Technet (Marvel)
Technet are a team that features in Marvel Comics.
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History
Technet were a team of bounty hunters from various extradimensional worlds. For a price, Technet would hunt and capture fugitives, rescue prisoners from captivity, or recover objects of value. The scope of Technet extended across multiple worlds and dimensions. (Captain Britain v2 #4)
Later, Technet traveled on business to the Wereworld, whose natives become Werewolves under a full moon, having been exiled from their home by Sat-Yr-9. There, Technet member Elmo was fatally wounded by werewolves. Subsequently, Gatecrasher either seriously injured or killed a member of the Berserker Pirates who attempted to interest her in becoming his lover. The pirate's family forced Technet to turn over all their accumulated wealth as reparations. Angered by this reversal in their fortunes, all of the members of Technet except for Yap and Fascination left the team. Shortly thereafter, Gatecrasher went to a celebration held by the despot of Kandahar. A person she believed to be the despot himself hired her to procure a perfect mathematical model of the universe that was made of rock crystal and that was held and revered by the Incas of 14th century Peru on Earth-616. Gatecrasher, Yap, and Fascination journeyed through time to obtain the model, but Gatecrasher and Yap were tricked by the person they believed to be a native high priest into consuming fruit filled with the eggs of deadly parasites. Gatecrasher and Yap were thus forced to remain under a cooling waterfall to prevent the eggs inside them from hatching and consuming their bodies from within. In actuality, an alien had impersonated both the despot of Kandahar and the high priest, and hoped to force Fascination into his employ through this convoluted plot. This alien had already succeeded in hiring the members of Technet who had just left the group. His team was the Special Executive, a future version of Technet. The team's precognitive, Cobweb, told him that Fascination wouldn't join the Special Executive for another 300 years. Fascination brought Captain Britain and his companion Meggan to 14th century Peru to rescue Gatecrasher. Captain Britain gathered together the plants necessary to create the antidote that would kill the parasite eggs. Gatecrasher and Yap consumed the antidote, and then they, Fascination, Captain Britain, and Meggan returned to their own time period. (Captain Britain v2 #12)
Gatecrasher recruited Numbers and Waxworks into Technet, and all of the surviving former members rejoined. At some point during this period, Fascination changed her name to Scatterbrain. Opal Luna Saturnyne hired Technet to capture Rachel Summers, alias Phoenix, whom Saturnyne claimed was a threat to the universe. At this time, Rachel was on the run from Mojo, who had enslaved her to star in his movies. Mojo sent his servants, the Warwolves, after Rachel. The Warwolves and the Technet fought over Rachel and during the fight, Ferro was killed. Rachel was saved by Captain Britain, Meggan, and her fellow X-Men Nightcrawler and Shadowcat. Initially, Technet held the advantage over the five heroes, using their powers to quickly subdue four of them: Ringtoss ensnared Rachel with her rings while Joyboy, upon discovering Kitty's desire to be solid again, defeated Kitty by not only making her solid, but also having her balloon massively in weight, causing her to go from skinny to plump and then to enormously fat in seconds. Meanwhile, Meggan was subdued by Waxworks and Brian, though he defeated Thug, was then quickly defeated by Scatterbrain. Despite this initial setback, together the five heroes fought off Technet after breaking free. This battle against Technet led directly to the formation of the original Excalibur by Summers and her allies. (Excalibur Special Edition v1 #1)
Overview
In appearance, the Technet was a multi-species organization whose specialized field roster consisted entirely of highly eccentric, non-humanoid alien creatures and extradimensional humanoids. They featured an incredibly irregular and drastically mismatched collective build that ranged from the towering, multi-armed muscular frame of their leader Gatecrasher to short, reptilian trackers and avian scouts. The organization possessed no unified natural physiology, skin coloration, or hair patterns due to the vast array of different cosmic species assembled within their tracking unit. They expanded their visual identity by completely rejecting standard earthbound military uniforms or sleek corporate jumpsuits. Their garments consisted of idiosyncratic alien attire, including bright fabric tunics, mismatched leather equipment harnesses, oversized metallic goggles, and customized technological gauntlets designed to accommodate their varied anatomical structures and multiple limbs. (Captain Britain v2 #3)
Technet were multi-species organization that naturally lacked any shared, uniform biological traits due to the extreme anatomical and genetic differences between their distinct alien members. They utilized their collective interdimensional hunting experience to execute highly specialized tracking strategies that relied on combining their unique individual physical traits to overwhelm targets. They did not possess a single shared superpower or uniform physical invulnerability, relying instead on a highly diverse array of individual biological traits and advanced alien tracking technology. (Captain Britain v2 #3)
Their specialized technology and unique physiology allowed them to execute interdimensional travel across the multiverse, track temporal energy signatures, and deploy localized reality-warping tools to counter superhuman defenses. Their primary capabilities allowed them to track high-profile cosmic fugitives across different dimensions, disrupt localized teleportation fields, and operate completely outside the jurisdiction of planetary law enforcement agencies. (Captain Britain v2 #3)
Members
- Gatecrasher : an obese, porcine blue skinned female team leader of the Technet. She was not notably better than most of them in combat.
- Bodybag
- China Doll :
- Elmo :
- Ferro :
- Ferro2 :
- Joyboy :
- Numbers :
- Ringtoss :
- Scatterbrain :
- Thug :
- Waxworks :
- Yap :
Notes
- Technet was created by Jamie Delano and Alan Davis where they made their first appearance in Captain Britain v2 #2 (March, 1985).
In other media
Television
- In X-Men, Technet made a cameo appearance in the setting of the 1990s animated television series in the episode "Proteus, Part 1".
Appearances
- Captain Britain v2: (1985)
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