: *growls* It's my father's backstabbing bitch >.<
: Uhhh... I don't want to think of Magneto in that way of... having... bitches.

Name: Fabian Cortez
Stupid Things I Call Him: Fabie, bitch, battery bitch, Perpetual Stubble Man!, uber-bitch, fruity bitch, Magneto's bitch (do you see a trend here?)
Age: I'm guessing he's pretty young, like in his early to mid-twenties. I'm guessing this because all of the Upstarts were young men who tended to act like spoiled kids :D
Height: Taller than Wolverine, but shorter than Magneto :P Except in Magneto Rex... in which he looks like the smallest guy there.
Weight: Logically, he shouldn't weigh too much, since his particular powers don't require... uh... ANY strength! But he has muscle, sooo I dunno
Eyes: Green, red, blue, yellow, white, brown... uh... his eye color is NEVER consistent. Not even in the same issue >.>
Hair: Red! There's something that's consistent! Until you get to "Magneto: Dark Seduction", where his hair magically becomes brown for an issue...
Nifty Mutant Power: Cortez can augment the powers of other mutants; that is, make them stronger or make their powers flare outta control and seriously maim them, depending on how much he likes you or how much you coerce him into liking you ;D
Affiliation: (currently) None, because he�s dead. (formerly) Upstarts, Acolytes, freelance psychopath, Acolytes again, freelance psychopath again, and then Acolytes again/Magneto's Genoshan Cabinet
First Appearance: X-Men 1 (final appearance: Magneto: Dark Seduction 4)
Fave Quotes: "And most importantly, because I said soOWW!!" (Yeah, the quote itself isn't funny, I just like it because he's being all "Blah blah, I'm threatening" and then Moira pulls his hair and he's all "OW!" XD)

Cortez: And here I was hoping I could have surprised you.
Pietro: CORTEZ!
Cortez: You do that quite well, Pietro... Maybe I should hire you to follow me around and shriek my name whenever I enter a room! Not quite the job your father must have had in mind for you, but then, very little of your father's mind is left at all, is it?
Jean: Don't, Quicksilver! I know what you're thinking, but stay away from him!
Pietro: Have you gone insane?! The man is defenseless!
Cortez: Mmm. I beg to differ. *whips out Luna, though I'm still not sure where he was hiding her... In his magical cape of doom?* Luna here is defenseless. (UXM 307. I like the whole scene really, even though Cortez is totally bonkers in this issue O.o Actually, I only LIKED him when I got this issue... I LOVED him when I was done reading it XD And then he died in the next issue... But then he came back later!)

*Pietro and Wanda kinda argue a bit* "Please, children, don't fight over me. Lord knows I've visited enough sadness upon the House O' Magnus. Not that it was MY fault... Not ALL of it... If your "sainted" father had only had the good taste to STAY dead, everything would have been perfect. *then he blabs about how great his life would be* But nooooo! He HAD to come back to life! (More Cortez rambliness from the Insane!Cortez issue XD)

"You're ranting, Cortez." "Of COURSE I'm ranting!" (Uhh... Pietro and Cortez again in the Insane!Cortez issue O.o)

"Fabian! We need you!" "Of course you do." (Scanner and Cortez in Quicksilver #1, my faaaave issue of him XD)

Random Crap: Fabian Cortez has had a long, rich history of doing stupid things and hurting himself in the process. Yeah, as far as Marvel Characters go, this one has very little redeeming qualities, which is why I love him so much! Anyway, he was born into great wealth and standing in that wacky country known as Spain.

Cortez got bored with being... a young rich, extremely spoiled, mutant (gee. What a hard life >.>), and so he, Shinobi Shaw, Trevor Fitzroy, and some other similarly rich and spoiled brats formed a group known as the Upstarts, which was headed by Gamesmaster. Their goal was to kill a bunch of other mutants for points, and then the winner would gain control of all of the other guys and their resources.

And so, in order to get a ton of points, Fabian gathered together the first group of Acolytes, consisting of his butch sister Annemarie (presumably she's his sister. It's one of those generally accepted but never proven things), Chrome, and some other guys whose names I forgot/weren't important at all. Anyway, they apparently hijacked a spacecraft and hurt some people in the process, which resulted in a bunch of American soldier guys to chase after them to Asteroid M. There, Magneto was like "Damn it! I'm trying to have some peace and quiet and-- hey! No fighting!" and makes them all crash into Asteroid M or something, I dunno. There, Annemarie pleads to him to allow the Acolytes to join his side, but he's all "No, I'm through with that." But then he lets everyone into Asteroid M, anyway.

There, the first thing that happens is one of the American dudes (Delgado) jumps up and grabs Fabie by the throat, ready to punch his lights out/strangle him/make him his bitch (okay, okay, not really that last one). Luckily, Sis comes to the rescue! And then she gets shot, sooo uh, yeah, that kinda sucked. However! Her getting shot motivated Magneto to accept the lil freaks as his Acolytes! And Fabie, using his powers, manages to "heal" his sister.

And now I'm gonna summarize this as fast as possible. Wolverine stabs Magneto; Cortez "heals" Magneto; the Acolytes go and attack Genosha; the X-Men come to the rescue; Fabie kisses Psylocke to fuck with her brain; Gambit whacks him over the head; Magneto comes to the Acolytes' rescue; Chrome chromifies the X-Men; they all go to Asteroid M; action happens; Cortez goes "Hahaha!!" and escapes; X-Men escape; Magneto, the other Acolytes, and Asteroid M blows up.

Later, Cortez grabs some new Acolytes, using Magneto as a martyr to their cause, and wreaks some havoc. We also learn that he's an Upstart-- in fact, he's the WHINY Upstart (this is where we see a shift between "Damn, I'm a badass. All of you are my pawns! AHAHAHAA!!" Fabie to "*whinewhine* It's not faaaair!!" Fabie). Anywho, one day, after wreaking some havoc and getting his hair pulled by Moira, one of the Acolytes finds out that Cortez was the one who killed Magneto. So, Cortez tries to have the boy killed, buuuut the pesky X-Men save him, then attack the Acolytes! In the process, Cortez is stabbed by Wolverine and left for... dead?

Of course, nothing can kill Cortez! And so, naked for some reason, he's rescued from the hospital by Amelia Voght. Then, still naked for some reason, he talks to Gamesmaster, who's all "*smirk* You're not in the lead anymore, loser boy", which leaves Cortez all confused, since, y'know, he killed Magneto... Or DID he?

Magneto comes back from the dead, this time having a new mutant named Exodus as his sidekick. Exodus beats the crap outta Cortez, then takes the Acolytes away to Magneto.

Pissed off, Cortez returns! This time, he kidnaps Quicksilver's daughter, Luna, and uses her as a hostage while creating civil war in Genosha. Luckily (for... uh... Pietro, anyway), Exodus comes by and "kills" Cortez.

And so, we don't see Cortez for a few years, until the atrocious "Magneto" limited series came out. There, badly drawn Cortez comes back to the Acolytes with a seeming change of heart. He's now Exodus' subdued, obedient bitch boy... Or IS he? Naturally, Cortez is up to his old tricks again, and wreaks some havoc. Then, after more havoc has been wreaked, he runs away from the spotlight for a while, until Magneto gained control of Genosha and decided to force Cortez to be his bitch-- er, cabinet member.

In the end, Cortez just CAN'T behave (then again, he could've been getting tired of Magneto's physical abuse), and so he does some crazy shit that makes Magneto finally go "Damn it, I'm sick of you backstabbing me!" and... well... in the end Cortez is dead :D

Personal Opinion: I love him! I love him almost as much as I love Pyro! Hmm... I'm still not sure WHY I like him so much, though. It all started with Quicksilver 1, actually... I was like "Pietro! Mmm!! Hot Pietro! *flips a few pages* *sees the redheaded bitch* Mmmm... he's cute... *reads* Cortez, I hate you >.o But you're cute!" And then eventually that hate grew into looooove... Actually, the love prolly came from the slash RPG, because I didn't even LIKE him when I started playing him; I just thought it'd be fun. And then, after a few posts, I loved the little freak XD

Evolution: Uhh, the chances of him EVER being in Evo are like... .01% But that's pretty understandable! As far as villains go, he's not as well-known as others, and he didn't live very long (he was only around, oh... 8 years? That's only like... one year, maybe two in Marvel-time :D). But he's cute, damn it, and that should amount to something! Okay... so he's only cute when Casey Jones or Jim Lee draws him... anyway! Cortez won't be in Evo, and if he is, well... my God, I'll be so very happy :D