Guillotine (comics)

Guillotine
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Marvel Contest of Champions (mobile game)
Contest of Champions (vol 2) #1 (December 2015)
Created by Al Ewing and Paco Medina
In-story information
Alter ego Jeannine Sauvage [1]
Abilities Holder of mystic Fleur du Mal sword
Expert swordsman

Guillotine or Jeannine Sauvage is a fictional mystic character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She was born of a mixed French-Algerian heritage and is the latest in her bloodline to inherit "La Fleur du Mal", a mystical sword with dark supernatural powers.

Publication history

The character was first developed by Al Ewing and Paco Medina. Her first appearance in any Marvel property was in the Contest of Champions mobile game. She later appeared in print in the first issue of volume 2 of the accompanying comic book to the game that was published in December 2015.

Fictional character biography

In 1793, an ancestor of Sauvage, Jean Desmarais, found the mythical Fleur du Mal sword in the Paris catacombs when escaping the authorities as being a revolutionary. Since then, it was passed on to his descendants with the most recent one being Jeannine Sauvage.

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