LOCUS

 

LOCUS

Real Name: Rayna Piper

First Appearance: X-Force (Vol. 1) #27, October 1993

Powers: Locus’ mutant ability is phase-shifting. She was capable of instantaneously transporting herself and additional matter from one location to another. She could only transport herself to places that she has physically visited in the past, effectively retracing her steps backwards through her lifetime. When in close physical proximity to other people, Locus could expand her teleportation field to accommodate them, and could also probe their minds in order to access their previous locations as well.

By phase-shifting with another person, she could therefore teleport to any location that person has been to before in addition to her own inventory. It is unknown whether Locus could scan past locations from inanimate objects for phase-shifting purposes. It was once suggested that Locus's power would allow her to travel into other time periods because her passenger, Sunspot, had done so, but this was never completely confirmed. She could narrowly isolate the phase-shifting effect, enabling her to teleport a man's head off his shoulders instead of transporting his entire body with her. The spatial energy she manifested for her phase-shifting also generated an anti-gravity effect so that she could float in mid-air, but not truly fly.

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.

FERAL & THORNN

 

FERAL & THORNN

Real Names: Maria Callasantos (Feral); Lucia Callasantos (Thornn)

First Appearances: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #99, March 1991 (Feral); X-Force #6 (Vol. 1), January 1992 (Thornn)

Powers: Feral and Thornn were mutant siblings who had near-identical mutations: Feline appearances with enhanced physical attributes.

Their bodies were covered with fur (orange & white for Feral, brown for Thornn) and had pointed ears, razor sharp talons on each finger and toe, pointed canine teeth, and 5-foot long prehensile tails that aided them in balance. They both possessed enhanced strength, speed, cat-like agility, healing, and reflexes. They also possessed predatory instincts and superhumanly acute senses, especially of sight and smell. Their abilities made them excellent trackers and hunters.

KAMIKAZE

 

KAMIKAZE

Real Name: Haruo Tsuburaya

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

Powers: Kamikaze’s mutant ability was the power to produce an explosive release of energy on impact. He accomplished this by accelerating atomic friction on contact, creating violent explosions within anything he touched. He also possessed the power of flight and would use it to propel himself into an opponent at high speeds. He seemingly had some defense against his own power, suggesting some level of enhanced strength and durability.

STROBE

 

STROBE

Real Name: Juliana Worthing

First Appearance: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #86, February 1990

Powers: Strobe’s mutant power is the ability to increase the kinetic motion of molecules around her body, creating a thermal field that liquefies or incinerates matter on contact. This field is only a few inches thick, yet produces enough concentrated heat to instantly melt away speeding bullets before they can impact her skin. She can burn her way through all forms of plastics and metals, even cybernetic parts.

She can also focus her energies outwards as heat beams to melt objects from a distance, and the beams are intensely bright enough to blind opponents too resilient to burn or melt under her heat. She also demonstrated the power to fly using her abilities, through thermal updrafts and propulsion.

DRAGONESS

 

DRAGONESS

Real Name: Tamara Kurtz

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

Powers: Dragoness has energy projection powers. Primarily, her mutant power utilizes her inner storages of bio-electricity to focus stinger blasts that disrupt organisms or mechanical activity, or excite particle matter in the atmosphere to ignite pyrotechnic flares.

She also wears a flight pack with mechanized dragon wings that enabled her to fly.

FOREARM

 

FOREARM

Real Name: Michael McCain

First Appearance: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #86, February 1990

Powers: Forearm’s mutant powers were superhuman strength and resistance to injury due to his two additional appendages and related enhanced musculature. He could lift up to 10 tons.

THUMBELINA & SLAB

 

THUMBELINA & SLAB

Real Names: Kristina Anderson (Thumbelina); Christopher Anderson (Slab)

First Appearances: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #86, February 1990 (Thumbelina); X-Factor (Vol. 1) #74, January 1992 (Slab)

Powers: Thumbelina and Slab are mutant siblings born with size-changing abilities.

Thumbelina has the mutant power to compress her molecules into a smaller physical frame, enabling her to decrease her size and mass while proportionately increasing her strength and density. She can shrink to as small as a half-inch tall and back to her regular form at will.

Slab is a mutant who possesses enhanced strength and durability. He is capable of expanding his body to at least 2-3 times his normal size, increasing his strength and durability further in the process. He reaches at least Class 50 strength when at his growth limit.

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.

ZERO

 

ZERO

Real Name: Inapplicable

First Appearance: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #86, February 1990

Powers: Zero is an ADAM (Algorhythmic wavelength Dampening / Ambient-energy absorbing Modular) unit, originally from the 40th century future of Earth-4935.

He primarily demonstrated the ability to open teleportation portals from one location to another, allowing him and others to travel instantaneously. These portals remained open as long as Zero willed them to, allowing passage back and forth between the two connected points. One occasion claimed he had to have been to a location first before opening a portal there, but that was widely disproven across his various appearances. Zero possessed a wide range of additional capabilities which he was apparently restricted from accessing while under Stryfe's programming.

As an android, his strength, endurance, reflexes, and intelligence and processing abilities all exceeded human prowess. As a peacekeeping mechanism, he was designed with scanners capable of detecting potential sources of conflict, which included the ability to detect and categorize various forms of technology and weaponry, the presence and abilities of superhumans, and even the psychological profiles of sentient beings, to determine if they were peaceful or warlike in nature. Once his scanners had categorized everything in his environment, Zero was then capable of eliminating all threats to the peace, draining energy from electronic systems or outright obliterating weapons of war or warlike individuals.

REAPER

 

REAPER

Real Name: Pantu Hurageb

First Appearance: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #86, February 1990

Powers: Reaper's mutant power is to psionically project neuro-synaptic inhibitor waves to affect anyone within his immediate vicinity. These waves inhibit reaction time and slow the conscious thought processes of his victims, giving him an advantage over them. He used a scythe capable of mechanically amplifying his power, channeling it so that anyone struck by the scythe's blade would be totally paralyzed for a period of time afterwards.

As a member of the Mutant Liberation Front, Reaper suffered multiple injuries: Losing both hands in battle with Shatterstar and his lower leg to a rapidly closing teleportation portal courtesy of his teammate, Zero. All these amputated parts were replaced by cybernetic appendages. He briefly had one bionic hand replaced by a miniaturized scythe blade, but quickly discontinued use of this cybernetic part. While a member of Malibu's Exiles, Reaper made a deal with the Tradesmen on the Godwheel, who augmented his scythe so that his power was actually augmented when in the Ultraverse (Earth-93060), unlike most mutants and superhumans who lost half their power in that universe. Reaper's scythe was also able to absorb certain forms of energy and process them as a dimensional conduit to allow travel between the 616 Universe and the Ultraverse. He only had a finite power supply for this feature, however, and little knowledge on how to employ it.

After returning to 616 and being forced into service with Weapon X, Reaper was given new cybernetic hands that could morph into scythe blades to act as a conduit for his mutant power. His mutation also left him with pale white skin and black patches over his eyes.

WILDSIDE

 

WILDSIDE

Real Name: Richard Gill

First Appearance: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #86, February 1990

Powers: Wildside’s mutant power is to generate a psionic distortion wave which can alter people's perceptions of reality. The earliest use of his power was to make himself and his teammates undetectable by human senses. Though it can be used passively, his power can also offensively scramble the senses of others, creating mind-warping hallucinations that make his opponents incapable of properly receiving information from their senses, driving them to the brink of madness or rendering them insensate, virtually comatose and unable to respond to the real world.

Wildside's mutation also granted him enhanced agility, reflexes, senses, untamed hair, pointed ears and canine teeth, and natural claws on each finger. Upon joining the Weapon X Program, Wildside's hands were replaced with morphing cybernetic components, which shifted between normal fingers and razor sharp claws on command.

STRYFE

 

STRYFE

Real Name: Stryfe

First Appearance: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #86, February 1990

Powers: Stryfe was the perfect mutant clone of Cable, created from Cable's healthy cells and therefore possessing all of his power and none of the restrictions imposed by the techno-organic virus. He was also genetically engineered at the time of his creation to be a perfect physical specimen, possessing peak human strength, stamina, reflexes, and genius intelligence. His mutant abilities gave him vast potential for both telepathic and telekinetic feats.

He could sense the presence of other sentient beings, read their thoughts, create psychic links to communicate psionically with others, exert mental domination over someone's thoughts or actions, project directed force to lift and maneuver matter or devastate it where it stood, cast force fields to protect him and others from physical harm or harsh environments like the surface of the moon, etc. He demonstrated sufficient telekinetic power and control to prevent Cyclops and Jean Grey from accessing their mutant abilities in his presence. His armor protected him from significant levels of direct assault.