Cry Havok!: Havok Appreciation 2019

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he did lead an Avengers team after all, something no other X-Man can say, and no I don't count Ms. Captain Everything as an X-man for real.

[Havok83]

he did lead an Avengers team after all, something no other X-Man can say, and no I don't count Ms. Captain Everything as an X-man for real.

Rogue led the Avengers too as did Sunspot

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Uncanny X-Men #55 Apr 1969
"The Living Pharaoh!"
Continued from last issue...

While escaping the police and wanted for murder, Cyclops has run into the Living Pharaoh, the man he has been accused of murdering.
The Pharaoh claims that he is immortal and attempts to destroy Cyclops by channeling his powers through an Ankh weapon.
As the two mutants battle, the other X-Men are scouring the city, trying to find Cyclops before the police do.
Marvel Girl picks up Scott's location with her mental powers and the X-Men speed toward their leader in their jet-car.
However, the battle between Cyclops and the Living Pharaoh ends with the
Pharaoh easily defeating Cyclops and knocking the mutant hero unconscious.

Carried away by the Pharaoh's men, Cyclops has a special skin tight hood put over his head
and is placed in a trunk and smuggled aboard a plane to Egypt through New York's JFK airport.
In flight, Cyclops is allowed out of the trunk and is told that he is being taken to Egypt and left alone in the cargo hold.
Hearing a faint knocking sound, Cyclops realizes his brother Alex is trapped within
an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus and is being smuggled out of the country as well.
Detecting Scott's thoughts on the airplane, the X-Men chase after the plane but are shot out of the sky by the Living Pharaoh.
The X-Men barley avoids a crash landing in the ocean by Angel's quick thinking.
Stuck afloat in the water, the X-Men watch as the plane flies away, Jean vowing to find out where Scott's abductors are going.

Arriving in Egypt, the Pharaoh takes Cyclops and Alex to his pyramid headquarters
where he leaves the two to drown in a room that is slowly filling with water.
Cyclops manages to use his visor to smash open the sarcophagus, freeing Alex.

Alex in turn helps remove the hood from Cyclops' face allowing him to use his optic blasts to free them.

Attacking the Pharaoh and his men, the two brothers are soon aided by the arriving X-Men who help turn the battle in the hero’s favor.
In the battle, the Pharaoh gains the high ground and attempts to use his ankh against the X-Men when suddenly Alex
fires energy bolts from his hands that shatters the Pharaoh's weapon, sending him toppling off the top of the pyramid.

Saved from a nasty fall by the Angel, the defeated Pharaoh orders his minions to flee the scene until he summons for them again.
Allowing the Pharaoh's men to escape, the X-Men are shocked to realize that Scott's brother Alex is also a mutant.

Script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Don Heck (layouts) and Werner Roth, inks by Vince Colletta

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I do not know if the comicbook character Alex Summers dyes his hair blonde I mean I know the comicbook character Lorna Dane dyed her hair brown but Alex

[Havok83]

I do not know if the comicbook character Alex Summers dyes his hair blonde I mean I know the comicbook character Lorna Dane dyed her hair brown but Alex

He doesnt. Alex is a natural born blonde

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Uncanny X-Men #243 Apr 1989
Inferno: Part 6 of 7 - "Ashes!" Guest-starring X-Factor.
Story continued from X-Factor #38...

On top of the Empire State Building, the X-Men mourn for Madelyne Pryor and talk about everything that happened during Inferno.
Suddenly Jean Grey cries out. She forms a telekinetic bubble around herself and lets nobody in.
Psylocke uses her telepathy to bring herself, Cyclops, Storm, and Wolverine inside Jean's mind.

There they are at the Blue Area of the moon and witness the last instants before Phoenix sacrificed herself.
She perishes shouting Scott's name. The X-Men see that her energy does not dissipate, but rises towards earth.
Cyclops wonders how Jean knows of these events since she is in suspended animation at Jamaica Bay at the time.
Suddenly a large fist appears and smashes the memory. It is Sinister.
Psylocke tells the others that if he destroys all memories, Jean's soul and mind will be completely obliterated.
The X-Men float through more shards of memories, which are clearly Madelyne's.
In the center, they find Jean's memories loosely assembled around an image of the mansion, which is guarded by a redheaded figure.
As the X-Men approach she looks like the Goblin Queen and fires a blast. SHe then turns into Jean as Marvel Girl and asks for forgiveness.
Betsy understands that Jean's condition is a result of trying to integrate two powerful individual psyches.
Storm suggests to bring Rogue into the mindscape too, since she faces a similar effect each time she uses her powers,
but Psylocke discovers that an outside force blocks her from going outside of Jean's mind.
A huge image of Sinister appears and he destroys another memory shard. The X-Men try to fight him, but physical powers are useless.
Only Betsy's telepathy stands a chance and she succeeds in building a barrier, keeping Sinister at bay.
The others try to talk some sense into Madelyne's personality, who gained the upper hand again.
Both Scott and Logan fail. She refuses to help and is glad that the X-Men might die along with her.
Storm realizes that this isn't Madelyne at all, it is Jean who is about to give up;
she was terrified about the Phoenix force's offer and denied it with her every being.
The results were Dark Phoenix and the Goblyn Queen. Maybe it would be better if things ended right now.
Psylocke's shield breaks and Sinister gets through again. He heard the last part of Jean's fears and offers
her to break the terrible cycle by stripping her of memories and identity that have caused nothing but pain.
Madelyne refuses. She changes into Dark Phoenix, then into Jean and tells him that this is
her mind, her soul, her life and she means to keep them herself and she blocks Sinister out.

In Xavier's mansion, which he uses as a hideout, Sinister tells Malice to alert the others, since the X-Men are on their way.
Jean learned of his location during their final battle for her mind. The X-Men and X-Factor have split up into smaller teams.
The first, consisting of Jean, Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine and Archangel enter the mansion through Storm's former attic.
Psylocke and Rogue use the hangar bay as their way in.
Meanwhile Beast and Longshot brought Mr. And Mrs. Grey and baby Christopher to the X-Factor ship.
They argue which one stays behind to guard the Greys and who may go to help to fight Sinister.
The remaining mutants, Colossus, Iceman, Havok and Dazzler, approach the mansion through the Morlock tunnels beneath the Xavier estate.
They cover forty miles without a problem, but right before the mansion, they run into a demon-transformed Blockbuster.
He is faster and stronger than they remember and knocks Colossus and Iceman out before they can do anything.

In the narrow tunnels, Dazzler shoots a full force laser beam, but she has no effect. Blockbuster grabs her,

but suddenly Havok unleashes a plasma beam and kills him. Alison wonders,
because he was always afraid of doing that. Alex replies that Inferno changed him.
In the hangar bay Sabretooth sneaks up on Betsy and slams her into the ground.
He wants to rip her throat, but Psylocke reaches into his animalistic mind and stops him in mid-air and fries his mind.
Upstairs in the mansion, the first group discovers that Sinister has searched
through everything, personal and private rooms, even the Professor's office.
While they are most distracted Malice strikes and hurls metallic debris around and Jean and Ororo quickly defeat her.

The X-Men gather in the main room and start to interrogate Polaris/Malice, who is held in one of Jean's telekinetic fields.
She refuses to reveal any information about Sinister. Storm orders Psylocke to mind-probe her
and then try to separate the two women, but Malice says that would surely kill her because the bonding is permanent.
She turns to Havok, claiming that she still loves him, and Alex asks her to prove it by giving them the needed information.
The mansion explodes, all lie around unconscious. The only one who is unhurt is Malice.
Ironically the field that held her shielded her from the impact.
Sinister comes out of hiding and pulls Jean from the debris, now he has the original to tamper with
and he orders Malice to kill the other members of the X-Men and X-Factor as Longshot arrives on the scene to stop them.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by Marc Silvestri and Hilary Barta.

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He doesnt. Alex is a natural born blonde

Then why wasn't the character depicted as such during his debut in the X-Men series in the late 60's?

[Havok83]

Then why wasn't the character depicted as such during his debut in the X-Men series in the late 60's?

He was. You posted a recolor from either a TPB or digital remaster. He was portrayed as a dirty/sandy blonde but whomever did the recolor mistook it for brown. He's blonde in 99.9999999999% of his appearance. Not sure why one miscoloration would throw into question his real hair color. There's enough evidence (like all the flashbacks and stories surrounding Alex as a child) to definitely label him as a blonde, not to mention thats how he is listed in all official Marvel stats and handbooks. This isnt an Iceman situation

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He was. You posted a recolor from either a TPB or digital remaster. He was portrayed as a dirty/sandy blonde but whomever did the recolor mistook it for brown. For real? Thanks for explaining.

He's blonde in 99.9999999999% of his appearance. Not sure why one miscoloration would throw into question his real hair color. There's enough evidence (like all the flashbacks and stories surrounding Alex as a child) to definitely label him as a blonde, not to mention thats how he is listed in all official Marvel stats and handbooks. This isnt an Iceman situation

What about that character I only know of said character being a blonde in the Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends cartoon series.

[Havok83]

What about that character I only know of said character being a blonde in the Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends cartoon series.

Bobby is a brunette but in more modern times, he is sometimes incorrectly colored blonde. This happened in Carey's X-men run and inconsistently occurred for a while. He has light brown hair but some artist either think its supposed to be blonde or use wrong reference material

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Thanks for making me aware.

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X-Factor #39 Apr 1989
Inferno! Guest-starring the X-Men. Part 7 of 7 - "Ashes to Ashes!"
Continued from Uncanny X-Men #243...

Mr. Sinister and the Malice controlled Polaris stand in the ruins of the X-Mansion.
The members of the X-Men and X-Factor defeated and Marvel Girl his captive.
The only person standing in their way is Longshot, who despite his doubts, is able to create
a distraction with his luck powers long enough for the Beast to recover and try to fight back.
This in turn allows Cyclops to revive. Scott easily defeats Polaris and tries to turn his powers against Sinister.
However Sinister has some form of control over him. When Rogue and Psylocke revive
and attempt to fight Mr. Sinister, Betsy's mental attack is fended off,
and when Rogue attempts to absorb his mind and powers, Sinister actually takes full control of her body.

During this brief possession, Cyclops sees Sinister standing over him and recalls a lost memory from his youth,
where Mr. Sinister experimented on him as a young body. As Polaris tricks Havok into "helping" her only to bind him,
Sinister explains that he had been manipulating Cyclops from the start. That he was in charge at the orphanage
and stifled Scott's early powers and implanted false memories. As Havok is binded in metal by Polaris,

he warns her that Inferno has changed him and that he is no longer afraid of using his powers.
Sinister explains that he also attempted to manipulate Jean Grey knowing that their combined DNA would create the ultimate mutant.
However when Jean had seemingly died, he instead cloned Madelyne from Jean's DNA in order to fullfill this purpose.
As Scott struggles to free himself, Colossus attempts to attack and is similarly held at bay by Polaris.

As Mr. Sinister continues to explain how he manipulated Scott at a young age, Psylocke establishes a psylink between
the scattered members of the X-Men and X-Factor, and they begin to formulate a counter attack plan.
They note that Sinister appears to be keeping Scott under his power, as though he is afraid of Scott's powers,
and figure that might be the key to defeating Mr. Sinister. Havok tells the others to let him deal with Scott and they launch their attack.
As the X-Men pile on Mr. Sinister, Storm uses her wind powers to sweep up Marvel Girl and uses rain to revive her
as the others continue to pound Mr. Sinister with their mutant abilities -- however none seem to have an effect.

As the X-Men fight on, Sabretooth comes out of the rubble of the X-Mansion

prompting Wolverine to deal with him by impaling his rival with his claws.
Havok goes to his brother and while taunting him for being weak begins to bombard Scott

with his atomic energy powers, charging Scott up with a massive amount of energy.
Sinister manages to collect Marvel Girl back and begins kissing her, the final thing to push Scott over the edge.
When the Beast pulls Marvel Girl to safety, Scott breaks through the mental barriers
and manages to blast Sinister with a full power optic blast, seemingly destroying his enemy.

In the aftermath of the battle, Alex reports that Polaris escaped and he and Scott make amends.
With the battle over, the X-Men depart from X-Factors company, telling Scott that they will
continue to fight Xavier's dreams in their own way and the two groups part as friends.
Left in the rubble of Xavier's school Scott once more reflects on how he let his dead wife down so badly.
However they all agree that they managed to save young Christopher and they will be committed to raising him together.

Story by Louise Simonson. Art by Walter Simonson and Al Milgrom.

[Havok83]

Alex was horrible in todays Champions. Marvel is committed to writing unappealing portrayals of him these days

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Uncanny X-Men #56 May 1969
"What Is...the Power?"
Continued from last issue...

In the Egyptian desert, the X-Men battle the Living Pharaoh and his men; The Pharaoh takes off with Alex

and siphons off his mutant powers to turn himself into the Living Monolith;
As the X-Men battle the Monolith, Alex turns the tables by taking back his power and more,

stopping the Monolith and destroying the ancient temple where he has been trapped;

Alex warns his friends to stay away as he has no control over the destructive powers coursing through his body.

Script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Neal Adams, inks by Tom Palmer

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Since the marvel character Havok has a history of leading super hero teams in the comics it is to me to be a great service to the character were the MCU Alex Summers sporting the look as created by Neal Adams with minor changes by John Cassaday portrayed as leading a super hero team X-Factor? Avengers Unity Squad? in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!