Spiral (Marvel)

Spiral in Uncanny X-Force v2 #2.

Spiral is a female comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Rita Wayword

After holding her prisoner for several years, Mojo forced his chief scientist, Arize, to perform extreme physical and mental body modifications onto Rita to recreate her into a loyal subordinate. These experiments left her with six arms (some of which are robotic), turned her hair gray, and drove the young woman insane through forcibly evolving Rita's mind to the point that she could see into other dimensions that were used for time travel/teleportation. He also trained her in the dark arts of magic and body modification, so that she could use these skills to mutilate others like Mojo had mutilated her. Finally, in a cruel act of manipulation, Mojo sent Spiral back in time to set into motion the events that led to her former self-becoming Mojo's prisoner and become Spiral by attacking her past self. (Longshot v1 #1)

Despite being utterly insane and more blood-thirsty than her new teammates, Spiral quickly became a valuable member of the team, single-handedly defeating the X-Men on several occasions as well as kidnapping the X-Man Rachel Summers for Mojo. She was also instrumental in Freedom Force's victory over the Avengers and the West Coast Avengers when sent by the U.S. government to arrest the heroes. Her magical powers temporarily robbed Captain Marvel of her energy powers and she also defeated Iron Man, removing two of the most powerful Avengers from the battle. (Avengers Annual v1 #15)

Yuriko Oyama later made a deal with Spiral where she paid money to the Body Shop to have herself transformed into a powerful cyborg named Lady Deathstrike where she intended to use her new abilities to enact her revenge against Wolverine. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #205)

Following M-Day, Spiral came to be one of a number of genetic experts approached by Beast when he looked for help to reverse the effects of the Decimation on Mutants. (X-Men v2 #200)

Overview

Powers and abilities

She operated a company on Earth called the Body Shop that used Mojoverse technology allowing her to perform bio-transmutation that turned people into cyborgs. The Body Shop guaranteed satisfaction for their paid services but offered money back for customers. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #205)

Notes

• Spiral was created by Ann Nocenti and Art Adams where she made her first appearance in Longshot v1 #1 (September, 1985).

In other media

Television

• In X-Men, Spiral appeared in the 1990s animated television series where she was voiced by actress Cynthia Belliveau. She worked for Mojo and helped him torture the captured X-Men by making them perform in television shows against their wills, but eventually betrayed Mojo when she met and fell in love with Longshot. Their relationship, however, turned out for the worse, and Spiral once again turned to Mojo's side in the end.
• In Wolverine and the X-Men, Spiral appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Grey DeLisle. Spiral was a cyborg who works with the Reavers attacking ships bound for the island of Genosha. The Reavers' job was to to pick out the best mutants worthy for Mojo's TV program. Nightcrawler of the X-Men was aboard a ship at the time and fought against Spiral and the Reavers. When Spiral threatened Sammy Paré, Nightcrawler rescued him and ripped off her four robotic arms causing her and the Reavers to retreat. Later, Spiral abducted both Nightcrawler and Scarlet Witch into one of Mojo's TV shows and helped Mojo unleash a mind controlled Wolverine upon them. Wolverine was freed and all three prisoners escaped, but Spiral and Mojo retreated with plans to return.

Video games

• In X-Men: Children of the Atom, Spiral appeared as a playable character in the 1994 fighting video game.
• In X-Men: Mojo World, Spiral appeared as the main antagonist in the video game.
• In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Spiral appeared in the setting of the mobile video game. Rita Wayword was a talented stunt-woman, once she was kidnapped and genetically transformed into a six-armed being by extra-dimensional villains she became the assassin known as Spiral. She was one of the many superhumans who joined S.H.I.E.L.D.'s alliance against villains after a mysterious Pulse hit the Earth and left a material called Isotope-8, desired by both heroes and villains.

Appearances

• Longshot v1: (1985)
• X-Men v2:
• Uncanny X-Force v2:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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