Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) world, the challenge begins at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with the top 10 new innovations progressing to the finals at Necker Island where Branson joins the judging panel along with technology figures and investors from Silicon Valley. The Necker Cup, an exhibition tennis tournament held at the end of the tennis season, has been held on the island annually since 2012. In February 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle visited Necker as guests of Sir Richard Branson. On August 22, 2011, The Great House burned down in a blaze believed to be
Evelyn Necker Charnel by tearing it in two and sending the pieces to two different times. Death's Head then informed her that Charnel was in fact another alternate future version of Death's Head, and that he was no longer subject to her commands. Searching for another subject for the Minion project, she travelled back to 20th-century Earth (presumably the mainstream Marvel Universe), where she chose a seemingly immortal warrior called Kite. Necker believed Kite to be a mutant, but it was later revealed that he was in fact the fragment of Charnel that had been flung back in time. While Kite was