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I quite enjoy the battle forums, but am getting rather sick and tired of seeing the same 20-odd characters repeatedly used in battles, because for me, finding new characters is half the fun. So starting today, and every consecutive Friday whenever I can, I'm going to add here a character (from comic books, anime, manga, novels, live action shows, cartoons,anything), who doesn't receive a whole lot of recognition in this forum. I'm going to review their powers and capabilities, their strengths and weaknesses, as well as what makes them an interesting character to use in a battle. Then maybe, as many people who read these might improve their knowledge of characters and use them in the battle forums.

Sarah Rushman a.k.a. Marrow!

Marrow is a character from the Marvel Universe. She appears in multiple X-Men and X-Force Comics.

Backstory

Marrow was born a Morlock, and as a child was witness to the infamous Morlock Massacre. She was transported with others to the Dark Dimension with Mikhail Rasputin, the crazed and villainous brother of Colossus and Magik. While there she was a bit crazy. When she came back there was a situation where Storm had to rip out her heart (one of them anyways, and it grew back). She villained around for a while, fought Spiderman, then after talking with him became a member of the X-Men. SHe had a rocky relationship with the team, and left often. She would eventually join Weapon X in order to gain control over her powers so that she could be more normal, but in turn had to assassinate folks. She was even depowered during M-Day, but kept her painful appearance. Most recently she was in X-Force where she serves quite dangerously, being able to create more bone weapons than ever.

Strengths

Marrow's greatest advantages come in the form of skill, her limited versatility, and her insane pain tolerance, making her a savage beast in a fight.

She was considered the Dark Dimensions top hunter, and is very good at hunting prey by real world standards. She was able to realize and take down a Prime Sentinel that was hunting her and other X-Men, when the machine was in the water.

Marrow is able to make pretty much any shape from her bones, as such she's mad very sharp knives, solid clubs, ridges for armor, and even surgical tools. She also would develop the ability to shoot out her bones in shards at a shorter distance.

Marrow's pain tolerance is quite powerful, she lives with bones that are constantly growing through her skin, can pull them out easily, and can take a ton of blunt force damage without fail.

Weaknesses

Marrow's greatest disadvantage comes in the form of damage taken. While she does possess a healing factor and enhanced durability, she's not bulletproof, and is relegated to closer ranged combat. Any sniper with enough skill could pull a headshot out on her. Essentially, she's like Wolverine, but not quite as good.

Appeal

What makes Marrow interesting? She's not a hero who cares about freedom or truth, justice and the american way. She just cares about herself, though she learns to help others eventually. She also has to endure some terrible stuff. Of course, because of that, she's back at scary dangerous mutant, but I'm sure that will change eventually.

As far as the battles are confirmed, she's perfect in match-ups against opponents with high skill but lower physicals, I'd say that she'd be able to give Nightwing or Batman a good fight at the very least.

-Peace, War, and all that Jazz

Jacthripper