Lady Deathstrike Appreciation

[Daydreamer]

Even though her appearances in the comics have been very sporadic lately, Lady Deathstrike is by far my favorite X-Men villian of all time. Even though I was slightly unsettled to see that she didn't stay with the Thunderbolts after the Civil War, I am most happy to see that she has returned into the spotlight during Messiah CompleX. She's now leading the Reavers and will first appear in Messiah CompleX in issue #205 of X-Men.

:p Yuriko Fans Unite!

[Hi-Fi]

I actually really like her. And I'm pumped to see playing a role in Messiah Complex.

[xmanson]

"will first appear in Messiah CompleX in issue #205 of X-Men."

Funny that her first appearence as a cyborg was in Uncanny #205.

[david r]

I always liked her. She was meant to murder Wolverine, BTW.

[DungeonmasterJim]

I'm a little confused on my Lady Deathstrike history. Is she Wolvie's old flame, the one he was going to marry around Uncanny 160's where Paul Smith was the artist?

I thought she had a little foster daughter. What happened to that kid?

And if she is Wolvie's old flame, where did she get all the hand-to-hand skills? I always thought she was just a business woman that was a daughter of the Japanese mob or something.

DM Jim :confused:

[Nyssane]

I'm glad she has a new outfit, the old one was stank.

I wanna see her and Cylla form a partnership!

[Porcelain]

I loooooooooooooooove Deathstrike. Think it's the 80s child within me but love her to bits. Bout time she came back to the fore and her new costume looks fab too (she'd been needing one for a long time).

[xmanson]

I'm a little confused on my Lady Deathstrike history. Is she Wolvie's old flame, the one he was going to marry around Uncanny 160's where Paul Smith was the artist?


No, that was Mariko, who died in the early 90's.



I thought she had a little foster daughter. What happened to that kid?

I have no idea hwere she's now.

But I guess soon she'll show up as part of Riomulus conspiracy.


And BTW, where's Cylla?

[Porcelain]

I'm a little confused on my Lady Deathstrike history. Is she Wolvie's old flame, the one he was going to marry around Uncanny 160's where Paul Smith was the artist?

I thought she had a little foster daughter. What happened to that kid?

And if she is Wolvie's old flame, where did she get all the hand-to-hand skills? I always thought she was just a business woman that was a daughter of the Japanese mob or something.

DM Jim :confused:
What xmanson said plus: Yukio (assassin that ran around with Storm and occasionally shares a bed with Logan) has the kid (Aiko? Akiko?), raising her as her own & Logan's. Believe she's (the kid) now training to be a warrior priestess in the last thing she was featured in (she's the last descendent of blah-de-blah).

Mariko was Logan's old flame who was the daughter of a noble Japanse family but her father ran a crime cartel. When he was killed she had to hold the family name together (including the crime bits - honour and all that stuff).

Deathstrike (Yuriko, not Yukio) is the daughter of the guy that came up with the admantium bonding stuff - which is why she's always chasing Logan as she blamed him for her father's death/adamantium being stolen. She went through Spiral's body shop and was augmented by what's his face (ex Lord Cardinal, Cyborg guy, head of reavers) into the Cyborg she is.

Wolverine soooooooooo needs a Spotlight - but they'd have to redo it every couple of months.

[DDM]

I'm a little confused on my Lady Deathstrike history. Is she Wolvie's old flame, the one he was going to marry around Uncanny 160's where Paul Smith was the artist?

No, Wolvie's fiance is Mariko Yoshida who first appears in Uncanny X-Men #118.

Lady Deathstrike's father helped create Adamantium. Deathstrike believes her life cannot move forward until she fulfills her father's dream which is Wolverine is to be killed. It's all really captured in Uncanny X-Men #205.

[DDM]

Deathstrike (Yuriko, not Yukio) is the daughter of the guy that came up with the admantium bonding stuff - which is why she's always chasing Logan as she blamed him for her father's death/adamantium being stolen. She went through Spiral's body shop and was augmented by what's his face (ex Lord Cardinal, Cyborg guy, head of reavers) into the Cyborg she is.

Spiral transformed Deathstrike into a cyborg. Donald Pierce was fascinated by Deathstrike's technology & wanted to learn more about it, but Yuriko remained reticent about her cyborg parts.

Spiral's transformation gave Yuriko a self-repair process similar to Wolverine's healing factor.

[Porcelain]

Hardly that important but just read the Hunter in the Darkness arc and she refers to Pierce augmenting her.

She looks great on the covers have seen for New X-men (facing X-23 and in the background) and X-men (with everyone at her feet). Carey & Yost writting her = gooey goodness.

edit: because there might be some confusion over previous post, not saying Spiral didn't make her into a cyborg, but Pierce also augmented her down the road.

[Nyssane]

And BTW, where's Cylla?

She died after Bloodscream sucked her life up in a Wolverine issue. She was seen with the clump of other dead villains like Pyro, Stryfe, and Mastermind in Tieri's run, but so was Cyber and he came back. So, Cylla shall return!

[xmanson]

When they offered Yelena a chance to be "reborn" was like a carbon copy of Cylla's origin. I just can't remember the cause of her accident.

And Pierce may have made imporved her, but who turned Yuriko into a cyborg was Spiral. in an amazing issue, BTW.

[DungeonmasterJim]

Thanks for the heads up on Deathstrike folks!

DM Jim

[FortKnox]

I'm a little confused on my Lady Deathstrike history. Is she Wolvie's old flame, the one he was going to marry around Uncanny 160's where Paul Smith was the artist?

I thought she had a little foster daughter. What happened to that kid?

And if she is Wolvie's old flame, where did she get all the hand-to-hand skills? I always thought she was just a business woman that was a daughter of the Japanese mob or something.

DM Jim :confused:

In the X-Men cartoon it made Deathstrike Wolvie's old flame.

[DDM]

When they offered Yelena a chance to be "reborn" was like a carbon copy of Cylla's origin. I just can't remember the cause of her accident.

Cylla was intended to be the next Skullbuster though. Ironically, it was one of the Reavers who shot down Banshee's plane with the pilot Cylla as one of the survivors in Uncanny X-Men #254-255 when the Reavers attacked Muir Island.

[Daydreamer]

For some reason, I'm always in the mindset that Deathstrike started off in the comics as a Cyborg. I always forget that she originally began as a Ninja-Like Girl slicing people with her sword. :cool:

[DeniseXfrost]

I'm glad she has a new outfit!
And a new haircut, thanks god.

[GoingGreen]

You know, even though Yuriko's the new tranny poster child with her new cybernetic giant-man-crotch, I love her new look. She looks much amazing on that one cover with Sinister's haggardly face looming behind her. Deathstrike = <3.

ASIDE: Wasn't it, at some point, Deathstryke? Or am I just merging Stryker and Deathstrike because of X2?

[streator]

she's okay.

i didn't like her playing hero or being tied to sentinels in the 2000 cc annual.

i didn't like her in glmk2, either. but that had more to do with the entire story than just her role.

i hope there's a reason for her being in this crossover and not just "hey, i'm a villain" or something.

[Affinity]

I loooooooooooved Ultimate Deathstrike; she was hotheaded and arrogant and a jerk and just a dumb girl who got caught up in the wrong shizz.

I am usually full of apathy regarding her 616 self but while the costume change is a PLUS FIVE, it's more like a PLUS TWO! The things hanging from her waist are so PHALLIC it's somewhat hilar. Somewhat big ups big ups. Especially when Bianchi drew it, lol.

I think she needs less with the crazy hanging and flowing materials and more intricate Japanese designs (detailed dragons? or those watercolor type designs!) that highlight the blades of fingers instead of having 94 things going on at once.

[Dagger]

Cylla was intended to be the next Skullbuster though. Ironically, it was one of the Reavers who shot down Banshee's plane with the pilot Cylla as one of the survivors in Uncanny X-Men #254-255 when the Reavers attacked Muir Island.
No it wasn't, it was the Fenris twins. They were lounging around in bathing suits on a yacht when they shot the plane down.

I'm sooo excited about Deathstrike coming back! It's been too long, and I hope she really effs someone up!

[DDM]

For some reason, I'm always in the mindset that Deathstrike started off in the comics as a Cyborg. I always forget that she originally began as a Ninja-Like Girl slicing people with her sword. :cool:

Yuriko's first appearance is Daredevil #197 as a civilian, helping Daredevil. Alpha Flight #33-34 is the first appearance of Yuriko as Lady Deathstrike, fighting both Alpha Flight & the X-Men. She does not get her cybernetic enhancements until Uncanny X-Men #205.

[Callisto]

where do you see lady deathstrikes new look? is there a pic of it?

[Zomling]

I did a search and suprisingly there was no appreciation thread for for Yuriko Oyama.

For a full bio and history see here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Deathstrike).

I many respects I think she makes a better foil for Wolverine and X-23 than Sabretooth. She is honourable and does not kill indescriminately.

She also has a logical reason to dislike Wolverine as his original adamantium skeleton was based on work stolen from her father Lord Darkwind. I've always wondered though, why she didn't ever go after Bullseye, as he too has a skeleton based on Lord Darkwind's work.

I think the classic battle between her and Wolverine took place in Uncanny X-Men #205 and subsequent issues of the X-Men in that era. Particularly when she almost single handedly took out Forge's team on Muir Island.

The most tender moment in her history occured in Wolverine #77 when she discovered that Logan no longer had his adamantium. She was almost kind whe she left him. This incident makes me wonder why she continues to fight him as the adamantium he has now is not his original adamantium and therefore not related in any way to her father.

Her recent appearances have not been so convincing as her early ones, but I hope that given what she did to Hellion she can become an ongoing foe for X-23 rather than Logan, this time with the situation reversed and the animosity will be on X-23s side.

Who will join me in appreciating the mistress of the adamantium claw, daughter of Lord Darkwind, occasionally ally of Spiral and Donald Pierce and the sexiest cyborg of them all, Yuriko Oyama, the Lady Deathstrike.

[Home made ectoplasm]

I like her because she almost killed Hellion but also kinda dislike her because she managed to mess it up.

[Regino]

Love me some Deathstrike. Hopefully, she regains her sense of honor and the writers & editors clean up this character.

[Ize19]

She also has a logical reason to dislike Wolverine as his original adamantium skeleton was based on work stolen from her father Lord Darkwind. I've always wondered though, why she didn't ever go after Bullseye, as he too has a skeleton based on Lord Darkwind's work.

Actually, Bullseye's skeleton, instead of being based on Lord Darkwind's work, actually WAS Lord Darkwind's work. The last thing Lord Darkwind did before his death was to heal Bullseye's spine and coat parts of his skeleton in adamantium.

[Talisman]

I was totally cheering her on when she impaled Hellion. It's too bad it didn't stick.

[Pixie_Solanas]

Totally jobbed by x-23 and her cornball "You DON'T touch Julian Keller" baloney.

Bitch, LD was cold chillin' in Spiral's Body Shoppe before you were even a germinated bacteria in a lab petri dish.


Actually, Bullseye's skeleton, instead of being based on Lord Darkwind's work, actually WAS Lord Darkwind's work. The last thing Lord Darkwind did before his death was to heal Bullseye's spine and coat parts of his skeleton in adamantium.

I kinda glossed this over. Anything with the name "Lord Darkwind" that isn't from a Konami game is so offensively lame to me I strike it from personal canon.

[Zomling]

Actually, Bullseye's skeleton, instead of being based on Lord Darkwind's work, actually WAS Lord Darkwind's work. The last thing Lord Darkwind did before his death was to heal Bullseye's spine and coat parts of his skeleton in adamantium.

Thanks for clarifying that. I've only bought Daredevil 197, 198 and 199 today, will read them when I get home.

[Talisman]

Totally jobbed by x-23 and her cornball "You DON'T touch Julian Keller" baloney.

Bitch, LD was cold chillin' in Spiral's Body Shoppe before you were even a germinated bacteria in a lab petri dish.
Word. Plus, she has a healing factor so the weak ass shit K&Y tried pulling over on her to "plug" their power couple fell flat. That fight should have gone the opposite with Lady D slicing tampon23's arms off.

[beserkerclaw]

LADY D rules i hope that she migrates from being a member of the sisterhood gets back on her own. AND YES lady d x23 rematch whould be killer

[Talisman]

LADY D rules i hope that she migrates from being a member of the sisterhood gets back on her own. AND YES lady d x23 rematch whould be killer
Only if X-23 is on the receiving end of that ass-whooping.

[Tekkaman Blade]

Lady Deathstrike was great back in her heyday and I still think that Uncanny X-Men #205 is her best story. I really liked her and the Reavers wreaking havoc on whoever crossed their path back then.

She hasn't been all that interesting to me since Larry Hama's run on Wolverine, and the OP's example of Wolverine #77 is a good point. The original feud was the adamantium and after it was gone she seemed to have made her peace with Logan even if a bit reluctantly.

When she did resurface again the cues taken from the second X-Men film tying her to Stryker brought the character down quite a bit and it's been a slow recovery since. Gutting Hellion during Messiah Complex was a nice step in the right direction in returning to form though.

[jeansbff]

I actually liked her when she featured in x-treme x-men...even if she was william strykers errand bitch. She jobbed kitty pretty well.

[Havok83]

man I really couldnt stand her. I found her to be a very annoying villian as far as they go. I did love her in the X2. While I wanted Yu as Psylocke, she rocked as Deathstrike and her fight with Wolverine was among my favorites.

[JmH Reborn]

What bothers me so damn much is the lost plot thread in Wolverine 111-114 that Hama was working on before OZT. Where Wolverine was given a cube by Zoe Culloden that belonged to the family of Lady D. She was possessed by Ogun and then the story was dropped.

Its been like 12 years and I'm still waiting for the conclusion of that plot line

I am oppressed :(

[nj06]

One of my favorite of the X-Bad Girls Club. Lady Deathstrike is one bad bitch. I would have loved for her to slice X-23 in half and showed that little clone how a real woman works long nails!

And I really like her new look:

http://dreager1.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/242871-149521-lady-deathstrike_large.jpg

Although they should've altered the piece in between her legs...cause you know :cool:

[zaionay]

i love the way they've visually made her like her x2 counterpart but everything else they've done with lady dee has been awful. while she was great with stryker and even more amazing when she cut off shiro's legs ever since messiah complex she has been completely shamed. she was completely dis serviced in messiah complex by having x-smelly pee give her a shameful beatdown. i mean really? lady dee has been trained in martial arts since childhood and has beaten logan to a point of near death....and this...THING was able to beat her up with such ease? didn't buy it then and definitely don't buy it now. hopefully they can return lady dee to her former glory. i suggest her beheading the new generation of mutants one by one.

[Thirteen]

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[Justin K.]

i suggest her beheading the new generation of mutants one by one.

Makes for a good horror book. Lady D breaks into Utopia, slowly offing each student.

[jeansbff]

Since being in the sisterhood, i've lost nearly all of my appeal for the character. Lady D is always under someones beck and call now. Even when william stryker was dead and gone in the messiah complex storyline she was still bitching about him being her master and wanting to fulfill his wishes. Can she even think for herself anymore? Shes needs a lot more independence.

[Lord Bravery]

It brings tears of joy to me to see the hatred of X-23 in here. Stupid, socially retarded, self harming emo that she is...

Yea Deathstrike needs to be revamped though.

[jeansbff]

http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/ae177/jeanfan10/ladydeathstrike1.jpg?t=1285495595

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[Zomling]

Not that I'm complaining about the thread being moved, but I did a search and came up with nothing before starting my new one. Just shows how poor the search engine is here.

[Zomling]

I just bought a few back issues and among them was the "Forget me not" storyline.

For once Lady Deathstrike is well used as villain, although once again her motivation remains the theft of adamantium bonding technology from her father.

This time the targets are Rogue, Mystique and Sunfire. A mutant with the powe to remove memories is the link to the past and also the deus ex machina in the retconned events.

Hvaing said that it was not a bad storyline and also resulted in the loss of Sunfire's legs which lead directly to him being recruited by Apocalypse.

Much better than any of her recent appearances, which seem forced in comparisson and do not add anything to her character as she is merely a stooge in them. While this rehashes much of her old grudge against Wolverine at least she is acting on her own and for her own honourable reasons.

An enjoyable read.