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| Harpoon | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Uncanny X-Men #210 (October 1986) |
| Created by | Chris Claremont John Romita Jr. Dan Green |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Kodiak Noatak |
| Species | Human mutant |
| Team affiliations | Marauders |
| Abilities | Ability to charge metal with bio-energy |
Harpoon (Kodiak Noatak) is a fictional character appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. He is a member of themutant assassin team known asMarauders, who are employed byMister Sinister. Little is known about Harpoon other than that he isInuit.
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Harpoon first appeared inUncanny X-Men #210 (October 1986), and was created byChris Claremont,John Romita Jr. andDan Green.[1]
The character subsequently appears inThor #373-374 (November–December 1986),X-Factor #10 (November 1986),Power Pack #27 (December 1986),Uncanny X-Men #213 (January 1987), 221-222 (September–October 1987), 240-241 (January–February 1989),X-Factor #38 (March 1989),Wolverine (vol. 2) #10 (August 1989),X-Man #18 (August 1996),Cable & Machine Man Annual 1999,Gambit #9 (October 1999),Weapon X #26 (September 2004),X-Men and Power Pack #4 (March 2006),New Avengers #18 (June 2006),X-Men (vol. 2) #200-201 (August–September 2007),New X-Men #44-46 (January–March 2008),X-Factor #27 (March 2008),X-Men (vol. 2) #207 (March 2008), andUncanny X-Men (vol. 5) #18 (July 2019).
Harpoon received an entry in theOfficial Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #3.
Harpoon is a founding member of the Marauders, which were assembled byGambit.[2][3][a] The team ambush aMorlock girl namedTommy and a humanHellfire Club soldier named Richard in Los Angeles. The Marauders kill Richard and let Tommy escape to the Morlocks' Alley.[4][b][c]
In the first encounter with the X-Men during theMorlock Massacre, Harpoon hurls a harpoon atRogue while she is vulnerable after having her powers neutralized by the MarauderScrambler.Kitty Pryde phases Rogue, hoping Harpoon's weapon will pass harmlessly through her, but the spear is in an energy state and strikes them anyway, trapping Kitty in her intangible state.[5][1][6]
Harpoon crosses paths withCyclops,Beast, andIceman and tries to kill the MorlockPlague withSabretooth, but they are stopped byApocalypse, who recruits Plague into hisHorsemen. He andBlockbuster later attack the X-ManAngel, badly damaging his wings.[1][7] Angel is saved byThor, who drives the Marauders off.[8][9][10]
Harpoon is thought to have been killed during the "Inferno" event, but as often shown, Mister Sinister can clone his Marauders and resurrect them at any time.[11][12] Harpoon often works as Sinister's enforcer, such as in the capture ofNate Grey during theOnslaught crossover.[13]
Harpoon lost his powers after the events of "Decimation".[14] After M-Day, Harpoon resurfaces with the rest of the Marauders, still working for Mister Sinister. To make up for his lack of power, he carries a weaponized harpoon.[15]
Harpoon attacksChamber and the X-Men alongside the other Marauders. Chamber manages to kill the Marauders with his fire, but Harpoon stabs him through the chest before dying. Chamber dies from his injuries shortly afterward.[16][1] Harpoon is later revealed to have been resurrected.[17]
Harpoon could charge his metal spears with his own bio-energy for various effects, such as shocking or stunning his opponents. He was also exceptionally skilled in using his spears as weapons, both in melee combat and as thrown projectiles.
In the universe of "Age of Apocalypse", Harpoon appears as a member of the Infinite Patrol, the enforcers of Apocalypse.[18]
In his final moments of life, the Marauders' Harpoon stabs Chamber with one of his energized harpoons. Although the X-Men's Hope Summers executes Harpoon, Chamber succumbs to his wounds by the end of the issue...Like most of the other Marauders, Harpoon was created by Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr. in Uncanny X-Men #210. In "Mutant Massacre," he damaged Angel's wings to the point that they had to be amputated, and another one of his attacks trapped Kitty Pryde in her intangible "phased" state for several months.
When his ex-girlfriend, Shadowcat, is injured by the villainous Harpoon, though, Colossus basically snaps. Think Anchorman and how things escalated quickly.
Angel getting his wings cut off is a brutal reminder of what can easily happen to any mutant, even those with resources beyond the average person and a long history as a superhero. In the past, it was ruthless killers like Harpoon who were responsible, but all it really takes to bring down an experienced superhero like Warren Worthington III is a bit of clever planning.
This has sent Wolverine on a mission to hunt her down, pitting him against Harpoon and Vertigo, two of Mister Sinister's Marauders, and he he [sic] quickly figures out who is holding his mother — Wolverine's greatest foe Sabretooth.
The first two issues saw the villainous Mister Sinister disband and discard the Nasty Boys — Gorgeous George, Ruckus, Hairbag, Slab, and Vertigo — as they "weren't suited for the next stage" of his sinister scheme against the X-Men. Sinister then enlisted a team of mutant mercenaries: Prism, Arclight, Hazard, Harpoon, Riptide, Siena Blaze, and Sabretooth, Wolverine's old archnemesis from his days on Team X.
