POST

 

POST

Real Name: Kevin Tremain

First Appearance: X-Men (Vol. 2) #50, March 1996

Powers: A former operative for the Central Intelligence Agency, Kevin Tremain's mutant genes granted him blue skin and an increased musculature that gave him augmented strength, agility, endurance, reaction time, and durability. His mutation also includes a highly analytical acumen allowing him to mentally calculate vastly large mathematical probabilities, outpacing most super computers. He could use this power to compute vectors, target trajectories, override computer locks and programs, etc.

Receiving a blood transfusion from Cable left him with a sample of the techno-organic virus in his system. This transfusion is what later allowed Onslaught to transform him into the cybernetic powerhouse called "Post" and more effectively interact with the suit of power pods later provided for him by Onslaught. Each pod may have only resembled a featureless stone, but were actually highly intricate circuitry. Many of them formed into a pair of trunks, boots, gloves, and headgear. The rest tended to hover around him, acting as sensory units that recorded audio, visual, energy-based and mutagenic signatures on various wavelengths, giving his analytical power vast amounts of information to cogitate on. He could combine and reconfigure groups of power pods into floating plasma blasters, a cloaking device built onto his chest plates that rendered him invisible, and possibly teleportation abilities as well. Furthermore, he could use the data he gathers on a target or another mutant to conceive of anti-personal weapons to counter someone's natural abilities.

BLAQUESMITH

 

BLAQUESMITH

Real Name: Unrevealed

First Appearance: X-Men: Prime (Vol. 1) #1, July 1995

Powers: Blaquesmith’s mutation consisted of bulbous eyes, an ungainly frame, and yellowish skin. His mutant abilities included enhanced agility and reflexes, despite his awkward appearance and advanced age. He possessed an intuitive understanding of machinery that may have represented a passive ability. He was highly skilled at operating all known forms of technology, and could construct new devices with considerable speed and skill.

He demonstrated various mental mutant powers of telepathy and telekinesis, giving him psychic communication, memory-altering, illusion-casting, mind-reading, levitation, and the projection of psionic force or force fields. He could also manipulate time, freezing people or objects in mid-motion or casting them across centuries or millennia of time.

BOLT

 

BOLT

Real Name: Christopher Bradley

First Appearance: X-Men Unlimited (Vol. 1) #8, October 1995

Powers: Bolt possesses the mutant power to absorb ambient charges of static electricity in his environment and from the atmosphere. Typically, Chris’ body harmlessly expended this energy, however, he was able to store and release it for a variety of effects:

He could produce electricity within his body and generate it outwards through his skin. He could create an electrified aura that distorted his facial features and shocked anyone who came into physical contact with him. Bolt could cause his electricity to be discharged from any area of his body, but normally directed it as blasts from his hands. He could channel electrical energy through conductive material, forming protective shields or generating electric arcs. Bolt could also siphon energy from electricity-generating sources to empower himself.

Chris was extensively trained in armed and unarmed combat by Cable and was a skilled, albeit brutal, interrogator. After immersing himself in the persona and name of the mutant mercenary known as Maverick, Chris wore a suit of lightweight Kevlar body armor as well as a mask with atmospheric seals. Though he wielded a pair of conventional handguns, he favored using his powers to generate concussive force blasts.

DEADBOLT

 

DEADBOLT

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: Cable (Vol. 1) #17, November 1994

Powers: Deadbolt's mutant power enabled him to exist as a living skeleton contained within a bio-energy field, somehow still capable of speech and movement. He could physically remove his bones and use them as razor-sharp handheld weapons or throwing spikes. These bones then somehow replaced themselves, but whether it is through hyper-accelerated organic regeneration or re-materializing due to his body's energy field is unknown.

HURRICANE

 

HURRICANE

Real Name: Unrevealed

First Appearance: Cable (Vol. 1) #17, November 1994

Powers: Hurricane's mutant power was to focus the atmosphere around him into concentrated gusts of gale-force wind or swirling tornadoes. He could manipulate the air surrounding him, causing it to flow according to his commands. His gale force winds could knock down or throw about an opponent and manipulate his whirling high-velocity wind storms either around his person or some distance away from himself.

SPYNE

 

SPYNE

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: Cable (Vol. 1) #17, November 1994

Powers: Spyne's mutation granted him a sufficiently demonic reptilian physiology, combining red scales with an enormous mouth, prehensile tail, needle-like fangs, two clawed toes, three razor-taloned fingers on each hand, and bone spurts along his backbone. He also had heightened strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, durability, senses, and leg power for leaping, hyper-keen senses, and iridescent eyes.

LIFEFORCE

 

LIFEFORCE

Real Name: Unrevealed

First Appearance: Cable (Vol. 1) #17, November 1994

Powers: Lifeforce was a psychic vampire, born with the mutant power to drain away the living energy of other people. She did this through close physical proximity, and used the life force she absorbed in order to replenish her own, boosting her stamina and recuperative powers to varying degrees. She could also re-channel it into blasts of destructive concussive energy.

SINSEAR

 

SINSEAR

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: Cable (Vol. 1) #1, May 1993

Powers: Sinsear was a soldier in the army of the High Lords of New Canaan in the 39th century of Earth-4935. Having suffered severe injuries in battle from a hidden thermite bomb, he was recovered by the New Canaanites and transformed into a cybernetic warrior.

Sinsear's entire body was covered and reinforced with exoskeletal mechanisms, giving him superhuman strength, reflexes, stamina, and resistance to all manner of physical harm. His on-board computer was capable of scanning and analyzing his surroundings in great detail, from determining the composition of obstacles in his path to cataloguing the number and type of opponents and weapons gathered against him. His analytical and targeting abilities are further enhanced by telescopic and infrared sighting mechanisms in his eye. He can project pencil-beam cutting lasers as well as concussive plasma charges from his hands.

Furthermore, Sinsear could unsheathe buzz-drones from his body, remote-flying battle units equipped with independently tracking lasers. His arm units also included retractable spear-spikes in his left arm, high tensile cables which could lift and strangle victims in his right, and launchers for his parabolic slicing blades (PSBs) with smart-targeting ability that could be set on search and destroy flights or adjusted specifically to seek out enemy weak spots.

REIGNFIRE

 

REIGNFIRE

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: X-Force (Vol. 1) #26, September 1993

Powers: Reignfire (aka "Project Nineteen") was a mutant born under unspecified horrific circumstances whose power reduced him to a sentient, amorphous, asexual, ebony protoplasm when it manifested at birth. After spending a decade under laboratory experimentation, the protoplasm (possessing a rudimentary consciousness) began suffering physical deteriorations and was placed in an oxygenated nutrient bath to slow its decline. This changed dramatically when he was exposed to a single cell sample from another mutant test subject, Roberto Da Costa (aka Sunspot). Project Nineteen ended up replicating the cellular material based on that cell, creating an entire humanoid body for himself. This body, a physical duplicate of Sunspot’s, was complete with an enhanced replication of Sunspot's solar-absorption powers. Escaping the labortatory with his newfound powers, Project Nineteen resurfaced months later as Reignfire.

Reignfire was able to naturally absorb solar energy through ambient sunlight and, with concentration, feed off of other nearby sources of heat and light in his environment as well. He could bolster his physical strength (up to Class 50), stamina, and resilience with this energy, use it for downward thrusts to fly or cast it off as solar plasma discharges from his hands. He demonstrated the ability to "seed" clouds with energy, causing plasma to rain down from the clouds. He could also siphon energy by draining body heat from others, inducing hypothermia. He also maintained a telepathic link with his template, granting him all of Sunspot’s memories and skills, as well as allowing him to monitor Sunspot's thoughts, influence his mind, and temporarily possess his body.

COMMCAST

 

COMMCAST

Real Name: Garabed Bashur

First Appearance: Deadpool: The Circle Chase (Vol. 1) #2, September 1993

Powers: Commcast’s mutant power is an electronic form of telepathy. He psionically receives electronic transmissions of data and stores them within his consciousness. He does so passively, in a manner that does not interfere with the regular transmission, and can receive electronic signals over a great distance (even isolating himself in a rural area did not render his mutant power inoperable).

Commcast’s mind possesses an infinite storage capacity, containing all the data he has ever been exposed to. The data is streamed into his mind far faster than he can accurately scan it all consciously, so even though the information is present in his mind, it requires a combination of meditation, effort, and sheer willpower for him to locate and extract specific information upon command. He uses a data filtering unit called the Dominus Objective which possesses an artificial file search capacity. By routing it through his exoskeletal Black Box armor, it allows him to summon information in his mind at will by merely focusing on it.

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.

DEADPOOL

 

DEADPOOL

Real Name: Wade Wilson

First Appearance: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #98, February 1991

Powers: Wade Wilson was a highly-trained mercenary who was subjected to genetic enhancement at the hands of the Weapon X Program, as they grafted a bottled variation of Wolverine's healing factor onto his cells. The end result left him permanently scarred, but superhumanly powered. Deadpool's strength, agility, endurance, and reflexes have all been heightened to above human limits. His healing factor is capable of regenerating damaged or destroyed areas of his cellular structure at a rate far greater than an ordinary human. It has proven capable of curing cancer, enables him to completely regenerate missing digits or limbs in a matter of hours, and even makes having his brain blown out the back of his skull only a temporary problem. It also provides him with protection from all forms of diseases, poisons, drugs, and extends his lifespan.

The speed at which his power functions is directly proportionate to an injury's severity and partially affected by Deadpool's mental state. It functions most efficiently when he is awake, alert, and in a positive mood.The healing factor is tied into his mind in a manner different from Wolverine, giving it a "mental" aspect which allows Deadpool to accelerate his regeneration even further by focusing on the process. Besides his natural healing powers, he was once cursed by Thanos to forever remain outside the realm of Death, and as a result has regenerated even after being reduced to protoplasm. Due to repeated brain injuries throughout his career, Deadpool's brain regenerates brain cells at such a hyper-accelerated rate that his memories and sanity suffer regular damage. For a time, his mind was mingled with the mutant known as Cable which allowed him to access the latter's bodysliding technology without the use of machinery.

Deadpool is an extraordinary athlete and hand-to-hand combatant skilled in multiple unarmed combat techniques. He is a master assassin, an excellent marksman, and an accomplished user of bladed weapons. He is fluent in Spanish, Japanese, German, among other languages. He frequently employs handguns, grenades, swords, and other weapons in combat, personal teleportation belt and a holographic image inducer as well.

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.

SUMO

 

SUMO

Real Name: Jun Tenta

First Appearance: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #93, September 1990

Powers: Sumo's mutant power granted him a considerable amount of mutagenically-enhanced fat in layers over his body. This gave him considerable strength and resistance to all manner of physical harm, resistance which varied in direct proportion to the amount of fat covering a given portion of his frame. He could resist temperature extremes and puncture wounds as well.

He also had the ability to alter his weight, either through mass-shifting or gravity manipulation, allowing him to leap much higher into the air than physically possible for a man of his size, and then pull himself back down onto an opponent with greater force that normal.

PROSH

 

PROSH

Real Name: Inapplicable

First Appearance: X-Factor (Vol. 1) #15, April 1987 (as Ship); X-Force (Vol. 1) #8, March 1992 (as Professor); X-Force (Vol. 1) #39, October 1994 (as Prosh)

Powers: The being known as Prosh was originally an exploratory craft created by the extraterrestrial Celestials that was sent to Earth to record the planet's history. It landed in Mongolia during the 12th century where it was found by a nomadic tribe led by the mutant External Garbha-Hsien (later known as Saul). Garbha-Hsien was later bested by a fellow mutant External known as En Sabah Nur, who took control of the craft. Over the following centuries, the Nur merged with the vessel's technology and became Apocalypse while the craft's programming evolved into a sentient artificial intelligence calling itself "Ship".

As the Celestial ship, it was capable of techno-forming itself, changing its internal or external technological structure to match the needs of the passengers, or Ship itself. It could incorporate additional matter into its physical frame. It also contains vast amounts of information stored in its data-banks, mass and proximity sensors alerting it to potential threats, and wide-spectrum analytical scanning allowing it to monitor the life-signs of other beings, scan them for weaknesses, provide tactical suggestions, etc. When Apocalypse infected Ship with a techno-virus that wildly animated Ship and placed it under Apocalypse's control again, Ship resisted, launched itself into space and exploded. However, in the final nanoseconds before the explosion, Ship managed to download the core elements of its A.I. into a luminescent electromagnetic energy survival module. When Cyclops' son, Nathan Summers, was infected with a similar virus, Ship merged its substance with Nathan's in order to stave off the effects of the virus. When Nathan was transported to the future of Earth-4935 for treatment, Ship went with and his consciousness was rendered dormant.

Over a decade after their arrival, the teenaged Nathan met a fellow mutant telepath named Blaquesmith who helped train him and awakened Ship's consciousness, which now adopted the name Professor. The Professor was directly interfaced with Nathan's techno-organic parts, integrating itself into his mind and body. The Professor was able to monitor Nathan's bio-signs and access his powers to regulate the techno-organic virus for him. It was linked to various sensor systems, could access any other technology which Nathan (as Cable) had incorporated into his techno-organics, including the bodyslide teleportation equipment. The Professor was later transferred into the data-banks of Greymalkin, a massive space station Cable had brought back in time with him, which were later co-opted by Magneto into Avalon. Cable rescued the Professor's programming, and brought it back to Earth to install it in X-Force's Camp Verde computer system.

When a member of the techno-organic Phalanx attempted to override the Camp Verde computer system, its programming was overwhelmed by the Professor, which assimilated and bonded with the Phalanx drone, receiving the basic capabilities of that species as well. Now possessing an individual techno-organic body, it changed its name to "Prosh", a portmanteau of "Professor" and "Ship".

BLACK TOM

 

BLACK TOM

Real Name: Thomas Samuel Eamon Cassidy

First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #99, June 1976

Powers: Black Tom’s mutant ability is to bodily generate thermokinetic energy and discharge it as concussive blasts of intense heat and force. He uses non-conductive organic substances, such as wood, to channel his power. Black Tom's bio-blasts alternate between being force beams or heat beams. His assaults can cause combustion or physical impact and damage depending on how he applies them.

After being horribly beaten and wounded by Cable, Black Tom was put through a surgical procedure that grafted synthetic wood fiber into his wounds which grew to fill in the damaged and lost portions of his mass, making him a human-wood hybrid. This gave him a constant internal conduit through which to focus his power blasts, and his mutant energy was apparently amplified as it was now focused through his implants. As time passed, however, the implants seemed to take over Tom's body, converting him into a being more plant than man. After being critically injured in this form, his partner (Juggernaut) financed an operation to remove the synthetic grafts and return Black Tom to his normal human appearance.

Since that time, however, Tom underwent a secondary mutation which transformed him completely into a plant-like being. Black Tom came to exist as nothing more than a spectral consciousness inhabiting wood and vegetable matter bodies shaped in his image. Tom was capable of mentally manipulating various forms of vegetation, causing roots and vines to rip out from the ground and accelerate their growth to tremendous size and strength. By animating this plant matter he could form razor sharp wooden spears, prehensile vines to lift and move objects, and wrap such roots or vines around a person or object and constrict, crushing whatever was in their grasp. He could inhabit large amounts of wooden mass at once, expanding to gigantic sizes, and any injuries inflicted on his animate frame were negligible so long as he could relocate his consciousness to another section of vegetable mass.

After Decimation, Black Tom was restored to his human form, losing most of his secondary mutation. He retains his bio-blasting ability, and can still animate and manipulate wood and plant-life to some degree. He has even demonstrated enhanced bio-blasting, such as channeling massive amounts of power by conducting his bio-blast through multiple logs strapped on the back of a flatbed truck.

Tom Cassidy was educated at University of Oxford. He is a master of terrorist strategies and tactics, as well as a master swordsman.

BISHOP

 

BISHOP

Real Name: Lucas Bishop

First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #282, November 1991

Powers: Bishop has the mutant ability to absorb various forms of energy on contact. Once internalized, the energy is normally metabolized into his personal reserves. Energy stored there boosts his natural physical vitality, amplifying his strength, endurance, and reaction time. Despite his enhanced physical build, Bishop's energized strength level easily exceeds a few thousand pounds when fully charged. Physical exertion depletes his additional energy, and he can also release his reserves into bio-concussive blasts generated from his hands. He also occasionally employs plasma rifles which have special conductive grips allowing him to focus his energy into the guns as a power source, using up less energy than his blasts do.

In his early appearances, Bishop demonstrated the power to redirect energy in the same state he had absorbed it. He could, for instance, absorb Storm's lightning and then fire electrical blasts of his own. Bishop was apparently capable of using his personal reserves as raw fuel to feed any energy he was redirecting. In the above situation, this meant he could fire multiple electrical blasts, far more energy than the single lightning bolt he was struck with, by tapping into energies he had previously stored to continue recharging the electrical energy for his use.

He can absorb most kinds of energy, including kinetic, electromagnetic, and psionic. His system works best with active and directed energy signatures, like bio-blasts, laser guns, or electrical power lines. From ambient radiation, sunlight, and static electricity he picks up little to any charge from those sort of passive energies. He also cannot fully overcome solid-based kinetic assaults. Pure kinetic energy blasts or concussive explosions he can adjust to. He can absorb some of the kinetic energy from projectile assaults like bullets or crossbow bolts, but not enough to prevent them from penetrating his flesh. He's also still vulnerable to blunt force trauma or pressure based attacks. He also had a bionic right arm which amplifies his strength, contains retractable wire-guided pincers, and enables time-travel.

Bishop hails from Earth-1191 in an alternate future timeline roughly 100 years from now. In his timeline, he was a member of the X.S.E. (Xavier Security Enforcers), a mutant law enforcement agency inspired by the X-Men. A trained police officer skilled in homicidal investigations, he has many years of armed/unarmed combat training and is a superb marksman.