MURDERMALLMURDERMALL
Classification: Terrestrial death trap
(disguised as a mall)
Creator: Arcade
User/Possessors: Arcade
First Appearance: Merry X-Men Holiday
Special#1 (February, 2019)
Powers/Abilities/Functions: The Murdermall functioned as both a large shopping plaza and semi-lethal death trap for its customers. Arcade had tweaked the danger levels to provide a challenging escape room while only being lethal to a small percentage of its customers. The Murdermall was equipped with a snow generator that caused its floors to become icy and random explosions would periodically erupt within the Murdermall. It was also equipped with various dangerous robots including those of various superheroes and Santa Claus and it housed fake candy canes that could fire laser blasts at its targets.
It also housed actual retail stores that sold actual
merchandise that its targets could potentially attempt to acquire at
their own risk.
History: (Merry X-Men
Holiday Special#1/25 (fb) - BTS) - The assassin Arcade was hired by
unidentified parties to design a fully immersive way for families to
enhance their shopping experience. Staying true to type, Arcade
designed a large deathtrap under the guise of it being a shopping mall
and dubbed it Murdermall.
(Merry X-Men Holiday Special#1 - BTS) - When several
test groups proved unable to survive the Murdermall, Arcade captured
the mutant Jubilee and her adopted son Shogo on December 1 to further
prove Murdermall's worth.
(Merry X-Men Holiday Special#1/6) - After being placed inside Murdermall, Jubilee woke on December 6 and prepared to venture out to get breakfast for herself and her adopted son Shogo. She soon found herself surprised to see falling snow inside the mall.
(Merry X-Men Holiday
Special#1/11) - On December 11, Jubilee rushed through the mall with
Shogo in tow, fighting off all sorts of superhero robots bent on
killing her and telling Shogo about the malls she grew up in. Sliding
in the fake snow within the mall, Jubilee turned a corner and Shogo
dropped his plush Bamf doll. Promising they would get the doll back,
Jubilee kept moving to avoid the robots, unaware that someone had
picked up the doll.
(Merry X-Men Holiday Special#1/20) - Jubilee spent December 20 dodging random explosions going off throughout the mall and timed a jump to both avoid an explosion and retrieve Shogo's Bamf doll.
(Merry X-Men Holiday Special#1/25 - BTS) - Arcade was
contacted by the parties that had hired him to construct Murdermall and
chewed out since no one seemed to be able to survive Murdermall. The
parties angrily informed Arcade that they did not wish to kill their
customers, as it would be bad for business. Arcade argued that he had
spent the last few weeks beta testing the Murdermall and informed the
parties that not only did Jubilee survive the Murdermall but her son
did as well. Shocked that Arcade had placed a child within his
deathtrap, the parties appeared mortified but Arcade insisted that
while malls were dying, his Murdermall was both an escape room and a
Black Friday sale in one package, and that the parties would be missing
a chance if they did not continue to invest in the Murdermall. Arcade
then showed his previously interested parties footage of Jubilee's time
in the Murdermall and assured them that even the weakest of X-Men was
capable of surviving in the Murdermall for weeks. When one of the
parties asked about Arcade placing an X-Man in the Murdermall, Jubilee
escaped the Murdermall and busted into Arcade's control room. Jubilee
then punched out Arcade as Storm and Nightcrawler arrived to rescue
her, having been called one of Arcade's interested parties.
Comments: Created by Chris Sims, Chad Bowers and Marco Failla.
The Murdermall was a variant of Arcade's typical
Murderworld death traps
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Murdermall has no known connections to:
images: (without ads)
Merry X-Men Holiday Special#1, p6, pan6 (Murdermall, main image)
Merry X-Men Holiday Special#1, p6, pan3 (Jubilee waking up in the
Murdermall's sporting goods section)
Merry X-Men Holiday Special#1, p11, pan3 (Jubilee running from the
Murdermall's robot heroes)
Appearances:
Merry X-Men Holiday Special#1 (February, 2019) - "Mele Kalikimaka!"
story - Chris Sims, Chad Bowers (writers), Marco Failla (art), Jordan
D. White, Annalise Bissa, Chris Robinson (editors); "Jingle All the
Wait a Minute..." story - Chris Sims, Chad Bowers (writers), Marco
Failla (art), Jordan D. White, Annalise Bissa, Chris Robinson
(editors); "Deck the Malls" story - Chris Sims, Chad Bowers (writers),
Marco Failla (art), Jordan D. White, Annalise Bissa, Chris Robinson
(editors); "All I Want for Christmas is You" story - Chris Sims, Chad
Bowers (writers), Marco Failla (art), Jordan D. White, Annalise Bissa,
Chris Robinson (editors); "Walkin' in a Winter Murderland" story -
Chris Sims, Chad Bowers (writers), Marco Failla (art), Jordan D. White,
Annalise Bissa, Chris Robinson (editors)
First Posted: 12/24/2019
Last updated: 12/24/2019
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