Onslaught

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Onslaught is a character, a psionic entity in the Marvel Comics universe created from the consciousness of two characters: Professor Charles Xavier, founder and leader of the X-Men, and the villainous mutant known as Magneto.

Publication history::

Onslaught first fully appeared in X-Men (vol. 2) #53 (June 1996), and was created by writers Scott Lobdell and Mark Waid, and artist Andy Kubert.

The character was the focus of an intra-company crossover, the "Onslaught Saga", which began shortly before Onslaught: X-Men, ended in Onslaught: Marvel Universe, and led directly into the "Heroes Reborn" storyline. The actual beginning of the saga is hard to determine, due to a great deal of foreshadowing and preluding. The story itself was divided into two categories; "Phase" (comics that tied in directly with the battle against Onslaught), and "Impact" (comics that were affected by Onslaught, but not tying directly into the struggle against him). The event permeated almost all Marvel comic books published in summer 1996.

With the departure of Rob Liefeld and Jeph Loeb from the Avengers title, the storylines were never adequately wrapped up; however, in late 2006, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Onslaught event, a five-issue mini-series, Onslaught Reborn, by Loeb and Liefeld, saw the villain return and explored these dangling plot threads. Set after Decimation but before Civil War, it sees the mutant energy from the depowered mutants reforming the monster.


Birth

At the conclusion of the "Fatal Attractions" storyline, Magneto ripped the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton after Wolverine attempted to kill him. In response, Professor X shut down Magneto's mind psionically -- something he had sworn he would never do.X-Men (vol. 2) #25 Wolverine #75 Since the Professor used his powers in anger, his mind was open to the influence of Magneto's psyche which grew in Xavier's subconscious. This small element of Magneto's psyche took root where Xavier's repressed anger at humanity's intolerance toward mutants was buried. Eventually, this part of Xavier's psyche became so strong that it was able to manifest itself as a non-physical entity of pure psionic energy that split from Xavier.

The character of Onslaught was first alluded to when a shadowy figure with Onslaught's distinctive word-balloon coloring and design was seen speaking with a frightened Mystique. X-Men: Prime #1 Onslaught was first mentioned when the Juggernaut crash-landed in Hoboken, New Jersey, having been hit hard enough by Onslaught to send him across the country, with a mental block on his brain, causing him to forget who or what Onslaught actually was (as he had learned Onslaught's identity). Uncanny X-Men #322.

Around this time, Nate Grey (X-Man), a powerful psychic from the Age of Apocalypse timeline, came to Earth. When Professor X attempted to scan Nate's mind, Nate accidentally pulled Xavier's astral form into the physical realm. As revealed later, this was the means by which the Onslaught entity learned how to manifest itself in a physical form. Onslaught's next major role in a story was one in which Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, and Iceman are stolen from the mansion in the middle of the night and forced to fight his herald, Post. X-Men (vol. 2) #50 After the battle, a psychic entity (actually Onslaught himself) appeared to Gateway— and the X-Men, warning him of his arrival before vanishing. The entity appeared in this form once more, in which it assisted Gambit and Jean Grey in their investigation of the anti-mutant government agent Bastion. Uncanny X-Men #333


Onslaught Saga

See Onslaught Saga

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