Gatecrasher (Marvel Comics)

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Gatecrasher
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance (U.K.): Captain Britain Vol. 2 #3 (Mar 1985)
(U.S.): Excalibur Special Edition #1 (1987)
Created by Jamie Delano and Alan Davis
In-story information
Team affiliations Technet

Gatecrasher is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Publication history

Gatecrasher was created by Jamie Delano and Alan Davis, and first appeared in the UK comic Captain Britain Vol. 2 #3 (Mar 1985). The character made her U.S. debut in Excalibur Special Edition #1 (1987).

Jamie Delano writer

Jamie Delano is a British comics writer. He was part of the first post-Alan Moore "British Invasion" of writers which started to feature in American comics in the 1980s. Best known as the first writer of the comic book series Hellblazer, featuring John Constantine.

Alan Davis writer

Alan Davis is an English writer and artist of comic books, known for his work on titles such as Captain Britain, The Uncanny X-Men, ClanDestine, Excalibur, JLA: The Nail and JLA: Another Nail.

Captain Britain comic book character

Captain Britain is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Captain Britain Weekly #1, the beginning of a serial best-remembered for runs by writer Chris Claremont, artist Alan Davis, and writer Alan Moore.

Fictional character biography

Gatecrasher is a bounty hunter, and the leader of the Technet. She is a tall, massive blue-skinned female.

Technet (comics)

The Technet are a fictional group of interdimensional travelling bounty hunters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters appeared mostly in the pages of Captain Britain and Excalibur.

Gatecrasher was hired with the Technet by Opul Lyn Sat-Yr-Nin to capture the extra-dimensional fascist Kaptain Briton. Gatecrasher and the Technet mistakenly captured Earth-616's Captain Britain instead, but then helped him escape. [1] Gatecrasher was later sent to 14th century Earth, and tricked by an enemy into ingesting lethal parasites. She was saved from death by Captain Britain and Meggan. [2]

Opul Lun Sat-Yr-9 is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

In the fictional Marvel Comics multiverse, Earth-616 is the primary continuity in which most Marvel Comics titles take place.

Meggan mutant

Meggan Puceanu is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually as a supporting character in stories featuring Captain Britain, and the X-Men. A mutant empath and shapeshifting elemental, she was created by writer Alan Moore and artist Alan Davis, and first appeared in Mighty World of Marvel #7, which was published in the United Kingdom by Marvel's British publication arm, Marvel UK. Her first appearance in an American Marvel publication was in New Mutants Annual #2 (1986). She eventually chose the codename Gloriana, a name of victory coined by the demons of Hell.

Later, Gatecrasher and her Technet were sent by Saturnyne to capture Rachel Summers, the Phoenix. The mercenaries encountered the group of heroes who would become known as Excalibur after their confrontation with the Technet. [3] Gatecrasher then established a new base in Brighton, England for the Technet. She was hired by Nigel Frobisher, acting on behalf of a woman appearing to be Courtney Ross, to rescue Jamie Braddock from the African despot Doctor Crocodile. [4]

Opal Luna Saturnyne is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Dave Thorpe and Alan Davis for their Captain Britain stories. She is the Omniversal Majestrix of Otherworld, and a servant of Roma, charged with the safety of the Omniverse.

Rachel Summers character from Marvel Comics

Rachel Anne Summers is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Rachel was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne.

Excalibur (comics) Marvel Comics superhero group

Excalibur is a fictional superhero group appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are depicted as an offshoot of the X-Men, usually based in the United Kingdom. Conceived by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer Alan Davis, they first appeared in Excalibur Special Edition (1987), also known as Excalibur: The Sword is Drawn.

She is one of the many attendees of Captain Britain's marriage to the super-hero Meggan. [5]

Powers and abilities

Gatecrasher is an alien that is endowed with superhuman strength, stamina, and durability due to her size and build. She has the ability of telepathy, the limits of which have not been established. Gatecrasher has also demonstrated skills in biogenic nucleotronic splicing.

Gatecrasher usually wears wrist-blasters that fire an unknown form of energy. Her main mode of transportation is teleportation.

In other media

Gatecrasher appears briefly in a cameo in the X-Men animated series of the 1990s. She appears in episode #49 "Proteus: Part 1", as a background character along with the rest of the Technet, in a bar in Scotland, visited by Moira McTaggert's son, Kevin.

Notes

  1. ↑ Captain Britain Vol. 2 #3; reprinted in the U.S. in Captain Britain Trade Paperback
  2. ↑ Captain Britain Vol. 2 #12; reprinted in the U.S. in Captain Britain Trade Paperback
  3. ↑ Excalibur Special Edition #1
  4. ↑ Excalibur #12-13, 15
  5. ↑ Excalibur #125 (October 1988)

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