N'IIX
Real Name: N'Iix
Identity/Class: Human;
citizen of Wakanda
Occupation: Weapons designer, chief scientific advisor
Group Membership: P.R.I.D.E. (Princess Regent Intelligence Division Executives; Flea, M'Yra, Zakar)
Affiliations: Fantastic Four (Human Torch/Johnny Storm, Invisible Woman/Susan Richards, Mr. Fantastic/Reed Richards, Thing/Ben Grimm), Mansa, Okoye, Ramonda, Shuri (formerly Black Panther), Sub-Mariner (Namor McKenzie)
Enemies: Broker (Walter Declun), Cybernauts, Desturi (Akeja, D'Arun, T'Kan, others), Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom), Mandroids, Ohyaku, Space Lubber
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: Professor N'Iix
Base of Operations: Wakanda
First Appearance: Black Panther V#7 (October, 2009)
Powers/Abilities: N'Iix has a PhD (field unknown) and is a genius level expert on most technologies. He has created a variety of weapons and armors for Shuri. He is also trained in hand to hand and armed combat with firearms.
Height: Unrevealed (5'9"; by approximation)
Weight: Unrevealed (160 lbs.; by approximation)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Bald
History:
(Black Panther V#7) - The P.R.I.D.E. (N'Iix, M'Yra and Zakar) accompanied Shuri on her visit to the White House. They stayed with her while Everett Ross had a talk with Shuri about the attack on T'Challa. Their limousine was attacked by Cybernauts, but N'Iix and the others got out of the car before it was blown up. Though N'Iix got rattled by the explosion, he was there to witness Black Panther (Shuri) take out the attacking Cybernauts. She then ordered N'Iix to strip all of the attacker's equipment, take tissue samples and so on. Unfortunately for N'Iix the Cybernauts incinerated due to an inferno failsafe that burned them down to the atomic level before he could take any samples though he was able to do a spectrometer reading on the weapon configuration before incineration.
At the Wakandan Embassy in Washington D.C. N'Iix informed Shuri that they were able to do readings on the bomb fragments and equipment that got knocked loose during the fight. According to him there were no serial numbers, but metallurgic scans and chromatography were sure to give them the identity of the creator of the raw materials. His earlier spectrometer reading revealed the wrist cannons of the Cybernauts to be similar to Wakandan air guard backup weapons. He also recognized the power packs on the suits as Stark Industries technology. Shuri ordered N'Iix and the others to find a connection between the attacks on her and her brother.
(Black Panther V#8 (fb) - BTS) - N'Iix had the Wakandan intelligence network looked through everything they had. They uncovered some promising leads within three days, but each answer raised more questions. N'Iix kept Shuri updated.
(Black Panther V#8) - N'Iix gave Shuri an update on the research. At this point it didn't seem like Stark was involved because the pulse laser cannon used an outdated repulsor core that was probably looted from Stark Industries during the recent attacks by the Skrulls. The control circuit was undoubtedly state-of-the-art Wakandan Air Force technology that had been modified by a genius to guide laser-pulse fire, which meant that a Wakandan had to be involved in the weapons design. A list of possible traitors that could've been involved was put together by Zakar. According to N'Iix the design of the actual machinery they couldn't recover, but got used by the Cybernauts was Atlantean. As far as N'Iix knew nobody was ever able to pirate this kind of technology, but he had a possible lead to Hellerman Exports in Newark, New Jersey. The company was according to N'Iix tied to a man that brokered technology to politically extreme groups. N'Iix equipped Shuri with new equipment he had built specifically for her including Holopods, Spider Bites, Desert Sand (grenades filled with microburst EMPs), Shok-Nets, kevlar and spider-silk mesh gloves with Adamantium-tipped claws over Vibranium shells.
(Black Panther V#8 - BTS) - During Shuri's attack on the export company she was impressed by the spider bites and told Flea to tell N'Iix how well they worked. She also used a Shock-Net and Desert Sands against Ohyaku. The Desturi were watching the fight through the security cameras at Hellerman Exports and were sure the new gadgets Shuri was using were built by N'Iix. They weren't concerned with Shuri downloading the data at Hellerman Export because it had already been replaced with an entirely different intelligence package as soon as Shuri had bypassed the security and it would lead her to Namor.
(Black Panther V#9 (fb) - BTS) - N'Iix began running decryption on the data as soon as Shuri had downloaded it.
(Black Panther V#9) - The P.R.I.D.E. picked up Shuri with a Wakandan jet at Hellerman Exports when twenty Cybernauts came to the aid of Ohyaku. N'Iix kept the Cybernauts at bay with gunfire until they escaped.
Back at the Wakandan Embassy N'Iix went through the clients list of the Broker, which included forty transactions of Atlantean salvage for over a Billion dollars from a client codenamed Rex. Shuri and her team assumed Rex was Namor, but Shuri demanded N'Iix to go through all the data so they had more to go on. N'Iix had already sent most the data back to his team in Wakanda via secure link so they could go through the tens of thousands of pages of records. They soon sent him a lead to two former Wakandan military members that had access to the Wakandan Air Force technology the Cybernauts had used, who had received substantial money transfers. Shuri asked N'Iix to keep looking for proof against Namor while she, Zakar and M'Yra went after the leads in Philadelphia and Coney Island.
(Black Panther V#10 - BTS) - Black Panther (Shuri) got attacked by Ohyaku and the Cybernauts after confronting former Wakandan pilot D'Arun, who blew himself up after mentioning Desturi because it was a trap all along. Before the Cybernauts died due to inferno failsafes Shuri was able to place the telemetric uplinks on them, which was confirmed by N'Iix. M'Yra and Zakar ran into a similar problem when their lead blew himself up as well after yelling Desturi.
(Black Panther V#10) - Meanwhile N'Iix was able to crack the code on the hard drive to reveal a fragmented video that had been sent to the Broker from a hidden camera on the Royal Quinjet. The video, which was made moments before the attack on the Quinjet, clearly saw T'Challa and the Dora Milaje identify Namor.
N'Iix and M'Yra equipped Shuri with more gadgets while Shuri told Mr. Fantastic about the incriminating evidence against Namor. N'Iix had Shuri wear an armor with untested flexible Vibranium mobile shielding, which could stop a cruise missile and worked more like a second skin than armor, which probably wasn't enough in a confrontation with Namor.
(Black Panther V#11) - N'Iix and M'Yra watched Black Panther (Shuri) jump out of the jet for her confrontation with Namor. It quickly devolved into a battle until the Fantastic Four arrived to calm down the situation.
Without trying to disrespect N'Iix's work Mr. Fantastic informed N'Iix and the others that he had run the video through his own technology and found out that the timecode had been tampered with and that there had actually been a huge gap between the attack on the Royal Quinjet and its meeting with Namor. N'Iix wasn't thrilled because Wakandan technology was second to none, but accepted Reed's findings. Reed was sure that the Broker was behind the tampering and was connected to someone else. N'Iix wasn't sure why someone would attack Wakanda, but for Reed it was pretty obvious that they wanted Vibranium. Reed was ready to track down the Broker through the carrier signal in the false video.
(Black Panther V#12) - N'Iix piloted the team to Broker's island in the South Pacific until their jet's long-range scanners went dead and they were taken out of the sky by a man wearing an upgraded Mandroid armor. Mr. Fantastic saved N'Iix from the plane by serving as his parachute. N'Iix joined the battle against more of Broker's Cybernauts and his superhuman operatives. Even though they made their way through to the Broker (Walter Declun) they were too late to do anything about the Desturi's takeover of Wakanda with Doctor Doom's help.
(Doomwar#3 (fb) - BTS) - Using Dr. Reed Richards' supplies N'Iix's teams worked tirelessly to restore order in Wakanda and bring power back online after the Desturi leaders were slaughtered by Shuri and T'Challa.
(Doomwar#3) - In the Caves of Bast N'Iix reported to Shuri what he and his teams were up to and about the ongoing actions of Desturi strike groups, including suicide bombings in the Mount Kanda settlement and Paradise Forest. He also presented a Doombot head that was found in one of two completely destroyed outposts. N'Iix wondered in front of Shuri how devastating it would be if Doom actually managed to tap into the mystical properties of Vibranium, which N'Iix had tried and failed for years, and upgrade his Doombots with it. N'Iix feared Doom would be able to defeat all opposition.
(Doomwar#4) - N'Iix accompanied Shuri to Easter Island to attack one of Doom's facilities where he kept the stolen Vibranium from Wakanda and equipped her with a Vibranium-enhanced armor that helped change the tides against Doom's enhanced Doombots and hounds.
N'Iix commanded a squadron of Wakandan fighter jets to lay down cover fire for Shuri's ground teams in Mill Rock, New York after Shuri and her teams were nearly taken out by Doombots and other robots at one of Doom's facilities.
(Doomwar#5) - N'Iix discovered that the Mill Rock facility's fail-safes had been damaged and the mainframe had remained intact. He informed Shuri that Doom's war cost him billions, but was financed through thousands of legal businesses. With access to Doom's banking records he only had to crack the passwords to gain access to Doom's entire cash flow. He suggested crippling Doom's global network by diverting all his funds because he was sure Doom couldn't continue his war without money or that the Broker worked for free.
(Doomwar#5 - BTS) - N'Iix presumably helped to hack Broker's systems and rerouted over a hundred billion Euros belonging to Doom to charities.
(Shuri I#1) - N'Iix accompanied Queen Ramonda to watch the launch of T'Challa's spaceship.
(Shuri I#5) - In Wakanda, N'Iix joined Queen Ramonda, Princess Shuri, and Okoye in gathering resources to repel the alien invader, the Space Lubber, who had infected the mind of the girl Mansa. N'Iix was startled by the plans to bring the Lubber to Wakanda.
Comments: Created by Jonathan Maberry, Reginald Hudlin & Will Conrad.
This profile was completed 07/27/2021, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 20th anniversary's celebratory event.
N'Iix is clearly the same character as N'Lix and his name just changed because somebody mistook the first I in his name as an L. It is a typo!
--Markus Raymond
Profile by Chadman. Update by Markus Raymond (Black Panther, Doomwar).
CLARIFICATIONS:
N'Iix has no known connections to:
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Black Panther V#8, p7, pan2 (main)
Black Panther V#11, p20, pan4 (head shot)
Black Panther V#9, p3, pan2 (armed and dangerous)
Shuri I#5, p21, pan2 (name misspelled)
Appearances:
Black Panther V#7 (October, 2009) - Jonathan Maberry & Reginald Hudlin (writers), Will Conrad (artist), Axel Alonso (editor)
Black Panther V#8-10 (November, 2009 - January, 2010) - Jonathan Maberry (writer), Will Conrad (artist), Axel Alonso (editor)
Black Panther V#11 (February, 2010) - Jonathan Maberry (writer), Ken Lashley (pencils), Paul Neary (inks), Axel Alonso (editor)
Black Panther V#12 (March, 2010) - Jonathan Maberry (writer), Will Conrad (artist), Axel Alonso (editor)
Doomwar#3-5 (June-August, 2010) - Jonathan Maberry (writer), Scot Eaton (pencils), Andy Lanning & Robert Campanella (inks), Axel Alonso (editor)
Shuri I#1 (December, 2018) - Nnedi Okorafor (writer), Leonardo Romero (artist), Wil Moss (editor)
Shuri I#5 (April, 2019) - Nnedi Okorafor (writer), Leonardo Romero (artist), Wil Moss (editor)
First Posted: 09/28/2021
Last updated: 12/16/2024
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