Fox Mask Killer

Representative of New York, wielding The Sword, in the 2025 Killer Competition

Name:

Fox Mask Killer

Publisher:

Image

Real name:

Naomi Yatsurugi

Aliases:

Birth date:

None

Gender:

Female

Powers:

Swordsmanship

First issue:

Exquisite Corpses #1

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Origin

Fox Mask Killer was a professional assassin working for Tooth and Claw, an outfit made up of professional killers in animal masks. When Fox finds out she is pregnant, she starts to doubt her place within the group. When she confesses her pregnancy to her lover, one of her fellow assassins, he celebrates that Tooth and Claw will have a next generation. Fox didn't want that for their child so she killed him on a mission and showed mercy to their child target. She went off the grid in upstate New York to raise her daughter with some semblance of normalcy.

Creation

Fox Mask Killer debuts in Exquisite Corpses #1 by James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh, and a nine person writer's room.

Major Story Arcs

2020 Killer Tournament

Fox Mask Killer was approached by Lady Carolina of South Carolina to be their competitor in the 2020 killer tournament. They were one of 13 families representing one of the original 13 colonies. The winning family gets to secretly control the country for the next five years, until the next tournament. However, Fox Mask held out until the bitter end, never competing for the South Carolina family. To get back at Fox Mask, the South Carolina family had her daughter killed.

2025 Killer Tournament

The family representing New York managed to convince her to compete for them by mentioning that Lady Carolina was prepping to be her family's chosen killer that year. Fox Mask could not turn down the opportunity for revenge. She was assigned the weapon type, "Sword." She tracked Carolina down just as she was finding her own weapons cache. The two would fight, but Fox would ultimately win by disarming Carolina of her crossbow. She decided to leave her defenseless and at the mercy of one of the other more psychotic killers.

She kept her head down sneaking around the kill area when she crossed paths with the Lone Gunman in a cemetery. They beat on each other pretty good, eventually in a standoff. Fox walked away taking a bullet in the shoulder, but Gunman bleed out from her stab. She would eventually come across Recluse, who gave her another good fight but ultimately died when Fox bit a chunk out of her neck.

Fox managed to survive to the final two, where she fought against Pretty Boy. After a brutal showdown, Fox cut Pretty Boy's head off with her sword. Bloody and bruised, Fox was ultimately killed by a civilian who had taken possession of the game's gun thus becoming an official player, as it was the weapon that was more important to the rules.