Enemies: Cassandra Nova;

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Shi'ar Galactic Empire;

First Appearance: New X-Men I#123 (April, 2002)

Powers/Abilities: Squorm was a liquefied sentient life-form from the Shi'ar Imperium, and was steel blue in color. It was housed in red bulbous armor about 4.5' tall, which permitted it to fly and float, and featured a dome-like visor plus two thick short arms and legs. The armor also had two long 4' gold coils that tapered off behind it and hung loosely, but were connected to openings either side of the visor that may have been a weapon or helped with breathing. A loss of internal liquid caused it to lose consciousness.

Height: 6'
Weight: Indeterminate

History: (New X-Men I#123 - 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 Squorm, 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.

(New X-Men I#123) - Using the element of surprise, Squorm, Arc and Monstra downed an X-Wing Mark 8 that was carrying Cyclops and Xorn (Kuan-Yin). Returning to the Superdestroyer, the Superguardians kidnapped the two mutants to use as samples for supposed "thought-plague contamination".

From an external observation deck of the Superdestroyer, which was parked over a think blanket of cloud, Gladiator led Arc, Cosmo and Squorm in an attack against the Xavier Institute, arriving in fiery trails on the Mansion grounds.

(New X-Men I#124) - Squorm entered the Xavier Institute to help destroy the mutants there. Monstra was felled by Beast, but she was able to alert Squorm and Manta for assistance. Manta instead flew off in search of Phoenix (Jean Grey), leaving Squorm by itself. Beast slashed at Squorm's external armor, piercing it, splashing Squorm's liquid body across the room. Its intellect degrading, Squorm fell to the ground, bleeding blue fluid.

(New X-Men I#133 - BTS) - Squorm left Earth 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.

Comments: Created by Grant Morrison (writer), Ethan van Sciver with Tom Derenick (pencils) & Townsend, Miki, Hanna, Florea (inks).

Squorm appeared to be a trainee Superguardian, as it displayed little fighting skills against the X-Men.

Profile by Grendel Prime

Clarifications:

Squorm has no known connections to:

• Squirm of Earth-NU (Jim Wilkins) - Clinic, black powers @ DP7#14
• Any other "Squor-" characters.

images:
New X-Men I#123, p22 (main);

New X-Men I#123 (April, 2002) - Grant Morrison (writer), Ethan van Sciver with Tom Derenick (pencils), Townsend, Miki, Hanna, Florea (inks), Mark Powers (editor)
New X-Men I#124 (May, 2002) - Grant Morrison (writer), Igor Kordey (artist), Mark Powers (editor)
New X-Men I#133 (December, 2002) - Grant Morrison (writer), Ethan van Sciver (pencils), Norm Rapmund (inks), Mike Marts (editor)

Last updated: 01/29/06

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