Cerebra's Files: Age of Apocalypse

Yashida, Mariko


Affiliation: None
Previous Affiliations: Human High Council, Clan Yashida
Relatives: Shingen (father), Keniuchio Harada (Silver Samurai, half-brother), Kirika (daughter), Shiro Yoshida (Sunfire, cousin)
Alternate-X Versions: (616), Sunfire (Exiles)
Codename Etymology: None
Powers & History: None (human). Back when Mariko was a school girl, she used a scrambler to destroy both her family’s arcades and those of a rival clan. She did this in an attempt to eliminate the stranglehold corrupt clans had on her world. She was caught by a rival clan and would have been killed if it had not been for Weapon X, who was in business with Mariko’s father. Logan told her that she would never change the world by doing it from the bottom with lowlives. She had to make something of herself first. Mariko apparently took these words to heart and by the time Apocalypse had risen to world domination, she was a member of the Human High Council.

Mariko reunited with Logan when he and Jean Grey delivered Sinister’s inside information to the council. At this point she sported a dagger-like tattoo on her face, but whether it was permanent or makeup is unknown. The council discussed whether or not to destroy Apocalypse’s entire empire with nuclear weapons and Mariko seemed to be the only one adamantly against it. Mariko discussed her feelings towards the attack in private with Weapon X, knowing that there has to be another way besides genocide. She also told him that she did not trust Brian Braddock, thinking that he had too much financial gain in this war. Mariko did not join fellow council members Brian Braddock and Emma Frost on the air strike to drop the bombs, staying to witness the possible peace agreement with horseman Mikhail instead. This peace agreement resulted in disaster and Mariko was forced to fight for her life. After Apocalypse’s defeat, Mariko appeared to have moved back to Japan. When X-Man Kirika had her memories unlocked by Psylocke, she discovered that she was actually Mariko’s daughter with Weapon X, something Mariko never told Logan.
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