Genis-Vell

Genis-Vell in Genis-Vell: Captain Marvel v1 #1.

Genis-Vell is a male extraterrestrial comic character who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Origin

Genis-Vell was the male offspring of Elysius of Titan and Captain Mar-Vell. His parents were noted to had been brief lovers until Mar-Vell's death leaving his mother grieving his demise. She wanted desperately to keep a part of him alive and accessed his DNA from Titan's central computer ISAAC where the genetic data was used to help her conceive his child. Prior to his death, Mar-Vell had requested Eros to care for Elysius and he came to be the adoptive father of her son who was named Genis. (Silver Surfer Annual v1 #6) Unknown to Genis, his mother came to conceive another child who became Genis-Vell's younger sister who was named Phyla-Vell. (Captain Marvel v5 #16)

While Rick moved on with his life, Mar-Vell's love, Elysius, felt more alone than ever. Using Titanian science, Elysius sampled some of Mar-Vell's genetic structure to conceive a child: Genis. To protect him from Captain Marvel's enemies, Elysius had Genis artificially aged to maturity and then took him to an isolated world called Paraxis. There, they lived peacefully, safe from harm, with occasional visits from Eros, who Genis believed to be his father. Ultimately, he came to feel that there was nothing for him on Paraxis and he resolved himself to leaving the planet.When he was old enough, Genis left the planet and led a normal life until the day his mother told him the truth about his true lineage and gifted him the Nega-Bands worn by his father. He left home when he was 17 years old and had not returned back in the next 5 years. After that, he was determined to carry on his father's heroic tradition as Legacy. (Silver Surfer Annual v1 #6)

Captain Marvel

At the climax of the War, Captain Marvel found himself unwillingly merged with Jones, much like his father, a process which triggered his latent Cosmic Awareness. (Avengers: Forever v1 #12)

Genis' next threat came in the form of Una and Zey-Rogg, the children of Yon-Rogg, Mar-Vell's greatest adversary and thought-to-be victim. They engaged Genis in battle, but both came out defeated, with Zey ending up with severe injuries in the Microverse and Una being taken by the Kree Bloodhounds, who hunted down any Kree women who had escaped the procedures to remove their psychic abilities. (Captain Marvel v4 #13)

Rick's wife Marlo and Moondragon then tried to convince Genis to help Una, but he didn't feel like saving someone who had tried to kill him. (Captain Marvel v4 #15)

Insanity

Now in tune with his cosmic awareness, Genis began to go insane under the strain of his powers after discovering the inherent difficulty in choosing who to help and who to let die. (Captain Marvel v5 #1) Overwhelmed, he fell into a catatonic state that lasted a long time, while Jones remained stuck in the Microverse. When Rick finally asked him what his father would have thought, Genis snapped out of it and left to meet with the Punisher, who he asked to teach him 'discipline' and single-mindedness. (Captain Marvel v5 #2) He later travelled to the planet Toped, where he conquered its people to use them as an experiment before moving onto something on a larger scale. When the Kree arrived to conquer the planet, Genis met and killed Captain En-Vad, the man who had trained his father and who Genis blamed for everything. Genis then donned his uniform and joined the Imperial Kree Army, believing he could use them as his own personal army to aid him in spreading order. (Captain Marvel v5 #3) At one point, he seduced a colonel's mistress named Saria, who he came to know was pregnant. When she was discovered to be a spy, the colonel ordered Genis to kill her and show his loyalty, but instead Genis killed the whole battalion present and then himself. (Captain Marvel v5 #4) Genis was buried beneath a grave that bore the inscription 'Here Lies Genis-Vell, Captain Marvel. Friend, Hero, Traitor. He Tried His Best.' However, before long, Genis dug free from his grave seemingly alive, encountering the spirit of his father, who he began severely beating in rage before crushing him with the aforementioned grave marker. Genis then met the cosmic being Entropy, who revealed himself to be behind Genis' insanity, claiming he was tired of waiting for the universe to die and requesting Genis' help in speeding up the process. (Captain Marvel v5 #5)

The two succeed in destroying the universe and, by the time they were finished, only they, Rick and Entropy's sister Epiphany were left in a perfectly entropic universe. Still, Entropy was disappointment with the outcome, so Rick was able to convince Genis and Entropy to remake the universe. The remade universe was set back to months prior, when Genis was just beginning to sink into madness, and this time around Genis tried to make different choices regarding who to save, but, no matter who he picked, countless innocent people still died at some point down the line, a realization that drove Genis even more insane than before. (Captain Marvel v5 #6)

As Genis' fame spread through the galaxy, a council meeting was held between several different space-faring empires such as the Kree, Skrull, Shi'ar, and the Rigellians to decide what to do about Captain Marvel, but Genis interrupted their meeting to warn them that he was going to destroy them all to prevent them from becoming a united front and conquered the galaxy. He told them that they would have a week to get their affairs in order, but the Shi'ar countered by telling him that a representative from Titan had been called to the meeting as well, causing Genis to be surprised for the first time in forever as his mother stepped out of the shadows. (Captain Marvel v5 #15)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Son of Mar-Vell in Captain Marvel v10 #33.

During his teenage years, he was noted to look much like his biological father. Initially, he looked to honor his father's memory and decided to go by the name of Legacy. (Silver Surfer Annual v1 #6) He later decided to change his name again and went by Photon. (New Thunderbolts v1 #6)

By adulthood, he was given the choice of either following his father's footsteps or to leave his legacy buried. (Silver Surfer Annual v1 #6)

Genis was the biological son of Elysius of Titan and the legendary hero Captain Mar-Vell. His parents were noted to had been brief lovers for a time until his fathers death. Whilst growing up, Genis was not aware of his biological fathers identity. He had always noted that his mother Elysius was always sad as if she had lost something that would not come back to her. (Silver Surfer Annual v1 #6)

He was led to believe by his mother that Eros of Titan was his father. Whilst growing up, his mother raised him alone though Eros was said to had always provided for the family but was never there to be a real father. It was only in his adulthood that he came to learn that the man was not his father. (Silver Surfer Annual v1 #6)

His mother came to conceive another child that became Genis-Vell's younger sister with her being named Phyla-Vell. (Captain Marvel v5 #16)

Powers and abilities

Genis-Vell was born from genetic material on Mar-Vell that was stored on the central computer of Titan. Titanian science was used to age the resultant offspring to adolescence within the span of weeks. The child was implanted with false memories of a childhood in order to hide origins from him. His genetic structure possessed a latent power that remained dormant in him since the day he was born until his adulthood. (Silver Surfer Annual v1 #6)

After being Genis physically and mentally bonded to Rick Jones, Genis' latent Cosmic Awareness was activated. (Avengers: Forever v1 #12)

Genis can use his light-manipulation abilities to generate a force field around him. (Captain Marvel v5 #24)

As Photon, he shown to be strong enough to battle the likes of the Sentry. (New Thunderbolts v1 #14)

Initially, he was armed with wristlets that were modelled on Mar-Vell's Nega-Bands that were designed to trigger the latent energy he had inherited. (Silver Surfer Annual v1 #6)

The Nega-Bands channelled interdimensional matter from the Negative Zone and channel them from that plane of reality to the positive matter universe. As that matter was positively charged, it was channelled and released outwards with these emissions becoming charged particles of anti-matter energy. The collision of matter and anti-matter resulted in an explosion that could be used offensively against a target. Similarly, he could channel the energies from the detonation of the bomb back into the Negative Zone through the spatial apertures created by the Nega-Bands. Genis-Vell could control a photonic field around these 'bombs' and shift a stasis field around them. (Captain Marvel v3 #1)

Notes

• Genis-Vell was created by Ron Marz and Ron Lim where he made his first appearance in Silver Surfer Annual v1 #6 (October, 1993).
• The character debuted as Legacy in Silver Surfer Annual #6 (October 1993).
• He later took the name as Captain Marvel in Captain Marvel v3 #1 (December, 1995).
• The character the took the name of Photon in New Thunderbolts v1 #6 (May, 2005).

In other media

Video games

• In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Genis-Vell appeared as a PSP exclusive playable character in the video game where he was voiced by actor Roger Rose.

Appearances

• Silver Surfer Annual v1: (1993)
• Captain Marvel v3: (1995)
• New Thunderbolts v1: (2005)
• Captain Marvel:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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