Murderworld (comics)

Murderworld (comics)
Murderworld's first appearance in Marvel Team-Up #66.
Race(s)	Android, robotics
Notable locations	Numerous locations
Notable characters	Arcade
First appearance	Marvel Team-Up #66 (February, 1978)
Publisher	Marvel Comics

Murderworld is a fictional amusement park appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Murderworld was designed by the supervillain known as Arcade as a place to sadistically murder others via using carnival-themed robotics and traps, in some ways this makes it similar to a Circus of Fear archetype but it is specifically designed to be an execution camp.

Murderworld first appeared in Marvel Team-Up #66 (February, 1978).

Rather than being a single location, Murderworld is the name given to the fairground/amusement park style deathtrap used by the assassin-for-hire Arcade. Utilizing sophisticated robotic and holographic systems, Arcade has frequently pitted various superheroes against Murderworld, sometimes for money and sometimes merely for the challenge. Arcade has build Murderworlds under Manhattan, on a Caribbean island, in Antarctica, in England, and numerous other locations around the world.

The first known Murderworld was built underground beneath an amusement park in Manhattan. A large portion of this Murderworld was a large scale pinball machine, but it also contained trapdoors, mazes, booby traps, and a variety of killer robotics.

When the Maggia hired Arcade as an assassin, Spider-Man, Captain Britain, Courtney Ross became the first visitors to Murderworld. Although the pair escaped and destroyed a large portion of Murderworld, Arcade vowed to rebuilt it bigger and better than before.

Hired Black Tom and Juggernaut, Arcade was able to capture Spider-Man and X-Men off the streets of New York City to have them battle inside Murderworld. With some effort the X-Men and Spider-Man were able to escape and rescue Colleen Wing, Betsy Wilford, and Amanda Sefton.