Maverick (Marvel)
David North is a male comic character who features in Marvel.
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Biography
Origin
Christoph Nord was a male Mutant who was born in Germany where it was known that he had a brother named Andreas. During his youth, he lived in East Germany where he operated as an idealistic freedom fighter that fought against the Communist regime as part of the West German Cell Six group. Years later, he had an encounter with an assassin named the Confessor where he was injured and taken to a German hospital. Whilst in recovery, he was tended to by an Italian nurse named Ginetta Barsalini where the two fell in love and a year later the pair got married. During this time, she was pregnant but Christoph came to learn that she was a double agent that had lied to him. He confronted her where she attacked him forcing Christoph to kill her with him feeling regret and guilt over his actions along with resentment for being lied to by someone he trusted. Thus, he devoted his life to his black ops work where he gained fame enough to gain the attention of the Central Intelligence Agency. They made an offer for him to join their an elite team of operatives called Team X and he accepted whereupon he changed his name to David North. It was there that he first encountered his fellow operatives namely Logan, Victor Creed and John Wraith whilst they were overseen by their liaison Major Arthur Frederick Barrington. (Maverick v1 #2)
When Logan and Creed were severely injured by shrapnel during an excursion into East Germany, North refused to leave them behind and dragged them for miles to get back into friendly territory. When confronted by a group of East German operatives, led by his own brother Andreas Nord, North was offered the chance to go free if he would just leave Logan and Creed to their fates. David North instead gave no quarter, and killed his own brother and all his soldiers instead of giving up two of his own. (X-Men Unlimited v1 #15)
Around 30 years ago, they were deployed on assignment to East Germany to stop a Russian experiment in creating a supersoldier. Their assignment led to them stealing a device known as the Carbonadium Synthesiser with the Team encountering the test subject Omega Red where they barely managed to survive the fight. (X-Men v2 #6)
Whilst in a hot zone in East Germany, both Logan and Creed were wounded by shrapnel with North dragging his teammates to the border despite standing orders to leave them behind if necessary. During this time, they were ambushed by ruthless assassins led by his estranged brother Andreas who offered to let him go in exchange for his comrades. David refused and ended up killing the assassins that included his own sibling. (Maverick v1 #2)
Maverick
He came to be recruited by the C.I.A. to be part of a hand-picked cadre of agents from different countries. (X-Men v2 #6)
After Team X disbanded, North quit the Agency and became a mercenary for fire where he adopted the name Maverick as his trade name. (Maverick v1 #2)
As North began operating on his own as a freelance agent when he was contacted by Major Barrington, who helped Maverick straighten out his altered memories, and provided him with steady work. Maverick became Barrington's personal 'troubleshooter', carrying out assignments for the major personally, or being loaned out to various other agencies or powerful figures in America, Germany and elsewhere. Somewhere around this time, North's mutant power shut down on him, and would remain dormant for years to come. He also made first contact with Isabel Ferguson, a renowned technologist and supplier for the intelligence community. After he saved her father's life, Isabel offered North a lifetime discount on her services, and was even the designer of his personal combat armor. (Maverick v1 #1)
Decades after their last encounter, Maverick reconnected with his old comrades Logan and Creed when the threat of Omega Red resurfaced. An alliance of Fenris and Matsu'o Tsurayaba's Hand recovered Arkady from Russian custody and brought him out of suspended animation to hunt Wolverine on their behalf. The villains sought the Carbonadium Synthesizer which North, Logan and Creed stole over thirty years ago during their encounter with Omega Red, and captured Wolverine in order to wring the location of the C-synth out of him. Major Barrington sent Maverick in covertly to monitor the situation. Once it became clear that Logan's Swiss-cheesed memory wasn't going to immediately provide answers, North engineered his escape from the complex and whisked him away to his hidden monitoring camp from under Omega Red's nose. (X-Men v2 #5)
Agent Zero
Creed later brought the badly injured North back to Weapon X where Malcolm Colcord offered a choice to join the new program with his injuries being healed in the process. David refused at first but came to relent where he went through a series of experiments that re-engineered him into a living weapon. (Weapon X: The Draft - Agent Zero v1 #1)
At the Weapon X compound, he would attack an intruder who turned out to be rogue Weapon Plus creation Fantomex. Despite an initial fight, the two would come to an understanding to finding the mystery of Roanoake that had been appearing in connection with Weapon X and Weapon Plus. They would travel to Roanoake to find Wolverine who teamed up with the pair in uncovering this mystery. (Weapon X v2 #24)
Decimation
As a result of M-Day, he was one of many Mutants that came to lose their powers as a result of the reality altering effect of the Decimation caused by the Scarlet Witch. (New Avengers v1 #18)
Dawn of X
After being captured, he was taken to the Legacy House on Madripoor in order to be sold as part of the Merchant's auction. Conditioning was used to wipe his memories where he was to be sold as a soldier for those attending the event or to potentially allow access through a gateway to Krakoa. During the sale, Logan in his Patch identity was uncovered where he was captured by the Merchant who intended to sell the famous Wolverine also as part of the auction. However, Maverick's conditioning was partially broken and he took the Merchant captive as he and Logan looked to escape the Legacy House. (Wolverine v7 #9)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Upon joining Team X, he took the name David North as he came to distance himself from his past. (Maverick v1 #2) As Agent Zero, he insisted on wearing a mask as he wanted no one to know that it was him operating for Weapon X. (Weapon X: The Draft - Agent Zero v1 #1)
He swore never to go back to the Weapon X Program but one time was so badly injured that he accepted their offer to heal his body. This resulted in him becoming their assassin and enforcer where he came to regret the acts he committed whilst working for them. At one point, the guilt became so great that he put a gun to his own mouth and considered suicide as a release from this life. (Weapon X: The Draft - Agent Zero v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
He had the Mutant power to absorb kinetic impact. (X-Men v2 #6)
After re-joining Weapon X, he went through a process that rejuvenated him and healed his injuries at the time. During this transformation, he was also engineered with some 'improvements' that were added to his body such as the ability to generate a corrosive enzyme from his fingertips that he could expel outwards. (Weapon X: The Draft - Agent Zero v1 #1)
Weapon X provided him a uniform composed of Vibranium whose sound absorbing ability meant that he could move without making any noise. It was designed to blend into shadows thus making the wearer virtually invisible in the absence of any light. (Weapon X: The Draft - Agent Zero v1 #1)
Among the weapons he was provided was a knife dipped in Adamantium along with guns that fired such ammunition rounds. Within the arsenal was also what was termed a 'magic bullet' that was a round composed of Anti-Metal that was the only substance known capable of penetrating pure Adamantium. Such rounds were noted to be very rare and difficult to come by with him warned not to squander their use. (Weapon X: The Draft - Agent Zero v1 #1)
Notes
- Maverick was created by Jim Lee where he made his first appearance in X-Men v2 #5 (February, 1992).
In other media
Television
- In X-Men, Maverick appeared in a cameo in the 1990s animated television series in the episode "Weapon X, Lies, and Videotape" where he had a non-voiced role. He was among the members of Weapon X that returned to the facility after experiencing their memories of their time together on the team.
- In X-Men: Evolution, Maverick was mentioned by Omega Red as a member of Weapon X and colleague of Wolverine who he intended to get revenge on in the episode "Target X". Beyond this mention, the character did not feature in the animated series.
- In Wolverine and the X-Men, the character made an appearance starting in the episode "Past Discretions" where he was voiced by actor Crispin Freeman. He was shown as being a Mutant with kinetic absorption powers who lived at an isolated cabin with his daughter Cristy Nord who had geokinetic abilities. It was revealed that whilst with Weapon X, a brainwashed Wolverine along with Sabretooth were dispatched to capture Nord for the program. Once there, Nord was brainwashed to serve as an operative of the program where his memories were erased and he became known as Maverick. In "Stolen Lives", he was dispatched to abduct Cristy Nord with Wolverine teaming up with Mystique to rescue them. He was ultimately able to save both father and daughter though Maverick's memories were largely permanently erased though those of his daughter were restored by Emma Frost.
Films
- In X-Men: Origins: Wolverine, a character named Zero made an appearance in the live-action movie who was portrayed by actor Daniel Henney. This character was perhaps based on Maverick as Agent Zero and was shown to be of Asian ethnicity with superhumanly accurate marksmen skills. Zero was part of William Stryker's Team X taskforce of Mutant operatives.
Video games
- In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Maverick was mentioned in the setting of the video game.
- In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Zero appeared in the video game adaptation of the live-action film where he was voiced by actor Robert Wu.
Appearances
- X-Men v2: (1992)
- Maverick v1:
- Maverick v2:
- Weapon X: The Draft - Agent Zero v1:
- Wolverine v7:
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