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* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: Some captions and art in the reprinted ''Death's Head'' stories are amended when they reappear in this series.
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* WritingAroundTrademarks: The summary of Death's Head's earliest appearances mentions that he was much larger at the time, and mentions his interactions with a race of similarly giant robots. It's very careful not to directly mention [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel The Transformers]], though.
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* TemporalParadox: Necker's project to develop a protector against the predicted threat to AIM directly results in the creation of said threat as Baron Strucker IV fuses himself magically with the remains of the original Death's Head and becomes Charnel.
** ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #54, which revisited the ''Wild Hunt'' arc, played with a variation on this. Death's Head survives, but Strucker fuses with Minion instead, preserving the paradox.
** ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #54, which revisited the ''Wild Hunt'' arc, played with a variation on this. Death's Head survives, but Strucker fuses with Minion instead, preserving the paradox.
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* TemporalParadox: SelfFulfillingProphecy: Necker's project to develop a protector guard against the PDC unit's predicted threat to AIM A.I.M. directly results in the creation of said threat the threat, as after Death's Head's destruction by Minion, Baron Strucker IV fuses himself magically fuses with the remains of the original Death's Head Head's remains and becomes Charnel.
** ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #54, whichrevisited revisits the ''Wild Hunt'' arc, played with a variation on this. Death's Head survives, survives in this version, but Strucker fuses with Minion instead, instead and Charnel's still created, preserving the paradox.prophecy loop.
** ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #54, which
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* {{Seers}}
** Phaedra can see the future, but can't foresee for anyone who demands it.
** A.I.M.'s Precognitive Data Collection (PDC) unit is a team of seers who monitor for future threats to the organisation. Unfortunately, this then leads to a SelfFulfillingProphecy when it justifies funding for the Minion project.
* TemporalParadox: Necker's project to develop a protector against the predicted threat to AIM directly results in the creation of said threat as Baron Strucker IV fuses himself magically with the remains of the original Death's Head and becomes Charnel.
** ''ComicBook/WhatIf''#54 #54, which revisited the ''Wild Hunt'' arc, played with a variation of this, as on this. Death's Head survives, but Strucker then fuses himself with Minion instead, preserving the paradox.
** Phaedra can see the future, but can't foresee for anyone who demands it.
** A.I.M.'s Precognitive Data Collection (PDC) unit is a team of seers who monitor for future threats to the organisation. Unfortunately, this then leads to a SelfFulfillingProphecy when it justifies funding for the Minion project.
* TemporalParadox: Necker's project to develop a protector against the predicted threat to AIM directly results in the creation of said threat as Baron Strucker IV fuses himself magically with the remains of the original Death's Head and becomes Charnel.
** ''ComicBook/WhatIf''
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* ClothingDamage: Shortly before assimilating Death's Head, Minion cyborg has one side of his armoured mask broken by the barbarian Lehdrox, revealing an eye and some teeth. This never gets fixed again, becoming part of the character's iconic look.
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* ClothingDamage: Shortly before assimilating Death's Head, Minion cyborg has one side of his armoured mask broken by the barbarian Lehdrox, revealing an eye and some teeth. This never gets fixed again, becoming part of the character's iconic look.
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* BigNo: Wilson Tyler's last word before Minion skewers his brain and assimilates his mind.
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* CanonWelding: Building on the canon welding that’s already in some of the original ''ComicBook/DeathsHead'' stories, the BigBad is Hob, a robot first introduced in ''Doctor Who Magazine''.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Lehdrox loses a hand to Minion's blade before he's killed and assimilated. So does Death's Head.
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* BigNo: Wilson Tyler's last word before Minion skewers his brain and assimilates his mind.
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* ArcWelding: With the 3.0 versions. See, during ''Planet Hulk'', several 3.0 style Death's Heads were working for Hulk, and he brought them to Earth in ''World War Hulk''. A few months later, in the ''Nova'' tie-in for ''Secret Invasion'', it turned out some of those 3.0s had wound up in the care of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., and one Doctor Evelyn Necker, who was later shown to be working on her own little secret project for AIM...
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* ArcWelding: With the 3.0 versions. See, during During ''Planet Hulk'', several 3.0 style Death's Heads were working for Hulk, and he brought them to Earth in ''World War Hulk''. A few months later, in the ''Nova'' tie-in for ''Secret Invasion'', it turned out some of those 3.0s had they wound up in the care of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., and one Doctor Evelyn Necker, who was later shown to be working on her own little secret project for AIM...
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Not Death's Head II, but his creator, Dr. Necker, during ''Revolutionary War''. In her appearances in ''Nova'', she'd been a surprisingly benevolent mad scientist (due in part to having the hots for Richard Rider). In RW, she attacks both Death's Heads.
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* TitleConfusion: The comics are ''Death's Head II'', to disambiguate them from the original Death's Head. But the character himself is simply named Death's Head in-universe.
* TookALevelInJerkass:Not Death's Head II, but his His creator, Dr. Necker, during ''Revolutionary War''. In her appearances in ''Nova'', she'd been a surprisingly benevolent mad scientist (due in part to having the hots for Richard Rider). In RW, Revolutionary War, she attacks both Death's Heads.
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* WolverinePublicity: Death's Head II was ''very'' popular in the UK market for a while.
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* WolverinePublicity: Death's Head II was ''very'' popular in the UK market for a while.while, with many, many guest appearances in other Marvel UK books.
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* DecapitationPresentation: The first issue's cover shows Death's Head II holding the original Death's Head's broken, severed head.
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It stars the eponymous Death's Head II, a LegacyCharacter who replaces the original ComicBook/DeathsHead (an established Marvel UK character).
The initial 1992 ''Death's Head II'' limited series (subtitled ''The Wild Hunt'') tells his origin story: he was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by ComicBook/{{AIM}} scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker. To protect AIM from a psychically predicted threat, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and skills of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.
Minion's penultimate target was the original Death's Head, whose robotic nature meant that when the cyborg absorbed him, his entire personality surfaced, not just his skills. Having attained free will, Minion adopted the Death's Head name, rebelled against AIM, recruited a new partner (Tuck) and discovered that the threat against them was a SelfFulfillingProphecy triggered by his own creation.
The initial 1992 ''Death's Head II'' limited series (subtitled ''The Wild Hunt'') tells his origin story: he was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by ComicBook/{{AIM}} scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker. To protect AIM from a psychically predicted threat, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and skills of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.
Minion's penultimate target was the original Death's Head, whose robotic nature meant that when the cyborg absorbed him, his entire personality surfaced, not just his skills. Having attained free will, Minion adopted the Death's Head name, rebelled against AIM, recruited a new partner (Tuck) and discovered that the threat against them was a SelfFulfillingProphecy triggered by his own creation.
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It stars the eponymous Death's Head II, a LegacyCharacter who replaces replacing the original ComicBook/DeathsHead (an (who was a well established Marvel UK character).
The initial 1992 ''Death's Head II'' limited series (subtitled ''The Wild Hunt'') tells his origin story: he was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by ComicBook/{{AIM}} scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker. To protectAIM A.I.M. from a psychically predicted threat, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and skills of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.
Minion's penultimate target was the original Death's Head, whose robotic nature meant that when the cyborg absorbed him, his entire personality surfaced, not just his skills. Having attained free will, Minion adopted the Death's Head name, rebelled againstAIM, A.I.M., recruited a new partner (Tuck) and discovered that the threat against them was a SelfFulfillingProphecy triggered by his own creation.
The initial 1992 ''Death's Head II'' limited series (subtitled ''The Wild Hunt'') tells his origin story: he was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by ComicBook/{{AIM}} scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker. To protect
Minion's penultimate target was the original Death's Head, whose robotic nature meant that when the cyborg absorbed him, his entire personality surfaced, not just his skills. Having attained free will, Minion adopted the Death's Head name, rebelled against
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''Death's Head II'' is a Creator/MarvelComics series written by Creator/DanAbnett, drawn by Liam Sharp, and published as part of the Creator/MarvelUK brand. The ongoing series was preceded by a miniseries with the same name.
Death's Head II was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by ComicBook/{{AIM}} scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker to protect the organization from a vague psychically predicted threat. In preparation, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and personalities of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.
The original Death's Head was one such target; after assimilation, however, he overwhelmed Minion's programming before it could take out its final target, Reed Richards of the ComicBook/FantasticFour. Calling itself Death's Head II, the Minion cyborg proceeded to have various adventures as a traditionally heroic (and less amoral) figure.
Death's Head II was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by ComicBook/{{AIM}} scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker to protect the organization from a vague psychically predicted threat. In preparation, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and personalities of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.
The original Death's Head was one such target; after assimilation, however, he overwhelmed Minion's programming before it could take out its final target, Reed Richards of the ComicBook/FantasticFour. Calling itself Death's Head II, the Minion cyborg proceeded to have various adventures as a traditionally heroic (and less amoral) figure.
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''Death's Head II'' is a Creator/MarvelComics comic series written by Creator/DanAbnett, drawn by Liam Sharp, and published as part of by the Creator/MarvelUK brand. The ongoing series imprint of Creator/MarvelComics. It's written by Creator/DanAbnett and was preceded initially illustrated by a miniseries Liam Sharp, with inks by Creator/AndyLanning and Bambos Giorgiou and colors by Helen Stone.
It stars thesame name.
eponymous Death's Head II II, a LegacyCharacter who replaces the original ComicBook/DeathsHead (an established Marvel UK character).
The initial 1992 ''Death's Head II'' limited series (subtitled ''The Wild Hunt'') tells his origin story: he was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by ComicBook/{{AIM}} scientist Dr. EvelynNecker to Necker. To protect the organization AIM from a vague psychically predicted threat. In preparation, threat, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and personalities skills of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.
The Minion's penultimate target was the original Death's Head was one such target; after assimilation, however, he overwhelmed Minion's programming before it could take out its final target, Reed Richards of Head, whose robotic nature meant that when the ComicBook/FantasticFour. Calling itself cyborg absorbed him, his entire personality surfaced, not just his skills. Having attained free will, Minion adopted the Death's Head II, name, rebelled against AIM, recruited a new partner (Tuck) and discovered that the Minion cyborg proceeded to have various adventures threat against them was a SelfFulfillingProphecy triggered by his own creation.
The limited series was swiftly followed by a ''Death's Head II'' ongoing series, also written by Abnett and initially illustrated by Sharp. This was accompanied by another 12-issue limited series, ''The Incomplete Death's Head'', which reprinted key stories from the original ComicBook/DeathsHead, using a new adventure for Deaths Head II and Tuck as atraditionally heroic (and less amoral) figure.
framing sequence to bind them together.
It stars the
The initial 1992 ''Death's Head II'' limited series (subtitled ''The Wild Hunt'') tells his origin story: he was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by ComicBook/{{AIM}} scientist Dr. Evelyn
The limited series was swiftly followed by a ''Death's Head II'' ongoing series, also written by Abnett and initially illustrated by Sharp. This was accompanied by another 12-issue limited series, ''The Incomplete Death's Head'', which reprinted key stories from the original ComicBook/DeathsHead, using a new adventure for Deaths Head II and Tuck as a
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* DeathByOriginStory: ComicBook/DeathsHead is one of Minion’s last victims, ‘Subject 105’, and his successor only develops full independence and an identity of his own after the AssimilationBackfire.
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* DeathByOriginStory: ComicBook/DeathsHead is one of Minion’s last victims, ‘Subject 105’, and his successor only develops full independence and an identity of his own after the AssimilationBackfire. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted when ''ComicBook/RevolutionaryWar'' plays with the TimeyWimeyBall and establishes that time can be rewritten, allowing both to exist in parallel]].
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* TimeyWimeyBall: As of the end of ''ComicBook/RevolutionaryWar'' Death’s Head and Death’s Head II have met, allied, and seem to be coexisting. This is very different to previous stories such as ComicBook/DeathThree where changing history has erased future characters.
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* TimeyWimeyBall: As of the end of ''ComicBook/RevolutionaryWar'' Death’s Head and Death’s Head II have met, allied, and seem to be coexisting. This has implications for the original DeathByOriginStory and is very different to previous stories such as ComicBook/DeathThree ComicBook/DeathThree, where changing history has erased future characters.
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* TimeyWimeyBall: As of the end of ''ComicBook/RevolutionaryWar'' Death’s Head and Death’s Head II have met, allied, and seem to be coexisting. This is very different to previous stories such as DeathThree where changing history has erased future characters.
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* TimeyWimeyBall: As of the end of ''ComicBook/RevolutionaryWar'' Death’s Head and Death’s Head II have met, allied, and seem to be coexisting. This is very different to previous stories such as DeathThree ComicBook/DeathThree where changing history has erased future characters.
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* DeathByOriginStory: [[ComicBook/DeathsHead]] is one of Minion’s last victims, ‘Subject 105’, and his successor only develops full independence and an identity of his own after the AssimilationBackfire.
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* DeathByOriginStory: [[ComicBook/DeathsHead]] ComicBook/DeathsHead is one of Minion’s last victims, ‘Subject 105’, and his successor only develops full independence and an identity of his own after the AssimilationBackfire.
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** Oddly, the handful of appearances he has had post-2000 have shown him lapsing back to old speech patterns and profit-oriented thinking. Given the amount of time travel in his backstory, some fans theorise that these stories show the original Death's Head before his fatal encounter with Minion.
** It's not just a fan theory in S.W.O.R.D. - not only is it set before Death's Head was shrunk to human size, but it's even set before his Transformers appearances - Beast suggests that instead of 'Bounty Hunter' or 'Personal Recovery Specialist', Death's Head should call himself a 'Freelance Peacekeeping Agent'. Death's Head likes the term.
** It's not just a fan theory in S.W.O.R.D. - not only is it set before Death's Head was shrunk to human size, but it's even set before his Transformers appearances - Beast suggests that instead of 'Bounty Hunter' or 'Personal Recovery Specialist', Death's Head should call himself a 'Freelance Peacekeeping Agent'. Death's Head likes the term.
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* EnemyWithout: Two of his absorbed personalities, sorcerer Bezial and warrior-technologist Czorn Yson, manage to get out of his mind into new bodies. Both immediately try to kill him (although Yson, who becomes ComicBook/DieCut, eventually calls a truce).
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As well as his own series, Death’s Head II was a protagonist in the two ''Battletide'' miniseries, in ''ComicBook/Death3'' and in the ''Death’s Head & the Origin of Die Cut'' miniseries.
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As well as his own series, Death’s Head II was a protagonist in the two ''Battletide'' ''ComicBook/{{Battletide}}'' miniseries, in ''ComicBook/Death3'' ''[[ComicBook/DeathThree Death3]]'' and in the ''Death’s ''[[ComicBook/DieCut Death’s Head & the Origin of Die Cut'' Die-Cut]]'' miniseries.
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As well as his own series, Death’s Head II was a protagonist in the two ''Battletide'' miniseries, in ''ComicBook/Death3'' and in the ''Death’s Head & the Origin of Die Cut'' miniseries.
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''Death's Head II' is a Creator/MarvelComics series, written by Creator/DanAbnett, drawn by Liam Sharp, and published as part of the Creator/MarvelUK brand.
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''Death's Head II' II'' is a Creator/MarvelComics series, series written by Creator/DanAbnett, drawn by Liam Sharp, and published as part of the Creator/MarvelUK brand.
brand. The ongoing series was preceded by a miniseries with the same name.
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* FlawedPrototype: Death Wreck, introduced in the ''ComicBook/Death3'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.
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* SuperiorSuccessor: Death Metal, introduced in the ''ComicBook/Death3'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.
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* FlawedPrototype: Death Wreck, introduced in the ''[=Death3=]'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.
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* SuperiorSuccessor: Death Metal, introduced in the ''[=Death3=]'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.
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* SuperiorSuccessor: Death Metal, introduced in the ''[=Death3=]'' ''ComicBook/Death3'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.
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''Death's Head II'' was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by AIM scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker to protect the organization from a vague psychically predicted threat. In preparation, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and personalities of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.
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''Death's Head II'' II' is a Creator/MarvelComics series, written by Creator/DanAbnett, drawn by Liam Sharp, and published as part of the Creator/MarvelUK brand.
Death's Head II was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 byAIM ComicBook/{{AIM}} scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker to protect the organization from a vague psychically predicted threat. In preparation, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and personalities of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.
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''Death's Head II'' was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by AIM scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker to protect the organization from a vague psychically predicted threat. In preparation, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and personalities of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.
The original Death's Head was one such target; after assimilation, however, he overwhelmed Minion's programming before it could take out its final target, Reed Richards of the ComicBook/FantasticFour. Calling itself Death's Head II, the Minion cyborg proceeded to have various adventures as a traditionally heroic (and less amoral) figure.
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* ArchEnemy: Charnel, the corpse of the original Death's Head possessed by Baron Strucker IV.
* ArcWelding: With the 3.0 versions. See, during ''Planet Hulk'', several 3.0 style Death's Heads were working for Hulk, and he brought them to Earth in ''World War Hulk''. A few months later, in the ''Nova'' tie-in for ''Secret Invasion'', it turned out some of those 3.0s had wound up in the care of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., and one Doctor Evelyn Necker, who was later shown to be working on her own little secret project for AIM...
* AssimilationBackfire: As noted in the description, trying to assimilate the mind of the original Death's Head was what turned Minion into a new Death's Head.
** In the ''What If?'' story Death's Head escapes their initial encounter, and Minion proceeds to successfully kill and assimilate Reed Richards. After Strucker merges with Minion and becomes Charnel, Death's Head combats him by pushing him far enough to tap into all available resources, which includes the mind of Reed Richards. Because Reed's recorded mind also retained his morals and willpower, it manages to stall Charnel just long enough for Death's Head to finish him off.
** Death’s Head II is later on the wrong end of this with at least a couple of the previously absorbed personalities. The plot of the ''Battletide II'' series is kicked off by the assimilated sorcerer Bezial escaping, and the ''Death’s Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut'' series involves Czorn Yson regaining his individuality and escaping into a new body (although much of that tends towards TeethClenchedTeamwork after the initial shock).
* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks: What he evokes huge build, unnecessarily built arms, generic stances, dark and edgy dialogue. Pretty much the whole set.
* {{Crossover}}: Frequently crossed over with the ComicBook/XMen during his second volume.
* FlawedPrototype: Death Wreck, introduced in the ''[=Death3=]'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.
* HeroicBuild: Not necessary heroic, but very stocky.
* HotScientist: Evelyn Necker.
* InNameOnly: Most fans of the original Death's Head felt that Death's Head II was ''not'' the same character -- he was not written by the original writer, exhibited none of the mannerisms and personality quirks of the original, and ended up as a generic DarkerAndEdgier InvincibleHero. The backlash was so great that the ''original'' creators of Death's Head, Simon Furman and Geoff Senior, wrote ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #54 for Marvel just to show ''their'' take on what should have happened instead.
** Oddly, the handful of appearances he has had post-2000 have shown him lapsing back to old speech patterns and profit-oriented thinking. Given the amount of time travel in his backstory, some fans theorise that these stories show the original Death's Head before his fatal encounter with Minion.
** It's not just a fan theory in S.W.O.R.D. - not only is it set before Death's Head was shrunk to human size, but it's even set before his Transformers appearances - Beast suggests that instead of 'Bounty Hunter' or 'Personal Recovery Specialist', Death's Head should call himself a 'Freelance Peacekeeping Agent'. Death's Head likes the term.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: Death's Head II's right arm can shapeshift into different weapons as needed.
* {{Sidekick}}: Tuck, an artificial human from the planet Lionheart.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: Death's Head II is the collected personalities and knowledge of the personalities he's assimilated, with the original Death's Head being the most dominant.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Tuck.
* TemporalParadox: Necker's project to develop a protector against the predicted threat to AIM directly results in the creation of said threat as Baron Strucker IV fuses himself magically with the remains of the original Death's Head and becomes Charnel. ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #54 played a variation of this, as Death's Head survives, but Strucker then fuses himself with Minion instead, preserving the paradox.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Death Metal, introduced in the ''[=Death3=]'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Not Death's Head II, but his creator, Dr. Necker, during ''Revolutionary War''. In her appearances in ''Nova'', she'd been a surprisingly benevolent mad scientist (due in part to having the hots for Richard Rider). In RW, she attacks both Death's Heads.
** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in the 2019 ''Death's Head'' miniseries, where she goes after original Death's Head (alongside the ComicBook/YoungAvengers), serving as the main antagonist for the series.
* WolverinePublicity: Death's Head II was ''very'' popular in the UK market for a while.
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''Death's Head II'' was originally a cyborg named Minion, created in 2020 by AIM scientist Dr. Evelyn Necker to protect the organization from a vague psychically predicted threat. In preparation, Minion was sent to assimilate the knowledge and personalities of the 106 most deadly individuals in the galaxy, killing them in the process.
The original Death's Head was one such target; after assimilation, however, he overwhelmed Minion's programming before it could take out its final target, Reed Richards of the ComicBook/FantasticFour. Calling itself Death's Head II, the Minion cyborg proceeded to have various adventures as a traditionally heroic (and less amoral) figure.
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!! Death's Head II exhibits the following tropes:
* ArchEnemy: Charnel, the corpse of the original Death's Head possessed by Baron Strucker IV.
* ArcWelding: With the 3.0 versions. See, during ''Planet Hulk'', several 3.0 style Death's Heads were working for Hulk, and he brought them to Earth in ''World War Hulk''. A few months later, in the ''Nova'' tie-in for ''Secret Invasion'', it turned out some of those 3.0s had wound up in the care of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., and one Doctor Evelyn Necker, who was later shown to be working on her own little secret project for AIM...
* AssimilationBackfire: As noted in the description, trying to assimilate the mind of the original Death's Head was what turned Minion into a new Death's Head.
** In the ''What If?'' story Death's Head escapes their initial encounter, and Minion proceeds to successfully kill and assimilate Reed Richards. After Strucker merges with Minion and becomes Charnel, Death's Head combats him by pushing him far enough to tap into all available resources, which includes the mind of Reed Richards. Because Reed's recorded mind also retained his morals and willpower, it manages to stall Charnel just long enough for Death's Head to finish him off.
** Death’s Head II is later on the wrong end of this with at least a couple of the previously absorbed personalities. The plot of the ''Battletide II'' series is kicked off by the assimilated sorcerer Bezial escaping, and the ''Death’s Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut'' series involves Czorn Yson regaining his individuality and escaping into a new body (although much of that tends towards TeethClenchedTeamwork after the initial shock).
* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks: What he evokes huge build, unnecessarily built arms, generic stances, dark and edgy dialogue. Pretty much the whole set.
* {{Crossover}}: Frequently crossed over with the ComicBook/XMen during his second volume.
* FlawedPrototype: Death Wreck, introduced in the ''[=Death3=]'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.
* HeroicBuild: Not necessary heroic, but very stocky.
* HotScientist: Evelyn Necker.
* InNameOnly: Most fans of the original Death's Head felt that Death's Head II was ''not'' the same character -- he was not written by the original writer, exhibited none of the mannerisms and personality quirks of the original, and ended up as a generic DarkerAndEdgier InvincibleHero. The backlash was so great that the ''original'' creators of Death's Head, Simon Furman and Geoff Senior, wrote ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #54 for Marvel just to show ''their'' take on what should have happened instead.
** Oddly, the handful of appearances he has had post-2000 have shown him lapsing back to old speech patterns and profit-oriented thinking. Given the amount of time travel in his backstory, some fans theorise that these stories show the original Death's Head before his fatal encounter with Minion.
** It's not just a fan theory in S.W.O.R.D. - not only is it set before Death's Head was shrunk to human size, but it's even set before his Transformers appearances - Beast suggests that instead of 'Bounty Hunter' or 'Personal Recovery Specialist', Death's Head should call himself a 'Freelance Peacekeeping Agent'. Death's Head likes the term.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: Death's Head II's right arm can shapeshift into different weapons as needed.
* {{Sidekick}}: Tuck, an artificial human from the planet Lionheart.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: Death's Head II is the collected personalities and knowledge of the personalities he's assimilated, with the original Death's Head being the most dominant.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Tuck.
* TemporalParadox: Necker's project to develop a protector against the predicted threat to AIM directly results in the creation of said threat as Baron Strucker IV fuses himself magically with the remains of the original Death's Head and becomes Charnel. ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #54 played a variation of this, as Death's Head survives, but Strucker then fuses himself with Minion instead, preserving the paradox.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Death Metal, introduced in the ''[=Death3=]'' series, plays this role for Death’s Head II.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Not Death's Head II, but his creator, Dr. Necker, during ''Revolutionary War''. In her appearances in ''Nova'', she'd been a surprisingly benevolent mad scientist (due in part to having the hots for Richard Rider). In RW, she attacks both Death's Heads.
** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in the 2019 ''Death's Head'' miniseries, where she goes after original Death's Head (alongside the ComicBook/YoungAvengers), serving as the main antagonist for the series.
* WolverinePublicity: Death's Head II was ''very'' popular in the UK market for a while.
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