Guillotine (Marvel)
Guillotine is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Jeannine Sauvage
When she was 12 old, Jeannine Sauvage was lured by a voice to a room in her house that was usually locked. Inside a chest she discovered a sword that was known as the La Fleur du Mal. While inspecting the weapon, she accidentally slit her finger with its edge, and the blood dripped into the sword. This caused Jeannine to become cursed to wield this bloodthirsty sentient sword like her ancestors before her. (Contest of Champions v1 #3)
While the sword was evil, Jeannine used it for good, acting as a vigilante in Paris named Guillotine when she grew up. However, Guillotine had a dubious reputation, caused by the dark legacy of the previous people that used the name and the sword. (Contest of Champions v1 #1)
The night after Guillotine helped capture the Imp Prince, police inspector Marc Joubert, who was also Jeannine's fiancé, called out to Guillotine, swearing to find her. Guillotine heard him from a rooftop, and she subsequently confronted her sword for its intrusive thoughts that tried to incite Jeannine to give in to carnage. She was abruptly attacked by a Summoner, who took her to the Battlerealm, in order to partake in the Collector and the Grandmaster's Contest of Champions for the right of wielding the ISO-Sphere. (Contest of Champions v1 #1)
After surviving numerous battles, Jeannine returned to her home reality when one of the contestants, Outlaw, managed to seize control of the ISO-Sphere from the Maestro, who in turn had taken it from the Collector earlier. Outlaw used the power of the ISO-Sphere to return the contestants to their homes. Guillotine returned with Outlaw to England, and together with the contestants native of her universe, posed the idea of forming a team. (Contest of Champions v1 #10)
In the wake of Hydra's takeover of the United States of America under the leadership of a Cosmic Cube-altered Captain America, Guillotine and the other members of the Champions of Europe stood up against the Hydra splinter groups emerging around Europe. (U.S.Avengers v1 #7)
Overview
Personality and attributes
One of her ancestors was Jean Desmarais who came to find the La Fleur du Mal and was responsible for its curse on his bloodline in exchange for wielding its power. (Contest of Champions v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
She came to wield the La Fleur du Mal that was a magical sentient sword that was found by Jean Desmarais, an ancestor of Jeannine, in the Parisian catacombs in October of 1793 when he was escaping prosecution. In exchange for its power, Jean Desmarais and his descendants were cursed with wielding the sword under the guise of Guillotine. (Contest of Champions v1 #1)
Notes
- Guillotine was created by Kabam where she made her first appearance in Marvel: Contest of Champions (2014).
- The character was introduced into the Al Ewing and Paco Medina where she debuted in Contest of Champions v2 #1 (December, 2015).
Alternate Versions
- In U.S.Avengers v1 #2 (2017), an alternate version of Guillotine appeared in the 20XX reality designated as Earth-15061 in the Multiverse. This possible future saw Guillotine become a member of the A.V.E.N.G.E.R.S. Initiative, which was formed by Madame Natasha Romanova in the wake of the Zero Day. Zero Day was an event where Thanos invaded Earth and killed roughly half of its heroes. The heroes who were left mobilized and managed to stop Thanos, killing him through a combination of magic and science.
In other media
Video games
- In Marvel: Contest of Champions, Guillotine was first created for the setting of the mobile video game. Jeannine Sauvage was the latest in her family line to wield the cursed sentient sword named La Fleur du Mal. Although the sword was evil, Jeannine used it for good and to punish evil doers as the vigilante known as Guillotine. Guillotine was tasked by the Collector with the mission of guiding the Summoner through a locked area of Battlerealm in order to scout it for anything out of ordinary. Upon encountering a nest of Adaptoids, Guillotine realized something had possessed them, so she went to talk with the Collector, who only told her the possessed Adaptoids were called Symbioids. Oddly, La Fleur du Mal rejected battling the Symbioids. As the sword's thirst for blood needed to be satisfied, Jeannine had to fight the Summoner. After the battle, Guillotine and the Summoner resumed their partnership and soon reached the nest of Venom, the one responsible for infecting the Adaptoids. Guillotine and the Summoner defeated Venom and he was taken back to the Collector's Vault.
Appearances
- Contest of Champions:
- U.S.Avengers:
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