History ComicBook / DeathsHeadII

* TemporalParadox: Necker's project to develop a protector against the predicted threat to AIM directly results in the creation of said threat as Baron Strucker IV fuses himself magically with the remains of the original Death's Head and becomes Charnel.
** ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #54, which revisited the ''Wild Hunt'' arc, played with a variation on this. Death's Head survives, but Strucker fuses with Minion instead, preserving the paradox.

* TemporalParadox: Necker's project to develop a protector against the predicted threat to AIM directly results in the creation of said threat as Baron Strucker IV fuses himself magically with the remains of the original Death's Head and becomes Charnel. ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #54 played a variation of this, as Death's Head survives, but Strucker then fuses himself with Minion instead, preserving the paradox.

* ClothingDamage: Shortly before assimilating Death's Head, Minion cyborg has one side of his armoured mask broken by the barbarian Lehdrox, revealing an eye and some teeth. This never gets fixed again, becoming part of the character's iconic look.

* BigNo: Wilson Tyler's last word before Minion skewers his brain and assimilates his mind.

* ArcWelding: With the 3.0 versions. See, during ''Planet Hulk'', several 3.0 style Death's Heads were working for Hulk, and he brought them to Earth in ''World War Hulk''. A few months later, in the ''Nova'' tie-in for ''Secret Invasion'', it turned out some of those 3.0s had wound up in the care of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., and one Doctor Evelyn Necker, who was later shown to be working on her own little secret project for AIM...

* TemporalParadox: Necker's project to develop a protector against the predicted threat to AIM directly results in the creation of said threat as Baron Strucker IV fuses himself magically with the remains of the original Death's Head and becomes Charnel. ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #54 played a variation of this, as Death's Head survives, but Strucker then fuses himself with Minion instead, preserving the paradox.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Not Death's Head II, but his creator, Dr. Necker, during ''Revolutionary War''. In her appearances in ''Nova'', she'd been a surprisingly benevolent mad scientist (due in part to having the hots for Richard Rider). In RW, she attacks both Death's Heads.

* WolverinePublicity: Death's Head II was ''very'' popular in the UK market for a while.

It stars the eponymous Death's Head II, a LegacyCharacter who replaces the original ComicBook/DeathsHead (an established Marvel UK character).

The initial 1992 ''Death's Head II'' limited series (subtitled ''The Wild Hunt'') tells his origin story: he was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by ComicBook/{{AIM}} scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker. To protect AIM from a psychically predicted threat, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and skills of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.

Minion's penultimate target was the original Death's Head, whose robotic nature meant that when the cyborg absorbed him, his entire personality surfaced, not just his skills. Having attained free will, Minion adopted the Death's Head name, rebelled against AIM, recruited a new partner (Tuck) and discovered that the threat against them was a SelfFulfillingProphecy triggered by his own creation.

''Death's Head II'' is a Creator/MarvelComics series written by Creator/DanAbnett, drawn by Liam Sharp, and published as part of the Creator/MarvelUK brand. The ongoing series was preceded by a miniseries with the same name.

Death's Head II was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by ComicBook/{{AIM}} scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker to protect the organization from a vague psychically predicted threat. In preparation, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and personalities of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.

The original Death's Head was one such target; after assimilation, however, he overwhelmed Minion's programming before it could take out its final target, Reed Richards of the ComicBook/FantasticFour. Calling itself Death's Head II, the Minion cyborg proceeded to have various adventures as a traditionally heroic (and less amoral) figure.

!! Death's Head II exhibits the following tropes:

* DeathByOriginStory: ComicBook/DeathsHead is one of Minion’s last victims, ‘Subject 105’, and his successor only develops full independence and an identity of his own after the AssimilationBackfire.

* TimeyWimeyBall: As of the end of ''ComicBook/RevolutionaryWar'' Death’s Head and Death’s Head II have met, allied, and seem to be coexisting. This is very different to previous stories such as ComicBook/DeathThree where changing history has erased future characters.

* TimeyWimeyBall: As of the end of ''ComicBook/RevolutionaryWar'' Death’s Head and Death’s Head II have met, allied, and seem to be coexisting. This is very different to previous stories such as DeathThree where changing history has erased future characters.

* DeathByOriginStory: [[ComicBook/DeathsHead]] is one of Minion’s last victims, ‘Subject 105’, and his successor only develops full independence and an identity of his own after the AssimilationBackfire.

** Oddly, the handful of appearances he has had post-2000 have shown him lapsing back to old speech patterns and profit-oriented thinking. Given the amount of time travel in his backstory, some fans theorise that these stories show the original Death's Head before his fatal encounter with Minion.
** It's not just a fan theory in S.W.O.R.D. - not only is it set before Death's Head was shrunk to human size, but it's even set before his Transformers appearances - Beast suggests that instead of 'Bounty Hunter' or 'Personal Recovery Specialist', Death's Head should call himself a 'Freelance Peacekeeping Agent'. Death's Head likes the term.

As well as his own series, Death’s Head II was a protagonist in the two ''Battletide'' miniseries, in ''ComicBook/Death3'' and in the ''Death’s Head & the Origin of Die Cut'' miniseries.

''Death's Head II' is a Creator/MarvelComics series, written by Creator/DanAbnett, drawn by Liam Sharp, and published as part of the Creator/MarvelUK brand.

* FlawedPrototype: Death Wreck, introduced in the ''ComicBook/Death3'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.

* SuperiorSuccessor: Death Metal, introduced in the ''ComicBook/Death3'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.

* FlawedPrototype: Death Wreck, introduced in the ''[=Death3=]'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.

* SuperiorSuccessor: Death Metal, introduced in the ''[=Death3=]'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.

''Death's Head II'' was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by AIM scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker to protect the organization from a vague psychically predicted threat. In preparation, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and personalities of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.

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