Marrow (Marvel)
Marrow is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Sarah was a female human Mutant who came to reside amongst the tunnel dwelling Morlocks. She did not manifest any powers initially yet despite that she was loved by them where they provided her a home. (Cable v1 #15)
As a young girl, Sarah was impressed with the beautiful Angel, who was briefly a captive of the Morlocks. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #374) Sarah marveled at a paperback novel that floated into the tunnels, seeing a picture of a beautiful human woman on the cover. (X-Men Unlimited v1 #22) Sarah was horrified when the Marauders murdered many of the Morlocks in the tunnels. She later saw the beautiful Angel crucified by Harpoon. (X-Men Unlimited v1 #18)
Gambit ran away with Sarah bringing her to safety. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #350) He later took Sarah to the surface, where he left her for a police officer to get to safety. (X-Men Origins: Gambit v1 #1) When Mikhail Rasputin flooded the Morlock tunnels, Sarah tried hiding. She saw Thornn and asked for help, but the water washed over Sarah and took her away. The Morlocks were believed dead, but were secretly transported to the Hill dimension. (Cable v1 #15) One day, her powers began to activate causing bone to break through her skin all over her body. The experience was noted to had been painful for her with Callisto helping her cope in this time. At the time, Mikhail Rasputin took over their colony and under his rules those whose powers surfaced were considered adults. Such Mutants were to be sent to the Outlands where they had to earn the right to return to Earth. Sarah was then taken away despite Callisto's objections who tried to keep Marrow with her but the pair were separated. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #374) Sarah was able to appear briefly, rather like a ghost, through the dimensional interface. Thornn saw her and Sarah said that the Morlocks were alive, but afraid to come out unless the Ceremony of Light was performed. Thornn, Cable, and Domino performed the Ceremony and Sarah came through, telling them the others were still too frightened. She quickly faded away, saying she promised to return someday. (Cable v1 #15)
Twenty years had passed with Marrow having matured into a woman when she came to return back to the Morlock tunnels. (X-Men Prime v1 #1)
Marrow and Hemingway kidnapped the White Queen while she visited New York, and left her staff murdered and impaled to the wall in a bloody game of tic-tac-toe. They kept her powers subdued with the help of young Leech. (Generation X v1 #5) Marrow and Hemingway continued taunting Frost, who remained defiant, but they reminded her they were only keeping her alive until Dark Beast arrived. Marrow defended their murders as their right just before Frost knocked Leech out with a kick. Frost then fired off their cerebral synapses as her students Jubilee, Skin, and Synch arrived, then Dark Beast set off an explosion in the tunnels, allowing Marrow and Hemingway to escape. (Generation X v1 #6)
On the anniversary of the Mutant Massacre, Marrow led Gene Nation in capturing an entire subway full of humans. Callisto returned from the Hill to recruit the help of the X-Men, claiming that the former attacks had only been tests by Gene Nation on the X-Men. They used advanced technology to block themselves from the X-Men's Cerebro. Callisto soon led Colossus, Storm, and Wolverine into the Tunnels, where they found a human murdered with his bicycle and a message painted in blood to the X-Men. Reverb tracked the X-Men's thought-prints, revealing the roster to Marrow and Sack, shocked at Callisto being there. Marrow, uncaring, told Reverb to tell the others telepathically. Hemingway, who Callisto noted had mutated more (likely due to the Dark Beast) attacked and pounded Colossus into the sewer floor. Vessel punched Wolverine aside, more powerful than when the X-Men last fought him. Storm and Callisto found the subway humans running off and Sack, possessing one, shot Callisto before shedding his form and holding a gun to Storm's head. She hit him into the water with a powerful wind as Marrow revealed herself. Marrow blamed Storm for much of the Morlocks' plight and revealed that she had hostages wrapped in incendiaries. She claimed that the bomb would go off as long as her heart continued beating as they were attached. Marrow tossed bone knives to Storm and they started battling. Marrow was shocked when Storm drew first blood and licked the knife. Wolverine and Colossus, done with their battles, joined them as Storm kept stabbing Marrow, begging her to stop. Reverb tried telepathically stopping Storm, who hit Reverb with two thrown knives. With only 30 seconds left, Marrow continued taunting Storm, who ripped Marrow's heart out to stop the bomb. Callisto teleported back to the Hill with Hemingway, Vessel, and Sack, all in restraints. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #325)
X-Men
Hearing that the government launched Operation: Zero Tolerance, Marrow and Callisto decided to attack one of their agents, Henry Peter Gyrich. When they found him, Spider-Man was there to defend Gyrich. When the following discussion didn't seem to lead anywhere, Marrow launched an attack on Gyrich that Spider-Man stopped. Gyrich's bodyguards, Boyd and Mathers, revealed themselves as Prime Sentinels and fired on Marrow, but Callisto intercepted the blast and fell, nearly dead. Marrow and Spider-Man prepared to join forces against the Sentinels, but Gyrich took them down first. Marrow nearly attacked Gyrich again, but Spider-Man stopped her, reminding her of Callisto's condition. As Marrow departed with Callisto to the tunnels, Spider-Man, holding off an armed Gyrich, tried to give her something to believe in. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #346) As Marrow tended to Callisto's wounds, she expressed her hatred for all up-worlders, but Callisto reminded her of the beautiful Angel. Though reluctant, Marrow agreed to go help the X-Men in their battle against the Prime Sentinels. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #347) Marrow followed Iceman for a time, seeing him help rescue mutant Cecelia Reyes. She stayed in the shadows until, at a police precinct, the humans turned into Prime Sentinels and prepared to attack. Trying to control the situation, Marrow shut off the power. (X-Men v2 #67) When human cops Cleveland and Aguinal investigated the power outage, Marrow furiously attacked them, knocking them both out. She then waited, intimidating the prisoners, including Gordo, into not escaping. She finally revealed herself to Iceman, Reyes, and their ally Detective Charlotte Jones, who Marrow treated with disdain. The three mutants formed a tenuous alliance and moved through the streets of New York, where the Prime Sentinels attacked again. (X-Men v2 #68)
The Sentinels crashed a building down on them, and mutant Sabra helped them escape. Despite Marrow and Reyes' bickering, Iceman, on his ice slide, took them to rescue Jones' son Timothy from a safe house in Connecticut. Sabra demanded answers, growing threatening with the others when they questioned her back. Marrow noticed a Sentinel in the water and jumped into the ocean to kill it, coming back up with its body. As they approached the house, arguing about tactics, Bastion revealed himself with even more Prime Sentinels. They saw Timothy sitting unharmed and learned that Bastion had one human he cared about: Rose Gilberti, who was also present. When Marrow threatened Rose, Iceman froze her in a block of ice to stop her interference. After Iceman defeated Bastion, he freed the others, but Marrow was frustrated that he let Bastion live. (X-Men v2 #69) Iceman took Marrow and Reyes on an ice-slide back to the X-Men Mansion, spiraling dangerously when Marrow taunted him. As they approached, Marrow continued taunting her teammates, annoying Reyes, and Marrow mentioned the reverence the elder Morlocks held the Mansion in, but they found it empty and scoured clean inside. When Wolverine, Cannonball, Cyclops, Phoenix, and Storm returned, hurried as Cyclops had a live bomb placed in his abdomen, Marrow immediately taunted Storm, promising to settle with her later. The X-Men scrambled to save Cyclops, performing an emergency surgery, and Marrow followed Storm outside, taunting her over Marrow's murder and awakening Storm's guilt and defensiveness over the event. Marrow flirted with Cannonball, offering him one of her bones to help grind up pills. Soon Rogue, Beast, Joseph, Maggott, and Trish Tilby returned, and Marrow laughed when Wolverine taunted Tilby. During a crucial moment of the surgery, Marrow pulled out two unfinished bones to use for cutting, moaning in the pleasure at the pain of removing them. Marrow claimed one of the basements as her own, carving "This Way to a Dark Ride" on the door and leaving a bone as warning. She blew a kiss to Cannonball as she descended. (X-Men v2 #70)
S.H.I.E.L.D. field agents later came to find her in the sewers beneath Manhattan where it was claimed that she had difficulty adjusting to life. It was then decided that an implanted memory was be made and that she be given a new identity as Sarah Rushman. This operation was overseen by Director Sharon Carter where Marrow came to have a split identity between her human and Mutant personas. In this role, Marrow was tasked with the goal of terminating rogue Life Model Decoys making her a robot killer. (Spider-Man/Marrow v1 #1)
House of X
Following the establishment of Krakoa, the living island was declared a sovereign nation and the homeland of all Mutants who were invited to reside on it. Marrow came to be one of the many that accepted and relocated to the island. (House of X v1 #5)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Whilst working as a S.H.I.E.L.D. sleeper agent, she was given the identity of Sarah Rushman where she was a blonde haired human girl. (Spider-Man/Marrow v1 #1)
Among the Morlocks, it was said that there was something special about Sarah when she was a child. Initially, she did not demonstrate any powers but despite that all the others were drawn to her. As such, she was known to had felt much love from them despite the hatred the Morlocks had experienced from humans. (Cable v1 #15)
It was after being sent to the Outlands that shaped much of Marrow's modern persona. Over there, she had to learn of survival of the fittest where she took part in never ending battles that consisted of her fighting for food or shelter. During that time, she never knew friends but alliances of convenience where the humanity was being worn out of her. She came to acknowledge that she was feral with her behaving more like an animalistic killing machine. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #374)
Powers and abilities
Marrow was a Mutant though it was noted that when she was young that she had no discernible powers and appeared normal. (Cable v1 #15) This was until her powers first manifested causing bones to burst through her skin with this being a particularly painful time. The pain caused by them was said to had been constant and excruciating. It as in the Outlands that she came to learn to use the jagged bones as crude weapons. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #374)
Time amongst the X-Men helped her to learnt to control her powers. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #374)
The harsh life in the Outlands forced her to train to be a warrior. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #374)
According to Doctor Nemesis, her restored powers no longer made her a Mutant and had in fact been temporarily synthesized by a decomposing metabolic substrate. It was said that within a year that she would die of cellular immolation. (X-Force v4 #7)
Notes
- Marrow was created by Jeph Loeb, David Brewer, Scott Lobdell, and Joe Madureira where she made her first appearance in Cable v1 #15 (September, 1994).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Wolverine and the X-Men, Marrow appeared as a supporting character in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Tara Strong.
Video games
- In Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Marrow appeared as a playable character in the fighting video game where she was voiced by actress Susan Hart.
- In Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Marrow was only referenced in the fighting video game where she was shown on a poster resembling those in a Days of Future Past that stated she was killed.
- In X-Men Legends, Marrow appeared as a boss level character in the video game where she was voiced by actress Nancy Linari.
- In X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, Marrow was referenced in the story setting of the video game.
Appearances
- Cable v1: (1994)
- X-Men v2:
- X-Men: Prime v1:
- Uncanny X-Men v1:
- Weapon X v2:
- X-Force v4:
- House of X v1:
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