observed while Dr. Necker performed surgery on Kite and bonded him to the
Minion endo-frame. As Necker left surgery, Serene told her that
her "old friend" Tuck was waiting for her in the
basement garage. It soon became apparent that Tuck was not really
an "old friend" at all, and that Pacific Vista had been
infiltrated by Death's Head and the Requiem Sharks. Serene and
her security forces attacked the intruders, but she was knocked
unconscious by Tuck. Shortly thereafter, Serene found Tuck wounded from
fighting Charnel. Serene ordered her troop to attack Charnel, who
in turn incinerated the troops, though Tuck managed to shove Serene out of the way. They
met up with Dr. Necker, and her parents (Smart and Stealth of the Requiem
Sharks). While discussing possible means of stopping Charnel, Serene remembered
the synaptic disrupter in Kite's brain-stem. Dr. Necker managed to temporarily
immobilize Charnel with the
disrupter, and began to set an A.I.M. time-dish to overload and destroy the
villain with a temporal warp. Serene attempted to stop Dr. Necker , but was held
at gun point by her mother. Dr. Necker set the dish to overload, and they all ran out of the
building as fast as they could. After the overload destroyed
Pacific Vista, Serene was left desperately attempting to contact
A.I.M. central.
As A.I.M. operatives both Wadlow and Serene are presumably skilled scientists. They both used A.I.M. body armor and weaponry and have some formal combat training, particularly Serene who was in charge of Pacific Vistas security troops.
-- Wadlow: Death's Head II II#5 (6, 7) presumably Wadlow died either fighting Charnel or in the explosion of Pacific Vista, though it's conceivable he was actually away from the laboratory on other business
-- Serene: Death's Head II II#7 (8, 10) Serene is presumably behind the scenes in#5 and 6 as they track Kite, though it's possible she joined them en route to the diner
Pacific
Vista Laboratories, California
California-based Pacific Vista Laboratories was listed as a Plastics Technology operation, in the Salt-tang paradise of the pacific shore. Instead it was an A.I.M. installation. Dr. Necker worked there to create a Minion Cyborg. That cyborg, based around the mutant Kite, merged with "Koot" to become Charnel. A.I.M.'s security forces attempted to stop Charnel, but his destruction obliterated the entire complex.
-- Death's Head II II#8 (10, 11, 12 (destroyed))
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Death's Head II I#4, p22, pan3 (main)
Death's Head II II#6, p12, pan5 (mug shot)
Death's Head II I#1, p10, pan5 (head shot)
Death Wreck#1, p8, pan3 (green and gold, green belt)
Death's Head II I#1, p9, pan2 (AIM central suit)
Death's Head II II#9, p5, pan2 (black and gold)
Death's Head II I#2, p3, pan3 (time jump suit, with gas mask)
Death's Head II I#2, p5, pan1 (time jump suit, in action)
Death's Head II I#3, p8, pan3 (Lady Evelyn Clarice Necker of Aym)
Death's Head II II#2, p17, pan6 (A.I.M. armor with helmet (barely seen))
Death's Head II II#6, p12, pan1 (A.I.M. armor)
Death's Head II II#8, p21, pan3 (head shot, triangular goggles)
Death's Head II II#8, p21, pan4 (one arm armored)
Death's Head II II#12, p8, pan1 (green and black armor)
Loose Cannons#2, p16, pan2 (time jump suit, armed)
Loose Cannons#3, p6, pan3 (time jump suit)
Death3#1, p8, pan1 (solid green, gold belt)
Death's Head II I#1, p10, pan2 (AIM, Earth-8410, Executive Committee)
Death's Head II II#7, p19, pan4 (Wadlow, Necker, and Serene)
Death's Head II II#12, p9, pan3 (Serene and AIM troopers)
Death's Head II II#8, p21, pan2 (Pacific Vista Laboratories, California)
Appearances:
Death's Head II I#1 (March, 1992) - Dan Abnett (writer), Liam Sharp (pencils), Andy Lanning & Bambos Georgiou (inks), Steve White (editor)
Death's Head II I#2-3 (April-May, 1992) - Dan Abnett (writer), Liam Sharp (pencils), Andy Lanning (inks), John Freeman (editor)
Death's Head II I#4 (May, 1992) - Dan Abnett (writer), Liam Sharp (pencils/inks), Andy Lanning (inks), John Freeman (editor)
Death's Head II II#2 (January, 1993) - Dan Abnett (writer), Liam Sharp (pencils), Cam Smith & Rod Ramos (inks), John Freeman (editor)
Death's Head II II#3 (February, 1993) - Dan Abnett (writer), Liam Sharp (pencils), Andy Lanning, Rod Ramos & Steve Whitaker (inks), John Freeman (editor)
Death's Head II II#5 (April, 1993) - Dan Abnett (writer), Dell Barras (pencils), Liam Sharp, Andy Lanning & Robin Riggs (inks), John Freeman (editor)
Death's Head II II#6 (May, 1993) - Dan Abnett (writer), Simon Coleby (pencils), Andy Lanning (inks), John Freeman (editor)
Death's Head II II#7 (June, 1993) - Dan Abnett (writer), Simon Coleby (pencils), Sean Hardy & Co. (inks), Stuart Bartlett (editor)
Death's Head II II#8 (July, 1993) - Dan Abnett (writer), Anthony Williams (pencils), Andy Lanning (inks), Stuart Bartlett (editor)
Death's Head II II#10 (September, 1993) - Dan Abnett (writer), Douglas Braithwaite (pencils), Inks Inc. (inks), Stuart Bartlett (editor)
Death's Head II II#11 (October, 1993) - Dan Abnett (writer), Simon Coleby (pencils/inks), Alan Smith (inks), Stuart Bartlett (editor)
Death's Head II II#12 (November, 1993) - Dan Abnett (writer), Salvador Larroca (pencils), Andy Lanning (inks), Stuart Bartlett (editor)
Death3#1 (September, 1993) - Dan Abnett (writer), Dell Barras (artist), Jacqui Papp (editor)
Death3#4 (December, 1993) - Dan Abnett (writer), Dell Barras (artist), Jacqui Papp (editor)
Loose Cannons#1-4 (1993) - Dan Abnett (writer), Mark Harrison (artist)
Death Wreck#1 (January, 1994) - Craig Houston (writer), Stewart Johnson (pencils), Robin Riggs (inks)
Death Wreck#3-4 (March-April, 1994) - Craig Houston (writer), Stewart Johnson (pencils), Martin Griffiths (inks)
FF Fifty Fantastic Years#1 (November, 2011) - Jeff Christiansen, Mike O'Sullivan & Stuart Vandal (head writers/coordinators), Markus Raymond & Mike Fichera (assistant coordinators), Sean McQuaid, Madison Carter, Markus Raymond, Ronald Byrd, Patrick Duke, Kevin Garcia, Anthony Cotilletta, Roger Ott, Rob London, Seth Johnson & Eduardo Frye (writers), Gus Vasquez & Andrew Dalhouse (select character artwork), Theodore W. Kutt (copy editor), James Emmett & Joe Hochstein (editorial assistants), Alex Starbuck & Nelson Ribeiro (assistant editors), Jennifer Grunwald & Mark D. Beazley (editors, special projects), Jeff Youngquist (editor)
First Posted: 08/11/2003
Last updated: 07/21/2026
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