Greystone (Marvel)
Greystone is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Devlin Greystone was a Mutant who grew up in an alternate future timeline where the Sentinels had taken over the world. When he was a child, Greystone lived with his mother in a type of Mutant concentration camp. As part of their punishment, each prisoner was required to have an "M" branded over their right eye to outwardly signify their status as a mutant. During his branding process by an evil man named Micah, Greystone panicked and—due to the large amount of stress—manifested his mutant power years before the traditional onset at puberty. This resulted in him breaking the machine which left him with only a partial brand and trying to break out with his mother. Micah shot and killed her and was about to kill Greystone too if not for the incitement of the Summers Rebellion which ultimately led to mutant freedom. However, this was not as grand as it seemed, for Greystone became an orphan and a street urchin outside of the confines of the camp.
After the machines were toppled, Xavier's Security Enforcers were created to keep the peace between Mutants and humans. During this time, Greystone came to know Bishop, his sister Shard along with Archer and Fixx.
Shard shouts as she thinks to herself that Fixx, Greystone and Archer are X.S.E. rogues, not part of any team and working the fringe of standard operations as they are rejected and feared by the rest of the corps. Shard watches Fixx attack her opponent with her psychic powers, while the seemingly deranged Greystone smashes his opponent down. Greystone jumps down beside her, trying to scare Shard, who steps back from his oversized form. Greystone examines Shard and asks Fixx what she was bring him her for. Greystone shifts into his true form, more average-sized, as he declares that he wants someone to share the war hut and keep the fires burning. Greystone tells Shard that she might have noticed that things are heating up between mutants and humans once more. Greystone exclaims that the dream of Xavier stands no chance given the present conditions of the world. Greystone remarks that he cannot believe how easy it was. Greystone jokingly suggests Shard could file a report with the X.S.E. and let them know where all the holes in their grid are. With Bantam cuffed nearby, Archer tells Greystone to be quiet, as none of them feels too good about what they had to do tonight. (X-Factor v1 #140) The X.U.E. decided that it might make Bantam a little more cooperative if he got to see them in action. Although Fixx’s psionic fairies appear to drive Bantam over the edge, he had still to meet Greystone - who, increases his mass and catches Bantam in his hand, ‘booga booga!’ he shouts, trying to scare Bantam. Watching him, Shard decides that Greystone, the great Maori warrior, is nothing more than an overgrown kid. Shard admits though that when Greystone gets all big, his war mask can look rather scary. (X-Factor v1 #141)
However, they came to be dissatisfied with the work of the X.S.E. and decided to form the Xavier Underground Enforcers that was a rogue division who sought to travel back in time to change their future. Upon discovering that Shard was in the present, the X.U.E. managed to travel back in time due to the psionic link Fixx created between the members of the X.U.E. which Shard was also a member of, and inhabited the bodies of three recently deceased people. Greystone inhabited the body of the adolescent teen Brian Young. While looking in the newspaper one day, Greystone happens to see the picture of a young boy named Micah. He immediately recognizes him as the same Micah who murdered his mother and concocts a plan to murder the child, thus averting his future and his mother's death. He, along with Fixx and Archer, track down the boy and Greystone tries to kill him. Archer and Fixx convince him that it is unethical to condemn the child for crimes he has not yet committed and the trio leaves. They had tried to change the future but instead ended up joining X-Factor. Greystone slowly developed temporal insanity, believing that his mission was accomplished, and he could go home to a better world and be reunited with his mother, who might theoretically be alive. In an attempt to return to his own time, Greystone built a flying time machine but due to shoddy craftmanship and unsound theories, the craft exploded, seemingly killing Greystone and Havok, who was attempting to stop him.
Overview
Personality and attributes
It was noted that he was of Maori background. (X-Factor v1 #140)
Powers and abilities
He can increase his body mass, density, durability, stamina and strength exponentially but at a price: the bigger he gets, the more deformed and horrific-looking he becomes. Greystone can appear as his host body or in his original body—humorously a small, white child—also carrying the memories from both bodies.
Notes
- Greystone was created by Howard Mackie, Duncan Rouleau, Jamie Mendoza, and Hack Shack Studios where he made his first appearance in X-Factor v1 #140 (December, 1997).
Appearances
- X-Factor v1: (1997)
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