"TAXI" TAYLOR
"TAXI" TAYLOR
Real Name: Taylor (first name unrevealed...unless her first name actually was Taxi)
Identity/Class: Human mutate (or mutant, or Inhuman, or something; her origins are unrevealed)
Occupation: Adventurer/warrior
Group Membership: Ducky Dozen (Battlestar/Lemar Hoskin, Blazing Skull/Mark Todd (see comments), Kurt "Breeze" Barton (see comments), Dragoon, Timothy "Dum-Dum" Dugan, Dynaman/Lagaro (see comments), Eternal Brain (see comments), Flexo (see comments), Gur, Howard the Duck, Red Raven);
presumably A.R.M.O.R. (Alternate Reality Monitoring and Operational Response)
Affiliations: Suffragists of Earth-12591 (Columbia, Libertas, Miss America/Madeline Joyce, Riveter/Roz/Rosalind), Zephyr Zog of Earth-12591
Enemies: Zombies of Earth-12591, including the zombie Asgardians (especially Skurge the Executioner and presumably the Valkyrior), Invaders (Bucky/James Barnes, Destroyer/Roger Aubrey, Golden Girl/Betty Ross, Human Torch/Jim Hammond, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Spitfire/Jacqueline Falsworth, Vision/Aarkus, Whizzer/Bob Frank)., and the Waffen-ZZ (Dum-Dum Dugan, possibly other members of the Howling Commandos)
Known Relatives: Jim "Taxi" Taylor (father, presumed deceased)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
last seen at ARMOR base on Earth-616;
formerly active on Earth-12591;
formerly traveled via a small craft
First Appearance: Marvel Zombies Destroy! #1 (July, 2012)
Powers/Abilities: Taxi Taylor is a personal
trans-dimensional engine. She apparently can transport anyone within a
given vehicle across dimensions; even a box is sufficient to serve as a
vehicle, but apparently some sort of containment is required, perhaps
either for her to visualize the transport or to protect those within
from extradimensional travel.
It was not clear that she could
provide propulsion or otherwise can a non-functional craft to travel
across/through land, air, water, space, etc.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'7")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 120 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed (dark; perhaps brown)
Hair: Black
History:
(Marvel Zombies Destroy! #1
(fb) - BTS) - Learning that the Nazi zombies of Earth-12591 had neared
completion of a cross-dimensional battleship (Valhalla's hammer) with
which they planned to invade and infest/infect/conquer Earth-616, ARMOR
gathered a number of agents to destroy the battleship and thwart the
Nazi zombies' plot: Battlestar and/or Howard the Duck apparently
gathered Blazing Skull, Breeze Barton, Dynaman,
Eternal Brain, Flexo, Red Raven, Taxi Taylor, Dragoon of the Dragon-Men of Ligra, and Gur of the Lion-People of Ligra (see comments).
(Marvel Zombies Destroy! #1 - BTS) - Aided by Battlestar, Howard recruited "Dum Dum" Dugan.
(Marvel Zombies Destroy! #1) - Howard introduced Dugan to the rest of the Ducky Dozen.
Shortly thereafter, when Red Raven told Breeze that women and war zones didn't mix, Taxi asked if he wanted to test that theory right there. When Raven argued that she was a glorified bus driver and "girl chauffeurs aren't warriors," Breeze and Gur both confronted Raven, informing him of his ignorance. Thanking them both, Breeze noted that this required a more feminine touch, after which she clocked Raven with her rifle before advising everyone, "Ship leaves in ten, even if you're under it."
As the group
prepared to depart, Dugan questioned their flying in "this hunk of
junk," and when Howard assured him "She doesn't look like much, but
she's got it where it counts," Taxi told Dugan, "You know he's talking
about me, right?"Howard then clarified that Taxi was a personal
trans-dimensional engine and that the ship was just for "sitting down
in."
Taxi transported the group to
Earth-12591, after which they
were almost instantly attacked by zombies, and Gur was swiftly
zombified, leading Howard to kick him out of the craft.
Dugan's use of heavy
artillery inside the ship caused it to crash, after which the Dozen were confronted by Zombie Invaders (Bucky, Destroyer, Golden
Girl, Human Torch, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Spitfire, Vision/Aarkus,
Whizzer), and Namor tore Barton in half.
(Marvel Zombies Destroy! #2) - As Taxi used a rifle to fire on the Invaders, she noted but was unable to stop the onrushing Whizzer, until Dynaman tore the Whizzer in half. When Spitfire confronted her, Taxi noted that her attacker was half-vampire, half-zombie, and -- as Taxi shoved a grenade in her mouth -- all dead. Subsequently blinded by a burst of light, Taxi was unable to see Golden Girl rushing to attack her. Red Raven flew to her rescue and was zombified by Golden Girl, and Taxi realized that Raven wasn't all bad. After Dynaman was consumed by a zombie(?)-squid controlled by Zombie Namor, the arriving Suffragists-12591 (Columbia, Libertas, Miss America, Riveter) destroyed the Invaders were destroyed. Taxi and the remaining members of the Ducky Dozen joined the Suffragists in their headquarters, where they were introduced to Zephyr Zog, a Nazi scientist aiding their efforts against the zombies.
After Zog revealed the cause of
the zombie plague, Battlestar noted that they needed to get Dugan into
place so that they could not only had to destroy Valhalla's Hammer, but
also to find and destroy the death spore flower that started the
zombie plague. When Howard noted that they only had a one-in-four
chance of making it this far, Taxi noted that one-in-four of them
hadn't made it this far.
The
Waffen-ZZ then arrived, Taxi and the others
repelled out of the building.
(Marvel Zombies Destroy! #3) - En route to the Nazi base in Zog's train, Taxi found a trunk and -- thinking she was alone -- voiced aloud that she was going to Hell. As Columbia and the Riveter overheard this, they asked what she had done to deserve that. After Taxi lamented about having been mean to Raven before he died saving her, Riveter gave Taxi a hug, noting that perhaps Taxi's being "mean" had been the kick in the behind Raven had needed, and Columbia suggested that dying heroically was as important, if not moreso, than the way one lived; when Taxi asked if that really mattered, Columbia hoped it would be a long time before she learned that answer.
After Columbia asked about the trunk, Taxi opened
it and found it empty. Feeling something was wrong, Columbia went to
check on the engineers and told Taxi and the Riveter to go back to the
others and await her return. Taxi initially argued that Columbia wasn't
the boss of her, but a fierce, "Now!" from Columbia convinced her to
comply.
The train was subsequently assaulted by the zombie Valkyrior, led by Brunnhilde,
who reached through a window, grabbed Taxi, and flew into the air with
her, offering to make her one of them. After Howard stressed that Taxi
was their ride home (to which Battlestar reminded, "and also a human
being in trouble"), Columbia leapt into the air and sliced off part of
Brunnhilde's steed (Aragorn?)'s wing, causing Brunnhilde to drop Taxi
and land atop the train. 
Screaming as she fell, Taxi was
telekinetically caught by the Eternal Brain and pulled into the train;
when she commented that he hadn't said he was telepathic, the Eternal
Brain noted that he didn't like to brag.
The Valkyrior were eventually destroyed, but Columbia (as well as Zog) was lost in the struggle, and Taxi lamented that people kept dying to save her. Battlestar advised her to make sure that those sacrifices were not in vain. When she despondently argued that the zombies were going to keep coming after them, she was interrupted by Loki-12591, who clarified that those zombies had been after him before he admitted to having caused the zombie plague.
(Marvel Zombies Destroy! #4 - BTS) - As
the zombie Asgardians assaulted their train, Loki magically hid the
Ducky Dozen and Suffragists in a travel trunk, which went unnoticed by
the gods. Within the trunk, Taxi
presumably listened as Loki explained how the zombie plague had
affected all of the
Asgardians and that he thought he could reverse the plague if he could
access the flower that began it.
Comments: Created by Frank Marraffino and Mirco Pierfederici.
Some of the images made Taxi
Taylor appear to be Asian, but others not so much...perhaps artistic
license, but we don't know anything about her nationality/heritage/etc.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Taxi Taylor should be distinguished from:
As the group prepared to depart, Dugan questioned their flying in "this hunk of junk," and when Howard assured him "She doesn't look like much, but she's got it where it counts," Taxi told Dugan, "You know he's talking about me, right?"
Howard then clarified that Taxi was a personal
trans-dimensional engine and that the ship was just for "sitting down
in."
Taxi transported the group to
Earth-12591, after which they
were almost instantly attacked by zombies, and Gur was swiftly
zombified, leading Howard to kick him out of the craft.
images: (without ads)
Marvel Zombies Destroy! #1, pg. 10, panel 1 (right-ish side, thigh up, beret);
pg. 13, panel 1 and 5 (transport craft);
#2, story pg. 2, panel 1 (firing gun);
pg. 16, panel 9 (face, headband);
#3, pg. 16, panel 2 (falling, full body)
Appearances:
Marvel Zombies Destroy! #1-2 (July, 2012) - Frank Marraffino (writer), Mirco Pierfederici (artist), Jake Thomas (editor), Mark Paniccia (senior editor)
Marvel Zombies Destroy! #3 (August, 2012) - Peter David (writer), Al Barrionuevo (penciler), Rick Magyar (inker), Jake Thomas (editor), Mark Paniccia (senior editor)
Marvel Zombies Destroy! #4 (August, 2012) - Peter David (writer), Mirco Pierfederici (artist), Jake Thomas (editor), Mark Paniccia (senior editor)
Marvel Zombies Destroy! #5 (September, 2012) - Peter David (writer), Mirco Pierfederici (artist), Jake Thomas (editor), Mark Paniccia (senior editor)
First posted: 07/12/2020
Last updated: 07/12/2020
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