NEUROTAP

 

NEUROTAP

Real Name: Michelle Balters

First Appearance: X-Force Annual (Vol. 1) #2, October 1993

Powers: Neurotap possesses the mutant ability to generate a neurosynaptic energy pulse from her eyes. This attack is triggered by eye contact with her victims, tracing back through their optic nerves to give her access to their nervous systems. She can cause people to fall unconscious, experience intense pain, become paralyzed, or even disable their nervous systems entirely to reduce them to a persistent vegetative state.

STRONG

 

STRONG

Real Name: Martin Henry Strong

First Appearance: X-Force Annual (Vol. 1) #2, October 1993

Powers: Martin Henry Strong was a mutant born with a malformed body physically weak with flipper-like appendages in place of hands and feet.

His mutant powers, however, include superhuman intelligence. He can rapidly accumulate knowledge, recall it, apply it, in some combination of the above. He used his intelligence to create synthetic-organic receptacle bodies to house his true form. His traditionally-used body gave the appearance of a large, muscularly fit man with superhuman strength and durability, able to withstand a combined attack from the mutant powers of every X-Force member simultaneously with only minor damage. According to Strong himself, his skin was "impervious to all but an Adamantium knife" yet Feral was able to rend the flesh of Strong's artificial body with her claws, suggesting that Strong overstated his own invulnerability. When damaged, the artificial body could repair itself within moments.

His mutant powers also include forging a sympathetic symbiosis with other sentient, organic forms, making him specifically capable of bio-organic symbiosis and merger with living beings with his mind being dominant.

Martin Henry Strong is a genius-level intellect largely in part from his mutant abilities. A brilliant businessman, he is the owner, founder, and CEO of Strong Industries, a corporate conglomerate that owned subsidiaries such as the Foundations genetics lab, Hannigan Electronics, and StrongH.O.L.D.

X-TREME

 

X-TREME

Real Name: Adam Neramani

First Appearance: X-Force Annual (Vol. 1) #2, October 1993

Powers: X-Treme is a mutant hybrid of human and Shi’ar genes. He possesses enhanced strength, being able to press somewhere in a range above the average Shi’ar, bordering on superhuman. His physical endurance is about more than 20 times that of a human. His speed, reflexes, agility, athletic skills, and dexterity are far superior to both human and Shi’ar. He has pointed ears and his eyesight is superhuman, allowing him to visually perceive objects at least 1 mile away with precise clarity.

His mutant power is to generate a biochemical energy blast that ignites the electrolytes present in a person’s blood, causing the person to burn from the inside out. The intensity of the burn is variable, being anywhere from just a warming sensation to incinerating a person within a matter of seconds. X-Treme can affect multiple targets with this power and the average intensity of it is enough to stun. This does take a tremendous effort for X-Treme and will usually leave him in a weakened state, so he doesn't utilize it very often. Also, in order for X-Treme to ignite the electrolytes he must first oxygenate the blood. This is usually done by cutting the target and exposing their blood to the air. Any person with an open cut becomes a target for him. X-Treme uses a trigger word of "Burn" to activate his power and his eyes will glow with a reddish light.

He often uses a variety of Thet’je blades as well as two retractable blades on each arm, just located above the wrist. He is also a skilled fighter and swordsman.

D'KEN

 

D’KEN

Real Name: D’Ken Neramani
First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #103, February 1977

Powers: D’Ken was a member of the extraterrestrial race known as the Shi'ar. The Shi'ar have both avian and mammalian characteristics: Although the Shi'ar are outwardly humanoid and mammalian in form, they have feathers instead of hair. At an earlier point in their evolution, the Shi'ar had fully-developed wings attached to their arms, enabling them to fly.

D’Ken possessed the conventional attributes of a Shi'ar, which gave him enhanced strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, and durability. The average Shi'ar possesses Class 1 strength and 20 times better endurance than a human.