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Vol 2 90
X-t(In)ction
Vol 1 4
History
Life's too short to dwell in the past... For us to become the future of mankind, we have to make some tough decisions.
- — Deathlok
- — Deathlok
Early Years
Michael Collins was a computer programmer working for the mysterious and infamous Roxxon Oil Corporation at the conglomerate's branch in the city of Philadelphia. He was hopeful on the accomplishment that his programming for artificial limbs was going to be used to help handicapped people in an act to honor his the memory of his late wife, not knowing that it was actually being used for Cybertek and Hydra's dismantled Project Deathlok. Upon learning about this he complained to his the corporation's then-current president, Donald Roxxon.
A desperate and panicking Donald whose intentions were to further resurrect the project of Hydra for his own intentions, had his men abduct Collins to prevent him from exposing one of Roxxon's deepest secrets to the public, and had his brain removed and placed in an upgraded Deathlok body during the secret experiment of the Project Deathlok. Starting from that very moment, Collins finally became the second person to hold the mantle of the legendary mercenary cyborg known as Deathlok, forcibly serving Roxxon for their darkest intentions of assassinating everyone that rivals the conglomerate.
Deathlok Attacks
For the next few years in the late 1990s as the cyborg Deathlok forcibly working for Roxxon, he eventually has somehow snapped from the supposedly unbreakable Faustus method with the help of his own access to the advanced technology forged within him, wherein he finally began mercilessly killing those who were responsible for creating him in the Project Deathlok and Roxxon, along with every gang member and other criminals he comes across without any hesitation, proving that having his enhancements had modified him to become the "perfect killing machine."
He even went too far in his vigilante crusade around the mid-2000s, having no other mercy to execute other fellow vigilantes who dared to stop him in his extremely brutal missions, seeing them as well as no different than the rest of the people who kept on committing crime every single day throughout the large and wide city of Philadelphia, referring to them as "shameless cowards" who've got nothing else to do in their lives. Throughout his career as the assassin-like vigilante, Collins' bloody pavement had made him to be one of the top wanted lists by both the authorities and the criminal community, gaining infamy and rivalry among both the heroes and villains alike, such as the web-slinger Spider-Man, the Defenders, the Maggia Crime Family, the Demolisher, even the big bad Punisher himself, and several others.
Ultimate War
According to Collins himself and some reports from several police departments across Pennsylvania, that although he wasn't directly exposed to be involved during the events of Ultimate War, he was revealed to be on a killing spree, hunting down every members of the terrorist organizations that were part of the Movement and were causing chaos and destruction throughout the state, including Hydra, A.I.M., and other independent criminals, subsequently protecting Pennsylvania itself in the process due to his selfless actions. In the aftermath of the event, Collins was nowhere to be seen once more since, not until later on after S.H.I.E.L.D. began tracking his every sight and appearances, both previous and recent.
Killing Machines
During the beginnings of Heroic Age, Collins was able to track down his former superior Donald Roxxon outside the main headquarters of Roxxon in New York City, where he was close into cornering the abusive that gave him the chance to get his life-long revenge for the man who was responsible for ruining his life forever. Roxxon was panicking, confessing to Collins that the Project Deathlok wasn't his full intentions to begin with, admitting that someone else was the mastermind behind the clandestine experiment that was intentionally planted by the notorious Hydra within the seemingly-innocent Roxxon Corporation.
However, even before Collins could have get the answers that he needed, a hitman working inside the facility had been observing the ongoing assault, to which he immediately shoots Donald with a needle pistol, killing the president of Roxxon instantly. Much to Collins' surprise, he angrily tried to chase down and brutally confront the hitman for ruining his mission, only to be interrupted by the web-slinging hero Spider-Man who misinterpreted the situation as Collins being the one responsible for the assassination of Donald, briefly clashing with the cyborg mercenary. The brief clash ended with Collins gaining the advantage against the hero using his advanced tech, right until the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., along with the third Deathlok Michael Peterson, came into the scene to deal with Collins' after the scene he caused outside the Roxxon facility.
Battle for America
In late 2025, the publicized Avengers International would be face the threat that was the resurgence of A.I.M. and its subsidiary Children of Tomorrow, in Chicago, led by its insanely powerful Scientist Supreme Triumvirate: Graviton, Monica Rappaccini, M.O.D.O.K., whom the latter was the one who freed and recruited Collins with the promise that his late wife would not only be honored with A.I.M.'s futuristic tech who utilized his research on cybernetics, yet she could also be brought back. Assessing that Collins was one of the first perfect specimen of human cyborgs, M.O.D.O.K. confidently enlisted him in the Children of Tomorrow as one of its lieutenants and as the group's head roboticist, knowing he could still make better tweaks of their constantly-upgrading technology, most especially the weaponry, on where Collins had left off.
Collins was part of the team who lured the retired Steve Rogers into returning as Captain America in part of M.O.D.O.K's unveiled plan. In the midst of the upcoming threat, Rogers had no other choice but to leave his normal life behind for the meantime, in order to investigate and deal with whatever he and allies were going to face. Rogers and Avengers' fight against M.O.D.O.K. and A.I.M. was his greatest and last throughout more than eighty to almost a hundred years of his selfless life as the heroic Captain America, as he sacrificed his life for the last time in order to A.I.M.'s last resort to bring the nation of America into a far darker future wherein technorganic virus swarmed over organic life. Witnessing the sacrifice of Rogers was the last straw for Collins, having slowly built up guilt due how how his participation had costed the lives of innocent because he found himself becoming deluded that the future would be free from war and violence with their futuristic technology, despite ironically causing one that almost drove his country into ruins.
Snapping out from his delusion with guilt, Collins escaped the authorities and went in hiding only for his impulsive sense of duty and vengeance to try and correct his wrongdoings by hunting down and executing his fellow defected members, believing that he was atoning for his sins. When Collins was halfway through his first list of ex-A.I.M. members to assassinate, he was abruptly cornered and beaten by the Thunderbolts and subsequently arrested into the Raft after a spiteful yet remorseful Collins rejected their offer to join them under government supervision, but not before handing over his list so that the Thunderbolts could take care of his in a less fatal and retributive fashion.
X-t(In)ction Event
Since being imprisoned for his collaboration with A.I.M. during the Battle for America, Collins was one of the Raft's many escapees during Mister Sinister's destruction throughout New York to California after he used his remaining Pym Particles to destroy most of the prison's structure, which killed most of it's superpowered residents and security & staff, yet manages to spare a few number of prisoners, including Collins to escape the wrecked facility and started causing mayhem in the streets of New York City. Though most of the prisoners were committing several crimes, Collins continued his vigilante crusade with his bare hands and any weapon he could pick up, neutralizing some of the escapees around him until he was intervened by S.H.I.E.L.D., who restrained him before choosing to recruit Collins and giving them his former arsenal to work with them against both Sinister and Apocalypse in the hopes that he would at least redeem himself to some degree.
After the supposed second reawakening of the mutant Apocalypse, where he brutally battles Sinister in order to prove that he is far more superior than his so-called follower, Mister Sinister eventually mind-controlled the rest of the villainous escapees to attack Apocalypse. This eventually helped Sinister to gain the upper hand into "defeating" Apocalypse, until Apocalypse went into a berserk state and kills the mind-controlled prisoners by crashing and stomping on them at his giant form. Thanks to the upgrade he had gained from S.H.I.E.L.D., Collins was almost immune to its effects and was able to easily overcome the coercive pheromones of Sinister by the last second thanks to his technopathic powers, but it was already too late when Collins blindly fired at Mister Sinister and his wave of mutated clones when an irritated gigantic Apocalypse had easily crushed the cyborg to death with his enormous right foot.
Legacy
Despite his instant death due to Apocalypse's assault, the alliance of both the mutant and Inhuman heroes were able to use Collins' advanced tech, merging it with the mutant from the future Cable's techno-organic based weaponry, something that they used to successfully take down the still-gigantic Apocalypse later on. Even before Collins was splattered by Nur's foot, it was revealed that the latter had planted several micro-sized explosives around his legs that was timed to detonated several hours later after Collins' demise, giving both Sinister and the heroes the opportunity to ultimately defeat Apocalypse for the very second, and hopefully the final time. Unfortunate for the heroes, the Apocalypse they took down and killed was merely an unstable clone made for distraction by the deceitfully unhinged Sinister who continued his havoc to eliminate most of life on Earth and spare the strongest ones who would follow his him, but fortunate for them, the real Apocalypse revealed his truce, showing his genuine concern for mutantkind by being eager to reluctantly join forces with the Ultimates in order to end Essex's undying assault on his kind.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Artificially Enhanced Cyborg Physiology: Inspired by the original, this Deathlok similarly possesses a variety of superhuman attributes as a result of extensive cybernetic augmentation. Considered as the most crucial component to the greatest versatile weapon in history, Encephalonic technology allows the use of an organic brain to store information that can be accessed by the Main Computer and Operation System. At this point the storage capability of the human brain is literally incalculable.
- Encephalonic Technology
- Computer Interface
- Artificial Organs
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Speed
- Superhuman Stamina
- Superhuman Durability
- Superhuman Agility
- Superhuman Reflexes
- Limited Healing Factor
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Abilities
- Genius Intelligence
- Master Roboticist
- Expert Marksman
- Expert Acrobat
- Expert Martial Artist
- Skilled Tactician
- Weapons Proficiency
Strength level
Class 16+
Weaknesses
- Insanity
- Delusional
- Vulnerability to Human Needs
- Limited to Consuming Liquified Nutrients
- Limited to Consuming Liquified Nutrients
Paraphernalia
Equipment: None known.
Transportation:
- Technology-Powered Flight
Weapons:
- Various technologically-advanced firearms
- Various conventional firearms
- Various classified firearms
Notes
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- ↑ Modern Comics: S.H.I.E.L.D. Vol 2 90
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Michael Collins (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Michael Collins (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Michael Collins (Earth-61615)
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