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Jan Duursema
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Jan Duursema is an American comic book artist known for her work on the Star Wars comics franchise. She was the creator of Denin and Vila from Naldar, the Twilek Jedi Aayla Secura, jan Duursemas first published comics work appeared in Heavy Metal vol.3 #3. She drew several stories for DC Comics Sgt, with writer Paul Kupperberg, she co-created the Arion character in The Warlord #55 and the Arion, Lord of Atlantis series was launched in November 1982. Duursema was one of the artists to contribute to Wonder Woman #300 and she contributed artwork to the Star Ace role-playing game from Pacesetter Ltd. Her first work for Marvel Comics, as well as her first work on the Star Wars franchise, back at DC, she drew the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons comic book series for three years. She briefly worked with John Ostrander on the Hawkworld series in 1992 and her association with Dark Horse Comics Star Wars franchise began with Star Wars, Chewbacca #2. She has since drawn several Star Wars series for Dark Horse including the Star Wars, Darth Maul mini-series in 2000, Duursema and Ostrander collaborated on the Star Wars, Legacy series which was introduced with a #0 issue and ran for 50 issues from June 2006 to August 2010. They launched the Star Wars, Dawn of the Jedi series in 2012, Duursema was the basis for the character Ur-Sema Du. Nike, Inc. commissioned Duursema and fellow comics artist Amanda Conner to design the Make Yourself, Duursema is married to fellow comic book artist Tom Mandrake whom she met while both were students at The Kubert School. The couple have a son, Jack Moses Mandrake, and a daughter,3 #1-4, Annual #1 Hawkworld #27-29 Heroes Against Hunger #1 House of Mystery #301 Justice League Quarterly #5 Martian Manhunter #5 Omega Men #36 The Outsiders #8,16 Saga of the Swamp Thing #9 Sgt. Rock #347-352, 357-360,362,364 Star Trek #34 Swamp Thing vol
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Marvel Comics
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Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc. formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwides parent company, Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvels modern incarnation dates from 1961, the year that the company launched The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others. Most of Marvels fictional characters operate in a reality known as the Marvel Universe. Martin Goodman founded the later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. Martin Goodman, a magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. The issue was a success, with it and a second printing the following month selling, combined. While its contents came from an outside packager, Funnies, Inc, Timely had its own staff in place by the following year. It, too, proved a hit, with sales of one million. Goodman formed Timely Comics, Inc. beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941, Goodman hired his wifes cousin, Stanley Lieber, as a general office assistant in 1939. Lee wrote extensively for Timely, contributing to a number of different titles, Goodmans business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of corporations all operating out of the same office and with the same staff. One of these companies through which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55. As well, some covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12, were labeled A Marvel Magazine many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961. The post-war American comic market saw superheroes falling out of fashion and this globe branding united a line put out by the same publisher, staff and freelancers through 59 shell companies, from Animirth Comics to Zenith Publications. Atlas also published a plethora of childrens and teen humor titles, including Dan DeCarlos Homer the Happy Ghost, Atlas unsuccessfully attempted to revive superheroes from late 1953 to mid-1954, with the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Atlas did not achieve any hits and, according to Stan Lee, Atlas survived chiefly because it produced work quickly, cheaply. During this time, the Comic Code Authority made its debut in September 1954, Wertham published the book Seduction of the Innocent in order to force people to see that comics were impacting American youth. He believed violent comics were causing children to be reckless and were turning them into delinquents, in September 1954, comic book publishers got together to set up their own self-censorship organization—the Comics Magazine Association of America—in order to appease audiences
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X-Force
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X-Force is a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with the X-Men. Conceived by writer/illustrator Rob Liefeld, the team first appeared in New Mutants #100, the group was originally a revamped version of the 1980s team, the New Mutants. X-Forces first leader was the mutant Cable, an offshoot of the X-Men, X-Force takes a more militant and aggressive approach towards its enemies compared to the X-Men. X-Force was canceled with #129 and relaunched as X-Statix, which coincided with a rebranding of the team in the story. After X-Statix was canceled with #26, Marvel reunited the original X-Force team for a six-issue 2004 limited series plotted, in 2007–2008, during the Messiah Complex crossover, a new version of the X-Force team was formed with Wolverine leading a more militaristic black-ops branch of the X-Men. This squad would form the basis for a new X-Force series starting February 2008 by writers Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, the series came to a conclusion in September 2010 as part of the Second Coming storyline that ran through various X-titles. A concurrent X-Force book written by Dennis Hopeless, Cable and X-Force, was released at the same time, the two series ended in 2014 after a crossover between the two titled Vendetta. A new X-Force, was launched featuring a black-ops squad composed of Cable, Psylocke, Fantomex and Marrow, written by X-Men, X-Force was created by illustrator Rob Liefeld after he started penciling The New Mutants comic book in 1989 with #86. The popularity of Liefeld’s art led to him taking over the duties on the book. With help from writer Fabian Nicieza, who provided the dialogue for Liefeld’s plots, Liefeld transformed the New Mutants into X-Force in New Mutants #100, Liefeld and Nicieza launched X-Force in August 1991. Rob Liefeld obtained the name for the series from an unknown artist at a convention a few prior to its release. The original line-up of the team included Boom Boom, Cable, Cannonball, Domino, Feral, Shatterstar, in later issues, X-Forces roster would include Siryn, Rictor and Sunspot. The main opponents of X-Force during its first year were the terrorist Mutant Liberation Front, led by Stryfe, early issues also featured the wise-cracking mercenary Deadpool, the immortal Externals, and a new version of the Brotherhood of Mutants. Propelled by Liefelds art, X-Force became one of Marvel’s bestselling comic books immediately after its debut, the series rivaled The Amazing Spider-Man and Uncanny X-Men in popularity, particularly with the adolescent demographic. Toy Biz responded to X-Forces popularity by introducing an X-Force action figure line alongside its X-Men action figure line, along with six other popular Marvel artists, Liefeld left Marvel Comics in 1992 to form Image Comics. X-Force continued with Nicieza writing and Greg Capullo illustrating, Nicieza, who also wrote X-Men, vol. 2, helped plot the X-Cutioners Song storyline that overlapped into most X-Men related books in the fall of 1992, in that story, Stryfe frames Cable for an assassination attempt on the X-Men’s founder Professor X, leading to a clash between the X-Men and X-Force. The crossover boosted Cables popularity, despite the apparent death in X-Force #18
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Fabian Nicieza
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Nicieza was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Omar and Irma Riguetti Nicieza. He was four years old when his family moved to the United States, growing up in New Jersey, Nicieza learned to read and write from comic books. He studied at Rutgers University, interning at the ABC television network before graduating in 1983 with a degree in advertising and his brother is Mariano Nicieza, also a comic book writer and editor. Until 1985, Nicieza worked for the Berkley Publishing Group, starting in the production department, in 1985, Nicieza joined the staff at Marvel Comics, initially as a manufacturing assistant, later moving to the promotions department as an advertising manager. During this period he began to take his first freelance work for Marvel, niciezas first published comics story came with Psi-Force No. 9, a title in Marvels short-lived New Universe imprint and this led to his becoming that titles regular writer from #16 until #32, the final issue. This led to work on titles such as Classic X-Men, for which he provided backup stories. After Tom DeFalco, then Marvels editor-in-chief, created the team the New Warriors, using existing characters. 412, he selected Nicieza to write the spin-off series, Nicieza recalled I took the assignment for two reasons. First, I saw a lot of potential in these characters that had already been deemed useless, and secondly, I really wanted to write a monthly book. Collaborating with pencilers Mark Bagley and later Darick Robertson, primarily, years later, Nicieza said that he considers the first 25 issues of New Warriors to be the best work of his career. That year, Nicieza became editor of Marvels childrens imprint, Star Comics, shortly afterward, he left the Marvel staff and began freelance writing for the company. In 1991, Nicieza joined with artist Rob Liefeld in co-plotting and writing the three issues of the New Mutants. In those issues Liefeld and Nicieza created the characters Deadpool and Shatterstar as well as the super team, Liefeld and Nicieza then produced an ongoing X-Force title. Nicieza initially worked on the title as scripter, after the departure of Liefeld in No.12 he became its full writer, by the end of 1992, Nicieza became regular scripter for X-Men vol. 12, working primarily with penciler Andy Kubert throughout his run, during this period Nicieza wrote the first Cable miniseries as well as the first few issues of the characters subsequent ongoing series. He also wrote the first solo Deadpool series, Deadpool, the Circle Chase in 1993 and he later remarked, I never wanted to leave, and never felt my firing was justified. I dont recall being given a reason, and I also dont recall asking for one, considering it was a Top 10 selling title at the time, I felt it was a wholly unjustified decision
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Rob Liefeld
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Robert Rob Liefeld is an American comic book creator. A prominent writer/artist in the 1990s, he has since been called one of the most controversial figures in the comic industry, in the early 1990s, the self-taught artist became prominent due to his work on Marvel Comics The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he and several other popular Marvel illustrators left the company to found Image Comics, the first book published by Image Comics was Rob Liefelds Youngblood #1. Rob Liefeld was born October 3,1967, the youngest child of a Baptist minister and he and his sister, seven years his senior, grew up in Anaheim, California. Liefelds love of comics began as a child, which led early on to his decision to be a professional artist, Liefeld cites Pérez, along with John Byrne and Frank Miller, as major influences. At the convention, he showed editors his samples and offered a package, editor Dick Giordano, to whom Liefeld showed his samples at the DC booth, requested that Liefeld send him more samples. Though the published story was illustrated by another artist, Liefeld was later given character design work by the publisher. His first published story, however, was the five-issue miniseries Hawk and Dove for DC Comics and that same year, Liefeld drew a Bonus Book insert in Warlord #131, as well as Secret Origins #28. Liefelds layouts for Hawk and Dove #5, which place in a chaos dimension, were oriented sideways so that a reader would have to turn the comic book at a right angle to read them. Because this was done without editorial input, editor Mike Carlin cut and pasted the panels into the proper order, the letters column of Hawk and Dove #5 mentions that Liefeld showed something new to an editor who thought hed seen everything. Liefeld explained this was how the dimension had been portrayed the other time it had been featured in the book. Shortly thereafter, Liefeld began doing work for Marvel Comics as well, in 1989, Liefeld became the penciller for the Marvel series The New Mutants, starting with issue #86. He is generally credited for turning this lowest-selling title of the X-Men franchise into a financial success, with The New Mutants #98, Liefeld assumed full creative control over the series, penciling, inking, and plotting, with Fabian Nicieza writing dialog. The sales numbers were propelled by 1990s direct market sales strategies, Lees X-Men was published with five variant covers, and X-Force relied on multiple variant trading cards polybagged with the comic itself. Liefeld and several other young artists including Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, Whilce Portacio, Jim Valentino. Each co-founder formed his own studio under the Image banner, such as Liefelds Extreme Studios, Liefelds superhero team series Youngblood, which is loosely based on a 1991 Teen Titans series Liefeld had proposed to DC Comics, was the first comic Image published. He appeared on an episode of The Dennis Miller Show to promote the book and his other titles included Bloodstrike #1, which was released in April 1993. In an interview in Hero Illustrated #4, Liefeld conceded disappointment with the first four issues of Youngblood, in 1996, Liefelds and Lees studios signed with Marvel to re-envision several of the companys core series, an event called Heroes Reborn
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Brotherhood of Mutants
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The Brotherhood of Mutants, originally known as the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, is a fictional supervillain team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters are depicted as being devoted to mutant superiority over normal humans and they are among the chief adversaries of the X-Men. The groups roster and ideology have varied from incarnation to incarnation and they are almost always at odds with the more peaceful X-Men, though on rare occasions the two sides have allied against a common threat, most notably Apocalypse. The Brotherhood was founded by Magneto and its members were his allies in his early battles with the X-Men during the 1960s. The original Brotherhood ultimately disbanded, with Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch going on to members of the Avengers. In 1981, the Brotherhood of Mutants was revived under the leadership of Mystique while the groups most visible incarnation during the early 1990s was led by Toad, with each additional incarnation, the group abandoned its political ideology and regressed to the status of hired goons. Since the end of the 1990s, several incarnations have sought to return to the political roots, the Brotherhood of Mutants has also appeared in several animated series featuring the X-Men and has been Magneto’s group in the recent X-Men film series. The original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants was created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, one of the greater ironies of the group has been its use of Evil in its name. When his decision to name the group was brought up in an interview, Stan Lee simply said, since the early 1990s, writers have attempted to explain this away by having Toad describe it as irony, based upon the perceived notion that all mutants are evil. Later writers have opted instead to simply drop Evil from the groups name, many of the groups members have been shown to be past victims of anti-mutant prejudice, which has made the group a haven for many mutants who feel they are outcasts and pariahs. While many of these outcast mutants have willingly embraced the violent aspects of the Brotherhoods ideology, several have ultimately rejected it, the original leader of the team was Magneto, a mutant with the ability to control magnetic fields. It would later be revealed that Magneto was a Holocaust survivor, explaining his distrust of humanity, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are Magnetos children, although at the time of the original Brotherhood all three of them were unaware of it. They had joined after Magneto saved Wanda from a mob who believed she was a Witch after she made a house burst into flame. She joined to repay the debt, and Pietro joined to keep her safe, Time and again, the Brotherhood clashed with the original X-Men team, in their first appearance taking control of a small country with the aid of Mastermind creating an illusion of an army. They captured the Angel and took him to Asteroid M, and they tried to recruit the Sub-Mariner, and then the Blob, but the X-Men succeeded against them. Finally Magneto and Toad were captured by an extraterrestrial being called the Stranger, who they at first believed was a powerful mutant, Mastermind had been turned to a block of solid matter by the Stranger, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch left the team and later joined the Avengers. The shapeshifting mutant Mystique later organized her own Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, members included Pyro, the Blob, Avalanche, Destiny and Rogue. This team later became the core membership of the team called Freedom Force
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American comic book
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An American comic book is a thin periodical, typically 32-pages, containing primarily comics content. While the form originated in 1933, American comic books first gained popularity after the 1938 publication of Action Comics and this was followed by a superhero boom that lasted until the end of World War II. After the war, while superheroes were marginalized, the book industry rapidly expanded, and genres such as horror, crime. The 1950s saw a decline, due to a shift away from print media in the wake of television. The late 1950s and the 1960s saw a revival. Since the later 20th century, comic books have gained note as collectable items, Comic shops cater to fans, and particularly valuable issues have fetched in excess of a million dollars. Systems of grading comic books have emerged with plastic sleeves and cardboard backing available to maintain the condition of comic books, standard comics are 6.625 inches ×10.25 inches and about 32 pages long. While comics can be the work of a creator, the labour of making them is frequently divided between a number of specialists. There may be a writer and artist, or there may be separate artists for the characters. The process begins with the coming up with an idea or concept, then working it into a plot and story. After the art production, letters are placed on the page, the creative team, the writers and artists, may work with a comic book publisher for help with marketing, advertising, and other logistics. A distributor like Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest in the U. S. helps to distribute the product to retailers. Another part of the involved in successful comics is the interaction between the readers/fans and the creator. Fan art and letters to the editor were printed in the back of the book until the early 21st century. Comic specialty stores did help encourage several waves of independently-produced comics, the development of the modern American comic book happened in stages. The G. W. Dillingham Company published the first known proto-comic-book magazine in the U. S, the Yellow Kid in McFaddens Flats, in 1897. The 196-page, square-bound, black-and-white publication, which also includes text by E. W. Townsend, measured 5×7 inches. The neologism comic book appears on the back cover, despite the publication of a series of related Hearst comics soon afterward, the first monthly proto-comic book, Embee Distributing Companys Comic Monthly, did not appear until 1922
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Toad (comics)
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Toad is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is most often depicted as an enemy of the X-Men and he was Magnetos sniveling servant in the 1960s line-up of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He eventually led his own version of the Brotherhood, which was involved in petty crime than mutant liberation. Ray Park played a different version of Toad in 2000s X-Men film. He was cocky and sarcastic and his superhuman leaping ability, agility, toxic saliva, prehensile tongue, aspects of this Toad have since been implemented into the comic book version. Subsequently, most versions of Toad written or drawn after 2000 resemble the Ray Park version more closely than the original Toad, a younger Toad appears in the film X-Men, Days of Future Past, played by Evan Jonigkeit. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, he first appeared in X-Men #4 and he was considered to be mentally inferior due to his extreme shyness and mild learning disabilities during his primary school years, though he was actually quite intelligent. He dropped out at an early age and decided to fend for himself. Based on years of abuse and knowing full well he was a freak, Mortimer developed an inferiority complex. Later, he was recruited into Magnetos original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Toad believed that Magneto loved him, while the mutant mastermind considered this henchman little more than a human shield. He also developed a crush on his teammate Scarlet Witch, but she did not return his feelings as she was repulsed by his appearance, mannerisms, as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Toad aided Magneto in repeated clashes with the X-Men. Magneto tried to use him to infiltrate the X-Men, but they recognized his power, at one point, Magneto and Toad were captured by the alien Stranger as part of his collection, encased in cocoons, and taken on a journey through space. Magneto managed to escape by repairing a spaceship, but left Toad behind, Toad aided Magneto against the X-Men once more, but realized that Magneto didnt care at all for him and rebelled against Magneto, and fled his lair with Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. However, he was captured by Sentinels, and then freed by the X-Men. He was later captured with Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, some time later, Toad began to study the Strangers technology, becoming familiar with it. He used the Strangers alien technology to menace the Avengers and he even attempted to kill the Angel in a castle outfitted with traps by Arcade. However, he turned the castle into an amusement park. Toad was eventually ejected from the castle by Doctor Doom, and he became suicidal and he met and was befriended by Spider-Man, and teamed with Spider-Kid and Frog-Man as the superhero adventurer team, the Misfits
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Cable (comics)
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Cable is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with X-Force and the X-Men. The characters first appearance was in The New Mutants #86 and he does not appear anywhere in the issues story, but the next issue teaser includes a small drawing of the character. This was followed by an appearance in The New Mutants #87. Though the artist Rob Liefeld is responsible for his design, name. Liefeld explains the creation of the character, Cable is first seen in conflict with Stryfes Mutant Liberation Front, the United States government, the New Mutants intervened and he asked for their help against the Mutant Liberation Front. Cable saw them as soldiers in his war against Stryfe. He became their new teacher and leader, and outfitted them and he came into conflict with Wolverine, noting that the two had an old feud between them. Cable and the New Mutants teamed up with Wolverine and Sunfire against the MLF, Cable also led the New Mutants against the Genoshans. With the aid of Domino, Cable reorganized the New Mutants into X-Force, the New Mutants ended with issue #100, with Cable and other characters then appearing the following month in X-Force #1. Cable traveled between the 1990s and his future with his ship Graymalkin, which contained a sentient computer program called Professor, the series explored Cable and the villain Stryfes ongoing battle with one another, and its effect on the people that surround Cable. Shortly after Blood and Metal, Cable was given his own ongoing series titled Cable, the series ran for 107 issues from May 1993 until September 2002 before being relaunched as Soldier X, which lasted 12 more issues until Aug.2003. The 1994 miniseries The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix provided further information on the back story. In the future, Mother Askani, a time-displaced Rachel Summers, pulled the minds of Scott and Jean into the future where, as Slym and Redd, they raised Cable for twelve years. During their time together, the family prevented Apocalypse from transferring his essence into a new body and it is furthermore established that Mister Sinister created Cyclops son Nathan to destroy Apocalypse. After his solo series ended, he was paired with the mercenary Deadpool in a new ongoing series titled Cable & Deadpool, the series largely dealt with Cables efforts to change the world for the better, including turning his old spaceship Greymalkin into the floating utopian island of Providence. He gains a level similar to his Nate Grey counterpart from The Age of Apocalypse reality. Using his powers at this also means that he will die due to the vast power being too much for his body to continuously maintain. He tries to carry out his plans quickly, defeating the X-Men, Six Pack and they turn the tide of the battle on Cable by enlisting the aid of the Silver Surfer
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Cannonball (comics)
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Cannonball is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, Cannonball first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #4, Cannonball is a mutant who uses the ability to fly at jet speeds while encased in an impenetrable force field. Several of his siblings are also mutants and have joined X-Men-related teams, including his sisters, Paige and Melody, other siblings include a brother named Lewis, and four more sisters, Joelle, Elizabeth, Cissie and another unnamed sister. Cannonball was a member of the X-Mens junior team The New Mutants. He joined The New Mutants later incarnation X-Force, serving as second-in-command and he joined the X-Men, becoming the first member of a secondary team to graduate. His tenure was complicated by clashes with superiors and he eventually rejoined X-Force, created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, Cannonball first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #4, The New Mutants. Cannonball briefly became a member of the X-Men team in the volume of the X-Men series. He is a member of the Avengers in the 2012 relaunch of the Avengers title, Sam Guthrie was born in Cumberland, Kentucky. As a young boy, he attempted to help out his family by working in the mine in which his father had worked before he died. One day, Sam finds himself trapped in a mine shaft. This incident leads Donald Pierce to find Sam and hire him as a mercenary for the Hellfire Club, however, when Pierce orders him to kill the defeated New Mutants, Sam rebels against him. Professor Charles Xavier sees the good qualities inside Sam and, after saving him from Pierce, Cannonball leaves his large farming family in Kentucky to join the team. As part of the New Mutants, Sam forms a friendship with his teammate, Sunspot. Sam develops an affection for Rahne, oblivious for some time that Rahne harbors romantic feelings for him. Sam and Danielle Moonstar act as the teams co-leaders and he also supervises other teammates, including Magik, Karma, Cypher, Magma, and Warlock. Early on in his career with the team, Cannonball visits Nova Roma and meets Magma, on whom he develops a long-standing, Sam also meets and shares his first kiss with the young mutant Firestar, then a student of the Massachusetts Academy. The machinations of the headmistress, Emma Frost, however, force them apart before they can develop their relationship. Cannonball later on saves the life of rock star Lila Cheney
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Sauron (comics)
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Sauron is a comic book character, a supervillain in Marvel Comics main shared universe. An enemy of the X-Men, Sauron is the ego of Karl Lykos, sharing a Jekyll. He is a vampire who resembles a humanoid Pteranodon after feeding. He often inhabits the hidden prehistoric jungle of the Savage Land, the character was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Neal Adams, though the two differ in their accounts of which of them were responsible for specific aspects of the character. He first fully appeared as Sauron in X-Men #60, Karl Lykos was the son of an explorers guide. As a teenager, he accompanied his father to Tierra del Fuego as the elder Lykos guided a wealthy client named Mr. Anderssen and Anderssens young daughter, while defending Tanya from mutant pterodactyls, Karl was bitten by one of the creatures. During his recovery, he discovered that he could now drain the life-force of other organisms and he found himself repeatedly tempted to use his new power, feeling that he needed to drain life energy from other humans or animals to survive. When Karls father died, Mr. Anderssen took Karl into his home in thanks for rescuing Tanya, as the years passed, Karl and Tanya fell in love. But Tanyas wealthy father would not allow her to date Karl because of his lack of wealth, in an effort to win Mr. Anderssens support, Karl went to medical school and became a physician, geneticist, and hypnotherapist. He treated patients through hypnosis, but secretly robbed them of energy at the same time, dr. Lykos became a colleague of Professor Charles Xavier, and first encountered the X-Men when they sought treatment for Havok. Absorbing Havoks mutant energy transformed him into a vampiric, pterodactyl-like monster with human intelligence and he named himself Sauron, after J. R. R. Tolkiens villain, and battled the X-Men, as a would-be conqueror, when he realized that his transformation would threaten Tanya, he fled to Tierra del Fuego. Without energy to absorb, Sauron turned back into Karl, when Tanya tracked him down, Karl threw himself off a cliff to avoid harming her. Presumed dead, Karl actually survived, merely unconscious on a ledge below and he journeyed to the Savage Land and survived in human form by only draining less developed animals. He befriended Ka-Zar and used his skills over many months to care for Ka-Zars allies. But when several X-Men were stranded in the Savage Land, Lykos was overwhelmed with the desire to absorb the life energy of mutants. He transformed into Sauron once again after absorbing Storms energy and he reverted to human form during a battle with the X-Men, and Ka-Zar explained that Lykos was an ally. Tanya learned that Karl had survived the leap from the cliff and she joined Angel and Peter Parker on a journey to find Karl in the Savage Land
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Thornn
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Thornn is a fictional character created by Marvel Comics for their series, X-Force. She was one of the few Morlocks to survive the Mutant Massacre and is the sister of former X-Force member, both had been depowered in the wake of M-Day, however, both have returned to their mutant forms. Thornn made her first appearance in X-Force #6 as a member of the Morlocks under the leadership of Masque. Toad, then the leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, was trying to form an alliance with the group of social outcasts, if they wanted to get what was theirs by right, then they needed to take it by force. Their first course of action would be to go after the defected Morlock and they are soundly defeated and Thornn is returned to the Morlocks with a warning from Cable to never mess with X-Force again. Later when Mikhail Rasputin flooded the Morlock Tunnels, Thornn again was one of the few survivors and she attempted to save a young Marrow, but wasnt able to hold on to her with the rushing waters. Thornn was distraught and continued to search the tunnels for survivors, when the Alley was illuminated the young form of Marrow appeared through dimensional walls to let Thornn know that there were Morlocks who had survived but they were too scared to come out of hiding. Thornn also aided X-Force in the capture of her sister on one occasion. During this episode, it was revealed that Feral had killed several members of their family, including their stepfather, mother and it was also made known that their stepfather had sexually molested both of the sisters. Next, Thornn made an alliance with Charles Xavier and joined the Mumbai branch of X-Corporation along with her sister, former X-Force member Warpath. The team helped save Professor X from an attempt by a crazed Lilandra Neramani. She appears later, after the incident known as M-Day, where the Scarlet Witch caused the mutant gene to disappear from 90-95% of the mutant population worldwide, both Thornn and her sister were shown to be depowered. Thornn recently appeared alongside her sister, Sasquatch and Wolfsbane in Wakanda offering their assistance to Wolverine against Sabretooth, both Thornn and Feral were mysteriously returned to their powered forms, with no memory as to how this occurred. While Wolverine searches for answers inside the Weapon X facility, Thornn and her allies are attacked and critically wounded by Sabretooth, Feral was subsequently murdered by Sabretooth. With Feral dead, Wolfsbane speculates that the sisters had never regained their powers, rather, Wolverine took this as fact, as it explained how Feral was defeated by Sabretooth so easily. The enigmatic Romulus had the skills to revert the sisters to their mutant forms. In the follow-up limited series to Age of Apocalypse, Thornn was shown as a member of the Morlocks, Thornn II at Marvel. com Thornn II at Uncannyxmen. net
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Masque (comics)
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Masque is a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. Masque was originally a prominent member of the community of mutant outcasts called the Morlocks. Masque first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #169-170, and was created by Chris Claremont, Masque appeared as part of the Morlocks entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #9, and the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #7. Little is known about Masques life, except that he was born with facial deformities. This was furthered when Masque discovered that he was a mutant born with the ability to alter peoples faces and bodies, Masques own body is immune to his powers. This cruel irony embittered Masque against the world and those whose beauty Masque envied and loathed, at some point, Masque was recruited by fellow mutant Callisto, who was seeking to create a new community for homeless and deformed mutants such as Masque and her allies. Masques job was to use his powers to make ordinary-looking recruits to the Morlock community look ugly in order to conform to Callistos notions of the Morlocks being an all-outcast community, Masque first appeared in the Morlock tunnels after Callisto kidnapped the X-Men Angel to be her unwilling groom. As part of their plot, Masque uses his power to turn the corpse of a teenager into a copy of Kitty. However, the body is exposed as a fraud by Wolverines enhanced sense of smell, Masque joins a quartet of mutants known as The Tunnellers, who ultimately are taken in by X-Factor in the aftermath of the Marauders slaughtering the Morlock community. They leave X-Factors headquarters, but cause chaos in the city of New York as Masque mutilates the faces of several members who kill one of the Tunnellers. When a police officer shoots Masque, the villain is forced to return to the heroes for medical treatment, with Callisto presumed dead, Masque begins work on consolidating power among the Morlocks living under X-Factors roof. He also targets Skids and her lover Rusty Collins, Rusty submits to Masques savage touch in exchange for Masque using his powers to restore the face of a prostitute that Rusty accidentally disfigured, when his fire-based power first manifested. However, the prostitute orders Masque to undo what he has done to her and Rusty, having found religion, Masque consented to her request, but took comfort that he had won the greater game. Despite Calibans desperate pleas, the Morlocks that X-Factor had taken in were ready to return to the tunnels and had elected Masque their new leader. One of these is Bliss, who goes from being turned into a duplicate of Jean Grey to being turned into a duplicate of Storm. Masque soon learns that Callisto is alive and well when Callisto turns up at the recently destroyed X-Men mansion, capturing Callisto, he demands she give up the codes for the underground portion of the mansion. When she refuses, Masque transforms the one-eyed tomboy Callisto into a beauty queen-type pin-up model, Callisto appears on several billboards in New York City, attracting the attention of the amnesiac Colossus. He falls in love with her, though Callisto is hesitant to reveal to him his true identity and he also kidnaps Callisto and Colossus, whose body is warped to become a replica of his armored form
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Shatterstar
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Shatterstar is a fictional mutant superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe. Created by writer Fabian Nicieza and artist Rob Liefeld, the character first appeared in New Mutants vol.1 #99 and he later became an employee of X-Factor Investigations, a private detective firm starring in the series X-Factor. In 2013, ComicsAlliance ranked Shatterstar as #29 on their list of the 50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics, Shatterstar first appeared in The New Mutants vol.1 #99, and was created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld. Since his debut Shatterstar has mainly appeared in the original X-Force title, in 2005, the character was featured in his own limited series, X-Force, Shatterstar. Shatterstar became a member of X-Factor in X-Factor #45, Shatterstar comes from the planet Mojoworld which is ruled by the alien tyrant Mojo. There, Shatterstar was created to be a slave, he claims to have had no parents and he was genetically engineered to have enhanced physical capabilities so he could serve as an arena gladiator. Shatterstar learned the arts of battle as a warrior in arenas on Mojoworld, it’s assumed it was here he developed his strong sense of honor and pride as a warrior, to combat the constant violence and death in his life. Eventually he escaped and joined the Cadre Alliance, the group that sought to overthrow Mojos dictatorship. From there, he learned the Cadres language and began taking part in missions, on one of these missions, Arize sent him back in time to Earth to find the X-Men and get their assistance in defeating and overthrowing Mojo. He did not find the X-Men though, Shatterstar was either teleported or traveled back in time to Earth at the point just before Cable reorganized the New Mutants into X-Force. At first, he battled Cable, Domino, and the New Mutants, with Cables assurance that they would help him defeat Mojo Shatterstar became a founding member of the new team, X-Force. With X-Force on their first mission, Shatterstar battled the Alliance of Evil and he battled Night Thrasher and Silhouette. With X-Force, the New Warriors, Moira MacTaggerts Muir Island X-Men team, x-Forces next mission involved attacking the Mutant Liberation Front base, where Shatterstar battled Reaper. With X-Force and Spider-Man, he next battled Tom Cassidy and the Juggernaut, with X-Force, he battled the Toads Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Later Shatterstar discovered, to his bewilderment, that he also had the memories of an Earthling named Benjamin Russell, soon afterwards, Mojo made Cable and Shatterstar his prisoners and transformed them into digital images for one of his television programs. In the course of the show, Shatterstar was mortally wounded in combat, Mojos sometime ally Spiral teleported Cable and Shatterstar back into reality, where they regained their true forms. Spiral brought Cable, Shatterstar, Longshot, and the X-Force member Siryn to the Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane in Rutland, Longshot transferred Shatterstars uemeur, or soul, into Benjamin Russells body, and the two became one. Restored to peak health and full consciousness, and feeling whole for the first time in his life, however, this does not explain why Shatterstar had some of Benjamin Russells memories before they merged, or why they looked so much alike
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X-Factor (comics)
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X-Factor is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. It is a spin-off from the popular X-Men franchise, featuring characters from X-Men stories, the series has been relaunched several times with different team rosters, most recently in X-Factor v.3 as X-Factor Investigations. X-Factor launched in 1986, featuring a team composed of the five original X-Men. The series was canceled in 1998, in 2002 a four-part X-Factor mini-series detailed an investigation by the Mutant Civil Rights Task Force into an alleged conspiracy by hate-groups to commit murder against mutants. The series was written by Jeff Jensen with artwork by Arthur Ranson, in 2005 a new X-Factor series was launched, following the mutant detective agency X-Factor Investigations. The series also won a 2011 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book, in 2014 a new series written by David, All-New X-Factor was launched featuring a new corporate-sponsored X-Factor team. Beast - A brilliant scientist possessing bestial strength and agility, Cyclops - Former X-Men team leader, with the ability to emit powerful optic blasts from his eyes. Jean Grey - The long-time love of Cyclops, possessing telekinetic abilities, Iceman - A brash jokester, gifted with cryokinetic abilities. The founding of X-Factor hinged upon the reunion of the original X-Men, in the 1970s and early 1980s, Angel, Beast, and Iceman wandered through various superhero teams. By 1985, all three were members of the Defenders, but the monthly Defenders series was cancelled shortly after they joined, a more difficult task was the return of Cyclops and Jean Grey. In 1980, Jean Grey was killed during the seminal Dark Phoenix Saga, instead, the Phoenix entity copied Greys identity and form, keeping her safe in a cocoon-like structure beneath Jamaica Bay. Busiek related the idea to Roger Stern, who related it to John Byrne, Byrne wrote and illustrated Fantastic Four #286, incorporating Busieks idea. In order to join the team, Cyclops walked out on his new wife Madelyne Pryor, an Alaskan pilot who bore a resemblance to Grey. The original X-Men disassociate with the current team because Professor X had placed their old nemesis, Magneto, the five original members set up a business advertised as mutant-hunters for hire, headquartered in the TriBeCa neighborhood of downtown New York City, posing as normal humans to their clients. The mutants that X-Factor capture are secretly trained to control their powers, through their mutant hunting they recruit a group of young wards, Artie Maddicks - A pink-skinned, mute child who could project hologram-like images of his thoughts. Tabitha Smith - A young woman who ran away from her father, who can create handheld energy spheres that she can explode at will. Rusty Collins - A former member of the U. S. Navy whose pyrokinesis first manifested uncontrollably, severely injuring a woman, leech - A green-skinned young boy, who can dampen the mutant powers of those around him. Rictor - A Mexican teenager who can produce powerful seismic waves, skids - A runaway who could project a protective force field around her body
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Darkhawk
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Darkhawk is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Darkhawk #1, and was created by writer Tom DeFalco, Darkhawk appeared in a self-titled monthly series for 50 issues that was published by Marvel Comics from March 1991 to March 1995, and included three standalone annuals. Although created by DeFalco and Manley, DeFalco was never credited as a writer of the series, the original writer was Danny Fingeroth. New Warriors writer Fabian Nicieza said in 1992 that People keep coming up to me and asking, the New Warriors isnt an official group with a rule book and charter and the like. Theyre more of a club for super-powered teens, so if Darkhawk wants to hang out on a Friday evening and talk about his powers, then hell stop by the New Warriors crash pad. Darkhawk appeared within the Secret Invasion tie-in issues of Nova and was the focus of the two-issue mini-series War of Kings, Darkhawk, cebulski, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Darkhawk appeared in Avengers Arena, a 2012 -2013 series by Dennis Hopeless, Christopher Powell was born in Queens, New York. While witnessing his father accept a bribe from a crime boss at an abandoned amusement park. This amulet allowed him to places with a powerful android that his mind controlled. Powell vowed to use the amulet as an edge against crime, in this role, he worked with other superheroes and battled a number of costumed villains. Darkhawk soon encountered his first supervillain, the Hobgoblin, and battled him alongside Spider-Man and he next fought Savage Steel, and then Portal. He next battled the U-Foes alongside Captain America and he battled the villain Lodestone, who attempted to remove his amulet. He battled Savage Steel again, this alongside the Punisher. Darkhawk battled the cyborg Midnight, Thunderball, and the Secret Empire alongside Spider-Man, the Punisher, Night Thrasher, Nova, Darkhawk then battled assassins from the Foreigners 1400 Club. He battled Tombstone, who removed his amulet from his chest. Darkhawk occasionally worked with the New Warriors and was a member of the West Coast Avengers. Darkhawk also battled a number of costumed villains, including the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Powell discovered that the android was stored and repaired aboard a starship in a dimension called Null Space. When he used the amulet to access the android body, his human body switched places with it, five Darkhawk amulets were commissioned by an alien crime lord named Dargin Bokk
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Spider-Man
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Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, when Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic books were usually relegated to the role of sidekick to the protagonist. Marvel has featured Spider-Man in several book series, the first. In the 2010s, he joins the Avengers, Marvels flagship superhero team, Spider-Mans nemesis Doctor Octopus also took on the identity for a story arc spanning 2012–2014, following a body swap plot in which Peter appears to die. Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes, the character was first portrayed in live action by Nicholas Hammond in the 1977 television movie Spider-Man. Reeve Carney starred as Spider-Man in the 2010 Broadway musical Spider-Man, in 1962, with the success of the Fantastic Four, Marvel Comics editor and head writer Stan Lee was casting about for a new superhero idea. He said the idea for Spider-Man arose from a surge in demand for comic books. At that time Lee had to get only the consent of Marvel publisher Martin Goodman for the characters approval, in a 1986 interview, Lee described in detail his arguments to overcome Goodmans objections. In particular, Lee stated that the fact that it had already decided that Amazing Fantasy would be cancelled after issue #15 was the only reason Goodman allowed him to use Spider-Man. While this was indeed the issue, its editorial page anticipated the comic continuing. Will appear every month in Amazing, regardless, Lee received Goodmans approval for the name Spider-Man and the ordinary teen concept, and approached artist Jack Kirby. Lee and Kirby immediately sat down for a conference, Theakston writes. Steve Ditko would be the inker, when Kirby showed Lee the first six pages, Lee recalled, I hated the way he was doing it. Not that he did it badly—it just wasnt the character I wanted, Lee turned to Ditko, who developed a visual style Lee found satisfactory. Ditko recalled, One of the first things I did was to work up a costume, a vital, visual part of the character. I had to know how he looked, for example, A clinging power so he wouldnt have hard shoes or boots, a hidden wrist-shooter versus a web gun and holster, etc. I wasnt sure Stan would like the idea of covering the characters face and it would also add mystery to the character. Although the interior artwork was by Ditko alone, Lee rejected Ditkos cover art, as Lee explained in 2010, I think I had Jack sketch out a cover for it because I always had a lot of confidence in Jacks covers
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Sleepwalker (comics)
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Sleepwalker is a Marvel Comics character created by Bob Budiansky. He is named after his race, and is the star of a comic book which ran for 33 issues from June 1991 to February 1994. All but two of the issues were written by Budiansky, with Tom Brevoort and Mike Kanterovich writing the Holiday Special, dan Slott also contributed a humorous side story in issue #25. Budianskys concept dates to the late 1970s, however, he called the character Alien until the Ridley Scott film of the same name was released. The character finally saw release in reaction to the DC Comics character Sandman, a second Sleepwalker character was planned to receive a self-titled series by Robert Kirkman in 2004 but instead debuted in the 2004 Epic Anthology, which was canceled after one issue. The original Sleepwalkers next appearance was in Marvel Team-Up #15 nearly a decade after his original cancellation, the Mindscape is a dimension that borders on the minds of all intelligent beings and living things, inhabited by many strange creatures. Some of them are very dangerous, seeking to invade the minds of humans. The Sleepwalkers act as guardians to defend these minds and the Mindscape, almost as a sort of dream police, one such Sleepwalker was tricked by his archenemy Cobweb into entering the mind of a New York college student named Rick Sheridan and became trapped. Rick himself is a human being, majoring in Film Studies as a college student. He lived in a Brooklyn apartment with his dog Rambo, where he worked as a building superintendent and he also earns a living as a part-time job teaching English to immigrants. Rick had an on-again off-again romance with a girl named Alyssa Conover, Sleepwalker first emerged from Ricks mind to battle a gang of thieves. He battled dream-images of the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, X-Factor, after a few confrontations in Ricks dreams, Rick reacts by tearing off Sleepwalkers Imaginator. This causes the two to become bonded, when Rick sleeps, Sleepwalker could materialize in reality or he could stay in Ricks mind and converse with him via his dreams. It was through a conversation in dreams that Sleepwalker is able to dispel Ricks initial fears that he was a malicious entity, Rick and Sleepwalker eventually worked out an understanding, allowing the alien to fight crime and various injustices. This was not easy, as Sleepwalkers appearance caused fear among regular people, with Spider-Man, Sleepwalker battled Kingpin and Crimewave. With Darkhawk, Deathlok, Moon Knight, and the Squadron Supreme, he attempted to stop Eons body from invading Earths Universe, with Deathloks help, he also rescued Alyssa Conover and a number of other innocent people from being experimented on by the mysterious Mr. FX. He fought Nightmare, and then battled Spectra, alongside Mister Fantastic and the Thing, he battled the Thought Police. Alongside Darkhawk and Spider-Man, Sleepwalker saved Portal from the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and he considers his vague memories to be just a dream
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Exodus (comics)
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Exodus is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Joe Quesada, he first appeared in X-Factor #92. His real name was given as Paris Bennett, but this was uncovered as an alias when he was revealed to have been born in 12th century France under the name of Bennet Du Paris. Born in the 12th century, Bennet du Paris had always felt different, as an adult he was a crusader and became best friends with Eobar Garrington, the Black Knight of that era. Eobar retained control, but felt something was wrong, when he came into contact with Sersi he abandoned the quest, angering du Paris, who then left to find the tower alone. Traveling for hours through violent sandstorms, when he collapsed a voice spoke to him. Du Paris was then tested, and his mutant powers manifested for the first time, proving himself strong, he disappeared from the spot. Meanwhile, Sersi had awakened Danes mind and he now had control of his body as Eobar passed on, while searching for du Paris, the two were captured by Apocalypse. When they awoke they found Bennet du Paris had been transformed into Exodus, Apocalypse commanded Exodus to destroy the Black Knight. When Dane refused to kill Exodus, Sersi intervened, though her attack proved useless, Apocalypse again commanded Exodus to kill Sersi and Dane, though this time Exodus refused. He turned on Apocalypse calling him a false god, Apocalypse stripped Exodus of his power and sealed him away in a crypt in the Swiss Alps. Six months later Dane found the crypt in which Exodus was trapped and he found there was a curse preventing Exodus from leaving, yet others were allowed to come and go as they pleased. Dane left guards who had sworn to look after the crypt for generations to come, sometime later, in the 20th century, Magneto found and freed Exodus, taking him back to Avalon. Exodus became Magnetos right-hand man, replacing Fabian Cortez who had betrayed Magneto, Exodus appeared before the government sanctioned team X-Factor. It seemed as though Exodus wanted to tell them something, but he refrained, Exodus then appeared before the mutant team X-Force to take Cannonball and Sunspot to Avalon with him. They declined, but the team proved no match for Exodus, Exodus was followed back, and X-Force invaded Avalon to rescue their teammates. The whole of X-Force fled the station, but not before Cable was mortally wounded by Magneto, when Charles Xavier wiped Magnetos mind clean in an attack by the X-Men on Avalon, Exodus assumed leadership of the Acolytes. Exodus would converse with the mindless Magneto, believing he could hear Magnetos voice, soon after, Fabian Cortez had resurfaced in Genosha, where he had taken Magnetos granddaughter Luna prisoner
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X-Men
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The X-Men is a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the characters first appeared in The X-Men #1 and they are among the most recognizable and successful intellectual properties of Marvel Comics, appearing in numerous books, television shows, films, and video games. The X-Men are mutants, a subspecies of humans who are born with superhuman abilities, the X-Men fight for peace and equality between normal humans and mutants in a world where antimutant bigotry is fierce and widespread. They are led by Charles Xavier, also known as Professor X and their archenemy is Magneto, a powerful mutant with the ability to generate and control magnetic fields. Professor X and Magneto have opposing views and philosophies regarding the relationship between mutants and humans, Professor X is the founder of Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters at a location commonly called the X-Mansion, which recruits mutants from around the world. Located in Westchester County, New York, the X-Mansion is the home and training site of the X-Men. The founding five members of the X-Men who appear in The X-Men #1 are Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, since then, dozens of mutants from various countries and diverse backgrounds have held membership as X-Men. In 2004, Stan Lee recalled, I couldnt have everybody bitten by a spider or exposed to a gamma ray explosion. And I took the way out. I said to myself, Why dont I just say theyre mutants, in a 1987 interview, Jack Kirby said, The X-Men, I did the natural thing there. What would you do with mutants who were just plain boys and girls, so I gave them a teacher, Professor X. Of course, it was the thing to do, instead of disorienting or alienating people who were different from us, I made the X-Men part of the human race. Possibly, radiation, if it is beneficial, may create mutants that’ll save us instead of doing us harm. I felt that if we train the mutants our way, they’ll help us - and not only help us, and so, we could all live together. Lee devised the title after Marvel publisher Martin Goodman turned down the initial name, The Mutants. Within the Marvel Universe, the X-Men are widely regarded to have named after Professor Xavier himself. Xavier however claims that the name X-Men was never chosen as a tribute to himself, the name is also linked to the X-Gene, an unknown gene that causes the mutant evolution. The original explanation for the name, as provided by Xavier in The X-Men #1, is that mutants possess an extra power, one which ordinary humans do not
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Psylocke
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Psylocke is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Herb Trimpe in 1976, Psylockes codename, coined by the X-Men villains Mojo and Spiral, debuted during her introduction to the X-Men stories post–Captain Britain. Later, Psylocke acquired the power of telekinesis, many alternative versions of Psylocke have also appeared in several comics series of Marvel Multiverse, as well as in various other media and merchandise, notably in numerous video games. She briefly appeared in the 2006 film X-Men, The Last Stand, Olivia Munn portrays her in the 2016 film X-Men, Apocalypse. Created by writer Chris Claremont, Elizabeth Betsy Braddock first appeared in Captain Britain #8, the original spelling of the characters name was Elizabeth, though relettering of the UK versions for American reprints would occasionally misspell it as Elisabeth. This led to spelling inconsistencies throughout future publications, the inconsistency was resolved by Claremont 32 years later in 2008 in the series New Exiles, which reasserted the particular spelling of her name as Elizabeth. In the Captain Britain series, Claremont introduced her as a character, the sister of Brian Braddock, the eponymous Captain Britain. He also established that she had psychic abilities, the extent of which were unknown. In Marvel UKs Super Spider-Man and Captain Britain #243, Betsy Braddock is presented as a professional model, in Marvel UKs Daredevils #3, Alan Moore established that the character has begun to work for the fictional governmental organization S. T. R. I. K. E. Who are making use of her psychic abilities and her lover Tom Lennox is also a S. T. R. I. K. E operative and is later murdered. The story also presents the character as having dyed her hair purple after being originally blonde, in New Mutants Annual #2, Claremont integrated Braddock into the X-Men franchise. The story sees her abducted to the Mojoverse, where she is subjected to brainwashing, fitted with bionic eyes, after being rescued by the New Mutants, she takes up residence at their mutant-training academy, run by Magneto at the time in the absence of Professor Charles Xavier. After aiding the team unofficially, Braddock proves herself by distracting the attentions of the murderous supervillain Sabretooth, afterward, Braddock is formally invited to join the X-Men and officially adopts the codename Psylocke. Initially written as a telepath with few fighting skills, Psylocke later adopts body armor. In Uncanny X-Men #251, the X-Men flee from the terrorists, the Reavers, through the Siege Perilous. The now-amnesiac Braddock is taken in by the Hand, who brainwash, Braddock now believes herself to be Lady Mandarin, the Hands supreme assassin. With the launch of the volume of X-Men in 1991. In Jim Lee-written issues, the character becomes flirtatious with Cyclops, in 1994, writer Scott Lobdell set up a relationship between Braddock and her teammate Archangel
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House of M
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House of M is a 2005 comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics. The storyline consists of a core eight-issue comic book limited series written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Olivier Coipel, Scarlet Witchs father, Magneto, and her twin brother, Quicksilver, played major roles in the series. Like the 1995–1996 Age of Apocalypse storyline, House of M replaced the Earth-616 as the reality for a brief time until Scarlet Witch reverts to normal. The events of the storyline were later indicated to have occurred on Earth-58163, the first issue was released in June 2005, with the series concluding in November 2005. The first two issues were ranked first and second in sales in the June 2005 period, with the first issue selling over 233,000 copies. The final issue, House of M #8, was ranked third in sales for the November 2005 period with sales of 135,462, Bendis, lead writer for the House of M event, stated that the series would shake the world and break the Internet wide open. Prior to the event, Bendis also mentioned in interviews that the event would have a lasting effect on the Marvel Universe. Characters who appeared include Chamber, Jubilee, and Blob, characters who lost their powers included Dani Moonstar, Magneto, and Tag. Marvel, and a new X-Factor series, at the end of the attack, Magneto revealed an alleged international anti-mutant conspiracy involving Richard M. Nixon. As a result, Magneto was granted sovereignty of the island of Genosha as the leader of the worlds mutants, another result was that the protection of mutant life was judged to be the first worry of all laws. Because of this, the world is a racist society, with mutants controlling governments, businesses, and culture, some exceptions apply to sapiens who live with privileges like Carol Danvers and Peter Parker. Danvers is widely known to be a sapien, while Spider-Man is believed by the House of M world at large to be a mutant, primarily, he wanted the entire world to acknowledge that his paranoid fantasies about baseline humans wanting to exterminate mutants were true. Secondly, he wanted to be acknowledged as a heroic figure and it is unclear whether the Scarlet Witch altered the entire Marvel Universe, or merely the structure and history of Earth, a fact further complicated by the events of Secret Invasion. The Skrull Hank Pym stated that there was no way the Skrull army could win against such a vast number of mutants, also, Xaviers supposed death in this reality, yet with no body, combined with his own off-planet actions, further confuse the issue. The universe where House of M takes place is designated as Earth-58163, Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch, is living on the devastated island of Genosha under the care of Professor Charles Xavier and her father Magneto. Professor X informs Magneto that his powers will no longer be enough to hold back Wandas reality-warping abilities. Magneto blames himself for twisting his children through the strength of his own dreams, meanwhile, Xavier arranges a meeting of the Avengers, the X-Men and several lone heroes to Avengers Towers to decide the fate of Wanda Maximoff. Emma Frost concludes that killing Wanda is the way to end her destructive magic
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Magneto (comics)
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Magneto is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appears in The X-Men #1 as the archenemy of the X-Men. The character is a mutant, one of a fictional subspecies of humanity born with superhuman abilities. He is a friend of Professor X, the leader of the X-Men, Magnetos role in comics has varied from supervillain to antihero to superhero, having served as an occasional ally and even a member of the X-Men at times. His characters early history has been compared with the civil rights leader Malcolm X, Magneto resents the pacifist attitude of Professor X and pushes for a more aggressive approach to achieving civil rights. In 2011, IGN ranked Magneto as the greatest comic book villain of all time, sir Ian McKellen portrayed Magneto in four films of the X-Men film series, while Michael Fassbender portrayed a younger version of the character in the 2011 prequel X-Men, First Class. In addition, both actors reprised the role in the film X-Men, Days of Future Past, set in two different eras, Fassbender reprised his role in the 2016 film X-Men, Apocalypse. Magneto first appeared in the issue of X-Men in 1963. In a 2008 interview, Stan Lee said he did not think of Magneto as a bad guy and he just wanted to strike back at the people who were so bigoted and racist. He was trying to defend the mutants, and because society was not treating them fairly he was going to teach society a lesson and he was a danger of course. But I never thought of him as a villain, in the miniseries, Magneto had been de-aged and suffered from amnesia, calling himself Joseph, it was later revealed that Joseph was a younger clone of Magneto. Later, Magneto became ruler of the nation Genosha, later, Magneto appeared in two miniseries, Magneto Rex and Magneto, Dark Seduction. A trade paperback novel detailing Magnetos childhood, X-Men, Magneto Testament was written by Greg Pak, Pak based Magneto Testament on accounts from Holocaust survivors. Before the publication of X-Men, Magneto Testament, Magnetos personal background and he was portrayed as a Jewish Holocaust survivor, while searching for his wife Magda, a Sinti, Magneto maintained a cover identity as a Sinti. This created confusion among readers as to Magnetos heritage, until his Jewish background was confirmed in Magneto. Magneto was born Max Eisenhardt sometime in the late 1920s to a middle-class German-Jewish family, maxs father, Jakob Eisenhardt, was a decorated World War I veteran. Max and his family escaped the ghetto, only to be betrayed and captured again and his mother, father, and sister were executed and buried in a mass grave, but Max survived, possibly due to the manifestation of his mutant powers. Escaping from the grave, he was ultimately captured yet again and sent to Auschwitz
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Decimation (comics)
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Decimation is a storyline event published by Marvel Comics in 2005, spinning out of the events of the House of M limited series. The event started with an issue and took place in a number of various series all carrying the Decimation logo on the cover. The 2005 mini-series Generation M, Sentinel Squad O*N*E, X-Men, Deadly Genesis and X-Men, the various stories were collected in five Trade paper backs. The storyline focuses on the ramifications of the Scarlet Witch stripping nearly all of the mutant population of their powers and this event, which occurred on November 2 according to X-Men #191, is known as M-Day in the Marvel Universe. One consequence is an upswing of anti-mutant sentiment, especially among religious groups. Both Hank Pym and Beast note shortly after the event that it is impossible for the energy that certain mutants controlled to simply have vanished, and that it must have been sent somewhere. As would later be revealed in New Avengers, most of this became a sentient entity called the Collective. Most criticisms by fans have been aimed at inconsistencies regarding the roster of mutants who retained their powers after the event, for example, in the Generation M mini-series, several characters were considered depowered, even though they retained their physical mutations. The Civil War Files one-shot revealed that the US governments assessment of the number of mutants on Earth may not be accurate, which allowed Marvel to change the number of depowered mutants. Additionally, characters such as Namor and the Great Lakes Avengers, wizard magazine published a speculative list of supposedly decimated characters, which Marvel Comics dismissed as including a number of mutants who still have their powers. Over 198 mutants have already been identified post M-Day with over 30 of said mutants have died since the mutant Decimation hit, Selene and her servant Eli Bard have used the Transmode Virus to reanimate the mutant Caliban so that he may track down and reanimate deceased mutants. The reanimated army appeared in the Necrosha story arc, consisting of thousands of inhabitants of Genosha, see the main Necrosha article to view the full list of those resurrected during the story arc. Necrosha notes, The majority of mutants were used as a sacrifice for Selene to reach her godhood. Those who were not sacrificed likely perished with Selene and the energy she used to them alive, as was implied by Destiny at the end of the X-Men. Tarot was reanimated mysteriously before M-Day and implied to be alive, during her return in Necrosha she claims to be dead like her fellow Hellions and exhibiting her mutant abilities. It is possible that Tarot was not actually depowered by M-Day, King Bedlam had used his abilities to inexplicably bring her back, and it was unquestionably stated her life was linked to his powers. It can be assumed she was returned to death in the fallout of the House of M reality, Unus and Feral are reanimated but should still be depowered as they were not mutants after M-day. Feral had her feline appearance restored prior to her death, and Unus was temporarily repowered by the Terrigen Mists, cypher, using his power and assistance from Warlock and Magik, eradicated the techno-organic virus
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S.H.I.E.L.D.
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S. H. I. E. L. D. is a fictional espionage, law-enforcement, and counter-terrorism agency appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Strange Tales #135, it deals with paranormal. The acronym originally stood for Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division and it was changed in 1991 to Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate. S. H. I. E. L. D. s introduction in the Strange Tales feature Nick Fury, Agent of S. H. I. E. L. D. Occurred during a trend for action series about secret international intelligence agencies with catchy acronyms, which Stan Lee stated in a 2014 interview, was the basis for him to create the organization. Colonel Fury was reimagined as an older character with an eyepatch. Fury series reappeared as agents of S. H. I. E. L. D, most notably Timothy Dum-Dum Dugan, Furys bowler hat–wearing aide-de-camp. Its most persistent enemy is Hydra, an organization founded by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. Much was revealed over the years to fill in its labyrinthine organizational history, Stan Lee wrote each story, abetted by artist Kirbys co-plotting or full plotting, through Strange Tales #152, except for two issues, one scripted by Kirby himself and one by Dennis ONeil. Steranko quickly established the feature as one of historys most groundbreaking, innovative. Ron Goulart wrote, ven the dullest of readers could sense that something new was happening, … Which each passing issue Sterankos efforts became more and more innovative. Entire pages would be devoted to photocollages of drawings ignored panel boundaries, the first pages … became incredible production numbers similar in design to the San Francisco rock concert poster of the period. Larry Hama said Steranko combined the figurative dynamism of Jack Kirby with modern design concepts. The graphic influences of Peter Max, Op Art and Andy Warhol were embedded into the design of the pages —, all this, executed in a crisp, hard-edged style, seething with drama and anatomical tension. The series won 1967 and 1968 Alley Awards, and was inducted in the year to the awards Hall of Fame. Steranko himself was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006, the 12-page feature ran through Strange Tales #168, after which it was spun off onto its own series of the same title, running 15 issues, followed by three all-reprint issues beginning a year later. Steranko wrote and drew issues #1–3 and #5, and drew the covers of #1–7, stories would not appear for nearly two decades after the first solo title. A six-issue miniseries, Nick Fury vs. S. H. I. E. L. D. was followed by Nick Fury, Agent of S. H. I. E. L. D
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Age of Apocalypse
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Age of Apocalypse is a 1995–1996 comic book crossover storyline published in the X-Men franchise of books by Marvel Comics. The Age of Apocalypse briefly replaced the universe of Earth-616 and had ramifications in the main Marvel Comics universe when the timeline was restored. It was later retconned as having occurred in the universe of Earth-295. The event was bookended by two one shots, X-Men Alpha and X-Men Omega, the storyline starts with Legion, a psychotic mutant who traveled back in time to kill Magneto before he can commit various crimes against humanity. Legion accidentally kills Professor Charles Xavier, his father, leading to a change in the timeline. The death of Professor Xavier leads Apocalypse to attack 10 years sooner than he did in the timeline, taking control of earth. Apocalypse is opposed by several factions of mutant resistance, including a group led by Magneto, the group manages to send the mutant Bishop back in time to prevent the murder of Professor Xavier, undoing the entire timeline. The Dark Angel Saga in 2011 also revisited the alternate reality once more, the world was also featured as part of Marvels 2015 Secret Wars. Legion, a mutant on Earth and son of Professor Charles Xavier. However, Legion travels to a time when Magneto and Xavier are still friends, as Xavier dies trying to protect Magneto, Legion vanishes, and a new timeline is created. The only person aware of how history has changed is Bishop, because of Xaviers sacrifice, Magneto comes to believe in his late friends dream of a peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants. Apocalypse, a mutant villain, was monitoring the fight. He chooses this moment as the time to begin his world conquest. Magneto assembles the X-Men just as Apocalypse begins his war, despite the X-Mens resistance, Apocalypse conquers all of North America and eventually mutants are considered the ruling class. Apocalypse also initiated a campaign called cullings killing millions of humans. To further ensure that no one was left to him or undo the circumstances that led to his reign. Meanwhile, the changes in the result in a destructive crystallization wave created by the MKraan Crystal. X-Men, Alpha was published in January,1995, and launched the Age of Apocalypse crossover story and it briefly shows readers how many popular X-Men characters have changed in this new world
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Dark Beast
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Dark Beast, sometimes known as the Black Beast, is a Marvel Comics supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted as an alternate reality version of the X-Mens Beast. In the Age of Apocalypse reality, McCoy was a mad scientist who implemented cruel experiments under the tyrant Apocalypse and he was one of a handful of characters to escape the Age of Apocalypse reality to the regular Marvel Universe, where he has continued his unethical experiments. Dark Beast first appeared in X-Men, Alpha and was created by Scott Lobdell, McCoy also experimented on himself in order to further his mutation and gained his ape-like bestial appearance. Any mutant that he deemed unworthy was turned into a component of a stew that was used to create Apocalypses army of Infinites. With the end of the Age of Apocalypse, the Dark Beast was able to escape into Earth-616 through the MKraan Crystal and he was believed to have died due to Quicksilvers interference in his set trajectory. However, the damage was that he landed twenty years in the past in the Morlock Tunnels without any memory whatsoever. He soon met a young Emma Frost, who helped him to some of his scattered memories. The Dark Beast was responsible for the creation of the Morlocks, the characteristics of the experimentation were later recognized by the 616 Mister Sinister as an unauthorized use of his own theories, leading him to order the elimination of the Morlocks. The Dark Beast later kidnapped the real Beast and kept him a prisoner behind a brick wall and he helped keep up the ruse by slaying many of Hanks childhood friends and teachers, although he found himself unable to kill Hanks parents. Angered at this emotional weakness, he decapitated a pedestrian as he left town, the Dark Beast was able to keep up his ruse until the Onslaught Saga, during which the Dark Beast joined Onslaught. Onslaught had, in fact, known from the beginning of Dark Beasts ruse and mentally shielded him from other telepaths at the mansion and he also had a few run-ins with Generation X and Gene Nation. There he was the leader of the newly revamped Gene Nation, although through the body of Wynter. The previous meeting between him and Emma Frost was also revealed and he also led an incarnation of the Brotherhood of Mutants. Right before House of M, the Dark Beast was in Genosha where he joined Xaviers team after being offered parole and it was confirmed in The 198 Files one-shot that he stayed powered after M-Day. The two form an alliance to tackle the impending mutant extinction but part ways due to their drastically different moral approaches to science. He then carries the dying boys body back to the house, shocked and enraged with his actions, Hank attacks the Dark Beast who, disgusted with Henrys inability to do all that is necessary to save their mutant species, beats him almost unconscious. The fight is interrupted by Mrs. Guthrie, who fires a round from a shotgun into Dark Beasts left shoulder
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Stan Lee
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Stan Lee is an American comic-book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor, and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. In addition, he challenged the comics industrys censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation. He was inducted into the book industrys Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994. Lee received a National Medal of Arts in 2008 and his father, trained as a dress cutter, worked only sporadically after the Great Depression, and the family moved further uptown to Fort Washington Avenue, in Washington Heights, Manhattan. When Lee was nearly 9, his sibling, brother Larry Lieber, was born. He said in 2006 that as a child he was influenced by books and movies, by the time Lee was in his teens, the family was living in a one-bedroom apartment at 1720 University Avenue in The Bronx. Lee has described it as an apartment facing out back, with he and his brother sharing a bedroom. Lee attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, in his youth, Lee enjoyed writing, and entertained dreams of one day writing the Great American Novel. He graduated from school early, aged 16½ in 1939. With the help of his uncle Robbie Solomon, Lee became an assistant in 1939 at the new Timely Comics division of pulp magazine, Timely, by the 1960s, would evolve into Marvel Comics. Lee, whose cousin Jean was Goodmans wife, was hired by Timely editor Joe Simon. His duties were prosaic at first, in those days dipped the pen in ink, I had to make sure the inkwells were filled, Lee recalled in 2009. I went down and got them their lunch, I did proofreading, Lee later explained in his autobiography and numerous other sources that he had intended to save his given name for more literary work. This initial story also introduced Captain Americas trademark ricocheting shield-toss, which became one of the characters signatures. He graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a feature, Headline Hunter, Foreign Correspondent. Lees first superhero co-creation was the Destroyer, in Mystic Comics #6, other characters he created during this period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comics include Jack Frost, debuting in USA Comics #1, and Father Time, debuting in Captain America Comics #6. When Simon and his creative partner Jack Kirby left late in 1941, following a dispute with Goodman, Lee entered the United States Army in early 1942 and served in the US in the Signal Corps, repairing telegraph poles and other communications equipment. He was later transferred to the Training Film Division, where he worked writing manuals, training films, and slogans and his military classification, he says, was playwright, he adds that only nine men in the US Army were given that title
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Jack Kirby
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Jack Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, widely regarded as one of the mediums major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. Kirby grew up in New York City, and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and he entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, during the 1940s, Kirby, generally teamed with Simon, created numerous characters for that company and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC Comics. After serving in World War II, Kirby produced work for a number of publishers, including DC, Harvey Comics, at Crestwood Publications he and Simon created the genre of romance comics and later founded their own short-lived comic company, Mainline Publications. Ultimately, Kirby found himself at Timelys 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, there, in the 1960s, Kirby and writer-editor Stan Lee co-created many of the companys major characters, including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk. The Lee-Kirby titles garnered high sales and critical acclaim, but in 1970, feeling he had been treated unfairly, at DC, Kirby created his Fourth World saga, which spanned several comics titles. While these series proved unsuccessful and were canceled, the Fourth Worlds New Gods have continued as a significant part of the DC Universe. Kirby returned to Marvel briefly in the mid-to-late 1970s, then ventured into television animation, Kirby was married to Rosalind Roz Goldstein in 1942. They had four children, and remained married until his death from heart failure in 1994, the Jack Kirby Awards and Jack Kirby Hall of Fame were named in his honor. Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28,1917, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City and his parents, Rose and Benjamin Kurtzberg, were Austrian Jewish immigrants, and his father earned a living as a garment factory worker. In his youth, Kirby desired to escape his neighborhood and he liked to draw, and sought out places he could learn more about art. He was rejected by the Educational Alliance because he drew too fast with charcoal and he later found an outlet for his skills by drawing cartoons for the newspaper of the Boys Brotherhood Republic, a miniature city on East 3rd Street where street kids ran their own government. At age 14, Kirby enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, I wasnt the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted people who would work on something forever, I didnt want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done, Kirby joined the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate in 1936, working there on newspaper comic strips and on single-panel advice cartoons such as Your Health Comes First. He remained until late 1939, when he began working for the animation company Fleischer Studios as an inbetweener on Popeye cartoons. I went from Lincoln to Fleischer, he recalled, from Fleischer I had to get out in a hurry because I couldnt take that kind of thing, describing it as a factory in a sense, like my fathers factory. Around that time, the American comic book industry was booming, Kirby began writing and drawing for the comic-book packager Eisner & Iger, one of a handful of firms creating comics on demand for publishers
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Quicksilver (comics)
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Quicksilver is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in the comic book X-Men #4 and was created by Stan Lee, Quicksilver has the superhuman ability to move at great speeds. In most depictions, he is a mutant, a human born with superhuman powers. In comic book beginning in 2015, he is the product of genetic experimentation by the High Evolutionary. Quicksilver most commonly appears in fiction associated with the X-Men, having been introduced as an adversary for the superhero team, in later stories, he became a superhero himself. He is the brother of the Scarlet Witch and, in most depictions, the son of Magneto. The character has appeared in a range of movie, television. Two separate live-action versions of the character have been adapted by two different film studios, Quicksilver first appears in X-Men #4 and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby. He has made other appearances in that title, and other related titles, sometimes as a member of the team, sometimes as an ally. From 1991 to 1993 Quicksilver was a character in the first volume of X-Factor. You think to yourself, Why do I have to put up with this and these people are so slow, theyre costing me time, and its so damned irritating. I wish I didnt have to put up with this, now—imagine that the entire world was like that. To Quicksilver, as he said in an issue of Amazing Spider-Man many, many moons ago and that must really, really get on your nerves. That would tend to make you feel very superior to everyone, Quicksilver also starred in Quicksilver, a regular ongoing eponymous series that began in November 1997 and ran for 13 issues. He appears as one of the members of All-New X-Factor, which was launched in 2014 as part of the second Marvel NOW. wave, writer Peter Davids handling of the character in that book earned the character a 2014 @ssie award from Aint It Cool News. AICNs Matt Adler commented that David writes the character best, Pietro and his twin sister, Wanda, were raised by Django and Marya Maximoff, a Roma couple. As adolescents Pietro and his sister Wanda discovered that they had peculiar talents, when Django began to steal food to feed his starving family, enraged villagers attacked the roma camp. Using his phenomenal speed, Pietro fled from the camp with his sister, over the next few years, Wanda and Pietro wandered central Europe, living off the land
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Scarlet Witch
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Scarlet Witch is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in X-Men #4 and was created by Stan Lee, the character has since starred in two self-titled limited series with husband the Vision, and has historically been depicted as a regular team member in superhero title The Avengers. Scarlet Witch is initially depicted as a mutant, born with the ability to alter reality in unspecific ways, the character has appeared in other Marvel-endorsed products such as animated films, arcade and video games, television series and merchandise such as action figures and trading cards. Scarlet Witch debuted, together with her brother, Quicksilver, as a part of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in X-Men #4 and they were depicted as reluctant villains, uninterested in Magnetos ideologies. Scarlet Witch is depicted as calm and submissive, as with most female comic characters of the time. Her costume was composed of a bathing suit with straps, opera gloves, short boots, a leotard covering her body, a superhero cape. After several appearances as a villain in issues #5, #6, #7, upon her return to the Avengers she was given a long-running love interest in the form of fellow Avenger the Vision. So they became a pair, for just such practical considerations, the two characters were married in Giant-Size Avengers #4. Thomass successor on The Avengers, Steve Englehart, considerably expanded Scarlet Witchs powers, adding genuine sorcery to her mutant hex power. I could certainly have pushed her more toward the mutant end of the spectrum, the character made occasional guest-appearances in other Marvel titles such as Marvel Team-Up #41–44, and Marvel Fanfare #6. Howell later wrote, penciled, inked, lettered, and colored a Scarlet Witch solo story appeared in Marvel Comics Presents #60–63. A solo limited series, titled Scarlet Witch, ran four issues in 1994, a one-shot titled Mystic Arcana Scarlet Witch was published in October 2007 and an Avengers Origins, The Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver one-shot followed in January 2012. Artist George Pérez designed a new costume with a strong Roma influence for the character in 1998 and this design has rarely been used by artists other than Pérez. Alan Davis stated that when he became the artist on The Avengers, I tend to go for simpler, more open lines and dont do lots of detail in rendering. The character played a role in the Avengers Disassembled storyline and related limited series House of M. Don Markstein asserts, The Scarlet Witch is unique among superheroes and her super power is unlike any other—she can alter probability so as to cause mishaps for her foes. In other words, she hexes them, Scarlet Witch is a regular character in Uncanny Avengers, beginning with issue #1. The Axis crossover revealed that Magneto was not her father after all and it also revealed that she was not a mutant, but a common human that received powers with the experiments of the High Evolutionary
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Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde)
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Mastermind is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He most often appears as an adversary of the X-Men, the original Mastermind was a mutant with the psionic ability to generate complex telepathic illusions at will that cause his victims to see whatever he wishes them to see. After Wyngardes death from the Legacy Virus, his three daughters appeared, two of whom possessed his illusion-creating abilities and third is the X-Man, Pixie, in 2009, Mastermind was named IGNs 98th Top Comic Book Villain of All Time. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, he first appeared in X-Men #4 and he was given his real name of Jason Wyngarde by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. Nothing is known of Jason Wyngardes life before joining the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, with Masterminds help, the Brotherhood takes over Santo Marco, a fictional South American country, with an illusion of thousands of soldiers. However, the X-Men free the country, as Professor X sees through Masterminds illusions, as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, he participates in repeated clashes with the X-Men. He attempts to court his teammate Scarlet Witch, but his advances seem driven more by an unsatisfied need for love than by any feelings for her. The Brotherhood attempts to lure the Stranger to their cause, after the spell wears off, Mastermind joins Factor Three, an organization that attempts to conquer the Earth. Factor Three eventually disbands when their leader turns out to be an alien and they team with the X-Men to defeat the alien Mutant Master. Mastermind is then captured by Sentinels, but freed by the X-Men, former members of Factor Three, Blob and Unus, join with Mastermind to reform the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Mastermind attempts to recruit Beast to his group, but fails, Mastermind is briefly held captive by the second Secret Empire. Magneto returns to the Brotherhood to resume his leadership and creates Alpha the Ultimate Mutant, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants battle the Defenders, but Alpha turns the entire Brotherhood team into infants. After being restored to adulthood, Mastermind becomes involved with the Hellfire Club and he initially poses as Nikos, and begins a romance with Phoenix. This turns her against the X-Men, Cyclops attempts to free Phoenix on the astral plane, but Mastermind confronts him there and soundly defeats him. Instead of binding Phoenix to him forever, as Mastermind had hoped, enraged at what he did to her, Phoenix reaches into his mind and makes him experience godhood for a moment. When Mastermind recovers his sanity, he seeks revenge on everyone that caused him pain and he strikes down Emma Frost, leaving her comatose. He unbalances Rogues shared psyche with Carol Danvers, prompting her to leave Mystique, next, since Phoenix is dead, he decides to use those closest to her as proxies for his revenge. He disrupts Wolverines wedding by psionically compelling his betrothed, Mariko Yashida, to reject him and he manipulates the X-Men into thinking Cyclopss fiance, Madelyne Pryor, is the reincarnation of Dark Phoenix, hoping to goad them into killing her before he reveals the truth
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Blob (comics)
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The Blob is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted as an adversary of the X-Men. A mutant originally depicted as a circus freak, the Blob claims to be immovable when he so desires. He possesses an extreme amount of body mass, which grants him superhuman strength. Possessing the mindset of a bully, he uses his powers for petty crime and as a member of the Brotherhood of Mutants. He is one of the most prominent, long-running mutants to be depowered as a result of the Decimation storyline, the Blob appears in the 2009 superhero film X-Men Origins, Wolverine, where he is played by actor Kevin Durand. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, he first appeared in X-Men #3, born in Lubbock, Texas, Fred J. Dukes starts out as a member of a circus sideshow under the name The Blob. He is detected and contacted by Charles Xavier via Cyclops, who sees his performance and tells him that he is a mutant, at the mansion, the other X-Men dislike Dukes for his obnoxious attitude. Ice-Man uses his power against Dukes to create an ice block round his foot, the Blob refuses Xaviers invitation, saying he is better than the other X-Men. When Xavier tries erasing his mind of what has transpired, the Blob escapes the Mansion despite the efforts of the Beast and uses the sewer to get away without being followed. He tells the manager of the carnival he is taking over, then gathers up the circus members and they attack the mansion, as he plans to get the X-Mens technology. Meanwhile, Xavier works on a device so he can erase the memories of many people, the carnival succeeds in defeating the X-Men despite a warning from Angel. They tie up the X-Men and leave them on the lawn and they then enter the mansion to find the Professor and his technology. Xavier is able to wipe everyones minds after the carnival is stopped by a wall of ice, the mutant Magneto soon seeks out the Blob to recruit him into his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, restoring his memory through a jarring blow to the head. The Blob temporarily accepts the invitation, but leaves when it is revealed that Magneto has no concern for the Blobs safety after he is hit by explosives which were launched at the X-Men. He goes back to the Circus and he teams up with Unus due to the alien Lucifer, who soon becomes his confidant. They disguise themselves as X-Men and commit crimes, the Blob also serves as a member of Factor Three. He briefly works as an operative for the Secret Empire, where he fights the Beast, with the reorganized Brotherhood, the Blob fights Professor X and the Defenders
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Vanisher
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The Vanisher is a fictional character, a mutant supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted as an opponent of the X-Men. The Vanisher first appeared in X-Men #2 and was created by Stan Lee, much of the Vanishers life remains a mystery, aside from his career as a professional criminal and subversive, though he was apparently born in Milton, Massachusetts. He is a mutant with the ability to teleport to any place he can think of. S. government by threatening to sell the plans to communists unless he receives 10 million dollars. The Vanisher, with a group of non-mutant followers, then goes to the front lawn of the White House to await his payment. Professor Xavier and the X-Men are able to intervene when Xavier induces amnesia upon the Vanisher, forgetting he has mutant powers, the Vanisher is taken into police custody and the rest of the X-Men defeat the unruly followers. The Vanisher eventually regains his memory and joins Factor Three, an organization of mutants who seek world domination. Factor Three is opposed by the X-Men when they attempt to start World War III between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Vanisher meets the X-Men again, but this time as allies, the Mutant Master has a plan to conquer Earth. The rest of Factor Three, including the Vanisher, team up with the X-Men to defeat him, the Vanisher was later held prisoner by the Sentinels, and was released through the X-Mens intervention. The Vanisher disappears for a while but eventually comes out of hiding to fight the Champions, to do so, he becomes a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and uses reprogrammed Sentinels. He is defeated by the Champions and is trapped in mid-teleportation by Darkstar and he also joins a group of villains to challenge the Fantastic Four, but is defeated. After traveling in another dimension with Nightcrawler, and returning to Earth, eventually they disband, and the Vanisher is left to his own devices. The Vanisher then keeps to himself for a period of time, until he is mentally controlled by Asylum to attack the New Warriors. Darkling, a superhuman who also uses energies from the Darkforce Dimension, is defeated, later, the Vanisher joins a second incarnation of the Enforcers, called the New Enforcers. The New Enforcers were a consortium that operated in obscurity, along with Eel and a woman named Blitz, the Vanisher is part of the Outer Circle of the Enforcers, and becomes involved in a clash between the criminal organizations A. I. M. and HYDRA. The New Enforcers are confronted and eventually defeated by Spider-Man, at some point, the Vanisher seeks to understand his powers in greater detail. He visits the Darkforce dimension but is captured by its inhabitants and they force him to read them stories
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Astra (comics)
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Aardwolf is a mutant in the Marvel Universe. The character, created by Fabian Nicieza, Ken Lashley and Fred Hayes, within the context of the stories, Aardwolf establishes himself as a crime lord on the island of Madripoor. He tricked Night Thrasher into helping him defend his empire by defeating Midnights Fire, Abominable Snowman is the name of two characters in Marvel Comics Universe based on the folklore character. The Carl Hanson version of Abominable Snowman first appearance was in Tales to Astonish #13 and was created by Jack Kirby, in order to capture the Abominable Snowman and make money from its capture, Hanson steals a cursed photograph. When at the Himalayas, he was unable to get help in finding it as they warned him to get rid of the cursed photograph before its curse overtakes him. When his hair has grown longer as he progresses up the mountain, Carls mind became addled, a larger Abominable Snowman similar in appearance to Carl Hanson appeared as an inhabitant of Monster Isle. He was among the monsters that witnessed the arrival of the X-Men members Shadowcat, when Shadowcat and Magik found Bo, the Abominable Snowman and the other monsters attacked them until Magik teleported herself, Shadowcat, and Bo back to the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Abominatrix is an adversary of She-Hulk in the Marvel Universe, the character, created by Buzz Dixon, Tom Artis and Steve Gerber, appeared in Sensational She-Hulk #21. Within the context of the stories, Florence Sharples is a manager of a saving, Keaton secretly sponsors genetic research seeking a cure for pre-menstrual syndrome. Sharples is accidentally injected with the serum and transformed into the Abominatrix, Abraxas, sometimes called the Dark Man, is a cosmic entity in the Marvel Universe. The character, created by Carlos Pacheco, first appeared in Fantastic Four Annual 2001, within the context of the stories, Abraxas is a cosmic entity who embodies the destruction of the entirety of the Marvel multiverse. The existence of Galactus prevents him from emerging, Absalom is a mutant in the Marvel Universe. The character, created by Rob Liefeld, Fabian Nicieza and Mark Pacella, within the context of the stories, Absalom is an External, a group of mutants that each possess immortality. He discovers this ability in the 1880s when he is hanged for the murder of Caleb Hammer, Abysss is an alien supervillain in the Marvel Universe. The character, created by Simon Furman and John Royle, first appeared in Death Metal #1 published under Marvels Marvel UK imprint. Within the context of the stories, Abysss is an inter-dimensional being who enters the primary reality of the Marvel Universe after destroying all matter in another reality. His intention to all matter in this universe is side tracked when he encounters Death Metal. The encounter results in Abysss retreating to the Realm of Nothingness and he is seemingly destroyed when Death Metal disposes of a bomb by throwing it into an inter-dimensional portal linked to the Realm
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Mystique (comics)
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Mystique is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by artist David Cockrum and writer Chris Claremont, she first appeared in the comic book Ms. Marvel #16, Mystique is a member of a subspecies of humanity known as mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. Mystique is a shapeshifter who can mimic the appearance and voice of any person with exquisite precision and she is typically portrayed as a foe of the X-Men. Throughout most of her history, Mystique has been a supervillain, founding her own Brotherhood of Mutants and she has commented that she is over 100 years old. Mystique is the mother of the villain Graydon Creed, the X-Men hero Nightcrawler and she is forced to abandon Nightcrawler, but raises Rogue for a number of years, and the two women have mixed feelings towards one another. In 2009, Mystique was ranked as IGNs 18th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time, Mystique was created by artist David Cockrum. Chris Claremont saw Cockrums design, dubbed the character Mystique, and, with Cockrums permission and her earliest meeting with her lover Destiny occurred around the dawn of the 20th century. While in her Raven persona, Mystique adopts the identity of deceased German secret agent Leni Zauber, both Leni and Victor Creed, a. k. a. Sabretooth, had been assigned with the assassination of a scientist in East Berlin, Mystique completes the mission in place of Leni, and then she and Victor have to hide in a safe location for a while. They become lovers, but she fakes her death in order to leave him. The result of this affair is reportedly the birth of Graydon Creed. A number of stories report that soon after his birth, Mystique gives him up for adoption, others depict Mystique making arrangements for him from a distance. Raven keeps track of his activities until he reaches adolescence, despite being the child of two mutants, Graydon is not a mutant himself. Mystique is disappointed and soon abandons him, Graydon grows to hate his parents, and eventually extends his hatred to all mutants. He becomes leader of the mutant-hating organization Friends of Humanity, at the height of his political ascension, Grayden is assassinated by an unknown shooter. The shooter is revealed to be a time traveling version of Mystique as part of a convoluted time paradox involving Jean Grey, Iceman, Toad. Still masquerading as Raven, Mystique is married to Baron Christian Wagner, older sources give his name as Count Eric Wagner and he proves to be a loving husband, but disappointing as a lover. His infertility adds to their marital problems, Mystique starts using her shapeshifting powers in order to secretly have sexual encounters with others
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Destiny (Irene Adler)
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Destiny is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is known as an adversary of the X-Men, although blind, Destiny was a mutant precognitive able to accurately predict future events. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, the character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #141 and she died in Uncanny X-Men #255 and was resurrected with a techno-organic virus during the 2009 Necrosha event. She filled several diaries with the history of mutantkind, the search for which was a main storyline in the 2000s series X-Treme X-Men. However, at time, the Comics Code Authority and Marvel policy prohibited the explicit portrayal of gay or bisexual characters. Destiny was simply referred to as the member of the new Brotherhood that Mystique saw as a friend, all the other members being male. Irene Adler was born in Salzburg, Austria, Mystique was working as a consulting detective when Destiny sought her help in understanding the precognitive visions recorded in her diaries. During this time, the two fell in love, background details suggest that this meeting took place around 1900. She was more accurate in predicting near-future events concerning her present environment, in a period of 12 months during her adolescence, Irene had produced 13 volumes of prophecies concerning the late 20th and early 21st centuries. When that period ended, Irene was left blind and haunted by disturbing images of uncertain meaning. She enlisted Ravens services in pursuit of two goals, the deciphering of her prophecies and a mission to prevent the most terrifying of them from ever being fulfilled. The two women would become lifelong friends and lovers. They both discovered that their set goals were difficult to achieve and their abilities would easily allow them to achieve personal success but to shape the future was stated to be next to impossible as it would require social engineering. Together, the two later raised adopted daughter Rogue in their home in fictional Caldecott County, Mississippi and they remained together until Destinys death. In 1946, a Dr. Nathan Milbury was involved with Project, Black Womb, a government project headed by Amanda Mueller and aided by Alexander Ryking, Brian Xavier, Kurt Marko. In the 2008 series X-Men, Legacy, Xavier is searching to find out more about this project, from recent issues, it appears at least Kurt Marko believed their research would result in immortality. Mystique and Destiny formed the second Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, a group of ideologically motivated terrorists and she attempted to assassinate Senator Robert Kelly with a crossbow, but was thwarted by the X-Men and taken into custody. She was rescued from Rykers Island along with the rest of the Brotherhood and she predicted Rogues disappearance from Mystiques custody
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Avalanche (comics)
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Avalanche is a fictional character, a mutant supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted as an enemy of the X-Men. He has been a member of the Brotherhood of Mutants and Freedom Force, the animated series X-Men, Evolution portrays him as Lance Alvers, a misguided mutant teenager and one time romantic love interest of the X-Mens Shadowcat. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, he first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #141, Avalanches story before Mystique recruits him for the second Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is largely a mystery. It is known, however, that he is an immigrant from the Greek island of Crete, there, he lives a quiet life until Mystique invites him to join her new Brotherhood. The X-Men arrive to stop the assassination and battle the new Brotherhood, after escaping the fray, Avalanche continues his support of Mutant supremacy via terrorist and criminal activities and battling the Avengers with the Brotherhood. Avalanche briefly leaves the Brotherhood and attempts to blackmail the state of California into paying him a sum to prevent him from using his power to generate an earthquake. Avalanche fights the Hulk alongside Landslide on this occasion and suffers broken arms when he attempts to use his powers against the Hulk, when he returns to the Brotherhood, together they encounter Rom and Hybrid. The team later battles the X-Men as the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants one final time, after that, The Brotherhoods leader Mystique offered the groups services to the United States government. Their first mission under their new name of Freedom Force was to capture the mutant Magneto on behalf of the federal government, the government then sent Freedom Force to capture the Avengers. While seeking to arrest Rusty Collins, he clashed with X-Factor, Freedom Force then fought the X-Men in Dallas and was present at the X-Mens apparent demise, and battled the New Mutants in Dallas as well. Freedom Force then battled Cyclops and Marvel Girl, Freedom Force again tried to arrest Rusty Collins and battled the New Mutants, but were able to arrest Rusty and Skids as well. They were also dispatched to rescue Senator Robert Kelly from a South American drug syndicate that had kidnapped him, Freedom Force also had a costly battle with the Reavers on Muir Island where a number of members were killed or seriously injured. During the Acts of Vengeance, Avalanche teamed with Blob and Pyro against the Avengers, Avalanche then joined Freedom Forces effort to stop a prison breakout at the Vault. Avalanche then participated in Freedom Forces final mission in Kuwait and he abandoned Blob and Pyro during the battle with Desert Sword to save the seriously injured Crimson Commando. By the time the X-Men establish themselves in San Francisco, Avalanche, going by the alias Nick, when the X-Men moved their headquarters to San Francisco, Petros was frightened that they would eventually come for him for his past crimes. As he was packing in hopes of leaving his new-found life, as they leave, with his place of business and apartment trashed, Petros looks around, mumbling to himself. Ares then knocks him out by choking him and he is seen one more time, sitting drunk in his own bar together with other mutants
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Rogue (comics)
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Rogue is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. She debuted in Avengers Annual #10 as a villain but then soon joined the X-Men. Rogue is part of a subspecies of humans called mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities, Rogue has the involuntary ability to absorb and sometimes also remove the memories, physical strength, and superpowers of anyone she touches. Therefore, Rogue considers her powers a curse, for most of her life, she limited her physical contact with others, including her on-off love interest, Gambit, but, after many years, Rogue finally gained full control over her mutant ability. Hailing from the fictional Caldecott County, Mississippi, Rogue is the X-Mens self-described southern belle, a runaway, she was adopted by Mystique of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and grew up as a villain. After Rogue permanently absorbs Ms. Marvels psyche and Kree powers, she reforms and turns to the X-Men, Rogues real name and early history were not revealed until nearly 20 years after her introduction. Until the back story provided by Robert Rodi in the ongoing Rogue series and her name was revealed as Anna Marie, although her surname is still unknown. She has sometimes adopted the name Raven, which is the first name of her foster mother Mystique, Rogue has been one of the most prominent members of the X-Men since the 1980s. She was ranked tenth in Comics Buyers Guides 100 Sexiest Women in Comics list, Rogue has been featured in most of the X-Men animated series, and various video games. In the X-Men film series, she is portrayed by Anna Paquin and her visual cue is often the white streak that runs through her hair. Rogues first published appearance was in Avengers Annual #10 and she made her first X-Book appearance in Uncanny X-Men #158 and joined the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #171. Rogue has also had two miniseries and one ongoing title, Rogues real name and early history were not revealed until more than 20 years after her introduction. Until the back story provided by Robert Rodi in the ongoing Rogue series, begun in September 2004 and this resulted in Rodis version of Rogues origins inadvertently conflicting with earlier information. Rogue is a character in Uncanny Avengers, beginning with issue #1. Her parents, Owen and Priscilla, married early in their relationship and lived in a hippie commune in Caldecott County. Born as Anna Marie, she enjoyed the attentions of her Aunt Carrie. Anna Marie was raised speaking colloquial English and French, common to the Mississippi bayou area, the communes failed attempt to use Native American mysticism to reach the Far Banks resulted in Priscillas disappearance. Carrie took over Annas care, and in her grief at the loss of her sister, was a strict, Anna Marie was a rebellious child and, at some point, the exact event or reasons still unclear, she ran away from home as a young teenager
