Sadae Tsumura

Steel Vengeance
Aliases:	Steel Vengeance
Continuity:	Marvel Universe
Series:	Ghost Rider
Notability:	Antagonist
Gender:	Female
Race:	Cyborg
Location:	Japan
Relatives:	Ruriko Tsumura
Status:	Alive
First:	Ghost Rider & Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance #2

Sadae Tsumura is a fictional cyborg character featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Known by the code-name of Steel Vengeance, she is associated with the Ghost Rider family of titles in the mainstream Marvel Universe. She first appeared in Ghost Rider & Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance #2 in September, 1992.

Biography

Steel Vengeance - Resurrected.

Sadae Tsumura was a woman of Japanese descent. She was the younger sister of Ruriko Tsumura, who later became a cybernetic villain named Steel Wind. When Ruriko was rendered insensate after being exposed to the Hellfire touch of the Ghost Rider, Sadae offered herself up to Rurko's benefactor and underwent her own cybernetic conversion. She assumed the alias of Steel Vengeance and swore vengeance against the Ghost Rider's human host, Johnny Blaze.

While in Montana, Steel Vengeance abducted a hitchhiker named Tim Andrew. She brought him back to a manor house where she used him as the canvas for her perverse sense of art, which included violence and the shedding of blood.

She was contacted by a colleague named Styge, who gave her information on where to find Johnny Blaze. At this point in his life, Johnny Blaze was separate from the Ghost Rider spirit, and frequently rode with him while the Ghost Rider was housed within the body of Danny Ketch.

When Steel Vengeance finally found them, the Ghost Rider had fallen into a mysterious "demon coma" and was completely vulnerable to her attack. Deriving no satisfaction from bludgeoning an unconscious skeleton, she turned her attention on Blaze's friends at the Quentin Carnival. The carny folks were not shy about fighting back, and Johnny Blaze sprung from the shadows at her, knocking her about with a 2x4. Zarathos finally awakened and fought against Steel Vengeance as well. He attempted to give her the Penance Stare, but she confessed that she had sold her soul long ago in exchange for vengeance.

Steel Vengeance attempted to flee from her adversaries, but Blaze and Ghost Rider pursued her. She accelerated her cycle across a gorge, but could not clear the gap. The vehicle crashed into the ravine below and exploded.

Abilities

Powers

• Cybernetic enhancement

• Superhuman durability
• Superhuman stamina
• Superhuman strength

Skills

• Motorcycle riding: As the lower half of Sadae's body had been converted into a motorcycle, the ability to ride and navigate is as second nature to her as walking is to a normal human being.

Equipment

• Claws: Steel Vengeance had retractable metal spikes, sometimes fashioned as claws that projected from her hands.

• Motorcycle: Originally, Sadae drove a customized heavy street bike, similar in function and design as the one ridden by her sister. It came equipped with mini-missiles and rocket thrusters.

Associations

Teams

• None

Partnerships

• Centurious - Minion of.
• Styge - Colleague.

Body Count

• Tim Andrews - Sliced up with her claws.

Notes & Trivia

• The character of Sadae Tsumura was created by writer Howard Mackie and artists Adam Kubert and Chris Warner.

• Steel Vengeance redirects to this page.

• Steel Vengeance and Steel Wind teamed up together to fight the third modern-era Ghost Rider, Alejandra Jones in issues of Ghost Rider, Volume 7.

• In her original iteration, Steel Vengeance's cybernetic components consisted of prosthetic arms and legs (which likely included some form of spinal reinforcement), as well as a semi-face plate that covered her nose and forehead, though this could have been just a mask.

• Steel Vengeance used to have long purple died hair with a white streak down the center.

Appearances

• Ghost Rider & Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance 2
• Ghost Rider & Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance 7
• Ghost Rider & Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance 9
• Ghost Rider Vol 7 7
• Ghost Rider Vol 7 8