Daken (Marvel Comics) Character Review
Akihiro, also codename as Daken is a fictional comic book supervillain appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. Daken is the mutant son of Wolverine and his deceased wife Itsu. He possesses superhuman abilities similar to his father (e.g., healing factor, retractable claws), and was a member of the Dark Avengers under the name Wolverine until the conclusion of the 2010 storyline, "Siege". Daken was ranked sixth in Comics Alliance's "50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics" list. More about Daken (Marvel Comics) Character Review - keep on reading !!
Fictional Character Biography
In 1946 as Wolverine is living in Jasmine Falls, Japan with his pregnant wife Itsu, Romulus sends the Winter Soldier to kill Itsu. After Itsu's death, a mysterious man cuts baby Daken from his mother's
womb and leaves her body lying on the floor. Daken survives this
incident due to inheriting his father's healing factor. Sometime in the year 1946, Daken is placed at the doorstep of Akihira
and Natsumi, a wealthy young and traditional Japanese couple. They take
his presence as an answer to their prayers and raise him as their own.
Though he is named Akihiro by his father, the servants and other
families of the province secretly refer to the boy as Daken (駄犬,
"bastard dog" or "mongrel"), a slur on his obvious mixed heritage. As
Akihiro grows, he is often teased by the other boys of the village. His
harsh treatment over the years causes Akihiro to develop a very cold
personality, directed at everyone except his father. One night, Natsumi
confesses to Akihira that she does not love their adopted son and that,
after long years of trying, she is pregnant. Akihiro overhears the talk
and begins plotting. Within a year, after the birth of the baby, Akihiro
confronts his mother and tells her that he has killed her son. Upon
learning this, Akihira is furious and disowns Akihiro, who angrily
responds that "Akihiro" is not his true name anyway. Natsumi suddenly
appears and tries to run him through, triggering the unsheathing of his
mutant claws. He waves his arm, accidentally slashing Natsumi. Akihira,
unable to force himself to harm his son, commits suicide. Romulus then
appears to the boy for the first time and tells him that he is what the
boy will someday become.
In the present, Daken disguises himself as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and infiltrates a facility where his father is imprisoned. He stabs Dum Dum Dugan
and confronts his father for the first time. He slashes Logan across
the stomach and leaves him to bleed on the floor, just as his mother was
left many years before. Daken is revealed to have "aided" his father's escape, though not for benevolent reasons.
He is next seen in Berlin at the home of a woman with whom he has
been cruelly, and romantically, toying. He allowed her to witness him
kissing another man on a date, although unbeknownst to her, he later
murdered the man to acquire a passport. Knowing that she would drink an
entire bottle of burgundy, he secretly poisons it, resulting in her
death. He had to end the relationship and her life so that no loose ends
could be left to tie him to his crimes.
While still in Germany, Daken is then contacted by an anonymous
messenger who reminds him of his displeased master's "ultimate goal".
Daken then dispatches the messenger to again make sure no trace of his
presence is left. Later he appears on a train to Brussels, watching his
father in a nearby stolen car. He then receives a phone call from an
unknown "friend" (who is actually the resurrected Cyber), confirming his father's destination.
Shadowing his father into a bank vault in Brussels that contains the carbonadium synthesizer,
Daken engages Wolverine in a bloody battle with Daken demonstrating
great fighting prowess and similar speed and agility to his father. As
Wolverine is hampered in the feud by his lack of desire to kill his son
and his fading belief that Daken can be redeemed, he quickly loses the
upper hand despite his greater experience and training. Their fight is
interrupted when Cyber breaks into the vault and challenges Daken. It is then revealed that Daken trained under Cyber in the past. Cyber
mentions that Daken is a better and faster fighter than he is, and was
his finest student. However, Cyber's imperviousness and greater strength
makes that a moot point, as he later explains to Wolverine. Daken
refuses to lead Cyber to his master and flees the fight, leaving his
father and his mentor to deal with each other.
Daken is then seen in the presence of Wild Child,
and a scarred, expressionless torturer who whips him with a gasoline
soaked length of rope. He pleads for mercy, but receives only a warning
from his "master" to stay away from his father.
Daken had spent the last couple of months being tortured under
observation by Wild Child, who is acting on orders from their mutual
master, Romulus.
Daken returns and fights Deadpool
and Wolverine, managing to knock Deadpool unconscious after a long
fight. Daken is then confronted by Wolverine, only to be shot in the
back of the head by Winter Soldier. Wolverine explains that he set up the entire scenario and leaves with
the unconscious Daken, later revealed to have amnesia due to the bullet.
During Manifest Destiny, Daken is tracked down by Sebastian Shaw and Mister Sinister to help Daken regain his memories. In the finale of Original Sin, Daken finally learns the truth behind Itsu's death and has joined Wolverine in seeking revenge against Romulus. However, Daken seemingly betrays Wolverine to Cyber afterward. It was
later revealed it was all a plan to get to Cyber's secrets. After
learning them, Daken apparently kills Cyber, leaving his body to
Wolverine.During a conversation between Wolverine and Nick Fury, Fury reveals that he believes Daken is going after the Muramasa Blade that Wolverine left in Cyclops'
care. The sword has various mystical properties, including the ability
to disable superhuman regenerative powers. Fury believes that Daken
intends to take the sword and have the metal bonded to his bone claws
after stating that the Tinkerer would know how to do such a thing and had last been spotted in New York City.
During the Dark Reign storyline, Norman Osborn puts together a new group of Avengers,
recruiting Daken as his own Wolverine, letting him wear a version of
his father's brown and tan costume. Cyclops sees him as a liability and
plans to kill him with the Muramasa Blade to protect the image of the X-Men.
It is revealed, however, that he agreed to join the Dark Avengers as a
way to draw out Cyclops to take the Muramasa Blade from his possession.
When the X-Men attack him, he takes a piece of the blade and brings it
to the Tinkerer, who then bonds the metal to the claws on his wrists.
After that, he is seen alongside the other Dark Avengers fighting Morganna le Fay's demons.
When Spider-Man enters Avengers Tower pretending to be Mac Gargan,
he is first ambushed by Daken who knew he was not Mac via scent.
However, he is eventually incapacitated by Spider-Man after he pummeled
Daken and threw him into an electric generator.
In Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man, Daken and Bullseye are sent by Norman Osborn to kill Mac Gargan. However, he is beaten badly by Gargan, when Mac threw him through a building.
In Dark Reign: The List – Punisher after repeated failed attempts to kill Frank Castle, Norman Osborn sends Daken and a platoon of H.A.M.M.E.R. troops to complete this mission. After a bloody round of hand-to-hand combat, Daken dismembers and decapitates Castle, before kicking his remains from a rooftop. Castle's body parts are collected and spirited away by Moloids seemingly operating under the protection of Man-Thing where Castle's body was put back together and revived as FrankenCastle.
In Incredible Hulk #603, Bruce Banner lures his son Skaar
into a fight between him and Daken. Daken uses his pheromones to calm
Skaar down, reducing him to his human form. Skaar then asks Daken to
kill him as he was guilty of the destruction he has caused back home,
but Wolverine and Banner intervene. The two father-son teams battle, but
the fight is stopped when Banner says that Skaar has learned his lesson
and Daken abruptly leaves Wolverine behind.
Daken also becomes a member of Osborn's Dark X-Men. He also remains on the Dark Avengers team, though he takes the Dark
X-Men's side in their quarrel with the Dark Avengers. When Bullseye asks
him which side he was on, he replies that he "always did like playing
for both teams."
However, Daken's loyalty to Osborn and true motives remain
questionable, as Daken constantly mentions that "Osborn thinks I'm
working for him". This puts him at odds with Bullseye and Ares. He secretly assists the Fantastic Four in helping them break into Avengers Tower to steal incriminating evidence against Osborn while trying to clear their name against Osborn, but was foiled by Bullseye. Ms. Marvel (Moonstone) tried to psychoanalyze him and assuage her feelings for him, but Daken rebuked her and Osborn.
During Norman Osborn's Siege of Asgard, it is revealed that Daken intended to turn on Osborn. He appears to murder him, but this was later revealed to be a
hallucination caused by the Asgardian divinities who represent fate. Daken attempts to fight Thor, who strikes him down with a massive bolt of lightning before the two can even face off. Once the Siege ends with the Void's death, Osborn's Avengers are
rounded up and arrested. Daken is the only one to escape, doing so by
killing and disguising himself as an army soldier.
Daken turns on Romulus because he figures out that Romulus really
wanted Wolverine to take over his operation and not Daken. Daken stabs
Romulus with his wrist-claws, but before he can deliver the killing
blow, Wolverine has Cloak teleport Romulus to the Dark Force dimension. Logan thinks about simply beheading Romulus as he did with Sabretooth, but instead decides to leave him stranded forever.
He then goes back to Daken. They start to fight, but Logan stays
calm. He parries Daken's angry attacks, then stabs him through with his
claws. While Daken is unconscious, Logan rips out his Muramasa wrist
claws. He then buries the claws with the remains of the Muramasa Blade
in a grave near the Howlett estate, and Daken is shown with scars
running up the insides of his forearms.
Daken, later seen at a nightclub, is attacked by the now monstrous Punisher
(now known as Franken-Castle), who is seeking revenge. After a brutal
fight Daken is defeated but decides to hunt Franken-Castle to continue
the fight and retrieve the Bloodstone integrated into Fraken-Castle's new physical form. After following Franken-Castle's trail, Daken encounters a series of
devastating traps before meeting his foe again. After a second brutal
hand-to-hand battle, Daken is severely injured and retreats.
Franken-Castle finds him and, after damaging Daken even more, is about
to throw him into a mass of concrete foundation (presumably to kill
him). However, Franken-Castle is stabbed in the chest from behind, by Wolverine, who states he is intervening in his plans to kill his son.
Escaping as the two fight, Daken gains the upper hand by
incapacitating the Punisher (ramming him with a truck) and takes the
Bloodstone, giving him increased strength and speed. It unfortunately accelerated his healing factor, which upon being
wounded it would create tumors after healing him. He is ultimately
defeated when the Punisher shoves a phosphorus grenade into his chest,
turning him into a tumor ridden monstrosity, simultaneously informing
Daken that his attempts to taunt him failed because Punisher built his
own reputation from the ground up while Daken is riding his father's
reputation rather than trying to create his own. Wolverine removes the
stone and returns it to Frank, but before Frank can give the coup de
grace, Daken cuts himself out of the tumor mass and disappears.
Daken has a brief alliance with X-23, the female clone of his father. They confront the murderous Malcolm Colcord, the former director of Weapon X.
Powers and Abilities (Daken)
Like Wolverine, Daken's primary mutant power is an accelerated
healing factor that allows him to rapidly regenerate damaged bodily
tissue much faster and more extensively than a normal human is capable
of. Daken's healing factor is advanced enough to allow him to fully heal
from multiple gunshot wounds, punctures, slashes and broken bones
within a matter of minutes. Daken's healing factor also grants him an
extended lifespan by dramatically slowing his natural aging process.
Although he is over 60 years old, he has the appearance of a man in his
physical prime. However, Daken's accelerated healing powers aren't as
powerful as those possessed by his father. In spite of his advanced healing, it is possible for Daken to die. Like most other beings, human or superhuman, Daken requires Oxygen and can die if kept within a vacuum and can drown if held under water long enough.
Daken's senses, particularly sight, smell, and hearing are all
heightened to some degree of superhuman accuracy. He can see much
further and with greater clarity than a normal human, even retaining
much of this clarity in near total darkness. Daken's hearing is
similarly enhanced, enabling him to detect sounds normal humans' cannot
and sounds they ordinarily could but at much greater distances. Daken's
sense of smell is able to recognize people and objects by scent, even if
they are well hidden. He can track a target by scent, even if the scent
has been greatly eroded by time and weather factors, with an
extraordinary degree of success.
As a by-product of his healing factor, a number of Daken's physical
attributes have been heightened to superhuman levels including his
stamina, agility and reflexes. These attributes are sufficiently
heightened to allow him to effectively engage beings such as his father,
Spider-Man and Skaar in combat.
Daken also had three retractable bone claws housed within each
forearm, though their configuration and appearance is somewhat different
from those of Wolverine. Two claws extend between his knuckles, while a
third one extends from the underside of his wrist. The texture of the
claws in his knuckles appears to be porous and dark in color, unlike the
claws Wolverine possesses in their natural bone state, as seen in Wolverine: Origin. It was recently revealed in the pages of Dark Reign: Hawkeye that his claws have a naturally ferrous or metallic composition,
allowing him to penetrate materials such as metal; he was able to
penetrate stolen Iron Man armor
being used by a thief. Recently, the claws which extended from the
underside of each wrist had been bonded with a piece of the metal taken
from the Muramasa Blade.
The mystic properties of the blade enables it to inflict wounds greatly
nullifying superhuman healing factors. Wolverine cut both of Daken's
Muramasa steel coated claws out of his arms with the Muramasa Blade and due to the properties of the Muramasa Blade, the removed claws have not grown back as quickly as they normally would.
Daken's mind is naturally resistant to telepathic
probes and assaults. As a result of Romulus' conditioning, Daken's mind
contains a certain, undescribed "trap" for most telepaths that attempt
to push too far into his mind.
He also possesses pheromone
manipulation that suppresses his scent and alters emotions and sensory
perception of others, e.g. sexual attraction, psychotic rage, rational
thinking, etc. However certain individuals have proven immune to Daken's pheromones, most notably Hulkling, a Skrull/Kree hybrid, and The Hulk's son, Skaar, a Human/Oldstrong hybrid.
Skills and Personality
Unlike Wolverine, Daken has no moral compunction about killing, which
he has done in a professional capacity for the majority of his life. In
his appearances he is seen brutally murdering several people, even as a
child.
Daken has formidable hand to hand combat skills, though the extent of
his exact training has yet to be revealed. However, he has proven
capable of defeating his father, Deadpool, and Cyber
(who at one point was Daken's instructor and has acknowledged that
Daken is a better fighter than himself). Cyber, however, does not
consider Daken a worthy opponent due to his lack of an adamantium
skeleton. His ability to appear outside his opponent's field of vision
is a direct result of his training since he has no superhuman speed.
According to Emma Frost, Daken has been heavily and irreversibly brainwashed, though Professor Xavier
does not share her view that it is irreversible. Daken acknowledges
that Wolverine is his biological father and yet harbors a deep hatred
toward him, believing that Wolverine is merely an animal while he is a
far more skilled professional combatant. Daken once showed loyalty to a
mysterious figure known as Romulus, who has been a powerful influence in the lives of Wolverine, Wild Child, Sabretooth, and Cyber. With Xavier's help, Daken has seen his first images of his mother through Wolverine's memories.
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