Post by Uatu the Watcher on Feb 12, 2007 18:34:18 GMT -5
Onslaught
Previously, when Magneto ripped the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton after Wolverine attempted to kill him, Professor X shut down Magneto's mind psionically in response; something he swore he would never do. Since the Professor used his powers in anger, his mind became open to the influence of Magneto's psyche, which festered and grew in Xavier's repressed subconscious. This small element of Magneto's psyche took root in the dark corner of Xavier's mind, where his repressed anger at humanity's intolerance toward mutants was buried. This was the seed that would grow into the being known as Onslaught. Eventually this part of Xavier's psyche became so strong, with the help of Magneto's psyche, it eventually became powerful enough to completely manifest itself out of psionic energy, and split itself from Xavier.
Onslaught was first mentioned when the Juggernaut crash-landed in Hoboken, New Jersey, having been hit hard enough by Onslaught to send him across the country, with a mental block on his brain, causing him to forget who or what Onslaught actually was; as he had learned Onslaught's identity. Onslaught's presence was felt behind the scenes in several other X-Men interactions over the following year, but little was revealed about the mysterious character. Around this time, Nate Grey (X-Man), a powerful psychic from the Age of Apocalypse timeline, came to Earth. When Professor X attempted to scan Nate's mind, Nate accidentally pulled Xavier's astral form into the physical realm. As revealed later, this was the means by which the Onslaught entity learned how to manifest itself in a physical form. Later, a team of X-Men fought Onslaught’s herald, Post. After the battle, a psychic entity (actually Onslaught himself) appeared to the X-Men before vanishing. The entity appeared in this form once more, in which it assisted Gambit and Jean Grey in their investigation of the anti-mutant government agent Bastion.
Onslaught made its first full appearance under that name and in costume. Onslaught's physical form was enormous and had a uniform similar to Magneto's. It was extraordinarily intelligent, and had vast psionic and magnetic powers. He kidnapped Jean Grey, took her to the astral plane, and attempted to convince her to follow him and to become his consort. Without revealing to her that he was a part of Xavier's mind, he tried to show her the extent of Xavier's own repressed anger and frustration, both towards the seeming futility of his dream and towards his own students - expressed in the form of a flashback in which Xavier mused on his undeclared and inexpressible love for Jean Grey. She rejected him, and for it Onslaught lashed out at her, burning her forehead with her own psionic power, overtaken by Onslaught. With a statement of "know my name", Onslaught cast her from the Astral Plane, leaving his name psionically burned onto her forehead; visible only to Jean herself. She and the other X-Men soon met with the Juggernaut, who wanted her to use her telepathic powers to read his blocked memory and find out who Onslaught really was. Before they could do so, Onslaught kidnapped Juggernaut and imprisoned him within the mystical gem that granted him his powers. The entity then manifested itself before the X-Men, defeating them in battle, and destroying most of Xavier's school.
Bishop, the time-lost mutant from the future, had been warned that a traitor within the ranks of the X-Men had betrayed the team in the late 20th century, leading to their destruction. While Bishop had long thought that person to be Gambit, the aforementioned events made it clear that the actual traitor was Xavier, or more accurately, Onslaught.
Assisted by Post and Dark Beast (who had infiltrated the X-Men by disguising himself as Beast), Onslaught attempted to start a global apocalypse that would destroy all of humanity. Dark Beast and his allies fought X-Factor and let loose a number of Sentinels on New York City. These Sentinels fought Spider-Man, the Punisher, and the Green Goblin (Phil Urich, a superhero who retired as result of this battle), and killed the parents of Hallie Takahama, who would later become the superheroine, Jolt. Post defeated Cable, after which Cable and the Hulk fought each other. Afterward, the two teamed up with Apocalypse for an inconclusive assault on Onslaught. Meanwhile, Wolverine and Elektra were able to discern Onslaught's origin as a twisted synthesis of the minds of Xavier and Magneto.
Following Onslaught's devastation of the X-Men, they were visited by the Avengers, accompanied by Rogue and Joseph (Magneto's clone, who was thought to be Magneto himself). Nate Grey and X-Force soon joined the heroes at the X-Mansion. Grey and X-Force remained behind while the other heroes traveled to the Fantastic Four's headquarters, where they unsuccessfully attempted to prevent Onslaught--in the form of a young Charles Xavier--from kidnapping Franklin Richards. Meanwhile, the members of X-Force were subdued by Mister Sinister, who also kidnapped Nate Grey. Although Sinister attempted to convince Grey to work with him, Grey was also psychically visited by Onslaught (again in Xavier's child form), who kidnapped him despite the interference of Franklin Richards. Onslaught was able to use the near-limitless psychic power of his two young captives to amplify his own, changing into his second physical form in the process. In this form, Onslaught fought the Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Joseph. During the battle, Thor was able to physically separate Xavier from Onslaught. Without Xavier's influence, Onslaught was "free" (as he put it), no longer bound by Xavier. Later, after a confrontation with Xavier himself, Onslaught declared that neither mutants, nor humans, were worthy, and that all would be equally dominated by him.
Onslaught's physical form was destroyed by the gathered heroes; whose ranks now included the Hulk, Namor the Sub-Mariner, and surprisingly, Doctor Doom. In doing so, however, they unleashed his full extent of his power. Unchecked, Onslaught used his power to create a second sun, with which he intended to destroy the Earth. The heroes determined that they could enter Onslaught's energy-based form and use their own bodies to contain Onslaught's psychic energy while the mutants, now having something tangible to hit, would unleash all their firepower on the heroes to destroy Onslaught, which would kill the heroes in the process. Furthermore, using a mutant to contain Onslaught's energy would allow Onslaught to draw upon that mutant's power to increase his own. The Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Bruce Banner (but not the Hulk, who was physically separated from Banner during the battle), and an unwilling Doctor Doom appeared to sacrifice their lives in this fashion. Namor and the Scarlet Witch were also among those who sacrificed themselves. The Scarlet Witch used her probability-control powers to shield herself so that she could enter, and Namor may have been able to enter due to the fact that he is a human-Atlantean hybrid, rather than a traditional Homo Superior. Thanks to Franklin Richards' power, the heroes who gave their lives to destroy Onslaught did not die; instead, they were reborn in a pocket dimension. This dimension was contained within a ball that Franklin would carry with him until the missing heroes were able to return.
Previously, when Magneto ripped the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton after Wolverine attempted to kill him, Professor X shut down Magneto's mind psionically in response; something he swore he would never do. Since the Professor used his powers in anger, his mind became open to the influence of Magneto's psyche, which festered and grew in Xavier's repressed subconscious. This small element of Magneto's psyche took root in the dark corner of Xavier's mind, where his repressed anger at humanity's intolerance toward mutants was buried. This was the seed that would grow into the being known as Onslaught. Eventually this part of Xavier's psyche became so strong, with the help of Magneto's psyche, it eventually became powerful enough to completely manifest itself out of psionic energy, and split itself from Xavier.
Onslaught was first mentioned when the Juggernaut crash-landed in Hoboken, New Jersey, having been hit hard enough by Onslaught to send him across the country, with a mental block on his brain, causing him to forget who or what Onslaught actually was; as he had learned Onslaught's identity. Onslaught's presence was felt behind the scenes in several other X-Men interactions over the following year, but little was revealed about the mysterious character. Around this time, Nate Grey (X-Man), a powerful psychic from the Age of Apocalypse timeline, came to Earth. When Professor X attempted to scan Nate's mind, Nate accidentally pulled Xavier's astral form into the physical realm. As revealed later, this was the means by which the Onslaught entity learned how to manifest itself in a physical form. Later, a team of X-Men fought Onslaught’s herald, Post. After the battle, a psychic entity (actually Onslaught himself) appeared to the X-Men before vanishing. The entity appeared in this form once more, in which it assisted Gambit and Jean Grey in their investigation of the anti-mutant government agent Bastion.
Onslaught made its first full appearance under that name and in costume. Onslaught's physical form was enormous and had a uniform similar to Magneto's. It was extraordinarily intelligent, and had vast psionic and magnetic powers. He kidnapped Jean Grey, took her to the astral plane, and attempted to convince her to follow him and to become his consort. Without revealing to her that he was a part of Xavier's mind, he tried to show her the extent of Xavier's own repressed anger and frustration, both towards the seeming futility of his dream and towards his own students - expressed in the form of a flashback in which Xavier mused on his undeclared and inexpressible love for Jean Grey. She rejected him, and for it Onslaught lashed out at her, burning her forehead with her own psionic power, overtaken by Onslaught. With a statement of "know my name", Onslaught cast her from the Astral Plane, leaving his name psionically burned onto her forehead; visible only to Jean herself. She and the other X-Men soon met with the Juggernaut, who wanted her to use her telepathic powers to read his blocked memory and find out who Onslaught really was. Before they could do so, Onslaught kidnapped Juggernaut and imprisoned him within the mystical gem that granted him his powers. The entity then manifested itself before the X-Men, defeating them in battle, and destroying most of Xavier's school.
Bishop, the time-lost mutant from the future, had been warned that a traitor within the ranks of the X-Men had betrayed the team in the late 20th century, leading to their destruction. While Bishop had long thought that person to be Gambit, the aforementioned events made it clear that the actual traitor was Xavier, or more accurately, Onslaught.
Assisted by Post and Dark Beast (who had infiltrated the X-Men by disguising himself as Beast), Onslaught attempted to start a global apocalypse that would destroy all of humanity. Dark Beast and his allies fought X-Factor and let loose a number of Sentinels on New York City. These Sentinels fought Spider-Man, the Punisher, and the Green Goblin (Phil Urich, a superhero who retired as result of this battle), and killed the parents of Hallie Takahama, who would later become the superheroine, Jolt. Post defeated Cable, after which Cable and the Hulk fought each other. Afterward, the two teamed up with Apocalypse for an inconclusive assault on Onslaught. Meanwhile, Wolverine and Elektra were able to discern Onslaught's origin as a twisted synthesis of the minds of Xavier and Magneto.
Following Onslaught's devastation of the X-Men, they were visited by the Avengers, accompanied by Rogue and Joseph (Magneto's clone, who was thought to be Magneto himself). Nate Grey and X-Force soon joined the heroes at the X-Mansion. Grey and X-Force remained behind while the other heroes traveled to the Fantastic Four's headquarters, where they unsuccessfully attempted to prevent Onslaught--in the form of a young Charles Xavier--from kidnapping Franklin Richards. Meanwhile, the members of X-Force were subdued by Mister Sinister, who also kidnapped Nate Grey. Although Sinister attempted to convince Grey to work with him, Grey was also psychically visited by Onslaught (again in Xavier's child form), who kidnapped him despite the interference of Franklin Richards. Onslaught was able to use the near-limitless psychic power of his two young captives to amplify his own, changing into his second physical form in the process. In this form, Onslaught fought the Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Joseph. During the battle, Thor was able to physically separate Xavier from Onslaught. Without Xavier's influence, Onslaught was "free" (as he put it), no longer bound by Xavier. Later, after a confrontation with Xavier himself, Onslaught declared that neither mutants, nor humans, were worthy, and that all would be equally dominated by him.
Onslaught's physical form was destroyed by the gathered heroes; whose ranks now included the Hulk, Namor the Sub-Mariner, and surprisingly, Doctor Doom. In doing so, however, they unleashed his full extent of his power. Unchecked, Onslaught used his power to create a second sun, with which he intended to destroy the Earth. The heroes determined that they could enter Onslaught's energy-based form and use their own bodies to contain Onslaught's psychic energy while the mutants, now having something tangible to hit, would unleash all their firepower on the heroes to destroy Onslaught, which would kill the heroes in the process. Furthermore, using a mutant to contain Onslaught's energy would allow Onslaught to draw upon that mutant's power to increase his own. The Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Bruce Banner (but not the Hulk, who was physically separated from Banner during the battle), and an unwilling Doctor Doom appeared to sacrifice their lives in this fashion. Namor and the Scarlet Witch were also among those who sacrificed themselves. The Scarlet Witch used her probability-control powers to shield herself so that she could enter, and Namor may have been able to enter due to the fact that he is a human-Atlantean hybrid, rather than a traditional Homo Superior. Thanks to Franklin Richards' power, the heroes who gave their lives to destroy Onslaught did not die; instead, they were reborn in a pocket dimension. This dimension was contained within a ball that Franklin would carry with him until the missing heroes were able to return.