Character » Matsuo Tsurayaba appears in 206 issues.
Matsuo manipulated Psylocke after brainwashing her and having Spiral swap the souls of his girlfriend Kwannon and Psylocke, accidentally merging the two's minds so that they had the same memories and powers.
The Upstarts are a group of Mutants (and one human) who were vying for leadership of their own group and were given points for assassinating mutant figures. The Upstarts included: Shinobi Shaw, Siena Blaze, Fabian Cortez, Graydon Creed, Trevor Fitzroy and the Fenris Twins, Andrea Strucker and Andreas Strucker. The Upstarts were responsible for most of the death's of the original Hellions and the apparent deaths of Magneto and Sebastian Shaw.
Matsuo and Kwannon were lovers, though they worked for opposing clans. Expecting no quarter from eachother, they were forced to fight, and Kwannon slipped from the cliff they were fighting on, nearly dying. Later, after Kwannon's body had been switched with that of Elisabeth Braddock, Revanche contracted the Legacy Virus. As her powers spiralled out of control, Kwannon begged her lover to mercy kill her. He did.
The Mandarin is the arch enemy of Iron Man. A remarkable genius with both earthly and extraterrestrial technology, the Mandarin is also an exceptional athlete, swordsman, and martial artist.
Nyoirin was the lover and master of ninja Kwannon and rival of the hand. He would ally with Matsuo so they would both have the woman they loved, leading to the mixing and merging of Kwannon with Psylocke.
During the Cold War, Arkady Rossovich was forced into Russia's version of Weapon X. The end result, was Omega Red. In an attempt to capture wolverine, Matsuo revived omega red from suspended animation. Omega served Matsuo for quite some time in which he was promised the "carbonadium synthesizer", a device in which stabled his system from the carbonadium tentacles that were slowly poisoning him.
Blind Assassin for Tsurayaba Matsuo. Killed herself out of guilt for poisoning Wolverine's lover Mariko Yashida.
Son of Sebastian Shaw, who was a member of the Upstarts after allegedly assassinating his father, later he lead a failed reform of the Hellfire Club.
Originally thought to have been killed by Sabretooth on the North American Frontier, Silver Fox was romantically involved with Logan (aka: Wolverine).
Tatsuo is the leader of Clan Tatsuo, a yakuza crime syndicate compromised of cybersamurai. He is also the grandfather of Opal Tanaka, former girlfriend of the X-Man, Iceman.
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