REDNECK

 

REDNECK

Real Name: Vincent Stewart

First Appearance: New X-Men (Vol. 1) #126, July 2002

Powers: Redneck was a mutant born with the power to produce intense thermal energy and then generate it as radiant heat energy from his hands and arms, making them glow red like the heating coils of a stove. He could melt through solid steel with a touch.

After M-Day, Vincent became the New Warrior named Skybolt, wearing a modified Turbo suit patterned after the heroine of the same name. The omnium mesh body suit protects him from all manner of physical impact, and his back-mounted jets uses industrial strength turbine fans to allow him to fly. Skybolt also employs wrist launchers which fire turbo missiles, including penetrative, explosive, and ice-generating varieties.

Like all members of the new New Warriors, Vincent had a utility belt with cartridges containing Pym Particles for reducing opponents down to size or impact webbing for quickly wrapping up and restraining felons. His suit also generated an anti-gravity platform for flight and propulsion, and contained a "Ghost Mode" that rendered him intangible and utterly unaffected by physical assaults. Night Thrasher was able to remotely trigger the ghost circuitry, but it is unknown if he granted independent control of the ability to his teammates prior to the New Warriors' disbandment.

RADIAN

 

RADIAN

Real Name: Christian Cord

First Appearance: New X-Men (Vol. 1) #126, July 2002

Powers: Christian Cord had the mutant ability to gather ambient photons and absorb them into his body. He could then amplify and redirect them, generating unidirectional flashes of intense ultraviolet light from his body. He could consciously control the intensity of the flares, using them to temporarily dazzle, blind, or burn his opponents.

Later, after being depowered, he became the high-tech hero known as Phaser, adopting a multi-phasic photon accelerator into projectors on his chest plate and hand grips. Phaser can sling bolts of laser energy at opponents and generate a blinding flash from his chest, similar to his old mutant power. Like all members of the new New Warriors, Christian had a utility belt with cartridges containing Pym Particles for reducing opponents down to size or impact webbing for quickly wrapping up and restraining felons. His suit also generated an anti-gravity platform for flight and propulsion, and contained a "Ghost Mode" that rendered him intangible and utterly unaffected by physical assaults. Night Thrasher was able to remotely trigger the ghost circuitry, but it is unknown if he has granted independent control of the ability to his teammates prior to the New Warriors' disbandment.

TATTOO

 

TATTOO

Real Name: Christine Cord

First Appearance: New X-Men (Vol. 1) #126, July 2002

Powers: Tattoo's mutant power could create different patterns and colors on her skin at will, causing words or symbols to dance across her face or body. She also had a form of bio-phasing ability which disrupted human neurochemistry, enabling her to reach inside someone's body and stroke their internal organs, inducing aneurysms or cardiac arrest in her victims. Whether her power applied to other kinds of phasing is unknown.

After losing her mutant powers, she became Longstrike of the New Warriors, adopting an altered version of Stilt-Man's paraphernalia. By slipping her hands and feet inside cybernetically-controlled gloves and boots, she could telescopically increase her reach and stride using mechanical extenders. Like all members of the new New Warriors, Christine had a utility belt with cartridges containing Pym Particles for reducing opponents down to size or impact webbing for quickly wrapping up and restraining felons. Her suit also generated an anti-gravity platform for flight and propulsion, and contained a "Ghost Mode" that rendered her intangible and utterly unaffected by physical assaults. Night Thrasher was able to remotely trigger the ghost circuitry, but it is unknown if he granted independent control of the ability to his teammates prior to the New Warriors' disbandment.

GLOB HERMAN

 

GLOB HERMAN

Real Name: Robert Herman

First Appearance: New X-Men (Vol. 1) #117, October 2001

Powers: Glob Herman is a mutant largely composed of bio-paraffin, a compact but transparent living wax. While his internal organs and skeletal system are basically normal, Herman's skin and muscle structure have been replaced with thickly padded layers of living wax which support his internal systems.

This increased his resistance to impact considerably, and may also augment his strength to some degree. The wax is highly flammable and can be flicked off his body in small portions with no harm to himself.

KID OMEGA

 

KID OMEGA

Real Name: Quintavius Quirinius Quire

First Appearance: New X-Men #134, January 2003

Powers: Quentin Quire developed into an omega-level mutant telepath/telekinetic, although it was a rather haphazard evolution. As an early mutant, Quentin possessed several non-assuming mental abilities. The Stepford Cuckoos described him as having a "see-through mind", indicating his thoughts were immune to detection or manipulation by other psionics. He demonstrated an immunity to Slick's psychic illusions, and was able to extend this immunity to others at will. He has advanced cognition, enabling him to formulate ten million brilliant thoughts per second, an indication of his superhuman intelligence. Quentin was capable of advanced parallel processing, focusing on numerous lines of thought simultaneously, while also demonstrating considerable recall and creativity.

Once he found his confidence and declared himself as Kid Omega (albeit after experimenting with the mutant enhancement drug called Kick), Quentin began demonstrating the full range of traditional telepathic abilities. He could read minds, communicate through psi-links, cast sensory illusions or trap people in illusory mental landscapes similar to the psionic Black Bug Room projections. Quentin also demonstrated superhuman charisma, using his telepathy to bolster his ability to attract and convince others of what he's saying, making them susceptible to his commands.

When his omega-level potential was revealed, Quentin evolved beyond his human body, becoming a loose collection of thoughts constantly interacting with the entire human race's subconscious. His flesh collapsed into a residual liquid state. On more than one occasion, Quentin showed the ability to return to flesh, reconstituting his human form to interact with the physical world for a time before reverting to his astral state. His enhanced potential was awakened in his human form now, allowing him to show powers of levitation and telekinesis for the first time. Kade Kilgore returned Quentin to the flesh for the final time, and Kid Omega has remained human instead of an Omega-level astral consciousness ever since. Whether he can still return to that form is unknown. Kid Omega retains both telepathic and telekinetic powers, as well as his super-intelligence. A combination of his intelligence and telepathy has allowed him to construct entire mental realities to contain people, a full-functional world programmed by his mind with physical laws, structures, semi-independent acting opponents, and so on. It was the equivalent of mentally running every aspect of an open-world MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) video game on psionic power alone. Quentin has also begun to specialize in create psychoplasmic weapons to contain and direct his powers. Instead of Psylocke's psychic knife, however, Quentin creates psychic shotguns or rocket launchers to shoot people with his mind, causing telepathic or telekinetic damage to his targets.

Quentin Quire has also gone against the Phoenix Force, identified as a potential future host and interacting with the present day Phoenix briefly. Depending on the amount he's tapping into the Phoenix Force at a given time, Quentin's powers could increase even further for feats such as space travel, faster-than-light travel, molecular manipulation, cosmic firebirds, and so on.