Halflife (comics)
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There are two fictional characters in the Marvel Universe
that are named Halflife with two distinct origins. They are detailed separately below.
supervillain
. She first appeared in West Coast Avengers
vol. 2 #12 (Sep. 1986).
to assist him in conquering the Earth.
In the story of her first appearance, she was part of a team assembled by Graviton to resemble the Unified Field Theory
. Halflife represented the Weak force, Quantum
represented the Strong force, while Zzzax
represented Electromagnetism
. Graviton himself represented gravity. This team attacked the West Coast Avengers
. The alliance was defeated when the Avenger Tigra
, in disguise, convinced Halflife that Quantum was out to kill her. Halflife battled Quantum and Graviton, and was knocked unconscious. In the resulting fight, Halflife was propelled into space aboard Graviton's floating fortress the villains were using, which destroyed the fortress.
Halflife was later apprehended by Quasar
, and she was imprisoned in the Vault
(a prison facility for supervillains).
Halflife also has the ability to manipulate the "weak force" to disintegrate inorganic material, including matter/energy constructs.
She has the ability to generate unspecified intense radiation, producing sufficient heat to melt steel.
Halflife possesses invulnerability to the effects of her own powers, as well as intense heat and atomic radiation. Her costume is made of alien materials that are proof against the effects of her power.
. He first appeared in The Incredible Hulk vol. 1 #334. He was a lackey of the Leader
. His real name was Anthony Masterson.
A woman is walking down the street alone when Half-Life steps out and starts talking to her like she is his wife. He grabs her and drains all her life energy until she is dead. He then says that she is not Barbara and heads off to find another person to drain and kill. Down in the Leader's hidden base, the Leader remembers a conversation he had with Half-Life a few hours ago. Half-life offers to help steal gamma bombs for the Leader but the Leader brings up Half-LIfe's first mission where he was defeated by the Gray Hulk. The Leader tells Half-Life that if he can kill the Hulk, he can help steal the bombs. The Leader attaches a camera to the front of Half-Life's outfit so he can observe what happens. Half-life starts to attack another woman but the screaming alerts the Gray Hulk who starts feeling weak as he approaches. Half-life jumps on the Hulk and grips him tightly and tells the him that he is protected by titanium armor that Hulk is now too weak to damage. Half-life continues weaken the Hulk until Rick Jones comes up from behind and wacks Half-Life in the head with a shovel, allowing the Hulk to throw him off. Weak, scared and vulnerable, Hulk is about to flee when one of the people who lives in town asks the Hulk if he is scared. This angers the Hulk a little and he takes the fight back to Half-Life. Hulk grabs a telephone pole and starts to hit Half-Life but Half-Life has already drained enough energy to make him strong. He jumps for the Hulk but the Hulk leaps high up in the air first and comes down landing right on top of Half-Life. Half-Life just crawls back up threw the dirt and starts to absorb more energy from the Hulk. The Hulk starts to wither as Half-Life continues to absorb more energy. Half-Life has stolen most of the Hulk's energy and states how he can go back to teaching and his wife and a normal life. The Hulk tells Half-Life how people will be terrified of him and that eventually the energy he stole from the Hulk will wear off and he will be back to what he was before or even worse. The Hulk reminds him that is how he has allows lived. Half-Life can't think to live that way so he just releases all the energy he just stole and apparently kills himself.
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that are named Halflife with two distinct origins. They are detailed separately below.
Halflife (alien)
Halflife is a Marvel ComicsMarvel Comics
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supervillain
Supervillain
A supervillain or supervillainess is a variant of the villain character type, commonly found in comic books, action movies and science fiction in various media.They are sometimes used as foils to superheroes and other fictional heroes...
. She first appeared in West Coast Avengers
West Coast Avengers
The West Coast Avengers is a fictional group of superheroes that appear in publications published by Marvel Comics. The team first appear in The West Coast Avengers #1 and was created by Roger Stern and Bob Hall.- Publication history :...
vol. 2 #12 (Sep. 1986).
Fictional character biography
Halflife is a humanoid extraterrestrial would-be conqueror with the ability to age any living being via physical contact. She has green skin with black hair and gray temples. Halflife annihilated the entire population of her home world, and was summoned to the planet Earth by the maniacal GravitonGraviton (comics)
Graviton is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in Avengers #158 and was created by Jim Shooter and Sal Buscema....
to assist him in conquering the Earth.
In the story of her first appearance, she was part of a team assembled by Graviton to resemble the Unified Field Theory
Unified field theory
In physics, a unified field theory, occasionally referred to as a uniform field theory, is a type of field theory that allows all that is usually thought of as fundamental forces and elementary particles to be written in terms of a single field. There is no accepted unified field theory, and thus...
. Halflife represented the Weak force, Quantum
Quantum (comics)
Quantum is a fictional character, an alien supervillain appearing in the comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in West Coast Avengers, Volume 2, #12 .-Fictional character biography:...
represented the Strong force, while Zzzax
Zzzax
Zzzax is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in The Incredible Hulk #166 and was created by Steve Englehart and Herb Trimpe.-Fictional character biography:...
represented Electromagnetism
Electromagnetism
Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental interactions in nature. The other three are the strong interaction, the weak interaction and gravitation...
. Graviton himself represented gravity. This team attacked the West Coast Avengers
West Coast Avengers
The West Coast Avengers is a fictional group of superheroes that appear in publications published by Marvel Comics. The team first appear in The West Coast Avengers #1 and was created by Roger Stern and Bob Hall.- Publication history :...
. The alliance was defeated when the Avenger Tigra
Tigra
Tigra is a fictional American comic book superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe. Introduced as the non-superpowered crime fighter The Cat in Claws of the Cat #1 , she was co-created by writer-editor Roy Thomas, writer Linda Fite, and penciller Marie Severin...
, in disguise, convinced Halflife that Quantum was out to kill her. Halflife battled Quantum and Graviton, and was knocked unconscious. In the resulting fight, Halflife was propelled into space aboard Graviton's floating fortress the villains were using, which destroyed the fortress.
Halflife was later apprehended by Quasar
Quasar (comics)
Quasar is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the . He is one of Marvel's cosmic heroes, a character whose adventures frequently take him into outer space or other dimensions...
, and she was imprisoned in the Vault
Vault (comics)
The Vault is the widely used nickname of a fictional defunct prison facility for technological-based superhuman criminals in Marvel Comics' Marvel Universe. The prison's full official name is the United States Maximum Security Installation for the Incarceration of Superhuman Criminals.It first...
(a prison facility for supervillains).
Powers and abilities
Halflife is an extraterrestrial with the ability to age any living being, through touching, halfway to the point that he or she would eventually die of old age, through their full life span (one would presume "remaining" lifespan, thus stealing half of their life). Multiple contacts with Halflife result in death for the victim. However, the aging effect she has is not immediately permanent and if she loses consciousness fast enough (within a few minutes) her victims will revert to their normal ages.Halflife also has the ability to manipulate the "weak force" to disintegrate inorganic material, including matter/energy constructs.
She has the ability to generate unspecified intense radiation, producing sufficient heat to melt steel.
Halflife possesses invulnerability to the effects of her own powers, as well as intense heat and atomic radiation. Her costume is made of alien materials that are proof against the effects of her power.
Half-Life (Anthony Masterson)
The second character in the Marvel universe to take the name Half-Life was a gamma-irradiated fiend and enemy of the HulkHulk (comics)
The Hulk is a fictional character, a superhero in the . Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #1 ....
. He first appeared in The Incredible Hulk vol. 1 #334. He was a lackey of the Leader
Leader (comics)
The Leader is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Tales to Astonish #62, and was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. In 2009, The Leader was ranked as IGN's 63rd Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.Actor Tim Blake...
. His real name was Anthony Masterson.
Fictional character biography
Anthony Masterson was just a normal English schoolteacher who was accidentally exposed to gamma radiation during testing of Gamma Bombs by the US government. The radiation appeared to kill Tony, but he arose every night hungry for the energy he could drain from living bodies.A woman is walking down the street alone when Half-Life steps out and starts talking to her like she is his wife. He grabs her and drains all her life energy until she is dead. He then says that she is not Barbara and heads off to find another person to drain and kill. Down in the Leader's hidden base, the Leader remembers a conversation he had with Half-Life a few hours ago. Half-life offers to help steal gamma bombs for the Leader but the Leader brings up Half-LIfe's first mission where he was defeated by the Gray Hulk. The Leader tells Half-Life that if he can kill the Hulk, he can help steal the bombs. The Leader attaches a camera to the front of Half-Life's outfit so he can observe what happens. Half-life starts to attack another woman but the screaming alerts the Gray Hulk who starts feeling weak as he approaches. Half-life jumps on the Hulk and grips him tightly and tells the him that he is protected by titanium armor that Hulk is now too weak to damage. Half-life continues weaken the Hulk until Rick Jones comes up from behind and wacks Half-Life in the head with a shovel, allowing the Hulk to throw him off. Weak, scared and vulnerable, Hulk is about to flee when one of the people who lives in town asks the Hulk if he is scared. This angers the Hulk a little and he takes the fight back to Half-Life. Hulk grabs a telephone pole and starts to hit Half-Life but Half-Life has already drained enough energy to make him strong. He jumps for the Hulk but the Hulk leaps high up in the air first and comes down landing right on top of Half-Life. Half-Life just crawls back up threw the dirt and starts to absorb more energy from the Hulk. The Hulk starts to wither as Half-Life continues to absorb more energy. Half-Life has stolen most of the Hulk's energy and states how he can go back to teaching and his wife and a normal life. The Hulk tells Half-Life how people will be terrified of him and that eventually the energy he stole from the Hulk will wear off and he will be back to what he was before or even worse. The Hulk reminds him that is how he has allows lived. Half-Life can't think to live that way so he just releases all the energy he just stole and apparently kills himself.
Powers and abilities
Half-Life is a vampire-like creature who drains life energy from living beings in order to sustain himself. He is capable of rendering even very powerful beings like the Hulk very weak. In his natural state, he looked like a zombie, but when he absorbs a life he temporarily appears young and handsome.Video games
- The second Half-Life was also featured in the HulkHulk (video game)Hulk is a video game based on the 2003 movie of the same name. It was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Vivendi Games. A signature feature has Eric Bana reprises his role of Bruce Banner...
video game voiced by Lee TockarLee TockarLee William Tockar is a Canadian voice actor and visual artist who works for several studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is also a writer of children's literature, a musician, sculptor, illustrator and collected painter...
. This incarnation was the first level boss, and looked different from his comic incarnation: looking more like a bald-headed, vampire-like creature rather than the green-skinned zombie of the comics. Half-Life appears in two different areas.
External links
- Halflife (disambiguation) at Marvel.com