Cyber is a fictional character, a Marvel supervillain and enemy of Wolverine of the X-Men. He was created by Peter David and Sam Keith in Marvel Comics Presents #88, September 1991.

History

The man who would be called Cyber was the commanding officer of Wolverine during his days in the Canadian armed forces in World War I. His history prior to this is unknown; he has used the name "Silas Burr", but this may be an alias or simply a pun. The two men fought when Cyber killed a woman, and Logan was decisively beaten and humiliated. As a result of this, Cyber would, for years, be the only man who Wolverine would admit to being afraid of. Cyber's activities during the years between WWI and the modern era are unknown; however, given that he survived to the modern era in peak physical condition, it is likely that he is a mutant or has been mutated in some way. In this period, his skin was covered with adamantium through unknown means. In the modern era, Cyber resurfaced in Madripoor, where he interfered in the crime cartel of Wolverine's ally Tiger Tyger. Wolverine was forced to overcome his fear of Cyber in order to save Tyger's life, and in the process he cut out one of Cyber's eyes.

Cyber later battled the team of government operatives called X-Factor alongside the female criminal organization called the "Hell's Belles". There, Cyber badly beat X-Factor's Polaris, and was on the verge of killing her teammate Strong Guy when he was hit by a passenger train, taking him out of the fight. Shortly after the adamantium had been removed from Wolverine's skeleton at the hands of Magneto, Cyber encountered and fought Wolverine again. In the course of the battle, Cyber snapped off the claws on Wolverine's right hand, which were now made of bone rather than metal. Cyber was eventually defeated and captured by Wolverine and Excalibur before being turned over to S.H.I.E.L.D. Cyber was eventually broken out of prison by the Dark Riders, a team of mutants serving Cable's villainous son Genesis and devoted to the return of Apocalypse. The Dark Riders tricked him into a chamber containing "mutant deathwatch beetles", which apparently devoured the flesh from Cyber's entire body, beginning with his exposed face and eating the rest from the inside out. Cyber's adamantium skin, which had remained untouched, was then used in an unsuccessful attempt by Genesis to re-implant adamantium into Wolverine's skeleton.

Superhuman abilities

Cyber was a superhuman mutant that possessed a number of superhuman abilities, some due to his natural mutation and some due to artificial enhancement. Cyber possessed some degree of superhuman strength, though no official limit was revealed. Based upon his confrontations with Wolverine, Cyber could military press somewhere in the 3 to 10 ton range.

Through an unrevealed procedure, Cyber's skin was infused with the virtually indestructible alloy Adamantium, with the exception of his face and regions of his head. As a result, Cyber's body was virtually invulnerable to external attack. Housed within each of Cyber's fingers was a single, retractable Adamantium claw. Aside from being practically indestructible and extremely sharp, each claw was tipped in various types of poisons and toxins that were capable of affecting even Wolverine and proved fatal to ordinary humans.

Cyber possessed an enhanced "fast healing" ability similar to that of Wolverine that enabled him to survive the process that grafted Adamantium to his skin. However, Cyber's healing ability was not as developed as Wolverines. Wolverine once gouged out Cyber's left eye in combat and Cyber proved unable to regenerate his missing eye and it was replaced with an artifial inmplant. Cyber was Wolverine's commanding officer during World War I, indicating that he is even older than Wolverine. Cyber's healing powers possessed an age supression factor similar to Wolverine's. Despite his chronological age, Cyber possessed the appearance of a man in the physical prime of his life.

Due to Cyber's regenerative abilities, he possessed considerably greater physical stamina than an ordinary human and could exert himself, potentially, for about a day before fatigue would begin to set in.

Cyber's final ability is an unusual psionic ability that allows him to track brain patterns. It was never revealed if Cyber could track the brain patterns of anyone, or just certain people, but the power did have considerable range. He once tracked the brain patterns of Wolverine across the city of Edinburgh, Scotland and from Edinburgh to Muir Island.

Special skills

Cyber was an excellent hand to hand combatant and was extremely well connected throughout the criminal underworld, where he often hired himself out as an enforcer.