Technet (comics)
fictional comic book group
The Technet are a fictional group of interdimensional travelling bounty hunters appearing in British and American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters appeared mostly in the pages of Captain Britain and Excalibur.
The Technet is a team of bounty hunters, founded and originally led by a villain called Gatecrasher, from various other dimensional worlds. For a price they will hunt down and capture fugitive sentient beings, rescue prisoners from captivity, or track down and retrieve lost objects of value. The Technet range through time, space, and various dimensions in their operations.
Members
The members of the Technet have included:
Gatecrasher, the leader of the Technet, is a large, blue-skinned humanoid. She possesses telepathy, skills in biogenic nucleotronic splicing, and superhuman strength.
Bodybag is an enormous reptilian biped, who sprays victims with a green narcotic ooze before swallowing them, paralyzed and unconscious, into one of his three back-sacs, where they are kept paralyzed. If the cocoon is broken open, the victim will soon recover.
China Doll has a humanoid body above the waist and a serpentine one beneath.
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