Vasili Dassaiev, also known as Magadan, was a high-ranking member of the Soviet shadow organization Leviathan.[1] He was also invited to Leonardo da Vinci's Great Wheel as Capricorn.[2]
Magadan's body was transformed by special chambers combined with a Brood power source. Leviathan had stolen them from the Great Wheel with the intent of creating an army of metahumans for world domination; however, they were interrupted by Hydra and the Hand, who stole the Brood power source and hid it in a box. While the rest of Leviathan was in stasis in the chambers, Magadan searched for the Brood power source for decades to wake them.[3]
Leviathan agent Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, by infiltrating the High Council of Hydra, stole the box from Hydra and gave it to Magadan to restore Leviathan and their leader Orion.[4] This resulted in a three-way war between Leviathan, Hydra, and Nick Fury.[5] When Hydra and Leviathan reached a ceasefire, Magadan was assassinated by John Garrett, who framed it on Hydra, to restart the conflict.[6][7]
History
Leviathan[]
Vasili Dassaiev (Russian: Василий Дассаиев), alias Magadan, was the right-hand man of Orion, the leader of Leviathan.[4]
Dassaiev at the Great Wheel
Great Wheel[]
Orion and Magadan were contacted by the Brotherhood of the Shield and were brought to the Immortal City to meet with Leonardo da Vinci in Pieta. Along with other intelligence agents from around the globe—Jake Fury, John Garrett, Shoji Soma, Cornelius van Lunt, Nick Fury, Baron Strucker, Dum Dum Dugan, Thomas Davidson, and the Kraken—they formed the Great Wheel. Each member was assigned a codename from the zodiac, Magadan being Capricorn. Leonardo da Vinci was the leader as Aries, sent the rest of the Wheel on three key retrieval missions, and promised them resources that would be of great value to their own separate agendas.[2]
Orion and Magadan betrayed the Wheel and stole the chambers and the Brood power source retrieved in the missions. When those were used in conjunction, they could greatly enhance any human, and the two Leviathan leaders planned to transform Leviathan into a superhuman army. However, they were stopped by Baron Strucker and Shoji Soma. Strucker stabbed Orion with the Spear of Imhotep. Magadan placed Orion in a chamber where he would remain in stasis for decades alongside most of Leviathan while Magadan searched for the stolen Brood power source, which Soma had hidden in a box.[3]
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Resurrection of Leviathan[]
Leviathan was reawakened when Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine, secretly an agent of Leviathan, successfully acquired the box containing the Brood power source from the Clan Yashida and brought it to Magadan.[4] Magadan had already activated some of Leviathan's forces to attack Hydra, but this allowed him to bring them back to full strength by finally reviving Orion.[8] With this, Leviathan went to total war with Hydra over grudges both old and new.[6] Several months into the conflict, Magadan was assassinated by John Garrett, who used Sebastian Druid's help to pin the assassination on Hydra.[2]Notes
- In Secret Warriors #12, Magadan claims he and some of his Leviathan soldiers woke early. However, in Secret Warriors #26, it is revealed that Magadan was never put in stasis at all and has been awake the whole time, searching for a way to wake the others.
See Also
- 10 appearance(s) of Vasili Dassaiev (Earth-616)
- 1 mention(s) of Vasili Dassaiev (Earth-616)
- 3 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Vasili Dassaiev (Earth-616)
- 11 image(s) of Vasili Dassaiev (Earth-616)
- 1 quotation(s) by or about Vasili Dassaiev (Earth-616)