Matthew Risman
Matthew Risman is a male comic supervillain whp features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Matthew Risman
A trained sniper and contract-killer, Matthew Risman was in the middle of a hit against Bob Forward when he suddenly received a call telling him to return to his home. Achieving his target, Risman rushed home, dragging his wife Piper and daughter Gracie from their home seconds before a mountainside collapsed on it, completely obliterating it. As the trio looked at their damaged home, the man who had informed Risman of the coming disaster, William Stryker, appeared. Convincing Risman that he had access to future events, Stryker recruited Risman into the Purifiers, a group who believed it was their holy mission to eradicate the few mutants who remained following M-Day.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Being baseline humans, neither Risman nor the Purifiers possess superhuman abilities to speak of, relying on superior technology in their genocidal campaign against mutants. The Purifiers possess a variety of deadly armaments and munitions, some more conventional weapons like assault rifles and anti-tank rockets, as well as more advanced and expensive equipment like Vibranium-based weaponry. The group also used the knowledge contained within Nimrod's memory banks to great effect, although that advantage was lost when the Sentinel reactivated and destroyed its keepers, before being defeated by the New X-Men.
Risman came to be a trained hitman, so he is highly trained, like all the other Purifiers, who and have been shown to be capable of holding their own against both O.N.E. troopers and the X-Men. Their belief in the righteousness of their actions and their belief that they are fulfilling God's work by killing mutants is a source of great strength for the group, enabling them to commit acts that would make more moral, reasoned individuals cringe, and enabling them to hold their ground in the face of great odds or past defeats. Combined with their secret nature and fanatical determination, the Purifiers are undoubtedly a deadly foe and a cause of great concern for the remaining mutants.
Notes
- Matthew Risman was created by Craig Kyle, Chris Yost, and Mark Brooks where he made his first appearance in New X-Men v2 #22 (March, 2006).
Alternate Versions
- In Age of Apocalypse v1 #6 (2012), a version of Matthew Risman appeared in the setting of the Age of Apocalypse. He had a younger sister named Zora Risman where they fought against the Mutant forces of Apocalypse. After her brothers death, she joined the X-Terminated band where she took the code name of Deadeye and operated as the teams sniper.
In other media
Television
- In The Gifted, Matthew Risman was mentioned in the live-action television series in the episode "the dreaM". He was said to have had a sister named Madeline Garber with the two disagreeing over the approach in dealing with Mutants as he wanted to kill them. Matthew later came to be the founder of the Purifiers movement who actively looked to murdering Mutants.
Appearances
- New X-Men v2: (2006)
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