History
Lead designer of the Deathlok program on Earth-616, Harlan Ryker was intermittently attacked by time-travelling rebels from Earth-32211 who wanted to kill him before he could invent the Deathlok technology. Every now and then a Deathlok from the future reached the present time on Earth-616 and tried to kill him in vain. Ryker cared little for this threat, as he considered himself properly protected against it, and he also noticed that his enemies were unable to use time travel properly, missing the moment where they should have attacked.
Ryker failed to foresee, however, that one of these attacks would target his family home at a moment he was not in. When rebels from the future sent another Deathlok to kill Harlan, he instead found his family. On a suicide mission, the Deathlok exploded nearly killing Rebecca, and fatally wounding her mother Anna and her baby brother Brian.[1]