Immortal Weapons

The Immortal Weapons are fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are each a champion of one of the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven in the Marvel Universe. The Immortal Weapons first appear in The Immortal Iron Fist #8 (September 2007) and as a group, were created by Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction and David Aja.

Immortal Weapons
Cover art for The Immortal Iron Fist #22. Art by Patrick Zircher. Clockwise from center: Iron Fist, Dog Brother #1, Bride of Nine Spiders, Tiger's Beautiful Daughter, Fat Cobra, Prince of Orphans.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	The Immortal Iron Fist #8 (September 2007)
Created by	Ed Brubaker Matt Fraction David Aja
In-story information
Member(s)	Bride of Nine Spiders Dog Brother #1 Fat Cobra Iron Fist Prince of Orphans Tiger's Beautiful Daughter

Publication history

The characters were first introduced in The Immortal Iron Fist #8—and remained supporting characters in the series until its cancellation (#27). The group then starred in their own series, which began in July 2009—with the first issue focusing on Fat Cobra; written by Jason Aaron and Duane Swierczynski with art by Mico Suayan and Travel Foreman.^[1]

Members

• Bride of Nine Spiders - A woman who controls spiders and can store them in her body.
• Dog Brother #1 -
• Fat Cobra -
• Prince of Orphans -
• Tiger's Beautiful Daughter -

Former Members

• Steel Phoenix -

Appearances

A list of appearances made by the group, categorised alphabetically:^[2]

• Defenders (2012) — #6
• Iron Man 2.0 (2011) — #5—6
• Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu (2011) — #3
• The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) — #672
• The Immortal Iron Fist (2007) — #8—14, #16, #19—20, #22—23 + #25—26
• Immortal Weapons (2009) — #1—5 (Fat Cobra #1, Bride of Nine Spiders #2, Dog Brother #3, Tiger's Beautiful Daughter #4 and Prince of Orphans #5)

Other versions

Ultimate Universe

During the "Ultimate Invasion" storyline, Maker traveled to Earth-6160 and remade it into his own image. While having ruled K'un-L'un and the rest of Heaven's seven capital cities, Hulk and the Children of the Eternal Light are served by the Immortal Weapons which consist of Bride of Nine World-Breakers, Crane Mother of the Bomb, Decay's Beautiful Daughter, Fat Cobra, Prince of Meltdowns, and Uranium Brother #235 who all make use of their gamma injections. The Immortal Weapons assist Hulk in fighting the Ultimates when Hulk had them transported to K'un-L'un before they can enter a Damage Control facility containing a dozen super-powered prisoners. During the fight, Fat Cobra swallows a smaller Wasp only for her to grow enough to kill him. After Hulk used his Gigatron Vice Grip on Iron Lad enough to apparently kill him, Doom finally locates the Ultimates and extracts them from K'un-L'un before things get worse.^[3]

Four of the Immortal Weapons are sent to Monster Island to deal with the megafauna while A.I.M. holds the locals back at gunpoint. This is watched from a far by Iron Lad and She-Hulk.^[4]

In other media

Television

• Bride of Nine Spiders appears in Iron Fist played by Jane Kim. This version is a Korean arachnologist whose real name is Alessa. As a nod to her name in the comics, her lab number is 'B-09 S'. She appears in the episode "Immortal Emerges from Cave" where she is invited by Madame Gao to take part in a Da Jue Zhan (Grand Duel) against Danny Rand. Alessa is the second opponent that he faces and is shown to be a master of seduction and poison. Alessa manages to strike Danny with several poison needles before he manages the strength to kick her down defeating her.^[5]
• Fat Cobra appears in the Hulu animated series Hit-Monkey, voiced by Noshir Dalal.^[6]