REANIMATOR

Real Name: Unknown

Identity/Class: Mutant

Occupation: Thief

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: None (see comments for list of robots used)

Enemies: New Warriors, Nightcrawler, Nova (Rich Rider), Wolverine, Wolverine imposter (Skrull)

Known Relatives: none

Aliases: none

Base of Operations: a junkyard in New York

First Appearance: Wolverine II#140 (July, 1999)

Powers/Abilities: Has the ability to control robots and other mechanical devices, most likely through a specified form of telekinetics.

History: (Wolverine II#140) - Watched as Wolverine (actually a Skrull posing as Wolverine) and Nightcrawler arrived at his junkyard headquarters, tracking reported sightings of Magneto. He then attacked the two X-Men with a large array of his robots, including a Magneto double. The heroes destroyed the robots, but left without confronting Reanimator.

(Nova III#3 - BTS) - Sent robot doubles of The Red Skull and The Hulk, as well as The Quintronic Man, to rob banks and armored cars. All three were stopped by Nova. Another of Reanimator’s robots, H.E.R.B.I.E., observed the battle with Quintronic Man.

(Nova III#5 -BTS) - Reanimator’s H.E.R.B.I.E. unit continued to observe Nova.

(Nova III#7) - Revealed to be behind the H.E.R.B.I.E. unit following Nova, threatened revenge on him.

(Wolverine II#149) - The real Wolverine went to the junkyard after learning of Nightcrawler and the Skrull imposter’s incident there. He came upon Reanimator, who panicked when he saw that Nova was arriving (having followed Wolverine). The two heroes were then drawn into battle with the remaining robots under Reanimator’s control. Nova called in The New Warriors to help, and shortly thereafter, Reanimator lost control of the robots due to the effects of the High Evolutionary wiping out all mutant powers. The robots were destroyed, and Reanimator was arrested.

 

 




 

Comments: Created by Erik Larsen.

It is assumed Reanimator got his mutant abilities back along with the rest of mutantkind.

It should be noted that, to add confusion to the situation, a second H.E.R.B.I.E. unit, still working under the programming of the Fantastic Four, appeared in Nova III#4.

How Reanimator managed to gather this many robots without anyone noticing is anyone’s guess. Included among his collection were:

Much thanks to Prime Eternal for I.D.'ing a good number of these.

I'd like to think the Sentinel that Reanimator had is the same one that showed up recently in the SENTINEL series

by Madison Carter

CLARIFICATIONS:

Reanimator should not be confused with:

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Other appearances:
Nova III#3 (July, 1999) - Erik Larsen (writer), Joe Bennett (pencils), Armando Durruthy (inks), Ruben Diaz (editor)
Nova III#5 (September, 1999) - Erik Larsen (writer), Coy Turnbull (pencils), Erik Larsen & Al Milgrom (inks), Ruben Diaz (editor)
Nova III#7 (November, 1999) - Erik Larsen (writer), Joe Bennett (pencils), Eduardo Alpuente & Al Milgrom (inks), Ruben Diaz (editor)
Wolverine II#149 (April, 2000) - Jimmy Palmiotti (writer), Sean Chen (pencils), Graham Nolan (inks), Mark Powers (editor)

Last updated: 12/28/04

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