Kevin Van der Borght
Apr 1, 2008, 03:14 pm
Sprial
Brian K. Vaughan & Stuart Immonen
<img src="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/headshots/ultimate/ultimatespiral.gif" align=left hspace=10 alt="Spiral">
Real Name: unrevealed
First Appearance: Ultimate X-Men #55 (March, 2005)
Known Allies: X-Men, Lord Joseph Scheele
Major Enemies: Genoshan political regime, X-Men (former)
Spiral was a mutant who used to live on the island of Genosha. Gradually the Genoshan political climate changed against mutants. One of the propositions that was laid on the table was to determine if mutants shoud be eliminated. Her sister decided to move to Brooklyn in the United States but Spiral did not go with her. But Spiral's life was not all misery as she met a man named Arthur Centino a.k.a. Longshot and they became a couple. Longshot soon became negligent of her and stood her up on several occassions. On one of those occassions Spiral met Lord Joseph Scheele, a Genoshan politician who wanted to see for himself how mutants lived and if they should be outlawed. The two started an affair but due to the political climate, they had to be very careful. Everything went fine up until the day that Longshot caught the two red-handed. Infuriated by the fact that Spiral was cheating on him by a mere human, Longshot took a knife and killed Lord Scheele. In a quick reflex Spiral took a vase and knocked Longshot unconscious with it in self-defense. Because Spiral could not kill Longshot herself, she decided to turn him over to the police. Spiral moved the two unnoticed because she was afraid of what the police would do to her if they should find the corpse of a Genoshan politician in her house. After the authorities found both the dead Lord Scheele and the unconscious Longshot, Longshot was quickly convicted and was sent to the Island of Krakoa, where he was to be exterminated in a live television show.
After this whole ordeal Spiral decided to join her sister in the United States. At the airport she witnessed the arrival of the famous X-Men, who were there to investigate if Longshot was indeed guilty or not. Realising what they were about to do, Spiral followed them. When the X-Men found the place where the authorities found the bodies of Lord Scheele and Longshot, Spiral was able to surprise the X-Men and took out Marvel Girl. After a short battle the X-Men defeated Spiral, after which Marvel Girl entered her mind and found out what really happened. After she brought the other X-Men up to speed, Marvel Girl wanted to change Longshot's sentence into manslaughter as she thought that it was a crime of passion. But this was exactly why Spiral wanted to stop the X-Men in the first place. First of all Spiral did not want to bring Scheele's family any more suffering than she already had. Secondly Spiral wanted to preserve the justice that was brought. Spiral showed Longshot no pity because she still remembered the look in Longshot's eyes when he killed Lord Scheele.
In the end the X-Men helped Spiral relocate to the United States.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White
Distinguishing Features: six arms
Powers and Abilities:
Although Spiral has mediocre tactical combat insight, she is very skilled at using all sorts of weapons (sword, nunchucks, axe, baton, Chinese ninja throwing stars)
Appearances:
Ultimate X-Men (2001) #55-57
Brian K. Vaughan & Stuart Immonen
<img src="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/headshots/ultimate/ultimatespiral.gif" align=left hspace=10 alt="Spiral">
Real Name: unrevealed
First Appearance: Ultimate X-Men #55 (March, 2005)
Known Allies: X-Men, Lord Joseph Scheele
Major Enemies: Genoshan political regime, X-Men (former)
Spiral was a mutant who used to live on the island of Genosha. Gradually the Genoshan political climate changed against mutants. One of the propositions that was laid on the table was to determine if mutants shoud be eliminated. Her sister decided to move to Brooklyn in the United States but Spiral did not go with her. But Spiral's life was not all misery as she met a man named Arthur Centino a.k.a. Longshot and they became a couple. Longshot soon became negligent of her and stood her up on several occassions. On one of those occassions Spiral met Lord Joseph Scheele, a Genoshan politician who wanted to see for himself how mutants lived and if they should be outlawed. The two started an affair but due to the political climate, they had to be very careful. Everything went fine up until the day that Longshot caught the two red-handed. Infuriated by the fact that Spiral was cheating on him by a mere human, Longshot took a knife and killed Lord Scheele. In a quick reflex Spiral took a vase and knocked Longshot unconscious with it in self-defense. Because Spiral could not kill Longshot herself, she decided to turn him over to the police. Spiral moved the two unnoticed because she was afraid of what the police would do to her if they should find the corpse of a Genoshan politician in her house. After the authorities found both the dead Lord Scheele and the unconscious Longshot, Longshot was quickly convicted and was sent to the Island of Krakoa, where he was to be exterminated in a live television show.
After this whole ordeal Spiral decided to join her sister in the United States. At the airport she witnessed the arrival of the famous X-Men, who were there to investigate if Longshot was indeed guilty or not. Realising what they were about to do, Spiral followed them. When the X-Men found the place where the authorities found the bodies of Lord Scheele and Longshot, Spiral was able to surprise the X-Men and took out Marvel Girl. After a short battle the X-Men defeated Spiral, after which Marvel Girl entered her mind and found out what really happened. After she brought the other X-Men up to speed, Marvel Girl wanted to change Longshot's sentence into manslaughter as she thought that it was a crime of passion. But this was exactly why Spiral wanted to stop the X-Men in the first place. First of all Spiral did not want to bring Scheele's family any more suffering than she already had. Secondly Spiral wanted to preserve the justice that was brought. Spiral showed Longshot no pity because she still remembered the look in Longshot's eyes when he killed Lord Scheele.
In the end the X-Men helped Spiral relocate to the United States.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White
Distinguishing Features: six arms
Powers and Abilities:
Although Spiral has mediocre tactical combat insight, she is very skilled at using all sorts of weapons (sword, nunchucks, axe, baton, Chinese ninja throwing stars)
Appearances:
Ultimate X-Men (2001) #55-57