PLAGUEDOG

Real Name: Plaguedog

Identity/Class: Extratemporal (Earth-5555 circa 8162 AD) genetically mutated creature

Occupation: Killer

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Undertaker (owner)

Enemies: Dead Cert, Death's Head (Freelance Peacekeeping Agent), Spratt

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Los Angeles Resettlement year 8162, Earth-5555

First Appearance: (Cameo) Death's Head I#3 (February, 1989); (fully seen) Death's Head I#4 (March, 1989)

Powers/Abilities: A genetically mutated creature seemingly only loyal to his master the Undertaker, Plaguedog suffered from extremely violent tendencies. Plaguedog could turn himself into a fluid substance, able to attach to any wall. In his solid state, he was massive and possessed razor sharp claws and teeth.

History:

(Death's Head I#4 - BTS) - Plaguedog was bio-engineerd by Los Angeles crime boss the Undertaker as a way of killing his enemies.

(Death's Head I#4) - Dead Cert, one of the Undertaker's rivals, contracted Freelance Peacekeeping Agent Death's Head to find and kill Plaguedog.

(Death's Head I#3) - The Undertaker learned of Death's Head's contract with Dead Cert and placed Plaguedog in an office building he was about to sell to Death's Head and Spratt. He told Plaguedog supper was on the way.

(Death's Head I#4) - Death's Head tried to trace Plaguedog, taking down and questioning the Undertaker's lieutenants. Meanwhile, the creature was hiding inside Death's Head's new office. Plaguedog was eventually discovered by Death's Head's sidekick Spratt who was almost devoured by the creature. Narrowly managing to escape his initial attack Spratt tried to get away in a flying car with Plaguedog in hot pursuit. Spratt inadvertently managed to kill Plagudog when he pushed the wrong button, putting the car in reverse and squashing Plaguedog on a wall. When Death's Head returned to his offices, he came back to find the burnt, deceased form of Plaguedog waiting for him. Grieving for his loss, the Undertaker proceeded to hire mercenary Big Shot to avenge his big loss.

Comments: Created by Simon Furman, Bryan Hitch, Mark Farmer.

Even though Death's Head was seen with Plaguedog on the cover of Deaths Head I#4 he has never seen Plaguedog alive.

Profile by MarvellousLuke

CLARIFICATIONS:
Plaguedog has no known connections to

• Plague, aka Pestilence, of the Morlocks and Horsemen of Apocalypse @ Uncanny X-Men I#169
• Plague, of Earth-4935, a living entity carrying virulent deceases, designed by Diamonda Nero @ X-Men: Phoenix#2
• Plague of Earth-1043's Brotherhood @ X-Men Millennial Visions 2001
• Joshua Plague, an alias of Super-Skrull/Kl'rt used while with Rat Pack @ Marvel Chillers#3
• Plague Cask, which contained all the captured evils of Asgard, including a Snow Giant and some Mindless Ones @ Thor I#308
• any other "Plague" characters

images: (without ads)
Death's Head I #4, p9, pan1 (main image)
Death's Head I #4, p21, pan2 (dead)

Appearances:
Death's Head I#3 (February 1989) - Simon Furman(writer), Bryan Hitch(pencils), Dave Hine(Inks), Richard Starkings(editor)
Death's Head I#4 (March 1989) - Simon Furman(writer), Lee Sullivan(pencils), Richard Starkings(editor)

Last updated: 08/25/13

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