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Onslaught
Onslaught in X-Men vol. 2, #53 (June 1996). Art by Andy Kubert.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Ten-Men vol. ii, #53 (June 1996)
Created past	Scott Lobdell Marker Waid Andy Kubert
In-story data
Squad affiliations	Night Descendants
Notable aliases	Charles Xavier; Patchwork Man
Abilities	Psychic Omnipotence Superhuman strength

Onslaught is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published past Marvel Comics.

Onslaught was written as a sentient psionic entity created from the consciousness of 2 mutants: Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto. During a battle between the X-Men and Magneto's Acolytes, Professor Xavier used his telepathic powers to close downward Magneto's mind, rendering him catatonic. It was explained through the Onslaught crossover series that the darkest aspect of Magneto's mind escaped into Xavier's hidden, where it "merged" with Xavier's own darker nature to eventually grow into a separate persona of its own.

Publication history [edit]

The grapheme starting time appeared in cameo in Ten-Men: Prime #1 (July 1995), named in Uncanny 10-Men #322 and made his first full appearance in X-Men vol. 2, #53 (June 1996) where he was co-created by writers Scott Lobdell, Mark Waid, and artist Andy Kubert.^[ane] He was written and introduced as a villain that was part of the outcome of events in the 1993 "Fatal Attractions" storyline. Onslaught's introduction into X-Men storylines acquired its ain crossover event across multiple Marvel comic book titles (including 10-Men and Uncanny X-Men problems, and Cable issues).

Fictional graphic symbol biography [edit]

Origins [edit]

Onslaught is a sentient psionic entity created from the consciousness of Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto. During a battle between the X-Men and Magneto'due south Acolytes, Magneto used his powers to rip the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton, causing such extensive injuries that his healing factor was exhausted. Xavier was so unhinged with anger over the brutality of Magneto's assault against Wolverine that he used his telepathic powers to close down Magneto's mind and render him catatonic. During the psionic contact, Magneto'south anger, grief, and lust for vengeance entered Xavier'southward consciousness, mingling with every long-suppressed negative feeling Xavier had endured during the concluding 30 years. This result created the being known equally Onslaught.

Starting time advent [edit]

Onslaught remained fallow for some time but subtly began influencing Charles Xavier. After an endeavour to spy on the new mutant Nate Grey, a refugee from the earth known as the Historic period of Apocalypse, resulted in the latter pulling Xavier from the astral airplane into the real world, the attribute of Onslaught in Xavier was able to use this feel to 'teach' itself how to manifest its own torso.^[2]

Onslaught offers Juggernaut a chance to join him in his effort to generate fear in a twisted plot to "unify" humans and mutants. When Marko declines his offer and decides to warn the X-Men of the danger ahead, Onslaught uses his powers to mentally block Juggernaut from remembering its true identity, and magnetically to fling him from Vancouver to New Jersey. When the X-Men find him, Cain was simply able to tell the X-Men one word, the name of his assaulter: "Onslaught".^[3]

Following the encounter with Juggernaut, Onslaught invaded a government-sanctioned Sentinel base. He downloaded the electric current specifications for the mutant-hunting androids and erased portions of the memories of the employees working in the clandestine factory. Additionally, Onslaught had started recruiting others to exercise his dirty work for him and beginning manifested himself to the 10-Men when he challenged the teleporter Gateway to exam Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, and Iceman, past kidnapping them and sending them to confront off confronting his agent Post. Subsequently, Onslaught helped Jean Grey and Gambit escape from a cloak-and-dagger meeting held at the Pentagon, where Bastion, the leader of Operation Goose egg Tolerance, met with diverse earth leaders to discuss the threat of mutants.^[4]

Onslaught's attending was too occupied by another task; the recruitment of the immensely powerful telepath Nate Grayness. To do the job, the powerful entity knocked out Sebastian Shaw and Tessa, to lure Holocaust away from them, promising him immeasurable power in commutation for his loyalty.^[v] He then dispatched Holocaust to test Nate. Using physical strength, Nate eventually cracked Holocaust's armor, though he was unable to breach the powerful psionic defenses Onslaught placed effectually Holocaust's heed. Accepting defeat, Holocaust fled, simply warned Nate that Onslaught knew his potential at present and would come in person to claim him.^[6]

Onslaught later sought out Jean Grey, hoping to convince her to bring together his crusade with the offer of power rivaling that of the Phoenix Force. He took her into the astral plane where he revealed damaging information about Professor Xavier, such as a long-forgotten attraction the Professor had to Jean during the X-Men'southward early days in hoping to recruit her Phoenix Force experience to gain more power. Jean resisted Onslaught, but he defeated her and sent her dorsum to her physical torso with only a fleeting memory of what had happened every bit well as the proper noun "Onslaught" telepathically branded on her brow.^[7]

Gradually, Xavier's frustration with his dream of mutant-homo harmony began to increase, exacerbated by the daily growth of anti-mutant hysteria, the deaths of dozens of mutants from the lethal Legacy Virus, and his own failed attempt to rehabilitate Sabretooth. Xavier reached his breaking bespeak when anti-mutant humans killed a young mutant near the grounds of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, the hush-hush base of the X-Men.^[8] At this signal, Onslaught awakened inside Xavier and took full possession of the Professor'southward mind and body. Onslaught-as-Xavier called together the 10-Men. When they resisted his plan to plow them into soldiers fighting a full war against humans, Onslaught revealed himself to the X-Men and tried to destroy them. Bishop, remembering childhood stories of a traitor betraying and killing the 10-Men, began to realize that the guilty party was Xavier as Onslaught. Bishop rescued his teammates, just Onslaught escaped, taking Xavier's body with him.^[9]

Once free, Onslaught created a childlike psionic projection named Charles to gain the trust of Franklin Richards. Onslaught captured the child, despite a rescue attempt by Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Adult female. Now carrying Franklin and Xavier, Onslaught also captured Nate Grayness, intending to utilise his raw psionic power to fuel Onslaught'southward plans to transform the man race into a collective consciousness. Onslaught returned to New York, reprogramming the Picket robots to obey his commands and grade a protective circumvolve around Manhattan, sealing off the island from the residuum of the earth.^[10]

The X-Men, the Fantastic Iv, and the Avengers joined forces to challenge Onslaught. Their outset confrontation with the entity and his minions resulted in the rescue of Xavier, reducing Onslaught to a mass of psionic energy contained within his armor. Unfortunately, this also prevented Xavier from influencing the villain with his better nature. A second and final confrontation occurred at Onslaught'southward Cardinal Park citadel where the heroes made a number of attempts to free Franklin and X-Man from Onslaught's armor. During their adjacent assault, Jean Grayness used her telepathy to suppress the office of the monstrous Hulk's mind that contained the rationality of his alter ego, Dr. Bruce Banner. With his new, near-feral intelligence pushing his rage - and thus, his strength - to unbelievable levels, the Hulk battled Onslaught and tore apart his armor. The resulting explosion of psionic energy separated Banner and the Hulk, and Onslaught was left as an energy beingness, immune to about physical harm. Onslaught then used Franklin'south powers to create a second sunday that would destroy the heroes and Manhattan. In desperation, Thor flew into the energy being, disrupting Onslaught's grade. Realizing that Thor's efforts solitary were insufficient to destroy their adversary, the non-mutant members of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four entered the free energy field. The 10-Men were unable to practice likewise, equally it was theorized that if Onslaught, a being of mutant origin, came to possess a mutant host, he would become unstoppable. Onslaught dissolved, seemingly destroyed, along with the heroes who had thrown themselves into the rift.^[xi]

The remaining Sentinels were disabled, Franklin and Nate were rescued, and Manhattan was returned to normal. Later, it was revealed that the Avengers and the Fantastic Four did not die, equally had been surmised. Rather, the heroes were reborn in a pocket universe created past Franklin. The Avengers and the Fantastic Four returned to their rightful dwelling months later, possessing merely hazy memories of their fourth dimension on Counter-Globe.^[12]

Onslaught Reborn [edit]

A five-issue limited serial was issued in late 2006 to gloat the tenth ceremony of the "Onslaught" storyline, titled Onslaught Reborn, past writer Jeph Loeb and artist Rob Liefeld. Onslaught Reborn features the return of the villain and addresses unresolved plot threads;^[13] this outcome is set afterward the "Decimation" and "Ceremonious War" storylines.^[xiv]

After Scarlet Witch used her powers to de-power well-nigh of Earth's mutants, the powers of Charles Xavier and Magneto collided to reform Onslaught, whose consciousness lingered after his defeat. Onslaught swore revenge on the young Franklin Richards and whatsoever other hero that he despised, manifesting every bit a monstrous version of his previous form with a skull-like face. He first took control of both the Human Torch and Mr. Fantastic in an attempt to kill Franklin, but was shortly interrupted past the Invisible Adult female and the Thing, who saved Franklin. Franklin ran to Counter-Globe, but Onslaught followed.^[15]

As Onslaught appeared in Counter-World he became larger, and regained his Magneto-like mask. He before long encountered the Avengers and was presumed defeated subsequently he fell into the body of water. Instead of worrying about Onslaught, the Avengers questioned Franklin's brownie, as Franklin claimed to be the son of both Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman. On Counter-World Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman were non married and did not have children. Before long subsequently this, Thor was assaulted by an Onslaught-possessed Blob, who battled Thor to make up one's mind which of the two was more than powerful. Onslaught switched between the bodies and possessed Thor, who struck the Hulk with lightning. Every bit Thor was about to strike once again, he dropped his hammer, every bit Onslaught was not worthy to carry information technology. Onslaught switched back to the Hulk, and punched Thor into the atmosphere. Onslaught was assaulted by the Avengers earlier he could selection upwards Thor's hammer. Captain America ordered the Human Torch and Iron Man to rescue Thor, telling them they had about 60 seconds for the rescue. They raced to save him, and Johnny took Thor dorsum to the Baxter Edifice, where Mr. Fantastic discovered that Franklin really was his son. In the battle, Captain America ordered Eagle to find Onslaught, and confronted Hawkeye with the fact that Wolverine was hiding in Hawkeye's costume. The Avengers continued to boxing the Hulk, while Captain America was thrown into a edifice. Fe Man, from the temper, charged down at the Blob at full speed, hoping that Bruce would forgive him someday. He punched the Blob, knocking him out. He and Captain America assessed their adjacent movement until Onslaught possessed Iron Man and attacked Captain America. Dorsum at Avengers Mansion, Rikki Barnes was babysitting Franklin when Loki, Executioner, Carmine Witch, Enchantress, and Ultron 5 surprised them with an offer to help defeat Onslaught. On a balcony, an invisible Pismire-Man and the Invisible Adult female let themselves be known, equally Sue refused to let the villains crusade Franklin any harm.^[xv]

After a brief skirmish, the heroes and villains decided to work together to defeat Onslaught. Rikki "Bucky" Barnes defeated Onslaught using a Fantasticar to send both Barnes and Onslaught through the Negative Zone barrier in the Fantastic Four's lab, trapping them. Franklin returned abode, Bucky constitute herself on Earth 616, and Onslaught was concluding seen floating outside the Area 42 Prison in the Negative Zone.^[15]

Onslaught Unleashed [edit]

Some time afterwards, Rikki Barnes, now known equally Nomad, began having foreign and brilliant nightmare about the deep jungles of Due south America. When her teammate Toro is kidnapped simply like she dreamed, she begins to doubtable that her nightmares are something more sinister than she first thought. Afterwards, while investigating Corporate Conglomerate Roxxon for illegal weapons systems, the Clandestine Avengers come across the plans for Projection Power, a new and incredibly deadly power source being secretly developed in the Colombian rainforest. Every bit the Clandestine Avengers investigate the facility, Beast and Ant-Man find the source of the mysterious energy source to be from the Negative Zone. As Rikki races inside the facility to locate Toro, she stumbles into the command room instead, where the sinister vocalization of her dreams beckons and reveals itself to be Onslaught.^[16]

Possessing Rikki's torso, Onslaught reveals that the real Rikki had, in fact, died in the Negative Zone; his current host was but a construct made by Onslaught himself so he could employ the energy he had stored in her every bit an anchor to pull himself back into the main Curiosity Earth. The revelation that Rikki had been sent to the main Curiosity Globe solely to serve every bit Onslaught's tether forced Rikki to fight back to prove he was wrong. Somewhen, Rikki had Gravity kill her so that Onslaught could not return and destroy Globe.^[17]

Despite Rikki'southward credible death, Steve Rogers began to have nightmares similar to the ones Rikki had before, suggesting that enough of Nomad's (and Onslaught's) energy may accept survived to escape death and now seek a new style to render to the main Marvel reality.^[18]

Crimson Onslaught [edit]

A clone of Cherry Skull later exhumes Charles Xavier's corpse and grafts part of his brain onto his own, giving him Xavier's psychic abilities.^[19]

In the lead-up to the Centrality storyline, Magneto is pushed too far by the Red Skull and his Due south-Men, afterward discovering that the madman had turned Genosha into a Concentration Campsite and was exterminating mutants and inhumans. Filled with anger, Magneto killed the South-Men before killing the Cherry Skull, offering him a "make clean expiry". Rather than using his ain magnetic powers, Erik used bricks to shatter the villain'southward skull, however by murdering the Red Skull, he merely unleashed Onslaught, who had apparently been dormant inside Xavier's listen, causing the psionic existence to merge with the Red Skull and get Red Onslaught, past far the most powerful incarnation of Red Skull.^[xx] He then started telepathically spreading detest across the world, as Magneto and the Avengers Unity Sectionalization tried to stop him. The Avengers came to assist subsequently locating the Skull following the discovery he was the source of the "Globe War Detest", who were shortly after joined by the 10-Men and other allies. However, the Cerise Onslaught deployed ii Adamantium Stark Sentinels which had been created past Iron Man under the influence of the Skull's telepathy, with their creation having been wiped from his memories by the villain.^[21] Scarlet Onslaught is eventually defeated by the combined might of Reddish Witch and Doctor Doom, that tried using their magic to perform a moral inversion on him that would permit Professor Ten to control the affiliation, but their efforts backfire, causing all the heroes and villains present during the confrontation to morally capsize from their usual behavior.^[22] With the Skull now reverted to a homo trunk that is identified as the 'White Skull' — unsaid more than once to exist Professor Xavier in control of the body one time again — he is hidden from the inverted Avengers past Edwin Jarvis until the aged Steve Rogers tin call up him.^[23] Working with the inverted villains — now referring to themselves equally the 'Astonishing Avengers' — and with the resurrected Brother Voodoo at present possessing the inverted Blood-red Witch, the White Skull is able to undo the inversion, although he just returns to his Blood-red Skull persona rather than Onslaught.^[24]

Powers of 10 [edit]

With the clandestine aid of Moira MacTaggert (who'southward revealed not only alive but actually a mutant herself with the ability of reincarnation), Charles Xavier and Magneto created a mutant nation on Krakoa. Moira noted on her journal that her deportment in manipulating Xavier had broken his psyche and she feared this would somewhen unleash something unexpected on the earth. Moira's fears were fulfilled when Xavier launched the psychic set on upon Magneto years afterward which created Onslaught.^[25]

Reign of X [edit]

Following the creation of Krakoa equally a mutant nation, Nightcrawler becomes aware that a night presence is haunting Krakoa, radically altering and influencing the minds of the young mutants and pushing them to their darker and crueler impulses on a day-to-day footing, specially in low-cal of effective immortality. This boogieman is a mysterious figure that appears and hunts the mutants in their dreams. The youths named him the Patchwork Man and fifty-fifty tell campfire ghost stories of him. Believing the culprit to be his son Legion, Xavier recruits Nightcrawler to investigate and bring Legion to Krakoa. Nightcrawler eventually finds and rescues Legion from Project Orchis with the later confirming to Nightcrawler that the Patchwork Man is none other than Onslaught, somehow restored and weaponized by Project Orchis, the secret alliance of anti-mutant scientists and politicians, in the hopes that his influence would push mutantkind into destroying themselves.^[26]

Onslaught's return was kept a cloak-and-dagger by Nightcrawler and Legion, out of fear of how it would lash out to protect itself if exposed. Working with Kuan-Yin Xorn and Shen Xorn, Legion tried to set a trap for the psychic entity past merging the minds of Loa and Mercury to entice him to invade. He was able to escape and acquired a fight between Fabian Cortez and Lost at Stacy X'south orphanage and after possessed every mutant in the Greenish Lagoon during a coming together between Legion and his father, forcing David and the Xorn brothers to kill everyone there in lodge to free them from his control.^[27] Legion eventually deduced that equally the Patchwork Man, Onslaught had been feeding on the parts of the mutants psyches that were lost during resurrection, and implanting a part of himself into the mind of every resurrected mutant.^[28]

Onslaught Revelation [edit]

Its somewhen discovered that Project Orchis implanted a sliver of Onslaught'south on Lost, who they had used as a examination subject before. When Lost was revived, the piece of Onslaught implanted itself on every mutant on the island. Thankfully, Onslaught was discovered before his plan was completed and he moved to a new program, the "Cruciball". Equally mutants were being revived, Onslaught implanted the idea for a massive party where mutants would then impale each other while a heed-controlled Professor Xavier erased their minds from Cerebro. Onslaught would and so eat these minds and abound infinitely stronger. When the "Cruciball" was foiled, Onslaught decided to take matters into his ain easily and manifested himself in the physical world. Due to the fact that Magneto has become significantly peaceful and Professor Xavier has embraced his darker side, Onslaught's new grade mimics that of Professor X'south with a blood-red, Cerebro-similar helmet, black bodysuit and jagged claws. He even lords over mutants in much the same style that Xavier has been doing recently. Possessing Magneto and Xavier again soon subsequently, Onslaught renew his attack on the Krakoans. However, fifty-fifty with his powers augmented by his outset hosts, this version of Onslaught was, after all, just a sliver of the original powered up by stolen energies, therefore he was no match for Nightcrawler, Legion, and their allies, who worked together to create the Modify, Legion's own mind organized into a functioned pocket universe in the Astral Aeroplane, where mutants could link their minds together. Under Nightcrawler'southward direction they them comprehend Onslaught instead of fighting him which diminished him under the weight of their very human emotional baggage. Nightcrawler then crushes the pathetic creature that Onslaught has been reduced to, patently ending his threat once and for all.^[29]

Powers and abilities [edit]

Onslaught is a psionic entity with superior physical and mental power; possessing the combined abilities of Professor X, Magneto, Franklin Richards, and Nate Greyness. At its prime, Onslaught is capable of telepathy, telekinesis, energy projection, sensing mutant presences, manipulating magnetic fields, and affecting reality itself. Onslaught can also raise its physical size and forcefulness.

Onslaught's powers were well over that of Omega Level. In his outset form (when he was one with Xavier), Onslaught showed a wide diverseness of abilities including immeasurable strength, and incredible resistance and endurance. Onslaught'southward psionic powers appeared limitless, actualization to surpass even that of Xavier in his right mind. He was especially powerful in the Astral Plane, where he appeared to have god-like abilities. From what has been seen, he seems to accept full mental command over anyone or anything he wishes, ranging from altering people's perception to believe they are someone or somewhere else (he demonstrated this by making Wolverine believe he was a wolf pup, and making Storm think she was a child). Even in his initial form, he also demonstrated sufficient physical force to punch the Juggernaut unconscious across Due north America, and to rip the Reddish Gem of Cyttorak out of his body. Onslaught also possessed many forms of free energy project, all of which are at loftier levels of power.

After fully evolving into his own, separate consciousness and having Professor X ripped from him in the Astral Plane, Onslaught evolved into a second class, less resembling Magneto and looking more than like a cybernetic monster. In this form, cheers to adding the full potential of Franklin Richards and Nate Grey combined, his powers were increased to god-like levels, including the ability to mass-manipulate (his complete takeover of all the Sentinels), create and reshape matter at will (shown when he created his citadel, and when he created a second sun to destroy Earth), and an apparent omniscience (as evidenced when he easily thwarted an attempt to sneak into his citadel). He could utilise his combined reality-warping and telekinetic abilities to boost his physical strength to the point that he was able to go toe-to-toe in a physical fight with the Blob even later the Hulk's mind had been blanked and his strength and rage set to incredible levels thanks to Jean Grey 'shutting downwards' the subconscious influence that Bruce Banner usually exerted over the Hulk to stop him going too far.

For a time, Onslaught had these powers while still in his first form; the bulk of these came from the absorption of Nate Grey and Franklin Richards. In the end, Onslaught's true body was revealed to be a mass of pure, psionic energy that was immune to all forms of physical attacks.

Other versions [edit]

Ultimate Marvel [edit]

In the Ultimate Marvel reality, Professor X returns from training in the future and is dressed very similarly to Onslaught.^{[ book & issue needed ]}

X-Men '92 [edit]

During the boxing against the Shadow Male monarch (who was possessing Cassandra Nova) equally role of the Secret Wars storyline, Professor X faced Shadow King on the Astral Plane in the form of Onslaught.^[30]

In other media [edit]

Video games [edit]

• Onslaught is a boss grapheme in Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, voiced by Maurice Dean Wint. In this game, he appears as the last boss, and he has two forms the role player must defeat: the starting time form which is that of a normal-sized character, and the second and final form which is that of a floating giant. Upon defeat, he is revealed to be Charles Xavier.
• Onslaught appears equally a villain character in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, voiced by Travis Willingham.
• Red Onslaught is a raid boss in the MMO Marvel Heroes.
• Onslaught is a recruitable, unlockable and playable grapheme in the match 3 RPG game Marvel Puzzle Quest.

References [edit]

1. ^ DeFalco, Tom; Sanderson, Peter; Brevoort, Tom; Teitelbaum, Michael; Wallace, Daniel; Darling, Andrew; Forbeck, Matt; Cowsill, Alan; Bray, Adam (2019). The Marvel Encyclopedia. DK Publishing. p. 263. ISBN978-one-4654-7890-0.
2. ^ Ten-Human being #10 (December. 1995).
3. ^ Uncanny 10-Men #322
4. ^ Uncanny X-Men #333 (June 1996).
5. ^ 10-Homo #15 (May 1996).
6. ^ X-Man #16 (June 1996).
7. ^ Brevoort, Tom; DeFalco, Tom; Manning, Matthew K.; Sanderson, Peter; Wiacek, Win (2017). Curiosity Year Past Year: A Visual History. DK Publishing. p. 279. ISBN978-1465455505.
8. ^ Ten-Men Prime (July 1995).
9. ^ Onslaught: X-Men (Aug. 1996).
10. ^ X-Men vol. two, #55 (Aug. 1996).
11. ^ Onslaught: Marvel Universe (October. 1996).
12. ^ Heroes Reborn: The Render #4 (Dec. 1997).
13. ^ "REFLECTIONS: Talking With Jeph Loeb". Comic Book Resources, Oct 25, 2006
14. ^ George, Richard (2006-10-26). "Onslaught'southward Assail Begins". IGN. Archived from the original on 2007-01-16. Retrieved 2006-10-26 .
15. ^ ^{a b c} Onslaught Reborn #ane–5 (Jan. 2007-Feb. 2008).
16. ^ Onslaught Unleashed #1 (Apr. 2011).
17. ^ Onslaught Unleashed #2-three (May–June 2011).
18. ^ Onslaught Unleashed #four (July 2011).
19. ^ Uncanny Avengers #2 (Jan. 2013).
20. ^ Uncanny Avengers #25 (Dec. 2014).
21. ^ Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #1
22. ^ Avengers & X-Men: Axis #4 (Jan. 2015).
23. ^ Avengers & X-Men: Axis #8 (Feb. 2015).
24. ^ Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #ix Feb. 2015).
25. ^ Powers of 10 #half dozen
26. ^ Way of 10 #2
27. ^ Manner of X #4
28. ^ Way of X #5
29. ^ X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation #one
30. ^ Ten-Men '92 #4 (Nov. 2015).

External links [edit]

• Onslaught at Curiosity.com
• In-depth analysis on the creation of Onslaught
• Article on the Onslaught crossover

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