Codename: Havok
Real Name: Alexander Summers
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 175 lbs.
Group Affiliation: The Six
Previous Affiliations: The Brotherhood of Mutants, X-Factor, X-Men
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #58
Known Allies: Lorna Dane, Forge, Ever, Ororo Monrue
Known Relatives: Scott Summers (Cyclops, brother), Christopher Summers
(Corsair, father), Katherine Summers (mother, deceased), Philip Summers
(grandfather), Deborah Summers (grandmother), Jean Grey-Summers (Phoenix,
sister-in-law), Madelyne Pyror (in 616 reality, sister-in-law; in his
present reality, wife), Scottie Summers (in present reality, son)
Known Enemies: The Living Monolith, Sauron, Erik the Red, Dark Beast
Powers: Alex has the mutant ability to absorb ambient cosmic energy
and release it in the form of high power, plasma blasts. His plasma
blast is usually lethal, except in rare times he has had control over
his powers. Alex's mutant power cannot affect Cyclops, similar to
how Cyclops' power cannot affect Havok. Alex has used various forms
of control, the most common being a suit that can monitor his energies
(the first was one created by Larry Trask to control Havok). In his
current body (in an alternate universe), Havok has nearly complete
control over his powers, rather than in his former body, where he
had little control at all.
Origin: Alexander Summers is the younger of the two sons of Christopher
Summers, a United States Air Force Major and test pilot, and his wife
Katherine Anne. Alex and his mother and older brother Scott were flying
back from a vacation in Christopher's vintage airplane when the plane
crashed into a scout ship of the Shi'ar Empire, setting the wooden
plane ablaze. Katherine Anne Summers pushed Scott and Alex out of
the burning plane with the only available parachute. Thus the two
boys escaped the Shi'ar while their parents did not. Scott and Alex
both believed their parents had been killed until as adults they were
reunited with their father, who had since become Corsair, leader of
the Starjammers, a starfaring band of adventurers. The two boys were
hospitalized for injuries they sustained during their landing, since
their overburdened parachute had been unable to slow their decent
safely enough. Scott and Alex both suffered traumatic amnesia regarding
the plane incident. Alex left the hospital after two weeks and was
placed in an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska. Soon adopted, Alex had
little or no contact with Scott until years later.
Alex was unaware of Scott's developing mutant power or his identity
as Cyclops of the X-Men until after the younger Summers had graduated
from college. It was at that time that Alex first became aware of
his own mutant abilities. A professor of archeology named Ahmet Abdol,
also a mutant, had discovered a psychic link between himself and Summers.
While both of them had the latent mutant power to absorb and transform
cosmic radiation, Abdol's ability to exercise the power was jammed
in an unknown manner by Summers' body. The Living Pharoah, as this
mutant was calling himself, captured the youth and took him to his
laboratory in Egypt. Abdol found a way to screen Summers' body from
ambient cosmic radiation, permitting his own body to attain its latent
potential. Abdol was transformed into the Living Monolith, a gigantic
mutant with vast cosmic power. The Monolith was defeated while in
combat with the X-Men when Summers' latent mutant powers surfaced
under the stress of entombment within the mechanism designed to screen
him from cosmic radiation.
Incapable of controlling the shock waves his body emanated, Summers
chose to remain in the Egyptian desert rather than accompany the X-Men
back to America. Summers was soon captured by one of the mutant-hunting
robotic Sentinels and brought to the headquarters of Larry Trask,
the son of the Sentinels' inventor. Trask gave Summers the codename
Havok and a costume whose chest display monitored the build-up of
cosmic energy within him. When the X-Men finally freed Trask's captive
mutants, Summers accompanied his brother and his teammates back to
civilization where he began training to help him keep his energy in
check. Eventually Havok gained enough mastery over his power that
he would release it only when he wished to do so, and could wield
his power skillfully enough to become a formidable opponent in battle.
Havok fell in love with Lorna Dane, the mutant now known as Polaris.
They both served for a time in the X-Men helping to repel the invasion
by the alien Z'nox. Neither Havok nor Polaris wished to lead a life
as an adventurer, but they discovered that they had a mutual interest
in geophysics. Hence, they began doing doctoral research in that subject
in the Diablo mountain range in Arizona. The plan to stay out of the
affairs of the outside world did not last long. Havok and Polaris
found themselves hunted by the Marauders. Polaris was now under the
mental control of Malice. Polaris was forced to attack the X-Men as
the leader of the Marauders. Havok, now a member of the X-Men, had
to fight his lover. Polaris was eventually freed from Malice's control,
but was captured by the mutant named Zaladane, who claimed to be her
sister and stole her powers. For a short while, Polaris gained new
superhuman powers.
Later, Polaris regained her original powers and, with Havok, joined
the second version of X-Factor, a newly-formed, governmentally-funded,
mutant agency. Havok continued to serve with X-Factor until he felt
that there were too many people in his life that had been controlling
him. He was also deeply affected by the apparent death of his teammate
Jamie Madrox. Disillusioned with both the X-Men and X-Factor, Havok
teamed up with the Black Beast, the Beast's evil counterpart from
another timeline. Together they founded a team of mutant terrorists
called the Brotherhood. However, Havok did not truly become a terrorist;
he joined the Brotherhood only in order to stop the Black Beast's
sinister plans. Recently, in an attempt to stop a time-traveller named
Greystone from returning to the future, Havok was believed to be killed.
Instead, his essense was transported into an alternate timeline version
of himself. In this timeline, he and his wife, Madelyne Pryor, lead
The Six and have a son named Scottie. He is now deciding if he wants
to remain in this reality or find a way home.