Darren Cross
- For the musician Darren Cross, see Darren Cross (Musician).
| Darren Cross | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Marvel Premiere #47 |
| Created by |
John Byrne David Michelinie |
| In-story information | |
| Species | Human |
| Team affiliations | Cross Technological Enterprises |
Darren Agonistes Cross is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the first enemy of Scott Lang, the father of Augustine Cross, and the cousin of Crossfire.
The character is portrayed by Corey Stoll in the film Ant-Man.
Publication history
Darren Cross first appears in Marvel Premiere #47 and was created by John Byrne and David Micheline.
Fictional character biography
Darren Cross is a millionaire and the founder of Cross Technological Enterprises, a successful corporation which rivals its unidentified top competitors. Darren was diagnosed with a heart condition due to overwork, and had to use an experimental nucleorganic pacemaker in order to save his life. The pacemaker was a success, and also enhanced Darren's circulatory system, mutating his body and giving him superhuman abilities, although with a side effect that overuse causes the burning out of his heart. Because of this, Darren went through various heart transplants, which lead him to capture surgeon Dr. Erica Sondheim to replace his heart, and to abduct "donors" from the slums.[1] This attracted the attention of the second Ant-Man looking for Sondheim in order to save his own daughter's life. The resulting battle with Ant-Man burned out Darren's heart as Sondheim had given him an old heart prior to Ant-Man crashing the surgery.[2]
However, Darren's body was revealed to have been kept in a cryogenic state as his son Augustine Cross, having taken over as the family company head after his father's death,[3] later became obsessed with bringing Darren back to life and eventually forced Dr. Sondheim to help.[4] Enlisting the aid of Crossfire, Augustine had orchestrated Cassie Lang's capture as the girl's heart is required to withstand the unique conditions when transplanted into Darren. While infiltrating Cross Technological Enterprises to rescue Cassie, Ant-Man came across his restored nemesis.[5] Darren engaged in combat against Ant-Man while Ant-Man buys time for Sondheim to transplant another heart to Cassie. Darren is ultimately forced to flee with his son when the Pym Particles now in his body caused him to shrink down.[6]
Darren Cross was later approached by Power Broker II to demonstrate his latest "Hench" App by hiring Whirlwind to kill Ant-Man. However, Cross was unwilling to give Power Broker the 1.2 billion dollars he demanded for investment in the Hench app. This caused Power Broker to cancel the demo and cancel Whirlwind's assassination on Ant-Man.[7]
Powers and abilities
Darren Cross' pacemaker made for his heart gave him superhuman abilities like slightly superhuman strength and increased sensory perception (especially eye-sight); but the side-effect has it burning out each heart that is transplanted into him.[2] After his Pym Particles-equipped heart transplant, he can also shrink his size, albeit without his control.
In other media
Film and Television
- Corey Stoll portrays Darren Cross in the 2015 film Ant-Man as the Marvel Cinematic Universe's iteration of Yellowjacket.[8][9] The film's main antagonist, he is a former prodigy that is the son-like protégé of Hank Pym, a sibling-like relationship with Hope van Dyne, and a nemesis of Scott Lang. Cross pushes Pym out of his mentor's namesake company and takes over as CEO, stemming from an obsession with duplicating the original Ant-Man's shrinking technology. Cross attempts this with his Yellowjacket suit despite his imperfect shrinking technology, which slowly drive him mad. While trying to sell his imitation shrinking technology to Mitchell Carson's HYDRA faction and a Ten Rings operative, Cross has a confrontation with Scott, resulting in Cross donning the Yellowjacket suit to stop the new Ant-Man. When Scott and Hank completely destroy Pym Technologies' work, Yellowjacket tries to exact revenge by threatening the new Ant-Man's daughter, but Scott stops him by shrinking into the Yellowjacket suit and messing with its functions, resulting in Cross' suit shrinking uncontrollably.
- Darren Cross / Yellowjacket appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers Reassembled, voiced by Travis Willingham. Hired by Ultron, he takes control of Iron Man's armor. After the Vision notices Yellowjacket, Captain America calls for Ant-Man to fight Yellowjacket where he is knocked out of Iron Man's armor and onto a nearby web on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier to be found by Spider-Man and Iron Spider. After getting some information out of Yellowjacket, Spider-Man tells the Avengers about Ultron's plans to use Avengers Tower's special codes to get control of the Iron Legion. While the Avengers head out to fight Ultron, Yellowjacket was taken away by some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
Video games
- Yellowjacket appears in Marvel: Future Fight.
- Yellowjacket appears in Marvel: Contest of Champions.
- Darren Cross/Yellowjacket appears in Lego Marvel's Avengers.
- Darren Cross' Yellowjacket appears in Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2.[10]
References
- ↑ Marvel Premiere #47. Marvel Comics
- 1 2 Marvel Premiere #48. Marvel Comics
- ↑ Iron Man #145. Marvel Comics
- ↑ Ant-Man Vol. 2 #3. Marvel Comics
- ↑ Ant-Man Vol. 2 #4. Marvel Comics
- ↑ Ant-Man Vol. 2 #5. Marvel Comics
- ↑ Astonishing Ant-Man #1
- ↑ "SDCC 2014: OFFICIAL: Evangeline Lilly & Corey Stoll Join Marvel's Ant-Man". Marvel.com. July 26, 2014. Archived from the original on July 26, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
- ↑ Collis, Clark (January 8, 2015). "Exclusive First Look at Ant-Man". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
- ↑ https://marvelavengersalliance2.com/aa2_characters/yellowjacket/
External links
- Darren Cross at Marvel Wiki
- Darren Cross at Comic Vine
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