Archer (Marvel)

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

Biography

Archer was a male human Mutant born in the future of an alternate reality designated as Earth-1191 in the Multiverse. (X-Factor v1 #140)

He was deployed alongside the rest of the Xavier Security Enforcers to deal with an enclave of exhumes hoarding weapons left from the Summers Rebellion. Orders were to bring all the exhumes back alive as scientists were looking to restore them back to normal. Shard though believed it was better to kill such threats as there was no other solution. Archer and his comrades overheard this where they expressed similar views. They then asked Shard to meet them at the old Sentinel Tact Base at midnight. (X-Factor v1 #140)

He and his teammates went back to the past the present day of the Earth-616 timeline) taking on recently deceased bodies as anchor forms, with Archer taking on the body of the dead terrorist Jude Black. The group quickly joined X-Factor. During his time with X-Factor, Archer remained one of the most mysterious members of the group, never even revealing the face behind his mask to most of his teammates. Archer, who had lost his family in his own time, reached out to the estranged family of his host body Jude Black, and forged a connection, giving Archer a second chance at having a family.

Although Archer accepted that there was no way to return to his own time, Greystone became increasingly irrational and insisted on trying to return. This Greystone even became a danger to his former teammates of the X.U.E. and his new teammates of X-factor. Although Archer tried his best to help his friend, it was all for nothing. At one point in time, Greystone thought it was necessary to detonate a time-altering bomb in an airplane, trying to stop certain things from happening, so that the future might be safe. Havok was able to stop the mad Greystone, but the bomb went off anyway. This bomb teleported Havok into another time-line, but almost certainly killed Greystone. Archer, Fixx and X-Factor believed their teammates to have perished. The X-Factor team quietly disbanded soon afterwards. Archer soon afterwards quit the hero business, and chose instead to embrace Black's family as his new purpose in his new home. What has become of Archer and his teammate Fixx and if they're even still in the 616 timeline remains to be seen.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In his native time, he was noted to had been friends with Fixx and Greystone where they later included Shard among their ranks. They believed the world was ruined and they had a plan to change it. (X-Factor v1 #140)

Powers and abilities

Archer has the mutant ability to turn his body into electrokinetic energy. It is unknown exactly what effect this has on his physical body, but his need for a containment suit allows us to infer that his powers are difficult to control. His gauntlets allow him to channel his energy into powerful and destructive blasts of energy. Archer also uses a staff that he can charge with electric energy; he uses this as his primary melee weapon.

After being projected into the present of Earth-616, Archer is linked to the body of the brain-dead terrorist Jude Black. He now defaults to Jude's form, but can transform into his original mutant body at will, though strain seems to force them to revert and it may be difficult for him to sustain the transformation over long periods.

Archer is a trained peacekeeper, and is an experienced combatant.

Archer was a Rogue within the ranks of the Xavier Security Enforcers (X.S.E.) who were not part of any team and worked on the fringe of standard ops. As a result, he and his comrades were rejected as well as feared by the rest of the corps. They were noted as being good but also operated as mavericks with some even saying that they were the best at what they did. (X-Factor v1 #140)

He along with his group came to operate under the name of the Xavier Underground Enforcers (X.U.E.) who engaged in their own actions. They claimed that their goal was to repair what they deemed to be Xavier's dream. It was said that there was no room in their group for hero worship and thus they did not hold the X-Men in such high esteem as they believe Xavier's students failed in their mission. (X-Factor v1 #140)

Notes

• Archer 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)

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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