Death Adder

DEATH ADDER

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Human mutate

Occupation: Mercenary

Group Membership: Serpent Society;
   formerly Thunderbolts Army

Affiliations: None known

Enemies: The Nova Corps (Fraktur)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: None known

First Appearance: (pictured) Civil War Files #1 (2006); (actual) Nova IV#19 (January, 2009)

Powers/Abilities: Unrevealed; presumably similar to those of the original Death Adder

History:

(All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update#2) - Death Adder is speculated as presumably having gotten their powers from the Serpent Society's stolen Roxxon/Brand equipment.

Death Adder (Civil War Files#1) - A listing of the members of the "Thunderbolts Army" includes "The Serpent Society - King Cobra (Klaus Voorhees), Death Adder (real identity unknown), Bushmaster (Quincy McIver), & Rattler (Gustav Krueger): Four of the infamous mercenaries have signed on with the Thunderbolts, among them a new incarnation of the long-dead Death Adder. After years of taking jobs for cash, these four will likely become restless without promise of reward."

Death Adder (Avengers: Initiative#1 - BTS) - Death Adder is included in the cover crowd scene (upper far left).

(Nova IV#19) - The new Death Adder joined members of the Serpent Society in taking hostages at a compound in Danzig, Ohio, caught up in the frenzy of the recent Skrull invasion. Members of the Nova Corps arrived to quickly defeat them and Death Adder was punched out by the Centurion Fraktur.

Comments:

   This second Death Adder was originally included in the script for the crowd scene at the end of Thunderbolts #104, but did not end up appearing there. As a result of that script, D.A. was listed in Civil War Files, and subsequently appeared on the cover of Avengers: Initiative #1 (and even then only in the preview version, as the printed version ended up covering them under the letter "A" in "Avengers"!). Death Adder also got name-dropped in the King Cobra entry in All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update #2 (2007). The character finally first appeared in the January 2009 Nova IV#19.

   Looking at the Nova art used as the main image here, I give decent odds that this new Death Adder is female, though its far from clear. Certainly has a slight build.
--I have to disagree. The original Death Adders was portrayed as being near-freakishly skinny (most of the time, anyway) as well. The illusion of a "chest" in the above image is just from the way the character is turned, not actual female breasts - Madison Carter

   Death Adder's powers are presumably patterned after the original Death Adder.

Profile by SQUEAK

CLARIFICATIONS:
DEATH ADDER should not be confused with

images: (without ads)
Nova IV#19, pg 6, panel 1 (main) Avengers: Initiative#1, cover (image in crowd)
Civil War Files#1, pg 40 (labeled headshot inset)

Appearances:
Civil War Files#1 (2006) - Anthony Flamini (head writer), Jeff Youngquist (editor)
Avengers: Initiative#1 (May, 2007) - Jim Cheung (cover artist)
All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update#2 (2007) - Mark O'English (entry writer), Jeff Youngquist and Jennifer Grunwald (editors)
Nova IV#19 (January, 2009) - Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning (writers), Wellington Alves, Geraldo Borges (pencilers), Scott Hanna, Nelson Pereira (inkers), Bill Rosemann (editor)

Last updated: 02/02/07

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