Gauntlet (Inhuman)

Gauntlet is a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. He is a member of the Dark Riders, employed by Apocalypse, and is one of the Inhumans. He is fitted with a cybernetic gauntlet, high powered weapons, and wears a mechanical device over one eye, used for tracking and scoping out prey. He first appeared in X-Factor #65 and was created by Jim Lee, Chris Claremont and Whilce Portacio.

Fictional character biography

Little is known of Gauntlet's past apart from he is a member of the Dark Riders. When the Dark Riders captured Cyber so that Genesis could strip his adamantium in his plan to make Wolverine his first Horseman, but Wolverine rejected the adamantium and regressed to a feral state.

Gauntlet was believed to have been killed^[1], after Wolverine used Deadbolt's severed head to lure Gauntlet towards him and then savagely attacked him, though he later proved to have survived.

Following the final defeat and disband of the Dark Riders, Gauntlet became a mercenary. Blaquesmith secretly contracted Gauntlet to hunt down Apocalypse when he was merged with Cyclops.

In other media

Television

Gauntlet made an appearance in the animated television show X-Men Evolution, in the fourth season episode Target X. He is one of HYDRA's premiere agents, and is a master of hand-to-hand and armed combat.

Gauntlet appears to have been either genetically altered or possessing a natural mutation that makes him stronger, tougher and with keener senses than the average human being. Like other agents of HYDRA, he has access to a wide array of tools and equipment that make him a formidable opponent and a dangerous tracker.

Unfortunately for Gauntlet, he was aboard the hovercraft with the Supreme HYDRA which X-23 destroyed.

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