RESURRECTION FIVE

 

 

RESURRECTION FIVE

Members: (l to r): Tempus (Eva Bell), Proteus (Kevin MacTaggert), Hope (Hope Summers), Elixir (Joshua Foley), and Goldballs (Fabio Medina)

First Appearance: House of X (Vol. 1) #5, September 2019

Function: In creating the mutant nation-state of Krakoa, five mutants were studied and it was discovered how they could combine their powers in order to facilitate the resurrection of any dead mutant.

To begin, Goldballs creates inert spheres of non-viable biological matter; Proteus alters reality to make those spheres into viable "eggs"; an injection of the deceased mutant's preserved DNA is manipulated to bond with the egg by Elixir; Tempus then ages the biological growth rapidly through time manipulation; all held together in perfect synergy by Hope Summers and her interactive mutation.

Initially, their capabilities topped out at 1,000 mutant resurrections a week, or 200 per day. Furthermore, extensive testing has shown that the Five do not operate under duress, fatigue, or even massive exertion. The more mutants they resurrect, the stronger they become and the easier the process becomes. The experience has been described by the Five as incredibly blissful (but not in a narcotized manner). Originally, the mutant resurrection process took around 48 hours, but the process is shorter.

Additionally, these five mutants appear to have become an inseparable family unit and are almost never apart from one another, their symbiotic process appears to have extended beyond the union of their powers and to the mutants themselves. Some of this could be psychological, as on Krakoa, they are universally revered as cultural paragons.

GOLDBALLS

 

GOLDBALLS

Real Name: Fabio Medina

First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 3) #1, April 2013

Powers: Goldballs' mutant ability produces solid spheres of gold coloration, not composition. They tend to manifest in motion, though he can control their size, velocity, direction, and force of their appearance. There is no limit to the number of spheres he can produce. They make a “POINK!” sound upon impact, and it was recently learned that the spheres are actually compact organic matter housing unfertilized and unviable eggs.

TEMPUS

 

TEMPUS

Real Name: Eva Bell

First Appearance: All-New X-Men (Vol. 1) #1, January 2013

Powers: Tempus has temporal manipulation powers. Her mutant power can generate a time stasis field, relativistically freezing the flow of time within a given area. All people and objects are held immobilized within the field. Her power originally radiated out from her person, influencing her environment in all directions. With practice, she has learned to make specific people inside the field immune to the effect, allowing her and her allies to move about freely, or cast the field remotely over people and objects. She is also capable of traveling through time and space. She can perform simply time skipping, casting herself or another person a few seconds or minutes into the future to avoid attacks or so forth. She can also travel up and down the timestream, moving millions of years in either temporal direction, although her accuracy with time jumps still requires practice. She can also accelerate time to cause rapid aging.

ELIXIR

 

ELIXIR

Real Name: Joshua Foley

First Appearance: The New Mutants (Vol. 2) #5, November 2003

Powers: Elixir is an omega-level mutant with the ability to manipulate organic matter on a sub-molecular level. Mostly, he was originally limited to using his power for healing purposes. By focusing on himself or on someone else he's touching, Elixir can rebuild damaged tissue and heal all kinds of injuries, from minor to fatal. He does not need to understand what he's doing on a practical level, only focus on what he's generally trying to do. For instance, he was able to remove the neutralizer block on Wolfsbane's powers and awaken Magma out of a deep coma without understanding what his power was actually doing to them to accomplish this.

After nearly dying himself once, Elixir healed himself in a burst of energy that for some reason turned his skin golden in color with a flexible metallic texture. Later, extreme emotions caused him to manifest his powers offensively, creating an effect on contact which made flesh bubble and grow putrid, causing tremendous pain and disfigurement in his victims, and ultimately killing them if he wished. It wasn't clear whether he was directly affecting the organic molecules or causing naturally-occurring bacteria and germ agents to replicate beyond the human body's ability to cope. Furthermore, using his power in this manner caused his golden skin to turn deathly black.

He later recovered and returned to his golden complexion, but patches of a dark, mercury-like substance remained on his flesh, moving about on his skin as if they had a will of their own. Elixir later gained greater knowledge on how to use his powers, by asking the Cuckoos to draw medical knowledge out of Hank McCoy's mind and into his own. Elixir became skilled enough to create an entirely new heart in in another man's body and restore him to life, after the man's old heart was ripped out of his chest. His powers can also restore him to life, even after fatal injuries.

At his present skill level, he can repair existing tissue or regrow lost tissue out of ambient molecules, manipulate biological functions to force sleep and other reactions, extract microorganisms or nano-viruses from living systems, induce cancers, tumors, and other bio-hazards and pathogens, and even raise the dead.

Elixir was self-taught to Ph.D. levels in biochemistry and also has extensive knowledge of genetics and other scientific fields.

PROTEUS

 

PROTEUS

Real Name: Kevin MacTaggert

First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #125, September 1979

Powers: Proteus is an omega-level mutant able to manipulate and alter reality in any way he can imagine via psionic influence exerted over fundamental forces and principles. His power was limited by line-of-sight and could only affect matter within his visual range. He most commonly used his ability to ripple space and matter around him, like objects seen through swirling water. This can be extremely disorienting and even maddening to living beings. He can dramatically restructure matter and energy, such as turning a rifle into a snake or Cyclops's optic blast into a harmless spray of flowers. This effect could also animate non-living matter, turning buildings into anthropomorphic constructs or making objects seemingly come to life and attack people. He could make solid structures crumble to the ground or explode violently. Proteus could also manipulate gravity in order to levitate and fly or increase the weight of other people and objects.

Proteus also possesses telepathic abilities that enable him to read minds and attack at psychic levels. He could use his telepathy to communicate telepathically or erect mental shields to block other telepaths. Proteus could also absorb information from people or computer systems by touching them, and cross dimensional barriers at will.

In his natural form, he existed in a vulnerable, but dangerous state of pure psionic energy. Originally, he could take possession of human bodies to contain his vast energies and could possess anyone within a few feet of his position. Possession gave Proteus access to all his victim's memories and emotions. His energies would eventually “burn out” his host bodies (as he did with his own natural body), killing them in the process. His energies quickly ate away at their physical frame, causing them to shrivel like a used up husk until the body could sustain him no more and he needed to find another.

His energy form had a natural aversion to metal, making it the only thing that could block his powers or possession, and disperse his energy state. Upon his first resurrection, Proteus had bonded with the energy-absorbing mutant known as Piecemeal, effectively removing his weakness to metal and need for host bodies, until he committed suicide and returned to discorporation. He was resurrected again under the House of M reality with all his classic weaknesses, but later escaped Wanda's reordering of the universe by traveling to another dimension. During the Exiles' hunt for Proteus, he possessed Angel of House of M, Mimic of the Exiles, Justice of the New Universe, and Hulk of 2099 in turn, assimilating portions of their psyches in the process. The Exiles ultimately caged him when he found a non-degrading host body in the Exile known as Morph, and the Exiles used the Behavior Modification machine from Earth-S to reprogram him to believe himself to actually be Morph. His return to the 616 Universe during the events of Necrosha left him with the ability possess multiple host bodies at once.

HOPE SUMMERS

 

HOPE SUMMERS

Real Name: Hope Summers (born Spalding)

First Appearance: X-Men (Vol. 2) #205, January 2008

Powers: Hope Summers is an omega-level mutant uniquely connected to the mutant race in ways not fully understood. Hope was specifically designed by the Phoenix-Force to restart mutant evolution on Earth. Her very birth triggered the resurgence of the mutant gene in humanity despite the reality-altering Decimation mandate of the Scarlet Witch that prevented new mutants from being born or manifesting anywhere across realities.

During the period of time before the Decimation was reversed, Hope had a number of unique attributes. Other mutants only manifested after Hope returned to the present timeline and manifested her own powers. These manifestations were only partial, requiring Hope to make physical contact with these neo-mutants, or "Lights", before their abilities could fully develop. Hope also had a superhuman level of control or influence over the Lights. Their devotion to her manifested in different ways: Velocidad was attracted to her, Zero saw her as a muse, Primal identified her as "master", etc. They naturally felt inclined to do what she wanted and be what she wanted them to be in her presence. Direct commands from Hope could override their willpower entirely. Hope also had some level of influence over the rest of the mutant race, to varying effect. When talking to the Stepford Cuckoos, one seemed highly taken with Hope, one ambivalent, and the last rejected her. Since the Decimation spell was undone by Hope and Wanda, these unique attributes of Hope's existence no longer seem applicable. New mutants manifest without her assistance, and she no longer demonstrates any influence over the Lights or others.

Her own mutant power is "pluripotent echopraxia", allowing her to duplicate the powers of other mutants in her vicinity by replicating their mutatgenic auras. Hope can copy multiple power signatures simultaneously, the upper limit of which is unknown. She is able to access other mutants' abilities so long as she is in their presence. Once she leaves their presence, Hope maintains her copied powers based on how often she uses them.

Active use of a copied power set can cause her to lose those abilities in a matter of hours after leaving the original's presence. If she chooses not to use the power set, however, those abilities may remain in her system for days until she chooses to use them. Hope copies the current state of another mutant's powers, for good or ill. For instance, when Cable was given an injection of the Volga effect that made his powers lethally unstable, Hope copying his powers made them unstable in her body as well. Hope can demonstrate the abilities of any pre- or post-Decimation mutant. She can manifest multiple abilities at once and can manifest mutation in latent mutants. Post-Decimation new mutants experienced only partial development of their powers, or were unable to control their abilities consciously, until Hope made physical contact with them and caused their mutation to fully manifest. In addition to mimicry, she can activate and direct the powers of mutants nearby, or improve those abilities (alone or in synergy with other mutants).