Post by Megalictis on Nov 30, 2007 15:01:28 GMT -5
By that part that I always thought that Amiko was/is Lady Deathstrike?
The confusion is due to the similarity of the names of some of the Japanese women in Logan's life. I have trouble remembering Japanese names too. Yes, Yuriko, Yukio, Amiko/Akiko, Mariko - all those -iko's!
These are the most important Japanese women in Logan's life.
Itsu is Logan's dead wife.
- Met at Jasmine falls after Logan's training with Ogun.
- Killed by Winter Soldier.
- Mother of Daken (born by caesarean section after she died).
Yuriko Oyama is Lady Deathstrike, (occasionally spelled "Deathstryke").
- Her father, Lord Dark Wind, first devised adamantium bonding around WWII.
- Driven by her misguided quest for revenge on Logan for the theft of the adamantium bonding process. (Contrary to the re-telling of events in the animated series, Yuriko and Logan had no
prior relationship before she became a cyborg.)
- Had herself transformed into an adamantium-enhances cyborg in Spiral's Body Banks.
- Allied with Donald Pierce's Reavers during their attack on the X-Men in Australia.
- Kidnapped Amiko along with Omega Red and crippled Yukio under the direction of Sabretooth.
Wolverine later trqacked her down, defeated her, and refused to kill her, declaring their feud over.
- She also had a relationship with the late Rev. William Stryker.
- Seen after Civil War among the Thunderbolts as part of the US 50 States Initiative.
[Edit: Update]
- Has since re-formed the Reavers as a group of "genetically modified" mercianries, now working for the late Rev. Stryker's Purifiers; stabbed Hellion through the chest in most recent conflict with the New X-Men.
Yukio (no last name) is the thief and ronin with an almost careless disregard for personal danger. She's Logan's - er - "friend?"
(Note: the name Yukio is male; her real name may have originally been Yukiko, and we don't know her family name).
- Once employed by Lord Shingen (Mariko's dad) to kill Wolverine, she decided that she liked him too much, and eventually helped him bring down Shingen.
- Killed Mariko's first husband to save her life.
- When Ogun possessed Kitty Pryde and tried to kill Mariko and Amiko, Yukio hid them in her safe-house.
- Also a close friend of Storm and sometimes-rival to Gambit (competing to steal the same object).
- Raised Amiko after Wolverine removed her from foster care and taugh her to fight.
- Kidnapped (with Amiko) by the Hand and tortured until rescued by Logan.
- Attacked and paralyzed by Lady Deathdtrike & Omega Red during Amiko's most recent kidnapping.
- "Got better." Fought in Masque's Arena along with Storm & Callisto and broke-up Masque's slave ring.
Amiko Kobayashi (occasionally called Akiko) is Logan's foster-daughter.
- Orphaned when a dragon from space attacked Japan and collapsed her house, killing her mother. As she lay dying, Logan promissed her mom that he'd take care of her.
- Unable to raise her himself, he sent her to live with Mariko Yashida.
- When Mariko died Amiko was sent to a foster home where she was neglected. Logan came back and rescued her from that situation, placing her with Yukio, who had no other family, and making Silver Samurai financially responsibe for her (in exchange for Logan returning the Honor Sword of Clan Yashida to Silver Samurai).
- At one point she and Yukio are kidnapped by the Hand and Amiko is brainwashed, but the story resolves with their rescue by Wolverine and nothing comes of the brainwashing (so far).
- Amiko and Yukio were later kidnaped by Gom Kaishek (a descentant of Genghis Khan), to be used as leverage over Wolverine, whom Gom hoped would kill his brother, Lord Haan. Wolverine rescues them again.
- Under Sabretooth's direction she was kidnapped (most recently) by Lady Deathstrike and Omega Red, and apparently killed by Sabretooth. He was returned alive and well to Logan at the Xavier Mansion.
- Her fate was unclear until she appeared in Wolverine: Soultaker. She is now studying to be a the Shosei warrior-priestess with Mana Yanowa.
Mariko Yashida is Logan's dead fianceé.
- Daughter of Lord Shingen of the Clan Yashida, a Yakuza crime lord.
- Cousin of both Sunfire and Sunpyre and half-sister to the Silver Samurai.
- First met Wolverine when the X-Men fought Moses Magnum in Japan, where he fell in love with her.
- Visited Wolverine in New York.
- Married-off by her father to an abusive Yakuza associate, who is later killed by Yukio.
- She inherited control of Clan Yashida and announced her engagement to Logan, giving him the clan Honor Sword.
- Under Mastermind's control, she stopped the wedding and declare Logan unworthy.
- After mastermind's defeat she felt ashamed and tried to dismantle her family's Yakuza operations to prove herself worthy to marry Logan.
- Became Amiko's guardian at Wolverine's request.
- Mariko's authority in the Japanese criminal underworld was challenged by both by Matsu’o Tsurayaba, a leader of a clan of Hand ninjas, and by her own half-brother the Silver Samurai.
- Mariko sought to make peace, but Tsurayaba (secretly aided by Silver Fox) had her poisoned with blowfish toxin by the blind assassin Reiko.
- She asked Wolverine to grant her a quick death, which he reluctantly did.