Who Is Deathtoll? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Deathtoll is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Saint Van Sant, with over 4 comic issue appearances. Deathtoll is a Kali follower and mercenary murderer with reanimative abilities who battled War Machine.

Who is Deathtoll?

Saint Van Sant/ Deathtoll is a merciless and sarcastic murderer who speaks heavily in cliché. Growing up the son of a pig farmer detached to the morality of murder watching animals slaughtered for food, Saint's lack for handling death disappointed his father in the family trade prompting Saint to murder him. Taking a position as a mercenary in his twenties, Saint was hired by the government of India to eliminate a collection of Thugee criminals whom Saint delivered on their executions only to appease the sects Statue of Kali. The goddess imbued Saint with magics allowing him to become revived whenever he died and could absorb the life force of whomever he murdered another life making him unkillable. In time, as Deathtoll, Saint aspired to taking more dangerous and risky assassinations out of deranged faith or sociopathic desires. As Deathtoll, Saint Van Sant later became an occultist hired assassin who was hired to eliminate War Machine by private financiers, Leviticus, who wanted the hero dead for jeopardizing a prior illegal weapons operation by convicting several affiliates for weapons dealings which lead Deathtoll to locate War Machine in armor speaking in behalf of the United .

Key facts

Deathtoll is of human origin and first appeared in "The Wages Of Death!". The character is published by Marvel. With 4 recorded issue appearances, Deathtoll ranks among the most featured characters in comics.