| “ | Give me one good reason why I shouldn't blow your head off after what you've done to me? | „ |
| ~ Domino |
Domino, aka Neena Thurman, is a character from Marvel Comics. She is a mutant and mercenary who possesses the ability to manipulate probability in her favor, giving the effect of incredible luck.
Domino was created by Rob Liefeld, Fabian Nicieza, Bob Wiacek and Mike Mignola.
Origin[]
Domino was the result of a top-secret government breeding program known as Project: Armageddon, which was made specifically to create the perfect weapon and genetically engineer fighting soldiers. Out of the test subjects, Domino was the only survivor but her powers of 'good luck' was deemed a failure in the case of meeting the project's goals. She was freed from the project by her biological mother who left Domino with Father Rudolpho Boschelli, leader of the cult called the Church of the Sacred Heart which was based in Chicago. Domino lived within this cult until she turned thirteen and escaped. She decided to become a freelance mercenary and worked with various government agencies. While working for the NSA, Domino was tasked to guard the genius, Dr. Milo Thurman, whose analytical ability made him too dangerous for the government to set free. While guarding him, Domino and Dr. Thurman somehow fell in love with each other, even going so far as getting married, apparently officially. Dr. Thurman gave Domino the nickname 'Beatrice' due his obsession with Dante's Inferno. When A.I.M soldiers raided the facility, Milo and Domino separated, with Milo believing that Domino was killed during the raid.
Story[]
Wild Pack/Six Pack[]
As a mercenary, Domino joins the group the Wild Pack, later called the Six Pack, where she meets the mutant Cable. Much of their contract work involves a businessman named Tolliver. The team is sent on numerous missions of corporate espionage and payback. Domino normally acts as the wise-cracking straight shooter and scout. While Tolliver's contracts normally deal with business overseas, the team still allows themselves to contract elsewhere - one of which is to New Mexico to re-steal an energy fibrillator that HYDRA stole from A.I.M. The contract ends up being a ruse, as the gadget they steal is defective. The team hates being used like this, especially since they were almost blown up, but the check more than compensates for any hurt feelings. Within the group, Domino is closest to Grizzly and Cable.
Cable eventually leads the team to break a contract with Tolliver. On a routine mission in which the Six Pack is checking on an opium route, Domino finds a hidden hatch. The Six Pack does an initial search but, when things begin to look dicey, Domino is keen on getting the team out. Cable ignores her and continues on to meet up with his nemesis, Stryfe. The team narrowly avoids getting blown up (again), but they now have a target on their back, as Tolliver is none too pleased that the Six Pack broke protocol.
This broken contract results in other mercenary groups trying to cash in on the deaths of the Six Pack. In Singapore, the team is fairly well pinned down. Domino dives under a bridge and plants an explosive that effectively takes out each and every enemy.
Cable doesn't much care that the team is targeted and he leads them to one last confrontation with Stryfe. They enter his base and set explosives to go off in a few minutes. Before they can escape, however, Stryfe arrives and takes Kane captive. Domino and Co. want to comply with Stryfe's demands but Cable refuses. Stryfe leaves the Six Pack to die in the explosion. Cable teleports out and leaves Domino and the rest of the team to fend for themselves. Fortunately, she, Grizzly, and G.W. are able to make it out in one piece. The same can't be said for teammates Kane and Hammer. Domino and the rest of the Six Pack carries a grudge against Cable for many years after this.
Guest of Tolliver[]
Domino lays low for a while but is kidnapped by Tolliver and is replaced by the mutant shape shifter, Copycat. Once Cable takes over leadership of Professor X's group of young mutants, the New Mutants, and transforms them into the rapid reaction strike force team known as X-Force, he calls who he thinks is Domino to help him lead the team. Copycat, still posing as Domino, answers the call and grows attached to the team while the real Domino hangs, shackled, to Tolliver's wall. Once Cable learns of Tolliver's hideout, he and Copycat/Domino break in. Cable sees the real Domino and grows confused, as he never new Copycat had taken Domino's place. As Cable fights Deadpool, Domino is freed when a Deadpool sword severs her shackles. She then picks up a gun and blasts the mercenary in the back. Copycat escapes. Cable and Domino then head after Tolliver, but he instructs her to find his X-Force kids. He then blows up Tolliver's helicopter (supposedly killing him) and then bodyslides to the future.
Finding X-Force[]
Domino spends the next months trying to locate X-Force. Her first order of business is to find some old teammates. She hooks up with Grizzly in Australia after he slinks away from the X-Force/Weapon: PRIME fight. Finding Hammer, the three break into Department K to find any information possible on Cable and the whereabouts of X-Force. With very limited time to sort through the various encryptions, Hammer has Domino dump all the data into his harddrive. As the download begins, a new team of Weapon: PRIME gets the jump on the troupe. Hammer tells them to go topside through an air conditioning duct.
It ends up being a sewage line and Grizzly has a grand time ribbing Domino about her new perfume. Using some of the information they gathered from Department K, they search for Copycat (since she had such intimate knowledge of X-Force). They find her at the mercy of Deadpool and Sluggo. Domino covertly blasts the crap out of the two mercenaries and Copycat begs for her life in exchange for information on X-Force's latest hideout.
Copycat leads the "Three Pack" to the old X-Force hideout in the Adirondack Mountains. When Grizzly relates that he was present at the battle that blew this base up Domino threatens to kill Copycat then and there. Copycat talks Domino into patience and they dig their way into the old base via magnesium strips and Grizzly's brute strength. They find some computers miraculously still online and Copycat gets a trace of X-Force's mutagenic signatures. Following this, they are led to the new X-Force base in Arizona at the old Camp Verde reservation of Warpath's ancestors. Instead of X-Force, however, they find Cable. The Six Pack is back together (as Kane and G.W. Bridge are with Cable), albeit very, very briefly. Hammer threatens to kill Cable and Kane talks him down and the group decides that, while they would like to be together again, they can't if Cable is going to be secretive. He can't promise otherwise and the Six Pack departs, Domino leaving with the team.
Six Pack is contracted to steal something from NASA and Domino leads the ground team in. Unfortunately, Nomad is contracted to steal the same thing and does so before Six Pack can. Domino manages to find the object but it gets smashed by Nomad before she and the Six Pack can take it to their contractor. Shortly thereafter Cable asks Domino to officially join his team. She does.
Joining X-Force[]
Things are a little icy for Domino at the start of her tenure with X-Force. Most of the team remembers her from when Copycat was impersonating her. Nobody really knows who she is. Cable assures her that everything will be fine.
One night, Cable asks Domino to accompany him to the grave of Madelyne Pryor. Mr. Sinister shows up and reveals that Madelyne was Cable's mother while Stryfe was Cable's clone. Domino doesn't like Sinister's vibe and tries to shoot him. Mr. Sinister merely knocks Domino out while pulling Stryfe's psyche out of a dormant part of Cable's mind. She awakens to find Cable gone. She makes her way to Professor Xavier's school and alerts he, Cyclops, and Jean Grey about Sinister's revelations, as well as the fact that Stryfe may now be inhabiting Cable's body. The four of them find Cable/Stryfe and convince Stryfe to let Cable go. He does and Cable and Domino reunite with X-Force.
Powers[]
Domino's mutant powers essentially give her good luck. She can subconsciously and psionically affect the probabilities and make things work in her favor and against others. Mostly, she has used her powers subconsciously, but she has shown the ability to force her powers into working. She is an expert in using firearms and explosives, a highly skilled mutant in the field of martial arts and hand-to-hand combat.
Quotes[]
| “ | They treated me like a lab experiment carving me up in their flesh factory. And I'm eager to return the favor. | „ |
| ~ Domino |
| “ | Talking to Deadpool is like... I dunno... it's like talking to someone who's being attacked by bees. | „ |
| ~ Domino |
| “ | Seven little words, one awful concept: Unknown, insanely powerful mutant on the loose. | „ |
| ~ Domino |
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