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Scorpio
Cover to the "Nick Fury: Scorpio" TPB reprinting the first appearance of Scorpio. Art by Jim Steranko
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearance(as as Jake Fury): Strange Tales #159 (Aug 1967)
(as Scorpio): Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 (Jun 1968) (as Jacques LaPoint): Avengers #120 (Feb. 1974) (Android): West Coast Avengers Aunnual #1 (Oct. 1986) (As Mikel) :Marvel Graphic Novel #50 (August 1989)
Created by(Jake): Jim Steranko, (LaPoint): Steve Englehart, Don Heck, (Android): Steve Englehart, (Mikel): Archie Goodwin, Howard Chaykin
In-story information
Alter egoJacob "Jake" Fury
Team affiliationsZodiac
Great Wheel
Notable aliasesFlip Mason, Jacques LaPoint, Count Julio Scarlotti, Nick Fury

Scorpio is the name of several fictional characters in Marvel Comics. Most of the men to use the Scorpio identity have been supervillains who have been affiliated with the Zodiac criminal cartel, and in this context were enemies of the Avengers and other superheroes.

Publication history

Jake Fury first appeared in Strange Tales #159 (August, 1967), and was created by Jim Steranko. He also appeared in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #68-69 (July-August 1969).

The character subsequently appeared as Scorpio in Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 (June 1968), #5 (October 1968), The Avengers #72 (January 1970), Defenders #46 (April 1977), #48-49 (June-July 1977), #50 (August 1977), West Coast Avengers Annual #1 (1986), West Coast Avengers #26-28 (November 1987-January 1988), Wolverine/Nick Fury: The Scorpio Connection (1989), Fury #1 (May 1994), and Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. #4 (July 1995).

Jacob Fury received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #17.

Fictional character biography

Scorpio (Jake Fury)

Jacob "Jake" Fury, the brother of Nick Fury, was born in New York City. As a young man, he came to resent his brother Nick.[1] As the original Scorpio, he operated as a spy, terrorist, and criminal. Using his secret identity as Scorpio, he first battled Nick Fury at a Las Vegas S.H.I.E.L.D. base.[2] He again battled his brother in Manhattan, then disguised himself as Nick Fury to infiltrate the New York SHIELD base, although his real identity was then discovered by his brother.[3] Nick Fury later went undercover as Scorpio, and took his brother's place in the Zodiac, who battled the Avengers.[4] Disguised as Jacque LaPoint, he played a minor role in the Zodiac's attempt to kill all Manhattan residents born under the sign of Gemini (save for Zodiac's Gemini).[5] He attempted to kidnap Kyle Richmond, and battled the Defenders.[6] Scorpio constructed a set of android Zodiac members to serve him, in his base at Belleville, New Jersey. However, his plan was thwarted by the Defenders, and he committed suicide through self-inflicted gunshot wound in despair.[7]

In the final arc of the Secret Warriors series it was revealed that Jake's death and much of his villainy was all part of a long-game plan of Nick Fury's. Jake was in deep cover, eventually infiltrating the highest rungs of HYDRA and helping his brother bring about its destruction.[8]

LMD and Jacques LaPoint

Scorpio was later revived in an android body by the intelligent, extra-dimensional Zodiac Key from which he drew his power. The real Jacques LaPoint became the second Scorpio and led the Zodiac until Jake (in his second android body) killed him. Impersonating LaPoint, Fury led eleven other Zodiac-themed androids to kill and replace the rest of the human Zodiac members, and took over the organization's criminal operations. Scorpio and the other androids were deactivated when they were transported to the Zodiac Key's dimension of origin during a battle with the West Coast Avengers, and abandoned there.[9]

Another Scorpio was the leader of the Zodiac team who fought Alpha Flight and was later massacred by Malcolm Colcord's Weapon X team.[volume & issue needed]

Scorpio (Mikel Fury)

Nick Fury's illegitimate son Mikel has also used the Scorpio identity. Mikel originally believed himself to be Jake Fury's son, and used a duplicate of the Zodiac Key to battle his father and Wolverine. When he learned that his mother had lied about his parentage, Mikel switched sides and became affiliated with S.H.I.E.L.D. for several months, following intensive therapy.[10] When he was led to believe that the Punisher had killed Nick Fury, he pursued the vigilante until persuaded to back down by fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives and ousted from the agency.[11] He makes a brief appearance in Secret Warriors, issue 11 as the leader from one of Nick Fury's secret independent teams[12] and is later killed in a mission. [13]

Powers and abilities

Jake Fury possessed a genius intellect, as well as an army basic training, with an above average knowledge of hand-to-hand combat and streetfighting techniques. As Scorpio, Jake used the Zodiac Key to increase his physical abilities, and gain superhuman powers such as the ability to transform his body into sentient water for brief periods of time. Scorpio is totally dependent upon the Zodiac Key in order to maintain his superhuman powers. He did not have to be in physical contact with it to wield it. The Zodiac Key is a power object of otherdimensional origin that taps an unidentified extradimensional energy for a variety of effects, including concussive force, electricity, magnetism, teleportation, physical transformation, etc. The Zodiac Key possesses sentience of a sort. After Jake Fury's death, the Zodiac Key employed his Theater of Genetics laboratory to create an android of Jake Fury.

Ecliptic's Zodiac had a barbed tail which was never used in combat. He also wielded a weapon similar to the Zodiac Key which displayed the ability to fire energy blasts and has a Zodiac teleportation device.

In other media

Television

  • Scorpio appears in The Avengers: United They Stand. He appears as a member of the Zodiac and Taurus' right hand man. He is depicted as an alien with scorpion mandibles on his jaw, a scorpion claw for a right hand, and a scorpion tail on the back of his head. He, like at least Taurus, can take human form, and has used the Jake Fury identity.
  • Scorpio appears in The Super Hero Squad Show episode "From the Atom...It Rises" voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.[14] Nick Fury posed as Scorpio to find out what Doctor Doom is planning until Abomination and MODOK discovered that it was Nick Fury posing as Scorpio all along.
  • Scorpio appears in the Marvel Anime: Iron Man episode "Japan: Enter Iron Man." This version is depicted as a scorpion-like robot. He takes on Iron Man in the first episode and is killed. In the episode "At the Mercy of My Friends," another Scorpio robot appeared being used by Ho Yinsen to attack Tony Stark and Dr. Chika Tanaka on an island near Japan that was used for landfill.

References

  1. ^ Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #68
  2. ^ Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD Vol. 1 #1
  3. ^ Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD Vol. 1 #5
  4. ^ Avengers #72
  5. ^ Avengers #120-122
  6. ^ Defenders #46
  7. ^ Defenders #48-50
  8. ^ Secret Warriors #11-25
  9. ^ West Coast Avengers #26-28
  10. ^ Wolverine/Nick Fury Graphic Novel
  11. ^ Punisher Vol. 3 #7
  12. ^ Secret Warriors #11
  13. ^ Secret Warriors #24
  14. ^ Comics Continuum
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