Ajax (comics)

Ajax
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Incredible Hulk #379 (March 1991)
Created by	Peter David (writer) Dale Keown (artist)
In-story information
Team affiliations	Pantheon
Abilities	Accelerated healing factor Extended lifespan Via exoskeleton battle-suit: Superhuman strength, durability and reflexes

Ajax
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Deadpool #14 (March 1998)
Created by	Joe Kelly (writer) Walter McDaniel (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Francis Fanny
Team affiliations	Weapon X
Notable aliases	The Attending
Abilities	Enhanced strength Intuitive capacity Via implants: Superhuman speed and agility High tolerance to pain

Ajax is the codename belonging to two different characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. One character is the descendant of a demigod, the other a mercenary.

The mercenary Ajax is portrayed by Ed Skrein in the 2016 feature film Deadpool.

Ajax first appeared in Incredible Hulk vol. 2, #379 (March 1991), and was created by Peter David and Dale Keown.

Ajax is a member of the Pantheon, and is one of the descendants of the immortal Agamemnon, along with Achilles, Atalanta, Cassiopeia, Delphi, Hector, Paris, Perseus, Prometheus, and Ulysses. Ajax was born in Texas. He was named after Ajax, a Greek warrior who fought in the Trojan War.

When the warriors of the Pantheon first encounter the Hulk, for the purpose of inviting him to join them, Ajax attacks the Hulk after he believes the Hulk has struck Atalanta, for whom Ajax bears an unrequited crush. To prevent injuries to nearby civilians, Hulk pretends to be rendered unconscious so that the Pantheon will take him captive. When the Pantheon returns to their headquarters, The Mount, the formerly captive Hulk frees himself, and Ajax fights him again but this time is defeated by him. After the Hulk accepts the Pantheon's offer to join them Ajax attacks him again, but Atalanta, to whom Ajax is submissive, tells him that the Hulk is now a member of the Pantheon, and that he must now regard him as a friend.

Ajax serves on many of the Pantheon's missions while the Hulk is part of the team. Ajax fights rioters in New York City alongside Atalanta, killing some of them because his companion ordered this. Alongside the Hulk and the Pantheon, he battles S.H.I.E.L.D. and the forces of Farnoq Dahn in the Trans-Sabal war, and battled the People's Protectorate. After Atalanta is injured Ajax visits her in the Mount's hospital. He battles Dracchiss alongside the Pantheon, and is badly burned in a fight with the U-Foes.

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