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Straw Man

FIRST APPEARANCE Dead of Nght #11 (August 197Ł>)

REAL NAME Skirra Ckwus

OCCUPATION Wystic guarckan BASE An unnamed magIcal realm HEIGHT 5ft 10in WEIGHT 60 Ibs EYES Red HAIR Yedow SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Incarnates h.msed in bodłoś composed of straw: profects tear; can command crows and local plant lito. and has assorted othor myst»c attnbutes.

Stryfe

FACTRLE

REAL NAME

A bcing liidigcnous to an trxtra-dimcnsion.il realni bordering that of Earth. the Straw Man can access our univcrse througłi a mystic painting tliat depiets him.The painting* origins arc shrouded in mystery; it is covctcd by the Cult of Kału mai, who can summon their demonie master and his underlings rhrough it. Ho\vever the Straw Man considcrs himself a guardian of the Earth, and has succcssłiilly kept Kalutnai in check. Rccruitcd by the Dweller-lti-Darkness as one ofhis Fear Lords. the Straw Man refused to go along with the demonie entity's plan to subjugate Earth, and he incarnated himself as Skirra Corvus, a television personaliiy. in whosc form he was ablc to wam Doctor Sikanc.e of the Dwellers plan. TB

Infected with a teclmo-organic virus that threatened to tum his entire body into organie metal, the infant Nathan Summcrs was taken ncarty rwo millennia into an altcrnatc futurę to savc his life.

In ćasc lic should dic. Mother Askani of the Askani Sisterhood arranged for the infant to be cloiied.This clone, which was free froni the tcchno-organic vinis, was stolcu away and raised by the tyram Apocai.ypsl, wnó gave him the namc Stryfe.

The original Nathan grew up to bccome the liero Caih k, leader of the freedom fighters that battled armies commanded by Stryfe. Botli men traveled back to the “mainstream” time period of the X-Men. where tliey havc continued to bitterly opposc each other. Although his original form was destroyed. Stryfe s consciousness can take over other bodies. PS

Stryfe

OCCUPATION

Terrorist leader BASE

Mobile

HEIGHT 6 FT 8 IN WEIGHT 350 Ibs EYES Blue HAIR White

FIRST APPEARANCE

The New Mutants #87 (March 1990)

A mutant posseesing supertmman Strength and other pbys>cni alaMies. Stryfe also lias vast totopathic and letokmcbc powors. Unlko hte done Cablo. ho does not have to waste any of ihesa fxjwers keeping a techno organie virus in check.

Ironit,illy, simę Stryfe it free from the teehno-organit oirut, he musi uvar metal armor for protectiou.

Stryfe

Strong Guy

Sugar Man

FIRST APPEARANCE New Mutants #29 (Juły 1985)

REAL NAME Guido Carosełla OCCUPATION Special Enforcer for X-Factor lnve$tigations BASE New York City HEIGHT 7!t WEIGHT 750 Ibs EYES Blue HAIR White SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Absorbs kmetic energy-failure to rcioase it quickfy causes physica! distorlions and damages hean; kinotic energy enlwinces strength.

A ncw reemit to Jamie Madroxs nasccnt X-Eactor lnvestigations. until recently Guido Cirosella was cnslaved in a Tokyo-based mutant fighting club. Although Guido s mutation causes liim constant physical pain, he rarely lets this show— indeed, in his spare time he sometimes moonligliLs as a stand-up comcdian. An occasional bodyguard to rock musician Lila CliENEY,

Guido has also served with X-Factor and it was there that Guido first struck up his tnendship with Jamie M.ulrox. a o

FIRST APPEARANCE Generation Next voI. 1 #2 (Apnl 1995) REAL NAME Unknown

OCCUPATION Advonturer former assassin BASE MoWe HEIGHT 6łt9ln WEIGHT 400 Ibs EYES Whito HAIR Black SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES

Enhancod strength and rofloxos: razor-sharp exteodible tongue, four arms; acfvancod regenerative abilities: can control his size and mass

Sugar Man comes from the alternatc futurę known as the Age of Apocalypse. where he operated the Scattle Gon* slavc camp. When Coi.ossus broke in to the camp to rescue his sister Illyana Rasputin, Sugar

Man shnink down and hid in Colossuss boot. eventually cmerging in the mainstream timelinc 20 ycars in the past. From his new vantagc point, Sugar Man was able to build up the island nation of Genosha by supplying genctic technology to create a population of mutatc slaves. Sugar Man survived the Genosha holocaust, but secmingly died montłis later at the hands of Callistd. DW