Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (comics)
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Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is a six-issue comic book
limited series
published by Marvel Comics
. The series was written by Greg Pak
and drawn by Renato Arlem. It was a tie-in
and prequel
to the Electronic Arts
video game Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
.
performs a bizarre scientific experiment aboard a space ship. He injects a green serum into an animal test subject and watches it transform into a larger, stronger creature.
A second ship docks with the science vessel. One of the crew members alerts Doctor Roekel that an aggressive alien species has infiltrated the ship. Roekel injects one of his own men with his experimental serum, and sends the transformed individual after the alien. Roekel seals the two creatures off and continues with his research. He finds a suitable planet to carry out the next stage of his experiment – Earth.
Two thousand years later, The Thing
is walking through New York City when he finds a group of children making fun of him. He goes over to them and gives them a heart-to-heart conversation concerning the finer points of being a celebrity superhero. Following the conversation, he is abducted by an unknown craft.
Twelve blocks away Wolverine
and Elektra
are abducted in a similar manner.
Later, The Thing wakes up to the sound of Spider-Man
's voice. He discovers that Elektra and Wolverine have also been captured. Wolverine warns them of an unknown drug that they have been injected with that is attempting to corrupt them.
, in conjunction with Marvel Comics, in their first attempt to bring Marvel heroes to a video game platform, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects.
Maria Petrova grew up in modern day Moscow
and from a young age, demonstrating a natural gift for dancing. She became the youngest prodigy at the Imperial Russian Ballet where her skill, sensitivity, and discipline were far beyond that of most professionals. As a teenager she starred in several productions and became a renowned icon of dance.
At the age of 15, on the opening night of her lead role in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
, Maria was in a terrible car accident. An earthquake struck an elevated highway that collapsed instantly, killing her parents and leaving her paralyzed. Retreating into seclusion, she grew angry at the loss of her family and her stolen dreams. To her, life was a cruel joke. She hated the world.
Niles Van Roekel
offered to return Maria's ability to walk. He promised to replace her atrophied muscles and damaged nerves with cybernetics. At the same time Roekel attached his seismic weapon through her nervous system and taught her how to control its power. She enjoyed possessing a fantastic destructive power, finding it was a way she could get back at the world.
During the invasion of the Imperfects on New York
, Fault Zone was successful in defeating The Thing
but was later stopped by Storm on the Brooklyn Bridge.
, in conjunction with Marvel Comics
, in their first attempt to bring Marvel heroes to a video game platform, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
. Hazmat, along with a line of EA created villains known as the "Imperfects", can be fought against, and is also an unlockable character.
Before the events of Marvel Nemesis, Doctor Keith Kilham was a scientist working for The Pentagon
to find a cure for the worlds deadliest diseases
. Kilham's lab was compromised by a terrorist attack during a tricky biological test. Safety containment procedures were rendered useless. Kilham then injected himself with all of the synthetic antigens
that he had created. His body started to deteriorate. Soon, Niles Van Roekel
kidnapped Kilham because he was interested in his condition. Using nanites, Roekel's scientists created a microbondic shell for Kilham's extremities and they salvaged what they could from his organs. And thus, the terrifying Hazmat was born. Hazmat is driven by the desire to find a cure as he believes it is his curse to be alive.
During the Imperfect invasion, Hazmat defeated Venom
and would go on to attempt and take back Paragon to Niles Van Roekel. However, he failed at this after being defeated by Magneto
. During the course of the game, Spider-Man
defeats him as well.
.
In the middle of a ruthless gang war which had kept him underground and away from his wife for a year, the infamous Yakuza leader Kazuya Morimoto discovered that his wife had given birth to a daughter named Reiko. Morimoto, insane with rage because his daughter was born in another man's house, poured gasoline in every room and burned his house, and family, to the ground.
By the time the maid returned in the morning the house has been reduced to smoldering embers. She found Reiko in middle of the burnt structure completely unharmed and sent her to Cambridge.
She learned about physics from her adopted father and became highly sought after for her research on cold combustion fuels. Unfortunately there was an accident during one of her lectures and everyone else died.
Niles Van Roekel identified Reiko and considered her a prime candidate for his experiments. She was the daughter of a warrior and had a mythical resistance to fire. Without a second thought, Reiko agreed to join his top secret project. Roekel 'seduced her with science and lined her insides with alien crystals and turned her into a human kiln, allowing her body to store high concentrations of energy and release towards at targets.
During the Imperfect invasion of New York, Solara encountered and fought against Venom
. She was beaten but would later defeat Daredevil.
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
limited series
Limited series
A limited series is a comic book series with a set number of installments. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is determined before production and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues....
published by Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
. The series was written by Greg Pak
Greg Pak
Greg Pak is an American New York-based film director/comic book writer, known for his work on such books featuring the Hulk.-Early life:Pak is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of the Purple Crayon improv group, and studied history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and film at...
and drawn by Renato Arlem. It was a tie-in
Tie-in
A tie-in is an authorized product based on a media property a company is releasing, such as a movie or video/DVD, computer game, video game, television program/television series, board game, web site, role-playing game or literary property...
and prequel
Prequel
A prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.The widely recognized term was a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre- and sequel...
to the Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...
video game Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is a fighting game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, DS, and PSP, which ties into the "Marvel Nemesis" comic book series.-Gameplay:...
.
Synopsis
An alien scientist named Doctor Niles Van RoekelNiles Van Roekel
Niles Van Roekel is a Marvel Comics villain. Created by Marvel Comics and Electronic Arts, he first appeared in Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects #1 . In the video game, he was voiced by Michael Dobson.-Before Marvel Nemesis:...
performs a bizarre scientific experiment aboard a space ship. He injects a green serum into an animal test subject and watches it transform into a larger, stronger creature.
A second ship docks with the science vessel. One of the crew members alerts Doctor Roekel that an aggressive alien species has infiltrated the ship. Roekel injects one of his own men with his experimental serum, and sends the transformed individual after the alien. Roekel seals the two creatures off and continues with his research. He finds a suitable planet to carry out the next stage of his experiment – Earth.
Two thousand years later, The Thing
Thing (comics)
The Thing is a fictional character, a founding member of the superhero team known as the Fantastic Four in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee in The Fantastic Four #1...
is walking through New York City when he finds a group of children making fun of him. He goes over to them and gives them a heart-to-heart conversation concerning the finer points of being a celebrity superhero. Following the conversation, he is abducted by an unknown craft.
Twelve blocks away Wolverine
Wolverine (comics)
Wolverine is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Born as James Howlett and commonly known as Logan, Wolverine is a mutant, possessing animal-keen senses, enhanced physical capabilities, three retracting bone claws on each hand and a healing...
and Elektra
Elektra (comics)
Elektra Natchios, usually referred to only by her first name Elektra, is a fictional character in publications from Marvel Comics.Elektra is a kunoichi – female ninja assassin – of Greek descent. She wields a pair of bladed sai as her trademark weapon. She is a love interest of the superhero...
are abducted in a similar manner.
Later, The Thing wakes up to the sound of Spider-Man
Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
's voice. He discovers that Elektra and Wolverine have also been captured. Wolverine warns them of an unknown drug that they have been injected with that is attempting to corrupt them.
Fault Zone
Fault Zone is a fictional supervillainess created by Electronic ArtsElectronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...
, in conjunction with Marvel Comics, in their first attempt to bring Marvel heroes to a video game platform, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects.
Maria Petrova grew up in modern day Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
and from a young age, demonstrating a natural gift for dancing. She became the youngest prodigy at the Imperial Russian Ballet where her skill, sensitivity, and discipline were far beyond that of most professionals. As a teenager she starred in several productions and became a renowned icon of dance.
At the age of 15, on the opening night of her lead role in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
Swan Lake
Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
, Maria was in a terrible car accident. An earthquake struck an elevated highway that collapsed instantly, killing her parents and leaving her paralyzed. Retreating into seclusion, she grew angry at the loss of her family and her stolen dreams. To her, life was a cruel joke. She hated the world.
Niles Van Roekel
Niles Van Roekel
Niles Van Roekel is a Marvel Comics villain. Created by Marvel Comics and Electronic Arts, he first appeared in Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects #1 . In the video game, he was voiced by Michael Dobson.-Before Marvel Nemesis:...
offered to return Maria's ability to walk. He promised to replace her atrophied muscles and damaged nerves with cybernetics. At the same time Roekel attached his seismic weapon through her nervous system and taught her how to control its power. She enjoyed possessing a fantastic destructive power, finding it was a way she could get back at the world.
During the invasion of the Imperfects on New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Fault Zone was successful in defeating The Thing
Thing (comics)
The Thing is a fictional character, a founding member of the superhero team known as the Fantastic Four in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee in The Fantastic Four #1...
but was later stopped by Storm on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Hazmat
Hazmat (Keith Kilham) is a fictional character created by Electronic ArtsElectronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...
, in conjunction with Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
, in their first attempt to bring Marvel heroes to a video game platform, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is a fighting game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, DS, and PSP, which ties into the "Marvel Nemesis" comic book series.-Gameplay:...
. Hazmat, along with a line of EA created villains known as the "Imperfects", can be fought against, and is also an unlockable character.
Before the events of Marvel Nemesis, Doctor Keith Kilham was a scientist working for The Pentagon
The Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself.Designed by the American architect...
to find a cure for the worlds deadliest diseases
Disease
A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. It is often construed to be a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by external factors, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune...
. Kilham's lab was compromised by a terrorist attack during a tricky biological test. Safety containment procedures were rendered useless. Kilham then injected himself with all of the synthetic antigens
that he had created. His body started to deteriorate. Soon, Niles Van Roekel
Niles Van Roekel
Niles Van Roekel is a Marvel Comics villain. Created by Marvel Comics and Electronic Arts, he first appeared in Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects #1 . In the video game, he was voiced by Michael Dobson.-Before Marvel Nemesis:...
kidnapped Kilham because he was interested in his condition. Using nanites, Roekel's scientists created a microbondic shell for Kilham's extremities and they salvaged what they could from his organs. And thus, the terrifying Hazmat was born. Hazmat is driven by the desire to find a cure as he believes it is his curse to be alive.
During the Imperfect invasion, Hazmat defeated Venom
Venom (comics)
Eddie Brock is a fictional character created by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane. A comic book supervillain, Brock's earliest appearance is a cameo in Web of Spider-Man #18 before making his first full appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #299 as Venom...
and would go on to attempt and take back Paragon to Niles Van Roekel. However, he failed at this after being defeated by Magneto
Magneto (comics)
Magneto is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the central villain of the X-Men comic, as well as the TV show and the films. The character first appears in X-Men #1 , and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby...
. During the course of the game, Spider-Man
Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
defeats him as well.
Solara
Solara is a fictional character created by Electronic Arts, in conjunction with Marvel Comics, in their first attempt to bring Marvel heroes to a video game platform, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects. Her powers are similar to those of the Human TorchHuman Torch
The Human Torch is a fictional character and superhero appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, he is a member of the superhero team the Fantastic Four, debuting in The Fantastic Four #1...
.
In the middle of a ruthless gang war which had kept him underground and away from his wife for a year, the infamous Yakuza leader Kazuya Morimoto discovered that his wife had given birth to a daughter named Reiko. Morimoto, insane with rage because his daughter was born in another man's house, poured gasoline in every room and burned his house, and family, to the ground.
By the time the maid returned in the morning the house has been reduced to smoldering embers. She found Reiko in middle of the burnt structure completely unharmed and sent her to Cambridge.
She learned about physics from her adopted father and became highly sought after for her research on cold combustion fuels. Unfortunately there was an accident during one of her lectures and everyone else died.
Niles Van Roekel identified Reiko and considered her a prime candidate for his experiments. She was the daughter of a warrior and had a mythical resistance to fire. Without a second thought, Reiko agreed to join his top secret project. Roekel 'seduced her with science and lined her insides with alien crystals and turned her into a human kiln, allowing her body to store high concentrations of energy and release towards at targets.
During the Imperfect invasion of New York, Solara encountered and fought against Venom
Venom (comics)
Eddie Brock is a fictional character created by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane. A comic book supervillain, Brock's earliest appearance is a cameo in Web of Spider-Man #18 before making his first full appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #299 as Venom...
. She was beaten but would later defeat Daredevil.