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Havok
 Height: 6'
Weight: 175 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Blond
Powers: Havok is a mutant with the superhuman ability to absorb ambient cosmic
energy and release it as waves of intense heat -- creating plasma, a state of
matter consisting of charged subatomic particles. Heat waves will emanate from
Havok's body in all directions unless purposefully channeled, usually along the
length of his arms. When one of these waves strikes an object, the sudden jump
in temperature may cause it to shatter, explode or seemingly disintegrate.
Should Havok direct his energy toward a human being at its lowest level, his
target will suffer a severe headache, but will not burn up.
Havok constantly absorbs cosmic radiation. When his power-storage enclaves reach
capacity, excess energy is thereafter emitted in negligible quantities. Upon the
total expenditure of his available reserves, Havok's body requires about 16 1/2
hours to recharge to peak level. The act of concentration involved in releasing
his energy in anything other than an omnidirectional wave is physically
exhausting for Havok if continued for an extended period of time.
Weapons: None
History: Alex Summers is the younger brother of
Cyclops -- stalwart leader of the X-Men, an outlaw band of heroic mutant
adventurers. Their father -- Major Christopher Summers, a test pilot for the U.S.
Air Force -- was flying his family home from vacation aboard a vintage aircraft
when a midair collision crippled the Summers' plane. Katherine Summers pushed
her young sons to safety in the only available parachute. With Christopher and
Katherine presumed dead, the boys were hospitalized for injuries they sustained
during their landing, as their overburdened parachute had been unable to slow
their decent sufficiently. 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, he had little or no
contact with Scott until years later.
Alex was unaware of Scott's developing powers, or his adventures as Cyclops,
until after he had graduated from college. It was at that time that Alex first
became aware of his own mutant talents. Archeology professor Ahmet Abdol, the
mutant known as the Living Pharaoh, had discovered a psychic link between
himself and Alex. While both possessed the latent mutant power to absorb and
transform cosmic radiation, Alex's body stifled Abdol's ability to exercise his
talent in an unknown manner. The Living Pharaoh abducted the youth to his
laboratory in Egypt. There, Abdol discovered a means of screening Summers from
ambient cosmic radiation, permitting his own body to attain its true potential.
Abdol stood transformed into the Living Monolith, a massive mutant with vast
cosmic power. The X-Men defeated the Monolith in combat when Alex's latent
mutant powers surfaced under the stress of entombment within the mechanism
designed to block him from cosmic radiation. Incapable of controlling the shock
waves emanating from his body, Alex chose to remain in the Egyptian desert
rather than accompany the X-Men back to America.
Captured by a mutant-hunting Sentinel robot, Alex was brought to the
headquarters of Larry Trask, son of the androids' inventor. Trask gave Alex the
codename Havok and a costume with a chest display that would monitor the build-up
of cosmic energy within his body. When the X-Men finally freed Trask's captive
mutants, Alex accompanied Scott and his teammates back to civilization, where he
began training to keep his energy in check. Eventually, Alex gained sufficient
mastery over his powers to become a formidable opponent in battle.
Havok later fell in love with Lorna Dane -- the green-haired, magnetically
empowered mutant now known as Polaris. Both served for a time in the X-Men, but
neither wished to lead the life of an adventurer. After discovering a mutual
interest in geophysics, Alex and Lorna began conducting doctoral research in
that subject in the Diablo mountain range in Arizona. However, they soon found
themselves hunted by the Marauders, a squad of superhuman assassins assembled by
the twisted geneticist known as Mr. Sinister. Placed under the mental thrall of
the telempathic Malice, Polaris was compelled to attack the X-Men as leader of
the Marauders. Having returned to the team, Alex was forced to fight his lover.
Freed from Malice's control, Polaris joined Havok in the second version of
X-Factor -- a newly formed, government-funded mutant strike force.
Disillusioned with both the X-Men and X-Factor, Havok helped establish a team of
mutant criminals called the Brotherhood. Later, it
was revealed that Alex had infiltrated the group only to thwart its terrorist
objectives.
After that, like he said, Alex joined Onslaught
After interrupting Psylocke and Storm stealing
files from the Mansion, Havok was electrocuted by Storm. To save his life,
Psylocke gave him the crimson dawn. reluctantly drawn into this, Havok has not
yet learned what he is in store for, though the fatal wounds of his
electrocution healed in mere seconds after being given the crimson Dawn
Alex Summers has been through a lot in the past
two years. Basically forced into the Crimson Dawn affair by Psylocke and Storm,
he was too busy concentrating on saving the world from the Phoenix Force to be
where he needed to be when his brother, the only reason he was in Onslaught's
service to begin with, need him the most.
Driven beyond the point on reason by the madness of his mentor, Cyclops fell to
his own insanity and was beaten into a coma by Venom.
He has not awakened yet, and may never, but either way, Alex failed his brother...again.
When the smoke cleared, and the effects of the crimson Dawn wore off, Alex
emerged darker and filled with self-hatred. He threw his hand in with Doom, not
because he believed in the man's policies or philosophies, but because he was
the one in power. He was the one with the capacity to track Venom so that Alex
could kill him.
Alex believes in nothing now except revenge. He has tried being a hero. He has
tried being a villain. He has lost everything and everyone he loves.
There is nothing more for him than hate. Alex was also spirited into the future.
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