SWAY

 

SWAY

Real Name: Suzanne Chan

First Appearance: X-Men: Deadly Genesis (Vol. 1) #3, March 2006

Powers: Sway has the mutant ability to alter how time is represented to her mind and body, apparently through a form of interpretation and manipulation of temporal energy. She is able to exert influence over nearby objects, causing them to slow down as they move or stop entirely, frozen in mid-air and mid-motion. This allows her to immobilize her opponents, dodge bullets, stop vehicles in their tracks, etc. Sway can affect specific objects by focusing on them, or simply expand her temporal inhibitor field outwards to affect everything in a radius from her position.

Sway is also capable of retro-cognitive projection, she can tap into residual temporal imprints in her immediate vicinity, forming holographic images that replay past events in front of her with complete audio and visuals. She is able to recreate events that occurred a few hours in the past, though Vulcan used her power to replay events many years earlier. She can apparently control the speed at which the events she sees are replaying themselves. Though Sway cannot re-see events that took place anywhere but in her current line-of-sight, she can follow phantom objects through time by physically moving herself to "keep pace" with things that had moved through her area previously. Presumably, Sway can perform other tracing or re-visualization acts using her powers.

PETRA

 

PETRA

Real Name: Petra (last name unrevealed)

First Appearance: X-Men: Deadly Genesis (Vol. 1) #1, January 2006

Powers: Petra is a geomorph with the mutant ability to manipulate all forms of earth and rock. She can levitate chunks of earth matter of various sizes, from the tiniest pebbles to boulders many times larger than a man. She is able to propel these rocks as projectiles, hurling them with enough force so that even smaller-sized ones can cause substantial damage. She can create simulated avalanches or hailstorms with her power. Petra can also cause masses of earth to rise out of the ground, blocking paths, elevating her to great heights on a column of rock, or directing these masses horizontally as battering rams or tidal waves of rock and soil.

On command, she is capable of making the ground become porous like quicksand beneath her opponent's feet, opening up chasms or fissures in the ground, and causing tremors to ripple through the earth. She can shape earth and rock with her mind, making it grow around her for protection or conceivably forming detailed shapes and sculptures that can be stationary or animated to carry out her will. Petra has also demonstrated the power to generate enormous pressure in rock by concentrating on it, allowing her to artificially recreate the natural conditions which form diamonds. It is unclear if she can shape and levitate diamonds just as easily as other geological materials.

DARWIN

 

DARWIN

Real Name: Armando Muñoz

First Appearance: Deadly Genesis (Vol. 1) #2, February 2006

Powers: Darwin possesses a reactive mutation which causes his physiology to respond to new environmental conditions. His mutant power enables him to adapt to various kinds of harsh environments in order to breathe underwater or in hazardous and anaerobic atmospheres, see in total darkness, and become flameproof in high-temperature areas. Darwin can survive varying levels of assault by becoming rubbery and pliant to yield with the impact, and is probably immune to most forms of drugs and injections. His intelligence apparently increased as a child because he subconsciously willed it to do so. Darwin manifests his power offensively to punch his attackers with rock-hard skin, or sharpen his flesh in order to cut through resistant materials.

The full extent of his power is unknown, but it is known that he survived for years having reduced himself to pure energy, and then later reconstructed a living body for himself once again out of this energy. During this time as pure energy, Darwin's life essence was hidden away inside of Vulcan, keeping them both technically alive in a catatonic stasis. The mutant energy flare released from M-Day brought Vulcan back to consciousness, and soon afterwards his mind was separated from Vulcan’s. Darwin's pure energy form quickly re-assumed human shape and proportions, and over the next few days completely reformed a functional organic body for himself through energy/matter conversion. The new limits regarding his powers remain unclear.