GEIGER

Real Name: Delilah "Dee Dee" Deerborn

Identity/Class: Human Mutate

Occupation: Student

Group Membership: The Initiative

Affiliations: Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady), Bengal, Constrictor, Crusader, Diamondback, Doc Samson, Dragon Lord, Gargoyle, Geldoff, Henry Peter Gyrich, Komodo, Melee, Nighthawk, Polaris, Red Nine, Scarlet Spiders, Trina Sharp, She-Hulk, S.H.I.E.L.D., Stature, Stingray, Taskmaster, 3-D Man (Delroy Garrett), Yellowjacket (Henry Pym) 

Enemies: KIA, Patchwork, Skrulls

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: Once mistaken for Patchwork

Base of Operations: Manhattan 

First Appearance: Doc Samson#1 (1996)

Powers/Abilities: Geiger takes on the powers and personality of any other gamma irradiated being she is within the proximity of. If she is around two of them she will take on the characteristics of the one with stronger gamma readings. This is also her weakness, as it takes a lot of will power to control this ability. She can also look into another gamma being's head and know everything about that being.

History: (Doc Samson#1 (fb) - BTS) - Geiger was a student majoring in physics when she was in an accident involving a gamma accelerator at Empire State University. The accident gave her the ability to copy the powers and mindset of any gamma irradiated being in her proximity.  

(Doc Samson#1) -  Patchwork was within the proximity to Geiger, and Geiger took on his appearance and personality. Doc Samson arrived at the scene and thought Geiger was the real Patchwork. The two began to fight. They fought into a river.

(Doc Samson#2) - The two of them fought back and fourth. Samson went up for a breath of air, but Geiger pulled him under again. Eventually Geiger loosened her grip and started to look like she was changing (unbeknownst to them, it was because Patchwork was absorbing She-Hulk). Samson knocked out Geiger and pulled her out of the river. But Samson immediately knew that it wasn't the killer since the killer was proven to be a man, and he could tell that this was a female creature. The authorities took Geiger to a cell, where Samson discovered the nature of her powers. Geiger started to shed light on what Patchwork was thinking and how his mind worked, when she broke out of the persona of Patchwork. With Samson's help, she started to revert to normal again. Geiger was told that she was not the Patchwork killer (as she thought that she was) and focused on Samson to prevent turning into Patchwork. A mob of people then tried to get in and kill Geiger, since they also thought she was the Patchwork killer. Samson sent them away, and Geiger accidentally looked into Patchwork's mind again and discovered he would strike again the next night.

(Doc Samson#3) - Geiger related her origin to Samson while on patrol for Patchwork. Geiger sensed patchwork and they set off on his trail. They followed him, but it was all a trap, and Patchwork ambushed them. He slashed Geiger, who started to revert to being like Patchwork. To prevent that, Samson made Geiger fall asleep with a post-hypnotic suggestion. Geiger missed out on the fight, which saw Patchwork triumph over Samson and gain another victim.

(Doc Samson#4) - Sharp and Geiger went looking for Samson to find out what to do next. Samson and Geiger go to the headquarters of an adult magazine company since Patchwork's composite corpses had matched centerfolds in that magazine. Samson said that they could lay a trap for Patchwork by getting someone to pose who had a unique attribute that Patchwork would want. He implied that he thought Geiger should pose due to her green hair.

Later, when they got positive ID on Patchwork, Geiger, Sharp, Samson, and Polaris all went to confront him. Patchwork went ape, but Geiger scared him off and made him run away by threatening to expose to him what he was on the inside, since she was in his head and knew everything. After Patchwork fled, Samson thanked Geiger, but requested she left the case and returned to her studies for her own sake. When she returned to the University, everyone asked her about her experiences with Samson and Patchwork. She figured out Patchwork was a photography major at the same school who was always borrowing their gamma accelerator. With that, she discovered his origin. She also discovered that Patchwork had stole some pieces of technology that made gamma bursts. Using that information, Samson was able to stop find and ultimately stop Patchwork. Afterward, Samson gave Geiger a lock of his hair, just in case she ever needed to focus on his energy signature to prevent becoming a monster again.

(Civil War: Battle Damage Report) - Tony Stark considered Geiger as a potential Initiative recruit.

(Avengers: The Initiative#8 (fb)) - Geiger was drafted into the Initiative, and arrived in a busful of new recruits including Ant-Man, the Crusader, Melee, Geldoff, Dragon Lord, Red Nine and Diamondback. Taskmaster inspected the recruits as they arrived, introducing himself as their drill instructor. Geiger and the other recruits scattered when Ant-Man wound up in a fight with fellow recruit Stature.

(Avengers: The Initiative#9 (fb)) - Geiger and the other new cadets were pitted against Taskmaster and quickly beaten by him in battle. Later, Taskmaster brought them to the combat simulator room to test their abilities against robots, but the rampaging clone KIA burst in. Geiger joined the other cadets in attacking KIA.

(Avengers: The Initiative#9) - Taskmaster found Geiger's unconscious body after her defeat at KIA's hands.

(Avengers: The Initiative#10) - Ant-Man crawled out from under Geiger's unconscious body and selfishly chose to sit the fight out with Taskmaster rather than face KIA again.

(Avengers: The Initiative#12) - Geiger accompanied Triathlon, Taskmaster and her fellow cadets as Dragon Lord's remains were delivered to his family.

(Avengers: The Initiative#14) - Geiger was present at Camp Hammond when 3-D Man appeared to warn the Initiative about the Skrull infiltration in their ranks, but due to a deception by Crusader he was led to believe that everyone at Camp Hammond - including Geiger - was a Skrull.

(Avengers: The Initiative#15) - Geiger was sent into battle with the rest of the active Initiative cadets to defend New York against an army of powerful "Super-Skrull" agents.

Comments: Created by Dan Slott and Ken Lashley

Thanks to Leader's Lair, for saving me the time I would have taken scanning these pictures myself. 

Geiger is among the Gamma Mutates in World War Hulk: The Gamma Files.

PROFILE BY STUNNER with Prime Eternal

CLARIFICATIONS: None

Appearances:
Doc Samson I#1 (January, 1996) - Dan Slott (writer), Ken Lashley (pencils), Tom Wegrzyn & Art Nichols (inks), Chris Cooper (editor)
Doc Samson I#2 (February, 1996) - Dan Slott (writer), Ken Lashley, Steve Geiger & Roberto Flores (pencils), Jaime Mendoza, Robert Helden & Dan Panosian (inks), Chris Cooper (editor)
Doc Samson I#3 (March, 1996) - Dan Slott & Evan Skolnick (writers), Andrew Wildman & Roberto Flores (pencils), Ralph Cabrera & Brad Vancata (inks), Chris Cooper (editor)
Doc Samson I#4 (April, 1996) - Dan Slott & Evan Skolnick (writers), Roberto Flores, Andrew Wildman & Joe Bennett (pencils), Brad Vancata (inks), Chris Cooper (editor)
Civil War: Battle Damage Report (2007)
Avengers: The Initiative#8-10 (February-May, 2008) - Dan Slott, Christos N. Gage (writers), Stefano Caselli (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers: The Initiative#12 (June, 2008) - Dan Slott, Christos N. Gage (writers), Steve Uy (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers: The Initiative#14 (August, 2008) - Dan Slott, Christos N. Gage (writers), Stefano Caselli (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers: The Initiative#15 (September, 2008) - Dan Slott, Christos N. Gage (writers), Harvey Tolibao (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)