Forge (Marvel)

Fore in X-Force v6 #5.

Forge is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Origin

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The young Forge then used magic where he used the souls of his nine dead comrades to open a portal where he intended to summon an army of demonic creatures to avenge his compatriots. However, he came to quickly realise that he was angry at the death of his friends and what he had done was wrong. This saw him calling in a B-52 bombing run on his site to prevent the incident from spiralling out of control where the nature of his summoning was hidden from he world. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #227)

Afterwards, Forge sank into a state of depression, from which even the psychiatrists could not help him, but eventually he snapped out of it. Some time later, Forge used his powers of invention to create himself advanced state-of-the-art prosthesis for his missing limbs and, apparently, put his energies into becoming a superb inventor, also making contacts with Nick Fury and several other government officials, while at the same time leading the life of a recluse. He also vowed never to use magic again after the events in Southeast Asia, much to the displeasure of Nazé, who urged him to return to his duties as a shaman. In the years afterwards, he came to be an inventor and built a career on his advanced machinery and equipment. When Tony Stark stopped making weapons, the U.S. government turned to Forge to design new armaments where he came to be hired by the Defense Department. Around this time, the U.S. came to be embroiled in a secret conflict with a race of extraterrestrial shapeshifters known as the Dire Wraiths. Forge was then assigned the task of developing weaponry for use against them where he studied the armaments of the Spaceknight Rom. Though only a brief encounter, he came to develop the neutraliser that had the power of removing the powers from any superpowered being. However, Rom’s weapons which were the analyser and neutraliser could not be copied forcing Forge to create new versions of his weapons from scratch. He succeeded by creating a Neutralizer that was capable of nullifying every superpower. At that time, signs already pointed towards the Adversary gaining a foothold in this dimension, but Forge refused to get involved, despite Nazé’s heated arguments, claiming that he held nothing dear and did not care what happened. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #184)

Around this time, the X-Men member Rogue was being framed for murder leading to Henry Gyrich and Valerie Cooper deciding to make an example of her with the prototype of Forge’s Neutralizer on presidential order. Forge though was furious when he learned of this from Raven Darkholme as one of his conditions had been that his weapons would not be used until he released them. Forge followed Cooper, Gyrich and their S.H.I.E.L.D. team to the banks of the Mississippi and, as he physically tried to restrain Gyrich from shooting Rogue, Storm, who shoved Rogue out of the way where he was hit instead. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #185) Feeling guilty over what had happened to Storm, Forge prevented her arrest and took her with him to his home, where he nursed the suicidally depressed woman back to health. It helped that he could sympathize with her loss, as he knew what it was like to be maimed. Eventually, both mutants began to fall for each other but, when Ororo accidentally learned that Forge had created the Neutralizer, she left him angrily, despite his offer to find a way to restore her powers. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #186) She briefly returned to help save his life from the alien Dire Wraiths, who considered Forge a palpable threat to their plans, and was joined by Nazé and several X-Men and X-Men allies. At the end of the fight, Storm warned Forge not to follow her – that they would eventually meet again and then he may well wish they had not, leaving him devastated. Unknown to them, Nazé was killed and replaced by a Dire Wraith who then, in turn, as the battle began to turn in the heroes’ favor, used Nazé’s magical knowledge to call the Adversary, asking for help and offering him Earth. The Adversary announced that Earth was already his for the taking and took possession of the Wraith/Nazé’s body. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #188)

Forge further improved his neutralizer so that it would negate the Wraiths' mystical abilities, and created several of these improved devices, but he was still guilt-ridden over Storm's loss of her powers. Fearing that people would use his neutralizers against other superhuman Earth beings, Forge did not want to give them the devices even for use against the Dire Wraiths. After joining forces with the Wraiths' greatest foe, the space knight Rom, to battle Wraiths in Dallas, Forge decided to construct a gigantic 'neo-neutralizer' in Earth's orbit. Powered by Rom's own neutralizer, Forge's orbiting device could cast all the Dire Wraiths on Earth into other-dimensional Limbo. Gyrich intended to use the neo-neutralizer to eliminate the superhuman powers of every being on Earth. To thwart Gyrich's plan, Forge and ROM aimed the neo-neutralizer, not at Earth, but at the Wraith's homeworld, Wraithworld, which was approaching Earth through hyperspace. The device negated Wraithworld's magic, the source of the Wraiths' own mystical powers; therefore, causing Wraithworld to cease to exist and depriving Wraiths throughout the universe of their mystical abilities. Thus, Forge was responsible for saving Earth from the Dire Wraiths. (Rom v1 #65)

Forge ensured that the neo-neutralizer could not be used against Earth's superhuman beings and destroyed all known specimens of the neutralizer. One neutralizer was used by Tony Stark to depower the superhuman criminal, known as the Termite, and was subsequently destroyed. (Iron Man v1 #190)

Return

He later fell under the control of Cassandra Nova who used him to build her equipment to be used to exterminate Mutants around the world. This led to him creating Sentinites that were machines that embedded themselves in hosts and allowed them to detect Mutants but also brainwashed them into exterminating those with such mutations. (X-Men: Red v1 #4)

House of X

Charles Xavier later approached Forge about adding a new feature within Cerebro namely the ability to store the thoughts and personality of every Mutant. This was to be used in conjunction with the Five that would create the Resurrection Protocols allowing them to revive any Mutant that had been killed with the backup being used to restore their minds in a new body. (Powers of X v1 #5)

For her mission against Orchis, Mystique came to Forge for a weapon to destroy their enemy's orbital space station where he provided her a bomb that would generate a brief singularity. Infiltrating the enemy space station, she came to deploy it but its effects were contained by the newly activated Nimrod Sentinel. (X-Men v5 #20)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Due to his talent for building, he was sometimes known as the Maker. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #186)

One of his closest friends was the elderly shaman Naze with Forge having once been his pupil. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #184)

Powers and abilities

Forge's mutation allows him to instinctively know and understand the potential and functional operations of any machine or technological device in his visual range, a skill that, combined with his natural intelligence, allows him to conceive, design, and build mechanical devices, as well as operate, modify, disassemble, or create countermeasures against existing technologies. (X-Factor v1 #106)

Forge himself might not be entirely aware of exactly how he figured out how to create an invention of his; he often has to take apart his own inventions to see how they work. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #301)

Among his creations included:

• Neutraliser : a gun-shaped that could neutralize the power of any super-powered being that included Mutants where it turned them back into normal human beings. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #184)
• Chronal Trigger : a form of GPS for time and space that was initially a large scale device though Forge was looking into building a more compact version. (X-Factor v3 #25)

He could create advanced holograms that replicated entire physical environments such as sights, sounds, touch and smells. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #184)

When he was young, he was knowledgeable in the arts of magic and could use his soulforce to enact spells and open portals to other dimensions. (Uncanny X-Men v1#227)

He was once headquartered at Eagle Plaza which was a skyscraper he designed and owned the top ten floors. This was cause he felt that the government could not make a secure place for him to work at which was why he decided to make one for himself. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #184)

Notes

• Forge was created by Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr. where he made his first appearance in Uncanny X-Men v1 #184 (August, 1984).

Alternate Versions

• In X-Man v1 #1 (1995), an alternate version of Forge appeared in the Age of Apocalypse reality designated as Earth-295 in the Multiverse. Forge was one of the many mutants who fought against Apocalypse. He was forced to replace his right leg and lower arm/hand with cybernetics. He met a time traveling Nate Grey in the past. Forge would meet Nate two more times, always out-of-synchronization; his first meeting was Nate's last. Forge teamed up with Magneto. They found themselves in Niagara Falls attempting to prevent Sugar Man from releasing a powerful virus into the water supply. Forge was aware that this Sugar Man was not the mutant from his time, but from the far future who had traveled back across time and dimensions from Earth-616 to perfect his virus. Incidentally, Nate Grey also found himself transported back in time as well, the second time from both their perspectives. Nate worked with Forge and Magneto, and Morph, and together they destroyed the virus and freed the mutant known as Mastermind from enslavement. During the course of the battle, Forge lost his left eye. When Magneto and Forge were at odds about Nate's fate -- Magneto wishing to use him in the war against Apocalypse, while Forge wanted to send the boy home -- they parted, never to work together again.
• In New X-Men v2 #29 (2006), an alternate future timeline set in the year 2023 with this placed on a parallel world designated as Earth-61029 in the Multverse. On this Earth, he became known as the Maker where he and Storm became involved with the pair having a Mutant pre-adolescent daughter named Orora Munroe and an infant non-powered son named Naze Munroe. Storm was killed by Nimrod who threatened Orora and Naze in order to get the Maker to adjust the Sentinel's body for time travel capabilities.

In other media

Television

• In X-Men, Forge appeared in the 1990s animated television series where he was voiced by actor Marc Strange.
• In X-Men: Evolution, Forge appeared as a guest character in the animated television series where he voiced by actor Sam Vincent.
• In Wolverine and the X-Men, Forge appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Roger Craig Smith.

Appearances

• Uncanny X-Men v1: (1984)
• Rom v1:
• X-Factor v1:
• Cable and X-Force v1:
• Extraordinary X-Men v1:
• X-Men: Red v1:
• Powers of X v1:
• X-Force v6:
• X-Men v5:
• X-Men v6:
• Iron Man:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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