Fictional Character Biography
Professor Kenji Oyama was a Japanese scientist who was also a powerful crime lord known as Lord Dark Wind. Kenji is most famous for creating the adamantium-to-bone bonding process that would be used on the Canadian operative who would become the X-Man/Avenger known as Wolverine. He is also the father of Yuriko Oyama, the woman who would later become Lady Deathstrike.
A former Japanese kamikaze pilot during World War II, his face was horribly scarred in a failed suicide attack on an American battleship. Feeling shamed by his failure decades earlier, he scarred the faces of Yuriko and her two brothers in a ritual design. Her two brothers would later die while in the service of their father.
He later performed surgeries to replace the damaged vertebrae of the assassin Bullseye with adamantium.
Yuriko later teamed up with Daredevil to free her lover, Kiro, from her father's servitude, and to gain vengeance for her scarring and the death of her two brothers; when Yuriko slew her father (just as he was about to kill Daredevil), the devoted Kiro chose suicide to honor his master. Devastated, Yuriko would later embrace her father's ideals and go on a quest to track down the person who dishonored him. Her trail led to Wolverine, who had by this time undergone the adamantium bonding process at the hands of his Canadian government masters.
In their first encounter, Lady Deathstrike tried to kill Wolverine to restore her family's honor, but was thwarted by Alpha Flight's Vindicator.
Sometimes Deathstrike would postpone her quest to kill Wolverine, most notably when Wolverine had his adamantium forcibly removed by Magneto. When she learned of this, she preferred to wait when it was restored to him, feeling that it would be dishonorable to kill Wolverine when he was defenseless.
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