HAMMER

 

HAMMER

Real Name: Eisenhower Canty

First Appearance: X-Force (Vol. 1) #8, March 1992

Powers: No superhuman powers. Hammer is a baseline human who was rendered paralyzed after sustaining spinal damage from a gunshot wound. Initially a quadriplegic, he eventually regained the use of his arms.

He possesses a photographic memory and is a mechanical, electrical, and computing genius. His creations include an exoskeleton able to lift 2 tons, motorized wheelchairs, a Winnebago capable of converting to flight mode, scanners able to track mutagenic signatures, magentic clamps, and a voice-controlled computer system.

Before becoming crippled, Hammer was an exceptional fighter, trained in the use of multiple weapons, and he holds a Ph.D. in theoretical engineering design.

GRIZZLY

 

GRIZZLY

Real Name: Theodore Wyatt Winchester

First Appearance: X-Force (Vol. 1) #8, March 1992

Powers: Grizzly was a mutant with an enhanced Arctoidea mutation. He possessed a massive, red-furred body with superhuman strength, endurance, reflexes, resistance to physical injury, heightened senses, and razor-edged claws and fangs.

A prolific mercenary, Grizzly was proficient in firearm usage, explosives, an expert marksman, and an excellent hand-to-hard combatant.

DOMINO

 

DOMINO

Real Name: Neena Thurman

First Appearance: X-Force (Vol. 1) #8, March 1992

Powers: Domino's mutant ability is that her cerebral cortex generates bioelectric pulses down her spine in order to provide instinctive guidance for her movements, which boost her agility and reflexes to near-superhuman levels. These pulses also initiate random telekinetic acts that cause probabilities to fall into place for her.

Classically, this "luck" portion of her ability was completely subconscious and largely dependent on participatory action on her part. For example, while the Scarlet Witch may be able to stand before a hail of bullets and alter the probability of each bullet suddenly veering off course, Domino would be struck dead by said bullets. Instead, Domino must take action, attempting to avoid the gunfire and will miraculously bob and weave just perfectly to avoid every single shot. The effect has extended to miraculous sharp-shooting instances, sudden electrical failure in security devices, hidden and potentially dangerous hazards somehow catching her attention, and so on. Eventually, she demonstrated a newfound ability to consciously nudge specific probabilities towards occurrence, causing already formed storm clouds to fully ionize and strike a lightning bolt down on an attacker. The full ramifications of this talent remain unspecified.

Domino has been extensively trained in both armed and unarmed combat techniques, as well as covert operations and demolitions. She is a superb markswoman, athlete, and swimmer. She is fluent in several languages, often wears body armor, and carries conventional firearms.

COPYCAT

 

COPYCAT

Real Name: Vanessa Geraldine Carlysle

First Appearance: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #98, February 1991 (as Domino); X-Force (Vol. 1) #11, June 1992 (as herself)

Powers: Copycat’s mutation was empathic metamorphosis. In her default form, she possessed pale blue skin, white hair streaked with red and pink, and red pupils on a black iris.

Her mutant ability enabled her to attune herself with another person in her vicinity and duplicate their physical, mental and genetic traits. This generally happened automatically until she fully mastered her power. Initially, she would develop a semi-empathic bond with the person she was shape-shifting into, instinctively understanding their character better. As the process completed itself, she not only assumed the physical appearance of her template, but also their superhuman abilities and, presumably, at least some aspects of their memories, personality, and special skills like fighting maneuvers.

Once in character, she could remain that way permanently until she chose to consciously reverse the process. Even if she fell asleep or was knocked unconscious, she would still retain her altered appearance. In later years, however, the Weapon X Program apparently altered Copycat’s powers, allowing her to change shape at will like a typical metamorph (without needing a template), but now unable to duplicate special powers or memories with the morphing process.

G.W. BRIDGE

 

G.W. BRIDGE

Real Name: George Washington Bridge

First Appearance: X-Force (Vol. 1) #1, August 1991

Powers: G.W. Bridge is a baseline human with no superhuman powers. He is a highly trained special agent, strategist, tactician, expert at unarmed combat, and trained in the use of a variety of long- and short-range weapons.

As a high-ranking field commander in S.H.I.E.L.D., he had a high-level federal clearance and also maintained contact with several areas of the federal government, providing him with copious resources.

KANE

 

KANE

Real Name: Garrison Kane

First Appearance: X-Force (Vol. 1) #2, September 1991

Powers: Garrison Kane was a mercenary working with Cable's Six Pack until an explosion cost him his arms and legs, rendering him an amputee. He was recruited into the new Weapon X Program and outfitted with new cybernetic limbs, as well as a series of additional enhancements. During this time, he operated under the code name “Weapon X”.

Kane's bionic limbs were supported by his reinforced spine, giving him superhuman strength, running speed, stamina, and reaction time. His left eye was replaced with a cybernetic supplement, giving him infrared vision and the ability to replay his memories in open air as holographic audio-visual tracks. An on-board tactical computer was built into his brain to help govern his cybernetic parts, a personal GPS beacon, strategic recommendations, and provide him with information courtesy of a pre-programmed library of facts considered relevant to his duties, including profiles on various superhumans and terrorists. His hands could be detached and fired as remote-controlled rocket projectiles, allowing him to both punch and strangle his opponents from a distance. He could discharge plasma blasts from his wrist sockets, or cycle on a wire-guided connection to his flying fists, allowing him to conduct an electrified taser charge through his arms, the wire, and ultimately into whatever target his launched hands were holding on to.

Kane underwent an upgrade after leaving the Weapon X program, and another with 40th century technology after he was injured fighting alongside Cable, who brought him into his native future for repairs. Kane could now regenerate and repair his mechanical parts and produce a synth-organic shell over his bionic limbs. Basically, synthetic organic flesh that disguised the metallic parts. He could extend a shield from his hand like a fan, with the disk unfolding around his fist from four extensions. He also demonstrated finger blasters and laser targeting pods that popped out of his shoulders.

Kane would be upgraded again by the current Weapon X Program. He now had polymorphic metal components, allowing him to reshape his limbs into different weapons at will, including energy projectors, automatic machine guns, and mono-molecular blades strong enough to sever the binding forces between molecules. Another upgrade expanded his range of potential abilities even further, allowing him to "download" new powers into his cybernetics at will. His bionics contained detailed genetic analysis files on all mutants known to Weapon X, and he could access these files to program his cybernetics to duplicate those mutants' powers to the best of his ability. This enabled him to increase his strength at will, access cryogenic blasting powers, techno-forming abilities, etc.

CABLE

 

CABLE

Real Name: Nathaniel Christopher Charles Summers

First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #201, January 1986 (As child); The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #87, March 1990 (As Cable)

Powers: Nathan Christopher Summers is the mutant son of Scott Summers (Cyclops) and Madelyne Pryor, a genetic clone of the mutant named Jean Grey. His mutant abilities include telepathy, telekinesis, and limited astral time-travel; exhibiting the former two at a very early age.

As a baby, he was telepathically sensitive and could generate a telekinetic force bubble around himself to ward off attack and protect himself from harm. After being infected with Apocalypse's techno-organic virus and transported into a possible 40th century dystopian future, though, the larger portion of his fledgling psionic power was focused on constantly keeping his body together. His telekinesis worked to stop the spread of the virus while his telepathy constantly worked to dampen his sensitivity to the unbearable pain his body was constantly in. As he reached adulthood, his unrestrained telepathic and telekinetic abilities were phenomenal, but most of the time attempting to use them would weaken their grip on the virus, causing him great pain and letting the virus spread. During his teens, he met a fellow psionic named Blaquesmith who helped train him and activated the Professor, the Celestial artificial intelligence formerly known as "Ship" that directly interfaced with his techno-organic parts right before he was sent to the future as an infant, integrating itself into his mind and body. The Professor was able to monitor Nate's bio-signs and access his mutant powers to regulate the virus for Nathan. The Professor also provided him vast amounts of information stored in his databanks, mass and proximity sensors alerting him to potential threats, and wide-spectrum analytical scanning allowing him to monitor the life-signs of other beings, scan them for weaknesses, provide tactical suggestions, etc.

Something happened to him between his last recorded appearances in the future with the Clan Chosen and his first appearance in the present with Six Pack as Cable: His telekinesis was far weaker than it had ever been growing up and his telepathy was simply gone. By the time he began operating as Cable in the modern era, virtually the entire left side of his body had been co-opted by the virus. Cable had forced his T-O virus to work for him, incorporating various weapons and devices into the metal components. First, he used exterior camouflage that would disguise his techno-organics as non-living bionics or synthetic organic material. His strength level increased into the 1 to 5 ton range, and his left eye was equipped with infrared sights, night vision, and computerized targeting options. He often employed retractable laser or plasma weapons, finger torches, cyber-jacks for computer uplinking, and hidden compartments built in his metal for storage. Nathan also had latent transportation powers which the Professor coordinated for him through mechanical relays on Greymalkin, a massive space station Cable had brought back in time with him, complete with a teleportation matrix and TDC (Time Displacement Core). Using computerized commands, Cable could activate body- and tech-slide or time-rip transportation signatures in order to move through time and space. He could travel alone, or coordinate his systems to transport additional organic or mechanical mass. Bodyslide by One, for instance, would teleport him alone; Bodyslide by Six would teleport him and the five people in closest proximity to him; Bodyslide by Six, Pack Gene-Scan would isolate the genetic signatures of his Six Pack team for teleportation wherever they were in his general vicinity, and so on.

During his time with X-Force, Cable's telepathy returned and he began to hone his psionic powers to a greater degree than before. As a telepath, he can read minds and project thoughts, communicate mentally, create mental illusions, fire “mental bolts” used to stun or kill, project his astral form and travel to the astral plane, and exert mental control over a person’s mind. Telekinetically, he can levitate people and objects, create powerful telekinetic blasts, and create a telekinetic force shield.

His astral time travel abilities were completely latent. He could not consciously or deliberately access them at all. Their only use was to act as a catalyst for mechanically engineered space/time displacement, like his bodysliding, TDC, or Shi'ar technology. Essentially, he is a biological power source for time travel effects.

Of course, the extent of his abilities has fluctuated over the years, depending on the state of his T-O infection. After temporarily losing his powers, he began using an Askani weapon known as a psimitar lance to help focus his powers. The psimitar was made from a psycho-sensitive metal that drew upon and amplified the wielder's mental energy into blasts of energy. After his powers eventually returned, Nathan became capable of wielding the full potential of the psimitar. When the cure for the Legacy Virus was released into the world's atmosphere, Cable sensed that it had caused a subtle shift in his own T-O virus, making it possible for him to remove the virus. He succeeded in the attempt, and his power levels began to grow dramatically as a result. The T-O virus eventually returned, but with his expanded power levels, the virus was a minor nuisance at most. Being artificially reduced to childhood and then rapidly accelerating back to his actual age caused him to lose his powers again altogether.

To compensate, he began using technological aids to artificially duplicate his lost powers. He incorporated technology from the Dominus Objective into his mechanical systems, which allowed him to access the Infonet, the electronic datastream blanketing the planet. Essentially a mental and hyper-accurate search engine, Cable could scan through the entire contents of the internet, e-mails and personal correspondences, radio broadcasts, and anything ever transmitted by electromagnetic signal. The Objective enabled him to more efficiently sift through the Infonet's contents to locate whatever he wishes to find. Like telepathy, he can also use the Infonet to project data into other people's minds -- either sharing knowledge he has gleaned from the datastream or his own thoughts and memories. Unlike the intimate mind-touch of telepathy, though, being fed information by the Objective is like "feeling a book". Furthermore, Cable adopted a military force field project called the "Cone of Silence" into use as a personal body suit. He could surround himself with a gravimetric sheath, a protective shield which deflected any kind of personal attack and enabled him to levitate and fly at high speeds. It could also be manipulated outwardly, creating hands of energy which he could use to physically grab people or objects, moving them around or crushing them to pieces.

During the decade-plus he spent raising Hope Summers in the future, Cable's telepathy and telekinesis became active again, but he slowly lost control over his techno-organic virus as well. Later, the techno-organic infection was completely purged from Cable's body by Hope, using the power of the Phoenix. Although he is now unaffected, Cable's human form did not quickly recover or regenerate in the absence of the virus. His left eye is missing, leaving him with an eyepatch, and his left arm was weak and atrophied. He used a "battle-arm" designed by Forge, acting as an exoskeleton to support his arm's weight, provide a level of superhuman strength, and include several forms of micro-munitions launchers. Cable's psychic powers were also remotely manipulated by Blaquesmith and a future version of Hope. He had strong telepathy and telekinesis once more, in addition to fully realized precognitive abilities that fed him information on upcoming threats and disasters. The potency of the visions was so strong, however, it could potentially kill him. Forge and Doctor Nemesis developed a way to mechanically streamline Cable's future-sight, diverting it onto the "mission board" screens at their base for everyone to witness, and lessening the stress it puts on Cable's body at the same time.

Cable's abilities changed again following the Alexandria incident. He was injected with a biotech formula called the Volga effect, designed to weaponize mutant abilities and causing them to violently explode as their powers were destabilized. He attempted to stop the detonation by cutting off his own arm, but the formula continued to exist in his system. As a result, Cable and Doctor Nemesis devised a treatment placing him in cryogenic suspended animation, halting the destabilizing effects of the formula altogether. Sequential clones are then grown from Cable's corrupted cells, and mnemonically imprinted with a copy of his memories. These clones were just as unstable as the original Cable, and would die or explode every 24 hours due to the formula. The mnemonic headband he wore helped maintain some cerebral continuity for Cable between incarnations, recording and then transferring memories from one clone to the next. Cable was working on borrowed time, because his real body would lose two minutes of life every day when it was thawed out for the cloning process. Cable's powers were drastically limited in that state. He could manifest extremely mild telekinesis at times, as well as a few seconds of precognitive insight to guide him in combat. Mostly, he relied upon technological aids such as remote bodysliding and the bionic arm replacing his amputated one.

After Hope cured him of the Volga effect, Cable's capabilities were at an all-time low. He no longer possessed telepathy, telekinesis, or techno-organic capabilities. Even Cable was beginning to feel his physical age, making him weaker and more tired than in the past. He only possessed a limited precognitive ability at this time. Cable was revitalized during a temporal mission which streamlined various divergent timelines growing out of his complicated continuity. Cable merged with these timelines, gaining increased vitality and restoring his telepathy, telekinesis, and techno-organic components. Cable began operating as a temporal warrior, with timeslide and bodyslide capabilities integrated into his techno-organics. They were coordinated by Belle, a "tattoo" on his T-O arm that acted as an artificial intelligence maintaining his technological capabilities, as well as possessing ranged scanning sensors, wireless data retrieval, and so on.

Cable is a highly accomplished warrior and battle strategist. He is highly adept in many forms of hand to hand combat in the use of various forms of weaponry from both the 20th and 40th centuries. Cable also holds a law degree and is licensed to practice law by the New York bar association.