| X-Man | |
 Nate Grey as Mutant Shaman |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | X-Man #1 |
| Created by | Jeph Loeb Steve Skroce |
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| Alter ego | Nate Grey |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations | X-Men Brotherhood of Evil Mutants |
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X-Man (Nate Grey) is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe and related to the X-Men franchise. Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc In Comic books and other stories with a long history first appearance refers to the first occurrence to feature a Fictional character. Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III is an Emmy and WGA nominated American Film and Television Writer, producer and award-winning Steve Skroce is a Canadian Comic book and movie Storyboard Artist. A mutant within the Marvel Comic books particularly those of the X-Men mythos is an individual who possesses a genetic trait called an The X-Men is a team of fictional Superhero characters in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (邪悪な変異体の同胞団 jaaku na hen'i karada no douhou dan also known as " The Brotherhood " and Brotherhood of Mutants Telepathy ( Greek τηλε tele meaning "distant" and πάθεια patheia meaning "to be affected by" describes the purported transfer The term psychokinesis (from the Greek ψυχή, "psyche" meaning mind soul heart or breath; and κίνησις, "kinesis" Psychometry ( Greek: ψυχή psukhē, "spirit soul" + μέτρον metron, "measure" is a form of Extra-sensory perception Precognition (from the Latin præ- “prior to” + cognitio “a getting to know” denotes a form of Extrasensory perception where in a person is said to perceive In mathematics the dimension of a Space is roughly defined as the minimum number of Coordinates needed to specify every point within it A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc The Marvel Universe is the fictional Shared universe where most of the comic stories published by Marvel Comics take place The X-Men is a team of fictional Superhero characters in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Jeph Loeb and Steve Skroce, he first appeared in X-Man #1 (March 1995). Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III is an Emmy and WGA nominated American Film and Television Writer, producer and award-winning Steve Skroce is a Canadian Comic book and movie Storyboard Artist. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995
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Overview
X-Man is an equivalent of the regular Marvel Universe hero Cable, hailing from the “Age of Apocalypse” reality. In the fictional Marvel Comics multiverse, Earth-616 or Earth 616 is the name used to identify the primary continuity in which most Marvel Comics Cable is a Fictional character that appears in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. The "Age of Apocalypse" is a popular X-Men Story arc. He is the biological son of his dimension’s Scott Summers and Jean Grey, born of genetic tampering by the villain Mr. Sinister. Cyclops ( Scott Summers) is a Fictional character, a Superhero that is the field leader of the X-Men in the. Jean Grey-Summers ( née Jean Grey is a Fictional Comic book superheroine appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. A supervillain or supervillainess is a variant of the Villain character type commonly found in Comic books, Action movies and Mister Sinister is a Fictional character that appears in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. Due to a childhood infection, however, Cable never achieved the vast telepathic and telekinetic powers of X-Man while Nate Grey was one of the most powerful mutants in existence during his lifetime. Telepathy ( Greek τηλε tele meaning "distant" and πάθεια patheia meaning "to be affected by" describes the purported transfer The term psychokinesis (from the Greek ψυχή, "psyche" meaning mind soul heart or breath; and κίνησις, "kinesis"
X-Man was originally a four-issue mini-series replacing Cable during 1995’s “Age of Apocalypse” alternate reality storyline. A miniseries (also mini-series) in a serial Storytelling medium is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own However, Marvel transported Nate Grey to its regular shared universe after the storyline ended. Although derided by some for a concept perplexing to anyone not a diehard X-Men fan, the series ran until 2001, during which Nate struggled with being the most powerful person in a strange world. The series ended with his seemingly sacrificial death.
Despite his name, X-Man was only briefly a member of the X-Men, both in the Age of Apocalypse reality and in the regular reality.
Fictional character biography
Age of Apocalypse
In the parallel reality known as "The Age of Apocalypse," Mr. The "Age of Apocalypse" is a popular X-Men Story arc. The "Age of Apocalypse" is a popular X-Men Story arc. Sinister, an underling of the High Lord Apocalypse, artificially created Nate from genetic material from Cyclops and Phoenix. Sinister created Nate as the ultimate mutant and hoped to use him in his own bid for power against Apocalypse.
However, Cyclops, in his many subversive raids on Sinister's pens, helped Nate escape Sinster's hideout, neither knowing their connection to the other. Somehow, Nate wound up under the tutelage of Forge and several other mutant outcasts. Forge began the long process of teaching Nate how to control his powers as well as the benefits of being a "good guy. " Nate also began to see the horrors of Apocalypse's world firsthand, and was determined to bring him down.
This alternate Forge was killed by a disguised Sinister who was following Nate's progress, and Nate then battled him, learning of his true nature and mortally wounding Sinister. Nate then left to battle Apocalypse, although that particular slugfest occurred during a time when the alternate X-Men were beginning their final gambit-- defeating this reality with the M'kraan crystal. Holocaust interrupted Nate's battle with Apocalypse as the X-Men’s plan succeeded and the Age of Apocalypse was washed away, Nate, still fighting Holocaust, angrily rammed the shard in his foe’s chest, while still holding on to it. The consequences of that act were unexpected and far-reaching, as Nate and Holocaust were both transported to the actual reality, when it reasserted itself.
A New World
- See also: Earth-616
Nate arrived in Switzerland, and in his confusion, unconsciously resurrected Madelyne Pryor in his subconscious attempt to reach out to his "mother. In the fictional Marvel Comics multiverse, Earth-616 or Earth 616 is the name used to identify the primary continuity in which most Marvel Comics " Pryor helped Nate adjust to this reality, but they were both separated soon after. Nate wandered the earth, being contacted and confronted by many who would want to be his ally-- Prof. X, Moira MacTaggart, Mr. Sinister, Havok's new StarJammers, and others. Instead, Nate was beginning to find himself (with the help of Sinister's old underling, Threnody) and took refuge in New York. Threnody is a Fictional character created by Marvel Comics for the X-Men series He believed Threnody to be dead, and also took up a firm friendship with Spider-Man.
When Zero Tolerance troops attacked Xavier’s mansion in Westchester and downloaded Cerebro’s files, Nate was telepathically alerted by Cable that he was the only one close enough to rescue the children of Jean’s sister, Sara Grey, from the Prime Sentinels. Nate did as requested and left Joey and Gailyn in the care of their grandparents, as the Sentinels were curious about the unidentified telepath and still searching for him.
During the next few weeks, Nate kept a low profile. One night, he went clubbing with the three girls and many people recognized him from his performances in Central Park. Nate was asked to sing with the band and, surprisingly, he did quite well, though he never had been on stage before. However, the show was interrupted by the arrival of Jackknife, who was hunting down and killing every single person that Nate had contact with. Jackknife was actually Jack Cole, one of the many misfits belonging to the Abomination’s group. Turned out that, during Nate’s battle with the Abomination, he accidentally unlocked Cole’s latent psychic powers. Jack couldn’t handle himself and became psychotic, blaming Nate for the voices in his head. In direct battle, Nate defeated the mentally imbalanced misfit when the police arrived. They asked him to surrender, but the crowd who witnessed the battle intervened, claiming that Nate was a hero. The next day, Jam lost an arm in a motorcycle crash. When Nate, Bux and Marita visited her in the hospital, something strange happened. After touching Nate, one of the medics in the hospital developed the ability to heal and Jam's arm was restored. The miracle boosted Nate’s popularity even more and Nate was now admired by hundreds of followers like some kind of messiah.
Still not knowing what happened to Threnody, Nate would have been surprised by the events in New York over the past months. Shortly after her body had been brought to the morgue, the corpse rose and Threnody walked out. In her wake, several dead reanimated themselves too, following Threnody and chanting her name. She made her way to the loft that she and Nate had lived in and kept track of Nate’s activities through the news. Over time, her appearance slightly changed as her belly grew from pregnancy.
Nate visited his ”parents,“ Scott and Jean, who were at the time recuperating in Alaska. The strength of the newly forged bonds between Nate and his “parents” was shown when, soon after, as the X-Men had been disbanded, Nate (alongside Archangel, Wolverine and Cable) was one of the few people Jean and Scott called for help, as they needed to defend the new race “the Mannites” from the mysterious “Death. ”
Shaman to the Mutant Tribe
Madelyne Pryor returned soon afterwards, but she was manipulating Nate in his sleep and making him destroy things. She finally revealed that she was a Madelyne from another dimension and she needed him to do something for her. This Maddie showed Nate how to shift between parallel earths, and she had Nate take them to her earth, she wanted to use Nate's vast power to help her rule the earth that she was from. Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own Nate rejected her, and was located by that alternative reality's version of himself, he was a broken version of Nate Grey(meaning he could never reach his full potential in power) and was slightly insane from his experiences, and considered himself a shaman to the people of that earth. He told Nate how Madelyne would take Nate Grey's from parallel earths hoping to find a functioning Nate Grey to use them as weapons so she could rule her earth. He also showed Nate how to talk with a dead man so that they could get information from him about Madelyne, the dead man was that earth's Forge who was at one time Madelyne's lover. Forge revealed that Madelyne was really an evil Jean Grey from another earth and was posing as that earth's Madelyne who at one time ruled that earth, That earth's real Madelyne had died but it was said she would return again. Forge also told them how Madelyne had used him to make her a machine so she could travel from parallel earth to parallel earth. At this point they were attacked by Madelyne's personal body guard Mr. Scratch and in the process merged parts of themselves to throw him off. Mr. Scratch's mutant power was that no other mutant power had any affect on him so the Nates had to literally change characteristics to fool him.
After the merger only one Nate remained so Mr. Scratch crippled him and brought him back to Madelyne, who quickly realized that Mr. Scratch had the wrong Nate. The broken version of Nate told Madelyne he sent Nate somewhere she would never find him. She killed the broken Nate and began to power her parallel earth machine to find Nate again, but Nate returned and put an end to her world conquering days. As a result of the merger of the two Nates, a black x-shaped tattoo appeared on Nate's chest to act as a genetic brand - passed on to him from the alternate version of himself - that prevented his powers from killing him as they had threatened to do from the start. A tattoo is a permanent marking made by inserting ink into the layers of Skin to change the pigment for decorative or other reasons
After the defeat of this evil "Queen Jean", Nate set out to make a difference in the world and considered himself a Mutant Shaman, a teaching he embraced from the alternate version of himself. Nate became immensely powerful, and had few qualms about using his power to mete out justice to his fellow mutants. He then dealt with and stopped the madman Qabiri from destroying all the worlds on the Spiral. Qabiri was a being from an earth far upspiral, he wanted to destroy every earth below his on the spiral of earths because he feared that someone from these lower earths would one day invade his earth and bring it to ruin. Qabiri succeeded in destroying several earths before Nate was able to stop him.
Finally, he confronted the Anti-Man, an alien sent to Earth to insinuate his genetic code into all living cells on the planet so that his people could harvest the resulting energy. To save the world from destruction, Nate merged himself with the Anti-Man, in essence "poisoning" the cells of Earth with his presence, and dissipating both of them across the globe.
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Powers and abilities
X-Man has the ability to tap into the enormous psychic resources of the astral plane in order to manipulate matter and energy. This grants him incredible psychic powers including telepathy and telekinesis. He can use his telepathy to read minds and even read residual thought imprints left on objects touched by people (psychometry), communicate with others by broadcasting his thoughts, control minds, create illusions by altering the perceptions of others, fire psionic blasts that can scramble an opponent's thought processes (causing the victim either intense pain, or rendering them unconscious), project his mind into the astral plane and even pull the astral projections of other telepaths into the physical world, and sense dimensional rifts or anomalies. Psychometry ( Greek: ψυχή psukhē, "spirit soul" + μέτρον metron, "measure" is a form of Extra-sensory perception This article is about a plane of existence In the context of Unicode, Astral characters consist of planes above the Basic Multilingual Plane.
His telekinesis allows him to move, levitate, and manipulate matter by using his thoughts, create defensive shields by focusing his telekinetic energies around himself and others, and channel his psychic powers into explosive psionic force blasts. Levitation (from Latin levitas "lightness" is the process by which an object is suspended against Gravity, in a stable position By levitating himself, he can fly at amazing speeds, and he can phase through solid matter by mentally shifting the object's molecules around his as he moves forward. His mental fine motor skills are so acute that he can mentally manipulate dust particles and water vapor to refract lightwaves and create holograms. Fine motor skills can be defined as coordination of small Muscle movements which occur e Holography (from the Greek, ὅλος - hólos whole + γραφή - grafē writing drawing is a technique that allows the He also has creative uses of his powers such as using his telekinesis to channel the Earth's magnetic field through the electrocurrent of his brain and generate devastating electromagnetic pulses. In Physics, magnetism is one of the Phenomena by which Materials exert attractive or repulsive Forces on other Materials. X-Man even learned that he could use his telekinesis to transport himself into other dimensions by mentally bending the dimensional barriers that separate one reality from another.
One of the most impressive moments that displayed Nate's powers was when he easily trounced Exodus, a mutant with vast psionic powers who had previously managed to defeat the combined efforts of the X-Men and the Avengers in combat. Exodus is a Fictional character, a Comic book Supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. This defeat left Exodus humiliated - especially since he is centuries old while Nate was only 16 (he confirms himself to be physically 17 in X-Man #68). In addition, Queen Jean in X-Man #68 described Nate Grey as the ultimate telekinetic, "It is what all Nate Greys have been on every earth. " This, in addition with his telepathy, makes X-Man one of the most powerful mutants in Marvel history, among such company as, Franklin Richards, Jean Grey, Mad Jim Jaspers, and Hyperstorm. Franklin Richards is a Fictional character that appears in the Marvel Universe. Jean Grey-Summers ( née Jean Grey is a Fictional Comic book superheroine appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. Sir James Jaspers (aka Mad Jim Jaspers) is a Fictional character created by Dave Thorpe and Alan Davis for the Captain Britain Hyperstorm is a fictional Supervillain from the Marvel comics universe.
Relationship to Cable
Nate Grey (X-Man) and Nathan Christopher Summers (Cable) are genetically identical "twins": both are descended from the genetic material of Scott Summers and Jean Grey. Cable is a Fictional character that appears in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. Nate was grown in a laboratory in an alternate dimension by Mr. Sinister from the genes of Scott and Jean, while Cable was born to Scott and Madelyne Pryor (a clone of Jean also created by Mr. A laboratory (informally lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific Research, Experiments and Mister Sinister is a Fictional character that appears in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. Sinister), infected with a techno-organic virus, and raised in the future.
As a result, their genetic and psychic profiles are identical- including their mutant powers, which can cause a painful feedback to both parties when they interact, although Nate is much younger (having done no time travel) and much more powerful (Cable would likely match Nate's power level, but must constantly devote his mental resources to fighting the techno-organic virus). This article details time travel itself For other uses see Time Traveler.
Moreover, Nate and Cable hail from completely different backgrounds. The juxtaposition of the two characters allowed writers to address issues of identity and nature versus nurture and explore the complex nature of family relationships in the X-Men world. The nature versus nurture debates concern the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities ("nature" i When Cable was de-aged in Cable and Deadpool, he greatly resembled Nate Grey. Cable & Deadpool was a Comic book series published by Marvel Comics beginning in 2004.
In other media
Video games
X-Man is a hidden character in the PSP version of X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse. The PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated PSP) is a Handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. X-Men Legends II Rise of Apocalypse is a follow up to X-Men Legends. To date, this is his only appearance outside of the comics.
External links
- The X-Man Homepage
- Uncannyxmen.net Spotlight on... X-Man
- X-Man on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki
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