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Old Apr 22, 2002, 01:26 pm   #1
Eric J. Moreels
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Post Havok (Alex Summers)

Havok I

Havok (Mutant X costume)Real Name: Alexander "Alex" Summers
Former Aliases: Mutant X II, Goblyn Prince
First Appearance: X-Men (1st series) #54 (as Alex Summers), X-Men (1st series) #58 (as Havok)
Known Relatives: Christopher Summers (Corsair, father), Katherine Anne Summers (mother, deceased), Philip Summers (grandfather), Deborah Summers (grandmother), Scott Summers (Cyclops III, brother), Gabriel (Vulcan, brother), Nathan Christopher Summers (Cable, nephew), Madelyne Pryor-Summers (ex-sister-in-law, deceased), Jean Grey-Summers (Phoenix IV, sister-in-law, deceased), Tyler Dayspring (Genesis II, grandnephew, deceased), Stryfe (clone nephew, deceased), Rachel Summers/Grey (Marvel Girl III, alternate timeline neice)
Group Affiliation: X-Men, formerly Six, X-Factor II, Brotherhood I, Genoshan Magistrates, Defenders
Known Allies: Polaris, Spider-Man, Thor
Major Enemies: Living Monolith, Sentinels, Mr Sinister, Marauders, Reavers, Plasma, formerly Cameron Hodge
Education: Masters degree in geophysics, some doctoral research completed
Powers: Cosmic radiation absorption and redirection
Height: 6'
Weight: 175 lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Blond

Alex Summers is the younger of the two sons of Christopher Summers, a United States Air Force Major and test pilot, and his wife Katherine Anne. Alex and his mother and older brother Scott were flying back from a vacation in Christopher's vintage airplane when the plane crashed into a scout ship of the Shi'ar Empire, setting the wooden plane ablaze. Katherine pushed Scott and Alex out of the burning plane with the only available parachute. Thus the two boys escaped the Shi'ar while their parents did not.

The two boys were hospitalized for injuries they sustained during their landing, since their overburdened parachute had been unable to slow their decent safely enough. Scott and Alex both suffered traumatic amnesia regarding the plane incident. Alex left the hospital after two weeks and was placed in an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska. Soon adopted, Alex had little or no contact with Scott until years later. Alex had been adopted by the Blanding family, who treated Alex as if he were their late son Todd. When the local school bully that had caused Todd's accident attacked Alex and his foster-sister Haley, the stress caused Alex's mutant powers manifest and he incinerated the bully. A genetic lock was placed upon Alex to curtail the development of his powers by Mr. Sinister, a master geneticist that had been secretly monitoring Alex and his brother. Sinister also placed psi-blocks on Alex and Haley to cause them forget the incident.

Scott and Alex both believed their parents had been killed until as adults they were reunited with their father, who had since become Corsair, leader of the Starjammers.

Alex was unaware of Scott's developing mutant power or his identity as Cyclops of the X-Men until after the younger Summers had graduated from college. It was at that time that Alex first became aware of his own mutant abilities. A professor of archeology named Ahmet Abdol, also a mutant, had discovered a psychic link between himself and Summers. While both of them had the latent mutant power to absorb and transform cosmic radiation, Abdol's ability to exercise the power was jammed in an unknown manner by Summers' body. The Living Pharoah, as this mutant was calling himself, captured the youth and took him to his laboratory in Egypt. Abdol found a way to screen Summers' body from ambient cosmic radiation, permitting his own body to attain its latent potential. Abdol was transformed into the Living Monolith, a gigantic mutant with vast cosmic power.

The Monolith was defeated while in combat with the X-Men when Summers' latent mutant powers surfaced under the stress of entombment within the mechanism designed to screen him from cosmic radiation. Incapable of controlling the shock waves his body emanated, Summers chose to remain in the Egyptian desert rather than accompany the X-Men back to America.

Havok (original costume)Summers was soon captured by one of the mutant-hunting robotic Sentinels and brought to the headquarters of Larry Trask, the son of the Sentinels' inventor. Trask gave Summers the codename Havok and a costume whose chest display monitored the build-up of cosmic energy within him. When the X-Men finally freed Trask's captive mutants, Summers accompanied his brother and his teammates back to civilization where he began training to help him keep his energy in check. Eventually Havok gained enough mastery over his power that he would release it only when he wished to do so, and could wield his power skillfully enough to become a formidable opponent in battle.

Havok fell in love with Lorna Dane, the mutant now known as Polaris . They both served for a time in the X-Men helping to repel the invasion by the alien Z'nox. Neither Havok nor Polaris wished to lead a life as an adventurer, but they discovered that they had a mutual interest in geophysics. Hence, they began doing doctoral research in that subject in the Diablo mountain range in Arizona.

The plan to stay out of the affairs of the outside world did not last long. Havok and Polaris found themselves hunted by the Marauders, and Polaris fell under the mental control of Malice. Polaris was forced to attack the X-Men as the leader of the Marauders. Havok, now a member of the X-Men, had to fight his lover.

During the X-Men's time in the Australian outback, Alex was forced to deal with using his power at lethal force and he began some sort of relationship with Madelyne Pryor, the abandoned wife of his brother Scott. After Havok travelled through the Siege Perilous, he lost his identity for a time and when he next encountered Scott, it was as a member of the Genoshan Magistrates. After the X-Tinction Agenda, Havok's memory returned and he accepted an offer to lead the second version of X-Factor, a newly-formed, governmentally-funded, mutant agency.

Havok (Brotherhood costume)Havok continued to serve with X-Factor until he felt that there were too many people in his life that had been controlling him. He was also deeply affected by the apparent death of his teammate Jamie Madrox at the hands of Haven. Disillusioned with both the X-Men and X-Factor, Havok teamed up with the Dark Beast, the Beast's evil counterpart from another timeline, and together they founded a team of mutant terrorists called the Brotherhood. However, Havok did not truly become a terrorist - he joined the Brotherhood only in order to stop the Black Beast's sinister plans.

After he was aided by the time-travelling Xavier Underground Enforcers in stopping the Dark Beast, Havok joined them in their quest to stop the Days Of Future Past from occurring. Havok was seemingly killed when a time machine created by Greystone exploded, but his mind was actually shunted into the body of his alternate reality counterpart. However, Alex's family and friends all believe him dead. In this reality, Havok was the leader of the Six. Here Alex was married with Madelyne Pryor and they had a son named Scotty. Madelyne became the Goblyn Queen also in this reality but she was defeated by Scotty. In this reality Alex was romantically involved with this reality's version of Elektra.

After adventuring with a team of twisted versions of the heroes he knew, Havok once again seemingly died, but was left floating in a Limbo-like void. Before this Havok had become the living host of the Nexus of All Realities.

Subsequently, a catatonic Alex Summers was revealed to be in the care of Nurse Annie at the Rosy Manor Convalescent Hospital in upstate New York. When she called the Xavier Institute and informed them of Alex being alive, his brother Scott came to bring Alex home. Though attempts were made by Professor X to telepathically reach into Alex's mind, he was unsuccessful. Carter Ghazikhanian, the son of Nurse Annie, used his powers, and was able to awaken Alex from his coma.

Alex was later to be married to Polaris, but he fell in love with Annie. When Alex called off the wedding, just the bride was coming down the aisle, Polaris snapped and attempted to kill both him and Annie. Alex and Annie admitted their feelings for each other as Lorna hunted them down. After being saved by the Juggernaut, Alex and Annie began a romantic relationship. Soon after, the alternate-reality Havok's personality resurfaced within Alex but the combined forces of the X-Men and the dimension-hopping Exiles forced out this evil consciousness. This consciousness was sent back into the void where it had been trapped and it was destroyed by the Exiles' taskmaster, the Timebroker.

More recently, Havok, also an instinctive tactician and strategist, was put in charge of one of the new teams of X-Men, following his brother's new position as co-headmaster of the Xavier Institute. Annie soon left the Institute when she found the school too dangerous a place for her son Carter, and didn't believe Havok would choose her over the X-Men. Afterwards Havok realized that he's still in love with Lorna and admitted it to her, even though she's now in a relationship with Iceman. Both men were fighting over her, but Iceman was unable to accompany Havok and Polaris (who had lost her powers) when they left the Institute.

Havok returned when Apocalypse had Daap kidnap Polaris, whom he transformed into his new Pestilence. Lorna was critically injured in battle, her true identity revealed when her helmet was broken. Even though she was infectious, Havok saved her life through mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
He became ill with what he assumed was a cold afterward, but Emma Frost cured him with some of Apocalypse's blood. She refused to tell him what he drank.

The X-Men fought a powerful mutant called Vulcan, who turned out to be Scott and Alex's brother.

Havok is a mutant with the superhuman ability to absorb ambient cosmic energy into the cells of his body, transform it in an unknown manner, and release it as waves of energy that heat the air in their path enough to turn it into plasma, which is a super-heated state of matter consisting of charged subatomic particles. These waves will emanate from his body in all directions unless he purposefully tries to channel them in a single directions, usually along the length of his arms. Havok is himself immune to the intense heat he creates. Whether he is immune to intense heat from other sources is not yet known.

Despite past accounts, the energy that Havok releases is not truly a concussive force. When Havok strikes an object with the waves of intensity of hot plasma, the sudden vast jump in temperature will often cause objects to shatter, explode, or seemingly disintegrate, and an observer might therefore wrongly think that the object had been struck by a concussive force. Should Havok direct his energy at the lowest level, he can project it towards a human being and his target will suffer a severe headache but will not burn up.

Havok's body is constantly in the process of absorbing cosmic radiation. When each of his body's power-storage cell enclaves reaches its capacity, excess cosmic energy is thereafter absorbed and immediately re-emitted in negligible quantities. Upon the total expenditure of all his available energy, it takes Havok's body about 16½ hours to recharge to its peak level. The act of concentration involved in releasing his energy in anything other than an omnidirectional wave is physically exhausting for Havok if he continues it over an extended period of time.

Havok wears a special costume that measures and controls his power output. The concentric circles on his costume's chest expand outward as his energy levels increase.

APPEARANCES:
Alpha Flight (1st series) #61, 107
Captain America (1st series) #174-175
Classic X-Men #1, 5, 33
Darkhawk #31
Decimation: House of M - the Day After
Defenders (1st series) #62-65
Excalibur (1st series) #82
Fantastic Four (1st series) #367-370
Fantastic Four: The World's Greatest Comics Magazine! #3
Fantastic Four vs X-Men #1-4
Giant-Size X-Men #1
Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown #1-4
House of M #6-7
Incredible Hulk (2nd series) #150, 340, 390-392
Infinity Crusade #1-5
Infinity War #1-4, 6
Marvel Comics Presents #16, 24-31
Marvel Graphic Novel #5
Marvel Super-Hero Contest of Champions #1
Marvel Super-Heroes (3rd series) #6-8
Marvel Team-Up (1st series) #69-70
Mutant X #1-12, 14-32
Mutant X '99 Annual, 2001 Annual
New Mutants (1st series) #61, 95-97
New Mutants (2nd series) #9, 11
New Warriors (1st series) #27
New X-Men #156
Quasar #38-39
Rogue (3rd Series) #1-2, 4
Special Edition X-Men #1
Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadowgames #1-3
Uncanny X-Men #144-146, 156, 158-159, 163, 168, 172-173, 175, 177, 218-219, 221-227, 229-243, 245-251, 270-272, 295-296, 339, 411-413, 415-426, 429-434, 475
Uncanny X-Men Annual v.1, #11-13
Uncanny X-Men '97 Annual
Warlock and The Infinity Watch #18-19
Web of Spider-Man #104-105
Wolverine (2nd series) #21
Wolverine (3rd series) #25
Wonder Man (2nd series) #13-14
X-Factor (1st series) #-1, 38-39, 60-62, 71-75, 77-86, 104-118, 124-126, 131, 133, 137-139, 143-149
X-Factor (1st series) Annual #7
X-Force (1st series) #16-18, 38
X-Man #25, 28-29
X-Men (1st series) #54-62, 65-66, 94-95, 97, 104-105, 114-115, 119, 122, 125-129
X-Men (2nd series) #14-16, 30, 49, 54, 58, 157-164, 166-187
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #2-3, 5-6
X-Men: Prime
X-Men: The 198 Files (threat level rating "high")
X-Men: The Hidden Years #1, 3, 5-8, 10, 12-19, 21-22
X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #6
X-Men vs The Avengers #1-4

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