12 Facts About Killraven

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Killraven is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Co-creator Neal Adams' early ideas for Killraven involved the character being the son of a Doc Savage archetype.

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Some planned elements of the "Killraven" saga were incorporated into the Eclipse Comics series Sabre, McGregor and Russell each said in 1983.

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Killraven appears in Claws II, in which the superheroes Wolverine and Black Cat meet him in the future fighting Martians.

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5.

Writer Robert Kirkman and artist Rob Liefeld announced in August 2007 they were creating a five-issue alternate universe Killraven miniseries planned for release in 2008, but the project never went into production.

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Killraven joined the Freemen, a group of freedom fighters against Martian oppression.

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7.

In November 2020, the Martian occupation is over when Killraven unleashes a zombie plague on the Martians' food supply .

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Killraven was later given mental powers through Whitman's psycho-electric experiments, including the psionic ability to project his consciousness into and take over a Martian's mind, and the psychic ability to resist mental assaults and to mask his presence from robot scanners.

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Killraven is a superb hand-to-hand combatant, and a highly skilled swordsman, wrestler, and martial artist.

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10.

Killraven is a master of most hand weaponry, especially shuriken.

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11.

Killraven is very much the barbarian type, yet at the same time he has this seed planted in his brain that is the history of the human race — a racial memory of everything that has been obliterated by the Martians.

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12.

Killraven is armed with various weapons as needed, and usually carried a sword and shuriken.

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