ALBERT & ELSIE-DEE

 

ALBERT & ELSIE-DEE

Real Names: Inapplicable

First Appearance: Wolverine (Vol. 2) #37, March 1991

Powers: Albert and Elsie-Dee are a pair of androids built by Reavers leader Donald Pierce using some components from Spiral’s Body Shoppe. Pierce modeled the initially unnamed ''Albert'' after Wolverine himself in an attempt to catch his target's attention. Elsie-Dee was modeled after a 5-year-old girl, even imbued with the emotional and behavioral traits of a small child. Every part of Elsie-Dee's body that was not computer, battery, motor or frame, Pierce constructed out of plastic explosives. Elsie-Dee's primary directive was to latch onto the real Wolverine as soon as she saw him and detonate. To prevent her sense of self-preservation from overriding her own programming, Pierce intended to halt her logical development once it reached the 5-year-old level, thus preventing her from cracking her own code. However, due to an oversight in her development, Elsie-Dee's logical programming was allowed to advance far beyond the level of a child. Unbeknownst to Pierce, this mistake granted her maximum logical capacity.

Albert is a synthetic Wolverine android possessing superhuman strength, moly-steel laminate skeleton and retractable claws, highly-advanced logistic and tactical systems, cyberjack interface for modem access, Kevlar-reinforced skin, and wide-spectrum scanning sensors.

Elsie-Dee is an android powered by a strange matter reactor and possessing enhanced strength and reflexes, highly-advanced logistic systems and intelligence, night vision, and radio transmitters to communicate with Albert and let her head remotely direct her body. Her original body was a walking bomb packed with C-13 plastic explosives in every available inch.

THE REAVERS

 

REAVERS

Real Names: Unrevealed

First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #229, May 1988

Powers: (l to r) Pretty Boy, Bonebreaker, and Skullbuster were leaders of the original Reavers, criminal cyborgs operating in the Australian outback. All of them have had various cybernetic modifications performed on their bodies, but how they came to receive their original modifications (or even how they came together as a group) remains unknown.

Pretty Boy is a cybernetic organism whose body has been almost completely replaced by bionic systems. Initially, his nickname stemmed from his handsome apperance and the fact that pseudo-flesh covered all of his cybernetics, making him look human on the outside. After suffering serious injuries, though, he was rebuilt with only his head still looking human, and the rest of his body as an openly visible metallic chassis. Pretty Boy also has enhanced strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, and durability, along with heightened vision and hearing. His arms are able to telescope to many times their original length, and after his rebuilding he has a "cable-trap" in his chest which pops open and ensnares his opponents at close range, immobilizing and crushing them. Pretty Boy can also reprogram the minds of other people, using cyber-filament wires which extend from his optic sensors into the eyes of his victims. These give him direct neural access to his victim's brain, allowing him to alter their memories, personality, inclination or violence, and so forth.

Bonebreaker underwent an operation which amputated his lower body, replacing it with a tank-like systems module with various offensive capabilities.

Skullbuster concealed his facial features behind a skull-like mask, so the full extent of his cybernetic enhancements remains unclear. Both men's physical attributes are bionically-augmented to enhanced human levels of strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, and durability, along with heightened vision and hearing. The highly advanced level of cyborg, robotic, and computer technology implanted into their bodies also gives them infrared scanners and the ability to interface with computers, allowing direct data access to their brains’ memory centers. They also carry machine guns, explosive shells, plasma cannons, electrified nets, and rocket propulsion packs.

COLE, MACON, & REESE

 

COLE, MACON, & REESE

Real Names: Wade Cole, Angelo Macon, and Murray Reese

First Appearances: The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #133, May 1980 (as guards); The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #152, December 1981 (ss cyborgs)

Powers: Wade Cole, Angelo Macon, and Murray Reese were originally human mercenaries employed as guards by the Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle. After the three were severely wounded in battle against Wolverine, they were converted into cyborgs by the Inner Circle (with later modifications provided by Donald Pierce).

They each have cybernetic implants, a nature which is further evidenced by the wiring and circuitry visible along their bodies. Their physical attributes are bionically-augmented to enhanced human levels of strength, speed, and reflexes. The highly advanced level of cyborg, robotic, and computer technology implanted into their bodies also gives them infrared scanners and the ability to interface with computers, allowing direct data access to their brains’ memory centers. All three also carry machine guns, explosive shells, plasma cannons, electrified nets, and rocket propulsion packs.