MORTIMER DAUOI
Real Name: Dr. Mortimer Dauoi
Identity/Class: Human mutate
Occupation:
Fugitive;
formerly scientist
Group Membership: Project: PEGASUS
Affiliations: Squadron Supreme (zombie mutates: Amphibian, Blue Eagle, Golden Archer, Hyperion, Lady Lark, Nighthawk, Nuke, Power Princess, Shape, Tom Thumb, Whizzer); Squadron Supreme (Earth-712: Amphibian, Blue Eagle, Dr. Spectrum, Golden Archer, Hyperion, Lady Lark, Nighthawk, Nuke, Power Princess, Shape, Tom Thumb, Whizzer)
Enemies: Battlestar, Guardsman Alpha Team (Doc, Jill Harper, Hoss, Mainframe, Soapbox, Two-Ton), Jack of Hearts, staff at the Pegasus Research Facility
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: New York State, USA
First Appearance: Marvel Zombies Supreme#1 (May, 2011)
Powers/Abilities: Dauoi is a brilliant but mad scientist and geneticist. He was later transformed into a semi-zombified state that included a hulking mass (and presumably heightened strength), as well as a fierce appetite for human flesh.
History:
(Marvel Zombies Supreme#1 (fb)) - When the Squadron Supreme of Earth-712 were stuck on Earth-616, they spent time at Project: PEGASUS, where they befriended Dr. Mortimer Dauoi. Motivated to overcome his terminal illness, he convinced the Squadron that researching their DNA codes might help advance medical science. Dr. Spectrum created hard-light constructs of his teammates' DNA helixes. When the Squadron returned to their home dimension, Dauoi grafted the DNA to medical cadavers and used Zeta rays (negatively charged energy) to reanimate the corpses, although the rays were amplified by the Zero energy from the discorporeal Jack of Hearts. Likely due to the refractive nature of Dr. Spectrum's Power Prism, the cadavers revived instead in a zombie-like and human-hungry state, soon overrunning the complex.
(Marvel Zombies Supreme#5 (fb) - BTS) - Dauoi was able to partially vaccinate himself before the zombie antigene took over, leaving him in a quasi-zombie state.
(Marvel Zombies Supreme#4) - Leading dozens of zombified PEGASUS staff, Dauoi was confronted by Battlestar and Soapbox, who were both part of a force assembled to investigate an emergency at the complex.
(Marvel Zombies Supreme#5) - Dauoi sought to lead the zombies out
beyond the science complex to spread the contagion. The arrival of
the zombie clones of Squadron members Nighthawk, Power Princess and
Whizzer provided a distraction while he fled. Jack of Hearts eliminated
the rest of the zombies in the complex, but Dauoi had already escaped
and ate a man in the nearby woods.
Comments: Created by Frank Marraffino (writer), Fernando Blanco (pencils) and Jason Paz (inks).
His appetite and word balloons indicate that he was succumbing to becoming a fully fledged zombie.
He likely knew security chief
Blue Shield and Quasar (Vaughn) during his active time at Project: PEGASUS.
An Internet profile elsewhere states that he had mental control over the zombies, but this is not actually confirmed.
"Dauoi" is Icelandic (with an accent mark over o) for "death."
Discussion of how the various Squadron members were part of the zombie group, etc. can be found here.
Profile by Grendel Prime.
CLARIFICATIONS
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Mortimer Dauoi has no known connections to:
images:
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Marvel Zombies Supreme#5, p1, pan4 (main image)
Marvel Zombies Supreme#1, p17, pan2 (headshot, pre-zombie)
Marvel Zombies Supreme#5, p21, pan5 (headshot, num-nums)
Appearances:
Marvel Zombies Supreme#1 (May, 2011)
- Frank Marraffino (writer), Fernando Blanco (pencils), Jason
Paz
(inks), Mark Paniccia (senior editor)
Marvel
Zombies Supreme#4 (July, 2011) - Frank Marraffino (writer), Fernando
Blanco (pencils & inks), Mark Paniccia (senior editor)
Marvel
Zombies Supreme#5 (August, 2011) - Frank Marraffino (writer), Fernando
Blanco (pencils & inks), Mark Paniccia (senior editor)
First posted: 06/12/2012
Last updated:
01/26/2025
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