Blacklash
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Blacklash | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
Blacklash (Mark Scarlotti), also known as Whiplash, is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Universe. He is a master of the whip, and frequent foe of Iron Man and first appeared in Tales of Suspense (2nd series) #97 (January 1968).
Contents |
[edit] History
Mark Scarlotti started out his super-villain career known as Whiplash. He served the Maggia well, establishing his reputation early on by battling Iron Man to a stalemate. Eventually, Scarlotti was assigned to go undercover for the Maggia, and under the guise of Mark Scott, he infiltrated Stark International's Cincinnati plant and became its head of research. There, he again encountered Iron Man and escaped the battle unscratched.
Quitting the undercover assignment without his superiors' permission, Whiplash joined forces with the Melter and the Man-Bull, as the Death Squad, to vie for the Golden Globe of Power offered by the mysterious extradimensional being known as the Black Lama. It was then that Whiplash was decisively defeated by Iron Man for the first time, he was taken to jail, and his identity revealed to the authorities. The Maggia paid his bail and took him on once again as a contract agent. On assignment, Whiplash encountered the Wraith, whose mental powers drove him to the brink of insanity.
Upon recovery, he was sent to Ryker's Island Prison to serve time for his various crimes. He was freed by criminal financier Justin Hammer, who was gathering a small army of costumed criminals for whom he would finance their operations in exchange for a share of their profits. Hammer provided Scarlotti with the funds and facilities to totally revamp and update his arsenal. Scarlotti renamed himself Blacklash, and went back to the Maggia as a freelance mercenary to look for an assignment. The Maggia contracted Blacklash for a job, but despite his new arsenal, he was soundly defeated by Iron Man before he could complete it.
Scarlotti began using the name Whiplash shortly before he has killed by Iron Man's Sentient armor. He was last seen aiding Titania and Constrictor in a revenge plot targeting their roommate Deadpool in a story that took place shortly before his death.
[edit] Thunderbolts: Civil War
Recently, a pair of fledgling villains, one male, one female, have appeared bearing the names Whiplash and Blacklash. Both are past associates of the current Swordsman, Andreas Strucker, and were frequenters of leather parties before taking up the name of the original Blacklash. They were forcibly recruited into the Thunderbolts, and tried to attack Swordsman before the fight was quieted down by the arrival of Baron Zemo, the Fixer, and the other Thunderbolts.
[edit] Other Media
In the 1994 Iron Man animated series, Blacklash served as one of the minions of the Mandarin, voiced by Dorian Harewood. He also appeared in the series' Armor Wars adaptation, along Blizzard.
