With his mutant healing factor, heightened senses, and retractable claws, Daken was clearly the son of Wolverine.
Attributes[]
Powers[]
Mutant Physiology: Akihiro is a second generation mutant and possesses powers similar to those of his father, Logan. Akihiro's accelerated cellular regeneration augments his natural strength, speed, agility, endurance, and reflexes.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Akihiro has an accelerated healing factor that allows him to rapidly regenerate any damaged, missing or destroyed bodily tissues, cells, limbs and organs. Akihiro has also healed from injuries sustained as a result of being severely beaten by the Thing within a matter of minutes. However, Akihiro's mental state can influence the rate personal recovery. His healing factor has sometimes been hampered by underlying guilt and other self-impeding psychological blocks, thus weakening his ability to regenerate damage.
- Foreign Chemical Immunity: Akihiro's natural healing also affords him resistance from becoming intoxicated by alcohol, drugs, or impurities in the air.
- Disease Immunity: Due to his highly efficient immune system, Akihiro is immune to all Earthly poisons, toxins, venom, viruses, bacteria, diseases, disorders, parasites, allergens, gas attacks, and nerve-toxins of any kind.
- Peak Human Strength: Due to his resistance to physical damage and ability to push himself to the limit without risk of permanent injury, Akihiro's strength is extended to the peak of human potential, which makes him stronger than typical humans.
- Enhanced Stamina: As is the case with his father, Akihiro's mutant healing factor grants him high immunity against lactic acid and other fatigue toxins generated by his muscles during physical activity, resulting in exceptional endurance. His lung capacity is at peak human level enabling him to hold breath for 6 minutes under water. As with most of his other powers, the full limits of his physical stamina isn't known. He can, however, exert himself for at least 24 hours before the buildup of fatigue toxins in his blood begins to impair him.
- Enhanced Agility: Akihiro's agility, balance, flexibility, and dexterity are comparable to those of the finest human athlete, and then further enhanced by his resistance to muscle strain or injury and ability to push himself without fear of permanent damage.
- Enhanced Reflexes: His reflexes are far superior to a normal human. The speed at which he reacts allows him to dodge fast-moving projectiles such as arrows and bullets. He can usually out-react even the fastest humans, no matter how well-trained.
- Longevity: Akihiro's healing factor grants him an extended lifespan by slowing the effects of the aging process. Though he was born sometime in 1946, he retains the health, appearance, and physical vitality of a man in the physical prime of his life.
Superhumanly Acute Senses: Akihiro possesses superhumanly acute senses that are comparable or superior to those of many animals. He can see with greater clarity and greater distances than any ordinary human. His vision extends into the ultraviolet and infrared areas of the electromagnetic spectrum, allowing him to see in near-total darkness and retain the same level of clarity. Akihiro's sense of taste is sensitive to the point that he can taste the exact ingredients of any food he is eating. His sense of touch allows him to feel minute temperature and pressure changes in the atmosphere around him as well as pick up even the slightest vibrations enabling him to sense his entire surroundings constantly and flawlessly. Akihiro's hearing is similarly enhanced, enabling him to hear with amazing clarity, across distance, and even frequencies outside normal human range. Akihiro's sense of smell can recognize people and objects by scent, even if they are well hidden. He can track a target by scent, even if it has been greatly eroded by time and weather factors, with an extraordinary degree of success. Akihiro can also use his keen sense of smell to detect lies and a person's feelings due to chemical changes in their scent.
Insulated Weather Adaptation: Body is highly resistant to certain elemental extremes, particularly cold.
Retractable Bone Claws: Akihiro possesses three retractable claws housed beneath the skin and muscle of his forearms, two claws which emerge from between the skin of his first and third knuckles and one from his inner wrist. These claws are much harder and denser than normal human bone and their natural shape provides them with a razor-sharp edge capable of easily slicing through flesh and bone, and they have been shown to be able to penetrate metals as durable as Iron Man's armor.
Pheromone Control: In addition to the powers he shares with his father and sisters, Akihiro also possesses empathic pherokinetic abilities as well as an ability to mask his own scent to such a degree that even Wolverine's senses are unable to track him. He can use his pheromones to manipulate the emotional state and sensory perceptions of other beings and has been known to use this power to instill intense fear, happiness, depression, fascination, and a false sense of security. The latter allows him to seemingly appear out of nowhere at times, enabling him to inflict damage before an opponent realizes he's there. Such tactics give opponents the belief that he can either teleport or move at superhuman speeds, though he stated during his fight with Deadpool that he doesn't possess either of those powers. He also uses this ability against Spider-Man, telling him that his abilities allow him to distort or hinder an enemy's depth perception and visual acuity, causing them to fight sluggishly.
When not deliberately controlled, Akihiro's pheromones cause those around him to mirror his own moods; during his youth and formative years, this caused his adoptive mother to be afraid of the supernatural seeming phenomena. Akihiro's pheromone abilities are at their most effective when a target is unaware of either their existence or their implementation, because unlike omega-level pherokinetics, he cannot assume direct control of a target's actions and reactions, and a wary target can push past their effects as an act of will. His powers also don't enable him to create complex feelings like love in people, just amplify desires that were already present. He also appears to have great knowledge as to the capabilities of pheromones in general, as well as their taste and smell. In conjunction with his enhanced senses and knowledge of pheromones, he can expertly judge the emotional/physical state of those around him, both animal and human.
Telepathic Resistance: Akihiro has demonstrated resistance to telepathy; his mind contains a "trap" awaiting anyone attempting to delve into his head, and his mind is also able to recover lost memories or reject false ones.
Expand
Former Powers
Abilities[]
Master Martial Artist: Akihiro has proven himself to be a superb hand-to-hand combatant. Cyber trained Akihiro at one time and acknowledges that Akihiro has superior skills. Akihiro has proven this skill by besting both Wolverine and Deadpool. It is unclear how much of this should be attributed to his unique ability to use his pheromones to alter the perception and emotional state of others, however, he is undeniably highly proficient. He has also been trained in the use of a variety of weapons, including bow and arrow or daishō swords.
Skilled Acrobat: Since Akihiro doesn't have adamantium coating his skeleton, he is much lighter weight than his father, and can do more "acrobatics". He has shown skill in gymnastics, acrobatics, and aerials, capable of complex acrobatic maneuvers in rapid succession during the heat of battle.
Expert Tracker and Hunter: Due to his enhanced sense of smell, Akihiro is a prodigious tracker and has memorized the scents of many different people and animals, as well as being able to often distinguish the emotional state his target was in when they passed.
Multilingual: Akihiro has shown the ability to speak and easily learn multiple languages including English, Japanese, Greek, Italian, and German.
Cunning Intellect: He possesses the ability to quickly process multiple information streams (e.g., threat assessment) and rapidly responds to changing tactical situations.
Excellent Strategist/Tactician: He has shown the ability to easily enter and leave high-security military installations and to manipulate and outmaneuver super-geniuses such as Norman Osborn and Reed Richards with ease.
Master Manipulator and Deceiver: Contributed to by his abilities to read and alter emotions, and augmented by his intellect and experience, Akihiro excels at scheming, planning, and coaxing others into doing his dirty work for him. Akihiro has shown a particular prodigious skill in the art of the triple-cross, often playing two or more parties against each other to gain trust.
Weaknesses[]
Carbonadium: Akihiro's healing factor can be dramatically slowed if Carbonadium is implanted inside of him, such as swallowing something made of Carbonadium or being wounded by a bullet composed of it. It causes his healing factor to be reduced to a crawl, but doesn't fully suppress it.
Bloodstone Fragments: A bloodgem piece overcharges Akihiro's healing abilities to the point he'll break out in cancerous growths if forced to regenerate too quickly for the bodily processes to handle.
Heat Pills: Temporarily slows or cancels the healing factor.
Muramasa Blade: Nullifies healing factors, and is capable of killing Akihiro.
Muramasa Bullets: Created out of the Muramasa blade. Used for killing those with Healing Factors.
Depression: Akihiro's healing factor is affected by his emotional state, and feelings of depression and guilt cause it to be severely slowed. While this may be common to mutants with healing factors, as his sister Laura's self-mutilation scars were much slower to heal than other wounds, Akihiro has demonstrated frequent episodes of malaise since his resurrection.
Paraphernalia[]
Equipment[]
Death Seed: Due to being planted with a Death Seed following his resurrection, Akihiro still has the quintessence of the next herald of the Celestials resting inside of him.