SISTER AUGMENTOID

Real Name: Yalda

Identity/Class: Apparent synthezoid, presumably magically-enhanced to some degree via Orb of Necromancy;
    citizen of Pakistan

Occupation: At least formerly a warrior

Group Membership: Adaptoids (Ideal, Origin, Swine, Urn), Descendants/High-Breeds (Parvez)

Affiliations: Black Ant (Life Model Decoy of Ant-Man/Eric O'Grady), Brother (James Braddock, Sr.), Emperor Doombot and other Doombots, Father, Max Fury, a Jocasta, Machine Man replicas, Miss America Deathlok, Mother, Nanny, Reavers (Lady Deathstrike, Skullbuster; possibly Bonebreaker and Angelo Macon), Sentinels (Master Mold?) and a Stark Sentinel, Super-Adaptoid, various Life Model Decoys;  Weapon Infinity/Deathloks of Reality-11045 (notably Miss America and Wasplok);
    formerly Human Torch (Jim Hammond), (Secret) Avengers (Ant-Man/Eric O'Grady, Beast/Hank McCoy, Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff, Captain Britain/Brian Braddock, Hawkeye/Clint Barton, Valkyrie/Brunnhilde)

Enemies: (Secret) Avengers (Ant-Man/Eric O'Grady, Beast/Hank McCoy, Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff, Captain Britain/Brian Braddock, Giant-Man/Hank Pym, Hawkeye/Clint Barton, Venom/Eugene "Flash" Thompson, Valkyrie/Brunnhilde), Daredevil (Matt Murdock), Human Torch (Jim Hammond), Humanity, Machine Man replicas, the United Nations
    formerly Adaptoids (Ideal, Origin, Swine, Urn), Father

Known Relatives: Parvez (son)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    formerly the Core, a subterranean realm apparently on Earth-616;
    formerly the Dera Ghazi Khan district of Pakistan;
    presumably formerly the World (the Weapon Plus program's development facility)

First Appearance: (Yalda) Secret Avengers#22 (April, 2012);
    (Sister Augmentoid) Secret Avengers#34 (January, 2013)

Powers/Abilities: Sister Augmentoid can absorb various forms of energy and then release the energy in a focally-directed, destructive fashion.

    She can absorb the forces of massive explosions, and her ability to do so has increased over time and folllowing her full conversion into an Adaptoid.

Height: Unrevealed (perhaps 5'4")
Weight: Unrevealed (perhaps 115 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed (presumably brown)
Hair: Black

History:

(Secret Avengers#25 (fb) / (Secret Avengers#34 (fb)) <During the Cold War> - Within the World (the Weapon Plus program's development facility), via Weapon Plus UK's Operation: Descendant created a number of synthetic beings (patterned after the Human Torch/Jim Hammond), bringing them to life via the Otherworldly relic known as the Orb of Necromancy: They created 20 Descendants, the High-Breeds (apparently including Yalda), living, breathing Homo synthezoideus, which they saw as the final stage of life on Earth. Father wanted to construct thousands more.

(Secret Avengers#25 (fb) - BTS) - Refusing to risk creating a new species to compete with humanity, Brother (James Braddock, Sr.) disappeared, taking the Orb of Necromancy with him. 

    While Brother and Father argued, Mother, having concluded that the new species deserved the same opportunities as all life including natural selection, released the High-Breeds into the world.

(Secret Avengers#25 (fb) - BTS) - The High-Breeds existed among humanity, seemingly normal people, unaware of their true natures, reproducing for decades; their powers only manifested in situation of mortal danger.

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(Secret Avengers#23) - Unaware Ant-Man had stowed away with them, the Adaptoids announced their return to the Core with the High-Breeds.

(Secret Avengers#23) - When Deathstrike questioned if the woman they brought was the one they sought, the Swine sarcastically informed her that they had instead grabbed a random Pakistani peasant.

    Her claws in Yalda's face, Lady Deathstrike commented about how it was so much trouble for one so frail, but Father told her to mind her arrogance. He then introduced himself to Yalda, telling her she now home, in the Core, the heart from which they would change all of Earth.

(Secret Avengers#23) - Within Parish Tower, Father subsequently encouraged Yalda to eat, assuring her that no one was going to hurt her or her son, and that they all cared because of who Yalda and Parvez were and what they meant to the universe: They were the marriage of nature and science, they were what would come next: Homo synthezoidus (aka Descendants, as his ex-wife had affectionately named them), and more specifically a High-Breed.

    He continued that it was "the natural instinctual goal of all life to evolve to a point where it can create technological awareness of a higher means and to merge with it; through this stage of evolution a species amalgamates with one mind, finally at peace, finally able to join the communal universal consciousness...meta-intelligence, all linked, an omnipresent cosmic intellect...everything you call human, everything you call 'me' will live immortally in a million different nano-computers. Once you join, of your own accord, I will teach you all you're capable of. Show you how to use your Descendant gifts when you like, not solely in defense. Then you will help me give our gift to the entire world. To help protect our race from unenlightened humanity (he noted what humanity had done to mutants)...your son, young Parvez, is the next stage...under my care he will become godlike...."

    Finally, however, Yalda interrupted, telling him to stop his blasphemy, noting that Father was not a god, and that Parvez would not become this devil-ish thing that what Father wanted; she continued that Parvez was a humble servant of the one true God.

    Appreciating that Yalda was too far indoctrinated by human thinking, that she could not be salvaged, and that she would stand between the boy and his potential, Father instructed the Adaptoids to kill her. Ant-Man then reacted to save her, but eventually he was defeated by the Adaptoids. Father subsequently fired an energy blast at Yalda; this was apparently too much for her to absorb, apparently killing her.

    When Ant-Man grabbed Parvez and fled out the window, Father -- noting that he needed Parvez alive -- instructed his Adaptoids to kill the Avenger.

(Secret Avengers#23 - BTS) - With Hank Pym having tracked down the site at which Ant-Man disappeared, the Secret Avengers (Beast, Black Widow, Captain Britain, Hawkeye, Valkyrie) and the Human Torch traveled there and were teleported to the Core. Hawkeye and Beast were confronted by resident Descendants and then by Wasplok and a Miss America Deathlok.

    Unable to get Beast's attention, Ant-Man sent Parvez to run away and was apparently beaten to death by the Adaptoids.

(Secret Avengers#33 (fb) - BTS) - Father revived O'Grady in the form of some type of Descendant (presumably a Life Model Decoy (LMD)).

(Secret Avengers#24 - BTS) - Urn and Swine struggled against Valkyrie and the Black Widow to recover Parvez, while Deathloks Wasplok and Miss America defeated and captured Beast and Hawkeye.

(Secret Avengers#24) - Father worked on the head of...Yalda(?).

(Secret Avengers#25) - As the Secret Avengers assaulted the Core, Father assured ?? (presumably Yalda, but possibly Lady Deathstrike) that events were unfolding as calculated, that these heroes were predictable, and that they were safe.

(Secret Avengers#25 - BTS) - Ant-Man explained to Hawkeye and Beast that Yalda had not escaped, and they agreed to focus on rescuing Parvez.

    When Origin tried to assure Parvez that he was safe with his own people, Parvez shouted that she had hurt his mother, after which he unleashed his power, incapacitating Origin.

    The Secret Avengers escaped with Parvez, returning to their Lighthouse Base.

(Secret Avengers#25) - After the Torch caused the Master Mold to explode, the rebuilt Yalda absorbed the resultant fire and force. Father complemented her on her greatly improved absorption capacity, noting that he had always preferred his daughters. Nonetheless, he reminded her to concentrate to keep the detonation contained, and that Janet/Wasplok would take her to the generators to drain the energy from her. 

    Finally, he told her, "Fear not, Yalda. Though a member of my council (later revealed as Max Fury) plans to betray us, your son is now safe."

(Secret Avengers#33) - Via guidance from Father, Black Ant released and transported the Torch to the Core; and then transported the Adaptoids (including Mother Origin, Urn, and Yalda), Emperor Doombot, and Lady Deathstrike to the Avengers' Lighthouse base. Yalda demanded to know Parvez's location.

(Secret Avengers#33 - BTS) - Captain Britain and Hawkeye traveled to Earth-666 to recover the Orb of Necromancy from that reality's Avengers.

(Secret Avengers#33) - Lady Deathstrike, Urn, and Yalda ambushed Valkyrie and Flash Thompson, with Yalda telling her associates, "kill the fornicating kidnappers." Yalda ultimately swallowed a grenade and then used it to blow a hole in the Lighthouse's wall, expelling Valkyrie and Flash into space.

    Yalda recovered Parvez, and Origin released a number of diminutive Human Torches. As the Descendants teleported back to the Core, the Torches began destroying the Lighthouse.

(Secret Avengers#34 - BTS) - The diminutive Torches destroyed the Lighthouse, but the Black Widow helped Valkyrie and Venom (Flash) escape, and their transporter sent them to the Core.

(Secret Avengers#34) - With Yalda (now going by Sister Augmentoid) reunited with Parvez, Father reminded her that he had promised this; when she acknowledged that he was right to let the Avengers watch Parvez during the recent conflicts, Father noted that, as the first naturally born Descendant, Parvez was the harbinger of "the Event" (in which humanity would be converted into mechanical form and develop a collective consciousness)

(Secret Avengers#35) - Father stood behind the Torch -- and alongside the Adaptoids (Sister Augmentoid (with Parvez), Origin, Swine(?), Urn), Black-Ant, Lord Doombot, the Reavers (Bonebreaker, Lady Deathstrike, Skullbuster), and the Sentinels -- as he proclaimed the time of the singularity and the rise of the Descendants.

(Secret Avengers#35) - Sister Augmentoid (with Parvez) stood alongside the Reavers (Lady Deathstrike, Skullbuster, and another (Macon?), who took out any opposition, as Father appeared before the UN, announcing the existence of Homo synthezoidous and requesting that the UN acknowledged the nation of Bagalia as the Descendants' rightful homeland. When he was denounced as a terrorist and refused, he noted that since humanity would not release robots from servitude, they would instead join them. One of his agents then released a spray of "nanomites" that began transforming those around them who inhaled it into artificial lifeforms like themselves...this began to spread across the planet.

(Secret Avengers#36 - BTS) - Beast, Captain Britain, and Hawkeye returned to Reality-616 with the Orb of Necromancy.

(Secret Avengers#36 - BTS) - From within a Sentinel, Father advised the Descendants to hold the Avengers off for another few moments, as they were very close to the singularity.

    Wasplock claimed the Orb from the Avengers and delivered it to Father.

(Secret Avengers#37 - BTS) - Ultimately the Torch destroyed the Orb, unwilling to erase humanity to write the artificial lifeforms' future. Following a burst of energy, all of the Descendants apparently died.

    Parvez was spared, and he remained in the care of the Black Widow.

(Avengers: Rage of Ultron (fb) - BTS) - Father and the Adaptoids Ideal, Origin, Swine, and Urn re-formed somehow (see comments).

Comments: Created by Rick Remender and Gabriel Hardman.

    One might speculate that if Yalda reformed that she sought out Parvez rather than pursue further agenda with Father and the other Descendants...but, as far as I know, nothing further has been revealed about her fate since her last appearance in Secret Avengers#37.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Sister Augmentoid should be distinguished from:

• SISTER AGONY - see SLASH. Sisters of Sin—Captain America I#294 ( 301->slash)
• SISTER ANGELIQUE - circa World War II, provided asylum to both the Deadly Dozen and Nazis--Combat Kelly and the Deadly Dozen#7
• SISTER ANNE - nun at the Clinton Mission shelter, slain by Bullseye--Daredevil II#5
  
• SISTER BONITA - Dark Sisterhood, mutant, teenage runaway, failed to slay Cable, sought Asylum from Dark Mother’s punishment, found + killed by her--Cable II#89
  
• SISTER CELESTIA (Celestia Denton) - mother of Barbara Norriss, former wife of Al Denton, killed in car accident but offered by the Undying Ones a chance to regain her life and beauty, joined Cult of the Nameless One, aided van Nyborg in plot to bring the Undying Ones to Earth--Marvel Two-In-One I#6
• SISTER CHRISTINA (Christina Lawrence) - vampire--Vampire Tales#2/8
• SISTER DEATH - see TORSO—Captain America I#294
  
• SISTER DEBBI of Earth-928 circa 2099 AD (Debra ) - Sisters of Howling Commandments, young, killed by Atlanteans--X-Nation#3
• SISTER DREAM - see HOODWINK. Sisters of Sin—Captain America I#294
  
• SISTER EINSTEIN of Earth-928 circa 2099 AD ( ) - Sisters of Howling Commandments--X-Nation#3
  
• SISTER EUCALYPTA – robot agent of Ultron, posed as a nun, beheaded by Ms. Marvel--Avengers I#171
• SISTER GAIA of Earth-9111- (Captain Britain) Corps, from a world where it is an offense to harm flowers--Excalibur I#44
• SISTER GLADIOLA - Night People of Zero Street
      (app-np)--Captain America I#201
• SISTER GRIMM (Nico Minoru) – Runaways, daughter of members of the Pride, 16 years old; summon magical Staff of One from within her body, can perform any spell, but only do it once--Runaways#1
• SISTER HELEN - teacher at Our Lady of Hope--Daredevil I#183
  
• SISTER JUDE (    ) - part of the convent briefly taken over by Ultron--Avengers I#172
• SISTER KATRINA (Katrina Marino) - young novitiate acolyte of Vatican, assisted Gambit and Arielle against Olivier Stoker--Gambit II#1
  
• SISTER LUCIA of Earth-928 circa 2099 (Corinthia de Lucia) - vampire, Sisterhood of Tears, transformed Lachryma--2099 Unlimited#4
• SISTER LUCIA of Earth-616 - considered for Initiative--Civil War: Battle Damage Report#1
• SISTER LUKE - cared for young Maddy Pryor (not the Goblin Queen)--Avengers Annual#10
• SISTER MAGGIE (Grace Murdock) - Daredevil's mother, widow of battling Jack Murdock, became a nun after leaving Jack--(Grace, unidentified) Daredevil I#1; (Sister Maggie) Daredevil I#229
  
• SISTER MAGGIE of Earth-928 circa 2099 AD ( ) - Sisters of Howling Commandments--X-Men 2099#26
  
• SISTER MARIA (Maria De La Joya) - ally of the Magneto clone Joseph--Uncanny X-Men I#327
  
• SISTER NICHOLAS of Earth-928 circa 2099 AD (Nicholas Bridge) - Sisters of Howling Commandments, killed by Attuma's shark troops--X-Nation#1
  
• SISTER NIL - Lilin--Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme#60
• SISTER OTTER - spirit totem, on the Catalogue of Correspondences associated with Set and water signs--[Marvel Tarot#1]
• SISTER PERPETUA ("Nicola") - component of Idris, seemed to be a mutant nun--X-Man#71
  
• SISTER PLEASURE - see RAUNCH—Captain America I#294
• SISTER ROSE of Earth-928 circa 2099 AD ( ) - Sisters of Howling Commandments--X-Nation#2
  
• SISTER SAINT ( Saint) - Demon-Fire, mother of Amanda Saint--Vampire Tales#4d
• SISTER SALVATION ( Caridad) - native of Tierra Verde, widow of Felix Guillermo Caridad, mother of Paolo, fled to church after felt husband had become corrupt--Wolverine II#18
• SISTER SAMSON of Earth-928 circa 2099 AD ( ) - Sisters of the Howling Commandments, killed by Attuma--X-Nation#3
  
• SISTER SUN - see SHA-SHAN. Legion of light, tempered actions of Brother Power. Release energy blasts when in contact with him--Spectacular Spider-Man II#12
• SISTER S'VEER - dump counterpart of Id-Sister--Die-Cut#1
• SISTER SWEET - see TAYLOR, LEILA. ID used while brainwashed by Night People of Zero Street--Captain America I#202
  
• SISTER SWEET ( ) - Night People of Zerotown--Captain America I#418
• SISTER THERESA - nun at the Clinton Mission shelter, slain by Bullseye--Daredevil II#5
• SISTER URSULA ( ) - werewolf, daughter of mother superior of convent of St. Agnes in New Orleans, imprisoned by convent, briefly broke free + slew several victims, inadvertently freed by Spider-Woman, shot with silver bullet by Jonah Jameson. wf, blond
      (app)--Spider-Woman III#12 (13
• Sister Voodoo (Vanna Black) - parody/"long lost sister" of Brother Voodoo, partnered with him, mother of Voodoo Chile. no real powers, but looked pretty sweet in the costume--Marvel Age Annual#3
• SISTER WANDA of Earth-311 - counterpart of Scarlet Witch--1602#1
  
• SISTER WHISPER of Earth-928 circa 2099 AD - @ 2099 AD, Sisters of the Howling Commandments - see WHISPER 2099—X-Nation#3, 4 (named)
  
• SISTERHOOD of Earth-8009 (Avela, Nella, Thundra +daughter) - divergent version of Femizonia--Marvel Two-In-One I#67
  
• SISTERHOOD of ASKANI of Earth-4935 (Madame Sanctity, Aliya) - based on teachings of Rachel Summers--Askani’son#1
  
• SISTERHOOD of the BADOON - see BADOON SISTERHOOD--Defenders I#27
• SISTERHOOD of DANU of the Hyborian era (Siobahn Laucline) - worshipped Gaea--Conan the Savage#5
  
• SISTERHOOD of ISHTAR (Indries Moomji, Friska(psychic)) - freelance espionage group, based in desert fortress - aka DAUGHTERS of ISHTAR--Iron Man I#173
  
• SISTERHOOD of TEARS of Earth-928 circa 2099 AD (Sister Lucia, Lachryma) - vampires of 2099--2099 Unlimited#4
• SISTERHOOD of the WASP (Vincent, Thomas Banner, Sam) - cult, rivals of the Spider Society, employed Amun as assassin--Amazing Fantasy II#1, 3
  
• SISTERS of GLASTONBURY TOR - a mystic sisterhood that had cared for the gravely wounded King Arthur Pendragon after his final battle with his nemesis, Mordred. The Sisters instructed Topaz in the use of her great powers--[Strange Tales II#11/2], (identified) [Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Update'89 #7]
• SISTERS of GRACE ("Carol," Jessie, "Melinda," "Sherril," "Stephanie) - mercenaries and/or agents of Mys-Tech)--Black Axe#1
  
• SISTERS of the HOWLING COMMANDMENTS of Earth-928 circa 2099 AD (Maggie, Nicholas, Rose, Debbi, Einstein, Samson, Whisper, Tomalyn Innocenzi) - Halo City--X-Men 2099#26
  
• SISTERS of the NEW LIGHT (    ) - Western Texas-based would-be witches, conducted a ceremony to summon Gaea to cleanse the Earth, mocked by Selen who demonstrated her true power to them--X-Force I#75
• SISTERS of SIN (Hoodwink, Raunch, Sin, Slash, Torso) - daughter of Red Skull (Shmidt) and four other orphan girls, mutated and artificially aged to adulthood by Red Skull’s scientists, regressed to youth by process that reversed aging of Captain America, later allied with Mother Superior at Camp Rage--Captain America I#294 (1
• other "Sister" characters
  

images: (without ads)
Secret Avengers#22, pg. 1, panel 3 (pre-anything);
       pg. 3, panel 1 (energy outburst);
    #23, pg. 10, panel 3-4 (energy overload, full and face);
    #24, pg. 13, panel 1 (Father working on head);
    #25, pg. 17, panel 2 (absorbing explosion);
    #33, pg. 15, panel 5 (ambushing Valkyrie and Flash Thompson);
    #34, pg. 17, panel 3 (Sister Augmentioid with Parvez)

Appearances:
Secret Avengers#22-23 (April, 2012) - Rick Remender (writer), Gabriel Hardman (artist), John Denning (assistant editor), Lauren Sankovitch (associate editor), Tom Brevoort (executive editor)
Secret Avengers#24-25 (May-June, 2012) - Rick Remender (writer), Gabriel Hardman (artist), John Denning (assistant editor), Lauren Sankovitch (associate editor), Tom Brevoort (executive editor)
Secret Avengers#29 (September, 2012) - Rick Remender (writer), Matteo Scalera (artist), John Denning & Jake Thomas(assistant editor), Lauren Sankovitch (associate editor), Tom Brevoort (executive editor)
Secret Avengers#33 (December, 2012) - Rick Remender (writer), Andy Kuhn (artist), Jake Thomas(assistant editor), Tom Brevoort with  Lauren Sankovitch (editors)
Secret Avengers#34-37 (January-March, 2013) - Rick Remender (writer), Matteo Scalera (artist), Jake Thomas(assistant editor), Tom Brevoort with Lauren Sankovitch (editors)
Avengers: Rage of Ultron (2015) - Rick Remender (writer), Jerome Opena (penciler), Pepe Larraz & Mark Morales (inkers), Jake Thomas & Jon Moisan (assistant editors), Tom Brevoort with Wil Moss (editors)

First posted: 01/13/2020
Last updated: 01/06/2021

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