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Cyber is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Universe and enemy of Wolverine of the X-Men. He was created by Peter David and Sam Keith in Marvel Comics Presents #88 (Late 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's skin has been covered or replaced with a layer of indestructible adamantium through unknown means. The only part of his body that is known to be exposed is his face, although he wears a mask that covers all of his head save for his mouth and chin. In order to survive the implanting of the adamantium, Cyber would need to have possessed endurance levels comparable with those of Wolverine. Cyber also possesses retractable adamantium talons, which he has been known to coat with drugs or toxins. Cyber is superhumanly strong, and the process that gave him his adamantium skin may have further enhanced his strength and durability.
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