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Depowered, formerly:
Kinetic Absorption
Kinetic blasts
Inodorosity (No discernible scent)
Publication history Fictional character biography Early lifeChristopher "Chris" Nord was born in East Germany. His early history is clouded in mystery, though there are whispers that his parents were scientists for the Nazi regime. He also had an older brother, Andreas. A mutant. Christoph possessed the ability to absorb kinetic energy through impact with little to no harm.
An idealist, he fought against the communist regime during the height of the Cold War. joining a West German black ops unit named Cell Six. On a mission in Italy. he was injured by a rival assassin codenamed the Confessor.
While recovering, he met an Italian nurse, Ginetta Lucia Barsalini, whom he fell in love with and married. Over the next three years, Cell Six's field agents were eliminated one by one, except for Nord. Nord realized the truth; Ginetta was a spy. Threatening to shoot her, he demanded to know her employer. Saying he didn't have the guts to shoot a defenseless woman in cold blood, she lunged at him with a knife, causing him to shoot her in self-defense. Dying, she revealed to him that in killing her, he had killed their unborn child as well. Long after this incident, Nord continues to be wracked with guilt about the betrayal and still seeks answers as to whom Barsalini was working for. This watershed moment left Nord cold and distrusting of everyone, especially women.
Fueled by the betrayal, Sgt. Nord became one of the most efficient covert operatives in Germany. In the 1960s, his exploits caught the attention of the CIA. who offered him a spot in the clandestine Team X. He agreed, and at this time, changed his name to David North. As a part of Team X, he was one of several mutant operatives the government experimented on and exploited. Each member unknowingly received false memory implants, and North received an aging suppressant culled from Logan's mutant healing factor. North's immediate team consisted of three field agents: North, Logan (who later became Wolverine ), and Victor Creed (who later became Sabretooth ). The mutant teleporter John Wraith, also referred to as Kestrel. served as the team's intelligence man and extractor. It was at this time that North began wearing his signature yellow and black faceplate. On a mission in East Germany, both Creed and Logan were badly injured. Rather than follow protocol and leave them, North dragged them to the extraction point. Cornered by Andreas Nord, now an assassin, North saved his teammates the only way he could; killing his own brother in cold blood. Because of this incident, Logan holds North in very high regard.
Another mission saw the three agents try to take down the Russian super soldier Omega Red in Berlin. They succeeded in stealing the carbonadium synthesizer, which was necessary for the Russian to control his death factor pheromone. Taking down the psychopathic Omega Red, however, was not as easy. In the chaos, Creed panicked, killing Janice Hollenback, the CIA mole they were attempting to rescue. The team then escaped by jumping from a ten-story window. The synthesizer was thought lost, and a rift formed between Creed and Logan due to Creed's actions on the mission. Unbeknownst to the agency, Logan had recovered the synthesizer and hid it. North suspected as much at the time, but did not know for sure. [ 3 ]
By the early 1970s, Team X was summarily disbanded. However, the team's agents were captured by Weapon X to be used as test subjects. When Logan underwent the adamantium bonding, he went on a murderous rampage, allowing North and the others to escape. Around this time, North inexplicably lost his powers. Undaunted, North continued to work in espionage as a mercenary using the trade name Maverick. The inspiration for the name came in a conversation where North boasted that he neither trusted nor needed anyone, to which Logan responded, "A regular maverick, eh?"
Decades passed and Maverick developed a reputation as one of the best hired guns available. Maverick compensated for his lack of powers with meticulous planning and a reliance on the latest technology. His suit consisted of fiberglass armor, a padded kevlar lining, and airtight seals that allowed him to seal the suit for further protection. His mask contained a limited oxygen supply as well as infrared scanning and target systems. The suit's offensive capabilities were tailored to his missions' needs.
He worked for private parties and governmental agencies alike, taking several contracts from retired Major Arthur Barrington, the man who had brought North into the CIA. When Omega Red captured Wolverine as well as several of the X-Men in Berlin in an effort to locate the carbonadium synthesizer, Maverick was sent in by Barrington. Maverick helped free the captive X-Men, and tracked Sabretooth to Omega Red. With the X-Men's help, he obtained the device from Wolverine, and hid it once again. Maverick aided the X-Men in combat against Sabretooth, Omega Red, Fenris. and Matsu'o Tsurayaba. During the course of this incident, Maverick murders Dr. Abraham Cornelius (one of the men responsible for turning Wolverine into who he is) in cold blood. [ 4 ]
Barrington later sent him to acquire the Xavier Files, profiles of the powers and weaknesses of various mutants, which were compiled by the X-Men's founder. Maverick battled and killed Dr. Alexander Ryking and his superhuman ally. Maverick's enemy Warhawk exploded in the ensuing clash, seemingly destroying the files. [ 5 ] Maverick was later hired by the US government to protect Aldo Ferro, a former Weapon X member. Former Team X alumni sought Ferro out after Mastodon died when his age suppression factor reversed. Unbeknownst to Team X, Ferro was the second Psi-Borg, and was responsible for the planting of false memories during their time with Weapon X. Betrayed by Ferro, Maverick then sided with his former teammates Wolverine, Sabretooth, Silver Fox, and John Wraith, and Ferro was seemingly killed in the subsequent battle. [ 6 ]
Maverick next sought to kill Sabretooth to make him pay for his numerous crimes. Against his better judgment, he joined forces with the X-Men to merely capture Sabretooth, setting in motion what became a failed attempt by Charles Xavier to rehabilitate the serial killer.
Legacy VirusMaverick swiftly contracted the Legacy Virus. a terminal disease that only affected mutants. This development brought about the random return of his powers, but also a loss of energy and horrible scarring all over his body. At first, he tried to convince Wolverine to kill him, but Wolverine would not, and Maverick decided to make the best of it, and "fight the good fight." His health declining, he traveled the world from safe house to safe house, using his savings to procure treatment for his infection.
During this time he recruited a very unstable Wolverine to help him rescue the mercenary Deadpool from a mysterious organization. The group had attacked Maverick, almost killing him, but he had made it to the X-Mansion and spent several days in a coma, healing. It was thought Deadpool's blood would supply a cure for the disease, but after a very violent adventure it was discovered this was not the case.
While in New York, he saved a fellow Legacy Virus positive mutant, teenager Chris Bradley and his family from an attack by the Friends of Humanity. an anti-mutant group. The FOH retaliated by firebombing Bradley's home, spurring Maverick to use his connections to relocate the Bradley family to Florida under aliases. He also got Chris medical treatment, and set his parents up with new jobs.
He then left for Canada. While there, former KGB agent and mutant telepath Elena Ivanova found him, demanding he help her track down Sabretooth. who had killed her mother during his Weapon X years. Before he could answer her, they were attacked by Omega Red, who had tracked Ivanova to Maverick in hopes of recovering the carbonadium synthesizer. With the help of John Wraith, they succeeded in keeping the device away from the villain. Saved by Maverick, Ivanova felt that she owed him, and stuck by his side despite his icy demeanor. They traveled together for a time. The Legacy Virus then took hold, killing North.
Ivanova used her powers to resuscitate North. To his surprise, the virus seemingly went into remission. and his powers not only returned, but were enhanced. The kinetic energy his body absorbed could now be released as beams of concussive force or heat, or used to increase the strength of his physical attacks. His revival also cleared his mind of Weapon X's memory implants. He would later realize that the Legacy Virus made his new powers inconsistent, at times making his powers a danger to himself.
Trouble soon found them in the form of Russian mob boss Ivan Pushkin. Sending his goons Hammer and Sickle to kidnap them both, Pushkin used Ivanova's powers to brainwash Maverick into killing Major Arthur Barrington, claiming it was Barrington who had set up Barsalini's betrayal all those years ago. In reality, Barrington was to deliver testimony at an inquest that would have been damaging to Pushkin's business interests. Attacking but not killing Barrington, Maverick quickly regained his senses. While he blinded the left eye of Sickle with his own weapon, Hammer finished the job and eliminated Barrington. Meanwhile, Chris Bradley ran from home, missing his girlfriend in New York. The FOH tapped his friends' phone and when he reached New York, they again tried to kill Chris. Maverick, Ivanova, and Wolverine saved him and his friend. Ivanova then used her abilities to make the FOH and Chris' girlfriend think he'd died in the scuffle.
Both shaken by the life threatening events of the past few days, Ivanova and North's relationship, platonic up to this point, became physical. The following morning, Ivanova still expressed the desire to go after Sabretooth. Maverick harshly warned that an assault against Sabretooth was a fool's errand, and implied she'd slept with him to coerce him to aid her goal. Angered, Ivanova left Maverick that night to continue her vendetta. A regretful Maverick traced Ivanova's steps and found her in the nick of time as she was rendered comatose by the mutant psychopath. Maverick stopped Sabretooth from delivering the killing blow, and left a badly injured Ivanova in the care of the Bradley family.
Maverick then renewed his vendetta with Ivan Pushkin, desperate to avenge Barrington's death. Pushkin retained the Confessor's services to spring Sickle from jail, then go after Maverick. The Confessor defeated Maverick and brought him to Pushkin, who held him captive, still having hopes of coercing Maverick to work for him. However, Maverick would have none of it, freeing himself and then stopping Pushkin from stealing a huge payload of high tech weaponry from A.I.M. In the midst of achieving this goal, Sickle gained a measure of revenge, gouging out Maverick's left eye and stranding him in the Swiss Alps .
Agent ZeroThe Weapon X project was soon reinvigorated, and having brought Sabretooth and Wraith back into the fold, they were sent to recruit Maverick. Wraith lured an unwitting Maverick into a rendezvous. Maverick refused to join, and a battle ensued. After believing to have defeated Sabretooth, Maverick came to learn of his new healing factor which had been enhanced once again. Sabretooth caught him off guard, impaled him and then threw him off the roof of a 20 story building onto a car parked on the street below.
Zero's anti-healing factor corrosive.
Taken to Weapon X near death, Malcolm Colcord again offered him the chance to join, as he could still be saved. This time, he reluctantly agreed, rationalizing it by saying he couldn't "fight the good fight" as a corpse. He was healed and then upgraded with explicit intent of assassinating Wolverine. He has no scent, makes no sound thanks to a vibranium suit, possesses an enhanced healing factor. and a corrosive was added to his concussive blasts that hinders a foes' healing factor. In addition, he was equipped with a wide array of weapons, from wrist-mounted plasma blasters, to an adamantium-coated knife. He was the agency's most potent weapon.
As the world believed that Maverick was dead, a victim of Sabretooth's, Nord sought to keep it that way. He dyed his brown hair black and adopted a new alias, Agent Zero. After sending him on a few simple missions, the Director tried to break his will by sending him to kill his friend and former teammate Wolverine, a mission he purposely botched. Feeling guilty for joining the enemy, he contemplated suicide daily. His hatred for his teammate Sabretooth still ran deep, as he tried yet again to kill him, only to be stopped from dealing a fatal blow by the Director.
During a mission, Agent Zero encountered a new Maverick, who unbeknownst to Zero, was the same mutant he'd befriended years earlier, Chris Bradley. Bradley had infiltrated a mutant terrorist group called Gene Nation in an effort to destroy them from inside. Bradley had wanted revenge on Weapon X for 'killing' North. To achieve that goal, he received training in black ops from Cable and assumed the Maverick mantle. Zero, believing this new Maverick was a terrorist, shot and killed him, only to find the truth as Bradley lay dying. Returning to the base after this occurred, Zero found Weapon X had disappeared without a trace. Maverick then picked up Bradley's fight, attacking Gene Nation strongholds across the world and also searched for answers as to what happened to the program.
It was revealed the reason that Zero doesn't know what happened to Weapon X was because he was being brainwashed by a fellow Weapon X member under orders from the Director, as Zero had become increasingly harder to control. Zero had gone after Gene Nation because of Weapon X's instruction. Without realizing it, Zero served as executioner at Neverland, a mutant concentration camp set up by Weapon X. But just as soon as Weapon X bothered to reveal these truths, they put him under again, and Zero went on, none the wiser.
DecimationAgent Zero lost his powers on M-Day. as a result of Scarlet Witch's actions during the House Of M. It has been revealed that he is among the mutants who have been depowered. [ 7 ]
North is seen residing in a center for former mutants and once again using the Maverick alias. [ 8 ] Wolverine sought him out for information on carbonadium, reuniting the two and Jubilee. However, Omega Red soon attacked the building, looking for the carbonadium synthesizer.
Maverick stole Weapon X files and sold them on the black market. In an effort to cover up his involvement in Kick-starting the Strikeforce X program from Wolverine, he killed the man whom he sold the files to.
Powers and abilitiesMaverick's primary mutant power is an ability to absorb the kinetic energy generated by an impact without harm to himself. While there are limits to this power, Maverick is able to survive falls from tremendous heights, energy blasts, and being struck by superhumanly strong foes without being injured.
Upon accepting his first offer to work for the Weapon X Program, Maverick is artificially granted a slight healing factor that allows him to recover from mild to moderate injuries much faster than a normal human. It also renders Maverick immune to most diseases and toxins and also greatly suppressed his natural aging process. However, after contracting the Legacy Virus. Maverick's kinetic absorption ability is dramatically reduced in efficiency and his healing factor burns itself out while fighting the virus.
After the virus claims his life, and he is resuscitated by the mutant telepath Elena Ivanova, the Legacy Virus immediately goes into remission and his kinetic absorption ability mutates. After absorbing the energy, Maverick must release the energy in the forms of powerful concussive or heat blasts. He can also channel the energy into physical attacks, increasing the physical force of his punches and kicks to superhuman levels.
After being forced to join the Weapon X Program once again, Maverick adopts the Agent Zero codename and his kinetic absorption ability is artificially mutated further. Now, aside from channeling the energy to increase the strength of his physical attacks, Maverick can expel a corrosive enzyme that is secreted from the tips of his fingers via his energy blasts. Aside from its acidic properties, the enzyme is specifically designed by the Weapon X Program to counteract the effects of an opponent's self-healing capabilities by reversing the process. The more an enemy's body attempts to heal itself from injuries sustained by the enzyme, the worse the injuries become. As a side effect of the procedure used to grant him this ability, Maverick's body now possesses no discernible scent.
Currently, Maverick possesses no superhuman powers. Like most of the world's mutant population, Maverick has lost his mutant powers following the events of M-Day .
Skills and equipmentMaverick is a highly skilled hand to hand combatant and covert operative. Maverick is also an expert marksman, skilled in the use of virtually all types of firearms.
He has also worn a variety of uniforms over the course of his career. The costume he has worn for most of his career is a suit of body armor that further protects him from various types of injury and contained airtight seals, a face mask containing a limited oxygen supply. Maverick could activate shields that sealed exposed areas of his body within the battle-suit for protection. As Agent Zero, he wears a kind of body armor woven from vibranium. rendering him completely silent as he moves. It also refracts light which renders him practically invisible to conventional detection methods in total darkness.
Maverick also carries a wide array of weaponry including thermite bombs, a hydraulic bolt gun, armor-piercing bullets, wrist mounted energy blasters, firearms designed to fire adamantium bullets, a sniper rifle with anti-metal bullets, and a knife also coated with adamantium.
Other versionsAn alternate version of Maverick was revealed to exist in Exiles #62. Maverick was forced to join Weapon X. a group of reality-hopping people who had to kill people in order to save realities. Little is known about Maverick, except that he apparently was killed by the bladed shield of an alternate version of Captain America. For a time, the body was trapped in the Timebroker's Crystal Palace until the Exiles sent his body back home. On his home-world of Earth-1287, Maverick was revealed to be an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. before his abduction, working alongside Nick Fury. who later honored his best agent by giving him a proper funeral.
Another morning late in bed
Staring at the ceiling, thinking of you
Another song within my head
Where did I go wrong? Thinking of you
I will try to carry on
I’ll sing another love song
I’m no superhero, I’m no Mister Bond
I’m your Agent Zero, I’m just myself
My love is blind
I’ll wait until the end of time
Walking tall or standing still
Doesn’t really matter when you’re not here
Supposed to write the word fulfill
Hard to imagine when you’re not here
I will try another song
Not more than three minutes long, and I said
I’m no superhero, no, I’m no Mister Bond
I’m your Agent Zero, I’m just myself
My love is blind
I’ll wait until the end of time
Еще одно позднее утро в кровати,
Уставившись в потолок, думаю о тебе
Другая песня крутится в моей голове,
Где я был неправ? Думаю о тебе.
Я попытаюсь продолжить жить дальше,
Я спою иную песню о любви
Я — не супергерой, я не — мистер Бонд,
Я — твой Агент Зеро, я сам по себе,
Держаться самоуверенно или стоять на месте —
Не имеет значения, когда рядом нет тебя,
Представлю, что обещание исполнено,
Но трудно вообразить, когда рядом нет тебя
Попробую спеть другую песню
Не более трех минут, и я скажу
Я — не супергерой, нет, я не мистер Бонд,
Я — твой Агент Зеро, я сам по себе,
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2009-04-12 16:01:07
Агент Зеро (Agent Zero)
Известные псевдонимы: Дэвид Норф, Маверик, Агент Зеро.
Работал в группах: «CIA», «Оружие Х» и «Команда Х».
Способности:
Может поглощать кинетическую энергию, и перенаправлять ее в виде энергетических лучей.
Не имеет запаха. Обладает слабым исцеляющим фактором. Не подвержен старению.
Первое появление в комиксах:
X-Men #5 (1992) - появился как Маверик.
Weapon X: The Draft - Agent Zero #1 (2002) – появился как Агент Зеро.
Экипировка и оружие:
Броня Маверика состоит из стекловолокна с кевларовым покрытием и полной герметизацией, которая обеспечивает его костюму надежную защиту. Его маска содержит ограниченную дозу кислорода, а также инфракрасное зрение. Разнообразные возможности костюма были приспособлены к различным миссиям. В течение своей карьеры, Норд часто менял свой костюм и экипировку
Как Агент Зеро, он носит броню созданную из вибраниума. Костюм также преломляет свет, что делает Агента Зеро невидимым в темноте.
Как в образе Маверика, так и в образе Агента Зеро, Кристофер Норд использует специальное оружие. В его арсенале имеются специальные пули, способные пробить почти все виды брони, на запястьях установлены энергетические программаторы, огнестрельное оружие, снайперская винтовка с пулями способными пробить металл, а также нож, который покрыт адамантиумом.
Сержант Кристофер Норд становиться одним из лучших оперативных агентов в Германии. В 1960 году, он привлек внимание ЦРУ, которое предложило ему место в тайной группе под названием «Команда-Х» (Team X). Он принял предложение, и поменял имя на Дэвид Норф.
Правительственная организация «Команда-Х» использовала мутантов. Каждому из членов этой группы стирали память. Группа состояла из следующих агентов: Джеймс Хоулетт (который позже станет Росомахой), Виктор Крид (который позже станет Саблезубым), мутант - телепортер Джон Райт, который являлся «мозговым центром» команды. В миссии в Восточной Германии, Крид и Логан были сильно повреждены. Не следую уставу, Кристофер оттащил их в надежное укрытие. После этого инцидента, Норд и Хоулетт (Росомаха) находятся в очень хороших отношениях.
Одна из миссий проходила в Берлине. Ученые добились успеха в синтезе корбанадиума. Который, по воле случая, был необходим для Красного Омеги, чтобы управлять его смертельным показателем яда в организме. Остановить Омегу оказалось не так уж легко. В панике Крид убил одного из ученых.
Началась настоящая неразбериха, и синтезатор карбонадиума был, как считали многие, потерян. После этой миссии, между Кридом и Росомахой образовалась серьезная «трещина», из-за действий Крида во время миссии. Не сказав ничего в агентстве, Росомаха нашел карбонадиум и спрятал его.
В начале 70-х «Команда Икс» была распущена. Тем не менее, агенты группы были захвачены «Оружием Икс», чтобы использовать их в своих целях. После того, как Логан получил скелет из адамантиума, он устроил побег из «Оружия Икс». Этот побег помог также Норду и другим сбежать.
Прошло много лет и Норд, взяв себе прозвище Маверик, заработал репутацию хорошего наемника. Свой недостаток сил он компенсировал отличным интеллектом и хорошим, высокотехнологичным снаряжением. Он работал на частных лиц, предприятия и даже на правительственных агентов. Также у него был контракт с Артуром Баррингтоном, который и привел Норда в ЦРУ. Когда Красный Омега, в Берлине, пытался найти синтезатор карбонадиума, его пытались остановить Люди-икс. Однако Омега захватил Росомаху и Людей-икс в плен. Маверик был послан Баррингтоном, чтобы остановить Омегу.
Норд освободил Людей - икс. И все вместе они победили Красного Омегу. Маверик забрал у Росомахи образец карбонадиума и спрятал его, чтобы его больше не нашли. Некоторое время, Маверик сражался вместе с Людьми - икс против таких мутантов, как: Саблезубый, Фенрис, Мистер Зловещий.
После некоторого «простоя», проект Оружия X скоро возобновился. В проект вернулись Саблезубый и Джон Райт. Саблезубый был послан завербовать Маверика. Однако Норд отказался возвращаться в проект, и его решение привело к борьбе. Кристофер не полагал, что Крид (Саблезубый) получил новые возможности и улучшил исцеляющий фактор. Благодаря этому, Виктор застал Маверика врасплох, пробив его насквозь когтями, а затем бросил его с крыши 20-ти этажного здания. Норд упал на автомобиль, припаркованный внизу, но способности мутанта снова спасли его от гибели, однако он получил серьезные повреждения. Будучи при смерти, Маверик снова получил приглашение в проект. На этот раз к нему пришел Малькольм Колкорд и обещал, что если Норд вернется в проект, то его мгновенно вылечат. На этот раз ему пришлось согласиться, а иначе он бы погиб.
Он был исцелен, а затем модернизирован, с одним явным намерением - убить Росомаху.
Теперь у Норда нет аромата, а когда он движется, то не издает ни малейшего звука. Его исцеляющий фактор был усовершенствован, а его лучи еще сильнее поражали противника. Он стал одним из самых значимых агентов «Оружия Икс». Он перекрасил волосы и взял новое прозвище-Агент Зеро.
К настоящему времени, Маверик не обладает никакими сверхчеловеческими силами. Подобно большинству мутантов во всем мире, Маверик потерял свои силы, после событий «Дня-М».
REAL NAME. Christoph "Christopher" Nord
KNOWN ALIASES. Maverick, David North
IDENTITY. Secret, known to certain officials in US. Canadian, and German governments
OCCUPATION. Mercenary, former government operative, freedom fighter
PLACE OF BIRTH. Unrevealed location in former East Germany
CITIZENSHIP. German, with no known criminal record
MARITAL STATUS. Widower
KNOWN RELATIVES. Parents (deceased), Andreas Nord (brother, deceased), Ginetta Lucia Barsalini (wife, deceased), unnamed child (deceased)
GROUP AFFILIATION. Formerly Weapon X, Team X, Cell Six, former bodyguard of Psi-Borg, former agent of Major Barrington
EDUCATION. Unrevealed
FIRST APPEARANCE. (as Maverick) X-Men Vol. 2 #5 (1992), (as Agent Zero) Weapon X: The Draft - Agent Zero #1 (2002)
HISTORY. Born in the former East Germany, Christoph Nord was an idealist who fought against the communist regime as a freedom fighter for the West German Cell Six. Nord's brother Andreas fought for the East Germans, and when the two met in battle Nord was forced to kill his brother.
Later, after an encounter with the assassin the Confessor, Nord was recovering in a German hospital where he fell in love with nurse Ginetta Barsalini. The two married, and she soon became pregnant, but he later learned that she was a double agent and was forced to kill her after she attacked him. Guilt and pain drove him further into his mercenary work, and he eventually accepted an offer to join the Central Intelligence Agency's Weapon X Program. Nord joined the Program's covert operations unit Team X, changed his name to David North, and took the codename Maverick.
In recent years, Japanese crimelord Matsu'o Tsurayaba and his allies, including former Weapon X scientist Doctor Cornelius, resurrected the Russian super-soldier Omega Red. In order to stabilize his mutant power, Omega Red required the Carbonadium Synthesizer, a device stolen from him by Team X decades earlier. Omega Red captured Maverick's former Team X teammate Wolverine, who had the location of the C-Synthesizer buried in his memory, and several of Wolverine's teammates in the X-Men. Maverick was hired by former Team X liaison Major Arthur Barrington to prevent Omega Red from obtaining the device, and he tracked another former Team X member, Sabretooth, to Omega Red's location. With Maverick's help, the X-Men were able to defeat the villains, and he subsequently killed Cornelius in an act of revenge.
Barrington later sent Maverick to recover documents known as the Xavier Files, after the father of the X-Men's telepathic founder, Professor Charles Xavier. The files were in the possession of a former colleague of Xavier's father, Doctor Alexander Ryking, who was under the protection of the superhuman mercenary Warhawk. During the ensuing clash, Warhawk exploded, killing Ryking and seemingly destroying the files.
Maverick was then assigned by the US Government to protect Aldo Ferro, a former Weapon X ally. Maverick's former Team X alumni sought Ferro after one of their number, Mastodon, died when his age suppression factor was seemingly reversed. Unbeknownst to Team X, Ferro was responsible for secretly implanting them all with false memories during their time with Weapon X. After Ferro betrayed Maverick, he sided with his former teammates against Ferro who was seemingly killed in the subsequent battle.
Maverick next sought to hunt down Sabretooth to make him pay for his numerous crimes, and joined forces with the X-Men in capturing him. Maverick subsequently learned that he had contracted the deadly mutant-killing Legacy Virus. He asked Wolverine to kill him in order to avoid prolonged suffering, but Wolverine refused and Maverick came to form a sibling-like bond with another Virus sufferer, Chris Bradley.
During the final stages of his infection, Maverick encountered the Russian mutant tetepath Elena Ivanova who was hunting Sabretooth to avenge his murder of her mother. The Virus claimed Maverick's life, but Ivanova managed to use her powers to coax him back to life. As a result, Maverick's Legacy Virus went into full remission and his powers further mutated.
Maverick was then captured by Russian crimelord Ivan Pushkin, whose scientists implanted false memories into Maverick's mind to make him believe that Barrington had been responsible for his wife's betrayal. Pushkin intended for Maverick to kill Barrington to prevent him from providing testimony that threatened Pushkin's financial interests. Maverick located Barrington's safe house but was opposed by members of the Canadian super-team Alpha Flight. Maverick overcame Pushkin's mental manipulation, however it was too late to save Barrington from Pushkin's agents, Hammer and Sickle.
In a later encounter with Hammer and Sickle, Maverick's left eye was gouged out by Sickle, and he was left to die in the Swiss Alps. Forced to cauterize the wound to stop from bleeding to death, Maverick survived and later resurfaced to aid Wolverine against a revived Weapon X Program. This new Program sent Sabretooth to recruit both Maverick and fellow Team X alumnus John Wraith. Neither accepted the offer, and so Sabretooth killed Wraith and critically injured Maverick. Brought to the Program with only minutes to live, Maverick reluctantly joined in order to survive and was genetically modified to become Agent Zero.
Although an efficient operative, Zero hated what he had become and frequently considered suicide. On his first assignment as Zero, he was sent to assassinate Wolverine in an attempt by the Director to further break his spirit. Deliberately missing his target, Zero was punished with an electric shock. Later, Zero recaptured Sabretooth after his betrayal of the Program and would have killed him had the Director not shocked him again.
After a change in leadership of the Program, Zero was assigned to track the antihuman terrorist group Gene Nation that had been revived by former Weapon X operative Marrow. Confronting her, Zero learned that her latest recruit, a man using his former identity of Maverick, had been sent to attack New York's Grand Central Station. Confronting the impostor, Zero inflicted a fatal wound upon him only to learn that it was his friend, Chris. Zero then set about the task of wiping out Gene Nation with new zeal, although he declined to make Marrow a martyr. Returning to an abandoned Weapon X facility, Zero's investigations led him to join Wolverine and the enigmatic mercenary Fantomex in opposing the Project's original founder, John Sublime.
HEIGHT. 6 ft. 3 in.
WEIGHT. 230 lbs.
HAIR. (originally) Brown (currently) Black
KNOWN SUPERHUMAN POWERS. Agent Zero is a mutant with the power to absorb the kinetic energy of an impact within certain limits without injury to himself. Following the mutation of his powers, Zero must release the energy he absorbs and can channel it as blasts of concussive-corrosive energy via an acidic enzyme secreted from his fingertips. This enzyme was specifically designed by the Weapon X Program to counteract an opponent's self-healing abilities by reversing the process so that the more an opponent attempts to heal an enzyme-inflicted wound, the worse it becomes. Zero is also able to channel absorbed energy into raw strength, allowing him to deliver blows ten times stronger than normal.
Like other members of the Weapon X Program, Zero's DNA contains an age-suppression factor that greatly retards his aging process. Subsequent modification by the Program has removed all discernible scent from his body.
SPECIAL SKILLS. Agent Zero is a deadly hand-to-hand combatant, a precision marksman, and an expert in covert operations and demolitions. He also has vast experience with computers and communications equipment.
COSTUME. As Maverick, Agent Zero wore a suit of body armor that contained airtight seals and a mask containing a limited oxygen supply.
Zero currently wears body armor woven from the rare metal Vibranium that makes him completely silent as he moves. The armor also refracts light, which in total darkness renders him nearly invisible to conventional methods of detection.
PERSONAL WEAPONRY. Agent Zero carries a wide array of weapons, including wrist-mounted plasma blasters, pistols that fire bullets made from the near-unbreakable metal Adamantium, and an Adamantium-coated knife, among others. Zero also once used a sniper rifle loaded with bullets forged of Adamantium-piercing “anti-metal.”
Christopher "Chris" Nord was born in East Germany. His early history is clouded in mystery, though there are whispers that his parents were scientists for the Nazi regime. He also had an older brother, Andreas Nord. A mutant , he possessed the ability to absorb kinetic energy through impact with little to no harm.
An idealist, he fought against the communist regime during the height of the Cold War, joining a West German black ops unit named Cell Six. On a mission in Italy, he was injured by a rival assassin codenamed the Confessor. While recovering, he met an Italian nurse, Ginetta Lucia Barsalini, whom he fell in love with and married. Over the next three years, Cell Six's field agents were eliminated one by one, except for Nord. Nord realized the truth; Ginetta was a spy. Threatening to shoot her, he demanded to know her employer. Saying he didn't have the guts to shoot a defenseless woman in cold blood, she lunged at him with a knife, causing him to shoot her in self-defense. Dying, she revealed to him that in killing her, he had killed their unborn child as well. Long after this incident, Nord continues to be wracked with guilt about the betrayal and still seeks answers as to whom Barsalini was working for. This watershed moment left Nord cold and distrusting of everyone, especially women.
Fueled by the betrayal, Sgt. Nord became one of the most efficient covert operatives in Germany. In the 1960s, his exploits caught the attention of the CIA, who offered him a spot in the clandestine Team X. He agreed, and at this time, changed his name to David North. As a part of Team X. he was one of several mutant operatives the government experimented on and utilized. Each member unknowingly received false memory implants, and North received an aging suppressant culled from Logan's mutant healing factor. North's immediate team consisted of three field agents: North, Logan (who later became Wolverine ), and Victor Creed (who later became Sabretooth ). The mutant teleporter John Wraith. also referred to as Kestrel, served as the team's intelligence man and extractor. It was at this time that North began wearing his signature yellow and black faceplate. On a mission in East Germany, both Creed and Logan were badly injured. Rather than follow protocol and leave them, North dragged them to the extraction point. Cornered by Andreas Nord, now an assassin, North saved his teammates the only way he could; killing his own brother in cold blood. Because of this incident, Logan holds North in very high regard. Another mission saw the three agents try to take down the Russian super soldier Omega Red in Berlin. They succeeded in stealing the carbonadium synthesizer, which was necessary for the Russian to control his death factor pheromone. Taking down the psychopathic Omega Red, however, was not as easy. In the chaos, Creed panicked, killing Janice Hollenback, the CIA mole they were attempting to rescue. The team then escaped by jumping from a ten-story window. The synthesizer was thought lost, and a rift formed between Creed and Logan due to Creed's actions on the mission. Unbeknownst to the agency, Logan had recovered the synthesizer and hid it. North suspected as much at the time, but did not know for sure. By the early 1970s, Team X was summarily disbanded. However, the team's agents were captured by Weapon X to be used as test subjects. When Logan underwent the adamantium bonding, he went on a murderous rampage, allowing North and the others to escape. Around this time, North inexplicably lost his powers. Undaunted, North continued to work in espionage as a mercenary using the trade name Maverick. The inspiration for the name came in a conversation where North boasted that he neither trusted nor needed anyone, to which Logan responded, "A regular maverick, eh?".
Decades passed and Maverick developed a reputation as one of the best hired guns available. Maverick compensated for his lack of powers with meticulous planning and a reliance on the latest technology. His suit consisted of fiberglass armor, a padded kevlar lining, and airtight seals that allowed him to seal the suit for further protection. His mask contained a limited oxygen supply as well as infrared scanning and target systems. The suit's offensive capabilities were tailored to his missions' needs. He worked for private parties and governmental agencies alike, taking several contracts from retired Major Arthur Barrington, the man who had brought North into the CIA. When Omega Red captured Wolverine as well as several of the X-Men in Berlin in an effort to locate the carbonadium synthesizer, Maverick was sent in by Barrington. Maverick helped free the captive X-Men, and tracked Sabretooth to Omega Red. With the X-Men's help, he obtained the device from Wolverine, and hid it once again. Maverick aided the X-Men in combat against Sabretooth, Omega Red, Fenris, and Matsu'o Tsurayaba. During the course of this incident, Maverick murders Dr. Abraham Cornelius (one of the men responsible for turning Wolverine into who he is) in cold blood. Barrington later sent him to acquire the Xavier Files, profiles of the powers and weaknesses of various mutants, which were compiled by the X-Men's founder. Maverick battled and killed Dr. Alexander Ryking and his superhuman ally. Maverick's enemy Warhawk exploded in the ensuing clash, seemingly destroying the files. Maverick was later hired by the US government to protect Aldo Ferro, a former Weapon X member. Former Team X alumni sought Ferro out after Mastodon died when his age suppression factor reversed. Unbeknownst to Team X, Ferro was the second Psi-Borg, and was responsible for the planting of false memories during their time with Weapon X. Betrayed by Ferro, Maverick then sided with his former teammates Wolverine, Sabretooth, Silver Fox, and John Wraith, and Ferro was seemingly killed in the subsequent battle. Maverick next sought to kill Sabretooth to make him pay for his numerous crimes. Against his better judgment, he joined forces with the X-Men to merely capture Sabretooth, setting in motion what became a failed attempt by Charles Xavier to rehabilitate the serial killer.
Legacy VirusMaverick swiftly contracted the Legacy Virus. a terminal disease that only affected mutants. This development brought about the random return of his powers, but also a loss of energy and horrible scarring all over his body. At first, he tried to convince Wolverine to kill him, but Wolverine would not, and Maverick decided to make the best of it, and "fight the good fight." His health declining, he traveled the world from safe house to safe house, using his savings to procure treatment for his infection. During this time he recruited a very unstable Wolverine to help him rescue the mercenary Deadpool from a mysterious organization. The group had attacked Maverick, almost killing him, but he had made it to the X-Mansion and spent several days in a coma, healing. It was thought Deadpool's blood would supply a cure for the disease, but after a very violent adventure it was discovered this was not the case. While in New York, he saved a fellow Legacy Virus positive mutant, teenager Chris Bradley and his family from an attack by the Friends of Humanity. an anti-mutant group. The FOH retaliated by firebombing Bradley's home, spurring Maverick to use his connections to relocate the Bradley family to Florida under aliases. He also got Chris medical treatment, and set his parents up with new jobs. He then left for Canada. While there, former KGB agent and mutant telepath Elena Ivanova found him, demanding he help her track down Sabretooth, who had killed her mother during his Weapon X years. Before he could answer her, they were attacked by Omega Red, who had tracked Ivanova to Maverick in hopes of recovering the carbonadium synthesizer. With the help of John Wraith, they succeeded in keeping the device away from the villain. Saved by Maverick, Ivanova felt that she owed him, and stuck by his side despite his icy demeanor. They traveled together for a time. The Legacy Virus then took hold, killing North. Ivanova used her powers to resuscitate North. To his surprise, the virus seemingly went into remission, and his powers not only returned, but were enhanced. The kinetic energy his body absorbed could now be released as beams of concussive force or heat, or used to increase the strength of his physical attacks. His revival also cleared his mind of Weapon X's memory implants. He would later realize that the Legacy Virus made his new powers inconsistent, at times making his powers a danger to himself. Trouble soon found them in the form of Russian mob boss Ivan Pushkin. Sending his goons Hammer and Sickle to kidnap them both, Pushkin used Ivanova's powers to brainwash Maverick into killing Major Arthur Barrington, claiming it was Barrington who had set up Barsalini's betrayal all those years ago. In reality, Barrington was to deliver testimony at an inquest that would have been damaging to Pushkin's business interests. Attacking but not killing Barrington, Maverick quickly regained his senses. While he blinded the left eye of Sickle with his own weapon, Hammer finished the job and eliminated Barrington. Meanwhile, Chris Bradley ran from home, missing his girlfriend in New York. The FOH tapped his friends' phone and when he reached New York, they again tried to kill Chris. Maverick, Ivanova, and Wolverine saved him and his friend. Ivanova then used her abilities to make the FOH and Chris' girlfriend think he'd died in the scuffle. Both shaken by the life threatening events of the past few days, Ivanova and North's relationship, platonic up to this point, became physical. The following morning, Ivanova still expressed the desire to go after Sabretooth. Maverick harshly warned that an assault against Sabretooth was a fool's errand, and implied she'd slept with him to coerce him to aid her goal. Angered, Ivanova left Maverick that night to continue her vendetta. A regretful Maverick traced Ivanova's steps and found her in the nick of time as she was rendered comatose by the mutant psychopath. Maverick stopped Sabretooth from delivering the killing blow, and left a badly injured Ivanova in the care of the Bradley family. Maverick then renewed his vendetta with Ivan Pushkin, desperate to avenge Barrington's death. Pushkin retained the Confessor's services to spring Sickle from jail, then go after Maverick. The Confessor defeated Maverick and brought him to Pushkin, who held him captive, still having hopes of coercing Maverick to work for him. However, Maverick would have none of it, freeing himself and then stopping Pushkin from stealing a huge payload of high tech weaponry from A.I.M. In the midst of achieving this goal, Sickle gained a measure of revenge, gouging out Maverick's left eye and stranding him in the Swiss Alps.
Agent ZeroThe Weapon X project was soon reinvigorated, and having brought Sabretooth and Wraith back into the fold, they were sent to recruit Maverick. Wraith lured an unwitting Maverick into a rendezvous. Maverick refused to join, and a battle ensued. After believing to have defeated Sabretooth, Maverick came to learn of his new healing factor which had been enhanced once again. Sabretooth caught him off guard, impaled him and then threw him off the roof of a 20 story building onto a car parked on the street below. Taken to Weapon X near death, Malcolm Colcord again offered him the chance to join, as he could still be saved. This time, he reluctantly agreed, rationalizing it by saying he couldn't "fight the good fight" as a corpse. He was healed and then upgraded with explicit intent of assassinating Wolverine. He has no scent, makes no sound thanks to a vibranium suit, possesses an enhanced healing factor, and a corrosive was added to his concussive blasts that hinders a foes' healing factor. In addition, he was equipped with a wide array of weapons, from wrist-mounted plasma blasters, to an adamantium-coated knife. He was the agency's most potent weapon. As the world believed that Maverick was dead, a victim of Sabretooth's, Nord sought to keep it that way. He dyed his brown hair black and adopted a new alias, Agent Zero. After sending him on a few simple missions, the Director tried to break his will by sending him to kill his friend and former teammate Wolverine, a mission he purposely botched. Feeling guilty for joining the enemy, he contemplated suicide daily. His hatred for his teammate Sabretooth still ran deep, as he tried yet again to kill him, only to be stopped from dealing a fatal blow by the Director. During a mission, Agent Zero encountered a new Maverick, who unbeknownst to Zero, was the same mutant he'd befriended years earlier, Chris Bradley. Bradley had infiltrated a mutant terrorist group called Gene Nation in an effort to destroy them from inside. Bradley had wanted revenge on Weapon X for 'killing' North. To achieve that goal, he received training in black ops from Cable and assumed the Maverick mantle. Zero, believing this new Maverick was a terrorist, shot and killed him, only to find the truth as Bradley lay dying. Returning to the base after this occurred, Zero found Weapon X had disappeared without a trace. Maverick then picked up Bradley's fight, attacking Gene Nation strongholds across the world and also searched for answers as to what happened to the program. It was revealed the reason that Zero doesn't know what happened to Weapon X was because he was being brainwashed by a fellow Weapon X member under orders from the Director, as Zero had become increasingly harder to control. Zero had gone after Gene Nation because of Weapon X's instruction. Without realizing it, Zero served as executioner at Neverland, a mutant concentration camp set up by Weapon X. But just as soon as Weapon X bothered to reveal these truths, they put him under again, and Zero went on, none the wiser.
DecimationAgent Zero lost his powers on M-Day, as a result of Scarlet Witch 's actions during the House Of M. It has been revealed that he is among the mutants who have been depowered. North is seen residing in a center for former mutants and once again using the Maverick alias. Wolverine sought him out for information on carbonadium, reuniting the two and Jubilee. However, Omega Red soon attacked the building, looking for the carbonadium synthesizer. Maverick stole Weapon X files and sold them on the black market. In an effort to cover up his involvement in Kick-starting the Strikeforce X program from Wolverine, he killed the man whom he sold the files to.
Powers and AbilitiesCurrently:
Nord currently possesses no superhuman abilities. Like most of Earth's mutant population, he lost his powers as a result of the aftermath of M-Day.
Original Powers:
Further Mutation:
Even without his mutant powers, Zero is a proficient hand-to-hand combatant, a phenomenal marksman, and an expert in covert operations and demolitions. He also has vast experience with computers and communications equipment.
ParaphernaliaAs Maverick, Agent Zero wore a suit of body armor that contained airtight seals and a mask containing a limited oxygen supply.
Just prior to losing his powers, he wore a Vibranium-weave body armor that rendered him completely silent as he moved. The armor also refracted light, which in total darkness rendered him nearly invisible to conventional methods of detection.
When last seen, he had no weaponry. Prior to being depowered, Agent Zero carried a wide array of weapons:
Despite the fact that Maverick's Identity is secret, it is known to certain officials in U.S. Canadian and German governments.