34 Facts About Death's Head

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Death's Head is the name of several fictional characters appearing in British comics and American comic books both published by Marvel Comics.

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Character was later redesigned and relaunched as Death's Head II, acting as one of the flagship characters for Marvel UK's 1990s expansion.

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Death's Head was originally created as a "throwaway character" for use in the UK Transformers comic; a bounty hunter to be featured in a single story arc and then, according to writer Simon Furman, "be discarded down the line ".

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Subsequently, Death's Head was contracted by the Decepticons to take out Rodimus Prime, a piece of business that Death's Head considered a pleasure.

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Death's Head tried to resist the control but was manipulated into killing Shockwave, only to eventually help Rodimus Prime seal Unicron within the Matrix.

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Finally, prevented from escaping the scene by the explosions wracking the area, Death's Head forced himself, Cyclonus, and Scourge through Unicron's time portal, vowing to kill them "another time".

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However, in the course of the time travel they became separated, and while Cyclonus and Scourge wound up on Cybertron in the past, eventually joining with Scorponok and becoming Targetmasters, Death's Head instead encountered the Time Lord known as the Doctor.

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Death's Head arrived on Earth in the year 8162, leading to an encounter with the future government's troubleshooting team, Dragon's Claws, where he was heavily damaged in an explosion and buried under a collapsing building.

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Death's Head was recovered by the Chain Gang and rebuilt by one of their members, Spratt.

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Death's Head was later hired to capture the Doctor and his TARDIS, which led him to being stuck in the present day and was then sent by Reed Richards to the year 2020 .

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Death's Head's gave it a cold and calculating business-like mind, but before it could be used against Lupex, the body was stolen by an unknown party, enlarged to the size of the Cybertronians, and catapulted through time.

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Death's Head was used as a pawn by Pyra, who wished to get him to a point where he could kill Lupex, while Lupex had begun to hunt Death's Head with the intention of gaining his body.

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Around this time, Death's Head's made a few appearances in some U S Marvel comics, most notably Fantastic Four, She-Hulk, and Marvel Comics Presents.

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Death's Head was given a partial redesign, with his head having some elements from the Minion version, and is his original giant size.

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Ironically, the success of Death's Head II meant Neary was ordered to create more titles and the easiest way was to reprint the original series ; editor John Freeman had to talk him into it.

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Death's Head II became the flagship character for Marvel UK—a costume was even made for promotional appearances and was part of the 1993 Lord Mayor's Show - and there were concerns at Marvel UK in early 1993 that they could be overestimating his popularity and over-exposing the character.

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Death's Head II was partnered with Tuck, an artificial human from the pseudo-medieval planet of Lionheart, where humans had outlawed advanced technology and waged war against androids and cyborgs.

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Death's Head hopped across time and realities in many adventures, often fighting for the greater good; in one adventure, he volunteered for a heroic sacrifice whereas before he'd have required payment.

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Death's Head encountered many Marvel characters, including the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Spider-Man, the Hulk, and Cable, and crossed over with almost every Marvel UK character who was being published at the time.

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Death's Head appeared briefly in the final issue of the Captain Britain and MI13 ongoing series, as one of the MI13 reserves battling against an army of vampires on the moon.

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Third version of Death's Head was introduced in 2005, the result of an online poll on the Marvel Comics website.

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Third version of Death's Head debuted in a five-part storyline within the pages of Marvel's anthology series Amazing Fantasy vol.

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Mechanoids with the same design as this incarnation of Death's Head went on to appear on Sakaar, during the Planet Hulk series, and were used by the Hulk as soldiers during the World War Hulk event.

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In 2014's Revolutionary War, Death's Head II took a contract from Psycho-Wraith Prime to capture Captain Britain so that he could track where the villain's base was and find out if Mys-Tech were returning .

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Death's Head would join a secret community underneath London, preyed upon by the hunts organised by the Time Keeper, and finally get revenge on the Time Keeper but decide to stay in London; the first issue would end with Death's Head's "mask" being broken and showing his "true human face" .

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The details of the pitch are unknown, though the design for "Ultimate Death's Head" is available online, as is a poster image marked "Death's Head reboot pic" that showed a recoloured Minion marked with the Saint George Cross and holding a tattered English flag.

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Death's Head dressed in a glowing radioactive costume, riding a horse whose flesh was made transparent, and wielding fireballs and scimitars of radioactive cobalt.

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Death's Head appeared to die in this act of self-sacrifice when he was covered in the molten cobalt.

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Death's Head makes a cameo appearance in Strider Hiryu's ending in Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.

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Death's Head is shown helping Strider and the X-Men in a battle against the Reavers.

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Skull that is or looks like Death's Head makes a small cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout.

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Death's Head was added to the superhero-featuring board game Heroclix in 2013, after winning a fan poll in 2012.

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Death's Head was released as an action figure as part of the Marvel Infinite Series in 2014, and Death's Head II made his Marvel Legends debut in the Guardians of the Galaxy Mantis Build a Figure wave released in 2017 to coincide with the release of the second Guardians film.

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Various Death's Head comics have been collected into a number of trade paperbacks and other reprints:.

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