How does Joaquin Torres fit into the Marvel Universe?Īlong with his physical mutations, Joaquin Torres shares a special psychic connection to Redwing – and by extension, Sam Wilson.
#The falcon and the winter soldier series#
Though most of the animal-human-mutates reverted to their human forms once free of Malus's captivity, through a complicated series of events owing largely to Redwing's altered DNA, Torres stayed mutated – wings, talons, and all. Sam Wilson, as Captain America, invaded Malus's facility and rescued all his experiment subjects, including Joaquin Torres. it's complicated), which is strong enough to heal him from seemingly mortal wounds. He also gained a regenerative healing factor due to the infusion of Redwing's DNA (Redwing, the bird, was also a vampire at the time.
Torres grew wings and talons along with developing bird-like senses, gaining great agility along with the flight granted by his wings. Malus took a special interest in Torres, splicing him with DNA from Sam Wilson's falcon, Redwing (in comic books, Redwing is not a drone but a live, trained falcon with whom Sam shares a psychic connection). This wasn't Malus's first experiment with this concept either – he previously helped genetically engineer and mutate the villains Daddy Long Legs and Armadillo.
In the case of the inhumane experiments he was performing on Mexican migrant workers, Malus was working on a way to splice human and animal DNA.
Malus, a former enemy of Spider-Woman, Hank Pym (the original Ant-Man), and others, was obsessed with creating superhumans and imbuing people with superpowers. When Joaquin was kidnapped alongside some people he was aiding, he discovered the horrible truth of the fates of those taken by the Sons of the Serpent – who delivered their captives to the mad scientist Karl Malus for use in his genetic experiments. As a teenager, he began caring for undocumented migrants crossing the border from Mexico into Arizona – a humanitarian effort that put him in the crosshairs of the white supremacist militia group the Sons of the Serpent, who regularly kidnapped migrant people attempting to cross the border. First appearing in 2015's Captain America: Sam Wilson #1 (opens in new tab), Joaquin Torres is a Mexican immigrant who came to Arizona at the age of six with his family.
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