HAZARD
Real Name: Carter Alexander Ryking
First Appearance: X-Men (Vol. 2) #12, September 1992
Powers: Hazard's mutant ability was to generate plasma energy. In its unharnessed state, the energy flickered around his body in a super-heated state, agitating molecular structures on contact to create explosive reactions. Anything in his immediate area ran the risk of being destroyed by his power, but Hazard had no means of directing his mutant power towards specific targets.
Later, he learned to focus his powers through electrical wires, and crafted a cybernetic suit to facilitate this. This costume provided him with retractable metal cables in his gauntlets, which allowed him to contain his plasma energy and release it along guided paths. These cables could wrap around his targets, channeling enough plasma energy to incinerate a human being in seconds. They could also lash outwards at his direction, releasing an explosive charge on impact to blast his way through barriers.
Hazard's plasma effect also enabled him to levitate in his natural state (and controlled levitation of others). His cybernetic suit helped focus this power as well, with rocket boots granting him the power of controlled flight.
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He was a childhood friend of Charles Xavier’s.
Their fathers were Dr. Alexander Ryking and Dr. Brian Xavier. Along with the Juggernaut’s father (Dr. Kurt Marko), the trio worked along many covert and subversive science groups, including the Weapon X Program and the Black Moon Project.
Carter’s powers manifested in his teens and instead of teaching or help finding the means to control them, his billionaire scientist father had him institutionalized in hospital of his own creation (a Betty Ford clinic for super-powered people). Carter spent his life in that clinic until his adulthood when he escaped and sought misguided vengeance.
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