MISS CHIU
Real Name: Chiu (given name unrevealed)
Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Earth-93060/Ultraverse) human cyborg (citizen of China)
Occupation: Weapon;
formerly computer programmer
Group Membership: Playgo America
Affiliations: Dr. Hwa, Wong Ten Yu (loose);
formerly Sludge (all Earth-93060)
Enemies: Pistol, Lord
Pumpkin, Det. Niall Quinn, Shelley Rogers, Sludge (all
Earth-93060)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Manhattan, New York, USA
(Earth-93060)
formerly Shanghai, China
First Appearance: Sludge#6 (March, 1994)
Powers/Abilities: Chiu is a brilliant computer
programmer. In her final days, she was transformed into a cyborg with a
targeting computer and multiple targeting viewer in her left eye. She
has enhanced strength plus rocket jets in her boots for short-distance
propulsion. She perceives, analyzes and adapts to an opponent's
weaknesses. Her body has been almost completely replaced with
mechanical parts, notably her heart and many bodily fluids. Cables from
her skull can be jacked into a computer for immediate data download and
upload. She is silent and has no larynx. Since her mechanical
transformation, she displays virtually nothing of her past personality.
She has a remote datalink to those who remade her, who also had a
powerful explosive device implanted inside her.
Height: 6'
(original human form 5'1")
Weight: Unrevealed (possibly
~600 lbs.) (original human form 110 lbs.)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: None (formerly brown)
History:
(Sludge#9 (fb) - BTS) - Miss Chiu was one of the
finest computer programmers in Shanghai, China.
(Sludge#6 (fb) - BTS) - Corrupt Chinese industrialist Wong Ten Yu of the recreational electronics firm Playgo America (a subsidiary of the corrupt Dragonfang organization) had illegal Chinese immigrant workers, including Chiu, secretly brought into the USA, partly as a slavery ring.
(Sludge#6) - One boat carrying illegal Chinese workers exploded, apparently killing all onboard except computer programmer Miss Chiu, who was saved from drowning by the malformed hero Sludge. However, as Sludge pulled her back to land, he unwittingly horribly mutated her wrist where he had held her.
(Sludge#6 (fb) - BTS) - Chiu was transferred to the
INS (American immigration government agency and hospitalized.
Meanwhile, Wong considered criminal rivals John Paul Marcello or Lord
Pumpkin may have caused the ship's explosion and investigated. Wong and
ordered Chiu's covert release to help continue research into the
dangerous drug Zuke.
(Sludge#8) - Tseng of Playgo went to
Mercy General
Hospital to kidnap Chiu with express instructions not to damage her
mutated arm due to Sludge's unique properties. Later, at Playgo's
medical labs led by Dr. Hwa, they began experimenting and transforming
Chiu with cyborg implants. Her heart arteries were severed and a new
C1550 device implanted. Despite her below average height and weight,
she adapted well (likely due to Sludge's enduring transformative touch).
(Sludge#9 (fb) - BTS) - The surgery was successfully
completed, including Wong's insisted removal of her larynx so she
couldn't talk to the INS.
(Sludge#9) - Hwa displayed the now-cyborg Chiu,
connected with cables to computers, to Wong and their corrupt police
aid, Detective Quinn. Considering Quinn of no further use, Wong ordered
Chiu kill the cop, and she quickly ripped out his spine. Satisfied with
her killing prowess, Wong sent her to kill his rivals before
progressing to Lord Pumpkin. In a loose alliance with Lord Pumpkin,
Sludge tried to stop her but was shocked she could injure him. Slapping
lackey Pistol aside, Chiu targeted and extinguished Lord Pumpkin's
candle, seemingly killing him (actually only incapacitating him). Wong
spoke remotely through Chiu's cyborg body to gloat and activated the
one-minute countdown to self-destruct. Sludge, Lord Pumpkin's prisoner
reporter Shelley Rogers and Pistol escaped. Chiu exploded, destroying
Lord Pumpkin's base.
Comments:
Her heart arteries were surgically severed and a
"C1550" device implanted before skull surgery began. The nearest I
could find on c1550 was the Ancient Egyptian Ebers Papyrus
scroll, which described ancient Egyptian medical practices, notably the
heart. In this case, c1550 relates to circa 1550 BC. This may all be
just a coincidence.
I'm not sure why she had to have the high heels and cables/pipes running to certain body parts, but hey, it was the '90s.
Profile by Grendel Prime.
CLARIFICATIONS
:
Chiu has no known connections to:
images:
(without ads)
Sludge#9, p17, pan2 (main image, cyborg form still connected to
computers)
Sludge#6, p15, pan3 (headshot, human form)
Sludge#9, p21, pan1 (cyborg, back view)
Appearances:
Sludge#6 (March 1994) - Steve Gerber (writer), Aaron Lopresti
(pencils), Gary Martin (inks), Chris Ulm (editor)
Sludge#8 (July, 1994) - Steve Gerber (writer), Aaron Lopresti
(pencils), Gary Martin (inks), Chris Ulm (editor)
Sludge#9
(September, 1994) - Steve Gerber (writer), Robb Phipps (pencils), Jeff
Whiting, Dave Simons & Bruce McCorkle (inks), Roland Mann &
Phil Crain (editors)
First posted: 02/10/2024
Last updated:
02/10/2024
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
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