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REPULSE

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Human mutant (Neo)

Occupation: Warrior

Group Membership: Guardian Clan (Backhand, Flare, Orb, Pillar, Sinew, Singularity, Stare)

Affiliations: None

Enemies: Evolutionaries, High Evolutionary (Herbert Wyndham), Mr. Sinister (Nathaniel Essex), X-Club (Dr. Kavito Rao, Doctor Nemesis/James Bradley), X-Men (Archangel/Warren Worthington III, Armor/Hisako Ichiki, Colossus/Peter Rasputin, Cyclops/Scott Summers, Dazzler/Alison Blaire, Emma Frost, Gambit/Remy LeBeau, Hellion/Jullian Keller, Iceman/Robert Drake, Magneto/Max Eisenhardt, Mercury/Cessily Kincaid, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Northstar/Jean-Paul Beaubier, Psylocke/Elizabeth Braddock, Stepford Cuckoos/Celeste, Mindee, Phoebe Cuckoo, Storm/Ororo Munroe, Wolverine/James "Logan" Howlett, X-23/Laura Kinney)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
   formerly unrevealed hidden city of the Neo, possibly South America or Alaska

First Appearance: X-Men Giant-Size#1 (July, 2011)

Powers/Abilities: Repulse possessed the superhuman ability to create a psionic force field to protect herself and deflect kinetic and energy attacks. Like other members of the Guardian Clan, Repulse had distinctive markings over her face.

Height: 5'9" (by approximation)
Weight: 130 lbs. (by approximation)
Eyes: Unrevealed, impossible to determine
Hair: Black

fighting

History:
(X-Men II#99 - BTS) - Repulse and the other Neo lived a peaceful, secluded life away from mankind and mutants. They were forced to take a more active role when many Neo inadvertently died during the brief period in which the High Evolutionary, influenced by Mr. Sinister, took away their powers when he switched off the X-gene in all of Earth's mutants.

(X-Men: Giant-Size#1 - BTS) - The Neo also suffered the effects of M-Day. Many lost their powers permanently and for over a year no new Neo were born. When new mutants started to surface, the Guardian Clan under leadership of Stare decided to invade the X-Men's home on Utopia to learn how they restarted their race.

(X-Men: Giant-Size#1) - Arriving on Utopia, Repulse, Orb and Backhand watched as their leader confronted X-Men ally Kavita Rao, almost choking the woman to get the X-Men's attention. They were interrupted by the arrival of the X-Men's leader Cyclops. Undisturbed, Stare introduced his group as the Guardian Clan and threatened to kill everyone if they didn't explain how mutants were having babies again. Understanding the Neo's struggle, Cyclops immediately ordered his X-Men to stand down and offered to tell them upon Rao's release. Wolverine, however, went against Cyclops' orders and attacked Stare from behind, escalating the situation. Stare ordered the Guardian Clan to kill the X-Men. During the fierce battle, Repulse took on Cyclops and Archangel, taking Worthington out by deflecting Cyclops' optic blast. The conflict ended unexpectedly with the arrival of the Evolutionaries. These beings, created 2.7 million years ago by the Eternal Phastos to safeguard the species farthest along the evolutionary track, deemed the Neo evolutionary dead ends and a clear threat to the survival of homo superior. As a result of this judgement, they went ahead and killed Backhand, the other members of the Guardian Clan and all the remaining Neo on Earth within seconds.

Comments: Created by Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina (pencils), Juan Vlasco (inks).

The Neo received a profile in the X-Men - Earth's Mutant Heroes (2011), where Repulse received her name courtesy of Christopher Yost who provided the names along with short power descriptions. The Neo were a society of Homo sapiens superior, an evolutionary offshoot of humanity born with the mutant X-gene, which gave them superhuman abilities. The Neo lived in seclusion for many generations and believed they were superior to humans and other mutants.

Profile by MarvellousLuke

CLARIFICATIONS:
Repulse has no known connections to


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X-Men: Giant-Size#1, p8, pan1 (main image)
X-Men: Giant-Size#1, p10, pan3 (attacking Archangel and Cyclops)


Appearances:
X-Men Giant-Size#1 (July, 2011) - Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina, Dalabor Talajic (pencillers), Juan Vlasco, Dalabor Talajic (inkers), Daniel Ketchum, Axel Alonso, Nick Lowe (editors)


First Posted: 04/29/2019
Last Updated: 04/29/2019

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