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Samurai

Samurai

Ishiro Tsuburaya (Samurai) was a member of Mutant Liberation Front, with the same powers as his brother Kamikaze.

Name:
Samurai
Publisher:
Real name:
Ishiro Tsuburaya
Aliases:
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Male
Powers:
  • Energy-Enhanced Strike
  • Flight
First issue:
cover

Origin

Member of the terrorist group the Mutant Liberation Front. His brother, Kamikaze, is also a member.

Creation

Samurai was written by Fabian Nicieza and drawn by John Romita, Jr.

History

During a period in which Stryfe sends out his lackeys to collect Apocalypse related artifacts, Samurai is placed on a team that breaks in to a museum in Egypt to boost a hieroglyph. Upon entering, however, the MLF squad finds Cable waiting for them. They are unable to grab the item. They willingly retreat, but not before Cable shoots Samurai in the arm. He must have never healed from this, as he is never seen again.

Side note: In the altercation with Cable, Samurai is also called Kamikaze. Whether the editors simply missed that Samurai should not have been a new character but the already existing Kamikaze, or if they just slipped since the characters look so similar, we'll never know. They could, however, have been meant to be the same person.

Issues

October 1992

November 1992

January 2019

June 2019

May 2020

Volumes

1992

2018

2020

Friends

Enemies

Teams