Trueform Darkside

This user hasn't filled out their real life biography yet. LAME! Darkside was born in an alternate reality within the Marvel Universe where the Civil War went down a different route; the Thunderbolts program and use of super-villains to track down unregistered super-humans progressed, leading to an uprising by the villains. Shape-changing villains posed as scientists within SHIELD to give their comrades fake 'nano' chips and the heroes, unable to properly suppress their enemies taking over the registered super-humans from behind the scenes due to being hunted by their own, could do nothing but watch.
Slowly, the villains took over and began to enhance themselves with SHIELD technology and scientific secrets gleamed from the likes of the Reed Richards, Tony Stark, and Hank Pym, coupled with existing breakthroughs such as that reality's Super Soldier Serum. Soon there was no stopping the villains, and super-humans were hunted almost to the point of extinction, leaving only a few rebels to fight against the tide of increasingly powerful super-villains.
Darkside himself is a mutant from birth, having been born with an incredibly quick cellular regeneration ability and photographic reflexes that allow him to replicate any physical action he sees. Originally dangerously unstable due to tampering by Apocalypse, he was kept under psychic control by Xavier within a secret area of the X Mansion unknown to anyone else, until Xavier was killed, one of the first targets of the super-villains' surgical strikes.
With his last breath, Xavier managed to break Apocalypse's conditioning of Darkside and asked that he repay him by keeping the other mutants - and the world - safe. As gratitude to Xavier, Darkside killed the super-villains and saved most of the young mutants; he also gained new powers when he killed a particularly vicious alternate-reality version of Venom.
In this reality, Venom was still Eddie Brock, but he had turned even more psychotic, having became a symbiotic lightning rod - he was the host to all of the reality's symbiotes, including venom, carnage, toxin, anti-venom and all the symbiotes Hybrid possessed in the 'central' Marvel Universe which had merged together to form the monster known as Symbiosis.
The symbiotes, seeing the potential to wreak chaos with Darkside as their host, latched onto him. However, his tampering by Apocalypse trapped the symbiotic influence in Darkside's mind, allowing him effortless and full control over them. He became Trueform Darkside, the leading defense against the rising tide of villains and later became the leader of a group of similiarly enhanced super-heroes who stand as the last line of defense for the world.

Reviewed by Trueform Darkside June 20, 2008 Excellent start Wolverine # 66 - Old Man Logan, Part 1  I admit I was a bit wary of this story arc, but Millar, McNiven and the rest of the team have pulled it off so far; the writing is atmospheric, the art and colours effective and the whole thing nicely pulled together. The story has lots of references to wolverine's past, an air of oppression over it, and its almost painful to see wolverine behaving as a pacifist. It also has loads of nods to other characters (is that a wolf-like symbiote on the back cover?!) and I will be interested to see what has happened to the other heroes, not to mention if (when!) Old Man Logan steps up the plate and becomes the Wolverine we all know and love once more. As long as the team keep up this standard of work all the way through the story arc, I shall be a firm fan. *SPOILER ALERT* In an unspecified time period, all the heroes have been defeated by an unknown enemy, and Wolverine got the worst of it. Set in an almost post-apocalypse future, wolverine is now nothing more than a farmer called old man Logan, struggling to make ends meet and keep his family safe from the 'landlords' of his area, the hulks (hulk's own hill-billy grandchildren). Something big must have happened here; the road map shown towards the end of the issue shows that continents have been merged (but how the hell did kingpin become the leader of his own zone, unless he mutated something chronic?). Lets hope to see plenty more references; I cant wait to see what has happened to some of my favourite characters such as Venom and Spider-Man, yet to be shown. 0 Comments Leave a Comment