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

[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

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