Lady Deathstrike
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Lady Deathstrike is a female comic book supervillain that features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Yuriko Oyama was the daughter and one of three children of Kenji Oyama with her two other siblings being her brothers. Her father Kenji was a former Japanese kamikaze pilot that was part of a failed suicide attack on an American battleship and though he survived he suffered horrible scars as a result. Upon returning to Japan, he created Oyama Heavy Industries and Yuriko along with her brothers tutored by Marcy Stryker who was the wife of American soldier William Stryker. The elder Oyama felt a great deal of shame over his failure during World War II that led him to scarring the faces of his children in a ritual design whereupon he became a criminal scientist known as Lord Dark Wind. During this time, he began studying Adamantium and discovered the process of bonding this virtually indestructible metal to human bone. He intended to use this procedure to create an entire army of super-soldier for Japan. However, his notes on the process were stolen which took him years to rediscover. At some point, the two Oyama brothers were killed in service to their father thus fueling Yuriko's desire for vengeance against Lord Dark Wind for not only their deaths but the scarring they had all faced due to him. By this time, Yuriko had fallen in love with a man in Kenji Oyama'a private army who went by the name of Kira and she sought to protect him from harm. Lord Dark Wind in this point of his life grew disgusted with Japanese society after the war and sought to shape it to his will. He hired the services of the crippled assassin Bullseye who was brought to Lord Dark Wind's private island and replaced some of the bones in his broken body with Adamantium substitutes. This was with the express purpose of gaining the services of Bullseyes and getting him to assassinate the Japanese Minister of Trader. At the same time, the blind crime fighter Daredevil had arrived in pursuit of Bullseye and was assisted by Yuriko. Bullseye would escape leading to Lord Dark Wind nearly killing Daredevil but Yuriko would kill her father. The death of his master Lord Dark Wind saw Yuriko's love Kira commit suicide in despair. Kira's death would radically change Yuriko's life as her hatred for her father ended and she had a desire to complete his life's work. She would come to learn of a Mutant by the name of Wolverine who had his skeleton coated in Adamantium in a process similar to that researched by Lord Dark Wind. Oyama would become convinced that this was based of her father's stolen research and that Wolverine was the perpetrator of the act. She would garb herself as a female samurai where she began calling herself Lady Deathstrike whereupon she took several of her father's warriors to Canada to track down Wolverine and capture him so that the Adamantium in his body could be retrieved for study. She along with her team would ambush him in Canada but their plan was thwarted by his long-time friend Heather Hudson who had adopted the identity of Vindicator and the head of the Canadian superhero team known as Alpha Flight.
Reavers
Messiah Complex
Logan Legacy
Yuriko later learnt that Wolverine had returned and quickly assembled the Reavers in order to reach him first to kill him before any of his others enemies reached him. In reality, this was not Wolverine but rather an alternate reality version of him who was forced to battle Lady Deathstrike and left her seriously damaged. (Old Man Logan v1 #7)
Overview
Personality and attributes
She was the head of the Oyama Design Group. (X-Men Annual v2 2000)
Powers and abilities
Her healing factor relied upon nanobots reconstructing individual cells on a molecular level. (Weapon X v3 #2)
Alternate Versions
Notes
- The character was created by Dennis O'Neil and Larry Hama where she made her first appearance as Yuriko Oyama in Dardevil v1 #197 (April 1986) but appeared as Lady Deathstrike in Alpha Flight v1 #33 (April 1986).
In other media
Television
- In X-Men: the Animated Series, the character made an appearance in the two part Episode "Out of the Past" where she was voiced by Jane Luk. Yuriko Oyama was the daughter of the distinguished Professor Oyama and she was romantically involved with Logan. He was assigned a black-ops mission and promised to return to Yuriko once he had completed the task but he was captured for the Weapon X Project. Wolverine would break free from the experiment that bonded Adamantium to his bones with his rampage killing Professor Oyama. When he returned to Yuriko's home, she was long gone though in truth she had learnt of her fathers demise and swore revenge against Logan. She would travel to the Reavers who transformed her into a cyborg where she called herself Lady Deathstrike in order to seek vengeance for her slain father as Logan did not realize that the scientist involved was Yuriko's parent.
Films
- In X2: X-Men United, Lady Deathstrike made an appearance where she was portrayed by actress Kelly Hu. She was shown as being a brainwashed Mutant with a regenerative healing factor similar to Wolverine along with superhuman strength. Known only as Deathstrike, she served as the personal enforcer of William Stryker who drugged her with a chemical extracted from his own son Jason Stryker. As part of Weapon X, she was enhanced with Adamantium claws that extended from her nails. She was dispatched by Stryker to ambush and capture both Cyclops along with Professor Xavier. She later fought Wolverine at the government black ops facility at Alkali Lake where Logan managed to disable her by injecting her with fluid Adamantium seemingly killing her.
Video games
- In X-Men: Next Dimension, Lady Deathstrike was a playable character in the video game where she was voiced by actor Gwendoline Yeo.
- In Wolverine: Adamantium Rage, the character appeared as a boss villain in the video game. She was stated to be 5'9 who had cybernetic implants with Adamantium laced on her body. A weakness of her character was said to be her mental instability.
Appearances
- X-Men:
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