History
Early Life
Daniel "Danny" Leighton was born in Austin, Texas. He was later a member of the Savage Crimes, a New York street gang, as a youth. The leader of the gang was a young man called Brock, who later became the costumed assassin Crossbones. Brock was responsible for beating and possibly raping Danny's sister Rachel when she attempted to join the gang.[2]
Cutthroat
Leighton later became an assassin known as Cutthroat. He was hired by Amos Jardine to kill the superhero Spider-Man, in place of the eccentric assassin Arcade. Cutthroat battled the mutant hero Nightcrawler, who had discovered the plan, and Spider-Man, and the heroes defeated him with covert assistance from Arcade himself.[3]
Skeleton Crew
Many years later, Cutthroat defeated Mangler and Deathstroke in a fight to the death to become the Red Skull's new chief operative in his Skeleton Crew, replacing Crossbones. He received additional training with Taskmaster to improve his combat skills.[4]
Cutthroat tried to persuade his fellow Skeleton Crew members Blackwing and Jack O'Lantern to help him free their teammate Mother Night from police custody. Cutthroat soon had a brief affair with Mother Night, despite the fact that she was the Red Skull's mistress. With the Skeleton Crew, he battled Crossbones and Diamondback. Danny soon realized that Diamondback was his sister Rachel, and revealed who he was to her.[5]
When Crossbones returned to the Skeleton Crew, Cutthroat feared Crossbones would usurped him as chief operative, and planned to kill Crossbones in his sleep. However, worried about the outcome, Mother Night alerted Crossbones to the plan, and so Crossbones was waiting for Danny and slit Cutthroat's throat. Cutthroat was apparently killed.[6]
However, Cutthroat was later seen alive and incarcerated in the super-criminal prison The Raft, where he participated in a mass jailbreak.[7]
Hood's Gang
The criminal the Hood later hired Cutthroat as part of his criminal gang. Cutthroat helped the rest of the gang battle the New Avengers, but he was defeated by Doctor Strange. As part of the Hood's gang, Cutthroat joined the fight against the Skrulls' invasion force in New York.[8]
Dark Reign
Daniel was seemingly killed by Daken.[9] However, he somehow survived, and was among the Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. troops teleported to Asgard in the Oklahoma to fight the Asgardians and the Avengers.[10]
Return to Hood's Gang
Cutthroat attended a meeting of various villains organized by the Wizard to discuss what to do about Doctor Doom who had unexpectedly decided to become a superhero and become the new Iron Man. As the Hood brought up the idea of forming a gang of villains to take Doom out, Doom suddenly appeared and took down all of the villains present.[11] Cutthroat later participated in an ambush against Doom along with many of the other villains that Doom had earlier defeated[12] before joining Hood's Gang once more in ransacking Castle Doom in search for Doom's fortune.[13]Attributes
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Abilities
- Master Combatant: Cutthroat is skilled in various forms of unarmed combat, having received training from the Taskmaster. He is also proficient with daggers and knives.[14][15][16][17]
- Throwing: He is also highly skilled in throwing bladed weapons.[14][15][16][17]
- Firearms: He is a reasonably skilled marksman with guns.[15]
- Peak Human Condition: Cutthroat is a well trained man with the physique of an Olympic level athlete.[17][14]
Paraphernalia
Equipment
See Also
- 47 appearance(s) of Daniel Leighton (Earth-616)
- 6 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Daniel Leighton (Earth-616)
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Daniel Leighton (Earth-616)
- 1 mention(s) of Daniel Leighton (Earth-616)
- 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Daniel Leighton (Earth-616)
- 7 image(s) of Daniel Leighton (Earth-616)
- 3 victim(s) killed by Daniel Leighton (Earth-616)
Links and References
References
- ↑ New Avengers #2
- ↑ Captain America #319
- ↑ Marvel Team-Up #89
- ↑ Captain America #394–396
- ↑ Captain America #408
- ↑ Captain America #409
- ↑ New Avengers #2–3
- ↑ Secret Invasion #7
- ↑ Dark Wolverine #80
- ↑ Avengers: The Initiative #34
- ↑ Infamous Iron Man #7
- ↑ Invincible Iron Man #594
- ↑ Invincible Iron Man #597–598
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Heroic Age: Villains #1
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #3
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 New Avengers Most Wanted Files #1
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #28
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #3
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z Vol 1 3