LADY DEATHSTRIKE: Cyborg Siren
"I have been cheated of my birthright... my human essence and now... my just and long-awaited revenge -- but I will not be cheated of my honor gaijin dog!" --LADY DEATHSTRIKE
Who is LADY DEATHSTRIKE?
LADY DEATHSTRIKE is Yuriko Oyama, a Marvel supervillain, and a foe of the X-Men, especially Wolverine. LADY DEATHSTRIKE is a self-styled warrior, she underwent a process of bonding adamantium to her skeleton in addition to other cyber-genetic enhancements. She has since worked as a mercenary and assassin and feels a need to prove herself by killing Wolverine. Yuriko Oyama was created by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Larry Hama.
Yuriko Oyama was born in Osaka, Japan. Her father was Lord Dark Wind (Kenji Oyama), a Japanese crime lord and criminal scientist who created the process by which adamantium can be bonded to bone. Kenji was a former Japanese kamikaze pilot during World War II. His face was horribly scarred in a failed suicide attack on an American battleship. Feeling shamed by his failure decades earlier, he scarred the faces of Yuriko and her two brothers in a ritual design.
