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Deadlock

Deadlock
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Real Name
John Locke
Current Alias
Deadlock
Identity
Alignment
Affiliation
Formerly Bloodstrike, The Four
Relatives
Unnamed Clone
Universe

Characteristics
Gender
Eyes
Hair
Unusual Features
Unusually sharp nails and canines
Status
Citizenship
Marital Status
Occupation
Mercenary, formerly repo man
Origin
Origin
Nu-Gene
Creators
First appearance

Quote1 Ah! To taste freedom again! So sweet! Quote2
-- Deadlock[1]

HistoryEdit

The Four

John Locke was a common man working as a repo man until he got the job of recovering a briefcase that belonged to the military. Instead of returning the briefcase, he sold it to a gang and then proceeded to spend all the money he got from the sale in cocaine. When the authorities managed to track him down and tried to apprehend him, he suffered an heart attack and died. He was subsequently brought to Project: Born Again to be resurrected. The scientist tasked to resurrect him discovered that he possessed a latent Nu-Gene and activated it, but the process turned him completely insane. Shortly after, Deadlock escaped his captors while killing everyone in his way. Afterwards, he was found by Gage, who recruited him into the supervillain team they named The Four along with Starbright and Strongarm.

On March, 1992, Deadlock and Starbright were captured by the superhero team Youngblood. Gage and Strongarm tried to break them out, but they were stopped by Youngblood members Shaft, Chapel, Diehard, Bedrock, and Vogue.[1] Deadlock was imprisoned in the pentagon, but he was later freed by Showdown.[2]

Bloodstrike

Deadlock was captured by Youngblood and beaten to death by Chapel. Later, his body was given once again to Project: Born Again, who resurrected him and assigned him to Cabbot Stone, another Project: Born Again subject who assembled a group of agents like him and Deadlock into the top-secret government task force Bloodstrike.[3]

Deadlock worked with Cabbot and teammates Fourplay, Shogun and Tag. In 1993, they raided a G.A.T.E. International facility called Jericho in the Arizona desert. Deadlock engaged G.A.T.E. security with Fourplay, while Cabbot, Shogun and Tag penetrated deeper into the complex; they soon came back outside, and, sensing something was off, Stone aborted the mission. Right then, the base commander Corben appeared and revealed he had arranged Bloodstrike’s mission. G.A.T.E. was about to fire him, so, by repelling an attack by Bloodstrike, he sought to impress his employers and save his job. Tag used her powers to freeze Corben in place, and Shogun opened fire on him, killing him. After Bloodstrike returned to their headquarters, their artificially intelligent assistant Roam printed out Washington's next order: to take down the superhero team Brigade, led by Cabbot's brother John.[4]

Bloodstrike hit Brigade right as they were landing their ship in their headquarters, and Cabbot initiated the encounter by shooting Brigade member Stasis in the head and killing her. In the course of the ensuing battle, Shogun blasted Brigade member Coldsnap, damaging the apparatus that regulated his powers, which then raged out of control. Deadlock shot Seahawk multiple times, and Fourplay broke Kayo's jaw. Battlestone was about to be defeated by Cabbot and Tag when his ally Martin Grant crashed Brigade's alien ship into the building, granting Battlestone a distraction and allowing him to escape with Thermal, Coldsnap, and Stasis’s corpse.[5]

Afterwards, Roam tracked the surviving members of Brigade to the Los Angeles branch of G.A.T.E. International, so Cabbot sent Fourplay and Shogun there while the rest of the team secured Seahawk and Kayo as their prisoners. They boarded Bloodstrike’s jet, where Roam revealed Seahawk was healing rapidly from his gunshots due to a healing factor. When Deadlock entered the room holding the two Brigade members, he found a woman named Lethal, an old ally of Brigade, trying to free them. Although Deadlock put up a good fight, Lethal knocked him unconscious.[6]

When Deadlock came to himself, Lethal had freed Seahawk, who was tackling Cabbot. Wanting to see how Cabbot did, Deadlock refused to intervene. After trading punches, Cabbot shot Seahawk in the chest. Seahawk retaliated by impaling Cabbot with the spires on his helmet. With Cabbot temporarily down, Lethal grabbed Seahawk and jumped out of the plane. Afterwards, every member of Bloodstrike reconvened in the Los Angeles branch of G.A.T.E. International, where they began a fight against Brigade and their newest member, Boone. However, the fight was interrupted by the appearance of Coldsnap, who, no longer injured, had mutated into an enormous ice monster due to his powers having gone haywire.[7]

Coldsnap took on Bloodstrike, giving Battlestone, Boone, and Thermal time to regroup. The two teams battled until Shogun blasted Coldsnap through a wall, revealing Stasis’s body in a resurrection chamber in the next room. Cabbot was enraged and vowed to stop Stasis's resurrection. Just then, Lethal and Seahawk teleported in.[8] Amidst the fighting, Deadlock took on Seahawk and Lethal. Battlestone and Cabbot argued and beat the crap out of each other until Battlestone told Cabbot to leave Brigade alone or else he would expose Project: Born Again to the public. Finally, Cabbot told Battlestone to kill him, but Battlestone refused, saying letting him live was even worse, and left with Brigade. Bloodstrike left in their craft, and Cabbot said Battlestone was an even bigger threat to the U.S. government than he previously thought.[9]

Character Powers and Equipment


Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers


Weaknesses

  • Mental Illness: Deadlock is affected by a number of mental conditions ranging from homicidal tendencies to hostility toward authority figures and multiple personalities.


Appearances, Images, and Quotes Edit

  • Quotations by or about Deadlock


Trivia Edit

Because of his insanity Deadlock does not remember being a member of The Four. Deadlock likes to drink the blood of his victims.

ReferencesEdit

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