BLACK SWAN
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Human mutant;
citizen of Germany
Occupation: Assassin
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None;
formerly Black Box (Garabed Bashur), Deadpool ("Wade Wilson"), Nijo;
former employees Tyrell Farsa, Taskmaster (Tony Masters),
Enemies: Agent X (Alex Hayden), Black Box (Garabed Bashur), Sandi Brandenberg, Deadpool ("Wade Wilson"), Tyrell Farsa, Outlaw (Inez Temple), Ratbag, Taskmaster (Tony Masters)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Presumably Mobile;
formerly an unnamed castle in Germany
First Appearance: Deadpool III#65 (May, 2002)
Powers/Abilities: Originally, the Black Swan had the telepathic ability to enter anothers mind and unleash viruses into their brains, similar to a computer virus that infects a computer, only in the brain. The viruses affect the brain by erasing and corrupting memories and knowledge. They also affect the motor functions of those affected. The viruses eventually leave the victim helpless and nearly brain dead.
When he had acquired some of the traits of Deadpool due to the merging of his, Nijos, and Deadpools minds, he was able to heal at an accelerated rate.
Upon absorbing the powers of both Deadpool and Agent X into himself, he possessed nearly godlike psychic abilities, able to mentally force others to do his bidding and incapacitate others from varying distances. He could also fly, most likely via telekinesis, and could survive having a hole punched through his stomach, most likely due to his absorption of Deadpools healing factor.
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 210 lbs.
Eyes: Variable (with black sclera); formerly light brown
Hair: Dark brown, with graying temples
History:
(Deadpool Corps: Rank and Foul#1) - Black Swan was raised in the Bavarian Alps as an assassin, his aristocratic family's profession for roughly 300 years.
(Deadpool III#68 (fb)) - A mercenary named Tyrell Farsa took a hit to win a prize horse,
bringing him into conflict with the Black Swan and the Taskmaster. During
the hit, a coup began in the country they were fighting in and it ended up
being the three of them versus around seventy soldiers. Taskmaster and Farsa
survived the coup and made it back to their departure point before the Black
Swan did. Farsa decided to investigate Swans briefcase, only to find
that it contained toiletries such as a hairbrush, a handkerchief, razorblades,
a comb, etc. The Black Swan then arrived and demanded that Farsa cease his
rummaging. Farsa replied with a sarcastic sure and then blew
his nose on the Black Swans handkerchief. Angered, the Black Swan infected
Farsa with a brain virus and smacked Taskmaster in the throat with his cane.
The Black Swan then left the scene, leaving a choking Taskmaster and a feverish,
mentally unstable Farsa behind. Farsa was left a paralyzed man who could
not feed himself, go to the bathroom without help, or even look a picture
of a swan without crying.
(Deadpool III#65) - After Deadpool came crashing through a restaurant rooftop,
killing the rival gangsters known as the Four Winds, the Black Swan was seen
holding a gun inside the restaurant. His appearance went mostly unnoticed
as the Four Winds lackeys focused much of their attention on Deadpool,
who had shot each of the Four Winds during his entrance.
After gaining such notoriety for killing the Four Winds, Deadpool decided
to form Deadpool, Inc., a mercenary for hire business. His first customer
phoned Deadpool, claiming that his talent was needed in Germany to kill a
man who had killed innocent children. Upon arriving in Germany, Deadpool
discovered that his victim was the Black Swan. The Black Swan also informed
Deadpool that he was the one who called him as well. Swan claimed that
assassination used to be a noble profession and that assassination had run
in his family for three hundred years. Swan claimed that Deadpool was making
the profession look bad. He explained that he was under contract to kill
the Four Winds until Deadpool ruined it with his capering and stupidity.
Black Swan then proceeded to beat Deadpool senseless with his cane, explaining
that his stupidity was unacceptable in the field of assassination. After
the beating, Swan explained that he had used his mutant power to infect Deadpool
with a virus, that would delete and corrupt his brain. He then
ordered his men to place Deadpool and his companion aboard a private jet
back the United States and that they beat Deadpool to the point of death
every fifteen minutes.
(Deadpool III#66) - Once Deadpool healed a bit from his beatings, he noticed
that his aim was off. Nijo, an agent of the Black Swan, contacted Swan to
inform him that the virus was causing Deadpool to exhibit mild aphasia and
targeting problems. Nijo then explained that at Deadpools current weak
state, he would be an easy kill. The Black Swan replied that he didnt
want him dead, just his reputation destroyed, and him crippled and humiliated.
Swan explained that letting him live would be the final insult.
(Deadpool III#67) - The Black Swan once again was contacted by Nijo, who explained
that the virus did not seem to be seriously affected Deadpool. He explained
that Deadpool was able to rent a beach house and even defeat the super-villain
known as the Rhino. While the conversation was going on, the Black Swan was
also in the process of killing an unnamed German man.
(Deadpool III#69) - Nijo again contacted the Black Swan, who demanded that
Nijo kill Sandi Brandenberg, who had recently been injured by her boyfriend,
Jerry. Nijo declined, saying that he only had a vendetta against Deadpool,
and no one else, and told the Swan to find someone else to do his peeping
and spying. Later, Deadpool again traveled to the Black Swans German
castle, where Nijo informed the Swan of Deadpools presence at the castle.
Inside the castle, Deadpool confronted the Black Swan after destroying or
damaging many of the Swans personal treasures. During their confrontation,
Nijo exclaimed that Deadpool had killed his brother. The Black Swan, tired
of Nijo, impaled him on his cane-sword and then turned his attentions toward
Deadpool. Deadpool took that time to reveal that he was carrying a bomb and
that he wanted Swan to fix the mentally diminished brain of his ally, Ratbag.
Once the Black Swan did as Deadpool demanded, Deadpool told Ratbag to escape
the castle and explained to the Black Swan that he had no intention of disarming
the bomb. The two then battled furiously, sword against sword, while the
Black Swan entered Deadpools mind and tried to find the disarming code
for the bomb. Deadpool flooded his mind with images of his life, leaving
the Black Swan off guard. Deadpool threw the Black Swan to the floor and
rushed to read the disarming code off that he had written on his now-severed
left hand. Unfortunately, he reached his hand too late and the bomb went
off, destroying the Black Swans German castle, seemingly destroying
both Deadpool and the Black Swan.
(Agent X#14 (fb)) - In order to survive the explosion, the Black Swan
telepathically absorbed Deadpools healing factor, although in the process
of doing so, he also connected with the deceased mind of Nijo. During this
process, all three individuals (Deadpool, Black Swan, Nijo) personality
traits and special abilities were mixed together and distributed amongst
the three of them. In Nijo's case, this created a new "Agent X" identity
and allowed him to survive after his own death as a corpse with bits of
everyones identities.
(Agent X#13) - Three hundred miles from the eastern seaboard, aboard the
Portuguese cargo ship, the Golfinho, three passengers attacked another passenger,
who was revealed to be the Black Swan, who had survived the explosion of
his castle. Later, when the mercenary known as Agent X, along with the Taskmaster
and Sandi Brandenberg, returned to Sandis apartment, they found the
Black Swan standing inside, along with Deadpool, who had also survived the
explosion of Swans castle.
(Agent X#14) - The Black Swan sat on Sandis couch, with Taskmaster
pointing two guns at his head, and explained how he and Deadpool survived.
He also explained that Deadpools memories were returning to him, due
to his healing factor. He then cut his own finger off and explained that
by the time their conversation was finished, his finger would grow back.
He explained how he and Deadpool had survived, and how the process had created
Agent X. The Black Swan explained that he wanted his full personality returned
to him and that is why he had returned to Sandis apartment with
Deadpools mindless form. Agent X agreed to go through with the procedure
to restore everyones minds. At the theme park belonging to Agent X,
the Black Swan, Agent X himself, and Deadpool joined hands. The Black Swan
then used his telepathic abilities to restore each of the others memories,
as well as Nijos sense of honor. Upon losing Nijos honorable
tendencies, the Black Swan double-crossed Deadpool and Agent X, and absorbed
the full extent of everyones abilities into himself. Using his
newly-created godlike telepathic abilities, the Swan attempted to force Sandi
to kill herself, only to be attacked by Agent X. The Black Swan blasted Agent
X with a telepathic blast, but before he could kill Agent X, Deadpool awoke
and joined the fight.
(Agent X#15) - As the Black Swan and Deadpool battled against one another,
Agent X regained consciousness and informed Sandi Brandenberg that he suspected
a double-cross and had called in a few favors, leaving the amusement park
surrounded by armed mercenaries. All of the mercenaries fired at the Black
Swan, angering him. He unleashed a telepathic blast that incapacitated all
of the armed gunmen, which served as a distraction while Deadpool and Agent
X rushed toward Swan. Deadpool attacked first, although Black Swan used his
supercharged telepathy to force Deadpools hand to slash Agent X with
his sword and also force Agent X to fire his guns at Deadpool. As Black Swan
began his monologue describing his demands, one of Agent Xs allies
named Outlaw slid behind him and fired her guns into his back. Unfortunately,
this caused Black Swan pain and further anger, which he unleashed against
Outlaw, temporarily knocking her unconscious. Angered, Agent X jumped at
Swan, kicking him in the face and knocking him to the ground. Using his focus
on Deadpool and Agent X, Taskmaster jumped at Swan, unsheathing his energy
claws from within his gloves, but was pushed back. While Swan now focused
his attention on Taskmaster, Outlaw returned, with guns at the ready. Black
Swan recognized her from Deadpools memories as Crazy Inez,
a name she was mockingly called as a child. Angered at his Crazy
Inez remark, Outlaw punched her fist through his stomach. Realizing
this did little damage to him, the Black Swan began to float above the ground,
mentally attacking both Outlaw and Taskmaster. Deadpool rushed up to him
and slammed him with a horse from the amusement parks carousel, pinning
him to a car. Agent X took the initiative next and fired a bullet into the
cars gas tank, causing it to explode. Agent X then walked up to
Swans body and used Swans power absorption to force Swan to feel
the feelings of Nijos death. Then, just to be on the safe side, Taskmaster,
Deadpool, Outlaw, and Agent X fired their guns into Swans body, killing
him. His body was subsequently stuffed by a taxidermist.
(Deadpool IV#58 (fb)) - After a long search Black Box found and contacted Black Swan to offer him the job to kill Deadpool. Black Swan considered it impossible, but Black Box then revealed that it was possible now because Deadpool had lost his healing factor. (Deadpool IV#58) - Black Swan surprised Deadpool while he was sitting on the toilet and held him at gunpoint. He allowed Deadpool to flush the toilet first, unaware that it activated a landmine hidden in his toilet tank. Deadpool jumped into his bathtub to avoid the explosion, but Black Swan took the full brunt of the explosion. Black Swan survived, but was bleeding profusely from his neck. He used a telepathic suggestion to make Deadpool afraid of using weapons, so that he would not be killed by him. It worked at first, but Deadpool noticed it and started interrogating him with Yes or No questions while Black Swan kept bleeding. (Deadpool IV#60 (fb)) - Deadpool made a deal with Black Swan to work together against Black Tom and Black Box. (Deadpool IV#60 (fb) - BTS) - Deadpool brought Black Swan to a hospital to save his life. (Deadpool IV#59) - On Black Box's request Black Swan, who was watching the fight between Black Tom and Deadpool at an Eslo market in Amarillo, Texas, telepathically persuaded Black Tom to not kill Deadpool until Black Box arrived on the scene. (Deadpool IV#60 (fb)) - As soon as Black Box and Black Tom were both close enough Black Swan made them forget that Deadpool had lost his healing factor. (Deadpool IV#60) - Deadpool got caught in an explosion of a gas pump at Eslo, but Black Swan saved him and brought him to a motel room where he reminded Deadpool what he had done for him and that Black Tom and Black Box would not remember that Deadpool had lost his healing factor as long as Black Swan lived. Black Swan knew that the latter was a necessary precaution because he knew Deadpool. He suggested a partnership with Deadpool, but Deadpool angrily declined.
Comments: Created by Gail Simone and Udon Studios (Alvin Lee, Rob
Ross, Eric Vedder, A-Zero, TR2).
Profile by Proto-Man and Spiderpool. Update by Markus Raymond (Deadpool IV).
Clarifications:
This character, Black Swan, has no known connections to
images: Appearances:
First Posted: 12/08/2004
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Agent X#14, p21, pan1 (Black Swan, with godlike psychic powers)
Deadpool III#65, p6, pan4 (Black Swan, before his power absorption)
Deadpool IV#58, p2 (Black Swan, still alive)
Deadpool III#65-66 (May - June, 2002) - Gail Simone (writer), Udon Studios (Alvin Lee, Rob Ross, Eric Vedder, A-Zero & TR2) (artists), Mike Marts (editors)
Deadpool III#67 (July, 2002) - Gail Simone (writer), Udon Studios (Alvin Lee, Rob Ross, Eric Vedder, A-Zero, Ken Siu-Chong, TR2 & The RealT!) (artists), Mike Marts (editor)
Deadpool III#68-69 (August - September, 2002) - Gail Simone (writer), Udon Studios (Arnold Tsang, Andrew Hou, Eric Vedder, Omar Dogan & The RealT!) (artists), Mike Marts (editor)
Agent X#13-15 (November-December 2003) - Gail Simone (writer), Alvin Lee & Udon Studios (artists), Marc Sumerak (editor)
Deadpool IV#58-60 (September-November, 2012) - Daniel Way (writer), Salva Espin (artist), Jordan D. White (editor)
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