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Evelyn Necker (Earth-616)

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Of all the Death's Heads I've watched succeed and fail, the ones I made and the one like you I just observed, you're the one who endures. I don't get it. I think you're embarrassing. You look like something my parents would've spent money on in 1987. There's no accounting for taste. But they literally don't make them like you anymore. So I'm getting out of here and taking you with me. Get in the chamber you beautiful idiot.

—Dr. Evelyn Necker[source]

History

Doctor Evelyn Necker was a spy of A.I.M. who she believed would bring a better world through science.[2] She infiltrated Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. as the head of robotics, planning to use its data on the alien Warguard for her Minion Project. As part of P.E.G.A.S.U.S. she collected some radiation from the Negative Zone and contained it inside a quantum flask.[3]

Secret Invasion[]

During the Secret Invasion, the Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Facility was attacked by the Skrulls. The initial assault was repelled by the security chief, Darkhawk. When Nova arrived to help his brother, Robbie, he met his boss, Dr. Necker. Dr. Necker was able to download the Xandarian Worldmind from Nova to an experimental gestalt mainframe she created for the Minion Project. She used the Worldmind to open the quantum flask which revealed to be containing the incorporeal Quasar.[3] The Worldmind soon appeared to both Necker and Robbie, and to defend the facility from the incoming attacks activated the Minion Project.[4]

New Nova Corps[]

After the attack, Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. served as a base of operations for the new Nova Corps. During that time, Richard Rider and Dr. Necker began a relationship.[5] While Necker was removing the Skrull booby traps left following the invasion, she accidentally set one off which released a blast. The blast deactivated the containment grid keeping the U-Foes imprisoned. Several U-Foes managed to escape, forcing Necker to alert Darkhawk of this. He managed to take down the prisoners, but his amulet began malfunctioning. Necker attempted to help him, only to be struck down by the amulet, leading to Darkhawk leaving out of fear of causing more harm.[6]

When the Xandarian Worldmind took Richard's powers, Necker, the Project's Director Gruenwald and Quasar expressed their concern over the Worldmind forcefully mass recruiting people for the Nova Corps. Rich asked them to perform tests on him to see if there were lasting consequences to his body housing the Nova Force for a long time. The director also tasked Necker with capturing a Nova Centurion in order to see if they were being manipulated. With Rich's help, Necker managed to lure inside an isolation chamber the Centurions Robbie and Irani Rael, finding out that the Worldmind was in fact controlling the newly recruited Corpsmen. Soon the the rest of the Nova Corps broke in to collect their fellow Corpsmen, allowing the Worldmind to regain control of them. Rich also learned from Necker that due to losing the Nova Force, his body was rapidly decaying and in the next 48 hours he would surely die.[7]

Necker and Gruenwald attempted to find a way to save Rich. Unfortunately, H.A.M.M.E.R. closed down Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. and fired her, though before she and Rich were kicked out she secretly got hold of the flask. She drove Richard to an unused A.I.M. base, where she attempted to drag up any resources to heal his decaying body. However, Richard noticed a beekeeper uniform and refused to be any lab rat. Eve assured him that she genuinely wanted to save his life and presented to him the quantum flask that Quasar was originally contained in, which could heal him. Instead, Rider passed up the chance and destroyed the flask. Appearing out of nowhere, Wendell Vaughn arrived with the Quantum Bands transforming Richard into the new Quasar and saving his life.[2]

With the dissolution of H.A.M.M.E.R., Necker and her fellow colleagues returned to P.E.G.A.S.U.S. However, an alternate reality version of Quasar from the Cancerverse infiltrated the facility and had all of the staff, including Necker, possessed by mind-controlling parasites. He wished to use the facility's equipment to construct the Horrorscope, a device that could open a portal to his reality. Both he and Necker lured Rich, now back as Nova, to the facility where they attempted to kill him. Rich evaded Quasar and the Guardsmen's attacks, and got hold of Necker, taking her to a gravity bubble where he separated the parasite from her and incinerated it. Coming to her senses, Necker explained to Rich the situation they were in, telling of the Horrorscope and its purpose. Rich made his way to the device, and with the help of Darkhawk destroyed it along with the monster controlling the parasites. However, Quasar got what he wanted and left, forcing Rich to go back to space to fight the forces of the Cancerverse, leaving Necker to tend to Darkhawk's wounds.[8]

Revolutionary War[]

Necker came to be employed by Psycho-Wraith Prime who tasked her with creating an army of cyborgs for him and his master, and in exchange she could work on her Minion Project. Necker began working in a base at the Darkmoor Energy Research Centre, where she received additional funding from A.I.M. Mixing the technology she got from the Warguard with that of A.I.M. Necker was able to create a new line of powerful cyborgs. Following his capture by the Psycho-Wraiths, Death's Head II was given to Necker for studying, but only for a couple of hours. Using nano-probes to look into his mind, Necker learned of Death's Head II's true nature, his creator who was her alternate future self, his original form and his adventures, but before she could learn more the original Death's Head and his companion Tuck arrived to rescue him.

Thanks to the nano-probes, Necker took control of Death's Head II and had him fight Tuck and his previous incarnation. During the fight, Necker was intrigued by the original Death's Head, wishing to study him instead. Death's Head soon stabbed his successor in the head, allowing him to reboot, which forced Necker to unleash her cyborgs, naming them Death's Head 3.0., before hiding in an alcove. From there she operated Death's Head 3.0 through a remote control unit, until Tuck cut it in half. Necker again retreated and climbed inside a tank with a concussion canon which she used to knock out both Death's Heads. She then set off the facility's self-destruct mechanism, quickly collected her research and with the help of A.I.M. transported the original Death's Head to the Psycho-Wraiths, hoping that if he were to die his successor would disappear.[9]

Death's Head[]

Necker became obsessed with the original Death's Head, but deemed his design clunky and archaic, and wished to create improved prototypes based on him. She returned to the Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. facility where she began her work on a new line of robots, some of which were Death's Head 4.0 and Death's Head V.[10] Death's Head V was eventually taken from Necker by Wiccan who wished to have him help reform the Young Avengers, naming him Vee.[11]

Wanting to learn more about Vee's functioning and mechanism in order to help him grow, Wiccan, Hulkling, the original Death's Head and Hawkeye went inside the facility, where Necker confronted them on the screen of a giant mecha defense system.[10] She trapped the five of them inside and activated the mecha and her Fearmongers to kill them, and though they were able to overcome the robots Necker separated the heroes, isolating Vee with herself. The others managed to reach them, only for Necker to activate Vee's hidden command, causing him to fall under her control, and ordered him to attack his friends. Wiccan teleported himself, Hulkling and Hawkeye, but unintentionally left Death's Head behind with Vee and Necker. Necker ordered Vee to go find the others, while she activated 4.0 to fight Death's Head.[12]

She unleashed more Fearmongers after Death's Head destroyed 4.0, updating them all with her most recent software to turn them into copies of Death's Head himself, but accidentally factory reset Vee, freeing him. She then set an EMP to detonate in an hour to kill all robots present as they also began gaining independent thought. After the heroes regrouped, they worked to save the freed Fearmongers, with Death's Head directly confronting Necker as she was about to escape. Necker told him how she was baffled and charmed at the same time by his design, and wished to claim him. To avert the EMP, Death's Head used A.I.M. technology to teleport both himself and Necker back to his base in space. There the two set their differences aside and decided to work together, with Necker fixing his body after returning from his adventures, learning more about Death's Head's inner workings in the process.[1]

Notes

  • Inspired by Evelyn Necker (Earth-8410), agent of A.I.M. and creator of Death's Head II, also created by Dan Abnett.
  • While her Handbook profile in FF: Fifty Fantastic Years #1 and the Marvel Appendix profile merges both the Earth-8410 version and this character into the same being, Death's Head (Vol. 2) #2 explicitly has the 616 version identify her 8410 version as an Alternate Reality counterpart. While she could be mistaken and not realize this is herself from the future, since there is currently no explanation as how she ended up on Earth-8410 and no reference in the comics themselves to them being the same character, the wiki will treat them both as separate characters.

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