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As usual, I adore both of the OG and Remake look of RE2 Claire, but sometimes, I realized that I need to see an even older version of Claire. No, not that RE Death Island one, but something closer to her RE Revelations 2 look, hence the primary inspiration for her Earth-ARV98 look… considering the fact that this is the Earth where the RE characters are DMC characters here.

But really, I kinda thought that I need to spiced up her jacket, so I decided to mix the RE: Code Veronica look and also the OG RE2 look (especially for the boots). Her motorcycle jacket is, well, inspired by the Makai Knights aesthetics from 2005 Garo series (in this case, the OG Garo, Kouga Saejima) because I thought that would be awesome LOL The Sode part from the Samurai Yoroi armour is partially inspired by Ginchiyo Tachibana from Samurai Warrior 2. The Scarlet Hilda sword is, ironically, inspired by Raiden Shogun’s katana from Genshin Impact, with several elements from Nero’s Red Queen and the Order of the Sword’s regulated sword from DMC4.

Her DT design borrows inspiration from, ahem, this one.

But I’ve also decided to take inspiration from Dan Makai Armour (2005 Garo) (link here) and Yaiba from the Garo Pachislot (link here). Ironically, despite Yaiba’s feminine look, not even a single woman has worn this suit, really.

While Claire's angel wings are based on Dante's Angel Trigger design from Alysson Arts/All-Draws via Artstation. (link here)

Sup, CaptainARV is here! Same girl on DeviantART, but first time using Reddit and Tumblr as the alternatives to DeviantART (regarding the concerning news on DA, btw). My Tumblr username is still the same as my DA one (CaptainARV)!

This is my new username; I am still the same CaptainARV as usual. Granted that Reddit would definitely ban an account who posted more than 2 posts in less than an hour to prevent spam and karma farming (yeah, my bad...), I had to be more careful when posting something on Reddit.

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Steven Grant Rogers was born on the 4th of July 1918, in Brooklyn, from the Irish immigrant parents. His father, Joseph Rogers, served on in the 107th Infantry Regiment during WWI, but died due to the exposure to the so-called ‘mustard gas’. On the other hand, Steve’s mother, Sarah Rogers, worked as a nurse in a hospital in Brooklyn. Steve would eventually spent his childhood with his mother, but as he was born with frail physics, he was often mocked and bullied by some of his neighbors in the alley. Thanks to his childhood friend, Bucky Barnes, Steve was finally able to overcome this moment.

Steve’s life took a drastic turn, however, when Sarah died of tuberculosis in year 1936. At that time, Steve was nearly desperate, nearly losing his entire hope as he lose his only family left. Bucky decided to encourage Steve, and telling him, “I am with you ‘till the end of the line, Pal.”

In year 1942, shortly after the United States declared war on Axis powers, Bucky was drafted into the US Army, becoming part of the 107th Regiment. Steve wanted to do so, but he was rejected many times and was given 4F instead. On the other hand, Strategic Scientific Research (SSR) somehow recruited Abraham Erskine (who took the alias of Joseph Reinstein) to improvise the Super Soldier serum, and Erskine was quite fortunate to find another perfect candidate for this experiment: Steve Rogers. The experiment was a success and it cured all of Steve’s illness and weak physics, but as a Nazi intruder shot Professor Erskine, he implicitly told Steve to use the power for a greater good.

Months after the accident, Steve has officially took the moniker of Captain America, the Sentinel of Liberty, an ally to the Howling Commandos, and the leader of the Invaders. His story has became quite a legend to the WWII lore, and even HYDRA became increasingly enraged by his presence. That was the story, until his mysterious disappearance in 1945 near the Arctic. Many have presumed Steve to be dead, but when his frozen body was found by SHIELD in year 2011, the truth said otherwise. It was the Super Soldier serum that actually saved Steve from both hypothermia and freezing, eventually bringing him into suspended animation for the next 66 years. And when Steve woke up from his sleep, the world was never the same again.

Initially, Steve had a hard time to fit in the 21st century dynamics. But thanks to his brother in arm from WWII, James ‘Logan’ Howlett aka Lucky Jim, he was finally able to overcome this problem and eventually earned some new friends.

Until this day, Steve becomes the leader of the Avengers, and he also doubled as the agent of SHIELD as well, under the supervision of Director Nick Fury Jr. He knew the War was over, but as time flies, more and more conspiracies and also secrets await him to be unveiled. Perhaps, he found the most surprising reveal of all: finding out that Bucky was still alive.

I wanted to make Chris looks tactical, but I want to highlight the black and grey parts in the design here. Basically inspired by the mix of RE5 Chris' look and Date Masamune's Dante skin from Sengoku Basara 4 (link here), with the sode part of the Yoroi samurai armour visible on one of the coat's side. Decided to lessen the red accents in this redesign; I've also decided to redesign the Devil Trigger part to be a bit more streamlined (the Tyrant-esque arm is still there, but no more gigantic arm this time), but still keep the Nordic accents (because the old one looks like a freakin' Christmas tree). Finally emphasizing Chris DT's more wolf-like design (inspired by Bolg armor from Garo: Vanishing Line anime, Garo Raikou armour from Garo: Crimson Moon, and Guts Berserker armor) to match with his connection with the Hound Wolf Legion (the Earth-ARV98 version of the Hound Wolf Squad); given that Chris and Claire Redfield are still siblings in Earth-ARV98, Claire would be given a similar wolf-like Devil Trigger here, albeit I imagined her having a much more human appearance on her wolf-esque DT instead. Ironically inspired by this: https://polarspaz.tumblr.com/post/189659975556/infection-resident-evil-au-so-leon-gets-a-call-to

I forgot, the Horokeu sword is actually inspired by Ninjago Kai's dragon katana, now mixed with MK1 Kenshi's gear by Nicolas Gutierrez from Artstation! (link here)

Oh, about Mother Miranda in Earth-ARV98? She got her power from Megamycete... which is actually an experimental leftover by Mundus after a failed attempt to create a clone of the Qliphoth tree (I guess) in Earth-ARV98. Of course, this demonic creature actually costed Miranda her sanity, that she proclaimed herself as "Mother Miranda", and the Megamycete (or the Mold) as the Black God. Granted the Megamycete's connection with the Demon World, the "mutated Mother Miranda" form in Earth-ARV98 has a new name, Miranda Diabolica. (link here) Very similar to Sanctus from DMC4, to be honest.

Meanwhile, in Earth-ARV98, Albert Wesker was the illegitimate son of Mother Miranda, and I've already planned to make Wesker's DT being a mix of Urizen, Vergil's Sin Devil Trigger, Uroboros version of RE5 Wesker, and RE1 Tyrant.

For the Hound Wolf Legion... I dunno. All I can imagine is that the Earth-ARV98 version of the Hound Wolf Legion has all of its members wear the version of long coat similar to the DMC4 Order of the Sword Holy Knights or Makai Knights coat from Garo, but fur-trimmed and all black (just like the OG Hound Wolf Squad). For the helmet, I could also imagine that each of the members of the Legion wears a unique helmet akin to the tactical knights... except Umber Eyes (because he already looks great with the Ops Core FAST XP High Cut helmet and L3Harris Fused Ground Panoramic Night Vision Goggles, to be honest). Of course, they will be given both fire weapons per usual and also bladed weapons (be it sword or axe, depending on the member) for melee attacks.

Devil Trigger wings concept based on Dante's DT designs by Alysson Arts/All-Draws from Artstation (link here)

TW: He can bite you

Loosely based on that “silly little guy drawing” meme, but it’s also especially after I saw this Tumblr post: https://ebyssos.tumblr.com/post/805193805480476672/behold-some-creatures-based-on-the-little-guy

I've spent 2.5 hours to draw this, so laugh if you want to (or not)

Moijira Maulana aka Patriot of Earth-ARV42 belongs to me.

*sighs*

"What time is it? Oh, 11:30 PM? Okay then, start logbook 10.

Aight, let's do this one more time.

My name is Moijira Maulana. Welcome to the world where Director James Logan of SHIELD led the humans and mutants into a better world... or so I guess. You see, I used to have the golden spider-arms and that's why some of my classmates keep mocking me. "The stupidest genius of Dearborn", they said. Heh.

But then, high school graduation happened, and that damned Orchis nearly, NEARLY destroying my hometown. And then Captain America arrived, and I eventually joined the X-Men while continuing my study in MIT...

Well, until Orchis decided to make my body burn for awhile with that Super Soldier Serum. And really, that's the reason why I got those silver spider-arms now. I am not the only Orchis' lab rat here; Kurt Wagner is included.

The people of Dearborn now remember me as Patriot. That's right, I am now officially the second person to take the title of Patriot, after Jeffrey Mace. You've probably heard him a while back during the HYDRA attack on New York in 2010. Or maybe, even earlier as 2002.

Ever since Director Logan led his way, more and more wacky things happened. Ever heard of the Great Avengers Purge of 2015? That really, really changed the way I see the entire world. The "Captain America" that saved me in Dearborn earlier? Now it's Scott Summers taking the shield after Steve Rogers.

People saw me as the mascot of Dearborn so much, that sometimes I was told to attend a charity event or even a roadshow, like a goddamn Captain America USO show. Patrolling, charity event, take a break for a while, my dad's garage job, repeat. Or maybe, if I want to... Friday video game night!

I've got a lot of friend during my time in SHIELD. There's two to be honest, but one of them is really a giant reckless jerk for me...

And really, I am still not alone for this. Out there in New Jersey, Kamala Khan, you know, the new Miss America, kept telling me if I could ever meet her family again after teaming up together at one point. Ah, if only I weren't that busy...

Oh, what about Kurt Wagner? Better say hello to the new Spider-Man, then!

Once more, Moijira Maulana here.

Logbook 10, saved, out"

(link here)

I admit it, his DT horn is big as hell, my bad...

Vergil was born as the eldest twin son of the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda and the human Eva, alongside his younger twin brother, Dante. Despite the fact that Dante and Vergil are indeed twins, both of them have a starkly different personality. If Dante was more care-free and always searched for something new, Vergil was more like a stoic boy who always keep on tradition. Growing up, Vergil would often fight with Dante over various things, and trained alongside his brother with his father.

At some point before Mundus' attack, Vergil would often visit a man due to his keen interest in literature, namely poems. There, he avidly read many works, though developed a particular liking towards William Blake's poems most of all. One day, the man gave Vergil a collection of Blake's poems as a gift, in which Vergil responded by writing his name on the back of the cover. When asked by the man, Vergil told him about his relationship with his brother, and the man understood. Vergil would keep this book throughout his life.

In the free time, while Vergil would definitely read the said poem book, Dante insisted Vergil to start a sword play, something that irritated Vergil a bit. Indeed, during the fight, both Dante and Vergil argued about who was more superior, but Eva eventually calmed them down. To Vergil, Eva was everything, as she loved both Dante and Vergil equally.

But everything changed, when Mundus and his hunters decided to raid Sparda’s mansion, Paradise, after Sparda's 'death'. At the time Eva was trying to hide Dante from Mundus, Vergil was still somewhere outside the Mansion, unaware of what exactly happened to them. During the attack, Vergil was playing alone at a playground a few yards from the house, where he was most likely ambushed. Eventually, he found himself in a cemetery surrounded by demons. Upon seeing his house burning in the distance, Vergil awakens his inner demon and kills all of the demons with Yamato, and Vergil eventually realized that his family’s life was at stake. After everything was safe, Vergil decided to enter Paradise, only to find out that Eva was dead, murdered by Mundus. On the other hand, Vergil tried to find Dante, but he was nowhere to be seen.

Since then, Vergil blamed Mundus and his acolytes for everything that happened to his mother. For this reason, Eva’s death had driven Vergil for the search of more power, as he thought he was still weak to protect Eva in that time. How lucky, Vergil was eventually adopted by a wealthy family in Limbo City (which was, secretly under Sparda’s request years earlier), and he would eventually spent his entire life there, where he grew up to become a self-millionaire in Limbo City. Highly intelligent, Vergil wrote a security encryption program and went on to become an independently wealthy multi-millionaire before leaving school. In the same time, he started doing his own research upon the legend of Sparda, his own father. Yet, his actual agenda was still the same as before, but as he started realizing about Mundus’ ever growing ‘empire’ in the City, Vergil realized he couldn’t find Sparda’s power by himself. Hence, using his wealth, he eventually founded the Dark Knights, an radical organization that went against a tyranny and authoritarianism hierarchy of Limbo City, named after the title of Vergil’s father.

The Dark Knights’ essence successfully irritated the entire government of Limbo City, and even Mundus knew that. Despite the fact Mundus has marked the Dark Knights as Limbo City’s public enemy, little did he found out that the leader of the Dark Knights was none other than Vergil, the unknown twin son of Sparda.

The entire situation had given Vergil one advantage: to search for his brother, Dante, who was reported to have been around in Limbo City as Tony Redgrave. Although Vergil’s goal was to ask Dante to join the Dark Knights’ crusades against Mundus, no one knew that Vergil’s actual plan was not as noble as it sounds.

Phew! I guess I am satisfied with what I am doin' right now.

That's right, I decided to do the version of my Marvel OC, Moijira Maulana (aka Rasuk in Earth-ARV41 and Patriot in Earth-ARV42) in his civilian attires!

Chill, guys. His spider-arms biology is indeed quite unique, that he would only used it in case of extreme emergency. Otherwise, his spider-arms ain't visible due to the peculiar biology, that I've already explained in the VERY last slide of this post.

Oh, ever since I am quite in torn for drawing his clothes, I decided to do 2 options. Feel free to interpret which conditions fit him more:

1. Suit A: The most "normal-looking" attire for Moijira. Definitely rocking his look during his daily days in Dearborn (and probably in college), when he does not become Rasuk or Patriot (depends on the Earth, guys!). His clothes are pretty much motorcycle-safe; after searching on Reddit I realized that being stylish ain't enough for a motorcyclist; safety first!

2. Suit B: I considered calling it his "garage attire", same mind as Suit A but more rad looking, DMC5 Nero-esque. Except that it's not really a coat, but it's just a tail coat-like jacket because Moijira absolutely knew that if he wore an actual coat, the motor's exhaust would've burned it instead. Kinda works for his winter attire, too.

Well, other than that, Rasuk and Patriot's coat are fireproof LOL

His motorcycle's type is Kawasaki KLX250; I had in mind for keeping Moijira's motorcycle multifunctional while also sporty at the same time. This is the exact same motorcycle that Moijira uses for patrolling as Rasuk (Earth-ARV41) or Patriot (Earth-ARV42).

Well, for his Earth-ARV41 variant, no, that ain't his face tattoos, that's actually his SCARS that he got earlier in elementary schools! His Earth-ARV42 just lack those because he didn't get bullied at the same scale as those, to be honest (but still, he got mocked for his spider-arms in ARV42).

In case you haven't heard about that name, tokusatsu is actually a Japanese term on the heavy usage of practical special effects. Yeah, in general, it's basically CGI but Japanese.

But what makes tokusatsu feels different to the usual CGI is that tokusatsu actually has its own subgenre, but they're all considered to be one single type of media.

There are several kinds of tokusatsu, the most popular being:

1. Kaiju, e.g. Godzilla, Mothra
2. Mecha, e.g. Super Robot Red Baron
3. Kyodai Superhero: The superhero which has an ability to enlarge his/her body size. The most popular kind of this is Ultraman.
4. Superhero: Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Metal Heroes, Garo, etc. The Power Rangers that you've frequently heard of? It's actually a Western adaptation of the Super Sentai series, especially starting from Zyuranger.

Moijira Maulana (aka Patriot of Earth-ARV42) definitely loves watching Kamen Rider series; his primary favourite being Kamen Rider Ryuki >!(btw, there's also an American adaptation of it called Kamen Rider Dragon Knight which is 100 times better than Saban's Masked Rider)!<, and basically became one of the primary inspiration behind the design of his Patriot suit. Although, well, >!purple and blue being his favourite colours also led Moijira to realize that he inadvertently make his mask and the purple coat look like Kamen Rider Ouja's.!<

What about your Spidersona? Does she/he have one?

The inspirations behind Moijira Maulana:

1. Wolverine (James Logan Howlett)
2. X-Men Evolution Animated Series version of Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
3. Iron Spider (Amadeus Cho)
4. MCU aka Earth-199999 version of Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
5. Green Lantern (Simon Baz)
6. Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes)
7. Batman Beyond (Terry McGinnis)
8. Nightrunner (Bilal Asselah)
9. Aang (Avatar : The Last Airbender)
10. Dante “Tony Redgrave” Sparda (Main Devil May Cry timeline)
11. Sub-Zero (Kuai Liang from previous Mortal Kombat timeline)
12. Kamen Rider Knight (Ren Akiyama)
13. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
14. Hiro Hamada (Big Hero 6)
15. Luke Skywalker
16. Chirrut Imwe
17. Ratonhnhaké:ton aka Connor Kenway (Assassin’s Creed series)
18. Donatello (2003 TMNT/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated version)

Template by MarioStrikerMurphy on DeviantArt (link here)

[AUTHOR'S NOTES: Yes, this lore could apply to the Earth-ARV42 too!]

The United States decided to get rid of their neutrality for the second time when Japanese forces decided to attack Pearl Harbor in the end of 1941, and declared war on the Pacific. Just a few months later, the US also declared war on Europe as well.

At the time the Super Soldier serum worked perfectly on Steve Rogers in early 1942, both Nazi and HYDRA became extremely envious to the experiment itself. Even after Steve was able to prove himself worthy enough to stop the Nazi intruder’s action following the assassination of Abraham Erskine, Colonel Chester Phillips doubted Steve’s skills. So, instead of getting drafted into the US Army, Steve was instead given a job as a mascot of the USO, christened as Captain America. The sole purpose for this was to encouraged the purchase of the war bonds, which also helped the Allied forces win the war. Originally performed in several states of the US, the Captain America performances had somehow reached outside America itself, now as far as North Africa. When Steve finally found out that the 107th Infantry Regiment was captured by HYDRA forces, he decided to reject Colonel Phillips’ order to stay in his role, eventually saving the Regiment and much more from Red Skull’s grapple. His role was finally shifted from just an American war icon into the actual hero of the war-era United States.

Originally, Steve still used his USO triangular shield, until in early 1943, he was given a mission by SSR to infiltrate Wakanda, a rich African country and the original source of Vibranium. At that time, Wakanda was pretty much the point of interest of the German forces, and the king of Wakanda, T’Chanda, otherwise known as King Azzuri, tried to ward off the German invaders and succeed. When Steve Rogers decided to negotiate with King Azzuri, Azzuri mistaken the Americans being the same as the Germans, the two finally had a rough fight. King Azzuri started to admire Steve’s fighting abilities, and he started to understand Steve’s actual purpose to help Wakanda finally win against the Axis powers and HYDRA. As a gratitude, King Azzuri would eventually gave him a circular Vibranium shield, something that would eventually become Captain America’s iconic shield.

He led the Invaders, a group of the WWII era superheroes whose purpose is to eliminate Axis Powers and also HYDRA itself. He too had a strong connection with Sergeant Nick Fury Sr, who happened to lead the Howling Commandos, also affiliated with SSR. The two eventually fight together in the European Theater of World War II, until Steve’s life changed completely following his mission in the Alps. He failed to save Bucky there; a burden that burned his heart for the next few weeks.

During his final mission into the HYDRA Headquarters in the Swiss Alps, Steve was last seen fighting against Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) in a plane named Valkyrie. Red Skull was seemingly defeated, but when Steve realized that the Valkyrie was set into auto pilot and it can’t be fully controlled independently as Red Skull destroyed the brakes, Steve decided to crash the plane immediately into the Arctic ice, never to be seen again. Perhaps, he felt bad that he didn’t tell Peggy Carter about this, not being able to have a date and a dance with her, and he was afraid that she will be disappointed. Perhaps, this was his last act…until nearly 70 years later.

*****

James Howlett, also named Logan, has somehow tasted war much more than Steve. He served the Canadian Expeditionary Forces during WWI, alongside his adopted brother, Victor Creed. In year 1940, following the Dunkirk attack, Logan joined the Canadian Army, but it wasn’t until 1942 when Logan finally joined Sergeant Fury and the Howling Commandos, as Victor Creed was sent into a different squad instead. As a mutant, Logan was able to survive what it seemed to be the worst way to die, be it the bullet shot, fire, or even bruises, thanks to his self-healing abilities. At the time of WWII, the name ‘mutant’ didn’t even exist yet until Professor Charles Xavier’s introduction of the term into a more formal way in the 1960s. Due to this, the Howling Commandos, Bucky, and also Captain America decided to called him as ‘Lucky Jim‘.

Logan was very close to Captain America, that even SSR decided to specifically recruited those two for the liberation mission on Auschwitz Camp. There, they meet a young Max Eisenhardt (later Erik Lehnsherr), and finally freed he and the rest of the Jewish prisoners there. During this mission, Steve finally realized something was up with Logan’s power and it’s more than just his accelerated healing power; Steve figured out about Logan’s bone claws. Knowing this, Logan told Steve to keep this secondary power a secret, and this secret was also only known to SSR, and later SHIELD as well until the 1960s.

Following Steve’s disappearance in early 1945, Logan was transferred to the Pacific Theatre instead. He finally realized that the war kept getting more fierce than before, and sometimes in August 1945, Logan was captured by the Japanese forces, having been mistaken as part of the US Army. Prior to the bombing of Nagasaki, Logan, still held prisoner, decided to sneak outside the cell, where he saw a Japanese officer refused to do a hara-kiri unlike the rest of the officers following their witness over American planned bombing over Nagasaki. Feeling bad for the officer, Logan decided to save him from the atomic bombing, and as expected, Logan was able to survive the nuclear explosion from it, starting to get his body fully restored from his severely burned state. The Japanese officer, who would later introduced himself as Ichiro Yashida, asked Logan about his age and his power, and when Logan finally told him the secret, he was given a katana by Ichiro. As Ichiro too witnessed his feral abilities and also his claws, Logan was eventually nicknamed as Kuzuri, or the Wolverine, and both Logan and Ichiro became friends.

Ever since his involvement in Vietnam War, and also his recruitment into SHIELD by Nick Fury Jr, Logan decided to work alone… until Steve’s untimely return in 2011 shocked him. Either he started seeing the ghost of his past or actually happy to see him alive, Logan started realizing that at this very moment, he is finally glad that his American friend is still here.

I would've posted it a day after the original post, but tomorrow is Star Wars Day (based on Indonesian Western Local Time, LOL), so it's better late than never.

Name : Shinji Yoshitai

Country : United States, Japan

Age : 24

Sexual Orientation : Heterosexual

Ethnicity : Japanese American

Alias(es) : War Machine

Base of Operations :
Mobile, but mostly stationed in San Francisco.

Alliance :

1. SHIELD
2. United States Air Force
3. Stark Industries

Relative(s) :
Keiji Yoshitai (father, deceased)

Bio:

At the time of the Edo period, the Samurai clans fought each other, opting to win their clan’s hegemony. However, when the alien races named Chitauri started fusing themselves with the Samurai, the once conflicted Samurai clans, one of them was the Yoshitai Clan, urged the united force against the Chitauri. The Yoshitai Clan suggested that the Samurai Clans who joined forced with Yoshitai shall steal some technologies from the Chitauri, forging it using their ancient Karakuri arts. Thus, the Heart of Hachiman was created, forged from the power of the Chitauri and blessed by the soul of the thousand saints, as part of Yoshitai’s one true weapon against the Chitauri. It was, until the Heart of Hachiman was thrown out by the Yoshitai Clan during the Meiji Period, keeping it safe from the evil hands.

In Earth-ARV42, the Heart of Hachiman wasn't re-discovered until much later prior to the disastrous San Francisco Stark Expo Incident. As such, Project Hachiman never happened; instead, the Stark-Yoshitai Agreement in 2010 has led into further supposed creation of mass-produced War Machine Project. The project was never finished; it resulted with one single suit only, designated as WM-001.

First Lieutenant Shinji Yoshitai (born Japanese American) of the US Air Force, the only son of Keiji Yoshitai, served as the secondary liaison between the US Ministry of Defense and Stark Industries. While initially felt uncomfortable with this kind of position, Shinji realized that it was his duty to serve his country as well as continuing his father's legacy. Shinji's reputation in the US Air Force is well received by both SHIELD and Stark Industries; at most times Keiji is accompanied by his own son, Shinji, during formal meetings.

But Shinji's life changed forever when he accidentally learned that, during the Ten Rings' attack on the San Francisco Stark Expo, there's a mole inside Stark Industries who seemed to coordinate the said attack. Almost had no other choice, he managed to pick a prototype Stark-tech axe (which would later evolved into Meiyo) as his own weapons against the swarms of Ten Rings' Tong Sentries (robotic armies modeled after the Iron Legionnaire), but became overpowered by them as Shinji got distracted by the explosion caused by the Tong Sentries attack. Keiji managed to sacrifice himself when evacuating the visitors of the Expo, but both Keiji and Shinji were crushed by the rubble of one of the buildings inside the Expo area, eventually killing Keiji.

Shinji miraculously survived, but he was critically paralyzed that he barely moved when he woke up. The first thing Shinji saw after waking up was his father's dead body, and he eventually blamed himself for not saving him in this very critical moment.

Meanwhile, minutes following the Incident, HYDRA Stomper (James "Rhodey" Rhodes) and Daredevil (Tozen Hokoshi) were sent to extract the remaining Stark-Yoshitai classified files before the Ten Rings could discovered those. Upon searching for remaining survivors, Rhodey found Shinji's body, while Tozen was able to retrieve the Heart of Hachiman from Keiji's dead body.

Learning that Shinji's life could be saved under special condition, Rhodey instructed Tozen to integrate the Heart of Hachiman into Shinji's body, as Rhodey thought there's still a little spark of hope to safe Shinji's life.

But those weren't easy days for Shinji after he was attached with the Heart of Hachiman. In fact, he almost thought that Rhodey was about to turn him into a monster. However, when Rhodey decided to show him the nearly discarded WM-001 armor, Shinji eventually learned that he still got time to life up his father's name, while managed to make the Ten Rings pay for what they did to his father.

So, Shinji ordered Tony Stark to slightly modify the prototype WM-001 suit, so that he can keep it inside a wrist device via nanotech. Now armed himself with Meiyo to channel his inner negative energy converted from the Heart of Hachiman, Shinji Yoshitai transformed himself into one of the deadliest living (mechanical) weapons of the US Air Force and SHIELD, the War Machine.

Powers and Abilities :

1. Enhanced Human Conditioning
2. Master Strategist and Tactician
3. High Intelligence
4. Gadgetry and Weaponry
5. Master Martial Artist
6. War Expertise: In his whole life, Shinji have been trained since he was in ROTC and also the US Air Force in the arts of war and combat.
7. Energy Absorption and Dark Magic Negation
8. Indomitable Will

Weakness :

1. His ego
2. Dependence on technology: without some of Stark technologies (and also the Heart of Hachiman), Shinji became nearly immobilized.
3. Lack of self control
4. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

Attributes and Equipments :
1. War Machine Armour: Designated as WM-001, the armour was originally part of the discarded War Machine Project, but it is now upgraded with nanotech and is powered by a magical artefact named the Heart of Hachiman. The suit mainly provides enhanced endurance and durability, allowing Shinji to fly, run faster, jump to extremely high heights, lift and push heavy objects. The armor is equipped with high calibre rifle and rocket launchers that are controlled from a small screen on right hand. It has weapon-grade repulsors, enhanced thrusters and the standard function of augmenting the strength and durability of its user.

2. Meiyo: An ono (Japanese axe) powered by the Heart of Hachiman. The axe can be used to release powerful electrical discharges and concussive blasts, and also absorb energy, while the axe could absorbs Shinji's negative feelings, especially rage.

Trivia :

1. Shinji's axe, Meiyo (名誉), came from a Japanese word, which literally means 'honor'.
2. Shinji appeared to be strongly willful, doesn't work well with any authority other than his own, and will enthusiastically tear down just about anyone who challenges him. He's complicated, a little self-absorbed, and sometimes moody. He also appeared to be temperament, too. He remained a rival to his fellow SHIELD members, Tozen Hokoshi (also known as Daredevil) and Moijira Maulana (aka Patriot), as part of a single team. Even so, Shinji remained quite sarcastic to Moijira, mostly due to Moijira's no-brainer attitude (despite his intelligence).
3. Despite his hot-headed personality, Shinji also shows affection to sweets and ice cream; he always carries a vanilla ice cream tub from his home.

Name : Shinji Yoshitai

Country : United States, Japan

Age : 24

Sexual Orientation : Heterosexual

Ethnicity : Japanese American

Alias(es) : War Machine

Base of Operations :
Mobile, but mostly stationed in San Francisco.

Alliance :

1. SHIELD
2. United States Air Force
3. Stark Industries

Relative(s) :
Keiji Yoshitai (father, deceased)

Bio:

At the time of the Edo period, the Samurai clans fought each other, opting to win their clan’s hegemony. However, when the alien races named Chitauri started fusing themselves with the Samurai, the once conflicted Samurai clans, one of them was the Yoshitai Clan, urged the united force against the Chitauri. The Yoshitai Clan suggested that the Samurai Clans who joined forced with Yoshitai shall steal some technologies from the Chitauri, forging it using their ancient Karakuri arts. Thus, the Heart of Hachiman was created, forged from the power of the Chitauri and blessed by the soul of the thousand saints, as part of Yoshitai’s one true weapon against the Chitauri. It was, until the Heart of Hachiman was thrown out by the Yoshitai Clan during the Meiji Period, keeping it safe from the evil hands.

In Earth-ARV42, the Heart of Hachiman wasn't re-discovered until much later prior to the disastrous San Francisco Stark Expo Incident. As such, Project Hachiman never happened; instead, the Stark-Yoshitai Agreement in 2010 has led into further supposed creation of mass-produced War Machine Project. The project was never finished; it resulted with one single suit only, designated as WM-001.

First Lieutenant Shinji Yoshitai (born Japanese American) of the US Air Force, the only son of Keiji Yoshitai, served as the secondary liaison between the US Ministry of Defense and Stark Industries. While initially felt uncomfortable with this kind of position, Shinji realized that it was his duty to serve his country as well as continuing his father's legacy. Shinji's reputation in the US Air Force is well received by both SHIELD and Stark Industries; at most times Keiji is accompanied by his own son, Shinji, during formal meetings.

But Shinji's life changed forever when he accidentally learned that, during the Ten Rings' attack on the San Francisco Stark Expo, there's a mole inside Stark Industries who seemed to coordinate the said attack. Almost had no other choice, he managed to pick a prototype Stark-tech axe (which would later evolved into Meiyo) as his own weapons against the swarms of Ten Rings' Tong Sentries (robotic armies modeled after the Iron Legionnaire), but became overpowered by them as Shinji got distracted by the explosion caused by the Tong Sentries attack. Keiji managed to sacrifice himself when evacuating the visitors of the Expo, but both Keiji and Shinji were crushed by the rubble of one of the buildings inside the Expo area, eventually killing Keiji.

Shinji miraculously survived, but he was critically paralyzed that he barely moved when he woke up. The first thing Shinji saw after waking up was his father's dead body, and he eventually blamed himself for not saving him in this very critical moment.

Meanwhile, minutes following the Incident, HYDRA Stomper (James "Rhodey" Rhodes) and Daredevil (Tozen Hokoshi) were sent to extract the remaining Stark-Yoshitai classified files before the Ten Rings could discovered those. Upon searching for remaining survivors, Rhodey found Shinji's body, while Tozen was able to retrieve the Heart of Hachiman from Keiji's dead body.

Learning that Shinji's life could be saved under special condition, Rhodey instructed Tozen to integrate the Heart of Hachiman into Shinji's body, as Rhodey thought there's still a little spark of hope to safe Shinji's life.

But those weren't easy days for Shinji after he was attached with the Heart of Hachiman. In fact, he almost thought that Rhodey was about to turn him into a monster. However, when Rhodey decided to show him the nearly discarded WM-001 armor, Shinji eventually learned that he still got time to life up his father's name, while managed to make the Ten Rings pay for what they did to his father.

So, Shinji ordered Tony Stark to slightly modify the prototype WM-001 suit, so that he can keep it inside a wrist device via nanotech. Now armed himself with Meiyo to channel his inner negative energy converted from the Heart of Hachiman, Shinji Yoshitai transformed himself into one of the deadliest living (mechanical) weapons of the US Air Force and SHIELD, the War Machine.

Powers and Abilities :

1. Enhanced Human Conditioning
2. Master Strategist and Tactician
3. High Intelligence
4. Gadgetry and Weaponry
5. Master Martial Artist
6. War Expertise: In his whole life, Shinji have been trained since he was in ROTC and also the US Air Force in the arts of war and combat.
7. Energy Absorption and Dark Magic Negation
8. Indomitable Will

Weakness :

1. His ego
2. Dependence on technology: without some of Stark technologies (and also the Heart of Hachiman), Shinji became nearly immobilized.
3. Lack of self control
4. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

Attributes and Equipments :
1. War Machine Armour: Designated as WM-001, the armour was originally part of the discarded War Machine Project, but it is now upgraded with nanotech and is powered by a magical artefact named the Heart of Hachiman. The suit mainly provides enhanced endurance and durability, allowing Shinji to fly, run faster, jump to extremely high heights, lift and push heavy objects. The armor is equipped with high calibre rifle and rocket launchers that are controlled from a small screen on right hand. It has weapon-grade repulsors, enhanced thrusters and the standard function of augmenting the strength and durability of its user.

2. Meiyo: An ono (Japanese axe) powered by the Heart of Hachiman. The axe can be used to release powerful electrical discharges and concussive blasts, and also absorb energy, while the axe could absorbs Shinji's negative feelings, especially rage.

Trivia :

1. Shinji's axe, Meiyo (名誉), came from a Japanese word, which literally means 'honor'.
2. Shinji appeared to be strongly willful, doesn't work well with any authority other than his own, and will enthusiastically tear down just about anyone who challenges him. He's complicated, a little self-absorbed, and sometimes moody. He also appeared to be temperament, too. He remained a rival to his fellow SHIELD members, Tozen Hokoshi (also known as Daredevil) and Moijira Maulana (aka Patriot), as part of a single team. Even so, Shinji remained quite sarcastic to Moijira, mostly due to Moijira's no-brainer attitude (despite his intelligence).
3. Despite his hot-headed personality, Shinji also shows affection to sweets and ice cream; he always carries a vanilla ice cream tub from his home.

In order:

1. Director James Logan : Once codenamed Wolverine, James "Logan" Howlett effectively replaced Nick Fury Jr. as the Director of SHIELD following his death in 2009. His leadership is what led to the Human-Mutant Harmony Agreement in 2009, to ensure that humans and mutants alike deserve the same privilege. The infamous Great Avengers Purge that occurred in 2015 nearly made Logan stepped away from his role as the SHIELD Director for 3 months, but he was successfully persuaded by Havok (Alex Summers) of the newly re-activated Division X to continue his job.

2. Captain America (Scott Summers): Formerly Cyclops. Scott Summers became the new Captain America in honor of the late Steve Rogers, who managed to sacrifice himself using the Phoenix Force against Red Onslaught (HYDRA's clone of Red Skull using the DNA of Magneto and Professor X) during the Great Avengers Purge. Utilizes both of his laser eyes and Phoenix Force, Scott is currently married to Jean Grey.

3. HYDRA Stomper (James "Rhodey" Rhodes): Due to the Stark-Yoshitai Agreement in 2010, the War Machine Project was meant to be created as a mass-produced Iron Man army, but was never finished. The supervisor behind this was Rhodey, the primary liaison of US Armed Force and Stark Industries who became the second HYDRA Stomper after Howard Stark. Despite the abrupt ending of the War Machine Project, Rhodey somehow realized that the only fully created armor from the Project, WM-001 can be used for one of his colleagues, Shinji Yoshitai, under one special condition.

4. Spinnenmann (Kurt Wagner): The son of Mystique and Azazel, Kurt was initially raised by the church in Winzeldorf, Bavaria before decided to enter Herr Getmann's Circus. At the age of 20, he decided to quit from his job after he witnessed the murder of Margali Szardos at the hand of Azazel, and joined the X-Men. Was kidnapped by Orchis and became Weapon Sigma II (Moijira Maulana aka Patriot, my Spidersona, is actually Weapon Sigma I), but managed to escaped alongside Moijira. Became the new Spider-Man after one of his late close-friend, Peter Parker, following a fight between he and Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) which ultimately led to their demise (prior to Kurt's abduction by Orchis). Kurt could use his iconic Bamf teleportation abilities combined with the spider-power derived from Peter Parker's blood DNA during the Weapon Sigma experiment. Take notes: those are NOT real multiple eyes!

5. Miss America (Kamala Khan): A polymorph Inhuman who is a big fan of Captain America (Scott Summers), ever since Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) was killed by Red Onslaught during the Great Avengers Purge. She can stretch, deform, expand, or compress her entire body or parts thereof into any contiguous shape she can imagine for a variety of uses

6. Patriot (Jeffrey Mace, decided to use Earth-ARV41 design): The first Patriot, who was first revealed during the 2002 New Year celebration. One of SHIELD's attempt to create another Super Soldier after Steve Rogers, he sacrificed himself during HYDRA's attack on New York in 2010. This has led to the discovery of Steve Rogers in the Arctic being made a year earlier (2010) instead of what happened in Earth-ARV41 (2011).

7. Josiah al-Hajj Saddiq or Josiah X (decided to use Earth-ARV41 design): One of the close friends of Prana Maulana (Moijira's father), Josiah was actually a genetically engineered son of Isaiah Bradley, the Captain America of the Korean War. Moijira sometimes refers Josiah as "uncle".

Sup, CaptainARV is here! Same girl on DeviantART, but first time using Reddit and Tumblr as the alternatives to DeviantART (regarding the concerning news on DA, btw).

This is my new username; I am still the same CaptainARV as usual. Granted that Reddit would definitely ban an account who posted more than 2 posts in less than an hour in the same subreddit to prevent spam and karma farming (yeah, my bad...), I had to be more careful when posting something on Reddit. Plus, I don't want to get banned by a very simple mistake.

My Tumblr username is still the same as my DA one (CaptainARV)!

https://www.deviantart.com/captainarv/art/HYDRA-Stomper-Earth-ARV42-1242785860

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In Earth-ARV42, the fate of Stark Industries took a quite different turn. Realizing that his wealth would fall into the wrong person just as the case of his rivalry with Obadiah Stane in 2008, Tony Stark decided to entrust one third of his sharing to one of his colleagues, Keiji Yoshitai. As such, the monumental Stark-Yoshitai Agreement occurred in 2010, with Keiji partially spreading his influence across Asia as a representative of Stark Industries.

Despite this tide of change, the role of Colonel James Rhodes, also known under the nickname Rhodey, remained the same; as the primary liaison between US Ministry of Defense and Stark Industries. He was not alone, he was accompanied by Shinji Yoshitai, a Japanese-American member of the US Air Force who doubled as Stark Industries' second liaison (although Shinji was quite uncomfortable with his new role at first, he decided to live it with).

However, following the disastrous HYDRA attack to New York in 2010, Director James Logan of SHIELD eventually learned about the increasing uprising of HYDRA, now led by the Grand Skull, Tadzio de Santis. Hence, Rhodey suggested Logan to reactivate the HYDRA Stomper project; in Earth-ARV42, Rhodey became the HYDRA Stomper instead of War Machine.

Continuing the legacy of Howard Stark as HYDRA Stomper, Rhodey oversees the development of Project War Machine for many years; originally, it was an attempt to created an army of Iron Men to battle the threats posed to SHIELD: HYDRA, Orchis, Ten Rings, and so on.

While the War Machine Project was abruptly abandoned (only resulting with the creation of a single armor, WM-001), Rhodey accidentally realized that it had to be continued following the Ten Rings' disastrous attack on San Francisco's Stark Expo. It all started when he, alongside Daredevil (Tozen Hokoshi), were given a task by SHIELD to retrieve the remaining records of the Stark-Yoshitai Agreement in the remains of the Stark Expo. Although they found out that Keiji was ultimately killed during the attack, Rhodey found a little spark of hope that Shinji, who was heavily injured, could be saved as the one and only user of the WM-001 armour. But Tozen also found something more; Keiji's hand was seemingly holding the Heart of Hachiman that he had retrieved from the Sea of Japan years earlier. But Rhodey wondered, how would he make the Heart of Hachiman fits into the WM-001 armour...

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

We finally have James Rhodes as HYDRA Stomper! I could always see him taking another mantle besides War Machine and Iron Patriot; granted that I've already introduced the HYDRA Stomper in Earth-ARV41, I thought that Rhodey would fit the role given his military background.

For the design, um... it's kinda complicated. The primary design for this is actually the Iron Man: Armored Adventures version of War Machine, but the helmet is based on War Machine Mark 5 armour from Avengers: Endgame movie. I wanted to evoke the same bulky, colossal armour build just as the OG version of HYDRA Stomper looks like, but more streamlined and less complicated than the Endgame Mark 5 version, to be honest.

When Knull spread his little presence across the Galaxy, some of his symbiotes managed to rebel. Some were torn out on the other side of the space, while the other has struck Earth under unknown circumstance. One such case as the latter was the Cursed Web, a fungal symbiote laid beneath the base of Snakeroot Clan. The Hand, which was also corrupted by the presence of the Snakeroot, originally used the Cursed Web to cure the illness of Lord Hokoshi (the Samurai lord of the Snakeroot Clan), but at the cost of his sanity; his bloodlust forced the Hand to physically destroy his presence, with the fragment of his power being completely sealed and passed down to the children of Lord Hokoshi for centuries.

As Director James Logan started a war against the nefarious ninja clan called the Hand, his action was quite a success. Following SHIELD’s victory against the Hand, the Hand itself was in jeopardy, having sought to win the hegemony upon its true influences across the globe. As a result, the Hand was splited into two. The first one was the Black Hand, having sought to restore the Hand’s honor into its earliest root, free from Snakeroot Clan’s influences. The other one was the Red Hand, who forced the Black Hand to accept the Snakeroot Clan as their sole patron and continue their infamous action. The Black Hand was in constant war against the Red Hand due to their ideological differences, and their actions has concerned the entire citizens of Hell's Kitchen. Despite Black Hand’s true intention was purely for good purpose, but due to their similarity in their fighting methods, the Black Hand was often mistaken being the same group as the Red Hand, and vice versa.

Tozen Hokoshi, the descendant of Lord Hokoshi, was 10 years old when the Hand was nearly obliterated by SHIELD. As he was being raised by the Hand since birth, young Tozen became disgusted by the Hand’s vile plan to conquer to world. Due to this, shortly after the fall of the Hand, he decided to choose side with the Black Hand. His decision has infuriated Kagenobu Yoshioka, and despite Tozen was threatened by the Red Hand that they will kill him if he disobeyed Nobu’s order, Tozen’s decision was driven by the truth that he actually wanted to live a peaceful life. In his entire life, he befriended with a lawyer named Matt Murdock, and in most occassions, Tozen often confessed his sins to Father Langtom in the Church.

Many years later, a gang war broke between the Black Hand and the Red Hand. Tozen, who sided with the Black Hand, tend to interfere with them, and under his aid, the Black Hand was finally able to drove back Red Hand into its lair. Nobu was not happy with this, and he warned Tozen that the Black Hand will pay for its sins against the Red Hand. Tozen ignored Nobu’s warning, saying that the Red Hand was none of his business. A furious Nobu left Tozen, and one night, Nobu told the Red Hand ninjas to end Tozen’s life, for he was now marked as ‘traitor’, and to kill the rest of the members of the Black Hand. Indeed, they nearly did it; the Red Hand ninjas were nearly able to beat Tozen to death, but Tozen successfully escaped from their ambush, thanks to the fact the he accidentally encountered the Cursed Web fungal symbiote, which told him to use its power against the Red Hand. As Tozen wasn’t in full control of his new profound power, he felt unconscious, until he was saved by Elektra Natchios.

When Tozen woke up, he was shocked to see that Elektra, who was known to be a defect from the Red Hand, saved him. Elektra actually told him the truth; she actually joined the Chaste in order to aid the Black Hand won the hegemony against the Red Hand. Tozen was asked on what exactly happened earlier, and he told her that he has kept the Cursed Web in the last 5 years. Elektra eventually advised Tozen that he need to be trained by Stick, who was none other than Matt Murdock. Since then, Tozen realized that as he maintain full control of the Cursed Web, Tozen would need to conceal himself in shadows so that the Red Hand wouldn’t discover his existence with the Cursed Web. The Cursed Web whispered into his ears that in order to fight the devils, he must become the devil itself. Driven by his redemption and his revenge against the Red Hand, Tozen took an alias that fit him the most. He also seek help from SHIELD, and in return. SHIELD gave him several equipment to stabilize his Cursed Web power, making Tozen an informant of SHIELD from the Black Hand.

At one time, he is Tozen Hokoshi, the close friend of Matt Murdock. On the other day, he is the Man without Fear, the Daredevil!

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

I want to make his design looks quite sleek and organic, but tactical and futuristic in the same time.

Hence, his design was pretty much inspired by the unused concept art of Storm Shadow from Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins movie (by Kelton Cram on Artstation (link here)); I managed to use the figure as a pose. On the other hand, the hood was based on the King of the Fist version of Daredevil (Matt Murdock). I still wanted to keep his Cursed Web influence by his mask, by the way.

https://www.deviantart.com/captainarv/art/Marvel-OC-Daredevil-Earth-ARV42-1291009108

https://www.deviantart.com/crystalinecodexr/art/Patriot-ARV42-1299655142

Just sharing a piece of my Spidersona art that I've requested months earlier!

Heavily inspired by Uncanny Spider-Man run, I decided to do Kurt Wagner (yes, the Nightcrawler) as the Spinnenmann of Earth-ARV42.

This was meant to be a companion entry to my Spidersona (Moijia Maulana aka Patriot of Earth-ARV42) art; his designs were pretty much simple; I simply used the Uncanny Spider-Man concept by Lee Garbett as a base for his undersuit. One the other hand, I also loved the 2021 Hellfire Gala Nightcrawler's look, so I decided to put that on Spinnenmann's design too! His mask would be very reminiscent to Tobey Maguire's version of Spidey, with several tweaks as well. I also wanted to emphasize his religious origin on his costume, hence the collar chip and steel rosary necklace under his belt.

And oh, don't worry, Kurt doesn't have multiple eyes here!

https://www.deviantart.com/captainarv/art/Spinnenmann-Earth-ARV42-1219204773

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In Earth-ARV42, the early life of Kurt Wagner took a quite different turn. Born in the Bavarian Alps as an illegitimate son of Mystique (Raven Darkholme) and Azazel, Kurt was sent by Mystique into a small church in Winzeldorf, a small city in Bavaria, following Azazel's disappearance when Kurt was still 9 months old, and this was where Kurt would eventually spent most of his life there until he was 15. Father Wagner, who was a local priest of Winzeldorf, eventually took care of Kurt like he was his own son. That night, a robber tend to steal something from the church. Kurt was still awake, haven’t sleep for some hours due to the nightmares he had. When he heard a strange noise coming from the side of the church, Kurt tried to figure it out on what happened there. When a robber recognize that blue mutant, the robber and Kurt had an intense fight, and the sounds they made have grabbed attentions from the local villagers to watch them fight. Kurt’s experience against the robber, alongside his acrobatic abilities was spread across Germany, and Herr Max Getmann saw the potential behind Kurt, eventually recruit him into the Circus.

Although he hesitated that he might left his family that he was once belong, Father Wagner was very supportive for Kurt’s potential future, and for this reason, Kurt decided to left Winzeldorf for Munich. In the Herr Getmann’s Circus, Kurt was known as the Nightcrawler, the incredible acrobatist and the show stealer of the circus. Kurt finally found his secondary purpose here, but little did he know that the woman who once took care of him, Margali Szardos, had an affair with his father, Azazel. It was at the time when Kurt was 20, when Armen Jardine tried to hire him to become part of the freak show in America. Indeed, Kurt, who still maintained his faith, became extremely furious about the offer and decided to take a short break from his performance in the Circus. One week later, he decided to sneak into the Circus’ backstage when he find out that Margali was actually a sorceress, and managed to "negotiate" with Jardine. In the mean time, Azazel sook to find his lost son, and when both Jardine and Margali discovered this, Jardine alongside Margali managed to defeat Azazel, only for both of them to be killed by Azazel. Kurt was left behind alongside Amanda Sefton and Stephan Szardos.

No longer able to hold his own reputation as the Circus perfomer, as well as realizing his lineage, Kurt decided to depart from his job and went back to Winzeldorf. He actually wanted to tell Father Wagner that he wanted to be a priest, but as he heard a news that Father Wagner actually had a heart attack a day ago from the local civilians, he became extremely galvanized. He had lost his trust to the one who once cared about him in the Circus, yet he had to experience the lost of his family. When this situation happened, Professor Charles Xavier, who had heard about the entire story about Kurt, came after him, and telling him that even the most soft hearted ones would suffer the worst one. Xavier would eventually calmed him down, telling him that if Kurt joined the X-Men, he would found his old purpose back. And Professor X was right; when Kurt Wagner entered Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, he met Moijira Maulana (who was an MIT student here and occasionally taught the students physics during the Islamic holiday), and the two eventually became best friends. They eventually trade interests together; Moijira, who was a big admirer of Director James Logan and Captain America (Scott Summers), told him about the world of robotics, motorcycle, rock music, and video games (especially Devil May Cry series). Kurt, on the other hand, had a childhood interest to pirate movies (including Pirates of the Caribbean and those from Errol Flynn) and dark fantasy series (in which Moijira surprisingly liked). He even had a close friendship with the friendly neighbourhood member of the Avengers after the Great Avengers Purge, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), and Kurt often confessed Spider-Man about a hard times to be a mutant hero.

There was a time when Kurt teleported into Oscorp Tower, he witnessed an intense fight between Spider-Man and Green Goblin (Norman Osborn). Their fight resulted in an explosion, and the Green Goblin was killed, but of course, with the cost of Spider-Man’s life as well. When Kurt tried to save Spider-Man, Spider-Man told him that it was too late to do that. Instead, Spider-Man told Kurt only as single line : With great power comes great responsibility.

When the group of Orchis Army led by William Stryker Jr held an assault to Xavier’s School, Moijira and Kurt were the one who accidentally sneaked into one of the Orchis planes, but get busted by Stryker Jr instead. Moijira lose two of his spider arms as they were torn by Stryker Jr, followed by Kurt getting electrocuted by Stryker Jr. The two would eventually became a subject to Weapon Sigma Project, with Moijira being Weapon Sigma I and Kurt as Weapon Sigma II. Kurt was injected with a blood vial which contained the DNA of Spider-Man, but even before the brainwashing process began, a group of mutants who called themselves Department X, led by Havok (Alex Summers), breached the defense of the Weapon Sigma Facility in Finland, causing Moijira to break free with his new spider arms, thanks to the effect of Maria Vaselli's Super Soldier Serum.

Following the experiment, Kurt nearly blamed Moijira for he was the one who told Kurt to infiltrate one of the Orchis' planes. However, Moijira, surprisingly, admitted his mistake because he himself had suffered the same way as Kurt's, and their friendship was saved after all. Since then, Kurt wanted to honor his deceased friend, Peter, by adopting a new alias for himself.

Now, he is Kurt Wagner, the Uncanny Spinnenmann.