cancellator-death_sponsors-uxman16-p4CANCELLATORcancellator-death_sponsors-uxman16-face

Real Name: Unrevealed;
    possibly Cancellator

Identity/Class: Unrevealed (possibly a native and/or genetically-engineered being from the Mojoverse);
    resident and presumably a native of Mojoworld and the Mojoverse;

Occupation: Warrior serving in mergers and acquisitions (usually via combat)

Group Membership: Death Sponsors (Deadair, Lead-In, Sweepzweak, Timeslot)

Affiliations: Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast), Mojo II, ;
    formerly Gringrave;

Enemies: Arize, Tina Cooke (of a "normal" Earth without super-beings, etc.; see comments), Goldon and Crimzor of the Scorpius Citadel, Gringrave, Mojo and his arena warriors, Pug-Smasher (Karl Snortenthau) of Earth-8311 ("Larval Earth"), Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven), Dwayne Taylor of Earth-90214 ("Noir"), The End Woman of Earth-18140, X-Men (Archangel/Warren Worthington, Lucas Bishop, Colossus/Peter Rasputin, Iceman/Bobby Drake, Jean Grey, Storm/Ororo Munroe), Charles Xavier

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: "My programming terminator"

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    last seen on Horus IV;
    Timeslot last seen in Shatterstar's boarding house in College Point, Queens, New York
    previously Mojo II's citadel spire, Mojoworld

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men Annual#16 (1992)cancellator-death_sponsors-uxman16-ice-punchcancellator-death_sponsors-uxman16-varenawarriors

Powers/Abilities: Cancellator is superhumanly strong and durable, tough enough to not only trade blows with but to take down Colossus. One of her punches was sufficient to smash him through a stone wall and high into the air.

Height: Unrevealed (she seemed way taller that the 5'10" Storm and not much shorter than the 7'5" Colossus, so perhaps around 7' )
Weight: Unrevealed (at human density with her powerfully muscled form and at 7' tall, approximately 300 lbs.)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde

History:
(Uncanny X-Men Annual#16 (fb) - BTS) - Aided by Cancellator and the rest of the Death Sponsors, Mojo II took the battle of the network stars to Mojo on a counter-programming basis with a series of bootleg transmissions, developing a solid demographic audience base.

(Uncanny X-Men Annual#16) - Mojo's arena-warriors assaulted the citadel spire from which Mojo II pirated Mojo's airwaves, but the Death Sponsors made short work of them. As she throttled one of the attackers, Cancellator proclaimed, "We're the new show in town, geneflakes! Let's hear a hardy round of applause for -- the Death Sponsors!" Cancellator mocked their surprise, continuing, "Oh, thank you, I'm sure. You make us blush. We make you bleed!!" She then proceeded to batter at least two others.

(Uncanny X-Men Annual#16) - Mojo II then arrived and noted that this attack proved that Mojo was panicking, but that they would not take the battle to him but rather to his mistakes.

     Mojo II subsequently sent the Death Sponsors to Earth to obtain one of three potential ratings bonanzas: Longshot, Spiral, or Arize; he further considered that regardless of whether they succeeded or failed, the effort would benefit their rival network.

    Arriving in the Ginza district of Tokyo, Japan via Timeslot's interdimensional transport, the Death Sponsors prepared to initiate their search. Cancellator questioned whether they shouldn't first figure out where they were before they knew where they were going.cancellator-death_sponsors-uxman16-elbow-storm

    Deadair then announced that they would pursue Arize (whom they called the "Toymaker"), explaining that ratings were not as important on this schedule: Their primary schedule point was to embarrass Mojo and bolster their pirate network in the eyes of the masses.

    Timeslot transported the Death Sponsors to just outside Xavier's mansion in Westchester, New York, where Arize had been brought after fleeing to Earth to escape Mojo.

    Their arrival set off the perimeter security, alerting the X-Men, although Xavier's telepathic scans revealed nothing but garbled static (similar to his early probes of Arize). Archangel, Bishop, and Iceman headed to confront the arrivals, while Storm had Colossus, Jean, Xavier, and herself traveled to the medical facilities to watch over Arize.

    As the heroes arrived, Cancellator noted that initial resistance scanned light, and she had Timeslot accompany her to seek out Arize while the others had all the fun.cancellator-death_sponsors-uxman16-launch-colossus

    After initial skirmishes, Iceman realized that as they fought, other attacker were approaching the mansion, and he took off to confront Cancellator and Timeslot. When Iceman jokingly asked if they hadn't heard of knocking, Cancellator agreed to knock, which she did by punching through his ice sled.

    Professor X noted as these two attackers breached the mansion and approached them, but Timeslot teleported them behind the X-Men, catching them somewhat off-guard. While delivering an elbow to Storm's face, Cancellator explained that Timeslot's energy release "screwed the max out of your telepaths," and she advised the X-Men to give them Arize "with no bone-breaking."

    As Arize recognized the Death Sponsors as the mergers and acquisitions department of a pirate network, Colossus punched Cancellator in the face. Noting, "Good punch, shiny! Take as good as you give?" she punched him back and then grappled with him.

    Cancellator eventually punched Colossus hard enough to send him flying out of the Xavier mansion, distracting the outdoor combatants, and Sweepzweak proudly noted, "Cancellator primetime!"

    Accepting this compliment, Cancellator asked where that "shiny bohunk" went. When Sweepzweak showed her, she considered that Colossus looked like she felt.

    Taking advantage of the distraction, Sweepzweak disrupted the mutants' access to their powers.

    Considering that while she liked her foe shiny but that he was a lot easier to handle when he was pink and soft, Cancellator held up an incapacitated/depowered Colossus and then noted that as Timeslot had Arize that it was time to depart.
    As they prepared to depart, however, Bishop leveled his gun at and threatened to kill Timeslot, but Sweepzweak held him at bay with the threat to kill all of the X-Men if he took down any one of them. cancellator-death_sponsors-uxman16-holdingupcolossus

    Holding Lead-In over her shoulder, Cancellator noted that they only wanted Arize, to serve their boss, and that they honored the X-Men as "heroes worthy of our mettle...even if you did prove to be a little...ah, the legends never live up to the hype, huh?"

    As Timeslot began to cyberlink and take them home, Cancellator thanked Bishop for a ratings spectacular.
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cancellator-death_sponsors-uxman16-discorporated    Appreciating that Timeslot was teleporting them through an electronic mind-link, Bishop fired his rifle, shooting Timeslot in the head as they hit midport. The other Death Sponsor screamed and seemingly discorporated, while Arize, who was not linked to the cybernet, was spared and remained on Earth.

(Shatterstar I#1 (fb) - BTS) - The Death Sponsors survived, were restored, or were re-created...or something...

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cancellator-death_sponsors-shat1-punchend(Shatterstar I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Gringrave employed the Death Sponsors in her plot against Shatterstar.

(Shatterstar I#1 (fb) - BTS) - While Shatterstar was out watching a play, the Death Sponsors assaulted those present at his boarding house (or house with rooms for rent), including Pug-Smasher-6311, Goldon and Crimzor of the Scorpius Citadel, The End Woman-18140, Dwayne Taylor-90214 ("Noir"), and Tina Cooke, allegedly of Earth-1218 (see comments).

    Deadair snagged Pug-Smasher, Sweepzweak subdued Goldon and Crimzor, Cancellator punched out The End Woman and Lead-In dragged Tina Cooke away.

(Shatterstar I#1 (fb)) - Outside Dwayne Taylor-90214's door, Timeslot paused and opened a portal to summon Gringrave.

    Timeslot assaulted Dwayne Taylor.

(Shatterstar I#4 (fb) - BTS) - Gringrave slew Timeslot to eliminate the Death Sponsors' teleporter...

(Shatterstar I#1 - BTS) - Shatterstar returned to his house to find the dying Dwayne Taylor, who told Shatterstar of the assault but noted how he had taken one of their with him, indicating Timeslot's corpse.

    Shatterstar viewed footage of the assaults via his laptop computer.

(Shatterstar I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Needing transport to Horus IV to meet back up with the Grandmaster, Gringrave arranged this via former A.R.M.O.R. and S.W.O.R.D. engineer Dean Drukman, who ran Dockmaster and the Longshoremen, an ilicit interdimensional transport service.

(Shatterstar I#2) - The rest of the Death Sponsors (Cancellator, Deadair, Lead-In, Sweepzweak) were present alongside Gringrave as she prepared to transport the captive Tina Cooke, Crimzor, Goldon, Pug-Smasher, and The End Woman to Horus IV. As Drukman activated the portal, Shatterstar and Rictor arrived to stop them. Gringrave had the Death Sponsors take the captives through the portal to Horus IV, and she followed shortly thereafter, although Shatterstar made it through as well.

(Shatterstar I#3) - On Horus IV, as the Death Sponsors delivered their captives, Cancellator shoved the End Woman from behind, telling her and the others "You're Primetime now, Plot Fodder" and warned them not to try anything or they'd get an early kill fee from the Death Sponsors.



cancellator-death_sponsors-shat4-leapdowncancellator-death_sponsors-shat4-bleeding(Shatterstar I#4) - After Shatterstar entered the gladiatorial arena (following Tina Cooke's transformation into a warrior and her death at Xeus' hands) and noted that while he would not kill for the Grandmaster's entertainment, he would instead have his revenge on the Death Sponsors, who had kidnapped his tenants, some of whom had died.

    The three remaining Death Sponsors -- Cancellator, Lead-In, and Sweepzweak -- then appeared above Shatterstar.

    Cancellator punched him in the face, but received the spiked handle of his sword in her face at the same time. Meanwhile Sweepzweak confused and deluded his mind, and Lead-In prolonged his pain by rolling back time 5 seconds with each attack, respectively.

(Shatterstar I#4 (fb) - BTS) - Shatterstar apparently took out Cancellator and Lead-In with his blades to and/or through their mid-sections.

(Shatterstar I#4) - As Cancellator and Lead-In lied in the sand in pools of blood, Shatterstar decapitated Sweepzweak.

(Shatterstar I#4 - BTS) - Gringrave then appeared, applauded, and then battled Shatterstar, ultimately falling victim to his falling on his own sword while embracing her, strategically avoiding deadly wounds himself while apparently killing her.





Comments: Created by Fabian Nicieza, Jae Lee, Jan Harps, and Joe Rubinstein.

    When Mojo II called out their names in Uncanny X-Men Annual#16, I'm pretty certain Cancellator and Timeslot's are reversed (Cancellator is pictured last but named fourth; Timeslot is pictured fourth but named last).

    Kudos to Tim Seeley for bringing back the Death Sponsors after 26 years!

    If she can return from getting discorporated, a little impalement should not stop her for long...

    Earth-1218 is supposed to be the real world that the readers live in. Writers love to use characters from Earth-1218, but since we don't have any super-powers or interdimensional portals, etc., as soon as some interaction with an alternate reality or super-powered characters occurs, it becomes just another previously "normal" reality that has since diverged.
    So...Tina Cooke is not from Earth-1218. I'm sure there are multiple women on the real world named Tina Cooke, and maybe one or more of them is/are similar enough to be considered a counterpart of her.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Cancellator should be distinguished from:


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Uncanny X-Men Annual#16, story pg. 1-2 (vs. arena warriors);
        pg. 4 (mostly full body; feet covered, head in profile);
        pg. 5, panel 6 (face; profile, close-up);
        pg. 20, panel 1 (head; rear-oblique);
        pg. 24, panel 4-5 (punching ice slide);
        pg. 29, panel 3 (Colossus punched out);
            panel 5 (face, obliqued, partial, bloody);
        pg. 30, panel 8-9 (holding Colossus overhead);
        pg. 32, panel 5 (discorporating);
Shatterstar I#1, pg. 10, panel 5 (punching out the End Woman);
    #4, pg. 6, panel 1 (diving down);
       pg. 10, panel 1 (lying in the sand)

Appearances:
Uncanny X-Men Annual#16 (1992) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Jae Lee (penciler), Jan Harps & Joe Rubinstein (inkers), Suzanne Gaffney (managing editor), Bob Harras (editor)
Shatterstar I#1 (December, 2018) - Tim Seeley (writer), Carlos Villa (penciler), Juan Vlasco (inker), Chris Robinson (assistant editor), Jordan D. White (editor)
 Shatterstar I#2 (January, 2019) - Tim Seeley (writer), Carlos Villa (penciler), Juan Vlasco (inker), Chris Robinson (assistant editor), Jordan D. White (editor)
 Shatterstar I#3-4 (February-March, 2019) - Tim Seeley (writer), Carlos Villa (penciler), Juan Vlasco with Carlos Villa (inker), Chris Robinson (assistant editor), Jordan D. White (editor)

First started: 09/02/2021
First posted: 09/10/2024
Last updated: 09/10/2024

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