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 Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:05 am
Full Name: Jonah Woodson Hex
Occupation: Bounty Hunter, Former Soldier, Former Farmer
Marital Status: Married, later separated.
Known Relatives: Woodson (Father, Virginia "Ginny" (Mother, Mei Ling (Wife), Separated, Unnamed (Son), Mei Wong (brother-in-law), Mei Song (Sister-in-law), Unnamed (father-in-law, deceased)
Group Affiliation: None
Base of operations: Late 19th century American Southwest; for a time, the Seattle area circa 2050 A.D.
First Appearance: All-Star Western Tales #10
Height: 5'11"
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Reddish Blond
History
Born in 1838, Jonah Hex was one of the greatest legendary gunmen of the old West. He was the son of a brutal drunkard named Woodson Hex and his beautiful, long-suffering wife, Ginny. When Jonah was ten, his mother ran off with a travelling salesman named Preston W. Dazzleby. Jonah would not see his mother again for 27 years.
In 1851, when Jonah was 13, he and his father had gone out west for the California gold rush. Woodson sold Jonah as a slave to ah Apache chief in exchange for pelts, and never returned. Jonah was miserably treated by the Apaches until, when he 15, he saved the chief from a puma. The grateful chief freed Jonah and thereafter treated him as a son.
Jonah became the best hunter, tracker, gunman, and rider among the Apaches, and an Indian girl, White Fawn, fell in love with him. The chief's son, Noh-Tante, grew jealous of Hex. When both turned 16, they were sent to steal horses from the Kiowa Indians as a test of their worthiness as warriors. Noh-Tante knocked Jonah out, returned to the camp with the horses, and reported that Hex had fought poorly and been killed.
Bounty hunters killed the Kiowas who surrounded the abandoned Hex and shot Hex as well. Jonah was nursed back to health by an old trapper. Returning to the site of the Apache camp, he found the tribe was gone.
Hex became a buffalo hunter for the U.S. Army and eventually became a U.S. Cavalry scout. When the Civil War began, Hex joined the Confederate Army and became a lieutenant in the 4th Cavalry. But after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Hex told his best friend, Jeb Turnbull, that he could no longer fight to defend a system that supported slavery against people who were trying to end it. Hex went to the Union's Fort Charlotte, and after walking right into the captain's quarters, Hex surrendered to him. Although Hex refused to say where the other Confederate soldiers were camped, an orderly figured the location from examining the clay on Hex's horse's shoes. The Union captain had the Confederate soldiers taken by surprise, and then thanked him for his help in front of them. Hex found an escape tunnel in his cell and used it to reach the compound where Turnbull and the other Union prisoners were being held. But Hex did not realize that had planned all this as a means of ridding himself of prisoners he claimed he did not have enough food for. The captain's soldiers were waiting for the prison break and shot down almost all of the escaping soldiers, including Jeb. Hex survived and shot the captain. Only a handful of other Confederate soldiers escaped to safety, and they blamed the "Fort Charlotte massacre" on treachery by Hex. Jeb's father, Quentin Turnbull, vowed revenge on Hex and became his most implacable foe.
Some stuff happened, then....
Hex, now bearing his trademark scar, became the greatest bounty hunter of his day. As a result of one of Quentin Turnbull's conspiracies against him. Hex gained the enmity of the Mexican bandit chief El Papagayo, who became his other greatest foe.
Hex eventually fell in love with a young Chinese woman named Mei Ling, who asked Hex to give up hunting and killing other man for her sake. Jonah agreed, and they were married and had a son. But circumstances kept Hex to use his guns against other men. Finally, after Hex went to save a young boy named Petey Foster, who was in danger. Mei Ling took her son and left Hex. Heartbroken, Hex returned to his previous way of life.
But then, in 1875, Hex was apparently teleported to the Seattle area of the year 2050 A.D. by Reinhold Borsten, a power-hungry scientist. Borsten Had teleported many warriors from the past to his own time, apparently to battle each other for his own amusement. Borsten constructed his time-transporter in 2041, used it to send a man to 2045, and learned on his return that a nuclear holocaust would occur in 2045. Taking scientific records with him, Borsten teleported himself to a point after the holocaust, planning to rule the people who remained. But he found instead that society was now dominated by a criminal alliance called the Conglomerate, which controls "soames," a chemical means of decontaminating irradiated water. Hex escaped from Borsten and is now trying to survive in this devastated environment. It is not yet known how much of the world was ravaged by the holocaust, nor is it known whether Hex's 2050 occurs "before" or "after" all but one alternative future are "eliminated" in the so-called crisis on infinite earths.
It is known that Hex eventually returned to his own time. In 1904, when the 66-year-old Hex was cleaning his glasses, he was knocked on the head and fatally shot by George Barrow, leader of a gang of bank robbers whom Hex had killed. Lew Wheeler, owner of a Wild West Revue, shot Barrow and stole Hex's corpse, which he had treated by a taxidermist and put on exhibit in his revue. The corpse was seen in the Westworld Amusement park on the outskirts of New York City in 1972.
The corpse also appeared in Planet Krypton during "The Kingdom" miniseries.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:37 pm
Name: Gothic Lolita
Occupation: Soldier
Marital Status: N/A
Known Living Relatives/Acquaintences: Fellow Project Livewire members Hollowpoint Ninja, Stem Cell, Cornfed, and Social Butterfly. All current status unknown.
First Appearance: Livewires #1
Physical Appearance
Height: 5'1"
Weight: ~500lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Grey
Powers: Hyperdense array of Smartware enables well-above average strength and durability. Small size increases speed and agility.
Weapons and Tools: Typically Melee (as in, arms and legs) but is more than capable of using tools and firearms.
Other: Gothic Lolita is a soldier in Project Livewire, a Top Secret Quasi-governmental R&D project. Her focus (along with her teammates) is to eliminate other Top Secret Quasi-governmental R&D projects. All members are exceedingly loyal to their goals and will not betray them for any reason. Their most recent mission, to eliminate the "White Whale" (true codename unknown) was a Pyrrhic victory, taking down the Whale at the cost of 3 out of the 5 remaining members of the Project. Afterwards, the two remaining mechas gathered together the other three, and began the slow process of re-creating and rebuilding them.
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:18 pm
Subject: Richar Milhouse Jones
Hero Identity: Once took on the mantle of Bucky
First Appearance: Hulk#1 1962
Origin File: (Rick Jones has been through a lot, make sure you have a lot of free time ahead before starting to read this)
Richard M. Jones was orphaned as an adolescent and after being expelled from several orphanages for disciplinary reasons was placed into a state institution called Tempest Town. A troubled and rebellious youth, Jones soon came to the attention of the institution's chief administrator who smashed his guitar, a gift from his late father, and then had him severely thrashed. Jones ran away from the institution soon afterwards. He spent the first half of his teens drifting from town to town throughout the Southwest, trying to avoid the juvenile authorities, and doing menial work when he could get it. At age 16, he got his driver's license and managed to save enough money to buy a used car. Overhearing a teenager dare a friend to ride out with him on the desert where it was rumored an atomic bomb was going to be tested, Jones offered to take him upon the challenge. He drove his car out to the test site to discover his challenger was too timid to show up. Dr. Robert Bruce Banner, designer of the gamma bomb to be tested, learned that someone had ventured onto the test site, and believing the countdown had been delayed, ran out into the desert to warn him back. Banner managed to throw Jones into a protective trench before the bomb detonated, but he himself was bombarded with the powerful gamma radiation. This radiation would trigger a mutagenic change in Banner, causing him to turn into the raging superhuman Hulk. Feeling responsible for Banner's condition and being the only person to know that the rampaging brute was actually Banner, Jones became the Hulk's sometimes unwanted companion and ally Jones soon organized the Teen Brigade, a group of young amateur ham radio enthusiasts to help him monitor the Hulk's activities. Jones was present during the Hulk's first encounters with the army, as well as such superhuman menaces as the Gargoyle, the alien Toadmen, the Ringmaster, Tyrannus, and the Metal Master. As the Hulk grew more and more powerful and difficult to reason with, Jones finally decided to request help from the world's preeminent superhuman team, the Fantastic Four. Jones used the Teen Brigade to relay a distress call to New York, but while in transit the Asgardian god of evil Loki, who sought to use the Hulk to gain vengeance on his step-brother Thor, diverted the call to Thor. Unknown to Loki, the call was also monitored by Iron Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp. The four costumed adventurers tackled the Hulk, learned that Loki was the true culprit, and defeated Loki. Thor, Iron Man, Ant-Man, Wasp, and the Hulk decided to band together on a regular basis as the Avengers. Rick Jones accompanied them back to New York City
The Hulk left the Avengers' ranks a short time later, but Jones remained with the fledgling team, and was given honorary membership. When Captain America was resuscitated from his decades long suspended animation, he established an immediate rapport with Jones, who reminded him of his late partner Bucky. Jones hoped to prove himself worthy to take Bucky's place as Captain America's partner, but the Captain could not bear the thought of losing another partner. Alongside the Avengers, Jones faced such foes as Kang, Count Nefaria, Immortus, and the Masters of Evil. When all of the original Avengers except for Captain America decided to find replacements so they could take leaves of absences, Jones' hopes of becoming a full-fledged Avenger vanished when Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet Witch were elected. He decided to leave their company and return to the Hulk, who had recently been captured by the U.S. army. Using his connection with the Avengers, Jones managed to help extricate the Hulk from Army custody. However, a short time later, when he believed the Hulk had been killed, Jones revealed to Major Glenn Talbot of the U.S. Army that the Hulk was really Bruce Banner. When the Hulk was later found to be still alive, Jones realized that this disclosure, which soon became known to the public, changed Banner's life forever. Jones aided Betty Ross, Banner's girlfriend, in her attempts to help the Hulk, and became involved in Hulk's battles with such foes as Boomerang, the Hulk-Killer android, and the Mole Man, and was instrumental in convincing the Hulk to save Ross from the Abomination's clutches. However, as the Hulk entered one of his less rational phases, Jones had to be rescued from the Hulk's rampage by Captain America.
For a few weeks, Captain America permitted Jones to wear Bucky's costume and serve as his partner on a provisional basis. Despite the boy's natural athletic ability, the Captain worried that Jones would not pick up the battle skills necessary for survival quickly enough. Captain America's longtime nemesis the Red Skull had recently acquired the reality-rending Cosmic Cube and used it to switch bodies with the Captain. Unaware of the transfer, Jones approached who he thought was Captain America, and was rebuked by him. Believing Captain America to have rejected him, Jones abandoned his Bucky suit and hitchhiked out of New York. Eventually he arrived in his native Southwest where, as he would learn years later, the Supreme Intelligence of the alien Kree directed him to an ancient Kree weapons outpost utilizing a ghostly image of Captain America. In the outpost, Jones was compelled to put the Kree "negabands" on his wrists, and strike them together. By doing so, he released the Kree Captain Mar-Vell, who had recently been trapped in the anti-matter universe, the Negative Zone, into this reality while Jones took his place in the Zone. Mar-Vell needed a positive matter host to enable him to exist in this dimension, and the Supreme Intelligence selected Jones. In exchange for being sent to the void of the Negative Zone for hours at a time, Jones gained the vicarious thrill of being superhuman, due to the mental link he acquired with Mar-Vell. Jones enabled Mar-Vell to hunt down his mortal enemy Yon-Rogg, and also shared in several other adventures, including a clash with the Hulk. Due to the strange radiation in his body, Mar-Vell could remain in the positive-matter world for no longer than three hours, he also had to wait for Jones to strike the nega-bands together before he could change places with him. In the midst of trying to cope with this shared consciousness, Rick Jones began to try to make a living as a folk-rock singer, and found a manager in one Mordecai P. Boggs.
Mar-Vell eventually found a possible way out of the Negative Zone when he witnessed Fantastic Four leader Reed Richards travel into the Negative Zone through a portal he had created. Convincing Jones to change places with him, Mar-Vell stormed the Baxter Building headquarters of the Fantastic Four, and tore open Richards' Negative Zone access way and pulled Jones through. Free from their mutual co-existent state, Jones and Mar-Vell both became involved in the latest campaign in the eons-long war between the Kree and Skrull alien races, a campaign making strategic use of the Earth. Accompanying the Avengers to the Great Refuge of the Inhumans, Jones was kidnapped by a Kree soldier who made a failed attempt to recruit the Inhumans to the Kree cause. On the Kree home world in another galaxy, Jones encountered the Supreme Intelligence, deposed ruler of the Kree, who hoped to rescue its people from the costly war the new regime had embarked upon. Through elaborate machinations, the Supreme Intelligence influenced Mar-Vell to construct a Kree "omni-wave projector" which when it struck Rick Jones enabled the Supreme Intelligence to stimulate the latent psionic potential in Jones' mind. Jones then struck all Kree soldiers motionless in their tracks, and teleported all of the Avengers to the Kree home world, among other things. These fantastic mental feats, which the Supreme Intelligence claimed would one day be possible for all humanity, weakened Jones' life force drastically. In order to save his life, Mar-Vell had to agree to "merge atoms" with Jones again, consigning himself once more to the Negative Zone.
In a matter of months, Mar-Vell was reoriented sufficiently with the symbiotic relationship to reestablish mental contact with Jones. Glad that Mar-Vell had not sacrificed himself for him, Jones permitted Mar-Vell three hour intervals in the positive-matter world once again. Sharing space like this, the two became involved in further exploits, notably a journey to Titan while fighting against the mad Titanian Thanos, a journey to Earth's moon in battle against the Lunatic Legion, and a journey to the home base of the Watchers. It is during this time that Captain Mar-Vell was exposed to the nerve gas which would give him cancer and eventually kill him. Also during this period of co-occupancy, Mar-Vell's and Jones' minds began to lose their separate identities. Not only were they now able to tap one another's memories, they could also affect the transfer between bodies without striking the nega-bands together. While on the planet of the Watchers, they somehow used their increased mental capabilities to enable both selves to coexist in positive space. Now able to merge and unmerge at will, the two went forth for Mar-Vell's home planet Hala after Rick Jones' singing career flopped. On Hala, the two became involved in another power struggle between Ronan and the Supreme Intelligence, and learned that the Supreme Intelligence had engineered their symbiotic relationship from its inception so that it might one day be able to absorb Rick Jones' mind to stimulate the Kree's evolutionary potential. Thwarting the Supreme Intelligence's plan, the two set forth for Earth again, only to have their relationship regress to where one of them had to remain in the Negative Zone again. This somehow occurred when Mar-Vell inadvertently passed too close to a hole. A short time later, Rick Jones was freed from the Negative Zone when the power mimicking Super-Adaptoid was tricked into taking his place there. Jones and Mar-Vell were finally free to pursue their own destinies, and met infrequently before Mar-Vell died of cancer.
Rick Jones soon got involved with his old friend the Hulk once more, and was determined to help cure the Hulk as he was unable to help Mar-Vell. In trying to keep tabs on the green behemoth, he learned that the Teen Brigade he had formed while he was a teenager was still in operation and had in fact become an international ham radio club. When Jones and some of the new generation of Teen Brigadiers had been captured by the superhuman Corruptor, Jones attempted to contact the Avengers for help. But just as his distress call to the Fantastic Four had been diverted years before to those who would form the Avengers, his call to the Avengers was diverted to five other superhuman beings. These adventurers formed the Rangers at the exploit's end, but the Rangers never attained the success the Avengers did. In close association with the Hulk and his human self Bruce Banner, Jones began to think of them as separate individuals even as he and Mar-Vell had been. He soon realized that to cure Banner, the Hulk had to die, and that was what Banner was working toward. Finally, during one of the Hulk's long absences, Jones decided to expose himself to the radiation of Banner's gamma ray projector in a rash attempt to transform himself into a second Hulk. Because Jones lacked the unique capacity to mutate from gamma ray exposure that such beings as the Hulk, Leader, and Abomination possessed, he instead contracted radiation poisoning. Although certain treatments managed to put the degenerative condition into remission, Jones had done permanent damage to his cellular structure. Ironically, Banner found a way to cure himself without eliminating the Hulk completely and possessed his normal intelligence as the Hulk and as Banner. Shortly after the intelligent Hulk was granted a presidential pardon for his past offenses, Jones left him, feeling the Hulk no longer needed him.
A few months later, Jones checked himself into a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, for treatment when his radiation-induced cancer flared up. While there, he got involved in the war against the alien Dire Wraiths when a Wraith killed the physician treating him. This led him into an association with the Galadorian spacekngith Rom, who was Earth's foremost champion against the Wraiths. Jones was instrumental in helping Rom organize Earth's superhuman champions against the Wraiths and took part in active combat against them. When the Wraith menace was finally ended, and Rom left for his homeworld, Jones moved in with Brandy Clark, Rom's human paramour, and Cindy Adams, an adolescent orphaned by the Wraiths. The three lived together for several weeks until they encountered the omnipotent Beyonder who sought to understand human desire. The Beyonder granted the three of them their fondest wish: Jones to be cured of cancer, Clark to be reunited with her beloved Rom, and Adams to have her parents brought back to life. Healthy and alone again, Jones went off to seek new adventures.
Jones continued to involve himself in the Hulk's life, and was inadvertently exposed to gamma radiation, which succeeded this time in transforming Jones into a version of the Hulk. The radiation was drained by the Hulk's archenemy, the Leader, via a pyshic bond in order to restore the Leader's super-intelligence. Jones acted as bodyguard for Dr. Banner for some time until his disappearance at the hands of the Leader.
The Hulk reappeared as Mister Fixit, a Las Vegas "leg breaker," and Jones tried to reacquaint with Banner's life. Jones met Fixit's ex-girlfriend, Marlo Chandler, and the two began dating.
Jones published a best-selling book regarding his biography as a super-hero's sidekick, gaining national acclaim. This brought him to the attention of Jackie Shorr, a woman who worked at the orphanage where Rick Jones grew up. She approached Jones and claimed to be his mother, eventually convincing him and his friends of the fact. At an opportune moment, however, Shorr drugged Jones and kept him trapped in her basement. When Betty Banner, Banner's wife, and Marlo came to Shorr's house to investigate, Shorr stabbed Marlo to death and the heroes escaped. Distraught, Jones sought help to revive his girlfriend, and was answered via a psychic link with the Leader. The villain used his advanced technology in reviving Marlo, and after several weeks in a coma-like state, she recovered completely. Shortly thereafter, Marlo and Rick were married.
The couple was approached to co-host a TV talk show, "Keeping Up With The Joneses," which was a moderate success. Eventually, however, Marlo decided to separate from Rick, unable to deal with her husband's constant adventures with superheroes.
When the Hulk was abducted by the villain Apocalypse and turned into one of his Horsemen, War, the villain Absorbing Man took Jones and Betty Banner to Egypt to talk the Hulk out of this new role. The Absorbing Man and the Juggernaut fought the Hulk, who succeeded in defeating them both. He was about to kill them when Jones tried to stop him. The Hulk swatted Rick aside, and Rick slammed into the wall of a pyramid, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
Jones soon became the target of the time-traveling Immortus, who was determined to keep humanity (and especially Avengers) from expanding into space-- a prospect of which would have disastrous prospects in nearly 50% of all the possible multiverses. Jones was struck with a mysterious malady that left him comatose as energy similar to the Destiny Force permeated his cells. The Avengers were forced to seek help from the Supreme Intelligence, at the time a prisoner on the moon. Jones was saved from an assassination attempt by Immortus' counterpart, Kang the Conqueror, and the Supreme Intelligence and the mystic Libra jumpstarted Jones' Destiny Force again, healing his disabled condition and pulling together members of the Avengers from various eras, including a future version of the son of Captain Mar-Vell. Jones and the Avengers eventually learned of Immortus' motives and confronted him and his masters, the Time-Keepers. Ultimately, Jones used his Destiny Force to confront the armies of the Time-Keepers and to destroy their ultimate weapon, the Chrono-cannon. The effort left Jones near death and, to save his life, the future Captain Marvel reluctantly merged his form and life force with that of Jones, similar to what the original Captain Mar-Vell had done with Jones years earlier.
When Jones returned to earth after the encounter, the present-day Captain Marvel was surprised to find himself automatically taking his future self's place in the symbiotic relationship with Jones. The present-day Captain Marvel assumed the altered appearance and enhanced powers of his future self in the process, but was still greatly distressed to be trapped in a shared existence with a man he despised. Jones was no happier about it, but the reluctant duo was forced to adjust to their new situation. The experienced adventurer Jones has often served as mentor to the novice hero Captain Marvel.
Marlo had since set up residence in Los Angeles, California, opening a comic book store. Jones returned to Los Angeles as well, hoping to resume their relationship while keeping his situation with Captain Marvel a secret. Soon, however, Marlo discovered his secret and after a period of adjustment, rekindled her romance with her husband.
After a series of rather blurry events including a cosmic being superior even to Enthropy Rick Jones was apparently separated from his bond with Genis and was presumed to have gone back to a peaceful life with his wife Marlo.
Recently, Rick was revealed to be the mysterious benefactor of the group Excelsior, comprised of former teenage superheroes dedicated to reforming other superpowered kids from following down the same path. Their first targets are the underaged Runaways who have been patrolling Los Angeles in the wake of the supervillain power vacuum attracting new criminals since the Runaways defeated their evil parents, the Pride, who once controlled the city.
(98% of this from Marvel Directory)
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:33 pm
Subject: Genis-Vell Hero Identity: Photon, Captain Marvel, once Legacy First Appearance: Silver Surfer Annual #6 (1993) Origin File: Genis-Vell is the genetically-engineered son of Mar-Vell and his lover Elysius, created from the late Mar-Vell's cell samples and artificially aged to physical, if not emotional, maturity. Genis, like his father, wore the Nega-Bands and was, for a time, bonded with Rick Jones. Upon merging with Jones at the conclusion of the Destiny War, the dormant Cosmic Awareness he had inherited from his father was activated, but he was eventually driven mad by the awareness of his failings: no matter who he saved, the act of saving them prevented him from being able to save someone else. Ultimately, he was seduced by the cosmic beings Epiphany and Entropy, the rogue relatives of the universal embodiment called Eternity, and helped them destroy and recreate the universe, throwing the timestream into chaos as a result. Several of Eternity's other siblings eventually restored Genis' mind and the damage that he had caused, separating him from Rick Jones in the process. Genis is currently affiliated with the Thunderbolts, after Thunderbolt member Atlas, apparantly mind-controlled, crushed him and Genis appeared to have died. Oddly, Genis has survived this and suffered from loss of memory and power flunctuations. Genis decided to join the team and has taken the name Photon. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genis-Vell" 
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:52 pm
Subject: Clark Joseph Kent
Hero Identity: Superman, Superboy
First Appearance: Action Comics #1 in 1938
Origin File: Superman was born on Krypton as Kal-El, the son of Jor-El, a scientist and leader, and Lara, a former astronaut. When Kal-El was two or three years old, Jor-El learned that Krypton was doomed to explode, and he brought this to the attention of Krypton's ruling leaders, the Science Council. Disbelieving Jor-El's prediction, they refused to warn their fellow Kryptonians, and forbade Jor-El to do so. Jor-El and Lara promised that they wouldn't leave Krypton (Lara vowed to stay by her husband's side rather than accompany Kal-El to Earth, so that his ship would have a better chance of surviving the trip), and decided to use the little time remaining to save their son. Moments before Krypton exploded, Jor-El launched Kal-El in a rocket ship towards Earth, knowing that Earth's lower gravity and yellow sun would give the boy extraordinary powers.
Kal-El's ship landed in a field near the town of Smallville, and was discovered by the elderly Kent couple. They named him Clark, after Martha's maiden name. he was found and adopted by the Kents, and raised like a normal human (except wit hsuper terrific powers). Clark Kent adopted the Superhero monicer of Superboy, and saved the world as a much younger version of his superself. Some accounts say Clark's powers developed gradually, beginning with his invulnerability, and he didn't fly until he was a teenager. After leaving Smallville, he traveled the world before settling in Metropolis, completing his education, and going to work at the Daily Planet. The sam accounts that say Kal-El slowly gained his powers say that Clark did not become a superhero until just before starting work at the Daily Planet, when he prevented an experimental spacecraft from crashing in Metropolis.
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:53 pm
Jonah Hex Some stuff happened, then.... Eeeh, should we guess that it is never explained how he gets disfigured?
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:07 am
Full name: Jimaine Szardos
Alias: Amanda Sefton, Daytripper, Magik (II)
Occupation: Sorcress, ruler/protector of Limbo
Known relatives: Margali Szardos (mother), Stefan Szardos (brother), Kurt Wagner (adopted brother)
Group affiliation: Former member of Excalibur, often aids the X-men
Base of operations: Limbo
First Appearance: Uncanny X-men #98
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 110 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Usually blond
Powers:
Jimaine's training in the Winding Way allows her various powers which increase and decrease in strength as she continues to train. These powers include such magical feats as teleportation, illusions, shape-changing, mystical force bolts, hypnotism, and the manipulation of other magical forces.
As ruler of Limbo, Jimaine now wields the Soulsword (a magical blade which disrupts the mystical energies of others and can steal the souls of others) and the Darkchylde armour of Ilyana Rasputin. She also controls Limbo's stepping disks to use in teleportation and scrying.
History:
Amanda Sefton was born Jimaine Szardos to a circus in Germany. Her mother, a powerful sorceress named Margali, raised Jimaine, her brother Stefan, and her adopted brother Kurt Wagner with care for years. Jimaine was close with Stefan, but even closer with Kurt. The two were a an acrobatics team in the circus until, eventually, Kurt decided to leave. Jimaine, who was in love with Kurt, had planned to leave with him. When Margali found out, she informed Jimaine of her destiny: She was to carry on the practices of the Winding Way--the magical paradigm whose followers' powers increase and decrease as they progress. Jimaine wanted to live her own life, however, and set her heart on leaving. On Kurt's final performance, his teacher requested to be his partner rather than Jimaine. To her dismay, Jimaine watched as their teacher plummeted to his death in a tragic "accident." Believing it to be the work of the demon Belasco (and an attack intended for her), Jimaine decided to stay at the circus and train under her mother.
Stay long, however, she did not. When she and Margali learned of Stefan's death at the hands of Kurt, Margali swore vengeance. Jimaine, on the other hand, insisted that there must have been a valid reason. She set out to find Kurt before her mother did, and to get the truth out. Taking the name Amanda Sefton, Jimaine became a flight attendant. Eventually she and Kurt found eachother, and began a relationship anew (though he had no idea she was actually his childhood love). The truth came out when Amanda helped to stop her mother's revenge on Kurt, and the two remained together until they had an argument due to Kurt's lack of faith at the hands of the Beyonder.
Amanda soon regretted leaving Kurt, and was dismayed to learn of the deaths of the X-men. Later, she discovered that he was alive and well, part of the British super-group Excalibur. She came to the lighthouse where the team was based, but found no one save Alysande Stuart. The two journeyed to Muir Island, where Amanda saved Banshee from certain death and then agreed to help fight off the Reavers. Afterwards, she fell under the control of Shadow King, but was eventually freed by Xavier, the X-men, and X-factor. She left immediately, deciding to re-start her life.
Upon Captain Britain's displacement through the timestream, Amanda was again called in to help. She joined Excalibur under the codename Daytripper, and together with Rachel Summers, managed to pull Brian back to the present, causing Rachel to be lost through time in the process. She stayed with the team for a while, gaining Ilyana's Soulsword from Shadowcat and stopping her mother and the Hellfire Club from destroying London. Unbeknownst to Excalibur, Amanda's body had been swapped with Margali's, and Amanda herself was in Limbo suffering at the hands of Belasco.
With Kurt's help, Margali came to Limbo and, along with Amanda, defeated Belasco. She vanished afterwards, and Amanda realized that there was no one left to protect Limbo. Knowing that the realm's stepping disks would allow demons to journey into other realms, Amanda became it's guardian.
Taking the name Magik (after Ilyana Rasputin) to confuse her enemies and weaken their spells, Amanda now rules Limbo and keeps its powers out of the hands of the demons who wish to control it. She has allied the various Splinter Realms to fight a force more powerful than any of them alone, defeated foes such as Mephisto and Selene in direct combat, and has aided Kurt and the X-men when needed. She has grown incredibly over the years, and shows no signs of stopping.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:54 am
Full Name: Spider Jerusalem
Occupation: Newspaper columnist/Author
Origin: Spider was born in the impoverished docks sector of The City, eventually growing up to become a celebrity journalist under unknown circumstances. He began a five year hiatus after the election of the President popularily known as "The Beast" during which he lived on a mountain in a heavily fortified compound. When his money ran out and contractual obligations to produce another two books reared their head, he returned to The City and began writing a column for a daily newspaper called The Word and quickly returned to his previous level of notoriety for his coverage of a riot staged by police in order to suppress an outspoken minority group known as Transients.
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:34 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:17 pm
X Real Name: Unknown Identity/Class: Occupation: Vigilante Affiliations: Enemies: Known Relatives: None Aliases: Johnny, Jack, John Doe Base of Operations: Arcadia First Appearance: Arcadia : X Powers/Abilities: X can heal virtually any injury (with the exception of his eye), and can go without sleep, possibly food, and air. X has had a sword shoved through his chest and out his back, then stabbed several times by ninjas, after he supposedly died, he was thrown in a river and a day later he was whole and crazy again. X's cape is died red with X's blood and just like him it heals itself and even if the blood is frozen it goes back to normal. X has been shot, stabbed, drowned, drugged, hammered, and beat, but every time it happens to him he heals a little faster from each injury. History: "The first mark is a warning, the second mark is Death." There are numerous stories about the mysterious and terrifying X. That he's an escaped maniac, triggered by the phases of the moon. An avenging angel, wielding fire and steel. A devil, raining down brimstone and blood. A criminal, driving out all competition. A dead man, back from the grave, to avenge his murder. A government experiment gone awry, let free to prey on Arcadia. The city, taken human form to purge itself of its intolerable corruption. The real story is as follows: X's father worked in the Vortex project, and he came across the arm of an officer that had been exposed to vortex energy. After things started to go bad, the man stole the arm and ran off with his family. A few years later, the officer who had lost his arm (now a general) located him and came to him with a heavy black ops Army team, killing both the man and his wife. Before they could destroy their home, X's father took the blood from the arm and injected it into his own son, giving him his powers. After X's parents were killed, he wandered the streets of Arcadia, until he was spotted and taken by the city's social workers at age twelve. They could find no trace of his actual identity; his only possessions were his cloth and a kid's wood cube with the letter "X". His memory was peculiar: he was well educated, but personal details were blanked out. They stayed that way, since no method managed to undo his amnesia. He became a ward of the state. At about fifteen, he started working with a new psychiatrist - who happened to be the mistress of the man who would become Arcadia's crimelord, and was already a very important mob boss: Carmine Tango. The psychiatrist tried everything she could to "save" the amnesiac, violent kid. She gave him an actual name, "Jack" (his official name was John Smith 24) and later screwed up and became his lover. Tango learned of this, of course - and ordered the young woman to cease immediately. Panicking, she started the break her relationship with "Jack" and hit him hard psychologically to make him go away. That didn't work at all - except for breaking X some more and probably making him unable to love someone again. The young man found out the actual reasons for this rejection, and single handedly and with no weapon invaded Tango's home. His motives were unclear, but when he came across Carmine Tango with a gun, Tango realized that the kid had it. He recruited him and changed his name to "Johnny". The kid, indeed, had it - in a few years, he became one of the star lieutenants for Carmine Tango, who himself was becoming Arcadia's top dog. After a few years, Carmine Tango, who was a deep believer in astrology and ran his empire according to what he could calculate in his planetarium, received a very, very bad prediction from the stars - he had to kill his star lieutenant, "Johnny". He put his most efficient enforcer, Coffin, on the case. Coffin led him to a dock where he cut X's face and eye (hence the scars) and tossed him into the bay. This fate-imposed death would haunt Carmine Tango until his very death. X survived his death and, after some unknown amount of time (probably years), came back to start a crusade to turn the corrupt Arcadia into something else. It is known that he struck a deal (a rarity) with Mafia queen Diana Goretti, who funded him - in exchange for hot real estate on the waterfront. It started slowly as X first concentrated his efforts on claiming the waterfront as his own. It took about six months for the message to be heard : the waterfront was X's domain. No cops, no syndicate, no unauthorized business - although many beggars and other street denizens moved to the waterfront once it was known the place only knew X's law. X continued to pick up momentum, and in the tenth or eleventh month shot dead a corrupt candidate to the Congress. While the police remained unable to apprehend him (a special SWAT team sent to kill him even found itself blasted in an exploding building), the local criminals (although the difference between those factions was rather thin in Arcadia) were not having much more success and the city's crimelord, Carmine Tango, an astrologer, began to take things in his own hands. The Mayor, Marcus Teal, was a crook but not a dangerous criminal; Carmine Tango sided with an old acquaintance, Congressman DeMarco - a major player with heavy connections, having once lost the mayoral race to Teal but having since become a big shot in Washington (and, incidentally, having survived the Cinnibar secret Army base when it was attacked by alien Seekers). They wanted to replace Teal with Commissioner James Anderson, a borderline psycho running his police like a guerilla army. X killed Anderson after the commissioner had sent killer cyborgs after him, and saved Teal from Tango's killers, telling in no uncertain terms to Teal he was working for him now. DeMarco had enough power to convince the National Security Council to sic the all-American superhero Titan on X ; he was helped in this by a powerful Arcadia drug runner with strong political connections, Roscoe Ligotti, who was on X's hit list. X, of course, was not a match for Titan's tremendous power. However, he found it relatively easy to explain to him who he was actually working for - and it became obvious, in fact, that Ligotti was helping finance the US intelligence community in return for immunity. Titan faced down Ligotti, but was told off by the NSC. X, however, was right behind with a grenade and killed the druglord. DeMarco died away from Arcadia, while X was held prisoner by Alamout, the Master of Assassins. He had an encounter with Ghost, panicked and shot loose a huge wood X-shaped cross that crushed him to death - since his helicopter already had a huge red X painted on the belly, it was clear to all that X was the killer. Meanwhile, X, brainwashed by Alamout, almost killed Tango - but snapped out of his conditioning at the last moment. Still, Tango considered himself at war against X and launched an assault on him - which failed, leaving about fifteen dead. During the firefight, Tango's handpicked boy, Christy, chose to gun down the last other man alive in order to surrender himself to X. The heat was steadily rising - and became worst as a secret society of criminal policeman, the Judgment Knights, started a campaign of murder against rival mobs. After X had ensured, by pressuring Teal and the press, that the right candidate was chose to be the new commissioner, the war further escalated. Carmine Tango had Coffin hired, using him to discipline other crime lords to stand behind him during the war and not make their play at power. Coffin also led an operation to destroy X's waterfront. A half-dozen of firefighting planes dropped thousands of liters of crude oil all over the waterfront, which Coffin ignited with a car bomb, devastating many blocks and killing untold numbers of vagrants. Meanwhile, Alamout captured the Mayor, so as to impersonate him when needed. As the Mayor, he triggered an assault by Carmine Tango on Mafia heiress Diana Goretti (by revealing her financial connections with X) and drew X to him, killing him by surprise. X's corpse was thrown in Arcadia's bay, but his invulnerability allowed him to survive. He came back while Lord Alamout, disguised as X, had called through Carmine Tango a conference of Arcadia's underworld in a stadium. X entered the stadium and killed Alamout, then proclaimed he had won the war. At that point, the renegade policemen known as the Judgment Knights charge in, and the stadium erupted in chaos. Shortly after that, X killed Diana Goretti, his backer, and mentally broke Carmine Tango - leaving Christy, his right hand man, take over the Tango mob under X's orders. With Arcadia broken under him (and after a bad chance encounter with Headhunter, on a mission for the government in Arcadia - followed by a chance encounter with a Predator, which didn't go very well for the Predator), X moved to greater things. His plan was to pressure the Congress into pouring funds into Arcadia so as to help rebuild it and make it a better place - a plan motivated by the fact the government had pulled back from Arcadia. He used his usual tactics of terror against key Congressmen to have an "X bill" passed, but was then arrested by an operative of the Dept of Justice he had already met and narrowly beaten - Challenge. Challenge's superior in the Department of Justice offered a negotiated compromise, with an ulterior motive : he had shown X that negotiation could have faster, more efficient results than violence ; and, more subtly, than the outside world was not his. When X came back to Arcadia, things had degenerated very quickly when it became apparent he was away from the city. Street gangs were rampant, Gamble was back to implement a cunning plan to get in power, and the general had understood who was back and was back to claim his arm. Wildboy Willie McCone, the general's hired killer, got rid of Gamble and plunged the town in a mean civil war, destroying most infrastructures with explosive charges and having heavily armed and united the gangs. He also ambushed X and shot him with a special virus that neutralized X's healing abilities, leaving badly injured and greatly weakened. Driven by his CIA, X's nevertheless tried to stop the civil war in Arcadia's streets, and shortly associated with Gamble. He then challenged the general to a meet. Although X silently killed all of the general's men before meeting him, he was shot by Wildboy Willie McCone. After a few minutes (during which the general discussed with X, who thus could remember the raid on his house during his childhood), McCone was shot by Gamble ; the General was killed by the psionic form of the resurrected Coffin, seconds before X killed Toby Klein, thus destroying Coffin. Gamble then attempted to betray X and was shot dead by the vigilante. X then apparently retired, as all the players in Arcadia had been eliminated ; the assistant district attorney offered amnesty for his crimes if he just disappeared. It is unknown if X accepted this deal. Comments: X is scarred beneath his mask and has no secret identity. He lives in the sewers; the only person he talks to is street urchin Mikki D. X is highly violent and ruthless; he is here to kill a large number of persons and their goons, and is certainly not above torture. He's a sociopath, and never seems to display emotions or need human contact. The "X" marks sometimes appear in impossible circumstances : a trickle of blood just happens to form one of the bars. An item falls on someone's face in just the right fashion. The mark is done impossibly quickly, and the victim doesn't even notice until a few minutes later. The mark appear while X is away, and events make it very unlikely he could have put it there in advance. A splash of blood falls on a mirror at just the right place. A plexiglas visor cracks just in the right way. X only put his mark on one billboard in the town, but that's the one his target sees. A shadow falls as it should. Sometimes, a mark dies far from Arcadia, but the circumstances of his death mark him with the second half. The reasons for this supernatural phenomenon is unknown.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:39 pm
Name - Greta Hayes aka Secret
First appearance - Young Justice: The Secret
Origin - Robin, Impulse, and Superboy helped her to escape from the D.E.O. (Department of Extranormal Operations) agents who were holding her against her will. Secret was incorporeal, able to take on a variety of appearances, and is referred to as "the mist girl" or "the bottle girl" by the various agents who pursue her throughout the run of Young Justice.
Eventually, her origin was revealed: Secret was once an ordinary girl named Greta, whose adoptive brother Billy killed her as part of his plan to become the supervillain Harm. Because of the manner of her death, Greta remained stuck on this plane of existence, a gateway between the living and the dead.
Secret nursed a crush on Robin throughout the series, but eventually gives in to the darkness in her nature at the behest of Darkseid. Tim was able to talk her down, however, and a disgusted Darkseid stripped her of her powers in the last issue of Young Justice, leaving her an ordinary, living girl... just as she always wanted to be.
She now attends the Elias School for Girls, along with Cassie Sandsmark (Wonder Girl) and Cissie King-Jones (the former Arrowette).
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:40 am
Dr Henry J. Pym
Strength:At normal human size Pym can lift 250 to 400 lbs, as he grows his strength becomes superhuman at maximum height he can lift 50 tons.
Speed:Pym has the speed of a professional athlete. At greater heights he can travel larger distances even faster.
Durability/Endurance:Pym has peak human durability, as he grows he becomes Superhumanly Durable as most attacks against him become less powerful due to his added mass.
Intellect:Henry Pym is one of the Marvel Universe's most brilliant Scientists. He is considered to be Reed Richard's Intellectual Equal. Pym is an expert in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, Chemistry, Bio Chemistry, Genetics and Radiation. He invented the Pym Partical which allows an object or person to grow or shrink, He also build Ultron one of the most powerful robotic entities in the Marvel Universe. Pym developed a gas that negated radiation. Through use of the Pym Partical Pym has discovered the Microverse. Through Experimentaton has created cybenetic devices that alow Pym to Control and Communicate with Insects.
Fighting Skill:As a Member with the Avengers Henry Pym has been trained in Martial Arts by Captain America (The Marvel Universes Best hand to hand fighter). Pym has adapted his fighting style to be affective against both larger and smaller targets. As well as using his size changing abilities to thier ful potential.
Techniques/Powers:
Pym Particals: Pym's blood now generates Pym Particals on a genetic level. This allows him to Grow and Shrink at will, he has shown the ability to grow from his smallest size to his largest size in a fraction of a second.
Pym can control the size of any person or object treated with Pym Particles.
Minimum Height: 1/8" Maximum Height: 100 feet
Gear:
Bio-Stinger Guantlets: These cause an electrical blast that can cause damage equal to a large calibre pistol.
Cybernetic Helmet: Pym's helmet can be used to control and Communicate with insects, it also is treated with night vision devices, amplified hearing. It also contains a loud speaker so that he may be heard by others at his smallest size.
Credi-Jet: Pym has a QuinJet shrunk down to the size of a Crdit Card.
Flight Pack: Pym's costume allows him to fly at 150 mph
Utility Belt: In specially treated pouches in his belt Pym keeps a wide variety of devices and weapons shrunk down for easy use. He has used everything from Chainsaws to energy blasters.
Notes:
Alias: Yellow Jacket, Giantman, Goliath, and Antman
Marital Status: Widowed,Divorced
Avengers Status: Inactive Member
Occupation: Professor at Oxford
Height: 6 ft.
Weight: 185 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blond
History:
At one point, Henry Pym was married to a Hungarian called Maria Trovaya. Sadly, their marriage was cut short when Maria was killed by Hungarian Secret Police. Shortly after that, biochemist Hank Pym discovered what he called Pym Particles, a rare group of subatomic particles from which he formulated a size-altering formula. Testing the solution on himself, he found they were far more powerful than he hypothesized - one of these particles had the power to make things shrink and the other to restore an object to its natural size. He was shrunk down to the size of an insect and narrowly escaped the inhabitants of an anthill. He then restored himself. After he undertook an exhaustive study of ants, he later constructed a "cyber-helmet" that would let him communicate with and control insects. He designed a costume and gave himself the superhero name Ant-Man. On his first outing as Ant-Man, he defeated some KGB agents that were trying to steal some anti-radiation gas that Pym had made. He started a career as Ant-Man and fought many supervillains and monsters.
Later, Pym was contacted by Dr. Vernon Van Dyne, who asked for Pym's help in contacting aliens. He refused, but became attracted to Vernon's daughter, Janet Van Dyne. Vernon Van Dyne was later slain by an alien outlaw. Janet asked for Hank's help to avenge his death. Pym then revealed his secret identity to her. Hank used some Pym particles on her and grafted wasp wings beneath her shoulders (but they disappeared when she was normal size and came back again when using Pym particles). Janet assumed the name of The Wasp. They tracked down and defeated Vernon's killer, thus forming a permanent partnership and starting a relationship, before becoming founding members of the Avengers. Shortly afterward, he developed a variant Pym Particle that could increase his size; using these, he became Giant-Man and later Goliath.
However, Pym suffered a series of mental problems. Shortly before his wedding, he had a breakdown during which he became amnesiac and developed the cocky "Yellowjacket" persona; he only fully recovered after his wedding to Janet. Almost immediately prior to that incident, he had created an android called Ultron, which, to his horror, became self-aware and evil, and plotted to kill and replace him and the rest of humanity with robots. The extent of his guilt involved in Ultron's creation was not revealed until years later, when he admitted that Ultron's brain patterns were in fact based on his own.
Several years later, Pym had a complete breakdown, and became extremely paranoid. During the course of this breakdown, he became overbearing and verbally abusive towards Janet. At the nadir of this degeneration, he struck her, and then proceeded to concoct a plan to make himself look good in front of his teammates by staging an attack upon them which only he could win. This plan backfired and Pym was exposed, disgraced, and expelled from the Avengers, and the couple divorced.
After Pym's mental state returned to normal he rejoined the Avengers, first in an advisory role and later as Giant-Man. After the events of "Avengers Forever", Pym re-adopted his Yellowjacket costume, to put the past behind him and acknowledge his healed psyche. After a time, he and the Wasp became friends again and, some years later, resumed a romantic relationship. In the events detailed in the "Avengers Finale", Pym and Janet left the team to re-kindle their relationship in England, where Pym had accepted a residency at Oxford
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:01 am
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:05 pm
Emma Grace Frost, also known as the White Queen, is a fictional character, a mutant comic book superheroine (and former supervillainess) in the Marvel Comics universe. She once fought against the X-Men as a member of the Hellfire Club, but later became a member of the superhero team. Created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, she first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (January 1980).
Character History:
Hellfire Club and Massachusetts Academy
Emma Frost first appeared as the White Queen of the Hellfire Club, a group of superhumans who dressed in 18th century clothing and plotted world domination. Frost and the Club's agents captured several members of the X-Men. Frost engaged the Phoenix in a psychic battle, which she lost badly, but from which she recovered.
During her time with the Hellfire Club, Frost also ran the Massachusetts Academy, a school for mutants which served as a counterpoint to that of X-Men founder Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Frost's trainees became the supervillain team the Hellions and fought Xavier's young students the New Mutants. At one point, Frost began privately training a young mutant named Angelica Jones to be her personal bodyguard and assassin in reaction to political in-fighting among the Hellfire Club. Jones eventually discovered Frost was manipulating her and broke free from her control to later become the super-heroine Firestar.
Death of the Hellions
In Uncanny X-Men #281 (1991), the time traveling mutant Trevor Fitzroy unleashed the mutant-hunting robots called the Sentinels on Frost and the Hellions. Frost was left in a coma by the attack and her students were killed, although one of the Hellions, Tarot, somehow returned to life several months later.
The X-Men cared for the comatose Frost at their headquarters. Later, she awoke and possessed the body of the X-Man Iceman. She escaped the X-Men, but she was devastated when she discovered the deaths of her students and Xavier was able to coax her back into her own body.
Generation X
Xavier paired Frost with the X-Man Banshee to mentor the teenage mutant team Generation X at Frost's Massachusetts Academy after the two had teamed up to stop the Phalanx. Banshee never fully trusted Frost, despite an undercurrent of sexual tension between the two, and even some of her students were skeptical of her.
After Frost's business ventures took a bad turn, she turned to her estranged sister Adrienne for help. Adrienne, a psychometrist, offered financial assistance but demanded to be co-headmistress of the school in return. Adrienne secretly plotted against Emma and planted a bomb at the school, which killed Synch, one of Emma's students. Emma tracked down and murdered Adrienne and then returned to the Academy, growing increasingly distant from her students in an effort to hide her crime. This, combined with Banshee's increasing depression and drunkenness following the death of his long-time lover Moira MacTaggert, led the students to leave, disbanding Generation X.
X-Men
Afterwards, Frost traveled to the mutant haven island of Genosha. There, Frost ran and taught at a mutant school until a genocidal Sentinel attack killed most of the island's population. Frost survived only due to the sudden manifestation of her secondary mutation: the power to transform herself into a flexible, diamond-like substance that provides her near-invulnerability.
Frost then joined the X-Men and taught at Xavier's newly-reopened school. She also started to look after and train a group of telepathic quintuplets known as the Stepford Cuckoos, who quickly became her prized pupils.
During a riot at the school, one of the Cuckoos was killed and the others left Emma, blaming her for the death. Soon afterward, she was found, by her fellow X-Man Beast, in her diamond shape, totally shattered. It was soon revealed that one of the Cuckoos, Esme, was responsible. She had been working behind the scenes with Magneto (who would later be revealed to be impersonated by a mutant named Xorn). After Esme attempted to mentally attack "Magneto" when he rejected her advances, she was killed by him. The three remaining Cuckoos have since returned to Emma.
Emma began to have a sexual telepathic relationship with the X-Man Cyclops who had become distant from his wife Jean Grey, due to his temporary physical and mental merger with the mutant immortal, Apocalypse. Emma claimed that her intentions were to help him with his failing marriage. Upon discovering the affair, an enraged (and significantly more powerful) Jean Grey confronted Emma with a devastating psychic assault, which tore through her mind's defenses and forced her to face the self-denials of her past. Having their own minds manipulated is extremely traumatizing for telepaths, much more so than for a non-psi. The experience was particularly hard for a telepath as powerful and skilled as Emma, and it left her humilated and emotionally shattered.
She did not remain in such a state for long. Following Jean Grey's apparent death, Cyclops and Emma became lovers, despite the criticism from their teammates. The two took over the school after Professor Xavier stepped down. Frost became co-headmaster with Cyclops and advisor to the new Hellions.
Due to Emma's extremely refined telepathic abilities, she beat the alternate future daughter of Jean Grey and Cyclops, Rachel Summers, in a contest on the astral plane, despite Rachel's vastly superior power. However, she then rather peacefully offered Rachel the chance to help her hone her telepathic skills since there was now no one else to do so. Rachel, though still wary, accepted the proposal. There has been no actual evidence of Rachel's training since.
Emma was pivotal to the plot of the House of M event. In this reality, she was married to Scott and the pair had three children. Also notably, she was the first X-Man Wolverine contacted for help after the Scarlet Witch altered reality. She was the only other reawoken individual to side with Wolverine in a controversial opinion to kill the Scarlet Witch in order to return to the world to normal.
Loyalties
An ongoing subplot in Astonishing X-Men depicts Emma's unusually antagonistic relationship with Kitty Pryde and possible domination of Scott Summers are given as possible evidence of disloyalty. Her secretive relationship with the surviving Stepford Cuckoos has also been presented as "evidence," and accusations are frequently made by other characters having reason to distrust her motives. In issue #12 (August 2005), the question of Emma's "true loyalties" are brought into focus as Emma abandons the team during a fight to confer with a shadowy figure, revealed on the final page to be one of a group of four individuals watching from the shadows. The group contains Sebastian Shaw, Cassandra Nova, Negasonic Teenage Warhead (a girl who apparently died in Genosha), and a cloaked figure called Perfection, who discuss among themselves Emma's impending betrayal of the team.
Powers and abilities
Emma Frost is a mutant, a human who is born with superhuman powers acquired through (the comic-book version of) evolution (see rubber science). She is highly skilled at creating electronic devices that amplify/block/engage psionic powers. Over the years, Emma has displayed the standard telepathic abilities such as the broadcasting and receiving thoughts, mind control, altering perceptions and memories, and concentrated psychic blasts called 'psi bolts'.
Although Cassandra Nova labeled Emma as 'bush league' in comparison to Professor X, Jean Grey, etc; Emma can formidably hold her own even against those of more considerable might. An example of this was her victory over Rachel Grey (Marvel Girl II) on the Astral Plane; while Rachel may have had significantly more raw power; Emma's refined skills enabled her to claim victory over the relatively inexperienced Rachel.
During the massacre of over 16 million mutants in Genosha, Emma developed a secondary mutation: the ability to transform herself into a flexible, translucent diamond-like substance. Although it was initially portrayed as only her skin turning into diamond, her shattering at the hands of a mind controlled Angel Salvatore indicate that her entire body turns into organic diamond. While in her diamond form, Emma is virtually impervious to all forms of physical damage and can use her indestructible body to support incredible amounts of weight, though she gains no augmentations to strength in this form. The interactions between her diamond form and her telepathy have been inconsistent at best; while some reports say that, due to a genetic flaw, Emma cannot access her telepathy in diamond form, later comics have contradicted this. Furthermore, reports vary on her mind's condition while diamonded up - some say that her mind is mirrored and impossible to read, while others say that her mind is vulnerable in such a state. Recently, it has been revealed that Cassandra Nova 'created' Emma's secondary mutation for her, although whether this is truly Cassandra Nova or merely a figment of Emma's fragile psyche has yet to be determined.
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