sentences:  Rick was later killed when his attempt to defend himself from the Maestro with Captain America's shield caused him to be thrown out of his wheelchair and impaled on the skeleton's claws, the Maestro grimly commenting on the amusing irony of Rick being killed by one relic while defending himself with another.From the "Exalted" storyline of "Astonishing X-Men" and "X-Treme X-Men" vol.2, General Howlett was a general in the army of the British Empire, and viceroy of his world's Canada.