Enemies: Lilandra, Cassandra Nova, Scy'ar Tal, Starjammers (Ch'od, Cr+eee, Havok, Korvus, Marvel Girl (Rachel Grey), Polaris);

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Shi'ar Galactic Empire;

First Appearance: New X-Men I#124 (May, 2002)

Powers/Abilities: Plutonia was covered in purple and had phasing abilities. She had enhanced strength and senses, and could fly. Plutonia's external appearance altered slightly to match her (combat) readiness, with electric blue "eyes" and spikes indicating the highest form. She had a floating spike at the top of her head, plus floating spikes above her shoulders, but the shoulder spikes were dependent on higher combat status. She also had mind armour to protect her against Phoenix.

Height: 6'
Weight: 160 lbs.

History: (New X-Men I#124 - BTS) - The Shi'ar Empress, Lilandra, her mind controlled by the villainous Cassandra Nova, who inhabited Charles Xavier's body, arrived in lower Earth orbit with a team of Superguardians, including Plutonia, under the leadership of Gladiator. Cassandra Nova used Lilandra to enforce the power of the Imperial Superguardian Elite to attack the X-Men, using a lie that the mutants were infected and had to be exterminated. However, Smasher had escaped knowing the truth.

(New X-Men I#124) - Several meters in the air, Plutonia patrolled the Mansion gardens alongside fellow Superguardians, Arc, Manta, Neosaurus and Oracle, seeking mutants. Plutonia then identified a Flight Patch alarm on Shi'ar Imperial frequency and flew away to investigate.

(New X-Men I#124 - BTS) - Plutonia found the severely injured form of Smasher and rushed back to the other Superguardians, holding him in her arms, so that he could relate his story to the others.

(New X-Men I#124) - Gladiator and Cosmo were about to attack the School's mutants inside the School vaults, but stopped once they saw Plutonia walk in holding the badly injured Smasher, who related the truth. Hearing Smasher's account, Gladiator halted the Superguardians' attack on the X-Men.

(New X-Men I#125) - Gladiator assembled the remaining Superguardians, including Smasher, Plutonia, Manta and Cosmo, against the threat of Cassandra Nova. Despite activating their mind armour, the five Superguardians fell quickly before Cassandra Nova, with Plutonia phasing into Smasher, thereby disabling him.

(New X-Men I#126) - Cassandra Nova, nestled inside Professor X's body, walked past the defeated Superguardians to confront the X-Men, with Smasher in continued agony as Plutonia stood phased inside his body, her facial lights dimming.

(New X-Men I#133 - BTS) - Plutonia left Earth space along with the rest of Lilandra's Superguardians bound for Shi'ar space after the increasing and repeated manifestation of the Phoenix force in Jean Grey.

(Uncanny X-Men#477 - BTS) - The Imperial Guard was dispatched to defeat Vulcan, who’d been destroying ships in Shi’ar space.

(Uncanny X-Men I#480) - The Guard finally defeated Vulcan (keeping him alive at the orders of K’tor) after a deadly battle which left some Guard members, including Cosmo, Impulse, Smasher, and Titan, seemingly slain. Scintilla was furious about Vulcan being allowed to live. Guard members in this mission: Astra, Cosmo, Electron, Gladiator, Hobgoblin, Impulse, Manta, Mentor, Neutron, Nightside, Oracle, Plutonia, Scintilla, Smasher, Starbolt, and Titan.

(X-Men: Emperor Vulcan#4) –During the war of the Shi'ar with the Scy'ar Tal, Electron led a force of the Imperial Guard (Manta, Plutonia, Flashfire) against the Starjammers (Ch'od, Korvus, Marvel Girl (Rachel Grey), Polaris, Raza).

(X-Men: Emperor Vulcan#5) – Electron's group attacked the Starjammers and Plutonia phased her hand through Raza twice, defeating him. The Starjammers managed to defeat Electron and his allies, but Deathbird lead the rest of the Imperial Guard and defeated the Starjammers, then teleported back to save Vulcan from Havok. Days later, the Imperial Guard (Electron, Flashfire, Gladiator, Manta, Mentor, Nightside, Oracle, Plutonia, Scintilla, Titan, Warstar) stood by Deathbird, Araki, and Ka'ardum as the Shi'ar cheered on Vulcan. The Starjammers (Ch'od, Havok, Polaris, Raza) lay captive.

Comments: Created by Grant Morrison (writer) and Igor Kordey (artist).

Profile by Grendel Prime

Clarifications:

Plutonia has no known connections to:

• Pluto (Hades) - Olympian god of death, husband of Persephone, brother to Demeter, Hera, Hestia, Neptune and Zeus, based in Hades @ Thor I#127
• Pluto Probe - space probe built by Dr. Doom @ Super-Villain Team-Up#6
• Plutonium - Elements of Doom @ Avengers Collectors Edition#1
• Any other "Pluto-" characters.

images:
New X-Men I#124, p6, panel 2 (flying)
New X-Men I#125, p19, panel 4 (head)

New X-Men I#124 (May, 2002) - Grant Morrison (writer), Igor Kordey (artist), Mark Powers (editor)
New X-Men I#125 (June, 2002) - Grant Morrison (writer), Igor Kordey (artist), Mark Powers (editor)
New X-Men I#126 (July, 2002) - Grant Morrison (writer), Frank Quitely (pencils), Mark Townsend (inks), Mark Powers (editor)
New X-Men I#133 (December, 2002) - Grant Morrison (writer), Ethan van Sciver (pencils), Norm Rapmund (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
Uncanny X-Men#477 (October, 2006) - Ed Brubaker (writer), Clayton Henry (penciler), Mark Morales (inker), Mike Marts (editor)
Uncanny X-Men#480 (January, 2007) - Ed Brubaker (writer), Clayton Henry (penciler), Mark Morales (inker), Mike Marts, Nick Lowe (editors)
X-Men: Emperor Vulcan#4-5 (February, March, 2008) – Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Diaz Luque (penciler), Vicente Cifuentes (inker), Nick Lowe (editor)

Last updated: 02/05/06

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