MATRICCA SCOPPIOMATRICCA SCOPPIO
Official Name: Matricca Scoppio
Nature: Extraterrestrial planet, on the outer gas rim of the Crab Nebula, Milky Way Galaxy (see comments);
possibly also an alternate reality future version, circa year 3442
A.D. in Reality-12892 (see comments)
Environment: "Type 3" (with a life-sustaining biosphere)
Gravity: Presumably possessed a gravitational field in which it was
comfortable for humans to function (no one traveling there commented on it being different than what they were used to)
Atmosphere: An unspecified combination of gases (presumably mostly nitrogen and oxygen) since it can be breathed by humans
Natural Satellites: At least one, possibly two (the larger yellow one may or may not be a sun vs. a second moon)
Artificial Satellites: None shown
Natives: A number of humanoid beings were seen in the Motormouth & Killpower story;
apparently only cyborgs existed in the Death's Head & Die-Cut story
Population: Unrevealed;
ACE Corporation (notably Mr. Asuza, Yahn Cobert, Mr. Thule, Watcher), Bad Boys (Hadrian, Little Pieces, Plastique), Dove Soldiers (Farcus, Jo-Jo, Kozinski);
(presumably in the future of 3442 A.D. in Reality-12892) Cyborgs
Capital City: Unrevealed
Government: Unrevealed;
(presumably in the future of
3442 A.D. in Reality-12892) presumably some sort of technocracy and/or
hive-mind intelligence
Languages: Unrevealed
Monetary Unit: Unrevealed
National Defense: Unrevealed;
(presumably in the future of 3442 A.D. in Reality-12892) the cyborgs attacked invaders
Major Resources: ACE (Asuza Cynergetic Engineering) Corporation, ;
(presumably in the future of 3442 A.D. in Reality-12892) Cyborgs
Planetary Defense: Unrevealed;
(presumably in the future of 3442 A.D. in Reality-12892) the cyborgs attacked invaders
Places of Interest: Orgolhuin, the Black Museum of the Cyborgs
Prominent Residents: ACE Corporation, Cyborgs, "Terminals"
Visitors: Death's Head (Minion), Die-Cut (Czorn Yson), Tuck,
Aliases: The Factory Planet
First Appearance: (Unidentified; as "unnamed green Class Three planet in the outer rim of the Crab Nebula): Overkill#6 (July 3, 1992);
(identified) Motormouth#5 (October, 1992);
(seen) Motormouth & Killpower#6 (November, 1992)
History:
(Motormouth & Killpower#6 (fb) - BTS) - Matricca Scoppio was known as a legendary factory planet.
(Motormouth & Killpower#1 (fb) - BTS / Motormouth & Killpower#7 (fb) - BTS) - On Matricca Scoppio, the ACE Corporation developed the phase unit technology, which was stolen by Mys-Tech Warheads.
(Motormouth & Killpower#1 (fb) - BTS) - Mys-Tech designated the phase unit technology as MOPED (Mind Operated PErsonal Dematerialization) units.
(Motormouth & Killpower#5 - BTS) - After Motormouth destroyed a robotic attacker, Killpower read a label on its remnants:
"ACE Corporation
Matricca Scoppio"
...and he recognized the group as the people who had made the MOPED
(Mind Operated PErsonal Dematerialization) technology that they both possessed.
Using that
technology, Motormouth initiated a transport to Matricca Scoppio.
(Motormouth & Killpower#6) - Unaware that they were being tracked by Mys-Tech, Motormouth and Killpower materialized on Matricca Scoppio, which Motormouth considered looked more like "Lawrence of *&^%$ Arabia on acid" (there was also a symbol for what I think is that British pound at the end of the expletive, but I don't have that symbol on my keyboard, and it would probably show up as an error on the page once it was uploaded, anyway).
(Motormouth & Killpower#6 - BTS) - On Earth Mys-Tech agent reported the two's location to Techno-Wizard Gudrun Tyburn who instructed that the coordinates be given to the Psycho-Warriors and for them to be sent there now.
(Motormouth & Killpower#6) - The
ACE Corporation witnessed their arrival and the subsequent arrival of
Mys-Tech's Psycho-Warriors, who captured Killpower and returned to
Earth.
The ACE Corporation sent the Dove Soldiers...
(Motormouth & Killpower#7) -
...who
failed to capture Motormouth, and the Bad Boys, who succeeded, only for
the ACE Corporation's Mr. Asuza to remove her muzzle/gag and be
decapitated by her sonic powers; Motormouth subsequently transported
back to Earth.
(Death's Head & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (fb) -
BTS) - The cyborgs of Matricca Scoppio started out with a "Flesh Age,"
in which their ancestors were completely biologic.
(Death's Head & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (fb) - BTS) - The cyborgs looked back on the "Flesh Age," with disgust. They viewed such biologic/human limitations, such as vulnerability, dependence, and biological chance with almost superstitious horror.
(Death's Head & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (fb) -
BTS) - The cyborgs built Orgolhuin, the Black Museum, containing the
history and stages of their existence. 
(Death's Head & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (fb) - BTS) - From his nightmares, from memories stolen from corpses, and from stories his mom told him as a kid, Czorn Yson of the Ganalon knew of Matricca Scoppio.
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (fb) -
BTS) - Time jumpers reported that a cure for the Perfection plague
would be found by the cyborgs of Matricca Scoppio.
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (fb) -
BTS) - Lady Anula summoned Death's Head (Minion) and Tuck to Lionheart,
hiring them to travel to Matricca Scoppio to find a cure for
Perfection, with which she was afflicted.
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#1) -
Death's Head and Tuck battled cyborgs on Matricca Scoppio, during which
the cyborgs introduced a purging infestation into Death's Head's
system. Designed to purify him from within, it would eliminate any
glitches it encountered in his body or mind, including eradicating his
personality.
Death's Head rallied from the initial effects with Tuck's aid, and they
attempted to abandon the contract and flee, but they found the cyborgs
had neutralized Death's Head's timebelt. As they battled another wave of
cyborgs that threatened to overwhelm them, Death's Head sought
assistance from Czorn Yson, one of the 105 being's whose minds he had
incorporated (killing those beings in the process) with his cranial
syphon. 
Possessing memories of Matricca
Scoppio, Yson guided Death's Head to Orgolhuin (the Black Museum of the
cyborgs), in the process taking control of Death's Head's form.
Yson/Death's Head led Tuck within, while the cyborgs pursuing them were reluctant to
enter the place that was a "House of Horror" to them.
Noting that the
cyborgs would eventually follow, Yson instructed Tuck to guard their
backs, and he continued on to the Vaults of Forbidden Knowledge, which Yson had Death's Head program to
form a new body for him, in which he later claimed the identity Die-Cut.
When the museum's Black Curator attempted to
stop him, Yson had Death's Head blow its head off and shatter its body.
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) - Re-forming, the Black Curator captured Tuck.
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#2) -
Overwhelmed by the Black Curator and a group of cyborgs, Die-Cut spliced together a simulator to form an
"enviro-ball," with 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.
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 reprogrammed the Black Curator to serve them. At their request, the
Curator took them to the "cure" the cyborgs had for Perfection: The
Museum itself possessed a stasis spell woven throughout the fabric of
all within; once inside, no exhibit may wear, transmute, or
bio-degrade.
Entering the catacombs, they observed those otherwise dying and diseased beings ("terminals") who had bought
themselves a place within the museum, gaining immortality via the
stasis field.
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. 
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#2 - BTS) - Having returned to Lionheart, Death's Head and Tuck learned that the Perfection Virus she had developed was just a temporary simulation, caused by Anula to give them motivation to find the cure.
Comments: Created by Graham Marks, Gary Frank, Dave Taylor, and Cam Smith under the Marvel UK imprint.
What's in a name?
Where is Matricca Scoppio?
When is Matricca Scoppio?
A lot of additional detail is covered under the groups, beings, locations, etc. that have links in the top headings, so please be sure to check those out.
The cyborgs could have their own profile at some point, if'n someone else gets a hankerin' to do so!
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Matricca Scoppio has no known connections to:
 
(Death's Head & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (fb) -
BTS) - The cyborgs of Matricca Scoppio started out with a "Flesh Age,"
in which their ancestors were completely biologic. (Death's Head & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (fb) - BTS) - The cyborgs looked back on the "Flesh Age," with disgust. They viewed such biologic/human limitations, such as vulnerability, dependence, and biological chance with almost superstitious horror. (Death's Head & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (fb) - BTS) - The cyborgs built Orgolhuin, the Black Museum, containing the history and stages of their existence. (Death's Head & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (fb) - BTS) - From his nightmares, from memories stolen from corpses, and from stories his mom told him as a kid, Czorn Yson of the Ganalon knew of Matricca Scoppio. (Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (fb) -
BTS) - Time jumpers reported that a cure for the Perfection plague
would be found by the cyborgs of Matricca Scoppio. (Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#1) - Death's Head and Tuck battled cyborgs on Matricca Scoppio, during which the cyborgs introduced a purging infestation into Death's Head's system. Designed to purify him from within, it would eliminate any
glitches it encountered in his body or mind, including eradicating his
personality. Death's Head rallied from the initial effects with Tuck's aid, and they
attempted to abandon the contract and flee, but they found the cyborgs
had neutralized Death's Head's timebelt. As they battled another wave of
cyborgs that threatened to overwhelm them, Death's Head sought
assistance from Czorn Yson, one of the 105 being's whose minds he had
incorporated (killing those beings in the process) with his cranial
syphon. Possessing memories of Matricca
Scoppio, Yson guided Death's Head to Orgolhuin (the Black Museum of the
cyborgs), in the process taking control of Death's Head's form.
Yson/Death's Head led Tuck within, while the cyborgs pursuing them were reluctant to
enter the place that was a "House of Horror" to them. Noting that the
cyborgs would eventually follow, Yson instructed Tuck to guard their
backs, and he continued on to the Vaults of Forbidden Knowledge, which Yson had Death's Head program to
form a new body for him, in which he later claimed the identity Die-Cut. When the museum's Black Curator attempted to
stop him, Yson had Death's Head blow its head off and shatter its body.
(Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#2) - Re-forming, the Black Curator captured Tuck. (Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#2) -
Overwhelmed by the Black Curator and a group of cyborgs, Die-Cut spliced together a simulator to form an
"enviro-ball," with 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. 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 reprogrammed the Black Curator to serve them. At their request, the
Curator took them to the "cure" the cyborgs had for Perfection: The
Museum itself possessed a stasis spell woven throughout the fabric of
all within; once inside, no exhibit may wear, transmute, or
bio-degrade. Entering the catacombs, they observed those otherwise dying and diseased beings ("terminals") who had bought
themselves a place within the museum, gaining immortality via the
stasis field. --Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#1 (2 Note: It seems to be that the cyborgs who assaulted Ganalus and the Ganalons were from Matricca Scoppio. If so: (Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#2 (fb)) - On Ganalus, the Ganalons fought a centuries-long war against a cyborg race (see comments). Czorn Yson was eventually captured
by his cyborg or robotic enemies who intended to use his creative human
genius to spark their stagnant science. To prevent his captors from
understanding his mind and gaining control of it, Czorn pretended to be
insane, even laughing while watching his comrades being tortured. All the while, Czorn secretly
studied his captor's technology and theorized on how to develop the
ultimate bladed weapon. Eventually succumbing to insanity and losing his will to live, Czorn was happy when Minion (later Death's Head) slew him and absorbed his mind. |
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images: (without ads)
Motormouth & Killpower#6, pg. 2, city/village (domes in and around rocky mountains);
Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut#1, pg. 1, panel 1 (cyborgs fighting Death's Head);
pg. 2, panel 3 (topknot cyborg confronting Death's Head);
pg. 7, panel 1 (cityscape);
pg. 12, panel 2 (similar cityscape, with speech balloons blocking things);
panel 4 (crossing skywalk in city);
#2, pg. 4 (cyborgs alongside the Black Curator)
Appearances:
Overkill#6 (July 3, 1992) MOPED file - presumably
written by Motormouth writer Graham Marks or Overkill editor John
Freeman; apparently Gary Frank (penciler), Cam Smith (inker)
No credits are listed - the art looks to come
from the main series so probably Gary Frank (pencils) and Cam Smith (inks). I'd
imagine the text is either from series writer Graham Marks or the title's
editor John Freeman--Loki
Motormouth#1 (June, 1992) - Graham Marks (writer), Gary Frank (pencils), Cam Smith (inks), Jacqui Papp (editor)
Motormouth#3 (August, 1992) - Graham Marks (writer), Gary Frank (pencils), Cam Smith (inks), Jacqui Papp (editor)
Motormouth#5 (October, 1992) - Graham
Marks (writer), Phil Gascoine (penciler), Cam Smith
(inker), Jacqui Papp (editor)
Motormouth & Killpower#6 (November, 1992) -
Graham Marks (writer), Gary Frank (and Dave Taylor) (pencilers), Cam
Smith (inker), Jacqui Papp (editor)
Motormouth & Killpower#7 (December, 1992) -
Graham Marks (writer), Edmund Perryman (penciler), Cam
Smith & Bambos Georgiou (inkers), Jacqui Papp (editor)
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: 10/06/2023
Last updated: 10/06/2023
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