Death's Head: Difference between revisions

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* [[Badass Automaton]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: Death's Head insists on being called a "freelance peacekeeping agent"; people calling him a [[Bounty Hunter]] never do so twice.

* [[Black Comedy]]/[[Deadpan Snarker]]: Death's Head's preferred form of wit, usually delivered with a [[Bond One Liner]] after completing his latest assignment.

* [[Black Comedy]]/[[Deadpan Snarker]]: Death's Head's preferred form of wit, usually delivered with a [[Bond One-Liner]] after completing his latest assignment.

* [[Cranial Processing Unit]]: Death's Head can continue to control his body even after being decapitated. In ''Death's Head II'' issue #1, he gets "assimilated" by being stabbed in the head.

* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: When he was hired by a group of rebels to assassinate an oppressive king, Death's Head discovers he was actually set up by the King and expected to die in an ambush. Death's Head proceeds to kill the palace guards and the King -- completing the original contract.

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* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Many of the crossover stories cannot be reprinted due to licensing conflicts, most notably with ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Transformers]]''. The various reprints usually explain these omitted stories as missing archival records.

** IDW Comics has recently reprinted the story where the Seventh Doctor crashes into Death's Head in ''Doctor Who Classics''.

* [[Law Enforcement Inc]]

* [[Law Enforcement, Inc.]]

* [[Let's You and Him Fight]]: Occurs in ''Death's Head'' #10, when an [[Upperclass Twit]] manipulates Death's Head and Iron Man 2020 to fight each other while he bets on the outcome.

** Occurs again in ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' #338, when Death's Head is hired to investigate a temporal anomaly and runs into the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, and Thor.

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* [[Verbal Tic]]: Death's Head often ends his sentences with "yes?" or "eh?"

** [[Word of God]] is that this is modeled after a [[Real Life]] British politician, though Simon Furman refuses to reveal who it is.

* [[What If]]: To address the personality change of Death's Head II, Simon Furman and Geoff Senior wrote ''What If...'' #54, "What If Death's Head I Had Lived?" In it, {{spoiler|Death's Head survives Minion's attack with an emergency teleportation device. He rebuilds his body into a larger, more heavily-armed form, then recruits various Marvel heroes in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] against Minion's [[One Winged Angel]] form before destroying him personally.}} Simon Furman has said that writing the story was "deeply satisfying and cathartic".

* [[What If]]: To address the personality change of Death's Head II, Simon Furman and Geoff Senior wrote ''What If...'' #54, "What If Death's Head I Had Lived?" In it, {{spoiler|Death's Head survives Minion's attack with an emergency teleportation device. He rebuilds his body into a larger, more heavily-armed form, then recruits various Marvel heroes in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] against Minion's [[One-Winged Angel]] form before destroying him personally.}} Simon Furman has said that writing the story was "deeply satisfying and cathartic".

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