Domino (Marvel)
Domino is a female comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Neena Thurman
Her mother was taken by a top secret government genetics experimental program known as Project Armageddon. She was then artificially inseminated to produce Mutant offspring that the government could research and develop as a genetic weapon. Neena was among the children that were born in this time where she along with the other test subjects were branded with a patch on the eye. Though there were multiple subjects, the others fell like dominos with some not possessing the Mutant gene or unable to withstand the rigors of the testing process until only Neena remained the only survivor. Only a single brother remained who was named Lazarus with him kept as a cryo-preserved embryo that was catalogued for future experiments. Neena herself was considered a failure and she was left in a catatonic state where she was completely shut off from the rest of the world. Her mother had assembled a cult of followers known as the Armajesuits that took Neena away where she was left in the care of a sympathetic priest in Chicago. Once there, she was loved and nurtured in a way that she could never have received at the project's compound complex with Neena being unaware of her past. (Domino v2 #4)
Domino apparently left the NSA because of the Thurman case or soon after, and became a free agent and mercenary. She was recruited into the guns-for-hire known as the Six Pack by Cable and G.W. Bridge. They first crossed paths in Firenze, Italy while independently racking an international arms dealer. (X-Force v1 #92)
Events turned worse for the Six Pack when they picked up several jobs for a businessman named Mr. Tolliver. Tolliver ran a smuggling route through the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan and needed assistance clearing out the Soviets who interfered with his business. During the mission, Domino uncovered a secret installation underground. While exploring it, the Six Pack discovered Tolliver’s opium operation was maintained by Cable’s arch-nemesis, the armored tyrant known as Stryfe. Cable fell into a rage where he blew up the installation in an attempt to get at Stryfe, effectively breaking the Six Pack’s contract with Tolliver, and violently doing so. (Cable: Blood and Metal v1 #1) The Six Pack was on the run for the next eight months, targeted by Tolliver in retribution for his business losses and breach of contract. Domino and the others grew more and more impatient with Cable, as he continued to insist they trust him and follow his lead, yet he never shared the truth about his history with Stryfe or why it was so important to bring the man down. They found Stryfe’s operation again in Uruguay and Cable had Hammer extract all the data from his systems. The operation fell apart when Stryfe arrived personally, however, and took Kane hostage. Domino questioned Cable's motives when it became clear to her that he had a personal stake in their mission. Cable refused to bargain for Kane’s life and even shot Hammer in the back when he tried to turn over the data disc to Stryfe. As the Six Pack’s pre-planted explosives began going off, Cable abandoned the Pack to chase after Stryfe. Domino, Bridge and Grizzly barely escaped unscathed, but Hammer and Kane were crippled for life. (Cable: Blood and Metal v1 #2)
At some point, Domino became a prisoner of her former employer, Mister Tolliver. Tolliver forced the shapeshifter Vanessa Carlysle to assume Domino’s form and renew Dom’s association with Cable. Domino remained a prisoner of Tolliver for over a year at his villa in Saradegna, Sicily. Hardly a model prisoner, she suffered repeated assaults and humiliation at the hands of her jailer, Pico Halfghanaghan. (X-Force v1 #11)
X-Force
Cable then contacted her and recruited her to X-Force where he felt her skills would be useful for the team. (X-Force v1 #30)
Afterwards, she came to be recruited for the X-Corporation where she had a mandate for watching for Mutant right violations. This saw her watching for activities in Asia where evidence was uncovered of an illegal trade of Mutant organs to mainland China. Her investigations linked this to John Sublime who was a pharmaceutical company CEO and head of a radical self-esteem cult known as the U-Men. (New X-Men Annual v1 #2001)
She later took on a job that was to steal money from a target where she was accompanied by a team on the mission. This was set in New Orleans where she came to find out that her target was the Hand and later came to find her employers were the Assassin's Guild. The Guild did not like their territory being intruded upon by the ninja cult and hired Domino for her powers to turn the tide in their favour. Going to the Hand's warehouse, she found that the cult were engaged in slave trading with a group of Japanese women being kept at the site. Domino decided to abandon her employers and instead rescue the slaves where she took a van where she had them taken to the Japanese embassy to safety. However, she did not know that the van actually had millions of dollars where she gave several of the women a million each whilst she took the remainder. This caused the Assassin's Guild to want their money back and demanded that she meet with them but Neena refused to do so. As a result, she went on the run from assassins with her activities drawing the attention of Wolverine to agreed to help her. (X-Force: Sex and Violence v1 #2)
With her struggling with her powers, Amadeus Cho suggested that she seek training from a master to better handle her abilities leading to Neena going alone as she became a student of Shang-Chi. (Domino v3 #3)
House of X
After the establishment of Krakoa, the living island came to be declared a sovereign nation that was to be the homeland for all Mutants who were invited to reside on it. Domino came to be among those that decided to relocate to it where she was asked by Charles Xavier asked Domino to investigate a series of shell companies with financial ties to anti-mutant politicians and businesses. (X-Force v6 #2)
Overview
Personality and attributes
During her childhood, she was told everyday that she was a mistake and an aberration for being a Mutant with her believing these words until she saw the fear in the eyes of the doctors that experimented on her. It was then that she stopped being afraid as she came to believe that the world could bend to her way of thinking. (Domino v3 #5)
She considered Inez Temple and Rachel Leighton as her closest friends. (Domino v3 #2) Leighton she met when she was on a job with Rachel being her rival where she became so impressed with her that she offered Diamondback a job. Alongside Outlaw, the three formed an informal group who called themselves the Posse. (Domino v3 #3)
On her birthday, she was given a baby pit bull named Pip who she was at first reluctant to keep but decided to have the dog as a pet. (Domino v3 #1)
It was said that she had a crippling fear of chickens. (Deadpool v5 #17)
Powers and abilities
It was determined that her powers responded to her emotional state which meant that when she experienced fear then her abilities in panic and chaos but when she was disciplined then they acted out according to her wishes. (Domino v3 #5)
She began practicing cognitive control of her abilities where she could manipulate probabilities to create specific desired effects. An example of this was nudging weather effects to cause lightning to strike her intended targets. (Civil War: X-Men v1 #1)
Notes
- Dominio was created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld where she was impersonated by Copycat in New Mutants v1 #98 (February, 1991) before first appearing as herself in X-Force v1 #8 (March, 1992).
Alternate Versions
- In X-Man v1 #1 (1995), an alternate version of Domino appeared in the Age of Apocalypse that was set on Earth-295.
In other media
Television
- In X-Men, Domino made a number of minor appearances in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Jennifer Dale.
- In Wolverine and the X-Men, Domino appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Gwendoline Yeo.
Films
- In Deadpool 2, Domino appeared in the live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Zazie Beetz. She was a Mutant orphan who was raised at the Essex House for Mutant Rehabilitation whose staff were known to abuse the children under their care. By adulthood, she had become a mercenary who was assisted by her powers of luck that made events go in her favour. This power led to her enlisting for events where she was destined to participate in leading to her go on unusual assignments. Domino responded to Deadpool's ad for mercenaries to form X-Force to rescue the captive Rusty Collins where she was among the only survivor beside Wade with the others being killed due to bad wind conditions after jumping out of the helicopter. Her powers allowed her to enter into the convoy truck where she battled Cable who had come from the future to eliminate the kid.
Video games
- In Deadpool, Domino appeared as a supporting character in the video game where she was voiced once again by actress Gwendoline Yeo.
- In Marvel Heroes, Domino appeared as a team-up character in the MMORPG where she was voiced by actress Vanessa Marshall.
- In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Domino appeared as a playable character in the setting of the Facebook video game.
- In Marvel: Contest of Champions, Domino appeared as a playable character in the setting of the mobile video game.
- In Marvel Future Fight, Domino appeared as a playable character in the setting of the mobile video game.
Appearances
- New Mutants: (1991)
- Domino v1:
- X-Force:
- Domino v2:
- X-Force:
- Cable and X-Force v1:
- Domino v3:
- X-Force v6:
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