XILO THE FIRST DEFENDER

 

 

XILO THE FIRST DEFENDER

Real Name: Xilo

First Appearance: Planet Size X-Men (Vol. 1) #1, June 2021

Powers: Xilo the First Defender is an omega-level mutant with large-sized earthworm characteristics. His mutant power is to disassemble into mutant earthworms, burrowing down into the soil. He is able to integrate with the soil, at which point he can sample the molecular and chemical content of the land, make small adjustments to its aspects such as pH levels and micro-organisms, or massive changes like carving enormous statues from mountainsides. Using his power to terraform the planet Mars, he supplied nutrients and minerals, created bacteria, and such for the planet to be able to support life. He also produced plant growth on Mars to support a breathable atmosphere.

SOBUNAR OF THE DEPTHS

 

SOBUNAR OF THE DEPTHS

Real Name: Sobunar

First Appearance: Planet Size X-Men (Vol. 1) #1, June 2021

Powers: Sobunar of the Depths is an omega-level mutant whose physical mutation grants him a the appearance of a bidpedal axolotl. He possesses amphibious characteristics and stands three times the average human height.

His mutant power is that his bloodstream contains an entire oceanic ecosystem. Instead of blood, his body fluid is a complex mixture of 96.5% water, 2.5% salts, and smaller amounts of other substances, including dissolved inorganic and organic materials, particulates, and a few atmospheric gases. When his power is enhanced, his oxygenated blood can create oceans on planetary scales.

ISCA THE UNBEATEN

 

 

ISCA THE UNBEATEN

Real Name: Isca
First Appearance: X-Men (Vol. 5) #12, September 2020

Powers: Isca the Unbeaten is an omega-level mutant born with a power described as an inability to lose. The mechanism for Isca’s power has not been defined, and it does not seem to directly or obviously affect her environment or her own body (i.e.: She does not adapt new traits or powers in reaction to threats, and she doesn't exert influence over her surroundings to actively change them to her advantage. She simply wins).

Her power is expressed through her physical prowess, including incredible agility, reaction time, accuracy, ambidexterity and more. If challenged, she can act with phenomenal precision and strike a target even while blindfolded. It also extends into her cognitive faculties, anything from guessing what number someone is thinking of to identifying weaknesses for advanced tactical analysis. It even allows her to forecast the future, compelling her to change sides in a war once her power ascertains that her current allies will be defeated. This indicates a limit to her abilities, for any given army will not win simply because she is associated with them. It's also unknown if she could choose to lose (remaining with the losing side, for instance), or if she has a biological compulsion to follow her power's influence.

MINDWORM

 

MINDWORM

Real Name: William Turner

First Appearance: The Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #138, August 1974

Powers: William Turner was born a mutant with an enlarged head, piercing eyes, and a psychic vampirism. His mutant power drained psionic energy from thoughts and emotions of anyone within close proximity to him, gaining nourishment that invigorates him. Prolonged siphoning will cause death to his victim. William also possessed telepathy, allowing him to read minds, mentally draw people to him and command them, unleash waves of mental force, invade dreams, inflict brain damage, and erase memories. He had limited telekinesis and cold levitate his own body a few feet from the ground.

JOYSTICK

 

JOYSTICK

Real Name: Janice Yanizeski

First Appearance: The Amazing Scarlet Spider (Vol. 1) #2, October 1995

Powers: Originally a baseline human with no superhuman powers, Janice Yanizeski was surgically altered to become the superhuman mercenary known as Joystick. She possesses enahnced human strength, speed, agility, and reflexes. She wore a set of high-tech gauntlets which generated her "joystick" energy batons. Incredibly dense force constructs, these sticks can be used for hand-to-hand combat, channel energy discharges from their tips, or be thrown at a target as an explosive weapon. She can also slam two batons together in order to generate a blinding flash of light. Joystick wears specially-polarized lenses to protect her eyes from the flash.

At some point, Joystick underwent further enhancement when she began to work for the Grandmaster, by tapping into the Wellspring of Power and making her the "living embodiment of action". She is now stronger than before, can move and react at supersonic speeds, and now generates her baton energy naturally -- she can either charge regular baton weapons with power or materialize batons of pure energy at will. These batons can also be lengthened into a quarterstaff form.

ALISTAIRE SMYTHE

 

ALISTAIRE SMYTHE

Real Name: Alistaire Alphonso Smythe

First Appearance: The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (Vol. 1) #19, August 1985

Powers: A baseline human with no superhuman powers, Alistaire Smythe is the son of Spencer Smythe, inventor of the robotic Spider-Slayers which were designed to capture and unmask Spider-Man. Spencer grew obsessed with killing Spider-Man, leading to his desertion of his family and eventual death. Grief-stricken and increasingly unstable, Alistaire blamed Spider-Man for his father's death. He eventually gained employement from the Kingpin, using his resources to invent a new generation of Spider-Slayers.

A self-taught genius in robotics and cybernetics, his knowledge enables him to re-create and upgrade his father's inventions and develop many of his own (including over a dozen variations of the Spider-Slayer. After suffering a paralysis, he invented a super-powered carapace that restored his mobility. While encased in his cybernetic carapace, he possessed superhuman strength (Class 10), speed, durability, as well as claws, talons, limb barbs, extendable "fangs" from his shoulders, and web shooting arms.

SHADOWOMAN

 

SHADOWOMAN

Real Name: Jillian Marie Woods

First Appearance: Quasar (Vol. 1) #45, February 1993

Powers: Jillian Marie Woods has a baseline human who gained superhuman powers at the moment of her death. The lover of Doctor Druid, a small fragment of her ebbing soul was sustained through magic and used to animate her own living shadow via energies from the Darkforce Dimension. She could now appear as flesh and blood, and manifest any set of civilian or costumed garb for herself. Jillian could transform herself into a shade of darkness, immune to physical harm, capable of flight and of passing through solid objects. She could also manifest her shadow-form externally, expelling streams of tangible darkness as blasts from her hands, creating a giant shadow that could cast darkness over wide areas, elongating and enlarging her limbs or transforming them into claws, blades, or tendrils of dark matter. As Sepulcre, she was also capable of creating intangible "zones of null perception" which engulfed her opponents and blocked out all their senses in an area of total blackness and silence. Even the Silver Surfer's cosmic senses muffled by this, and it was suggested that this zone was actually a separate pocket space of reality, meaning an opponent could wander about endlessly within it.