Cyber (Marvel)

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Cyber battles Wolverine with Daken from Wolverine: Origins v1 #32.

Cyber is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

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Biography

Origin

Silas Burr

In the early 20th century, he came to serve in the military where he served in a number of campaigns. During his time as a member of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency where was secretly responsible for the murder of 22 people. He was eventually caught and placed on trial at Sioux City, Iowa in 1912 with him being found guilty as well as being sentenced to death by hanging. During transport, he was rescued by a guard who worked on behalf of a mysterious master. (Wolverine: Origins v1 #14)

Hudson then installed Burr in command of the special Canadian Army unit called the Devil's Brigade, which included the man known as Logan. Under Hudson's orders, Burr started to focus his attention on Logan in particular in order to make his life a nightmare and to turn him into an obedient animal bred to kill. To that end another Romulus operative, Janet, was used by Burr and Hudson in order to make Logan fall in love with her. (Wolverine: Origins v1 #17)

At some point, Burr was institutionalized at the Ravencroft Institute but in 1923, alongside a young Al Capone he escaped from it. (Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula v1 #1)

In the early 1940s, after Logan came back to the training facility, Silas Burr under the orders of Frederick Hudson killed Janet as a lesson that whenever Logan overcame his inner bestial nature to care for someone, that person would die. (Wolverine: Origins v1 #31) Seeking vengeance, Logan fought Burr, who severely beat him and gouged out his left eye. (Wolverine: Origins v1 #12)

Logan descended into a near-feral state, his healing factor again obscuring his traumatic memories, and he fled to the Canadian wilderness. Burr and Sabretooth were able to track him down and manipulated him into being an obedient animal again. In the summer of 1941, Logan, now back under Romulus and Burr's control, was sent to Madripoor in order to get a new assignment from Seraph. Not long after, Burr, Logan, and the rest of the Devil's Brigade went to Tunisia as part of a World War II military operation. Burr then introduced Logan to U.S. Army soldier Nick Fury for the clandestine rescue mission of Captain America from German occupied Northern Africa. (Wolverine: Origins v1 #17)

In 1959, Silas was summoned back to Canada in order to train Logan’s illegitimate son, Daken, just as he had his father. Silas took to the assignment with glee. On one of Daken’s first days with him, Silas killed the man standing at attention next to Daken with a single punch, solely to see how Daken reacted. To Silas’ surprise, Daken didn’t care—at all. Eventually, Daken, acting under orders from Romulus, went AWOL and began murdering everyone at the facility, starting with the men Silas sent after him. At this point, Silas tried to resign from his post, but his boss, Hudson, refused to let him go free, and drew a gun to kill him. Fortunately for Silas, Daken intervened and killed Hudson—only to then shoot Silas three times in the back. He was prepared to finish him once and for all when the enigmatic Romulus intervened and stated that he wanted to use Silas for an experimental Adamantium-bonding process. (Wolverine: Origins v1 #27)

The wounded Silas was thrown into a rail car and shipped to Saskatchewan, Canada, where Romulus’s men performed the Adamantium-bonding process on him—the first attempt of such a procedure on a human. Because Silas lacked a healing factor, they had to bond the Adamantium to his skin. Silas was mostly conscious during the agonizing, torturous affair, and felt them searing and bonding the Adamantium to his flesh. They also outfitted him with small claws on his fingertips that were able to secrete doses of poisons and hallucinogenic drugs. (Wolverine: Origins v1 #32)

Cyber

Sometime after his upgrade, Silas adopted the codename Cyber for himself. At some undisclosed point, Wolverine sought him out to kill him, but Cyber bested him and left him for dead. (Marvel Comics Presents v1 #86) He went to Madripoor to meet with General Coy where he was representing his benefactors during the negotiation. During the talks, he sensed the brain pattern of Logan and ambushed him in building where he wounded his old foe who was forced to retreat from the scene. (Marvel Comics Presents v1 #86) Cyber then went to meet with Tyger Tiger in order to see whether she would make a more profitable business partner in his sale of hallucinogenic drugs. (Marvel Comics Presents v1 #87)

Despite still being shocked by his fight with Cyber but also afraid of him after what he did to both him and Janet years ago, Tyger Tiger later convinced Wolverine to face Cyber again. (Marvel Comics Presents v1 #90)

While Wolverine was recovering, Cyber approached Tyger Tiger to make her the same offer he did to General Coy about his hallucinogenic drug shipment. (Marvel Comics Presents v1 #88) Cyber's goal was to force both Tyger Tiger and General Coy to agree to buy his drug shipment, kill both of them at the same time in order to set himself up in Madripoor, and use the port city for his own operations. When both General Coy and Tyger Tiger arrived at the rendezvous, Cyber killed all of their men and, as he was about to kill the two of them, Wolverine intervened and saved them. (Marvel Comics Presents v1 #91)

After this close save, Coy and Tyger agreed to a truce for a while. Cyber then faced Wolverine on top of a truck full of Cyber's hallucinogenic drug and this time Wolverine was able to gouge Cyber's left eye, the same way Cyber gouged Logan's left eye after he killed Janet years ago. Despite this injury, Cyber was able to leap onto a nearby tree; Wolverine followed in order to finish him off but Cyber got the upper hand and tried to rip Wolverine's claws off. But suddenly, an old wolf that Wolverine previously befriended appeared and bit Cyber's neck, which made him fall into one of the barrels of his hallucinogenic drug below. The drug entered Cyber's system through his missing eye and gave him several hallucinations, resulting in Cyber screaming in terror and running away. (Marvel Comics Presents v1 #92)

Return

Despite his death, his consciousness survived due to his limited psionic powers that had allowed him to track his quarry. This had manifested into projecting his consciousness from his body but remained in a bodiless state. After gaining control of his new power, he sought out a new body for himself which he forcibly took from a young man named Milo Gunderson. (Wolverine: Origins v1 #12)

Through unrevealed means, Cyber was able to escape from Hell and came back to the land of the living. Unfortunately, Cyber and other people possessing adamantium became targets of Abraham Cornelius who restarted the Weapon X program and was trying to secure every piece of adamantium in the world. As a result, Cyber was now tracked by one of his agents: Ogun. Cyber was tracked to Japan by Ogun and fought against him, but despite putting on a brave fight, he was killed by Ogun. Cyber's body was then thrown in a pool of acid, in order to dissolve it and recover his adamantium. (Death of Wolverine v1 #3)

Back to Hell, a demon took interest in Silas' soul, which allegedly desired a second chance to do better. When this demon was liberated from Hell and went on to impersonate the Black Marvel in order to reassemble the Slingers, he brought Cyber with him and had him become the new Hornet. (Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider v1 #13) Silas started his new superhero career working for Silas Thorne. Hornet was first ordered to steal a shipment of food meant for Mercury Rising, the casino run by Cassandra Mercury that had become a temporary shelter for victims of Hydra's assault on the city. Thorne claimed that Mercury was hoarding the food and giving it only to her guests, making Hornet believe he was helping antagonize a criminal. While stealing the shipment, the Hornet was attacked by the Scarlet Spider, though he managed to paralyze him and escape. (Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider v1 #8) Scarlet Spider was soon joined by Ricochet, a former teammate of the previous Hornet who decided to investigate the appearance of this person that was using his late friend's codename. Both heroes assaulted Thorne's office in the Forbidden City, where they confronted Hornet. Hornet used a magical amulet to unleash a demonic Fhtagn on the intruders. (Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider v1 #9) The Scarlet Spider took Hornet's amulet from him and destroyed it in a failed attempt to banish the creature, forcing Hornet to work with the hero to defeat the monster. Another of the former Hornet's friends, Dusk, joined the brawl and teleported the monster away. The three then rushed when they noticed the Scarlet Spider had slipped away to confront Thorne on his own. When Hornet, Ricochet, and Dusk finally reached the office where Thorne was hiding, they found him severely beaten up. (Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider v1 #10) Hornet joined the Slingers' efforts to bring Scarlet Spider to justice and have him turn himself over to the police for beating up Thorne by holding Cassandra Mercury hostage at the Thorne Theater. After Scarlet Spider tracked down Cassandra with the help of his namesake Kaine, Hornet revealed his true identity as Cyber in the ensuing fight. (Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider v1 #12) When Black Marvel revealed his demonic nature, the other three Slingers turned on him and Cyber. Black Marvel and Hornet were driven off, and Burr managed to lose the Slingers while being chased into the sewers. (Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider v1 #13)

Overview

Personality and attributes

He said that he knew Logan for a long time and that he had bad memories of him. (Marvel Comics Presents v1 #88)

Powers and abilities

As a Mutant, he had certain psionic powers that allowed him to pick up the brain patterns of others. (Marvel Comics Presents v1 #86)

In time, his powers had improved allowing him to project his consciousness from his body allowing him to survive the death of his physical form. However, he was a bodiless psionic force in this state and required a body to inhabit in order to live again. (Wolverine: Origins v1 #12)

The mechanical fingertips could extend sharp claws that he could use in close-quarter combat to rip through flesh. (Marvel Comics Presents v1 #86)

A pair of energy weapons lay sequestered within his new body's forearms, even after his adamantium skin and muscle fibers ripped out of his costume. (Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider v1 #13)

Notes

  • Cyber was created by Peter David and Sam Kieth where he made his first appearance in Marvel Comics Presents v1 #85 (September, 1991).

In other media

Video games

  • In Wolverine: Adamantium Rage, the character appeared as one of the supervillain bosses to fight the player. His profile stated a weakness in Cyber was his vulnerability to his own poison within his claws on his fingers.
  • In X-Men: Battle of the Atom, Cyber appeared as a playable card in the iOS video card game.

Appearances

  • Marvel Comics Presents v1: (1991)
  • Wolverine: Origins v1:
  • Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider v1:

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