Blunderbuss (Earth-58163 / "House of M"; Angel Salvadore ally)

The arriving Angel teasingly asked Blunderbuss if he was going to send her home, too, but he replied, "Ah, Hell No, Angel! Far as I'm concerned, this club was built for you!" Touching his cheek and calling him a sweet-talker, Angel told him to keep it up and one day she might just fall for it, and Blunderbuss told her not to tease as she would break all seven of his hearts.

(Exiles II#69 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Blunderbuss unwittingly allowed in Kevin MacTaggert, (secretly Mutant X, who possessed other mutants before eventually burning out their forms, who was in the body of an unidentified horn-faced mutant).

(Exiles II#69) <2:52 AM> - As Blunderbuss checked his stocks in the newspaper, Angel jokingly told him that he better not be checking out the want ads, as she would stop coming to Genome if he stopped working the door. He told her that he was just checking how his stocks had done, and, impressed, she told him that maybe she would let him buy her dinner some day. Blunderbuss told her just to be careful walking home. blunderbuss-58163-corpse

As MacTaggert followed almost immediately after, Blunderbuss told him to be careful, too, as the streets weren't safe these days. After MacTaggert replied, "Aye, they're certainly not," Blunderbuss re-read the report about dessicated corpses turning up in Manhattan likely being the work of Scotland's infamous serial killer, "Mutant X."

Realizing that this was likely Mutant X and that he was stalking Angel, Blunderbuss leapt into MacTaggert's path. Telling the "zombie-lookin' motherlover," Blunderbuss told him that he had picked the wrong girl to mess with that night, and he asked if he should call him Mutant X. MacTaggert replied, "Call me whatever ye want, ye fat bampot, I dinnae care." When he asked what Blunderbuss' transformed arms were supposed to do, Blunderbuss fired both weapons, unleashing powerful energy blasts at him.

However, when MacTaggert remained standing, having only used up some of his life force and shriveled his host body to turn the blast into harmless butterflies, Blunderbuss realized he was in big trouble, and he screamed as Proteus next possessed his body.

(Exiles II#69 (fb) - BTS) - In Blunderbuss' form, MacTaggert traveled to Angel's apartment and waited for her.

(Exiles II#69) - As Angel arrived, MacTaggert greeted her, and she was surprised to see Blunderbuss there. He noted his surprise that a big guy like Blunderbuss would burn out so quickly and told Angel that Blunderbuss was all gone now and in a minute, she would be, too."

(Exiles II#69 (fb) - BTS) -Mutant X possessed Angel, leaving behind Blunderbuss' dessicated corpse.

(Exiles II#69) - Standing over Blunderbuss' corpse, MacTaggert-in-Angel's form looked through a window at the reality-hopping Exiles (Beak-616/Barnell Bohusk, Blink-295/Clarice Ferguson, Mimic-12/Calvin Rankin, Morph-1081/Kevin Sydney, Sabretooth-295/Victor Creed; who had come there in an effort to return Beak to his home reality, unaware of the reality warp).

A shorter, handgun-style blunderbuss was called a "dragon." Both this and the shotgun type blunderbuss were loaded with lead balls, or "shot," and used in military operations and even taken along on the early 1800s Lewis and Clark expedition. Blunderbuss comes from the Dutch roots donder, "thunder," and bus, "gun." Another kind of blunderbuss is a bumbling, unsubtle, or oafish action: "The blunderbuss police operation did nothing but infuriate the protesters."

A quick clarification on Exiles volume numbers: While many sites identify the reality-hopping Exiles as debuting in Exiles volume 1 (Exiles I), they actually did so in Exiles volume 2, since there was a Malibu Exiles series that predates it, and since Malibu was bought up by Marvel the Malibu Exiles are technically volume 1. So for this entry, any Exiles II are the issues of the series that started in 2005, and Exiles III are the one that started (and concluded) in 2009. There shouldn't be any Exiles I issues mentioned above (and if they are, it's a typo). Oh, and to make life even more fun, the Malibu Exiles series was followed by a Malibu All-New Exiles, which included Marvel characters because it was published after Marvel bought Malibu; don't confuse that All-New Exiles title that featured the Ultraverse Exiles members with the New Exiles title that featured the reality-hopping Marvel Exiles whose members are mostly X-Men related. Though of course since the acquisition the Ultraverse Exiles ARE Marvel Exiles and do include some reality-hopping members who were X-Men related. And now my head hurts.

Some might query why House of M is designated Earth-58163? Wasn't it just a modified version of the main Marvel Earth, Earth-616? The answer is "yes and no." It was a modified 616, but experience has shown us that in other such cases (Age of Apocalypse, for example), such altered realities remain in existence even after 616 is reverted; furthermore, other stories showing examples of realities springing from modified 616 have revealed that these frequently, perhaps always, come from whatever caused the modification merging 616 with another reality. Simply put, if you want to transform 616 into a world dominated by Nazis or mutants (to use two examples that have happened), it's apparently easier to latch onto a reality elsewhere in the multiverse that already has those desired features and overlay it on top of 616. As further evidence of this, if HoM was just modified 616, then HoM Proteus should be modified 616 Proteus. However, after HoM Proteus went off into the multiverse and got himself trapped in the Crystal Palace we saw 616 Proteus get resurrected by the events of Necrosha, something that shouldn't have happened if he was alive elsewhere. Any remaining doubt that House of M was its own distinct reality should be dismissed by the fact that the Exiles comic started noting that Proteus originated from Earth-58163 (rather than 616 or HoM) as of Exiles II#90's recap page; interestingly, by the time of New Exiles the recap pages had begun calling him Kevin Sydney rather than Kevin MacTaggert, and listing Morph's Earth, 1081, rather than Proteus', 58163, perhaps a subtle hint that the real Morph's mind was gradually regaining consciousness.

This profile was completed 04/14/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary 's celebratory event.

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