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Mutant Liberation Front
A team mainly organized of disillusioned, anarchic mutant youths founded by Stryfe.
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In General
- Delinquents: They see themselves as freedom fighters and others see them as terrorists. They are really just young mutants acting out, especially without Stryfe's more negative influence.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: Interestingly, a large portion of their ranks are mutants recruited from Asian countries, even though their team leader Stryfe is a Westerner with no known Occidental Otaku tendencies.
- Heel–Face Turn: They join Krakoa and live in their own biome but say that New Mutants aren't allowed.
- Leeroy Jenkins: The team as a whole had a bad habit of charging into battles they couldn't win, especially after Stryfe abandoned them.
- Unwitting Pawn: Stryfe didn't care one bit about their supposed goal of mutant solidarity, and only even organized the team as a goon squad to use against his enemies.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: They see themselves as such, but many mutants don't share the sentiment.
Stryfe
Dragoness
Tamara Kurtz / Dragoness
Nationality: Madripoorian
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: New Mutants #93 (September, 1990)
This is MLF domain! No New Mutants allowed!
An Alpha-level mutant from Madripoor with the mutant ability to fire bio-electric blasts and a set of artificial wings.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: Between her wings and blasting ability, it's not hard to see why she acquired her nom de guerre.
- Arch-Enemy: Set up to be one to Sunfire in her debut appearance, but they never crossed paths again.
- The Artifact: As a baby, she was exposed to the blast wave when Hiroshima was nuked in World War II, yet she still appears to be in her early 30s in stories written more than seven decades later.
- Back from the Dead: Despite being turned into a vampire and later destroyed by Wolverine, she reappeared with the Mutant Liberation Front alive and seemingly no longer a vampire.
- The Baroness: Played as the sexpot in her debut appearance. Like a lot of the early MLF character tics, this was quietly dropped.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: In early appearances her wings were depicted as and assumed to be part of her mutation. Later writers revealed they were actually just part of a backpack she wore to better fit her moniker.
- Not Quite Flight: She possesses a jet pack and and a set of bionic wings.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: After being turned into a vampire by the Creed she was confronted by Wolverine, who cut up her wings and sent her falling several stories onto a wooden pole which dusted her.
- Mysterious Past: She's one of just a handful of characters to hail from the fictional Asian nation of Madripoor, but aside from that and her supposed exposure to the Hiroshima blast wave nothing more is known of her past.
- One-Way Visor: Her helmet comes with this type of visor.
- Playing with Fire: She can generate bio-electric blasts that can be turned into pyrotechnic flares.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Her childish reaction to the New Mutants seems less like a terrorist confronting her hated enemies and more like a misfit kid from school confronting someone from a rival group.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Her hair is auburn (orange), her suit is green, and her wings are purple.
- Shock and Awe: Her bio-electric blasts can also be turned into electricity.
- Villain Decay: In her original appearance she was identified as an Alpha-level mutant, but a decade later she was evaluated as merely being a "General Threat" by the O*N*E* (for clarification, most other 'General Threat' mutants were those of limited or no combat ability).
Forearm
Michael McCain / Forearm
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: New Mutants #86 (February, 1990)
- Pile on me all you want! With four arms, I can handle anything!
An American Alpha-level mutant with four arms and low-level Super-Strength.
- Alliterative Name: 'M's.
- The Big Guy: The most recurring MLF member who fills this role.
- Character Development: During the period of time when Danielle Moonstar was in the MLF, she brought out a softer side in Forearm. After she left, the inevitable Status Quo Is God reset button was pushed and this was forgotten about.
- Expy Coexistence: The character Barbarus, a member of the Savage Land Mutates, has Forearm's exact same "four-armed guy with Super-Strength" shtick and predates him by over thirty years.
- Lower-Class Lout: Portrayed as this during the Krakoan era, as he was shown drunk on a couch with a chained-up junkyard dog beside him when the New Mutants went looking for Wildside.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Has four arms and he is a terrorist.
- Not Quite Dead: Despite apparently having his neck snapped by Anaconda, he reappeared alive some time later, rejoining the MLF.
- Punny Name: His mutation is having four arms
- Spider Limbs: Can use his arms to climb like a spider.
- Super-Strength: His arms are quite muscular, giving him this.
- Unexplained Recovery: He was among the mutants that lost their powers during M-Day, yet he reappeared with his powers restored some time later without explanation.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Since shirts don't usually come with four sleeves, this is a more justified example than most.
Kamikaze
Haruo Tsurubuya / Kamikaze
Nationality: Japanese
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: New Mutants #93 (September, 1990)
- If you thought, fools, that we would cringe quietly in the shadows... You do not know the Mutant Liberation Front!
A recklessly overconfident Japanese mutant whose codename totally isn't foreshadowing at all.
- Action Bomb / Flying Brick: He is almost an Expy of Cannonball with explosive powers upon impact.
- All There in the Manual: His real name was only revealed in one of the Official Handbooks.
- Badass Boast: "I am Kamikaze... And my power speaks with the voice of destruction!" Sadly he couldn't live up to that line in the end.
- Captain Ethnic: Even more so than Sunfire.
- Flat Character: He was never more than an obstacle for the heroes to overcome. His brother gets a little more development, but not by much.
- Meaningful Name: As mentioned above, his reckless overconfidence had cost his life.Boom-Boom (to Archangel): Well, I guess with a name like Kamikaze, you just know he's gonna buy it.
- Off with His Head!: In X-Cutioner's Song crossover, Kamikaze charged behind Archangel (who was busy fighting Forearm) as a sneak attack but he was accidentally decapitated when Archangel swung his sharp metallic wings.
- Sibling Team: With his brother Samurai.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Only made half a dozen appearances before his death and hasn't been revived since, not even in the Krakoan era.
Locus
Rayna Piper/Locus
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: X-Force #27 (October, 1993)
The team's resident teleporter.
- Aborted Arc: It was rumored initially that Locus was meant to be a reincarnated Magik. But this was quickly discarded.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: She along Skids were mind controlled by the sorcerers Pandemonia, who planned to brainwash the members of X-force. But they were rescued by Moonstar and Jennifer Kale.
- Killed Off for Real: Locus ended meeting her death by the hands of Sabretooth when Weapon X tried to recruit her.
- Race Lift: Originally Locus was depicted as a white blonde woman. In future appearances she was depicted as an African-American woman.
- Weaponized Teleportation: She could also teleport body parts from her targets, with deadly results.
Reaper
Pantu Hurageb / Reaper
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: New Mutants #86 (February, 1990)
First Reaper needed an artificial hand, now he'll need an artificial foot. Guy's gonna be Darth Vader before too long.
A Bengali mutant who was more or less the official Butt-Monkey of the MLF. Briefly became a much more prominent character as one of the All-New Exiles.
- Aborted Arc: Alongside Black Knight, Juggernaut, and Siena Blaze, he spent some time in the Ultraverse. This came to an abrupt end when the All-New Exiles book was cancelled and has more or less been consigned to Canon Discontinuity since.
- An Arm and a Leg: Lost an arm to Shatterstar and a leg to Zero's portal, resulting in...
- Artificial Limbs: Stryfe gave Reaper bionic replacements for his lost limbs.
- Butt-Monkey: Poor Reaper always loses his limbs at every fight and kept having to get artificial limb replacements.
- Explosive Leash: When he worked for Weapon X he was given a mental version of this that caused his mind to shut down when Cable attempted to telepathically probe him. Apparently it wasn't permanent, as he returned after a few years none the worse for wear.
- For the Evulz: Reaper enjoys his terrorist work, looking as it's more fun than as a job.
- The Quisling: Along with Wildside, he joined the reformed Weapon X program in the 2000s, being given low-level upgrades and sent as a hitman after Cable.
- The Paralyzer: Reaper can paralyze his foes by touching them from contact through his skin or scythe before finishing them off but with his artificial limbs, it has less effect.
- Re-Power: Using the Terrigen Mist stolen from the Inhumans, Quicksilver repowered Reaper, who recovered his morph capabilities, then somehow his cybernetic enhancements.
- Sinister Scythe: Has one to go with his Reaper codename.
- Took a Level in Badass: When he traveled to the Ultraverse, as unlike the other Marvel expatriates his powers weren't halved.
Samurai
Ishiro Tsuburaya / Samurai
Nationality: Japanese
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Cable - Blood and Metal #1 (October, 1992)
You X-Men will always be the puppets of the human elite. We're being wiped out of existence, and you still refuse to shake off their leash!
Kamikaze's Backup Twin, created through a Retcon.
- All There in the Manual: His real name was only revealed in one of the Official Handbooks.
- Backup Twin: So much so that he even has an identical appearance and mutant powers to his twin, unlike other mutant siblings who have similar powers but with subtle variations.
- Captain Ethnic: Just like his brother. He even has a Rising Sun headband.
- Character Development: If Rosenberg's UXM run was good for nothing else (and it wasn't), it did at least give Samurai a much-needed dose of this when he has an ideological argument with Cyclops.
- Combo Platter Powers: Has Flight and Playing with Fire abilities.
- Heroic Build: During the Krakoa era, when the MLF were shown on their off time, he was shown working out and shirtless. He was surprisingly buff.
- Hot-Blooded: He's every bit as fiery as fellow Japanese mutant Sunfire, hotly berating Cyclops for his perceived lack of species loyalty when the X-Men confront the MLF in Rosenberg's run.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Even if inciting his fellow mutants to violence was a dick move, he wasn't exactly wrong about the X-Men being tools of the human elite (specifically General Callahan, the Big Bad of the Rosenberg run).
- One-Steve Limit: Has no connection to Silver Samurai, another Japanese Captain Ethnic mutant.
- Retcon: Originally "Samurai" was just a goof of the Kamikaze character appearing with a different name. Marvel cannily course-corrected this by using the Handbooks to explain that 'Samurai' was in fact a different character.
- Sibling Team: With his brother Kamikaze, though they never actually fought together at any point.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: He and his brother look so similar, they were thought to be the same character until it was confirmed in a character guidebook that they were siblings.
- Wearing a Flag on Your Head: His Rising Sun headband was added to distinguish him from Kamikaze.
- White and Red and Eerie All Over: Played with, as his costume is exclusively white and red but it's not meant to evoke any eerieness, just the Japanese flag.
Strobe
Juliana Worthing / Strobe
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: New Mutants #86 (February, 1990)
An Evil Redhead mutant whose role is usually to play heel to one X-heroine or another.
- All There in the Manual: Her real name was only revealed in one of the Official Handbooks.
- Bitch Alert: None of the MLF members are especially nice people, but when Strobe trash-talks her own teammate Thumbelina is when you know she's a Jerkass even by MLF standards.
- Designated Girl Fight: She was there so the male MLF members didn't have to beat up on Boom-Boom or Polaris.
- Fiery Redhead: She's a redhead with fire-powers.
- Hand Blast: Can fire heat blasts powerful enough to melt Strong Guy's glasses onto his face.
- Immune to Bullets: The primary application of her mutant power is a blazing Battle Aura that automatically melts any bullets fired her way.
- Light Is Not Good: Other than projecting heat, Strobe also has light blasts. She temporarily blinded Rogue this way in X-Cutioner's Song crossover.
- Playing with Fire: Her mutant power allows her to control and project thermal energy.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She has red hair and green eyes.
- Touch of Death: She melted Cable's artificial arm in seconds just by grabbing hold of it. A regular human would be incinerated by her grip.
Sumo
Jun Tenta / Sumo
Nationality: Japanese
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: New Mutants #93 (September, 1990)
- ''Breathe your last of the sweet air, heroes, for we will crush you into dust!'
The Blob's bouncy Japanese dollar-bin counterpart.
- All Asians Know Martial Arts: Take three guesses which martial art he knows, and the first two don't count.
- All There in the Manual: His real name was only revealed in one of the Official Handbooks.
- Barrier Warrior: Like the Blob, Sumo's mutant ability is basically being super fat which grants him the unhealthiest version of this trope.
- Card-Carrying Villain: One of those antiquated villains who so embraces the role, that they actually calls his enemies "heroes".
- Death Is Cheap: Cable shot him through the head. Years later he returned in the year 3086, working for another version of Stryfe.
- Dumb Muscle: Very strong but not very bright.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He calls himself Sumo, and he's a sumo. And evil. That's about all there is to him.
- Fat Bastard: As expected from a sumo, and he's not a very nice person.
- Just Following Orders: When other members of the team questioned Stryfe's actual motivation, Sumo pointed out that their purpose was to follow orders without quetioning them.
- Lightning Bruiser: Although just as rotund as the Blob, he's much more mobile.
- Powerful, but Incompetent: If his MSH game stats are taken as official, he's twice as strong as Blob and far more mobile, but tactically he makes the thick-headed Dukes look like a genius. Cable, Kane, and Warlock were all outmatched by his raw strength, but each easily worked out a way to beat him, in the foremost case permanently.
- Super-Strength: Strong enough to lift 10 tons according to Marvel Super Heroes.
Tempo
Heather Tucker / Tempo
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: New Mutants #86 (February, 1990)
- I want to go back to college. Get a job. Is that too much to ask for people like us?
A time-manipulating mutant who was originally the Token Good Teammate of Stryfe's Mutant Liberation Front (and subsequent reformations of the MLF) before being recruited by Exodus into the last generation of Acolytes.
- Character Development: She's probably the most developed of the MLF characters.
- Combo Platter Powers: Has a mutant form of Time Dilation and Not Quite Flight, as she can levitate herself through unknown means.
- Death Is Cheap: Killed off in 2010's Age of X storyline. Despite the ambiguous nature of her death, it was later confirmed she did die, only for it to not matter as she was resurrected (or possibly just reappeared) in X-Men (2019).
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- Was incorrectly referred to as "Strobe" (the name of one of her MLF teammates) in her first appearance. She also spoke with an exaggerated Southern accent when under the pen of (ahem) writer Rob Liefeld.
- In early appearances her mutant power had a negative effect on her teammates, with Thumbelina complaining about how much it exhausted her and Forearm even claiming overuse could give her teammates heart attacks. This was mostly forgotten in later appearances, with the only reference to it being a single complaint from Unuscione during the Acolyte days.
- Expy: Brian Bendis's
pet mutant Tempus, from the third volume of Uncanny X-Men, owes a lot to Tempo. - Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Her signature golden bodysuit that highlights her curves.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Although she was allied with MLF, she once seemed to see error in those ways and tried to retire to a normal life. However in Messiah Complex crossover, she reappeared as a villain again when she joined the Acolytes led by Exodus. And in the end, she moved to Utopia and began to work with the X-Men, fighting both Empath and Selene's army.
- Heel–Face Turn: After Exodus disbanded the Acolytes Tempo traveled to Utopia and lent her support to the X-Men, assisting them against both Emplate and Selene.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Wears a yellow bucket helmet reminiscent of the helmets worn by members of AIM, the primary reason for it seems to be that it provides her with protection from telepaths. She very rarely ever takes it off, even while wearing a bikini at a pool party on Krakoa.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: To a degree. She wants to live a normal life, but isn't desperate to give up her powers like the Blessed with Suck mutants tend to be.
- Immune to Mind Control: Her helmet provides her with limited immunity, protecting her from Cable's telepathic probes in one storyline.
- Mundane Utility: As a Krakoan citizen, she puts her time-manipulating abilities to work aging barrels of whiskey for Sebastian Shaw.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She was expelled from the MLF for saving the life of Henry Gyrich and Gyrich did zip for her in return, being his usual Ungrateful Bastard self.
- Parents in Distress: She tipped off X-Factor to a planned MLF attack on an institute called the Tucker Clinic, with the clinic's titular head Dr. Tucker heavily implied to be her father.
- Redemption Failure: After the MLF disbanded she initially attempted to return to civilian life, turning down an offer to join Cable's X-Force because she wanted to go to college. This didn't last long, and she quickly joined the next iteration of the MLF when the inevitable Status Quo Is God kicked in. After that MLF disbanded she disappeared for a few years, possibly attempting to go straight again, before reappearing as a member of the Acolytes.
- Random Power Ranking: She and a group of her MLF teammates were identified at one point as Alpha class mutants.
- Reformed, but Rejected: She attempted to reform at least two times, but anti-mutant sentiment and the apathy of the X-Men for her plight led to Tempo slipping back into villainy.
- Refusal of the Call: At one point Cable invited her to join his X-Force. She declined because she wanted to live a normal life.
- Signature Headgear: Her bucket-shaped helmet has been part of her ensemble from the very beginning. She finally updates it to a less silly-looking in Marauders.
- Time Dilation: Her mutant ability. Note that she is not a Time Master as she cannot actually travel backwards or forwards through time, but instead can slow down or briefly stop time in the present for herself or a group of people. Think Bullet Time in comic book form.
- Time Master: Tempo can manipulate time, though only in her immediate vicinity. Most often she slows or stops her opponents or speeds herself or her teammates.
- The reason for the range limit is that she actually just alters people's perception of time...which utterly fails during a fight with X-Factor because Quicksilver's perception is so fast he barely notices the difference.
- Token Good Teammate: During her time with the MLF.
- Uncertain Doom: When Legion warped reality into the Age of X Tempo was killed and when reality was resorted to normal she was nowhere to be found, but her death was never confirmed and X-Men writer Mike Carey specifically said in an interview
that she could still be alive.
Thumbelina
Kristina Anderson / Thumbelina
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: New Mutants #86 (February, 1990)
- For crying out loud, Kris... getting yourself captured. Mom called me and she's worried sick.
An American mutant from Detroit with shrinking powers. Her brother is Slab of the Nasty Boys.
- Big Sister Instinct: When she heard that Slab was taken into custody by X-Factor, she went on a mission with her team to bust him out of prison and scolded him for getting himself captured.
- Fat Slob: Not as slovenly as her brother, but she didn't put a lot of care into her appearance early on.
- Forgot About His Powers: She hardly ever uses her powers, and unlike with Wildside, no reason is ever given for this.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: None of the other MLF members seemed to like her very much, the crueler ones mocking her for her obesity, and she hasn't been seen among newer incarnations of the team.
- Hidden Depths: Despite being a villain, she joins a support group called Mindfulness of Mutant Appearances established by Nightcrawler and Domino to help mutants whose mutations are visibly obvious cope with the discrimination they face.
- Incredible Shrinking Woman: As indicated by her codename, she can shrink herself, although she can't grow bigger.
- Quit Your Whining: As the team member most inclined to complaining, she tends to get this reaction, usually from Strobe.
- Shout-Out: Her nom de guerre is a Shout-Out to the 1835 fairy tale Thumbelina, as she predates the adaptation by Don Bluth.
- Support Party Member: She's only been shown to use her power for Mundane Utility and her main role in the MLF is being the team's mechanic.
- Wrench Wench: Subverted, she is a fat lady who uses her shrinking powers to fix mechanical objects and is rarely sent out to the field.
Wildside
Richard Gill / Wildside
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: New Mutants #86 (February, 1990)
- Whatsa matter? You scared? Sweating? Just because we're gonna make sure that mutants don't become targets for people like you?
An American Alpha-level mutant who can induce hallucinations but prefers to fight up close and personal with razor-sharp claws instead.
- Anime Hair: Has a pretty crazy hairstyle similar to that of Wolverine in his hairier appearances and the Japanese crimelord Matsu'o Tsurayaba.
- Ax-Crazy: Like this is a surprise.
- Badass Cape: Befitting his penchant for drama, he's the only member of the MLF who uses a cape.
- Berserk Button: He flips out when Dr. Tucker calls him a vomitous freak his parents would have aborted if they could and promptly eviscerates him.
- Blank White Eyes: His eyes are really blank.
- Camp Straight: He uses a lot of language and mannerisms stereotypically associated with gay males, but there's no solid evidence that he actually is homosexual.
- Combo Platter Powers: He combines Master of Illusion abilities he rarely uses with the usual Wolverine wannabe combo of Super-Reflexes, Super-Senses, and Wolverine Claws.
- Combat Aestheticist: The reason why he doesn't use his powers very often.
- Explosive Leash: When he worked for Weapon X he was given a mental version of this that caused his mind to shut down when Cable attempted to telepathically probe him. Apparently it wasn't permanent, as he returned after a few years, none the worse for wear.
- Evil Knockoff: Played with, as he is often referred to as a poor man's Wolverine. In truth, he is closer to Feral and Thorn or even Sabretooth.
- Facial Markings: The red marks over his eyes.
- Fatal Flaw: His over-confidence and big ego. For a time in The '90s, Wildside became the new Leader of the MLF. He led them to a mission in a research center where his sources claimed there were bio-warfare experiments. After arriving there and finding no evidence of these experiments, several members of the team figured that it was a trap. They started suggesting escape plans, but Wildside viewed this as a challenge to his authority and insisted on a "my way or the highway" mentality. The result was most of the MLF getting arrested by Operation Zero Tolerance, Moonstar defecting to X-Force, and Locus escaping on her own.
- Fights Like a Normal: Doesn’t not use his illusion powers a lot as he prefers to fight hand-to-hand. And he’s a savage fighter at that.
- For the Evulz: There's the barest traces of mutant rights support and/or a possible Freudian Excuse, but for the most part Wildside just seems to have joined up with the MLF for the thrill of it.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: Like the rest of the MLF he joins the new mutant nation of Krakoa, but they keep to themselves in their clubhouse and dislike associating with outsiders. The New Mutants team only get him to very reluctantly agree to help them on a mission to save a new mutant whose powers have gone out of control.
- Important Haircut: When he was captured and forced to work for Weapon X they shaved his head Army recruit-style.
- Master of Illusion: In case you were wondering what his actual powers were, he can create hallucinations that disrupt his victim's perception of reality. Ironically, he doesn't like to use them, preferring to get physical.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: For a long time there it wasn't clear if Wildside's claws were part of his mutation or just weapons he wore. X-Men (2019) finally revealed they were natural and indeed part of his mutation.
- Obfuscating Insanity: Perhaps. Wildside displays "madness and animal ferocity" in his behavior, but some stories question whether his persona is an elaborate act. Reignfire stated that Richard had a "proper upbringing", and that his lunacy was his way out of a thoroughly mundane life. He might be using it as a means of escaping boredom.
- Pointy Ears: His ears are long and pointy.
- The Quisling: Along with Reaper, he joined the reformed Weapon X program in the 2000s, being given low-level upgrades and sent as a hitman after Cable.
- The Sociopath: A low-key case, but interestingly he emphasizes one of the sociopathic traits that is often downplayed in fictional sociopaths, their impulsiveness. This is highlighted when he kills Dr. Tucker, as his MLF teammates chide him for killing the man before he could tell them where his research and samples were. Wildside just nonchalantly orders them to destroy the clinic instead.
- The Tease:He had a romantic relationship with Dragoness in The '90s, but he habitually flirted with most of his female teammates. He was Skids' self-proclaimed "lover boy", and he impulsively asked Locus to marry him when she impressed him. It is unclear whether he had any actual feelings for the girls, but he liked implying intimacy with them.
- Terrorists Without a Cause: His depiction in the 2020s. In most of his original stories, Wildside made some genuine efforts to terminate threats to mutants. By the time he was recruited as a covert agent for Orchis, he no longer cared about ideologies. To quote a summary of his updated motivation, he "simply wanted an excuse for mayhem."
- Took a Level in Badass: When he was exposed to the Mothervine virus, his illusions were upgraded in potency to Your Mind Makes It Real.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Has white hair and even after becoming a Retired Monster in Krakoa, he's still highly unpleasant.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: His illusions are so strong they certainly feel real to those experiencing them.
Zero
Zero
Species: Robot
First Appearance: New Mutants #86 (February, 1990)
A Super Prototype robot from the far future, Zero is the MLF's walking escape hatch.
- Become a Real Boy: After abandoning Stryfe and Tyler, he had an arc in Excalibur that focused on his quest to achieve full sentience and become 'alive'.
- The Blank: Has no facial features.
- Degraded Boss: Much like fellow super-robot Nimrod, multiple copies of Zero have appeared after the original's destruction, including one that followed Reignfire and a more recent one in thrall to a younger Stryfe. None have been as powerful as the original.
- Heroic Sacrifice: The original Zero allowed himself to be Killed Off for Real to protect Douglock and Excalibur from one of Stryfe's post-mortem revenge plots.
- Minion with an F in Evil: He's not really evil (or good), he's just an obedient robot who happens to keep following under the sway of villains.
- My Hero, Zero: His full denomination is Ambient-Energy Dampening Actualization Module Unit Zero, so he's just referred to as Zero.
- Out of Focus: It was never shown how he came to leave the MLF (he physically couldn't) and joined up with Tyler, nor was it shown how or why he left Tyler.
- Reforged into a Minion: He was originally created by the Askani, but was captured and reprogrammed to work for Stryfe.
- Restraining Bolt: He was actually a lot more powerful than his MLF appearances ever indicated. The true scope of what he could do wasn't revealed until his reactivation in Deadpool: The Circle Chase.
- Super Prototype: He is the prototype for the Askani's ADAM peacekeeping robots but is far more powerful than any of the other ADAM units seen.
- Teleportation: His primary utility to the MLF. Essentially, he is to them what Gateway was to the Reavers.
- Token Robot: The only robot on the MLF.
- Tragic Robot: In Excalibur he expressed regret for aiding and abetting the villainy of Stryfe and the MLF.
- Villain Team-Up: After leaving the MLF he joined forces with Tyler Dayspring, both of them having shared the hideous experience of being forced to be minions of Stryfe.
- The Voiceless: He doesn't talk, at least not during his MLF tenure. After leaving them, Zero found his voice.
- Weapon of X-Slaying: He was originally created by the Askani as a peacekeeping unit with inbuilt functions to eliminate and/or neutralize every other type of weapon. When Tyler faked his death, he called Zero 'the ultimate weapon', and at the end of Circle Chase he proved it by neutralizing Deadpool and Kane while simultaneously disintegrating the nigh-indestructible Slayback.
Orchis’ False Flag Operation
Captain Krakoa II
See X-Men: Orchis
Blob
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