AMAZON

 

AMAZON

Real Name: Elisabeth Guthrie

First Appearance: Factor-X (Vol. 1) #1, March 1995

Powers: Amazon is a megamorph with the mutant power to geometrically increase her proportionate body mass to grow in size, strength, and resilience and then returning to normal proportions at will.

 

*Amazon is the Earth-295 (Age of Apocalypse) counterpart of the Earth-616 Elisabeth Guthrie, who has yet to manifest any mutant powers and first appeared in The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #42, August 1986.

SWITCHBACK

 

SWITCHBACK

Real Name: Unrevealed

First Appearance: X-Calibre (Vol. 1) #1, March 1995

Powers: Switchback has the mutant ability to reverse her own personal timeframe, effectively reverting her body back to whatever state of being or position she was in 10 seconds previously. If she had moved in the last 10 seconds, she would "time-slide" back to the location she was in at that point. If she were attacked in some way (poisoned, injured, possessed, etc.), she could undo the effect with her power.

VINCENTE

 

VINCENTE

Real Name: Vincente Cimetta

First Appearance: Generation Next (Vol. 1) #1, March 1995

Powers: Vincente was a mutant with the power to alter the physical state of his body, converting from a solid to a liquid or gas at will. His gaseous state displayed toxic properties, rendering people unconscious or causing them to become delirious and faint. He could also bond his molecules with whatever compound or element he touches, becoming one with it while both adapting duplicating its physical properties. He once adapted the properties of dirt, for instance.

*This is Vincente from Earth-295 (aka "The Age of Apocalypse"). His Earth-616 counterpart appeared later in Generation X (Vol. 1) #12, February 1996.

MORPH

 

MORPH (AOA Version)

Real Name: Kevin Sidney

First Appearance: X-Men: Alpha (Vol. 1) #1, February 1995

Powers: Morph is an omnimorphic mutant shape-shifter. Unlike metamorphs, Morph is capable of transforming into nonhuman shapes, and can alter his internal organs and structure without causing himself harm. Morph's body defaults into a gray, rubbery state with no nose or distinguishable facial features. He has no scent, and can use his morphing abilities to heal broken or damaged portions of his body, even reattaching severed pieces on contact. Morph can stretch his body, extending his waist or limbs or whatever to many times their normal length. The unstable molecules of his body can be shaped into any sort of shape, clothing, or object he can imagine. Morph can dress himself in whatever clothes he can visualize and form various other objects as extensions of his mass, like a football, a length of chain, road signs, etc.

Though he cannot permanently separate himself from large portions of his mass without handicapping himself, Morph can separate his main body from these "clothes" or "objects" without injury, and a finite self-regeneration capacity even allows him to leave relatively small amounts of mass behind without having to worry about "pulling himself together". As a shape changer, Morph is capable of perfectly duplicating any human features he has seen or can imagine. Like many metamorphs, Morph seems to have an instinctual psionic ability to scan someone in his presence so that when he morphs into them, he is completely identical to them down to the fingerprints and retina patterns. Besides human forms, Morph has also been capable of transforming himself into animals of various sizes and shapes, and into inanimate objects like a broom or a sheet of wall.

*Morph's counterpart in the 616 universe is the Changeling. Morph 616 was a different character and a member of the First Line. The Morph who served as a founding member of the Exiles was the Earth-1081 counterpart.

ABYSS

 

ABYSS (AOA Version)

Real Name: Nils Styger

First Appearance: X-Men: Alpha (Vol. 1) #1, February 1995

Powers: Abyss’s mutation allows him to transform the substance of his entire body so that it unravels as elastic coils of high-tensile strength material. The wrappings stretch out as they unravel, giving him an extended reach and can be used to entangle and constrict around people and objects from a distance. This also completely changes the way his body can be harmed, for any sort of physical force directed at him merely causes his coils to flex with the impact and shoot back into place unharmed. Virtually his entire body can unravel like this, from his limbs all the way down to his tongue.

His internal structure houses an extra-dimensional void that he can swallow objects into. If he draws people into himself, they experience tremendous psychic anguish and torture for as long as he keeps them there. Abyss has also demonstrated certain additional mutant abilities. He has empathic powers allowing him to sense the emotions of other people within his vicinity. By placing someone into his void, Abyss could amplify and broadcast their fear and terror as psionic tremors, radiating negative empathic energy for miles around, sending people into intense emotional turmoil. He may also have been capable of producing psychoplasmic visual images in thin air.

*This is Abyss from Earth-295 (aka "The Age of Apocalypse"). His Earth-616 counterpart first appeared later in Cable (Vol. 1) #40, February 1997.

DARK BEAST

 

DARK BEAST

Real Name: Henry Philip McCoy

First Appearance: X-Men: Alpha (Vol. 1) #1, February 1995

Powers: The Dark Beast is a mutant born with abnormally large hands and feet and exceptional physical prowess. He possessed superhuman strength (roughly Class 2), agility, reflexes, dexterity, and natural acrobatic skills. He was omni-dexterous, capable of writing legibly with either hand or either foot. Upon furthering his mutation, he came to possess a significantly altered physiology. His body was covered with thick, intense blue-black/spiky gray fur, he had fangs, claws on his fingers and toes, a sloping posture, and arms slightly longer than a normal man's. His strength and agility were increased, as were his senses to a small degree, and he developed a powerful healing factor that enabled him to survive an accurate hail of gunfire. The Dark Beast also began producing a mildly intoxicating pheromone at all times, not enough to actually manipulate women against their will, but sufficient to qualify as a mild aphrodisiac.

*The Dark Beast is the Earth-295 (Age of Apocalypse) counterpart of the Earth-616's Beast. Unlike the latter, the former insisted on self-experimentation to accelerate his own mutation, knowingly subjecting himself to his bestial transformation. As such, he possesses the same enhanced powers as the Beast before his secondary mutation.

SUGAR MAN

 

SUGAR MAN

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: Generation Next (Vol. 1) #2, April 1995

Powers: The Sugar Man is a mutant with several highly abnormal mutations. He is larger and stronger than an average human and, instead of a head, his face is enormous and grows directly out of his front chest. He also has four arms, and a prehensile tongue that extends to great length and has unusual properties: It is razor sharp and strong enough to penetrate reinforced cybernetic skin, and can somehow damage beings existing in a gaseous state. The Sugar Man also seems to have a superhuman sense of smell, and possibly hearing as well. Finally, he has an unclassified healing power, the mechanics of which are vague at best. He was once nearly killed by being beaten until he was nothing more than pulp. However, a tiny Sugar Man (no more than a foot tall) climbed out of the corpse, and later grew back to his normal size.

HOLOCAUST

 

HOLOCAUST

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: X-Men: Alpha (Vol. 1) #1, February 1995

Powers: Originally known as Nemesis, Holocaust's mutant powers originally included flight and projecting bio-genetic microwave blasts from his hands which could cause considerable pain and devastation. He also may have had superhuman strength and durability to some degree. Magneto critically wounded Nemesis for killing his daughter Wanda, and Nemesis was reborn as Holocaust, an energy-based being housed in a crystallized armor created for him by the Dark Beast. Holocaust was massively strong and his armor was impenetrable to most forms of attack while channeling his microwave energy into tremendous blasts of power.

Holocaust has also demonstrated the power to animate or rejuvenate himself with the life essence of other living beings. He can drain this energy from a distance with a thought, either slowly so that his target grows slowly weaker and more weathered looking before finally being consumed, or all at once so that they disintegrate completely in a matter of seconds. Holocaust can apparently reform a relatively human solid body for himself even without his armor by siphoning enough life energy. His armor also has certain exceptional properties built into it, such as the ability to morph itself around him into a duplicate of his old Nemesis body, or into any other physical form he focuses on, with the life energy he drains from others serving as a fuel source for these transformations.

*This is Holocaust from Earth-295 (aka "The Age of Apocalypse"). He does not have an Earth-616 counterpart and he technically first appeared as a profile in Stryfe's Strike File (Vol. 1) #1, January 1993.

BLINK

 

BLINK

Real Name: Clarice Ferguson

First Appearance: X-Men Alpha (Vol. 1) #1, February 1995

Powers: Blink’s mutant power generates spatial-sheering energy, which can be used for various forms of teleportation. Blink can create portals out of thin air which connect two distant points, as far away as traveling from the Earth to the moon. These portals can be stationary, or she can will them into motion to swallow up a particular target. Blink frequently uses throwing javelins as a focus for her power. These javelins are transformed into pure energy by her power, for she can strike targets with them without piercing the target or causing any physical injury. Instead, Blink's javelins can isolate her teleportation effect on a specific person in a group, without running the risk of someone entering her portals she doesn't want. Also, instead of teleporting a whole object when they strike (like a person), Blink's javelins can be adjusted to only teleport what they actually touch, allowing her to teleport holes into armor or other solid objects by having javelins chip away at her target.

Blink has also learned how to employ a molecular disruption effect: By striking a person with her power, she can cause their molecules to -- for a single instant -- shift dramatically out of sync with each other, effectively bisecting every molecule of their body. Though they immediately revert to a normal and whole configuration, the effect is enough to render even superhumanly powerful opponents unconscious from the shock and pain.

LEGION

 

LEGION

Real Name: David Charles Haller

First Appearance: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #25, March 1985

Powers: Legion’s mutant ability is to manifest new mutant powers at will, altering his own genetic code to both support and develop any super-power or set of super-powers he can imagine. His initial power manifestation was so traumatic that it splintered his mind into multiple personalities, with each personality controlling a different mutant power. He formerly utilized a wrist keypad to focus his power, enabling him to summon his abilities without the personality associated with them for a short period of time.

An omega-level mutant, he has demonstratd the following abilities over the years: Telepathy, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, superhuman strength, speed, x-ray vision, clairvoyance, teleportation, empathic amplification & force conversion, shape-shifting, mass-shifting, lycanthropy, heat-siphoning, sonic scream, flight, spear-like arms, elastic and prehensile tongue, animation of unliving materials, transmuting matter into salt, acoustic blasts, electrical blasts, viral genetic pattern, corrosive bile, time-travel, time manipulation, and pocket reality construction.

BEDLAM & KING BEDLAM (aka THE BEDLAM BROTHERS)

 

 

BEDLAM & KING BEDLAM (aka THE BEDLAM BROTHERS)

Real Names: Jesse Aaronson (Bedlam); Christopher Aaronson (King Bedlam)
First Appearances: X-Force (Vol. 1) #82, October 1998 (Bedlam); X-Force (Vol. 1) #87, March 1999 (King Bedlam)

Powers: Jesse and Chris Aaronson are brothers whose mutant abilities emanate energy waves that create disturbances in specific energy signals.

Bedlam’s mutant power generated electromagnetic interference, scrambling any electronic device in his range that he focused on. He could use his power to disrupt various form of machinery, from as simple as popping open an electronic lock to crashing an entire power plant or computer network. Through practice, he learned how to produce a neural EMP, an electromagnetic pulse attuned to the electro-chemical processes of the human brain, temporarily shutting down the minds of any living thing caught in his blast radius. Through precision and skill, Bedlam could use his mutant power to trigger certain responses in the human body that are controlled by electro-chemical activity, like pain. Bedlam was also sensitive to electromagnetic waves, enabling him to detect the presence of electronic systems and pick up certain transmitting wavelengths mentally.

King Bedlam has the mutant ability to produce telepathic interference. This psionic effect protects his own mind from being manipulated by telepaths and can be projected outwards to disorient and disable his opponents. People affected by his mental attacks may become incapable of concentrating on any conscious action, and might even be completely disabled to the point where they can't even stand up, collapsing into a semi-conscious heap. A signature of his power is that the victims begin randomly speaking disconnected words.

X-MAN

 

X-MAN

Real Name: Nathaniel Grey

First Appearance: X-Man (Vol. 1) #1, March 1995

Powers: The X-Man was genetically engineered from the combined DNA of Earth-295’s versions of Cyclops and Jean Grey and force grown into adolescence. Though designed to be phenomenally powerful, a sub-program was inserted into his DNA at the time of his production so that his power would kill him by the time he reached 21 years of age. The X-Man could tap the enormous psychic energies of the astral plane so as to endow himself with telepathy and telekinesis of the highest magnitude.

As a telepath, the X-Man could read minds, project his thoughts and manipulate those of others, communicate mentally, project his astral form, travel to the astral plane, create sophisticated illusions from ectoplasm, and manipulate minds in anyway he desired.

The X-Man was arguably one of the most powerful telekinetics ever. He could rearrange matter, fire devastating telekinetic energy blasts, levitate matter, create powerful telekinetic force shields, cause violent explosions in matter, and utilize his telekinetic energy to increase the physical power of his blows. He could forge solid constructs by converting psionic energy into quasi-stable matter. Using this ability he created a resilient psi-armor for himself, temporarily restored someone's missing arm, turned Xavier's astral form into a tangible thing, and brought Madelyne Pryor back to life as a psychoplasmic construct duplicating the characteristics of organic matter.

Nate later became "Shaman of the Human Tribe" when he met an alternate version of himself with significantly greater abilities and they mentally bonded, sharing memories and power. Nate developed enhanced psychic senses allowing him to perceive the future and alternate reality possibilities. He received unprompted visions of future events, could read the quantum probability activity around people to see the paths their lives might have taken or predict their actions from moment to moment, or even look directly into different realities along what he called the "Spiral". Nate could also transport himself and others between realities at will. He demonstrated greater control over energy-matter-energy conversion techniques, allowing him to materialize objects from his thoughts or transform his body into pure psionic energy then return to material substance. Nate's powers were overwhelmed when the Sugar Man used him as a conduit for inter-dimensional travel, leaving him with only limited telekinetic powers afterwards.

Since his exposure to the LifeSeed, he has grown substantially more powerful. He can affect things remotely at a global range, influence localized evolutionary and environmental development, impose beliefs and altered or enhanced abilities on others, construct an entirely new reality, etc.