deathstrike basically had a completely different origin in the comics. i'm not sure of it exactly, but basically my understanding is this: she was wolvie's girlfriend, but there was this whole mess where he found out that her father was partially responsible for putting the adamantium in his bones, killed the guy, then found out that he was her father, and then she found out that her boyfriend had killed her father and decided to get revenge (love/hate sort of thing). she fell in with the reavers, a cyborg cult, and they enhanced her speed and reflexes and gave her adamantium claws on her fingers. thing is, she can't retract them.
wolvie can retract his claws because they're sheahed from elbow to wrist (that's how he can move his wrists when the claws are sheathed and why he can't move them when they're out. except that they got that wrong in the first movie because the x-ray (i specifically looked for this) shows the claws going past the wrists.
anyway, the whole reason for her anger and fighting and claws and everything is that she's obsessed with wolverine. they completely changed that.
also, she was a normal human before she went through all that. she shouldn't have the healing factor, and thus shouldn't have been able to survive the adamantium implantation proceedure that wolvie underwent.
basically, they changed the character, which was kind of surprising, but no huge deal. she's not that major a character and the movie takes place in a different universe.
Paul
