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First Appearance: Giant-Size Prototype#1/2 (October, 1994)

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Powers/Abilities: The Hundred Legs of Death was an immense robot centipede that looked to have close to 27 segments and 50 legs, one leg each on either side of its 50 body segments, with a head and tail segment as its first and last segments, respectively.

    Its head has a pair of powerful hemi-mandible-like structures, although they do seem to originate from the lateral portions of its upper/maxillary region, while in its rostral maxillary region had a set of buzz-saws where incisor teeth would be present in a person.
    It may also have buzzsaws on the back (closer to the mouth) of its "mandibles."

    Its head had a large central red square slightly rostral (in front of) the chamber in which its watermelon-sized brain was contained, and a pair of long antennae-like structures, presumably providing some form of sensory input.

    Its body was covered with an undefined metal, which was durable, but vulnerable to Arena's energy-sword and sustained blasts from Rangers' gauntlets. Its armor is apparently more easily damaged from internal attack.
    The creature screeched in pain when its body was damaged.

    Its screech was very painful to unprotected human ears.

    Its size, mass, durability and the speed it could generate allowed it to smash through the roof of a building.

    It could physically consume an adult person, and if that person bypassed the buzz saw blades on its upper "jaw," the person would be trapped within some sort of internal "esophagus" tunnel, unless he or she could penetrate the armor. Smashing out through the armor from this "esophagus" would damage its main conduits, causing it to lose control of its body.

    It could also use its caudal/rear segments or its central region to swat a target.

    It is unrevealed if the rest of the body beyond the brain is robotic or whether there is other organic material within (some foul-smelling organic material was released when Ranger blasted open the chamber containing its brain, but the brain appeared to be otherwise intact).

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History:

(Giant-Size Prototype#1/2 (fb) - BTS) - The Southeast Asian high-tech crime cartel known as the Techuza pumped a human brain with steroids, mutated it -- via gestation tanks previously created by Arena -- and then amputated it and transplanted it into an immense centipede robot body.

(Giant-Size Prototype#1/2 (fb) - BTS) - Seeking vengeance on her for leaving them, the Techuza sent the Hundred Legs of Death to assassinate Arena.

    Caught by surprise and apparently begin to exhaust her power in battle against her attacker, Arena fled to the house of her old rival, Bob Campbell.

(Giant-Size Prototype#1/2) - Flying over Campbell's home, the Hundred Legs of Death screeched, paining Campbell before smashing its face through his roof and then swatting Arena outside.

    She struck its mouth parts with her sword and then buried her sword in the top of its head, causing it to screech in pain.

    Thrown to the ground and losing her sword in the process, Arena futilely fired the last of her photonic blasts into its face before the creature bit down on her.

    Having changed into his Ranger armor, Campbell blasted the creature repeatedly (including hitting the sword buried in its head) until it screamed and released Arena.

    Ranger then slammed into the creature's head, minimally phasing it, and it swatted him away with its tail.

    After Ranger slammed to the ground, the creature ignored blasts to its face and swallowed him hole. However, Ranger blasted out from its interior, damaging some of its main conduits and causing it to lose control of its body in the process.

    As it writhed uncontrollably, Ranger than repeated fired blasts from his gauntlets into the top of its head, eventually blasting through its brain case and damaging its brain.

    It then collapsed to the ground, apparently deceased.

(Freex#15 / Ultraverse Premiere#9/2 - BTS) - Ranger took the wounded Arena to an Aladdin facility where Felicia Campbell helped heal her.