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Real Name: Luther Manning
Occupation: Colonel in the U.S. Army, retired
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S. with no criminal record, officially dead as of 1985 (in an alternate reality)
Identity: His existence is not generally known to the general public
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Janice (wife, separated), Richard (son)
Base of Operations: New York area
Past Group Affiliations: Former member of the CIA, pawn of Roxxon Corporation and Fixer & Metallo
Known Powers:
Cybernetic Body: Over 75% of Manning’s body was replaced with cybernetics. Besides enhancing his physical attributes and Intuition, he has the following abilities:
- Body Armor at Excellent Rank
- Enhanced senses at Remark able rank, including infrared/ ultraviolet vision, telescopic enhancement, and audio amplification.
Equipment:
Weapons: Deathlok carries a special Laser Pistol with a range of Remarkable that does Incredible damage. It runs off Deathlok’s own power supply. He also carries a knife made of Remarkable material.
Robotic duplicate: While in the Marvel Universe, Deathlock’s body was used as a template by the Roxxon Corporation for a robotic duplicate. While this construct had all of the above powers and weapons, it was limited to the following attributes:
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Internal Computer: A micro processor within Deathlok’s skull provided many of the attribute enhancements that the character enjoys. The computer was also able to override Manning’s self-control, making him a passenger in his own body. The computer can be reprogrammed by anyone with the appropriate skills, making a Reason FEAT roll against Amazing intensity.
Talents:
Deathlok’s computer augmentation gives him the Weapon Master talent, Martial Arts A, and Computers. Manning has the Military Talent from his army days.
Contacts:
In his alternate reality Manning had several highly-placed military contacts.
Role-Playing Notes:
Deathlok is a bitter hero, resentful of his powers and his forced obedience to the computer within him. He hates his semi-human state and would willingly end his nightmarish existence if the computer would allow him to do it.
History:
Luther Manning enlisted in the army in the late 1970’s and rose through the ranks to become colonel. During war games in 1985, Manning was critically injured by the effects of a concussion mine. (This incident occurred in a recently-diverged alternate reality, and is not a part of the mainstream timeline.) Manning’s superior, Major Simon Ryker, salvaged his body for use in Project: Alpha-Mech, a covert operation whose purpose was to create cyborg super-soldiers. Manning’s brain, nervous system, and still-living tissue were transplanted into a synthetic body in an operation performed by Major Ryker’s brother Harlan Ryker (code-named Hel linger), who had, years before given his brother Simon cybernetic parts to repair damage to his legs and spine incurred in an altercation with Doctor Doom.
Manning awoke from the weeks-long operation in a body that was partially his own and with a mini-computer occupying a portion of his cranium. He was given the code-name Deathlok. At first an unwilling agent of Ryker, Deathlok broke free of his control and became a free agent. On a CIA assignment, Deathlok met the enigmatic Godwulf, a vigilante who had access to some time travel machinery in his headquarters in the subways of New York City. Godwulf displaced Deathlok in time, where the cyborg was snatched by a time machine used by the Fixer and Mentallo and brought to the present. The Fixer’s inventive genius enabled him to override Deathlok’s computer-brain enabling the criminals to use Deathlok as their pawn. The Fantastic Four confiscated Deathiok’s now-inert body from the Fixer and turned him over to a cyberneticist in London.
There agents of the oil company Roxxon stole Deathlok’s body, placing him in the custody of Roxxon employed surgeon, Harlan Ryker, ironically the man who (in an alternate reality) would create the Deathlok cyborg in the first place. Ryker gave the cyborg a rigorous biopsy in order to learn from it. Then in association with other members of Roxxon’s Department M (for “Mutagenics”), he created a robotic simullacrum of Deathlok. This robot was turned over to Roxxon’s Nth Command for testing. It was sent to infiltrate and destroy Project Pegasus, the government energy research facility. The Deathlok robot was destroyed before it could carry out its mission.
Eventually Ryker got the original Deathlok functional. By this time Luther Manning’s clone had been dispatched by Godwulf (a former member of Roxxon’s Nth Command) to find Deathlok. The clone succeeded in his mission with the help of Captain America, and gave his life to free Deathlok from Roxxon's mental domination. Deathlok returned to his own alternate reality where he joined forces with Godwulf and his band of Redeemers to defeat Harlan Ryker’s plans of nuclear annihilation. Deathiok remains in his near-future alternate reality, searching for a purpose in life.