Die-Cut (comics)

Die-Cut
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel UK
First appearance	Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut #1 (1993)
Created by	Glenn Dakin John Royle
In-story information
Alter ego	Czorn Yson
Place of origin	Ganalon
Abilities	A blade called the "Pscythe" that can cut through any material

Die-Cut (real name: Czorn Yson) is a fictional character who appears in comic books published by the Marvel UK imprint of Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut #1 (1993). Die-Cut then co-starred in another miniseries, Die-Cut vs G-Force, before receiving his own Die-Cut limited series in November 1993.

Fictional character biography

Czorn Yson is a mutant from the planet Ganalon. The Ganalonians have been engaged in a war with a race of cyborgs for centuries. Yson enlists as a soldier in the battle against the cyborgs; it is from his experiences that he gains a pathological hatred of all things mechanical.

Yson is captured by the cyborg forces and tortured for information. He successfully blocks their mental probes by feigning schizophrenia, but eventually slips into true madness. When the Minion cyborg, the future Death's Head II, arrives to assimilate his personality, Yson willingly submits in order to end his torture.^[1]

Years later, Death's Head II is infected with a type of a computer virus known as a purging program, which forces some of his assimilated personalities to emerge. Czorn Yson is one of those personalities. Death's Head II is eventually forced to allow Yson's personality to temporarily take over, whereupon Yson manages to create a new, enhanced body and download his personality into it. Now calling himself Die-Cut, the insane mutant cuts Death's Head into two. He eventually regains his sanity, and sets off on a quest to destroy all cyborgs.^[2]

Powers and abilities

Die-Cut has a blade, called the Pscythe, attached to his left arm. Drawn from his memories when he created a new body, the Pscythe can cut through virtually any matter or energy. It has the ability to open portals through space and other dimensions. The Pscythe can also be used to erase memories.

Notes

1. ^ Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut #2
2. ^ Death's Head II & the Origin of Die-Cut #1

References

• Die-Cut at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
• Die-Cut at the Grand Comics Database
• Die-Cut at the Comic Book DB
• Die-Cut at the Big Comic Book DataBase