LADYTRON
Real Name: Maxine Manchester
Class: Human cyborg
Occupation: Superhero, formerly supervillain
Group Affiliation: WildC.A.T.s
Known Relatives: Stanley (husband, deceased) unnamed father
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: NYC, NY, Earth-50
First Appearance: WildC.A.T.s I (Wildstorm) #21 (July, 1995)
Powers: Ladytron's cybernetic enhancements gave her superhuman strength and durability. Her machinery housed several firearms, a sonic cannon was located in her throat, and her back held a rocketpack.
History: Maxine was a psychopathic criminal gunned down by the FBI during a robbery. She was given to the scientist Dr. Khaz, who took her shattered body and transformed it into a cyborg. He had her locate his first creation, Stanley, and they fell in love. Her violent madness resurfaced, and she went on to kill both Stanley and Khaz. T.A.O. used a virtual reality simulation to reform her, and she joined the WildC.A.T.s.
(Mr. Majestic #3) - Mr. Majestic and Ladytron decided to catch up, meeting at the Mars Bar, which catered to superhumans. Ladytron complained about the direction of the new WildC.A.T.S., calling them posers and said she was enjoying her life with the Church of Gort. She said she’d developed a respect for life, which made Majestic happy to hear until she clarified that she meant only artificial life and not human life. The church taught that the corpus mechanica and the binary evolution was the great leap forward in the history of life. She took Majestic to an all-night theatre showing old action movies, determined to make him lighten up. Majestic asked when technology became artificial intelligence, and she replied that the subject was still subject to intense debate. She almost got into a fight with a man who threw his cell phone, calling him a chip abuser. Majestic was happy Ladytron now saw more to life than maiming and killing, but during admission he admitted he didn’t like mindlessly violent movies, saying they were bad for children. Ladytron said she grew up with violent movies, but she was pretty sure she was screwed-up because of her father’s abuse and neglect. Ladtron talked up the art of violent cinema and said there had to be a violent finale in the third act to keep the audience interested. Majestic considered that trite, but their conversation was interrupted by B.O.B., a radical offshoot of the Church of Gort that wanted Ladytron dead because they considered her an abomination since she was still part human. The fight turned against B.O.B. so they grabbed a movie-goer as hostage, demanding Ladytron surrender herself to them. She refused and put a gun up to the movie projector, threatening to shoot it. B.O.B. backed off, released their hostage and retreated, but assured Ladytron they’d meet again. Mr. Majestic agreed with Ladytron that their night out was eventful, but he didn’t seem eager to do it again.
(The Authority I #13, 21) - The Authority became worldwide celebrities, and Ladytron was invited to one of their after-hours parties aboard the Carrier.
Comments: Created by Alan Moore & Travis Charest.
Ladytron was originally published by Wildstorm Comics, which DC acquired the rights to in January, 1999.
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