Daken
STATISTICS
F: RM(30)
A: RM(30)
S: EX(20)
E: RM(30)
R: GD(10)
I: IN(40)
P: IN(40)
Health: 110
Karma: 90
Resources: Gd/10
Popularity: -5
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Akihiro
Occupation: former adventurer, assassin, criminal, Horseman of Death, government operative
Legal Status: Citizen of Japan and Krakoa
Identity: Secret
Other Known Aliases: Daken Aki-hiro, Kid-Wolverine, "Mongrel", Wolverine
Place of Birth: Jasmine Falls, Ja-pan
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Mr. Howlett (step-paternal great grandfather, deceased); John Howlett, Sr. (step-paternal grandfather, deceased); Thomas Logan (paternal grandfather, deceased); Elizabeth Howlett (paternal grandmother, deceased); Elias Hudson & Frederick Hudson (grand-uncles, deceased); James Howlett (Wolverine, father); Itsu (mother, deceased); Akihira (adoptive father, deceased); Natsumi (adoptive mother, deceased); Dog Logan (paternal uncle); John Howlett, Jr. (paternal uncle, deceased); Erista (paternal half-brother); Cannon Foot, Saw Fist & William Downing (paternal half-brothers, deceased); Junichiro (adoptive brother, deceased); Laura Kinney (paternal half-sister); Fire Knives & Shadow S. (paternal half-sisters, deceased); Raze Darkholme (paternal half-brother); Amiko (foster sister); Gabby Kinney (clone of paternal half-sister); Frederick Hudson II (first cousin once removed); Truett Hudson (second cousin); Victor Hudson (second cousin); James Hudson (second cousin)
Base of Operations: Krakoa Formerly X-Mansion, Hightown, Madripoor; Los Angeles, California, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California; H.A.M.M.E.R. secret base
Past Group Affiliations: formerly Soteira, X-Men (Blue Team), Wolverines, Horsemen of Death, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Dark Avengers and Dark X-Men
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS:
Retractable Bone Claws: Daken possesses three retractable claws housed beneath the skin and muscle of his forearms, two claws which emerge from between the skin of his first and third knuckles and one from his inner wrist. These claws are of Incredible (40) material strength able to penetrate up to Incredible (40) materials, and cause Remarkable (30) edged damage.
Healing Factor: Daken has an accelerated healing factor that allows him to rapidly regenerate any damaged, missing or destroyed bodily tissues, cells, limbs and organs.
- Recovery: He regains one lost Endurance rank per day.
- Regeneration: At Monstrous (75) rank, Daken can recover 8 points of Health each turn. This power seems to function even when his Health is reduced to 0.
- Resistances: Daken has Unearthly (100) resistance to aging, toxins and disease.
- Resistance – cold: Typical (6) resistance to environmental cold.
- Self-Revival: Remarkable (30), Daken’s healing factor will even bring him back from the dead, as long as his cells are still alive.
Animal Senses: Daken possesses superhumanly acute senses that are comparable or superior to those of many animals. His hearing and olfactory are at Monstrous (75) strength. He has developed his tracking to Monstrous (75) ability.
Psi-screen: Daken has demonstrated resistance to telepathy at Remarkable(30) ability.
Pheromone Control: Daken also possesses empathic pherokinetic abilities. He can use his pheromones to manipulate the emotional state and sensory perceptions of other beings.
- Conceal his own scent with In/40 ability.
- Make others feel emotions at In/40 ability
TALENTS: Acrobatics; Linguistics: English, Japanese, Greek, Italian, and German; Martial Arts: A,B,C,D,E; Persuasion; Tracking
CONTACTS: Romulus, The Brotherhood, criminal.
HISTORY
Akihiro was the son of Wolverine and his Japanese wife, Itsu. In 1946, Itsu, while in the last stages of her pregnancy, was murdered by the Winter Soldier in an attempt to draw Wolverine out and return him to the custody of Madripoor. After Itsu's death, Romulus took the baby, cutting him from his mother's womb and leaving her body be-hind. The baby survived the inci-dent, possibly due to his mutant healing factor, which he inherited from his father.
Romulus left the baby on the door-step of Akihira and Natsumi, a wealthy, young and traditional Japanese couple. They took the child's arrival as an answer to their prayers and raised him as their own. Though he was named Akihi-ro by his father, the servants and other families of his town secretly referred to the boy as Daken (駄犬, "mongrel"), a slur on his obvious mixed heritage. As Akihiro grew up, he was often teased by the other children of the town. This harsh treatment and his adoptive mother's indifference toward him caused Akihiro to develop a very cold persona to all except his adoptive father.
One night, Natsumi confessed to Akihira that she didn't love their adopted son and that, after years of trying to conceive, she was pregnant. Akihiro overheard this and felt his position in the house-hold to be threatened. In 1955, after the birth of the baby, Junichi-ro, Akihiro confronted his mother, telling her that he had killed her son. When Akihira found out he disowned Akihiro, taking him into the forest behind their home and telling him to leave and never re-turn. Daken furiously responded that "Akihiro" was not his true name. Natsumi then appeared, running at Daken and trying to kill him with a rifle's bayonet. The at-tack caused Daken's claws to ex-tend reflexively, and with a flail of his arm, he accidentally slashed Natsumi through the chest, killing her. Unable to force himself to harm his son, Akihira instead committed suicide with the dis-carded rifle. Romulus then ap-peared to the boy for the first time since infancy, saying that he was what Daken would someday be-come.
In 1959, Romulus sent Daken to a boot camp in Canada ruled by Frederick Hudson, the same camp where Wolverine had first trained more than forty years earlier. Daken was also trained by the same man as his father, Silas Burr. Burr trained Daken for nine months before Daken disappeared one night. While two search parties were sent out to find him, Daken, at the behest of Romulus, reap-peared in the camp and killed eve-ry man there before confronting Frederick Hudson and Silas Burr.
Daken killed Frederick Hudson with his claws and then confronted Burr, during their fight, Daken at-tacked with not only his claws but also his power to ramp up and manipulate his own pheromones, using the ability to make Burr so giddy that he started laughing, con-fusing him and allowing Daken to draw first blood. Burr, however, quickly recovered, punching Daken across the room with so much force that he believed for a mo-ment to have killed him. Daken got back to his feet after Burr turned away, holding a revolver which had been dropped by the last man he'd killed. Daken fired three shots into Burr's back and then prepared to fire one into his head, but Romulus appeared and stopped him, telling Daken that he had plans for Burr. Romulus then decided to bond the indestructible metal called Ada-mantium to Burr's skin, Burr sur-vived the surgery and became known as Cyber years later.
In 1977, Romulus revealed to Daken that his father was still alive, but lied at the same time, telling Daken that it was Wolverine who had killed Itsu in an attempt to pre-vent Daken from being born, be-cause he feared what Daken would become. This lie sowed a seed of vengeance in Daken that Romulus continued to feed in the following decades.
After this revelation, Daken discov-ered that a strange man wanted to have his revenge on Wolverine, after being wronged by him in the past. Daken decided to help this man and joined his criminal organ-ization: The Red Right Hand. It was also on this day that Daken saw his father possibly for the first time. Daken then tracked his father’s children all around the world for years, he then gave them to the Red Right Hand and on his advice, the criminal organization trained them in order to use them as weapons against Wolverine. Daken knew that they wouldn't stand a chance against Wolverine but having his father killing them would hurt him in the worst way possible. Those children would later be known as the Mongrels.
In modern times, Daken finally met Wolverine face to face for the first time, after Wolverine was captured by the S.H.I.E.L.D., Daken dis-guised himself as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, he then stabbed a Dum Dum Dugan LMD before confront-ing his incarcerated father. He deemed him weak, he then slashed him across the stomach, killing him temporarly and leaving him to bleed on the floor, as his mother had been left many years before. Daken's action also "aided" his father in escaping from S.H.I.E.L.D., but not for benevolent reasons.
Daken next arrived in Berlin at the home of a woman he had been been playing as a patsy. He led her to believe that he had been cheat-ing on her with a man that he was actually just planning to kill for a passport. Knowing that she would drink an entire bottle of burgundy which they had purchased togeth-er, Daken secretly poisoned it with sleeping pills, making it appear that she had committed suicide as he stated that she was a footprint he was erasing.
While walking through the streets of Potsdam, Germany, Daken was contacted by an anonymous mes-senger who reminded him of his displeased master's "ultimate goal". Daken dispatched the mes-senger in anger that he was being prevented from having the oppor-tunity to confront his father on open ground as his master had prom-ised him. Later he was on a train to Brussels, watching his father in a nearby stolen car. He then re-ceived a phone call from an un-known "friend", who was actually Daken's former combat instructor Cyber. Cyber confirmed his fa-ther's destination. After "helping" him escaped from S.H.I.E.L.D., Daken lured his father into a bank vault in Brussels that contained a Carbonadium synthesizer, Daken engaged Wolverine in battle, with Daken demonstrating great fighting prowess similar to his fa-ther. The fight was interrupted however, by Cyber. He challenged Daken, his finest student, to com-bat in hopes Daken would take him to his supposed "master".
Losing the fight due to Cyber's su-perior strength and being impervi-ous to harm, Daken fled, leaving his father and his former instructor to deal with each other. Later, on a train through Eastern Europe, Daken was tortured by his cousin Victor Hudson through continuous whipping with a gasoline soaked rope, while Wild Child delivered a warning from their master to avoid future confrontations with his fa-ther.
Despite the warning, Daken con-tinued to monitor his father and when Logan secretly took a hit out on himself, Daken became out-raged that somebody else should kill his father before Daken had the chance. Daken was lured into the open when Deadpool attempted to kill his father, just as Logan had planned. Daken was then shot in the back of the head by the Winter Soldier, with bullet made from car-bonadium which dramatically de-creased the speed of an healing factor, incapacitating him. With Daken unconscious, Logan cra-dled his son in his arms and car-ried him out of the warehouse.
Daken regained consciousness after being brought to a cave somewhere in Japan that was filled with the disfigured remnants of men used in various Weapon X experiments. When Daken awoke he apparently panicked and killed most of the men. When Logan ar-rived to find him standing amid the bodies, Daken faltered, attempting to explain that he'd killed the crea-tures because he felt threatened and asking who he was and what had happened, revealing that the head-wound seemed to have caused him to lose most of his memories, much like his father had in the past.
Logan identified himself only as 'a friend', promising to take Daken to someone who could help him. When Logan decided to steal a truck to get them back to San Fran-cisco, Daken helped unbidden, sneaking up on the driver and pull-ing him from the vehicle. Logan initially believed that Daken was going to kill the man, but when told that he didn't have to, Daken simp-ly tossed the man to the ground, and Logan reflected that Daken didn't seem to have an ingrained bloodthirst, and wasn't too far gone like Sabortooth.
While Wolverine was attempting to track down Charles Xavier to aid in Daken's recovery, Daken was cap-tured and recruited by Miss Sinister and her partner Sebastian Shaw who offered to help him regained his memories. After they tricked Xavier into triggering the "psychic trap" implanted in Daken's mind, Miss Sinister attempted to manipu-late Daken by implanting false memories of a shared childhood with her; however, the implanted memories failed to take root, and Daken thanked her for the beauti-ful story and then stabbed her with his claws. As he turned his atten-tions to Xavier, he was stopped by his father, who refused to fight him. Xavier then used Wolverine's memories to show Daken the truth that Romulus was behind Itsu's death and Daken became enraged at having been manipulated. Against Xavier's protests, Logan then decided to take Daken with him to seek out revenge against Romulus.
The duo then planned to find what Cyber knew about Romulus, Logan instructed Daken to 'betray' him to Cyber in order to get close enough to double-cross and captured him, which Daken did before triple-crossing Logan and leaving with Cyber. However, after learning all of the informations Cyber had on Romulus, Daken taunted him until Cyber's deteriorating health caused him to have a heart attack, and then revealed that he had pickpocketed Cyber's heart medi-cation. Daken then taunted Cyber by telling him that the world be-longed to him and he had no inten-tion of sharing with anyone, he was going to work against Romulus on his own in order to usurp his em-pire. Daken then left Cyber to die and disappeared before Logan caught up to them.
Norman Osborn put together a new group of "Avengers", and ap-proached Daken to play the part of "Wolverine", and Daken agreed. Nick Fury then found Logan and told him that he believed Daken was going after the Muramasa Blade that Wolverine had left in Cyclops' care. The sword has vari-ous mystical properties, including the ability to disable superhuman regenerative powers and cut through even adamantium. Fury believed that Daken intended to have the metal bonded to his bone claws by the Tinkerer who had last been spotted in New York City.
Facing the X-Men and recovering the Muramasa Blade
Cyclops, seeing Daken as be a liability, planned to kill him with the Muramasa Blade, because with Daken wearing his father's cos-tume, the public wouldn't be able to differentiate them Cyclops be-lieved that he was attempting to leverage this as a means to dis-credit the X-Men. However, Emma Frost, believing that this would drive a wedge between the two X-Men and seeking to prevent Daken's death, warned both Logan and Norman Osborn before Cy-clops lead a team against Daken. Having had advanced warning, Daken prepared an ambush and managed to fight the team of X-Men to a draw using stealth and cunning. As he was about to kill Cyclops, Logan intervened and fought him but in the end, the Mu-ramasa Blade was shattered, and Daken escaped with a shard of it.
Daken had the Tinkerer coat the inner-wrist claws on each hand with the metal of the Muramasa Blade. Although the blade was really made of a plasmic form dis-guised as metal, it could be treated as such. The Tinkerer had to an-chor Daken’s claws to an adaman-tium sheath and even then they were not very durable since they couldn't be bonded to his skeleton like his father's. Wolverine was able to find him but it was too late, the bonding process was already over. Daken then revealed to his father that he intended to use his new claws to kill Romulus, he then stabbed Wolverine through the chest (but without using his new claws) and escaped.
Daken then rejoined his Dark Avengers team, while he was with his teammates, he demonstrated a tendency to modify his behavior and 'character' depending on whom he was interacting with, dis-playing aggressive behavior and threats toward Sentry, jeering and teasing toward Bullseye, and insti-gating gossip toward Ares. With Moonstone he even preformed an about-face, originally presenting as being shyly smitten with her, but when she began stalking him, he convinced her that he was a partic-ularly dangerous psychopath, scar-ing her off.
When Spider-Man entered Avengers Tower pretending to be Mac Gargan, Daken ambushed him, stating that he knew he was not Mac by his scent. Initially Daken had the upper hand in the fight, as Spider-Man seemed to be especially vulnerable to phero-mones, as he is with chemicals intoxicants, to the point that they entirely disoriented his senses; however, he eventually prevailed and threw Daken into an electric generator.
Daken became a member of Os-born's team of X-Men briefly, be-fore returning to the Dark Avengers following Emma Frost defecting from the Dark X-Men and taking half the team with her.
Following repeated failed attempts to kill the Punisher, Norman Os-born sent Daken and a platoon of H.A.M.M.E.R. troops to complete this mission. After a bloody round of hand-to-hand combat, Daken dismembered and decapitated Castle before kicking his remains from a rooftop. Castle's body parts were collected and spirited away by Moloids seemingly operating under the protection of Man-Thing. Castle's body was put back togeth-er and revived as FrankenCastle.
Dr. Bruce Banner lured his alien son Skaar into a fight between him and Daken. Daken used his pher-omones to calm Skaar down, re-ducing him to his human form. Skaar asked Daken to kill him as he was guilty of the destruction he had caused back home, but Wol-verine and Banner intervened. The two father-son teams battled, but the fight was stopped when Banner said that Skaar had learned his lesson and Daken abruptly left Wolverine behind.
Daken's loyalty to Osborn and true motives remained questionable. This put him at odds with Bullseye, who initially was the only member of the team to recognize that Daken was intelligent and manipu-lative. He secretly assisted the Fan-tastic Four in breaking into Avengers Tower. They planned to steal incriminating evidence against Norman Osborn while try-ing to clear their own name, but they were foiled by Bullseye.
A tape showing Daken brutally disemboweling an armed robber was leaked onto the internet, and Osborn contrived a plan to fix Daken's public image by having him defeat an invented terrorist team. Osborn's plans backfired when Daken got overconfident and was beaten on camera by the "ter-rorists" led by Emmy Doolin. When Daken was sent after the "terror-ists" a second time, Osborn ar-ranged for an explosion to destroy the residential building with both the "terrorists" and Daken inside of it. After the explosion, Daken emerged from the burning building carrying a baby girl whom he'd shielded from the blast with his own body, and then collapsed in front of live news cameras being declared a true hero.
During Osborn's Siege of Asgard, Daken had visions of killing Os-born forced upon him by the Norns who wished to bring about Ragna-rok with Daken as the vessel. As the Dark Avengers were being ar-rested, Daken was the only one who managed to escape by killing and replacing an army soldier.
Daken was then contacted by his father for help in defeating Romu-lus, and Logan detailed a plan for luring him into the open. Before that plan can be enacted, however, Romulus surprised Daken in a ho-tel in Paris. After Romulus briefly gaslit him, Daken related every-thing his father told him about his plan. When Logan later confronted Daken in Ankara, he told Daken that he had counted on Daken re-vealing everything to Romulus and that the plan he'd told Daken was false. He then stabbed Daken through the heart with a replica of the Muramasa Blade, making Romulus believe that Daken had been killed to lure him out of his hiding place.
When Daken recovered from being stabbed, he helped Romulus to escape. However, once they were alone Daken attempted to kill Romulus. He said that he had an epiphany, realizing that Romulus had always been lying about his intention to make Daken his suc-cessor, and that Romulus had al-ways intended it to be Logan in-stead. Out of anger and a need to prove himself better than his fa-ther, he slashed Romulus's chest open before Logan arrived with Cloak to transport Romulus into the Dark Dimension. Daken and his father fought each other until Lo-gan was able to break both of Daken's arms due to the Murama-sa claws not being properly an-chored. He then rendered Daken unconscious by stabbing him through the heart once again, then cut the Muramasa claws out of Daken's wrists and buried them, along with the remaining blade.
Daken stayed in Rome for a time as he suffered an existential crisis following these incidents. He sank into depression and nihilism as he attempted to rationalize Romulus' teachings about power and control against both their defeat at Logan's hands. When a grifter attempted to rob him, he came to the conclusion that those who hurt or attempt to hurt him have done nothing wrong because the world lacks any meaning beyond survival.
Eventually, he left to go to Tokyo, where he was looking for the Mu-ramasa blade. However, when he was there he encountered the new-ly revived Franken-Castle. Castle's new form made him far more dan-gerous than ever before. Wolverine interfered but Daken nearly killed both of them by using the blood-stone to recreate the alien, Exo-Mind before having to abandon the bloodstone and the battle due to a negative interaction between the bloodstone and his healing factor.
He then went to Milan, where he had a fashion designer make him a new costume. When the suit was finished, he killed the designer to preserve his anonymity and moved to San Francisco where he pro-claimed that his time had come, and to "beware the fury of a patient man". In San Francisco he ob-served two opposing groups pro-testing Mutant Rights and conclud-ed it was a waste of time and de-cided he was on his own side.
Soon after, he ended up going to a fortune teller to see his future. The fortune teller revealed three cards to him: The Emperor, The Tower, and Death. Daken began stalking Melita, his father's current love in-terest. He followed her all the way to a bar and touched the back of her neck. She quickly looked be-hind her only to find no one. Logan asked her if something was wrong as she was looking around nerv-ously, and she replied it was just her nerves. Daken thought to him-self how small his father's world was and how it had no vision or scope. Daken wanted something more.
After finding Melita Garner, Daken helped the Red Right Hand in their plan to send Wolverine’s soul to hell, he then decided to tell Mys-tique that both he and the Red Right Hand intended to have Wol-verine kill his own children after he escaped from Hell. Shocked by this revelation, Mystique betrayed the Red Right Hand afterwards.
After sending several of his men after Daken in order to get his at-tention, the leader of the Red Right Hand angry about Daken’s actions asked him why he told Mystique their plan, to which Daken re-sponded: “Because I want it all. And the only way to have it all is to make sure that no one else has anything.” The leader of the Red Right Hand then told Daken to kill Mystique but instead he decided to use her for other purpose and in-vited her to dinner. During their dinner, they were attacked by Hell-verine who burned Daken alive while Mystique was able to escape believing Daken to be dead. But unknown to her it was all of a setup as Hellverine had other plans in mind for Daken and allowed him to live while Daken used this oppor-tunity to disappear making the world believed he was dead while letting the Red Right Hand finished their revenge against his father.
Despite Daken not being present to witness the success of both his revenge and the Red Right Hand's revenge against his father, Wolver-ine had a vision showing him how Daken had been involved in the Red Right Hand's horrific plot.
Now believed to be dead, Daken went to see the Fantastic Four where he obtained a glove from Reed Richards that made energy claws, so that he would be able to conceal his identity and continue to be "dead" to the rest of the world without his claws giving him away. While on a ferry in New York City, Daken learned from a newspaper story that Bucky Barnes, the current Captain America, had been the Winter Soldier.
Daken then traveled to Madripoor where he confronted Tyger Tiger, and he began to undermine and take control of the criminal under-world of Madripoor. When X-23, his father's clone and adopted daugh-ter, arrived hunting a shadow from her past, she found herself facing off against Daken, the new king of Madripoor's criminal underworld. The two battled briefly but neither could gain the upper hand due to their shared healing factor but im-pressed by Laura's skill, Daken offered her a place at his side but she refused.
Unknown to Laura, Daken was also working with Malcolm Colcord and allowed him to run several experiments in Madripoor in order to imbue him with a power beyond Weapon X, but this alliance also resulted in the kidnapping and the deaths of several persons and most notably children. But knowing that Colcord was up to something else, Daken decided to use Laura to know more, and let Colcord cap-tured her and used her as test sub-ject. With Laura now inside Colcord's laboratory, Daken decid-ed to free her and gave her a Weapon X files containing several informations about her past, to-gether they then faced several of Colcord's mutate experiments. The duo then found Colcord and they discovered that he planted a bomb that was about to go off. Daken and Laura then decided to have a discussion about the meaning of the notion of "power" especially the way the two perceived it until the bomb exploded engulfing both of them and Colcord in the blast. The two survived thanks to their healing factor and decided to part ways after this adventure.
Not long after, Daken went to a building somewhere in Madripoor to talk with a disfigured Malcolm Colcord handcuffed to a radiator. Daken knew that Colcord would survive the explosion thanks to an healing factor serum he created. In fact Colcord's whole plan since the start was to experiment on several subjects in order to perfect this healing factor serum for himself. But the serum wasn't perfected and Colcord was now in immense pain and begged Daken to end his suf-fering, but Daken refused saying there was no fun in that before leaving.
When Deadpool decided to kill himself, and sought out Daken's help in finding the serum that could negate his healing factor. He asked that Daken shoot him with it on him once he found it. Daken believed this was too good to be true and turned him down, wishing him luck. Daken later spoke with Tombstone who originally ordered the hit on Deadpool as he tried to find out about the serum which negates mutant powers. Tomb-stone refused to speak about it.
Daken kept consolidating his pow-er in Madripoor by having the heads of the several criminal or-ganizations remaining on the Is-land to reconize him as their lead-er, all agreed except one old man: Tan Kim Seng. After meeting him, Tan Kim Seng told Daken, that all he ever did was destroying, he was incapable of creating anything, he was just copying his father. After killing the old man and becoming the indisputable ruler of Madripoor, Daken was still shocked by the old man's words and decided to prove him wrong. To that end he decided to infiltrate the Avengers tower in order to see his father. Daken then threatened his father with his claws before telling him goodbye as he wasn't going to see him for a while since he wanted to live his own life. Daken then left Madripoor and went to Los Angeles to build a new life for himself.
Daken’s actions in Madripoor made the island fell into chaos and during his rule several criminal activities such as child prostitution, gun running, slavery, drugs ran rampant again on an unbelievable scale which would later force Tyger Tiger to allow ivory trade in order to put an end to those criminal activi-ties.
Now in Los Angeles, Daken tried to take over the city's criminal under-world in the power vacuum left behind by the fall of the Pride be-coming an L.A. Kingpin. While at-tending a party at the home of prominent movie star Marcus Ros-ton, Daken was given a drug called Heat, which he was very surprised to discover had an effect on him because no drug ever had before. He began a relationship with Ros-ton, who turned out to be the dis-tributor of Heat. Soon after, Donna Kiel, an FBI agent who was deter-mined to arrest Daken, attempted to confront him at Roston's home, but Daken evaded her.
Daken became rapidly addicted to the Heat, and during his attempt to become the head of the criminal underworld by pulling off a more audacious than any in L.A.'s histo-ry, he failed due to hallucinations and a failing of his healing factor caused by the drug. While attempt-ing to escape the scene of the botched heist, Daken was caught by Donna. Rather than alerting the other authorities, she began inter-rogating him regarding a string of grizzly homicides, and Daken dis-covered that somebody was delib-erately framing him for a murder spree.
After being convinced that Daken wasn't behind the serial killings, Donna agreed to team up with him to solve them. The 'Claws' serial killer continued to cause carnage in the dark areas of the Hollywood Hills and the Heat's grip on Daken was growing daily, scarring his mind and body. Local superhero Moon Knight came after Daken also initially believing him to be the killer. During their fight, a combina-tion of the effects of the Heat and taunting by Moon Knight caused Daken to become badly triggered believe that he was fighting his father.
The Claws was revealed to be Ros-ton who had created the Heat, which he then force-fed to Donna to put her under his power. At Ros-ton's direction, Donna reported to her superiors that Daken was the Claws Killer and made him the most wanted man in America and put the entire LAPD and the FBI on his trail, even calling in an air-strike on the house where he was living.
While seeking answers for how to defeat Roston, Daken stumbled into the home of the Runaways. Chase Stein (Earth-616) Knew of Roston as a former agent of the Pride, and the Runaways made an alliance with Daken and together they took him down. Donna, who was left an emotional wreck after her experiences with Daken, Ros-ton and the Heat, met Daken at a diner to discuss their future. Donna believed she was in love with him but was convinced he was a mon-ster. Daken suggested she was the same and provided her with an opportunity to kill three men in-volved in human trafficking. She instead turned her gun on Daken who reacted because his healing factor was not working, slicing her hand off, and escaped.
Dying, he returned to New York to "go out with a bang", drugging his father and taking him to watch his "show". He bombed the headquar-ters of the Avengers and the Fan-tastic Four, installed bombs around the city, and drugged and easily subdued Mr. Fantastic. After a long battle with the heroes of the city, and without a healing factor, he started to die. Daken asked for his father, hugged him and asked him to forgive him. Before Logan could say anything, Daken said he was actually sorry for putting a bomb at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning and immolated himself with a bomb, leaving no body to bury. Wolverine rushed to his school to find nothing but a little doll of him, realizing that Daken's plan was just to leave him with nothing.
Daken then somehow returned from the dead and was invited alongside several villains to Madripoor, Lowtown, where Sabre-tooth held a party. But Wolverine heard about it and decided to crash this party, he then defeated Daken and the other villains present be-fore wishing an "Happy Birthday" to Sabretooth as a revenge for what he did to him in the past.
Daken then formed a new Brother-hood of Evil Mutants in secret alongside Sabretooth, Mystique, the Skinless Man, the Blob from the Age of Apocalypse, the Shad-ow King and the Omega Clan. He told X-Force that they planned to reveal its existence to the world and to turn Evan Sabahnur into their own Apocalypse.
The goal of Daken and the Broth-erhood was to torture Evan long enough for him to become the new Apocalypse, then to use the Shad-ow King to mess with his mind in order to force Evan to destroy the Jean Grey School, to kill all the students, to kill all of Logan's friends and then blamed X-Force for everything.
To that end Daken and Sabretooth then decided to take Evan to the farm where he grew up but while Evan jumped out of the car and tried to warn his parents to get out but found them both killed by Sa-bretooth and Daken. Evan attacked them but refrained from killing them, refusing to become like them. They commended him on his control before revealing that they didn't really kill his parents because they never existed in the first place.
Due to the betrayal of Earth-295's Nightcrawler, Wolverine was cap-tured by Daken's new Brotherhood. Daken tied his father up and began taunting Logan with insults and telling a likely apocryphal account of his youth. Logan attempted a dialogue and apologized to his son for failing him, but Daken had no interest in hearing it. Daken then trapped him in a drowning cham-ber, as the only way to kill Wolver-ine is to deprive the brain of oxy-gen. He forced Evan to watch Wol-verine drown at the same time he punched and screamed at Evan, trying to make him get angry.
Finally Evan had put on the Apoca-lypse armor. Wolverine was trapped underwater, forced to watch while drowning. Daken said the Shadow King would take con-trol of Evan and use him to destroy Wolverine's school, his friends, and his world. Then the Brotherhood would spread the word that this was all due to Wolverine's black ops kill-squad, destroying his repu-tation. Daken said that he believed in the end, bad people did bad things simply because they were bad.
Wolverine lost consciousness, but Deadpool found him and resusci-tated him. Wolverine immediately rushed to find Daken, but told Deadpool to find the rest of the team and get them out. He found Daken outside the base and the two men fought to the death. As the fight went on, Wolverine acknowl-edged to himself that he was hold-ing back his animal side, as Daken deserved to be killed by a man in full control of his actions. Mean-while, Daken was considering what he would say to his father, how he would explain that he had years of Romulus' tortures to imagine what his life would be with the love of a father and mother.
Knowing he had no choice after what his older self revealed to him when he was in the future, Wolver-ine managed to get the upper hand by slashing Daken, he then drown him by holding his head down in a puddle a water in order to save the lives of his students. At the end of the fight, as Wolverine knelt over the drowned, beaten corpse of his son, he was approached by Sabre-tooth, who revealed that he had been behind the Brotherhood and staged the confrontation because he wanted to trick Logan into killing his own son, because it was the one wound he'd never heal from. An angry Evan almost killed Sabre-tooth as a result but Logan told him to let him go, revenge would only lead him to a path of destruction just like what happened here.
Daken's body was later taken to Japan by Wolverine and he was buried in the village of Shirakawa-Go.
Daken was later brought back to life by the Apocalypse Twins, using the Life Seed and made a Horse-man of Death with the Death Seed, in order to serve, alongside Ban-shee, Grim Reaper and Sentry.
But the Twins' plan to destroy Earth failed, after the Avengers Unity Division traveled back in time from a divergent universe where their plan would've succeeded. As a result their ark was destroyed by Sunfire, but Daken and the Grim Reaper managed to return to Earth along with the corpses of the Apocalypse Twins, and evaded capture.
After learning of his father's death, Daken went to an auction in Madripoor that was selling the re-mains of his father and was infuri-ated. He killed everybody that were in the auction except Viper, Mys-tique, and Agent Kim. Daken later went to Okinawa with a priest and buried his father's remains there.
Daken was then kidnapped with several other people including Mystique , Sabretooth, X-23, and Lady Deathstrike, and Elixir by Shogun after his father's death.
After successfully finding and kid-napping the “Wolverines”, Shogun threatened them with the hypnotic "control words" (that manipulate, sedate or even kill each of them), in order to force them into helping Shogun and his group of allies find the adamantium-petrified body of Wolverine in the burnt-down Para-dise facility. Before they could leave on this mission however, they were attacked by Siphon, who killed Elixir and drained Daken's healing factor to nonfunctional. They proceeded with the mission, and Daken and X-23 initially kept Daken's inability to heal a secret from their impromptu teammates. They encountered and fought the Wrecking Crew, hired by Mister Sinister, who were also looking for Wolverine's body. When Daken and X-23 found the body, Mister Sinister appeared, took Wolverine's body, and also ripped an eye and arm from Daken, and left bleeding out and not healing.
On the Changeling ship, Sharp used a Regen Serum made by Dr. Cornelius that he found in the wreckage to stabilize and save Daken, against Ogun's wishes. Daken remained infirmed on the ship as the others made plans to continue their mission by stealing Wolverine's body back from Mister Sinister.
But their mission was a failure and Wolverine's body was recovered by the X-Men, later Fang, an Imperial Guard member thought to had been deceased, accused the group of having killed Logan. He then attacked Sabretooth and easily defeated Daken. The team, except for Daken, along with their allies tried to assault Fang, but he re-leased an omnidirectional blast at them. Fang then asked Daken if he was scared, to which Daken re-plied that he was not and stabbed him in the head with his claws. Fang survived the attack and again demanded to know who killed Lo-gan. X-23 says that nobody here killed Logan and stated that every-body wanted to be there when Lo-gan died. Meanwhile, Mystique located Fang's weakness and eve-rybody started attacking him again, while Junk used the Changeling's cannons against Fang, apparently killing him. However, Fang again survived the attack and took Daken to Jotunheim.
In Jotunheim, Fang took Daken to face a Frost Giant, but Daken said that he lost his healing factor. Fang retorted that Logan's loss of his healing factor didn't seem to stop him and revealed that he had been seeing Logan every year. Daken then reminded him that he both had arms, while he didn't and again says that he didn't want to face the Frost Giant, but Fang didn't listen and issued a challenge against him. Fang then went over to the Frost Giant and told him that Daken was his father, which en-raged it and as result it started at-tacking him. Later on, Daken was trapped within a cave and threat-ened to kill Fang. He then asked Fang why was he doing this if he knew that he didn't kill Logan, to which Fang replied that he already knew and told Daken to get himself out of the situation just like what Logan would've done. Daken then engaged the Frost Giant in combat and gained the upper hand against it and almost killed it, until Fang interfered and saved its life.
Fang then asked Daken why he wanted to kill the Frost Giant, to which Daken angrily replied that he was not his father. Fang handed him a beer and used his energy powers to temporarly restored Daken's lost arm and eye. But after talking with him, Fang decided once again to remove Daken's arm and eye as he didn't believe in Daken's redemption and intended to make Daken and the rest of the Wolverines' lives (except Laura) a living hell for what they did to Lo-gan in the past, he then sent Daken back to the Changeling.
Afterwards the team was able to finally defeat Fang but he man-aged to escape, Daken was then manipulated by Mystique into go-ing after Siphon as revenge for what it did to him, Laura decided to follow him for his safety. Along the way, the duo encountered Blade who was fighting against Siphon and several vampires. After help-ing him and learning the truth about Siphon's powers, Daken decided to fight Siphon to the death. Siphon overpowered Daken and was about to kill him until Laura intervened and saved him.
Daken and Blade then worked to-gether to defeat Siphon, but Laura convinced them not to kill him, since she knew Siphon was just a victim, who only wanted to find a way to get control of its body again. Siphon captured, Daken and Laura then regrouped with the rest of the team.
But not long after the team was betrayed by Endo, Neuro, and Skel and had to face against Sinister and his army. In the midst of the battle, Junk was killed by a feral Sabretooth and Mystique manipu-lated Daken into turning Siphon loose. Siphon then drained Mister Sinister's healing factor before being shot by Mystique. Mystique then sent Siphon, Shogun and the rest of the team though a Portal to somewhere in Florida.
The team was betrayed again by Mystique who, thanks to Siphon, drained Sabretooth, X-23 and Lady Deathstrike's healing factors. Mys-tique was the only one left with an healing factor, so the team used Siphon to track her in order to get their revenge. After finding her, Lady Deathstrike killed Siphon and the team confronted Mystique, but she proved to be too powerful for them and she single handely de-feated all of them.
Daken resurfaced later on during the outbreak of the Laura Kinney Virus on Roosevelt Island, and was one of the three people teleported in by Doctor Strange to help Wol-verine quell the crisis. He revealed that his healing factor recovered at some point following the conclu-sion of his adventures with the Wolverines, allowing him to regrow his eye and arm. With their healing factors being the key to curing the victims of the alien plague, he agreed to join Laura, Gabby, Old Man Logan, and Deadpool in their efforts to help as many of the stricken population as possible. However Daken confessed that he didn't care for the island, and was only there for Laura. His healing abilities had yet to recover to their full strength, and he was eventually forced to stand down before the disease could overwhelm him. The crisis was averted but Laura fell in a coma during two weeks.
Shortly after, Daken and others people whose powers were similar to Wolverine such as Laura, Old Man Logan, Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike came under threat of the clandestine organization called The Orphans of X. After Laura awaken from her coman and went to space, the Orphans of X decided to track Daken. Eventually Daken got into a conflict with their contin-gent at the The Defiant Platypus Bar in before it was destroyed by a stinger missile resulting in his cap-ture. He later escaped and met up with Laura and Gabby in order to find Muramasa because the Or-phans of X had recovered the Mu-ramasa Blade and created bullets from it with which could kill them. After meeting Muramasa, all three donated a part of their spirit toward the creation of a mystical suit of armor capable of withstanding the Muramasa bullets.
When the Orphans of X caught up with them at Muramasa's com-pound, Daken threw himself into the fray to hold them off while his sisters escaped, but not before concealing a mobile phone inside of his abdomen so that they could use it as a tracking device to find him again. After rescuing Daken, the siblings discover the reasons behind the Orphans of X's hatred of them and Laura managed to reason with them and reach an armistice.
No long after the newly emerged mutant Zach ran away the Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach, Daken took him under his wing, dazzling him with dis-plays of wealth and a laissez faire attitude that fascinated the teenag-er and helping him control his powers, when Iceman caught word that his student had run away via video post, he set out to find him at Greenwich Mean Time in Upper Eastside New York.
Upon learning that Daken was the one who Zach had fallen in with, Bobby attacked him, freezing Daken's flesh and leaving him immobilized while going to search the building for Zach. Daken's healing factor helped him to re-cover quickly from the attack and he caught up as Zach was arguing with Bobby, adamant about not going back to the Xavier Institute. Daken, furious at having been blindsided by Bobby's first strike attacked, only to be easily over-powered by the omega-level mu-tant and pinned against a wall by a snowflake-shaped blade through the abdomen, which left him im-mobilized and bleeding heavily. Upset, Zach used his powers to dampen Iceman's long enough for making a getaway in a helicopter.
Daken put Zach through extreme combat and survival training, in-cluding periods of outdoor living and picking fights with random toughs around Madripoor. Zach would initially raise complaints about exercises seeming pointless but later be impressed by Daken's manipulation when the 'real' mean-ings behind lessons were subse-quently revealed to him. Although the training he received under Daken's tutelage was intensive, Zach's fascination with Daken only seemed to grow.
Once Daken deemed Zach's pro-gress to be sufficient, the two re-turned to the X-Mansion. Daken set up a distraction using fake Purifiers to attack the school, drawing away the rest of the X-Men leaving Ice-man alone with his boyfriend Ju-dah, while Zach led the students into the Danger room and tam-pered with the control settings us-ing his powers. When the five of them were alone, Daken reveals that the reason he took an interest in Bobby on their first meeting was because of his previous contact with a death seed some years pri-or. Daken stabs Judah, badly injur-ing but not killing him, and then Zach uses his energy channeling abilities to control and differentiate the energies of the Death Seed inside Daken.
With the Death Seed energy cours-ing through him, Daken easily dominated the fight with Bobby while Idie helps get Judah to safe-ty. Eventually Iceman overcame Daken after Michaela had disabled Zach, causing Daken to lose con-trol of the death seed and himself. Bobby attempted to freeze the death seed into dormancy within Daken, who then escaped before the rest of the X-Men returned.
When the group of young time-displaced X-Men that Magneto was mentoring went missing on a mis-sion in space, he sent his ally Briar Raleigh to meet up with Daken in Barcelona with the proposition to become allies. As a gesture of good will, she gifted him on Mag-neto's behalf a set of adamantium daishō swords. In order to assist Magneto's efforts to counter the global release of the power-bestowing and mind-controlling virus Mothervine by a cabal led by Havok, his allies temporarily band-ed together into a makeshift team of X-Men.
The crisis averted, Daken was then tasked by Magneto to murder Jimmy Hudson who was now pos-sesed by the Poison, Daken con-fronted Jimmy and tried to kill him. But their fight was stopped by the time-displaced X-Men who just came back from space, and after helping Jimmy escaped Jean Grey demanded answers from Daken. Daken explained that after they disappeared during the Mothervine and Poisons incident, Magneto lost his patience and was done playing, he wanted to take care of Jimmy himself but he had bigger targets to eliminate and one of those tar-gets was none other than Emma Frost.
Daken then somehow escaped from the X-Men and heard the news of the disappearance of Wol-verine's body from Lady Death-strike and Sabretooth. The duo asked him to help them investigat-ed Logan's possible return and in case he was alive to kill him once again, Daken agreed and joined them. Using data from military sat-ellites, the team tracked down an adamantium signature similar to Logan's in Maybelle, Arizona. They found the town overrun by zombies and their healing factors deactivat-ed within the town's perimeter. Daken was captured by a kill team sent by the organization responsi-ble for the town's state, Soteira.
He then managed to escape and met up with Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike. When the trio tried to head back to the power station where Daken had been held pris-oner to deactivate the mysterious glowing green orb that created the zombies and switched off their healing factor, all three were taken down by Soteira's soldiers. In the midst of the battle Daken was fatal-ly injured and died. His body was left behind by Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike when they escaped after destroying the mysterious glowing gree orb, and it was later retrieved by Soteira.
Persephone, the mysterious leader of Soteira, then resurrected Daken as one of her undead killers. With Daken's reanimated corpse under her control she used it as one of her enforcers. While traveling on a boat with other Soteira soldiers, Daken's reanimated corpse and Omega Red's reanimated corpse were made to attack his recently resurrected father and former So-teira employee Ana (who was in reality already dead and merely used as a vessel by Persephone) who were chasing them to get back Ana's son Perren. While Omega Red's reanimated corpse was tak-en out by Ana using a harpoon gun, Wolverine sprayed Daken's reanimated corpse with fuel from his boat's engine and set it on fire with his heated claws before toss-ing it into the water.
Daken was later resurrected by unknown means, or possibly just self-resurrected as his father did, he was eventually welcomed to the new mutant island of Krakoa, cre-ated by Xavier, Magneto, and Moi-ra X. He entered through the tele-portation gateway alongside other villainous and fractious mutants, who had been invited to join the nation in order to heal mutantdom and start over as a whole species together.