BLACK CURATOR BLACK CURATOR
Real Name: Unrevealed;
possibly Black Curator
Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (Matricca Scoppio) robot/android/construct (possibly alternate future - see comments)
Occupation: Guardian and curator of Orgolhuin/Black Museum;
re-programmed (possibly temporarily as servant of Die-Cut (Czorn Yson)
Group Membership: Cyborgs of Matricca Scoppio
Affiliations: Cyborgs of Matricca Scoppio
Enemies: Death's Head (Minion), Die-Cut, Tuck;
organic/biologic lifeforms in general
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None known
Base of Operations: Orgolhuin/Black Museum, Matricca Scoppio (possibly alternate future - see comments)
First Appearance: Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (August, 1993)
Powers/Abilities: A robotic being, the Black Curator serves as the guide and
protector of Orgolhuin.
Like the cyborgs who created him,
he viewed "skin systems" (biological lifeforms) as flawed, corrupt, and
"buggy."
It further considered that they were paranoid ego-victims who
created nasty waste products, invented strange religions, had dangerous
dream, told lies, and owed money.
It alter its shape at will and has an
unspecified level of superhuman strength (perhaps lifting 100 tons or more when in its enhanced form).
It can reform when destroyed, allegedly
100x more powerful than before.
It's enhanced form could form a cage with its
fingers to contain a superhuman human-sized form, and it could extend crystal
filaments that could grafting
themselves to its captive such that the captive might die if someone
tried to free the captive; however, Die-Cut's Pscythe was able to sever
filaments and case without harming the captive.
It can be reprogrammed to alter its loyalties.
crystal filaments were grafting themselves to her such that she might die if he tried to free her, Die-Cut shattered the cage with his Pscythe, safely freeing her.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately )
History:
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (fb) -
BTS) - Assigned to preside in and protect the Black Museum for
eternity, the Black Curator considered this curse and welcomed death
while believing it to be an impossibility.
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#1) -
Having accessed the Black Museum's Biobank and taken control of Death's
Head's body, Czorn Yson programmed the Biobank to
form a new body for him. When the Black Curator attempted to
stop him from utilizing the Biobank, Yson had Death's Head blow its
head off. As the head's pieces reassembled, the Curator advised Death's
Head that while it considered it kind of him to seek to destroy it, it
was doomed to preside in the museum for eternity, with no escape
clause. It further advised Death's Head that if it smashed him, it
would simply come back 100-times stronger. Countering that it was
childish to exaggerate, Yson (in Death's Head form) shattered the Curator's body.
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 - BTS) -
Transmitting his original genetic
imprint via Death's Head's cranial syphon, Yson also used the museum's
imaging systems and resource tanks to create the Pscythe weapon he had
long visualized. Once fully re-formed, however, Yson, renaming himself
Die-Cut, attacked Death's Head.
While fighting fiercely to hold
off the cyborgs, Tuck realized that she apparently had been infected
with Perfection as well.
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#2 (fb) - BTS) - Re-forming as predicted, the Black Curator captured Tuck.
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#2) -
With Tuck imprisoned within its hand, the Black Curator -- backed by a
number of cyborgs -- interrupted the battle between Death's Head and
Die-Cut, advising them that it had returned, enhanced one hundred-fold. It
instructed them that while it did not bear grudges, when someone
shattered it into tiny pieces, it became his enemy, and it warned them
that their puny defense was at an end.
After Tuck told Death's Head that she had been
infected with
Perfection and that the Curator's crystal filaments were grafting
themselves to her such that she might die if he tried to free her,
Die-Cut shattered the cage with his Pscythe, safely freeing her. When
the Black Curator recognized Die-Cut as an "unholy skin-system," it
turned its enhanced power on Die-Cut and smashed
him against the wall with a giant fist. Appreciating the danger,
Die-Cut resolved to honor his original deal with Death's Head, who tore
through the Curator's wrist,
freeing Die-Cut.
The Curator then turned on Death's Head, smashing him
back, while Tuck fought the cyborgs. Allowing his allies-of-convenience
to provide the distraction, Die-Cut accessed the exhibit programs of
the most hostile environments their race had ever encountered, and then
spliced a simulator-lead into the main computer, created an
"enviro-ball" of the frigid ice-storm environment from Zeta Two that
threatened all within, after which he opened a reality warp through
which he, Death's Head, and Tuck escaped.
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#2 (fb) - BTS) - The Black Curator was frozen within the enviro-ball.
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#2) -
After the trio had regrouped and
the enviro-ball burnt itself out, Die-Cut brought himself and his
associates back into the Black Museum where he used his pscythe to
reprogram the Black Curator to serve them; during the process, Die-Cut
(at least feigning it to be an accident) hit a nerve that caused the
Curator's hand to strike out and punch Death's Head.
After Die-Cut was
finished, at Death's Head's request, the
Curator took them to the cure the cyborgs had for Perfection. As they
descended via an express elevator, the
Curator explained that the Museum itself possessed a stasis spell
woven throughout the fabric of
all within: Once inside, no exhibit may wear, transmute, or
bio-degrade.
Unwilling to wait for the 60 minute entry sequence into
the catacombs, Death's Head ripped the vault door open, after which
they observed the "terminals," those otherwise dying and diseased beings who had bought
themselves a place within the museum, gaining immortality via the
stasis field. He clarified,"...there is no cure for Perfection to be stolen...the Museum itself is the antidote."
When Tuck asked if her only hope was to stay
there, in "this standing-room-only Hell?" The Curator replied that
sometimes in life the cure was no better than the disease."
The maddened exhibit beings
attacked the new arrivals, feeling that they had been deceived and
demanding to be let out. Death's Head convinced Die-Cut to join him in
cutting a way out of the catacombs and letting the lunatics loose on
the cyborg city.
Comments: Created by Glenn Dakin and John Royle under the Marvel UK imprint.
In repeatedly reviewing the profiles involving
Matricca Scoppio, I have come to the conclusion that the Matricca
Scoppio seen in Motormouth & Killpower is most likely the past
version of the Matricca Scoppio seen in Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut.
While we only see a tiny portion of the world in
Motormouth & Killpower, the people there are...people...many of
them have tech-glasses and/or minor bionic enhancements, but they are
largely flesh. The "cyborgs" in Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut look to be robotic, to the point where you wonder if there is anything organic.
Additionally, Lionheart, from which Death's Head and
Tuck are sent to Matricca Scoppio, takes place in the the year 3442
A.D. in Reality-12892. It makes good sense that the whole adventure
took place in that future reality/time, including Die-Cut's history.
After expanding to the Black Museum profile to
current Appendix standards, I will discuss the matter further in the
Matricca Scoppio profile.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Black Curator should be distinguished from:
Appearances:
Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (August, 1993) - Glenn Dakin (script), John Royle (art), Jacqui Papp (editor)
Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#2 (September, 1993) - Glenn Dakin (script), John Royle (penciler), Sean Hardy (inker), Jacqui Papp (editor)
First posted: 09/29/2023
Last updated: 10/06/2023
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