Karima Shapandar
Karima Shapandar is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Karima Shapandar was a female human born in the modern age in India where by adulthood she had become a detective in the National Police. Around 7 months ago in Calcutta, she was asked by Mr Shaara to watch over his son Neal Shaara and to make sure he did not kill whilst searching for his brother Sanjit Shaara on the streets of the city. Neal was unaware of this and one night he was seeking information when he got attacked by a gang only to be saved by Karima. The two then decided to work together on the investigation where they found a lead on Sanjit who was one of a number of people who had mysteriously disappeared in the slums. Unable to find further leads, Shapandar promised that she would not rest until they found his brother. The two then shared a kiss one night but were interrupted by the perpetrators of the disappearances with Karima telling Neal to run to safety whilst she held them off. However, the two were stunned and taken away by Prime Sentinels on behalf of Operation: Zero Tolerance. Upon regaining consciousness, they found themselves in a hidden facility in the city that was headed by Bastion who had been responsible for the kidnapping of Sanjit who had been converted into a cybernetic Sentinel. Such a fate was for both Karima and Neal for having discovered their operation where scans of Shapandar revealed that she had the attributes that made her perfect to be a prime unit. The scans though uncovered that Shaara was a Mutant and that the process had activated his latent X-Gene causing his powers to manifest in that moment. (X-Men Unlimited v1 #27)
Omega Sentinel
Arkea
House of X
At some point, the Sentinel programming within her reactivated again leading to Karima resuming her position as Omega Sentinel. She came to ally with the Mutant monitoring/profiling organization known as Orchis that were watching the rise of X-Gene wielders. The group consisted of individuals from various covert organizations from around the world that had predictions of a doomsday scenario over the rise of the Mutant population. Thus, the Orchis group funded black budgets into creating countermeasures to fight against this threat. Omega Sentinel came to work with the Doctor Alia Gregor who was a technical specialist looking to build potential weapons in case of open war against Mutants. Thus, the pair made their way to the Forge that was a large orbital space station around the sun that contained the Mother Mold that would create new generations of Sentinels as possible use in the doomsday scenario. (House of X v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
It was said that she had a growing emotional connection with Neal Shaara when the two began to work together in an investigation. This eventually sparked into a romantic relationship where she shared a kiss with him and wanted to spend the night with Neal. (X-Men Unlimited v1 #27)
Powers and abilities
Originally, Karima was a human though one that displayed attributes that made her a valuable one that would be transformed into a Sentinel Prime unit. (X-Men Unlimited v1 #27)
Notes
- Karima Shapandar was created by Chris Claremont and Brett Booth where she made her first appearance in X-Men Unlimited v1 #27 (June, 2000).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Video games
- In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Omega Sentinel appeared in the setting of the Facebook video game.
- In X-Men: Battle of the Atom, a Malice controlled Omega Sentinel appeared as a playable card in the video game.
Appearances
- X-Men Unlimited v1: (2000)
- Uncanny X-Men v1:
- X-Men v2:
- House of X v1:
- Power of X v1:
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