SIEGE

SIEGE

Real Name: John Kelly
First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents (Vol. 1) #62, November 1990 (As Kelly); Deathlok (Vol. 1) #18, December 1992 (As Siege)

Powers: The Cyberwarriors were an extension of the previous Deathlok project, with a lobotomized brain serving as wetware for a cybernetic body. They typically possess Class 90 strength, superhuman endurance, reflexes, and tremendous resistance to physical injury. A Cyberwarrior’s body most likely maintains the basic design specifications of a Deathlok, with molecularly-molded Adamantium bones and Adamantium-derived synthetic tissue and muscles. The body is no longer constructed exactly like a normal human, as it can spin around 180 degrees at the waist. It is also equipped with a pair of pulse cannons built into its forearms. The left cannon's twin barrels can project sustained energy beams or bursts, while the right arm assembly is a collapsible Gatling cylinder capable of firing off a rapid stream of energy projectiles that can penetrate tungsten steel. It is also capable of flight, and can neutralize some forms of sustained energy assaults by absorbing and re-routing that power through its systems. Although it lacks the same fully interactive computer as Deathlok, a Cyberwarrior’s computer system is capable of scanning his environment for targeting and identification, and has different features such as radar, radio transmission interception, and life-sign monitoring. Each Cyberwarrior was covered in black and red armor and had wires running throughout their bodies.

The above Cyberwarrior is operated by the mental patterns of Col. John Kelly and is called "Siege". Before Kelly's brain was electrocuted to death, a digital copy of his personality and memories (up to the point of his brain being destroyed) was stored on-file inside the Deathlok cyborg's CPU. Biohazard attacked Deathlok III (Michael Collins) for this very reason: Absorbing Deathlok III into itself would complete its fractured memories as John Kelly. While mentally researching information on his predecessor, Collins accidentally activated Kelly's personality as an independent artificial intelligence. From that point on, Kelly operated within cyberspace along with the CPU, much to Collins' annoyance. When confronting a group of Cyberwarriors, Deathlok III attempted to jack into the cyborg to override its programming. Kelly's personality program used this as an escape route and uploaded himself into the Cyberwarrior, becoming Siege. As Kelly's personality has been encoded into the Cyberwarrior in programming language, Siege is impervious to mental scans. Also, the Cyberwarrior's body has a simplified digestive system that can only absorb a liquid nutrient formula. Also, possibly because the organic portions of his body are not his own, or possibly because the brain he inhabits was lobotomized, Siege has no tactile sensation and has a very limited emotional range. Siege has described the way he experiences his pseudo-life as being akin to playing a video game.