Longshot Appreciation 2020

[Hybrid]

Some guys have all the luck. Longshot is that guy.

Will he be lucky enough to get a bigger story in the X-Men’s rebirth this year? We’ll see.

Discuss and Appreciate the X-Men’s favorite alien friend.

[Londo Bellian]

So lucky, he managed to avoid being the murder victim on Marvel's "Incoming" due to the coincidental similarity of his star mark with the Hala star.

Now, I was looking for a short video capture of the "Longshot" show intro as seen in the TAS episode "Mojovision." This is the only one I could find on YouTube, but the title card proper was edited by the uploader. Sorry.

[Thundershot]

Some guys have all the luck. Longshot is that guy.

Will he be lucky enough to get a bigger story in the X-Men’s rebirth this year? We’ll see.

Discuss and Appreciate the X-Men’s favorite alien friend.

Outside of Art Adams, that cover is probably my favorite rendition of Longshot (who has been my favorite comic book character since he was introduced in the 80’s).

Too bad he didn’t look like that inside. The story was great though, in the spirit of the original limited series. It also shouted out loud that he was NOT A MUTANT.... He was just always associated with them. Fortunately that god awful haircut is gone...

Him popping up in Incoming was a surprise...

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[DAHX]

I also find it surprising that the lead role of Marauders was planned for Longshot initially. It was dropped because he isn't a mutant, but hopefully this means he isn't forgotten and he'll have a place in the X books somewhere down the road later

[Frontier]

Happy New Year to the luckiest mutant .

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Happy New Year to the luckiest non-mutant The marvel characters Longshot and Calvin Rankin aka Mimic are non-mutants who were once members of the super hero team X-Men.

[Ricochet Rita]

Once upon a time, once upon a place... A boy with no name, no past, no future --only present. Like a blank paper, people reflected their hopes, fears, desires and prejudices over him, so he was called saviour, fool, slave, alien, star, rebel, clown, messiah, freak, hero, mutant, slut... His existence was a never-ending loop of rise, fall and oblivion with only one thing for sure: he was lucky --was he?

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Nickname: Longshot

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: Longshot #1 (September, 1985)

Creators: Ann Nocenti & Arthur Adams

Height: 6'2''

Weight: 80 lbs.

Hair: Blond

Eyes: Blue

Powers, Characteristics & Abilities:

Longshot was created through genetic engineering, so he was never "born". He has only three fingers and an opposable thumb on each hand. He also has leather-like skin, hollow bones, pointed fangs and two hearts. Longshot's left eye glows brightly when he uses his superhuman powers.

He was genetically engineered and augmented by magical means to have certain abilities. He is superhumanly acrobatic (speed, agility, dexterity, flexibility, reflexes/reactions, coordination and balance) and has advanced healing abilities. The mystical augmentation gave him the ability to affect probability fields through psionic means in order to give himself "good luck" in his activities. This allows incredibly unlikely events to happen in Longshot's favor, even when Longshot does not consciously will it to do so. This luck, however, is fickle, and can backfire if he overuses it, creating an equal and opposite "bad luck" effect elsewhere, that can affect others or even Longshot himself.

Longshot can read "psychic imprints" that people leave on objects that they have handled, and thereby learn the thoughts that an individual had while handling the object (or his/her future), a phenomenon known as psychometry. He can also telepathically "read" the recent memories of a person by making physical contact with him or her.

Longshot carries cleaver-like blades, stored in a bandoleer, which he hurls with inhuman accuracy or in some cases, completely dependent upon his luck powers. He is also shown as proficient in other types of bladed weaponry.

http://marvel.wikia.com/Longshot_(Mojoverse)

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Estimated power grid:

Agility – 6 Superhuman [significantly beyond the natural limits of the human body]
Durability – 4 Enhanced Human
Energy Projection – 6 Ability to give off high levels of energy for a long period of time [probability laws handling]
Fighting Ability – 4 Normal human with extensive combat training
Intelligence – 2 Normal
Mental Powers – 4 Possessing a single, strong mental ability [psychometry]
Speed – 3 Superhuman [peak range between 111-115 hour]
Stamina – 2 Able to sustain for 1 minute
Strength – 2 Normal
Reflexes – 6 Superhuman [virtually instantaneous]

X-Men characters with very outdated power grids

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:-D Embraced canon: Longshot #1-6, Fantastic Four vs. X-Men #1-4, Uncanny X-Men Annuals #10-13, Uncanny X-Men #215-248, X-Factor Annual #7

:3 Sympathized canon: Ultimate X-Men #54-57, Longshot: Fools One-Shot, Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe #1-2

:-| Accepted canon: X-Factor Investigations #33-259, Exiles?

:-( Rejected canon: Everything else

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Old threads:

Longshot Appreciation 2019

Longshot Appreciation 2018

Happy-go-lucky 30th birthday, Longshot!

[Thundershot]

I also find it surprising that the lead role of Marauders was planned for Longshot initially. It was dropped because he isn't a mutant, but hopefully this means he isn't forgotten and he'll have a place in the X books somewhere down the road later

Whoa wait what?? This is the first I’ve heard that...

Also, I’d prefer he try to find his own niche instead of being regulated to the X-Books...

[DAHX]

Whoa wait what?? This is the first I’ve heard that...

Also, I’d prefer he try to find his own niche instead of being regulated to the X-Books...

JDW said it in the last X-Men Monday

I also do want to shout out Marauders because I love that book. It’s so great. That one’s been a real ride too because Gerry Duggan pitched that so early on–he pitched that sometime in 2018. Well, I should say he pitched what became it–it wasn’t like, “Here’s the finished book.” He knew about Krakoa and he immediately was like, “There should be a black market pirate book. I want to do a book about pirates sneaking things in and out of Krakoa, sneaking things in and out of countries.” I think his first pitch for it, he said maybe Longshot should lead it and then shortly there after the name Bishop came up and I don’t remember how much later it was suggested Kitty–I mean Kate.

[Thundershot]

Thank you!

Good to know he’s in the minds of writers. However I don’t think piracy would have suited him. His powers don’t work when he has impure motives...

[Ricochet Rita]

Damn it X/

I totally forgot that character threads are closed at the end of the year, so another poster took advance in starting this one. Not that I'm complaining that someone else remember him

Also, now has popped another true fan and that's awesome!

Outside of Art Adams, that cover is probably my favorite rendition of Longshot (who has been my favorite comic book character since he was introduced in the 80’s).

Too bad he didn’t look like that inside. The story was great though, in the spirit of the original limited series. It also shouted out loud that he was NOT A MUTANT.... He was just always associated with them. Fortunately that god awful haircut is gone...

Him popping up in Incoming was a surprise...

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I too enjoyed 'Longshot saves the MU', it was refreshing. As for 'Incoming', I had no clue he was in it! Thanks!

Now, if you allow me, I'll feel free to post the usual introduction to the thread.

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Will he be lucky enough to get a bigger story in the X-Men’s rebirth this year?

Seeing as 2020 marks the character's 35th anniversary and if the X-Office gives a damn about the character than the character most certainly is to get a bigger story this year.

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ECCC 2014: SECRET ORIGINS PRESENTS
ARTHUR ADAMS
https://worddisk.com/wiki/Arthur_Adams_(comics)/

[Hypestyle]

what is the current fate of mojo-world? how vast is that planet?

[Ricochet Rita]

Not a clue about none of these questions, I'm afraid. Nevertheless, I guess its existence is indifferent to 616.

In the former Limited Series, it's called "a planet", although it rather seems another dimension and I personally prefer to consider it that way ("an extradimensional and extratemporal realm", according to Marvel Database). After all, another of its names is 'Mojoverse'. We scarcely know anything about it, except that it seems to be in a permanent dawn of acid skies (sort of as Fairy Land) and that, apart from its wide cities, there are "barren bogs and ink lagoons that could sink armies". I wish someday someone wrote a story for this dimension which weren't the zillionth boring gladiator fight, but an exploration of the wild lands in which Arize lived.

Something I don't like is, precisely, the name 'Mojoworld'/'Mojoverse'. In the former Limited Series, Mojo was the dominant one, OK, but the dimension was ruled by the Spineless as a species. I don't like the stories 'one vs. one, hero vs. villain'. What was interesting in the original story was the oppression from a species over another, not a duel between a hero and a tyrant. Personalizing is dangerous --I mean, getting rid of Mojo will not solve the problem. The system is the problem.

That's why I prefer to call this dimension The Wildways, although I know it's not really right.