Nijo Minamiyori (Earth-616)

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Real Name

Nijo Minamiyori

Current Alias

Agent X

Aliases

Alex Hayden

Identity

Secret

Alignment

Neutral

Affiliation

Agency X, formerly worked for the Black Swan and Taskmaster

Relatives

? Minamiyori (brother, deceased), Deadpool and Black Swan (mind donors), Outlaw (girlfriend)

Universe

Earth-616

Base Of Operations

Agency X Headquarters, Alpine Park amusement park, New York

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Height

6' 0"

Weight

210 lbs (95 kg)

Eyes

Brown

Hair

Bald

Unusual Features

Ambidextrous, formerly had X-shaped scars on body

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

Occupation

Mercenary

Origin

Origin

Caught up between Deadpool and the Black Swan, he gained a portion of their skills and power.

Creators

Gail Simone, Alvin Lee

First appearance

(Nijo) Deadpool Vol 3 #65; (Agent X) Agent X #1

History

Nijo was an assassin, mercenary, and agent employed by the Black Swan. He blamed Deadpool for his brother's death. The Black Swan targeted Deadpool for his assassination of the four winds. However, Black Swan grew tired of Nijo and stabbed him. A bomb Deadpool had brought went off, and all were presumed killed.

However, Alex Hayden soon emerged. He was found by Sandi, who assumed he was Deadpool. He took the name as a combination of composers he liked: Alexander Grieg and Josef Haydn. Taskmaster sought to help him get his bearings. He noticed Alex was ambidextrous and that he was somehow interfering with his reflex ability while training with him. Taskmaster then knew he couldn't be Deadpool, despite his healing factor and recognition of him and Sandi. They formed a mercenary group, Agency X. The headquarters is based out of an amusement park.

Alex met Outlaw (Inez Temple) while assigned to try and take out the Punisher and steal his Colt 45. handguns. They failed and were locked up in a phone booth minus their weapons and clothes by Castle. The Punisher then killed the people who had sent them.

Alex, Taskmaster and Sandi returned to his apartment to find Black Swan and Deadpool waiting. It turned out that all three had partially merged during the explosion. Black Swan psionically acquired Deadpool's healing factor but accidentally made contact Nijo.

Inez returned in time to help fight the Black Swan, who had now absorbed both Alex and Deadpool's powers to augment himself. After Deadpool pinned Swan under a car, Alex ignited it. Alex then reversed Black Swan's absorption, but also gave him the memories of being stabbed to death. The group then repeatedly shot the Black Swan to make sure he was dead. The body was taxidermied and carried around by each couple (Taskmaster and Sandi, Alex and Inez) as a prop while they went on vacation.

Alex had another confrontation with Deadpool. Unable to do much damage to each other due to their healing factors, they relented after Wade agreed to hand Alex his pancreas back.

After a botched attempt to steal a device from Hydra, Sandi and Outlaw convinced Deadpool to rescue Alex. Alex had been affected by the device he was supposed to steal, giving him arthritis and "the American gene" (which resulted in making him incredibly fat). This made escape physically impossible - though he wouldn't want to miss out on the many treats, and monkey chow, that were being given to him as a lab specimen. Deadpool managed to free Alex with the help of Bob, Agent of Hydra. He then asked Deadpool to run Agency X whilst he got himself back in shape, reasoning with himself that his only other alternatives were to shoot himself or eat Sandi and his business.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Regenerative Healing Factor, equal to Deadpool's. He also gained a portion of the Black Swan's psionic powers, although he seemed unaware that he was even using them. Due to 'cellular flux' is immune to resistant to telepathic attacks.

Abilities

Trained by Taskmaster in weapons and combat and expert marksman.

Strength level

Strength level unknown; presumably enhanced

Weaknesses

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: Guns, knives.

Notes

• No special notes.

Trivia

• An indirect student of Taskmaster's crime school, he never really joined or attended a single class at their complex.

See Also

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Links and References

• Nijo Minamiyori (Earth-616) at Marvel.com
  
• Nijo Minamiyori (Earth-616) at Wikipedia.org
  
• Teitelbaum, M. "Agent X" The Marvel Encyclopedia (p. 9). Ed. Alastair Dougal. New York: DK Publishing, 2006.