TRYNX

Real Name: Trynx

Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (unidentified race) advanced technology-user

Occupation: Weapons officer

Group Membership: Consortium, an unidentified specific fleet

Affiliations: His commander and other officers on the bridge of the command ship;
    indirectly the U'sr'p'r;

Enemies: Alpha Flight (Box/Madison Jeffries, Diamond Lil/Lillian Crawley, Guardian/Heather Hudson, Northstar/Jean-Paul Beaubier, Vindicator/James Hudson; at least indirectly), Her (formerly J'Ridia Starduster; later Kismet);
    at least indirectly the Avengers (Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff, Captain America/Steve Rogers, Hercules/Heracles/Alcaeus, Quasar/Wendell Vaughn, Sersi, She-Hulk/Jen Walters, Vision/"Victor Shade"),
    presumably Galactus (Galan)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    last seen and presumably perished in an unidentified realm;
    formerly mobile throughout the Milky Way Galaxy (at least) aboard an unidentified Consortium command ship;
    planet, star system unrevealed, presumably the Milky Way Galaxy;and galaxy of origin unrevealed

First Appearance: Alpha Flight I#97 (June, 1991)

Powers/Abilities: Trynx presumably possessed the standard abilities of his bipedal semi-human race, although no specific abilities were demonstrated.

    Aboard the command ship of the Consortium, Trynx was the weapons officer, firing weapons such as Dissipator Torpedoes, which drained the cosmic energies of powerful beings such as Her/J'Ridia Starduster.

    The ship could also track a being who departed via hyperspace and then similarly access hyperspace to pursue a target. The ship could be active in space as well as within a planet's atmosphere.

History:

(Alpha Flight I#97 (fb) - BTS) - Trynx was the weapons officer of an unidentified command ship of the Consortium, an  intergalactic business conglomerate with financial  interests on thousands of worlds in the Milky Way Galaxy.

(Marvel Comics Presents I#35/4 (fb) - BTS / Alpha Flight I#99 (fb) - BTS) - Striking a deal with the Consortium, the being known as the U'sr'pr or "He Who Is Above All" forced the other natives of his planet, U'sr'pria, into a technological boom, ravaging its lush vegetation and environment in the process.

(Marvel Comics Presents I#35/4 - BTS / Alpha Flight I#97 (fb) - BTS) - Her defeated and depowered the U'sr'pr and then forced him to aid the other U'sr'prians -- who named her J’Ridia Starduster, or She Whose Trail Dusts Hope -- in restore the U'sr'pria's environment and the people's non-industrious agricultural society.

(Alpha Flight I#97 (fb) - BTS / Alpha Flight I#99 (fb) - BTS) - When the Consortium found their profits from U’sr’pria dwindling, they sent agents to correct this. The Consortium's agents appeared on U'sr'pria, announcing that U'sr'pria was in violation of legally binding contracts and were forfeiting their self-determination to Consortium control. Her/J'Ridia attempted to repel the Consortium but was limited by her desire to keep the U'sr'prians safe. Therefore, she led the Consortium away from the planet.

    Amongst other ships, the Consortium command ship pursued Her into space, repeated blasting her with energy-leeching dissipator torpedoes.

(Alpha Flight I#97) - Trynx (presumably) launched another dissipator torpedo, striking Her, whose cosmic energies were severely depleted. A number of other dissipator torpedos followed, and the exhausted Her considered that she had drawn the Consortium far enough away from U'sr'pria. As Trynx reported that he had a target lock and asked the commander for authorization to fire, the commander considered that J'Ridia had given them a good chase but that she had cost the Consortium much financial hardship and that her time was done. Asking that her soul rot for eternity, the commander gave Trynx the word to fire, but he was surprised when she suddenly vanished. Trynx reported that she had shunted into hyperspace. After briefly tracking her, Trynx reported that she had returned to Sol III, her homeworld, and the commander presumably instructed Trynx or another to both contact the Consortium (the main contingent, presumably) and to initiate pursuit.

(Alpha Flight I#97 - BTS) - Her emerged near Earth and exhausted, she tried to land in Manhattan to find her human ally the Thing (Ben Grimm) but instead arrived in Toronto, Canada. She was recovered by national heroes Alpha Flight, who sympathized with her plight. When the Consortium arrived and demanded that they turn over J'Ridia, Alpha Flight's leader, Guardian (Heather Hudson) refused this request. After the Consortium ship blasted Guardian in response, Alpha Flight fought the Consortium on her behalf.

(Alpha Flight I#97) - While the commander ordered all units into scramble formation, another of Trynx's race reported that all systems were down and that the ship was coming apart. The commander asked where was the home office vessel, and Trynx reported that it was on its way, although not soon enough to be able to save them from the Terrans.

(Alpha Flight I#97 - BTS) - After the command ship and those that had accompanied it had crashed, the Consortium's immense home office vessel arrived and demanded they surrender J'Ridia immediately or be obliterated.

(Alpha Flight I#98-100 - BTS) - The recovering Her joined the fight against the Consortium, as did the Avengers. The alien Quwrlln coincidentally teleported away Her and half of Alpha Flight and the Avengers, seeking their aid in defending their world from the world-devourer Galactus. The Quwrlln had moved their planet into another dimension, and the different physical laws allowed the defeat of Galactus there. Unwilling to kill Galactus but not wanting to leave him stranded on the Quwrlln’s planet with no recourse but to eventually devour it, a solution was found when the Quwrlln and the human agents teleported the Consortium mothership (and the miniature planet that empowered it) to that dimension while returning the Quwrlln's planet to its previous location and sending the humans back to Earth. Galactus presumably consumed the planet empowering the Consortium mothership, if not the mothership itself and potentially the Consortium agents on board. Alpha Flight's Vindicator seemingly sacrificed his life providing power for this teleportation.

     While the Mothership and its fleet and crew were presumably consumed by Galactus, Trynx, the commander and the third unidentified crewman were on a ship that crashed in Toronto, and it presumably remained there after the conflict's resolution. Assuming they survived, Trynx and his commander and the rest of the crew of the command ship were presumably arrested.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z hardcover#6: Kismet entry) - The Consortium was crippled, freeing U’sr’pria.

Comments: Created by Fabian Nicieza and Michael Bair.

    Trynx was the one that got identified, so he's the one that got the profile...the commander, the race, the ship and the fleet were unidentified...

    This profile was completed 07/25/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary 's celebratory event to represent Kismet's characters and stories.

    I will eventually profile the Consortium, but time was too tight to cover the whole group for this event. Writing this one while away from home, I used the information from Alpha Flight I#97, which I had with me, with additonal information I adapted from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z hardcover#6's entry on Kismet (formerly Her).

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Trynx should be distinguished from:

• - Rigellian mutant--Thor I#218
  
• TROXX race (Kalldin-Zo, Mrrungo-Mu, Tnneya) - former captured entire populations and drained them for power to supply their worldship and to facilitate their capturing of others--Silver Surfer: The Enslavers
• other "Trynx" characters, groups, items, events, races or places...
  

The command ship was part of the fleet sent to U'sr'pria where it was used in the battle against Her/J'Ridia Starduster, after which the fleet pursued Her when she led them away from U'sr'pria. It further followed her -- presumably via hyperspace -- to Earth, where it was eventually brought down by Alpha Flight.      The ship could fire weapons such as Dissipator Torpedoes, which drained the cosmic energies of powerful beings such as Her/J'Ridia Starduster.     The ship could also track a being who departed via hyperspace and then similarly access hyperspace to pursue a target. The ship could be active in space as well as within a planet's atmosphere. --Alpha Flight I#97

They were semi-humanoid bipeds, and they wore only a Speedo-like set of briefs even when piloting a starship.       They were brown-skinned with long black hair, which they apparently wore in some form of braids and which only started on the sides of their heads (like male pattern baldness).      They did not demonstrate any special abilities, nor do we know the name of their race, their home planet, star system or galaxy. The Consortium was an intergalactic business organization with financial  interests on thousands of worlds in the Milky Way Galaxy.      At least three members of an unidentified race worked out of a Consortium ship that included the commander of the fleet sent to confront Her/J'Ridia Starduster over her disruption of operations on the planet U'sr'pria: The unidentified commander, weapons officer Trynx and an unidentified third.      To save U'sr'pria and the U'sr'prians from the effects of their battle, Her led them away into space. The commander had Trynx strike her with a series of Dissipator Torpedoes, which depleted much of Her's cosmic energies, and as they prepared to finish her off, she shunted into hyperspace and fled to Earth. After her trail had been tracked, the commander ordered the fleet to pursue her to Earth and to contact the Consortium central for back-up.      On Earth, from the command ship, the commander ordered the surrender of J'Ridia and then attacked Guardian when she refused, leading to a battle with Alpha Flight that ultimately brought down the fleet.      However, the Consortium mother ship then arrived and continued the fight until it was teleported away by the alien Quwrlln and then destroyed by Galactus.      --Alpha Flight I#97 Note: I don't think any of this race were seen after Alpha Flight I#97.      While the Mothership and its fleet and crew were presumably consumed by Galactus, Trynx, the commander and the third unidentified crewman were on a ship that crashed in Toronto, and it presumably remained there after the conflict's resolution. Assuming they survived, Trynx and his commander and the rest of the crew of the command ship were presumably arrested.      We also don't know how many members of this race were present on the command ship or any other, or if there were others in the rest of the Consortium.

The Consortium fleet was sent to U'sr'pria where it was used in the battle against Her/J'Ridia Starduster, after which the fleet pursued Her when she led them away from U'sr'pria. It further followed her -- presumably via hyperspace -- to Earth, where it was eventually brought down by Alpha Flight.      The ship could fire weapons such as Dissipator Torpedoes, which drained the cosmic energies of powerful beings such as Her/J'Ridia Starduster.     The ship could also track a being who departed via hyperspace and then similarly access hyperspace to pursue a target. The ship could be active in space as well as within a planet's atmosphere. --Alpha Flight I#97

Fired from ships in the Consortium fleet sent to deal with Dissipator Torpedoes Her/J'Ridia Starduster, they drained the cosmic energies of powerful beings such as Her/J'Ridia Starduster.     The fleet repeated struck Her with these torpedoes until she fled via hyperspace to Earth. --Alpha Flight I#97 Note: Spellcheck tells me "Dissipator" should be spelled "Dissipater," but the former is how it was spelled in the comic, both by the Her and the aliens.

Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z hardcover#6 (January, 2009) - Jeff Christiansen (head writer/coordinator), Madison Carter, Mike Fichera & Stuart Vandal (coordination assistants), Jeff Christiansen, Sean McQuaid, Michael Hoskin, Stuart Vandal, Ronald Byrd, David Wiltfong, Madison Carter, Mike Fichera, Chad Anderson, Chris Biggs, Eric J. Moreels, Mark O'English, Al Sjoerdsma, Jacob Rougemont, Gabriel Shechter, Jeph York, Markus Ettlinger, Michel Gariepy, Rich Green, Andrew Goletz, Olav Rokne & Peter Sanderson  (writers), Brian Overton (copy editor), John Denning & Cory Levine (assistant editors), Mark D. Beazley (editor, special projects), Jeff Youngquist & Jennifer Grunwald (editors)

First posted: 09/23/2026
Last updated: 07/25/2026

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