Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Ladytron (Origin revealed) (Flashback and main story)
Adversaries:
- Dr. Khaz (First appearance; dies) (Flashback and main story)
- Stanley (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- NYPD (Only in flashback)
- Lucius Simpson
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Synopsis for 1st story
In her toy factory hideout, cyborg Maxine Manchester is about to go to sleep when the robotic toys she lives with suddenly attack her. They knock her out and take her to the base of Dr. Khaz, the mad scientist who turned her into a cyborg. As a young girl, Maxine ran away from an orphanage and became a serial killer, picking up men, murdering them, and stealing their money. Years later, she met a robber in a New Jersey bar, and they became partners in crime. After a six-month crime spree, she and her partner were pinned down by police in a truck stop. When her partner wanted to surrender, she killed him, and then the police shot her. They rushed her to the hospital where she was taken into custody by Dr. Khaz. Now, Khaz revives her and sends her after one of his previous experiments, a cyborg named Stanley. She finds him, they fall in love, and go on a murder spree. One night, they storm a church, kill the preacher, and “marry” each other in an exchange of demented vows. In their honeymoon hotel suite, they decide to kill Khaz. They attack his base, but Khaz uses a device to take control of Stanley and has him beat the crap out of Maxine. Finally, she fires the energy gun in her mouth, and the blast tears Stanley in half, killing him. She confronts Khaz for making her, kisses him, and fires her mouth gun through his head. Some time later, she is in a Chicago bar and overhears drug trafficker Lucius Simpson talking about hiring Zombots for his next deal.
Notes
- This story takes place before Ladytron's first appearance in WildC.A.T.s #21.