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Askani

Real Name: Rachel Summers
Former Aliases: Mother Askani
First Appearance: X-Men (1st series) #141 (as Rachel Summers), Uncanny X-Men Annual #9 (as Phoenix III), Cable #6 (as Mother Askani)
Known Relatives: Scott Summers (Cyclops I, father), Jean Grey-Summers (Phoenix IV, mother), Madelyne Pryor (ex-step-mother, deceased), Nathan Christopher Summers (Cable, half-brother), Alexander Summers (Havok, uncle, believed deceased), Christopher Summers (Corsair, grandfather), Tyler Dayspring (Genesis, nephew, deceased), Franklin Richards (alternate future husband), Jonathan Reed Richards (Hyperstorm, alternate future son)
Group Affiliation: None, formerly Clan Askani, Excalibur, X-Men, former servant of Ahab
Known Allies: Cable, Blaquesmith, X-Men, Phoenix Force, formerly Excalibur, Kate Pryde
Major Enemies: Dark Sisterhood, Gaunt, Spiral, Mojo, formerly Selene, Apocalypse
Powers: Telepathy, telekinesis
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 125 lbs.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red

BIOGRAPHY
The daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey in an alternate timeline, young Rachel inherited her mother's potential for the telepathic and telekinetic powers that Jean Grey possessed as Marvel Girl.

In the "mainstream" universe's reality, the X-Men prevented Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from assassinating Senator Robert Kelly, an investigator of the alleged menace that superhuman mutants posed to society. However, in Rachel's timeline, the Brotherhood succeeded in killing Kelly. The assassination caused intense widespread public paranoia against mutants. In the next presidential election, a rabid anti-mutant candidate won. His administration unleashed Sentinel robots, giving them an open-ended program with overly broad parameters to eliminate the mutant menace permanently. The Sentinels decided that the best way to do so was to take over the United States, and over the subsequent years they killed or imprisoned within concentration camps virtually all known mutants and other superhuman beings within the United States and Canada. Finally the Sentinels controlled the entire North American continent.

One summer morning, when Rachel was still a child, the X-Men's base of operations, Professor Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in Salem Center, Westchester County, New York State, was attacked and demolished by federal troops. The only survivor at the school was Rachel, whom the soldiers found by the side of Xavier's corpse. They used drugs to neutralize Rachel's developing psionic powers. Later, she was tortured and brainwashed in prison. Following extensive behavior modification, she became a mutant "hound," using her psionic powers to hunt down other mutants for the authorities, who would kill or imprison them. In the process, Rachel occasionally killed mutants herself, and it is known that some of those, who are as yet unidentified, were people she loved. Rachel's superiors branded her face with a grotesque pattern of tattoos to mark her as a "hound", and forced her to wear a leash. Rachel's grief and shame at what she was forced to do as a "hound", and her anguish over the deaths of her parents and other friends during the anti-mutant reign of terror has deeply scarred her soul, leaving her bitter and intolerant toward human beings who persecute mutants.

Eventually Rachel was placed in the South Bronx Mutant Containment Facility. Rachel used her psionic powers to create the illusion in other people's minds that she does not bear the tattoos marking her as a "hound", thereby concealing her shame. In the camp she rejoined the surviving members of the X-Men. She was instrumental in their plan to end the Sentinels' reign by changing history. Rachel used her psionic powers to exchange the consciousness and spirit of the adult Kate Pryde, a member of the X-Men, with that of Pryde's teenage self as she existed at a time just before the attempt on Kelly's life. It was hoped that the adult Kate, in her younger self's body at that earlier time, could warn the X-Men about the assassination attempt, and that the X-Men would foil it, thereby preventing the chain of events from occurring that led to the Sentinels' rule. However, history cannot be changed in this manner. Rachel, as it turned out, actually caused Kate to exchange psyches not with her younger self ("Kitty") in the past of her own reality, but with the Kitty of our own "mainstream" reality. Kate, in "mainstream" Kitty's body, succeeded in preventing Kelly's assassination in our own reality. She then returned to her own body in her own time and reality, causing Kitty's psyche to return to its proper time and reality as well. On her return, Kate found that the other X-Men, except for Rachel, had all died in an attack on the Sentinels' Manhattan headquarters.

Kate Pryde still did not give up her vain hope of altering her reality's history. She hypnotized Rachel into using her psionic powers to tap into the Phoenix Force and send herself back in time when Kate said the words "Dark Phoenix". Thus Kate hoped that Rachel herself could change history. Together, Kate and Rachel illegally entered the laboratory of Project Nimrod, which was the attempt to construct the most highly advanced Sentinel possible with the technology of that time, in the hopes of sabotaging the project. Pursued by guards, Kate and Rachel locked themselves within the laboratory, whose walls were proofed against Kate’s power to phase through solid matter. Rachel believed herself and Kate to be trapped, but Kate said the words that caused Rachel to project herself back through time. Project Nimrod's creation, the Sentinel called Nimrod, then killed Kate. Nimrod later went back in time to find Rachel.

Rachel found herself physically transported, body and mind, to a time shortly before the present. But like Kate's spirit, she had traveled not to the past of her reality, but to the past of this "mainstream" reality. She went to Xavier's mansion, but could not bring herself to stay on realizing that she had come back to the wrong reality, and fled without identifying herself. She went to Manhattan, where she was pursued by the psychic vampire Selene. Rachel was rescued by the X-Men, and after her mind was read by Professor X, she was invited to join the team.

Rachel was shocked to learn of the supposed "death" of Jean Grey in this reality. Visiting the home of Grey's parents while they were absent, Rachel found a Shi'ar holo-empathic matrix crystal that Lilandra had given them. The crystal was imbued with an imprint of the essence of Jean's personality. Unaware that Jean was not actually the Phoenix, Rachel refused to believe that Jean could be evil, as people claimed Phoenix was, and she decided to claim the name and power of Phoenix as her own birthright, and through her own actions to redeem the name Phoenix in this reality. Rachel also believed that as the new Phoenix she could use her power to help her fellow mutants, and thereby atone for what she had done as a "hound" in her own reality. It was at this moment that she took the name of Phoenix while holding the crystal that Rachel first manifested about her the bird-shaped aura of energy associated with the previous Phoenix. It may be speculated that from that time on Rachel Summers was able to draw to a limited extent upon the power of the Phoenix Force. The alien Beyonder has hinted that Rachel could potentially become the equal in power of the previous Phoenix. Indeed, the Beyonder once granted Rachel the full power that the previous Phoenix had possessed, but he reclaimed it shortly thereafter.

Soon after, Rachel's fellow X-Man, Wolverine, severely injured her to prevent her from vengefully murdering Selene in the heat of passion. Fleeing to heal herself, she was fooled by the six-armed servant of Mojo named Spiral and taken to Mojoworld where she was held prisoner. Rachel escaped with the help of Kitty Pryde, Lockheed, Nightcrawler, and Captain Britain, and together they formed the British super-team Excalibur.

After many adventures, Rachel finally managed to return to the future she had come from. While she couldn’t change her past, she and her teammates were able to change the directives of all the Sentinels of the era to preserve all life, thereby ending the genocide that had prevailed for years. On the return journey, Captain Britain was lost in the timestream and it was discovered that Rachel had to exchange places with him for him to return. She accepted, and was carried to Cable's future where she founded the Clan Askani.

As the Mother Askani, Rachel was responsible for bringing Cyclops and Phoenix to the future to care for a young Cable, but this effort exhausted her old body and her physical form died. She lived on, however, in an astral form.

Some time later, Cable journeyed to the end of time and found a youthful Rachel being held prisoner by Gaunt, a man who had been imprisoned there for his crimes. Cable challenged Gaunt to a duel to decide the fate of Rachel and emerged victorious, returning Rachel to the present with him.

Rachel started college to further her education, but soon became embroiled in the Dark Sisterhood's attempted takeover of the United States. Rachel aided her half-brother Cable in defeating the Sisterhood and their leader, Finality.

Rachel has since returned to the X-Men, changing her last name to Grey and taking on the code name Marvel Girl in honor of her mother. She is currently appearing in Uncanny X-Men.

Andromeda

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Real name Laurel Gand
Status Inactive
Affiliations Legion of Super-Heroes, White Triangle
Group: Legion of Super-Heroes
Origin: Daxam
Known Relatives: descendant of Valor (M'Onel-Lar Gand)
First appearance: Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) # 66
Notable powers Super-strength, super-speed, unaided flight, heat vision, telescopic and X-ray vision, super-hearing, ability to survive and move in a vaccuum Laurel Gand, codenamed Andromeda, is a fictional character, a superheroine in the future of the DC Comics universe, and a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes

Biography
Laurel Gand spent most of her life in a White Triangle community, being indoctrinated in the "horrors" of interspecies co-operation before the Triangle's political clout led her to become the Daxamite representative in the Legion. Away from Daxam's red sun, she gained powers similar to Superman's, but the race-wide hypersensitivity of Daxamites to lead that meant even minuscule amounts could prove fatal even to a powered-up Daxamite, forcing her to wear a transuit at all times. This did not trouble her, since it meant she never had to actually touch any non-Daxamites.

Her Triangle-derived beliefs hampered her effectiveness as a Legionnaire, thanks to her reluctance to physically engage with any enemies, but the real problems started after she let several Triangle members go after a mugging, shortly after which they beat and almost killed Triad. Angered more for their defiance of her than for the beating, when she was ordered away to prevent the Composite Man gaining her powers, she flew after them. Immediately, they tore her transuit and directly exposed her to lead, and she barely managed to turn them over to the Science Police before crashing through the walls of Legion HQ.

While Brainiac 5 worked on devising an anti-lead serum, he confronted her about her beliefs, and after discovering the serum Vril Dox II, his direct ancestor, had created for Valor and tailoring it to her genetic structure to allow it to work properly on her (much to her surprise, as she had been taught that all members of the same race were identical), he forced her to confront the fact that he wasn't her inferior before giving her the serum. While this was happening, however, Shrinking Violet discovered a White Triangle necklace in her room and connected it to the group which had assaulted Triad and destroyed Trom, before telling the rest of the team.

Confined to quarters after an unsuccessful attempt by Cosmic Boy to have her removed from the team, she used her super-senses to see Ambassador Roxxas gloating, but he managed to bully her into giving him the anti-lead serum. Taking it himself and giving it to four other Daxamites, they proceeded to cause mass destruction on Earth. When Andromeda herself confronted Roxxas over what he was doing & had made her do, she was almost defeated when Violet began thrashing around in his head, before coming out and telling Andromeda to take him down. As she pummelled him repeatedly, he destroyed the covering of an "atomic furnace", and both were thought to have died in the resulting inferno (causing Brainiac 5 severe depression). Only Cosmic Boy told that she had survived and voluntarily exiled herself to Planet Hell.

Later, she was brought out of this exile by Live Wire after Cosmic Boy had told him where she was as part of a way to build up a "Legion Rescue Squad", and she was awed by Valor himself being another member. However, she declined to rejoin the Legion after the Squad had served it's purpose, preferring to head off into deep space.

Powers
Great super-strength, the ability to fly unaided, to move in space without breathing apparatus and at superluminal speed, heat vision, telescopic vision and super-hearing.

BRIEF HISTORY
Laurel Gand grew up on Daxam, in a village run by the White Triangle cult, which was devoted to racial separation and purity. She was more than a little horrified, therefore, to find herself drafted by her government to join the Legion of Super-Heroes, the United Planets' living symbol of racial co-existence and harmony.

The Legion was happy enough to have a member with super-speed, super-strength, laser vision, x-ray vision, super-senses, and invulnerability to everything but lead. Laurel, code-named Andromeda, was less pleased to have to deal with members of "lesser races," and was thankful for the fact that the transsuit that protected her from lead poisoning protected her from the other Legionnaires' touch. She got very lonely, and the only thing that prevented her from leaving the Legion was the fact that she'd have to return to Daxam if she did.

Slowly but surely, her attitude changed. When some White Triangle-affiliated thugs that she had kept free of imprisonment used their freedom to beat up her teammate Triad, she decided, with some guilty prodding from Shrink ing Violet, to track them down and take them in. They, though, had other plans, and poisoned her with lead. A sickbed conversation with Brainiac 5 and his subsequent curing of her condition convinced her that individuals of all races should be treated equally. But the discovery, soon afterward, of her White Triangle ties, earned her the suspicion of her teammates and made her long for home once again. Playing on these vulnerable feelings, Roxxas, the White Triangle's leader, tricked her into handing the cure for lead poisoning over to him. When she realized how she had been used, she entered the fight between the Legion and the White Triangle, taking on Roxxas himself. The two of them got caught inside a fusion reactor, and the nuclear flames shooting out of the reactor convinced witness Shrinking Violet that she was dead. The world has mourned her as a heroine who atoned for her mistakes, but she had actually survived the blast. She turned herself in voluntarily to the President of the United Planets, and has since been living alone on the abandoned prison Planet Hell in an act of self-punishment, a fact revealed only to the President and Cosmic Boy. However, Cosmic Boy later decided to send Live Wire to free her from there to become part of an undercover rescue squad for the Legion, and, after fellow squad member Jan Arrah offered her forgiveness on behalf of his dead race, she agreed to join, and with the squad, she helped save the active Legion from the Fatal Five. Once R. J. Brande assumed the presidency of the U. P., she was officially pardoned and her status as both living person and Legionnaire was reinstated, but she declined to rejoin the Legion, feeling guilty and out of place(A vision of an older Andromeda was seen in the timestream, battling some unknown evil. It is unknown whether this future Andromeda is the true one or a divergent counterpart)

Blink

Real name: Clarice Ferguson
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men 317.
Died in: X-Men [v2] 37 and again in X-Men Omega when that timeline ceased to exist.
Favorite quote: "My name is Blink. Who do you think is faster?" (Astonishing X-men 4)

In an alternate world where Charles Xavier has died and Apocalypse rules supreme, Clarice Ferguson is a young mutant struggling to stay alive. Fighting alongside the astonishing X-Men, Blink uses her super powers of teleportation for the good of mankind. Her mutant abilities allow her to temporarily "blink" an object out of existence with the aid of a phasing pulse. Few people know that while just a girl, Blink's life was saved from the forces of Apocalypse by none other than Sabretooth!


Team affiliation: During the Age of Apocalypse, Blink was with the Astonishing X-Men. Her sacrifice led to the formation of Generation X in the regular X-timeline.
Powers: Blink had the potential to form gateways through dimensions, an ability exploited by the Astonishing X-Men during the AOA series. In this timeline, she was untrained and couldn't do much more than fracture reality.

Favorite Storyline: The mentor/apprentice relationship between Blink and the AOA's somewhat-less-homicidal-than-usual Victor Creed was very interesting. That being said, however...

Least favorite storyline: I didn't like the Phalanx story and I wasn't crazy about most of the Age of Apocalypse (although I've always been in favor of pairing up Rogue with Magneto). But Blink I like just fine. :-)

So, what is Blink up to these days? As those of us who are long-time comic book readers know (and sometimes it irritates the heck out of us), death is not as bad a career move as it might seem for a comic book character. There was a Bring Back Blink campaign. Never one to let something as trivial as a dissolved time-line stop them, Marvel has done at least one AOA Blink story.

Update: For a while, the AOA incarnation of Blink led a team of alternate-reality heroes called the Exiles, charged with surfing alternate realities and repairing disruptions of the timestream. Eventually, Blink, having fulfilled her own particular part in this quest for cosmic balance, was freed from Exile duty and teleported away to parts unknown. The other Exiles have carried on without her. -Editor Sean

POWERS:
T16: Teleport Self* and others (T17)--powerstunt, multiple teleports of different parts of an opponent/object(blinking). This reassembles the unit in a different way-possibly killing it or damaging it.
(Amazing) Speed teleport-When using her teleport powers, she has +8 to her initiative
Special Distortion charging-she can charge objects with her blinking power (much like gambit does with energy). On contact, these items teleport that person away at Am ability (Amazing)

TALENTS:
Martial Arts: Tumbling, Acrobatics, Weapon specialist (pins).

EQUIPMENT:
Teleport Pins: Blink carries a quiver of pins that do Ex edged damage. She can also charge them with some of here blinking power to teleport someone away at
Am ability or even deadlier to blink the pins a short distance inside a person. This does In damage. The pins have Am material strength.

HISTORY:
Clarice had the ability to displace matter through a type of teleportation rift. Unfortunately, she had no control over her power, and objects that she "blinked"
would not reassemble properly. When Clarice's power first manifested, she ended up hurting someone. (Never told who.) She promised herself from that then on,
she would never use her powers again.

When the extraterrestrial threat of the Phalanx attacked Earth, they captured many "neo-mutants" (now 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 during the last hours of her life with her new friends.

When the member M freed them from their prison, and they were helped by a rescue team of Banshee, Synch, Jubilee, the White Queen, 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 imprisioned upon, only Clarice and Banshee could stop Harvest. Using her powers, she distorted the villain, but swallowed herself as well. Banshee tried his best to save her, but in the end,
Blink died, a hero. Whether or not Clarice actually died as a result is unknown. In the "Age of Apocalypse" timeline, "Blink" survived, and her powers were under control. She functioned as the X-Men's teleporter, and was even able to manifest the energy for her portals in the form of short javelins, which she could throw at an object to cause it to teleport.