Daken
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| Daken | |
 Cover art for Wolverine: Origins #14. Daken is at the right. Art by Marko Djurdjevic. |
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| Publication information | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Wolverine Origins #10 |
| Created by | Daniel Way Steve Dillon |
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| Alter ego | Daken |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Abilities | Retractable claws Regenerative healing factor Ability to materialize anywhere someone isn't looking Excellent martial artist. |
Daken is a fictional character who exists in the Marvel Comics Universe, and was born a mutant. Daken is the son of Wolverine and Itsu, Wolverine's Japanese wife before he was abducted by Muramasa and eventually forcefully inducted into the Weapon X Program.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Itsu, while in the last stages of her pregnancy, is murdered by Winter Soldier in an attempt to draw Wolverine out and return him to custody in Madripoor.[1] Emma Frost would eventually, many years later, encounter his shadowed visage in a precognative dream.[2] She promptly informs Logan that his son, whom he believed died along with his expecting mother, lives.[3] After Itsu's death, a mysterious man wearing a trenchcoat that conceals his identity, cuts the baby (Daken) from his mother's womb and leaves her body lying on the floor. Daken is, many years later, revealed to have survived the horrible incident due to inheriting his father's healing factor.[4]
Daken's personal motives are unclear at this time. Disguised as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, he brutally stabs Dum Dum Dugan and confronts his incarcerated father for the first time, before slashing him across the stomach and leaving him to bleed on the floor, as his mother was left, many years before.[5] Daken is revealed to have "aided" his father's escape, though not for benevolent reasons.
He is next seen in Berlin at the home of a woman he has been cruelly toying with. He allowed her to witness him kissing a man on a date, although unbeknownst to her he later murdered the man to acquire his passport. Knowing that she would drink an entire bottle of burgundy he secretly poisons it, resulting in her death. He had to end the relationship and her life so that no loose ends could be left to tie him to his crimes and he simply picked an unusually sadistic fashion to dispatch her.[6]
While walking through the streets of Potsdam, Germany, Daken is then contacted by an anonymous messenger who reminds him of his displeased master's "ultimate goal". Daken then dispatches the messenger to yet again make sure to leave absolutely no trace of his presence. Later he appears on a train to Brussels, watching his father in a nearby stolen car. He then receives a phone call from an unknown "friend" (who is actually the recently resurrected Cyber), confirming his father's destination.[7]
Shadowing his father into the bank vault in Brussels that contains the carbonadium synthesizer, Daken and Wolverine engage in a bloody battle, with Daken demonstrating great fighting prowess and similar speed and agility to his father. As Wolverine is hampered in the feud by his lack of desire to kill his son and his fading belief that Daken can be redeemed, he quickly loses the upper hand despite his greater experience and training. Their fight is interrupted when Cyber breaks into the vault and challenges Daken.[8] It is then revealed that Daken trained under Cyber in the past. Cyber mentions that Daken is a better and faster fighter than he, and was his finest student. However, Cyber's imperviousness and greater superhuman strength make that a moot point (which he later clearly explains to Wolverine). Daken refuses to lead Cyber to his masters and flees the fight, leaving his father and his mentor to deal with each other.[9]
Daken is last seen in the presence of Wild Child, and a scarred, expressionless torturer who whips him with a gasoline soaked length of rope. He pleads for mercy, but receives only a warning from his "master" to stay away from his father.[10]
Daken had spent the last couple of months being tortured under observation by Wild Child, who is acting on orders from their mutual master, Romulus.[11]
Recently, Daken returns and cuts off Deadpool's hand before letting Wolverine fall into a water tank he is suspended above and tells Deadpool to leave. Daken and Deadpool begin fighting, with Daken quickly gaining the upper hand. In the meantime, Wolverine is blown out of the pool due to Daken kicking grenades that Deadpool intended to use against him into the pool. The battle ends soon after with Daken repeatedly using his claws against Deadpool, including severing his other hand. The trauma and blood loss cause Deadpool to lose consciousness. Daken is then confronted by Wolverine, only to be shot in the back of the head from behind. Wolverine explains that the entire scenario was set up by himself. He explains how he calls in a favor from Bucky to pose as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to hire Deadpool for the job. Wolverine fights Deadpool and allows himself to lose in the hopes of drawing Daken out because he speculated that Daken wouldn't allow anyone, other than himself, to kill him. The plan works as the bullet Daken is show with is composed of carbonadium, one of several that Wolverine had the Tinkerer make for him. As with Wolverine, the speed and efficiency of Daken's mutant healing factor is dramatically reduced, though not completely supressed, due to the toxic nature of carbonadium. As Wolverine leaves with unconscious Daken, he tells Deadpool, who is drifting in and out of consciousness as his body heals, to not take the entire scheme personally and that if Deadpool chooses to come after him, Wolverine would cut him up and eat him as not even Deadpool could come back from that.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Like Wolverine, Daken's primary mutant power is an accelerated healing factor that allows him to rapidly regenerate damaged bodily tissue much faster and more extensively than a normal human is capable of. The full limits of Daken's healing powers aren't known, but his healing factor can be greatly restricted if an object composed of carbonadium, such as a bullet, enters his body. It isn't known if Daken's healing factor affects certain parts of Daken's physiology. For example, it isn't known if his healing factor accelerates his physiology to grant him superhuman physical attributes and senses as his father possesses.
Daken also has three retractable bone claws housed within each forearm, though their configuration and appearance is somewhat different than those of Wolverine. Two claws extend between his knuckles while the third extends from the underside of his wrists. The texture appears to be porous and organic and dark in color unlike the smooth and light claws Wolverine possesses without the adamantium being bonded to them. Daken's claws are razor sharp and quite durable and are capable of slicing through flesh and bone with ease.
It has been thought, based upon his apparances, that Daken possessed the ability to run and move at superhuman speed or could teleport. However, during a recent confrontation with Deadpool makes a comment about that, and Daken says, "I have no super powers. Or, at least none like you've described. As loathsome as it is to admit, I'm no faster than you are. I am simply always where my enemy isn't looking. It is a skill I learned from the master himself." The full nature of this ability is unknown.
Daken has demonstrated the ability to mask his scent entirely. Whether this is part of his natural physiology or if it is achieved through artificial means is unknown.
[edit] Skills and personality
Unlike Wolverine, Daken has no moral compunction about killing, which he has done in a professional capacity for quite some time. In his appearances he is seen murdering several people.
Daken has formidable hand to hand combat skills, though the extent of his exact training has yet to be revealed. However, he has proven capable of defeating his father, Deadpool, and Cyber who at one point was his instructor, has acknowledged that he considered Daken a better fighter than himself, with superior skill and speed. Cyber, however, doesn't consider him a worthy opponent due to his lack of an adamantium skeleton.
According to Emma Frost, Daken has been heavily and irreversibly brainwashed. He acknowledges that Wolverine is his biological father and yet harbors an animosity toward him for unrevealed reasons. He has shown loyalty to a mysterious figure known as Romulus, who has been a powerful influence in the lives of Wolverine, Wild Child, Sabretooth, and Cyber.
[edit] Relatives
- Wolverine (father)
- Itsu (mother)
- John Howlett, Sr. (great grandfather)
- John Howlett, Jr. (grandfather)
- Elizabeth Howlett (grandmother)
- John Howlett III (uncle)
- Erista (paternal half-brother), son of Wolverine with the female chieftain, Gahck, of an indigenous tribe of the Savage Land. Wolverine is unaware of Erista's existence.
- X-23 (father's clone)
