X-Men: Days of Future Past
Blink
(Fan Bingbing) - "Clarice Ferguson was a timid, scared child who lived in fear
of her mutant abilities ever since her power first manifested, powers which
caused her to hurt someone close to her. She promised herself from that point
forward, she would never use her powers again.
However,
when the extraterrestrial threat of the Phalanx attacked Earth, they captured
many "neomutants" (later known as the team "Generation X"),
including Clarice, in order to experiment on how they could absorb mutants into
their collective existence. Clarice came to be friends with the other captives,
but couldn’t see how they could escape. They were freed them from their prison
with help from a rescue team of Banshee, Synch, Jubilee, Emma Frost, and
Sabretooth. Attacked by the Phalanx intelligence known as Harvest, Clarice took
it upon herself to defeat him. Teleporting away half of the ship they were
imprisoned upon, only Clarice and Banshee could stop Harvest. Using her powers,
she "distorted" the villain with her space-altering powers, although
the portal swallowed herself as well, apparently killing them both.
Bolivar
Trask (Peter Dinklage) - Foreseeing the mutants as a terrible threat to
humanity, Dr. Trask created Master Mold and the Sentinels to fight the mutants.
The Sentinels turned on him after deciding that in order to protect humans they
must control them. After being forced to help Master Mold with its plan to
control mankind he finally decided to stop them by sacrificing himself."
Bishop
(Omar Sy) - "Lucas Bishop was born in the 21st Century A.D. of an alternate
future timeline in which the mutant-hunting robot Sentinels had taken control
of North America. In this timeline, Professor Charles Xavier and most of the
members of the mutant team he founded, the X-Men, had been killed. Surviving
mutants were hunted down and either killed or imprisoned within relocation
camps.
Bishop's
parents escaped to America shortly before the island nation of Australia was
destroyed in a tactical nuclear strike. They were soon captured and interred in
a mutant relocation camp in Sheep's Head Bay, Brooklyn, New York. There, Bishop
and his sister Shard were both born and, like other mutants, they were branded
with "M" tattoos over their right eyes for identification.
Eventually,
humans and mutants joined forces and overthrew the Sentinels in what became
known as the Summers Rebellion. However, humans still resisted coexistence with
mutants, and radical terrorist groups of mutants, such as the Exhumes, made war
on humans. One of the veterans of the Summers Rebellion, a mutant named
Hecat'e, stated that it was unacceptable for humans to hunt down criminal
mutants, believing mutants should police themselves. Thus Hecat'e and other
mutant veterans formed the Xavier Security Enforcers, named after Charles
Xavier in honor of his dream of peaceful coexistence between mutants and
humans.
After
the death of their parents, Bishop and Shard lived with their grandmother, who
was herself a mutant. She told them stories about the heroism of the X-Men and
instructed them to follow Xavier's dream of peace between mutants and the rest
of humanity. One day, when Bishop and Shard were both still children, two
X.S.E. members were pursuing Virago, a member of the Exhumes. Virago was about
to murder Bishop when one X.S.E. member shot her dead. Until then, Bishop had
regarded the X.S.E. as his enemies and the Exhumes as heroes, but from then on
he wanted to join the X.S.E.
Later,
Bishop and Shard were attacked by criminal mutants. Bishop attempted to save
his sister from them, but it was two members of the X.S.E. who stopped the
criminals. Impressed by Bishop, the X.S.E. members offered Bishop a position in
the organization. Bishop accepted on the condition that Shard be accepted in
the X.S.E. as well. Thus Bishop and Shard became cadets at the X.S.E. Academy
under Hecat'e's supervision. Among the other members of their class was a
mutant named Trevor Fitzroy.
Bishop
and Shard eventually graduated from the Academy and became officers of the
X.S.E. Shard, however, became Bishop's commanding officer. Bishop contented
himself with a lower rank so that he could work the streets as a homicide
policeman alongside his friends and fellow X.S.E. officers, Malcolm and
Randall.
Fitzroy
eventually turned criminal and was imprisoned, but escaped with other mutant
criminals through a portal to the X-Men's own time. Bishop, Malcolm, and
Randall followed, even though they were aware they had no means to return to
their own time. Stranded in the past, the trio tracked their mark into the
midst of a fray between the X-Men and the Sentinels. Confronted with the
legends of his youth, Bishop's first reaction was one of disbelief. Ultimately,
Bishop's troops were slain by Fitzroy's forces during the deadly firefight.
Only through the X-Men's intervention did the badly injured Bishop survive.
Finally
coming to terms with his time-tossed situation, Bishop was honored when
Professor X invited him to join the team whose members he had idolized since
childhood. Bishop found new purpose with the X-Men, fighting alongside the
mutant adventurers to avert the genetic war that for him was history. Initially
uneasy with Bishop's presence, the X-Men soon came to realize he was a devoted
disciple of Xavier's philosophy, albeit an oft-times over-zealous one.
During
his time with the X-Men, Bishop proved instrumental in returning the timeline
to normal after it was twisted by Legion, the mutant son of Professor X, who
had traveled into the past to kill Magneto but had inadvertently killed his
father instead. Bishop also saved the lives of his teammates from the
malevolent psionic entity known as Onslaught. In his own time, Bishop had
learned of a traitor in the ranks of the X-Men who would ultimately cause their
death. For a time he believed it to be Gambit, but after it was revealed that
the traitor was none other than Professor X himself, albeit as Onslaught,
Bishop was able to intervene and stop Onslaught from killing the X-Men by
absorbing the energies of a massive psychic blast.
After
the X-Men were separated whilst returning to Earth following a mission in deep
space, Bishop was severely injured. He was cared for by the alien Deathbird,
who wished to use Bishop in an attempt to claim the throne of the intergalactic
Shi'ar Empire from her sister, Lilandra. After a few interstellar adventures,
including one to an alternate Earth ruled by the Shi'ar, Bishop managed to
return to Earth and the X-Men.
Plagued
by reoccurring nightmares of Fitzroy, Bishop resigned from the X-Men to
dedicate himself once more to the pursuit of his arch-nemesis. Drawn by the
villain into another possible apocalyptic future, Bishop learned that his
failure to act against Fitzroy had resulted in the criminal taking over this
future world, wherein he had rechristened himself as the all-powerful
Chronomancer. Fitzroy planned to ascend to godhood by becoming one with the
temporal energies that control all time. Aided by a young boy named Michael who
had been drawn to the future with him, Bishop gathered a small group of mutants
and focused them on a single goal: quashing Fitzroy's mad plan.
During
the epic battle that followed a trek across the strange new world, Bishop
defeated Fitzroy moments before he could complete his mad quest. However, the
price of victory was high: Bishop's sister, Shard, sacrificed her life so that
her brother could put an end to Fitzroy. Mere moments after the war had been
won, Filled with chronal energy, Bishop was ripped back through time. Young
Michael remained in the future, seemingly with no hope of returning home.
Spiraling
through time, Bishop emerged back in the present as he crashed into a Shi'ar
space station in deep space. As it happened, Professor Xavier and his team of
mutant Skrull students named Cadre K were searching the same station for
Deathbird, the Shi'ar criminal who was apparently Bishop's chronal anchor in
the present day. A pan-galactic committee had transformed Earth into an
intergalactic prison planet, and Deathbird held a key to penetrate the energy
barrier that surrounded Earth. Bishop almost killed Deathbird before she opened
an airlock and blew herself into the vacuum of space unprotected. After forming
a plan with Professor X, Bishop allowed himself to be captured by the galactic
committee and sent to Earth where he was quickly reunited with the X-Men. Then,
alongside members of the Avengers, the X-Men helped liberate Earth.
Soon
after, Bishop and five other X-Men formed a splinter group of X-Men, cutting
all ties with the rest of the team whilst searching for the Diaries of the late
blind mutant seer named Destiny. The team later took on the responsibility of
acting as a mutant peacekeeping force, setting them on the path to become the
X.S.E. of Bishop's own time. After defeating the mutant predator known as Elias
Bogan, the X-Treme X-Men returned to Westchester to help rebuild the mansion
following an attack by Magneto. With Professor X having left for Genosha, the
X-Men were forced to restructure and the X-Treme team disbanded to rejoin their
comrades.
Later,
when crime in the borough of New York known as Mutant Town proved more than the
N.Y.P.D. could handle, Bishop was called in to help police the region, referred
to as District X."
Pietro
Maximoff /Quicksilver (Evan Peters) - "Pietro and his twin sister, Wanda, were
raised by Django and Marya Maximoff, a gypsy couple. As adolescents Pietro and
his sister Wanda discovered that they had peculiar talents. When Django began
to steal food to feed his starving family, enraged villagers attacked the gypsy
camp. Using his phenomenal speed, Pietro fled from the camp with his sister.
Over the next few years, Wanda and Pietro wandered central Europe, living off
the land. One day, Wanda accidentally caused a house to burst into flames with
her uncontrollable hex powers and the pair was chased by superstitious
townspeople. Despite Pietro's attempt to defend her, the twins were soon
overpowered and were rescued by Magneto.
Unwilling
but believing they owed him a debt, the twins became members of Magneto's
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants as Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. For months
they served in the Brotherhood, coming into conflict with the X-Men. When the
extraterrestrial Stranger transported Magneto from Earth, the siblings left the
Brotherhood. They learned the Avengers were seeking new members, and
Quicksilver convinced his sister to leave for America and join the hero team.
Alongside Captain America and Hawkeye, they remained with the Avengers for many
years. They separated from the team only once, when Magneto manipulated Pietro
and his sister into joining with him once again, but they soon realized the
deception left. They then rejoined the Avengers during a conflict with the
extra-dimensional Arkon.
Eventually,
Wanda began to become romantically involved with the Vision, and Pietro
condemned her relationship with a pseudo-human android, causing their first
major rift. The rift was later mended, sometime after Wanda married the Vision,
when the telepath Moondragon permanently altered Pietro's prejudice toward the
Vision in a self-righteous employment of her powers.
Pietro
left the Avenges while the group was engaged in battle with the mutant-hunting
Sentinel robots. Sustaining injuries in battle, Pietro was taken to medical
care by Crystal, member of the Inhumans and whose dimension-spanning companion
Lockjaw happened upon the scene of the battle. Months passed before Pietro was
well enough to contact his companions to tell them of his circumstances. In the
meantime, Pietro became romantically involved with his rescuer, and he and
Crystal were married after a brief courtship. The wedding, held in the Inhuman
city of Attilan, was attended by the Inhumans, the Avengers, and the Fantastic
Four.
The
Golden Age hero Whizzer knew of the exploits of Quicksilver and the Scarlet
Witch, believing them to be his children whom he abandoned when his wife, Miss
America, died in childbirth on Wundagore Mountain. Feeling guilty, however, he
made no effort to contact them, until the day he sought the Avengers help in
saving his other son, Nuklo. Wanda had come to believe the Whizzer was her father,
but Pietro remained dubious.
Months
later, however, after being mystically abducted by Django Maximoff and freed by
Avengers, Wanda and Pietro took a leave of absence from the team to investigate
the secrets regarding their childhood origins. Returning to Wundagore Mountain,
they met Bova and learned the truth of their parentage-- they were, in fact,
the children of Magneto. His wife, the gypsy Magda, had fled from Magneto,
terrified of the sudden manifestation of his power and intentions of world domination.
Magda found her way to the tiny nation of Transia, finding refuge with Bova, a
woman evolved from a cow by Wundagore’s High Evolutionary. Magda gave birth to
twins, a boy and a girl, with Bova as her midwife, but was still afraid of her
husband, and left Bova her children. Several nights later, a vacationing couple
(the Whizzer and Miss America in their civilian identities) also needed refuge
as the wife midwife assistance. Unfortunately, the couple's child was
stillborn, and Miss America died in childbirth. Bova hoped to award Magda’s
children to him instead, but the Whizzer fled from Wundagore upon hearing of
his wife's death, nearly insane with grief. Bova instead presented the twins to
the High Evolutionary, who found Django and Marya Maximoff, a gypsy couple
camped nearby who had lost their own twin children, Ana and Mateo, during World
War II. They cared for the children as their own.
Their
abduction by Django also led to the revelation that Wanda held a connection to
the demon Chthon, who was trapped within Wundagore Mountain and hoped to escape
using Wanda as a host body someday. The return to the mountain allowed Chthon
to possess Wanda, but she was soon freed by her brother, the Avengers, and
Django Maximoff, who sealed Chthon inside Wundagore before dying.
Pietro
and Crystal soon had their own child, a daughter, Luna. Not long after, Pietro
was confronted by Magneto who wanted to investigate his grandchild's birth.
Pietro denounced Magneto for his callous treatment of them when they were members
of this Brotherhood and refused to believe he and amended his megalomaniacal
ways. Eventually, however, when Magneto appeared to be reforming, Pietro
relented in his resentment for his natural father.
Pietro
had also volunteered his services to the head of the Inhumans’ small militia
and became an officer. During his period of service, however, the Inhuman had
no call for military activity. His neglect of his wife led her to become
involved with another man. Learning of her infidelity, Pietro refused to
forgive her and fled Attilan, vowing vengeance. He later tried unsuccessfully
to frame the Avengers for treason, using the opportunity to attack the Avengers
alongside the android Zodiac Cartel. He relented only after the Vision asked
him if he was willing to orphan his and Wanda's infant children. Pietro later
allied with the Hungarian government and assisted them in the development of
techniques to create super-powered individuals. He proclaimed to believe fully
in mutant supremacy and intended to rule the world as its self-proclaimed King
of Mutants. He again tried to capture his Avengers teammates, but they escaped.
Distraught
and addled, Pietro was accosted by the original X-Factor team, who were posing
as mutant-hunters at the time. X-Factor helped restore Pietro to the Inhumans,
whereupon it was discovered that his criminal insanity had been artificially
inflicted by Maximus the Mad, who had been influencing Pietro's actions since
he split with Crystal. Maximus was defeated and Pietro remained with the
Inhumans. He secretly renewed alliance with Avengers, however, and publicly
pretended to rejoin Magneto in order to watch over and influence his sister,
Wanda, who had at the time gone mad and rejoined Magneto's service. With
Avengers, he helped free Wanda from exploitation by Magneto and Immortus,
restoring her to sanity. Pietro then remained alongside the Avengers for
another long tenure, remaining estranged from Crystal and the Inhumans.
Pietro
later joined the U.S. government-sponsored X-Factor team, serving with the team
throughout its public existence. At one point, during psychotherapy with Doc
Samson, Pietro explained how his prickly personality stems largely from his
frustration at dealing with a world where almost everyone and everything seems
slow or stupid or both. When X-Factor was dropped from government sponsorship
and forced to operate underground, Pietro left.
When
the Avengers were attacked by the alien Brethren, Pietro returned to aid the
Avengers and found Crystal had also joined the team at the same time. Pietro
refused to join the team since Crystal remained with them, although he later
rejoined while participating in the rescue of his daughter Luna from Magneto's
former Acolyte, Fabian Cortez, and his rival, Exodus. Pietro was gravely
injured by Exodus and saved by the Avenger Black Knight, who by then was
entertaining romantic intentions with Crystal. Recovering from his injuries at
the Avengers Mansion, Pietro tried to win back Crystal. Ultimately, however, he
began to repair his relationship with Crystal only after the Black Knight left
Avengers.
Soon
afterward, Crystal and the other Avengers seemingly sacrificed themselves to
stop the psychic menace of Onslaught. Pietro remained alongside the X-Men for a
while before professing to wanting to track down other former Avengers.
Instead, however, Pietro refused to join or to continue any form of the
Avengers in retaliation from the government's anti-mutant legislation
introduced in the wake of Onslaught.
Again
confronting Exodus and Magneto's Acolytes, Pietro joined the High Evolutionary
in repelling their attack on Wundagore. Pietro was asked to become the leader
of a small band of the Evolutionary's Knights of Wundagore, animals that the
geneticist had endowed with human intelligence and humanoid-like forms. Pietro
accepted and exhibited an adeptness at leading the Knights in battles against
injustice, although he soon left in order to find his true self.
When
the heroes who were believed dead returned to Earth, Pietro and Crystal were
reunited. Both helped the Avenges reassemble and accepted the status of reserve
members. Pietro would return to assist the Avengers on occasional missions.
Not
long afterward, Magneto was given control of the island nation of Genosha.
Investigating his father's activities, Pietro was captured by resistance forces
and would have been killed if not for the intervention of the X-Men Rogue and
the former Acolyte Amelia Voght. After Magneto crushed the resistance, Pietro
was ready to storm off when Voght teleported him to a Genoshan camp for those
mutants infected with the Legacy Virus. Horrified, Pietro chose to stay in
Genosha and act as his father's conscience, to remind him that both mutants and
humans have to right not to be persecuted. He accepted a cabinet-level position
in Magneto's new regime. This was all according to Magneto's plan, as he hoped
to make Pietro into a loyal and subservient son. During his time with Magneto,
Pietro was exposed to the mutagenic Isotope E, which boosted his powers to
unforeseen levels. However, Pietro could no longer stomach his father's ruthless
methods after witnessing him in battle against a Genoshan Resistance. He
briefly warned the X-Men about Magneto and rejoined the Avengers.
Recently,
Wanda went mad, causing the deaths of Ant-Man, the Vision and Hawkeye, and
though subdued, she remained a serious threat to the world. Quicksilver was
shocked to find out that the Avengers and X-Men were deliberating over whether
to kill his sister.
Enraged,
Quicksilver went to Genosha to find his sister, who had been taken into their
father's care, and trying to make everything right, he convinced his sister to
use her reality warping powers to make the "House of M", an alternate
reality where mutants ruled. Magneto and his family were the rulers of this new
world, and everything seemed to be going well until some renegade heroes
informed the royal family of how the world had been before. Magneto's anger
caused him to slay Quicksilver who was brought back to life quickly by a
distraught Scarlet Witch. Magneto seemed to have calmed her down when Quicksilver's
sister changed reality back to its previous state. However this time, blaming
all her heartache on the powers she and her family possessed, the phrase she
uttered to bring back reality removed millions of mutants' powers, Quicksilver
included.
Unable
to cope with a world he felt was going too slow, Quicksilver went back to the
Inhumans a wreck, and was convinced to use the Mists of Terrigen to gain powers
once more. He succeeded in gaining new and fantastic powers, which included
being able to move his molecules so fast that he could travel in time, which
has had severe effects on the way he is aging, and took his daughter Luna with
him to Earth, via Lockjaw. There he took the stolen Mists and used them on
Unus, Freakshow, Shola, Wicked, Callisto, and other de-powered mutants still
living in Genosha. Soon he gave the de-powered mutants their powers back and
encountered the Office of National Emergency and was teleported away once again
by Lockjaw. However Pietro was not satisfied and continued to use the Mists
which caused shards of the Mist to become imbedded in his hands which he used
to give the Reaper his powers back. His next move is unknown.""
James
Proudstar/Warpath (Booboo Stewart) - "The life of James Proudstar seems to be
partially defined by tragedy. He grew up hardly knowing his older brother,
John, but nevertheless held him in high regard, watching him become a local
hero. Later, his brother would be recruited into Charles Xavier's X-Men, taking
the code-name Thunderbird, but he died on one of his earliest missions. Just
before Thunderbird's funeral in the Western Desert, Proudstar stole his
brother's body and gave him a traditional Apache warrior's funeral rite.
Blaming Xavier for his brother's death, Proudstar accepted an offer from Emma
Frost, then the White Queen of the Hellfire Club, to join her team, the
Hellions. He took the costume and code-name of Thunderbird in his brother's
memory.
Proudstar
later sought out Xavier and unsuccessfully tried to defeat the X-Men.
Ultimately realizing that the X-Men were not responsible, he dropped his
vendetta. Declining Xavier's offer to join his team of X-Men protégés, the New
Mutants, Proudstar returned to the Hellions as their leader. Eventually,
however, James left the Hellions to return home to Camp Verde.
Years
later, during a trip to New York, Proudstar was approached by Cable to join his
formative strike-force, X-Force. Proudstar initially refused the offer and
returned home to find that everyone on his reservation had been slaughtered and
a Hellfire Club mercenary's mask left behind. Vowing revenge, he accepted
Cable's offer under the code-name Warpath, hoping that he could later use the
team in his revenge. Warpath adventured with X-Force for a long tenure. Over
time, he developed his powers to higher and higher levels. He also developed a
crush on his teammate Siryn and was instrumental in helping her recover from
alcoholism. Proudstar eventually confronted Emma Frost over the death of his
people, but she convinced him that it was not the Hellfire Club that was
responsible.
After
a couple of years, Proudstar left X-Force, after an encounter with a young
mutant named Risque. Together, the two wandered the country, and Proudstar was
taken in by Risque's seductive ways. Ultimately, however, Risque betrayed
Proudstar, drugging him and delivering him to a mutant called Sledge. Sledge
later informed Proudstar that a member of his tribe, Michael Whitecloud, had
not died in the massacre. Sledge offered to give him to Proudstar for a fee.
Proudstar accepted since Whitecloud is the only member of the tribe to know the
truth about the massacre. After meeting with Whitecloud, it was revealed that
the time-travelling clone of Cable, Stryfe, had engineered the Camp Verde
massacre. In order to confront Stryfe, Proudstar had to travel to Hell itself,
realm of the demon Mephisto. After a battle, Stryfe wished to switch places
with Proudstar. However, the Mephisto's son Blackheart retained Stryfe's soul
and allowed Proudstar to return to Earth.
James
eventually paid the debt he owed Sledge by traveling to an alternate dimension
and freeing the Vanisher who was trapped there. (Sledge's motives for this
exchange remain unrevealed.) James then returned to X-Force, where he continued
to adventure alongside his friends as simply Proudstar.
After
one adventure, X-Force survived being in the center of a Vibranium bomb
explosion. The team decided to let the world believe them dead and to use this
status to secretly infiltrate and destroy anti-mutant organizations around the
world. After half a year of this hit-and-run strategy, they learned of a great
underground complex where Wisdom's sister Romany was infecting people with
alien DNA to alter the human race. In the final battle, X-Force destroyed the
alien complex and was believed dead. During this time, Proudstar began to
exhibit strange fluctuations of power, such as the ability to fly, and he
seemingly lost the ability to speak. The reasons behind this change have yet to
be fully revealed.
Proudstar
and X-Force reappeared at a press conference of a new team calling itself
X-Force, challenging the team (now called X-Statix) in dispute for their name,
although Proudstar and his teammates were ousted, and most of its members went
their separate ways. Proudstar went on to join the X-Corporation in its branch
at Mumbai, India, and has was later spotted among X-Force once again.
After
the events of M-Day, James relocated to the "198" mutant encampment
on the grounds of the Xavier mansion, and has since reconnected with Professor
Xavier. Along with four other X-Men, Proudstar, once again using the Warpath
alias, joined him on his quest to stop Vulcan from destroying the Shi'ar.
Roberto
da Costa/Sunspot (Adan Canto) - "Growing up in a wealthy Brazilian family,
Roberto da Costa was forging a career as a skilled soccer player until his
mutant nature manifested during a match. It started with an opponent knocking
da Costa to the ground, spitting a racial remark, and Bobby responded with a
heated temper, sparking his mutant power and beating his opponent into the
ground. Although confused after regaining his senses, da Costa was abandoned by
all except for his girlfriend, Juliana. This attracted the attention of Donald
Pierce, renegade White Bishop of the Hellfire Club, who attempted to kidnap da Costa
but failed, taking Juliana instead. Charles Xavier intervened, sending his
formative New Mutants to help da Costa confront Pierce. In the battle, however,
Juliana took a bullet meant for Bobby. Consumed with grief and anger, da Costa
helped defeat Pierce and accepted Xavier’s invitation to join the New Mutants.
Taking the code-name Sunspot, da Costa served with the New Mutants, learning
more about his powers and participating in many adventures.
At
one point, he was reunited with his long-lost mother who, because she was an
archeologist on an expedition, had remained estranged from her son for many
years. She invited Roberto and his teammates to join her on an expedition in
Brazil, but unknown to all, Roberto’s father, Emmanuel da Costa, had formed an alliance
with the Hellfire Club and was determined to stop her, as he had business
interests in the same area. The Club’s assassin, Axe, failed to kill her,
thanks to the New Mutants, and her expedition soon led to the discovery of Nova
Roma and the
Sunspot
left the New Mutants at one point, feeling that the others blamed him unfairly
for using his powers and injuring their teammate Cannonball during a soccer
game. He made his way to Los Angeles, followed by the Warlock, and encountered
the gang called the Fallen Angels. The two stayed with the Fallen Angels for a
brief time, until it was revealed they had been gathered by Ariel, who was a
member of an alien race studying mutations. Ariel betrayed the Angels to her
alien race, who kidnapped the team for study. Sunspot helped the Angels escape,
after which he and Warlock returned to the New Mutants.
Just
prior to the disbanding of the New Mutants, Sunspot learned that his father had
died, and he was contacted by Gideon, a businessman and mutant who wanted to
help da Costa assume his new role as leader of the da Costa family fortune. In
reality, Gideon was a member of the Externals, a subset of the mutant race who
believed themselves immortal, and they believed da Costa to be an External as
well. Gideon initially groomed Bobby for his role as an External, even to the
point of being responsible for his father's death by poisoning him. However,
Gideon soon discovered that he wrong. He instead subjected Bobby to hideous
experiments. Sunspot was later rescued by his friends who now made up the team
X-Force, and Sunspot joined their number.
One
of Gideon’s experiments was the attempt to reproduce Sunspot's powers in
another being. A test subject named "Project 19" was given a
transfusion of Sunspot's blood, resulting in the being Reignfire. Reignfire
became the leader of the Mutant Liberation Front, and when the team clashed
with X-Force, he hinted that he was actually Sunspot. About the same time, the
true Sunspot entered a transport portal when battling the M.L.F.’s Locus and
was separated from his team. Unfortunately, it was months before X-Force
encountered Reignfire again, and when they did, their leader, Cable, used his
telepathic powers to “restore” Sunspot/Reignfire’s memory, since they believed
that Reignfire must be a version of Sunspot from the future.
In
fact, Reignfire had captured Sunspot through a telepathic link between them
that gave Reignfire all of Sunspot's memories and allowed him to control the
mutant. Reignfire then switched places with his counterpart, convincing X-Force
that Sunspot was Reignfire instead, controlling Sunspot to the point that it he
still appeared to be Reignfire leading the M.L.F. Shortly, however, Cable
discovered the truth, breaking the telepathic link and ousting Reignfire.
Still, Reignfire retained Sunspot's powers and memories, and in their next
encounter he was able to siphon Sunspot's powers into his own body. In his
final battle with X-Force, Reignfire's physical form was destroyed by a
molecular disruptor, and he took possession of Sunspot's form. With the aid of
the disruptor and his teammate Siryn, Sunspot eventually regained control.
Sunspot then drained Reignfire of all of his energy, leaving him powerless.
Da
Costa was later blackmailed into joining the Hellfire Club by its Black Queen,
Selene. Selene originally taunted Sunspot by claiming that Damocles Foundation,
formerly run by Gideon, was seeking to begin a new experiment similar to the
process that created Reignfire. The two raced to stop it, and they were joined
by X-Force. However, Selene wanted the process for herself, and she subdued
Sunspot and X-Force. She then offered to resurrect the spirit of Juliana,
Sunspot’s first love, in exchange for his agreement to become a member of her
new Hellfire Club. Sunspot, distraught, agreed, although Juliana was
resurrected in the body of an unknown girl. Sunspot agreed, although whether or
not he was truly reunited with Juilana was never revealed.
Presumably,
many of Sunspot’s allies remain unaware of his involvement with the Hellfire
Club, as Bobby also served as head of the Los Angeles branch of the
X-Corporation before its dissolution. About the same time, he was approached by
Sebastian Shaw who claimed to be the Club’s Lord Imperial, Once again, Donald
Pierce appeared to challenge Shaw. Pierce was defeated with the combined
efforts of both the X-Men and Shaw, being decapitated in the process. Even so,
Shaw was severely injured, and he stepped down to allow da Costa to become the
Lord Imperial.
Recently
Sunspot left the Hellfire Club (after also form a new Brotherhood of Mutants
along with other former New Mutants) and now he is instructor of the Young
X-Men team."
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