Heres one
Orphan-Maker
Real Name-- Peter (full name unrevealed)
Class-- hi-tech villain
Affiliations-- X-villain , lackey to the Nanny
Scale of Operations-- New York, greater US
Occupation-- criminal / presumably still a minor
Powers-- Orphan-Maker may be a mutant, but has yet to exhibit powers aside from those of his hi-tech battlesuit. Also, he presumably has had his age frozen, so that he remains intellectually and physically a child. Peter's suit is highly resistent to most form of attack, and has certain reflective properties that allow him to deflect energy attacks such as Cyclops' optic blasts. Orphan-Maker is equipped with large guns that fire destructive energies.
Peter was later given a new suit when his old one became to big for him. This suit was more larger and more powerful- than the previous battlesuit, such as having the capability of forming guns out of its hands. It is not revealed whether or not Peter is sealed inside the suit as he was in his original one.
History-- The full story behind the Orphan-Maker has yet to be revealed. Apparently, Peter was held captive in Mister Sinister's "orphanage" for some purpose, but Mr. Sinister had instead decided that Peter was too uncontrollable and must be killed. Somehow, the cyborg Nanny discovered this and rescued Peter, making him into the first of her "Lost Boys (and Girls.)" Then, under Nanny's direction, Peter, as the Orphan-Maker, began to kill the parents of young mutants (and thus "orphan-ing" them,) kidnapping them, and abducting them to Nanny.
Under Nanny's direction, Orphan-Maker has clashed with X-factor, X-men, and members of the Fantastic Four and the Avengers
He later showed up in France where he was going to kill Cartier St. Croix, the father of the mutant known as M. But before he fired. his glove(and gun) fell of. He later returned to Nanny and told her about this. She said that it meant that he was growing up.
Nanny then built him a new more powerful suit which he used to abduct a deformed young mutant who was holding his classmates hostage. He was however stopped by the young mutant team Generation X and he fled.
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Originally posted by kohl
to any of the apocalypse fans: can you recommend the astonishing x-men series set in aoa? (please make a new thread for reviews, i'd love to read some.)
Sadly I only own the graphic novel Generation Next: Ultimate Edition from the AoA series but am desperately searching for more. Gen. Next includes From the Top, Hither Comes the Sugar Man, It Only Hurts When I Sing, and Bye.
And I might just make that thread.
rogue bio (from marvel universe handbook)
Very little is known about life of the young mutant known as Rogue before she discovered her superhuman power. She grew up in Caldecott County, Mississippi, near the banks of the Mississippi River. One day she was kissing a boy named Cody Robbins under a tree by the river. When she kissed him, he fell unconscious, and she discovered that her mind was filled with Robbins' memories. Unable to shut them out, she fled. After a while, Robbins' memories faded away in her mind, but this is how Rogue began to learn that she had developed the mutant power to absorb a person's memories and abilities by touching him or her with her bare skin. Moreover, she learned that she could not control this ability.
Rogue was somehow contacted by the mutant villain Mystique, who took her under her wing and raised her as her own, coming to regard Rogue as a surrogate daughter. Mystique was also the leader of the second Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and led Rogue to join the team. Mystique assigned Rogue to ambush her enemy, the costumed adventurer known as Ms. Marvel (now, Warbird) and to absorb the latter's superhuman powers so that Rogue could use them in an attempt to free other members of the Brotherhood from prison. Rogue battled Ms. Marvel and absorbed her memories and superhuman powers, but something went wrong, and the transfer became permanent, rather than temporary, as is usual with Rogue. Hence, Rogue permanently possessed the superhuman powers, and memories of the original Ms. Marvel, and Carol Danvers, the first Ms. Marvel, permanently lost those powers (although, with the aid of Professor Charles Xavier, Danvers later regained most of her memories.) In absorbing Ms. Marvel's powers and memories, Rogue, going temporarily insane, threw the defeated, unconscious Danvers from the Golden Gate Bridge, the site of their battle. Danvers, however, survived.
Alongside the Brotherhood, Rogue battled the hero teams X-Men and the Avengers as well as the heroes Spider-Woman (now, simply Jessica Drew), the Dazzler, and Rom. However, Rogue was anguished over the fact that she could not control her absorption power. Moreover, she feared she was going insane because she could not rid herself of Carol Danvers' memories and emotional patterns, and often was unsure whether her emotional reactions were her own or Danvers'. The Brotherhood was unable to provide her with sufficient help, and so, in anguish, she begged Professor Charles Xavier, mentor of her enemies, the X-Men, for aid. Xavier admitted her into the X-Men on a provisional basis, and she quickly proved herself to be a loyal, brave, and capable member of the team. Rogue soon became a full-fledged member of the X-Men, and adventured with them for a long tenure. Although she has still not learned how to control her absorption power (if indeed it is at all possible for her to learn how to do so.)
Later, during a battle with the mutant-hunting robot Master Mold, Rogue was forced through the extra-dimensional portal known as the Siege Perilous. The mystic portal physically separated her psyches, placing Rogue free of Danvers in the Antarctic paradise called the Savage Land. After learning to survive without her powers from Ms. Marvel, Rogue encountered the Danvers' personality, embodied by a decomposing body and arguing that the two psyches could not exist separately. Rogue was saved by the mutant villain Magneto, who claimed to have killed the Danvers body thus restoring those powers to Rogue without the side effect of the split personality. Rogue joined Magneto and Savage Land protector Ka-zar and espionage agency SHIELD in battling the Savage Land villain Zaladane. Magneto and Rogue began to form a romantic relationship, but when Magneto killed Zaladane at the cumulation of the battle, Rogue realized their love could not be justified, and she left him.
Although the X-Men appeared scattered across the world, Rogue was among those X-associates assembled to stop the villainous Shadow King from invading mutant research facility at Muir Island. She then rejoined the X-Men and continued to adventure with them for a long tenure. During this time, she was courted by her teammate Gambit, and she began to return his intentions even though she would continually deny their relationship due to the side-effects of her powers.
After many months, however, Rogue did indeed kiss Gambit, but she discovered Gambit possessed a dark secret, knowledge she gained when she absorbed Gambit's memories. Distraught, she left Gambit and the X-Men to wander the United States. She had a few adventures, and at one point, she and X-Man Nightcrawler learned the true facts of his relationship with Mystique. Rogue later encountered the man known as Joseph, believing him to be an amnesiac and rejuvenated Magneto. She returned with him to the X-Men, and even entertained notions of romantic intentions to him. (However, Joseph's true nature as a clone of Magneto was later revealed prior to his death.)
Rogue continued to adventure with the X-Men, and rekindled her romance with Gambit. After crashing into Antarctica after a space-faring mission, Rogue finally declared her love to Gambit, but her kiss revealed Gambit's secret to her-- he had been associated with the villainous Mr. Sinister and his team of massacring Marauders. Rogue left Gambit behind in Antarctica and returned to the X-Men's mansion headquarters. Eventually, Gambit would make his way back to the X-Men and reconcile with them and Rogue. Rogue then helped Gambit rid himself of a parasitic psychic entity he had bonded with while in Antarctica.
Continually a member of the X-Men, Rogue more recently found herself in a position of leadership as one of the most senior members of the team. She led the team through several adventures. She appeared to have been developing romantic intentions with teammate Colossus prior to his supposed death at the hands of the villain Apocalypse.
During an adventure when Earth was declared a penal colony for the universe's criminals, Rogue saved a girl from attacking aliens. The girl was actually Z'Cann, a mutant alien Skrull and member of the X-Men's allies of Cadre K. Z'Cann was badly wounded, and in order to transfer Xavier's message to Rogue, she touched Rogue's bare skin, using her own telepathic powers to facilitate the memory transfer. However, due to Rogue's powers, she absorbed not only Z'Cann's memories but also her Skrull shape-shifting powers.
Shortly afterward, Rogue began uncontrollably manifesting the powers of various people that she had touched over the years, forcing her to take certain safeguards, such as wearing ruby quartz glasses similar to the X-Men's Cyclops. About the same time, the X-Men discovered the existence of the diaries of the mutant seer, Destiny, and Rogue joined a contingent of X-Men dedicated to searching for the so-called "Books of Truth."
This group later encountered an extradimensional warlord named Khan who was attempting to invade Earth. One of her new teammates, Sage, used her powers to jump-start Rogue's ability to control her multiple powers. Sage agreed, making Rogue into a one-woman army, able to exhibit multiple powers at once.
Gambit joined the group only to be captured and used to open a portal for Khan's fellow aliens from Dimension X. At the end of the battle, the temple in which Gambit was imprisoned was collapsing. Rogue and Gambit were attacked by X-Men's enemy Vargas. As Gambit lay near death, he was brought back to life by Rogue, using healing abilities she had previously absorbed. The experience, however, left the powers of both Rogue and Gambit spent. Rogue appeared to have burned out all of her powers entirely, including her own ability to siphon others. Together, Rogue and Gambit parted company with the X-Men to pursue their own relationship.
domino bio (from marvel universe handbook)
Domino is believed to be a runaway youth whose complete life story may still be unrevealed. In her first juvenile record, she was picked up in Seattle for shoplifting, giving the name Jessica Marie Costello, but escaped the authorities. Later, a woman of similar abilities appeared in the Asian state of Madripoor, fighting in combat arenas there under a stage name. At some point, she was recruited by the United States National Security Agency where she adopted the name Domino, becoming a government agent.
During this time, she was hired to guard a man named Milo Thurman against terrorist threats. Thurman was targeted due to his ability to predict world events and shifts in the balance of powers between governments. During the course of her assignment, the two fell in love and were presumably married. Thurman claims to have coined her nickname Domino and also her alias Beatrice, after the character from Dante's Inferno. When Thurman was forced deeper underground after a raid by the organization AIM, the two were forced to part and Thurman was told that Domino died in the raid.
Domino disappeared from public view, although some time later a familiar looking woman calling herself Luisa Mendoza took five casinos for approximately 1.2 million dollars. It was also presumed that Domino, under the guise of Samantha Wu, worked shortly thereafter as an executive businesswoman for the Fujikawa Corporation for six months. Others claimed to know her as Elena Vladescu, seen with a Russian Ambassador moments before his mysterious death at an embassy party. Domino went on to join the mercenary group called the Six Pack, where she met the hero Cable and began their life-long friendship. The couple parted company after the Six Pack disbanded, but remained in contact with each other.
Cable later formed the group X-Force from the remnants of another group, the New Mutants, and asked Domino to join him. Domino served with X-Force for a long tenure, but in actuality, Domino was at some point kidnapped by agents of the villain Tolliver (a cover of Cable's son Genesis) and replaced by the mutant shape-shifter, Copycat. Copycat was conditioned to believe herself to be Domino, and remained indistinguishable from her. As such, it remains unclear at which point Domino was replaced. Eventually, the ruse was revealed, and Cable tracked Tolliver down and freed Domino. He asked Domino to return to X-Force while he sought for Tolliver, who had escaped. Domino succeeded, after searching for them by way of her former allies of the Six Pack.
Domino left X-Force when she learned that Milo Thurman was found and taken by the villains Donald Pierce and Lady Deathstrike, leaders of the cyborg group Reavers. Although she was able to defeat the Reavers, Domino was unable to save Thurman from the fatal effects of Pierce's machines designed to steal his unique talent.
Domino soon returned to X-Force, but eventually left the group as they drifted from their paramilitary beginnings. She returned to help the team on occasion, such as in defeating the Blob who was acting on behalf of the menace known as Onslaught. When Cable was not part of the group, Domino often acted as the de facto leader of X-Force.
Later, during the government-sponsored mutant-hunting program called Operation: Zero Tolerance, Domino was captured and tortured by Ekatarina Gryaznova, who was transformed into a cybernetic Prime Sentinel through the O: ZT program. Gryaznova was a part of a rogue CIA faction that Domino had destroyed during one of her past exploits, and Gryaznova sought revenge. She confronted Domino with what is to believed to be her past history (detailed above), but Domino referred to it as "at least 80% wrong." Domino escaped but learned she was implanted with a device that disrupted her mutant powers over probability. About the same time, Domino was sought by the mutant Jesse Aaronson, who agreed to help Domino track down Gryaznova (now known as Gryphon) if she would help him find his brother. The two failed and Domino was captured. Jesse then asked for help from Domino's former teammates, X-Force, who helped Jesse rescue Domino. The two joined X-Force, and soon battled Jesse's brother and his team of mutants called the New Hellions.
Eventually, Domino left X-Force to return to freelance mercenary work. She later was possessed by the alien Aentaros so that she could kill its enemy, Randall Shire. Cable confronted her and managed to thwart Aentaros' plan. Later still, Domino was targeted by the assassin Marcus Tsung, whose power could slay a person with a simple look. Domino sought X-Force's help, and recovered with help from an alien organism that had attached itself to her. X-Force defeated Tsung and the alien organism but was believed to have died during the process.
However, Domino and other members of X-Force reappeared to challenge the current government-sponsored X-Force over a dispute from the common name. Domino and her teammates escaped after the encounter.
Omega Red
Powers: Mutant power to liberate a mutant death spore virus pheromone that can be conducted by his carbonadium (a malleable form of adamantium) tentacles. He needs to liberate it periodically, or the spore will attack himself.
First Appearance: X-Men (vol. 2) #4
Creators: Chris Claremont/Scott Lobdell and Jim Lee
Pro-File: Arkady Rossovich was a spy for the Russian government during the Cold War, and fought Wolverine, Sabretooth and Maverick when the trio was trying to retrieve an element that made Omega Red even more powerful. But even before that, Arkady fought with a young Sean Cassidy, a.k.a. Banshee, when he was just a maniacal killer. During the Cold War, Omega was put into cryogenic suspension, but was set free by the Fenris and Shinobi Shaw. They tried to use him to kill Wolverine, but the X-Men saved him.
The X-Men faced Omega Red again in Russia, when they were saving Colossus´s baby sister, Illyana.
Some time later, Omega Red reappeared in the Generation X academy, when he tried to kill Banshee, his former enemy. But Chamber, one of the members of the Gen X, defeated him. He wasn´t seen for some time, only returning to attack Maverick and then Sabretooth. Most recently he had a fight against Wolverine, Nightcrawler and Colossus in Russia.