- Hussar (comics)
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caption=Hussar, by Dave Cockrum
comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Hussar
real_name=
species=
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Uncanny X-Men " #137 (Sep 1980)
creators=Chris Claremont andJohn Byrne
alliance_color=background:#c0c0ff
alliances=Imperial Guard
aliases=
powers= wields a neuro-whip|Hussar is a fictional character in the
Marvel Universe .Fictional character biography
Hussar is a warrior serving in the Royal Elite of the
Shi'ar Imperial Guard. She wields awhip that she uses to channel bioelectricity into her opponents to shock and paralyze.Hussar joined in the Imperial Guard's trial by combat with the
X-Men to decide the fate of the Phoenix. ["Uncanny X-Men" #137]She became a traitor and part of a renegade Imperial Guard faction which served
Lord Samedar ,Deathbird , and the Brood in their conspiracy to overthrow Shi'ar Princess-Majestrix Lilandra. The renegades battled the X-Men and were defeated. ["Uncanny X-Men" #157]Alongide the Avengers and the Imperial Guard, Hussar battled the
Kree Starforce on Chandilar during the Kree/Shi'ar war. In the battle, Hussar teamed with theLiving Lightning to defeatSupremor . ["Thor" #446] Alongside the Imperial Guard, she then battled the Avengers on Chandilar and was this time defeated by the Living Lightning. ["Avengers West Coast" #81]She had been discharged and sent to Earth, which was turned into an intergalactic prison in
Maximum Security crossover in2000 .While
Warstar and Neutron seemed to be pardoned for their actions and were both later seen among the Imperial Guard again, Hussar and Webwing have not yet been seen again.Powers and abilities
Hussar wields a metal "neuro whip" that can induce pain through a victim's nervous system.
Hussar is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant, and a mistress of fighting using a whip, and was trained in armed and unarmed combat by the Shi'ar Imperial Guard.
Imperial Guardsmen wear small anti-gravity devices permitting them to fly, designed by Shi'ar scientists and technicians.
In other media
In the "X-Men Animated Series", Hussar appears in "The Phoenix Saga" and "The Dark Phoenix Saga" alongside the rest of the Imperial Guard.
Hussar appears in the video game "". She is powerful, and has a devastating whip attack. She fights the heroes alongside Neutron on board a Shi'ar warship. A simulation disk has Storm fighting Hussar at
Murderworld .References
External links
* [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/hussarimpguard.htm Hussar's Bio]
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