Armor (comics)

Armor
Hisako Ichiki (Armor) Art by Dustin Weaver and Morry Holowell.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Astonishing X-Men #4 (October 2004)
Created by	Joss Whedon John Cassaday
In-story information
Alter ego	Hisako Ichiki
Species	Human Mutant
Team affiliations	Paladins training squad Xavier Institute New X-Men X-Men-In-Training X-Men Jean Grey School Students
Abilities	Ability to generate an impenetrable psionic exoskeleton body armor that grants superhuman strength, invulnerability, reflexes, agility, endurance, stamina, dexterity, and durability

Armor (Hisako Ichiki (市来 久子, Ichiki Hisako^?)) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a Japanese mutant who enrolled at the Xavier Institute as a teenager and who retained her powers after the events of Decimation.

Armor first appeared in Astonishing X-Men vol. 3 #4 and was created by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.

Hisako Ichiki is a young girl whose greatest aspiration is one day to be an X-Man. While it was originally thought that Hisako was not a member of any of the X-Men's various training squads, a 2010 handbook entry reveals that she was a member of Kitty Pryde's Paladins squad.

Along with her friend and fellow student, Wing (whom, after his death, she later describes as being her best friend), Hisako is attacked in the halls of the Xavier Institute by the alien villain Ord of the Breakworld. Hisako and Wing attempt to oppose Ord, but are overpowered. While both teenagers survive the attack, Wing discovers that he has been injected with a "cure" for his mutant ability of flight. Despondent, he commits suicide after some goading from a Danger Room hologram of her. In the wake of this tragedy, Hisako, her teacher Kitty Pryde, and several Xavier students find themselves trapped in a sentient and hostile Danger Room with Wing's reanimated corpse. Danger, as the intelligence is named by the X-Men, eventually leaves the Institute.