Hope Summers (character)
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| Hope Summers | |
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 Panel from X-Force/Cable: Messiah War #1 (March 2009). Art by Mike Choi. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | X-Men #205 (November 2007) |
| Created by | Mike Carey Chris Bachalo |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Hope Summers |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Notable aliases | Mutant Messiah |
Hope Summers is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in X-Men #205, and was created by writers Ed Brubaker, Mike Carey, Peter David, Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost during the X-Men: Messiah Complex event. She is the first mutant born after the events of House of M and Decimation.
Publication history
The character first appeared in the Messiah Complex event. Currently she is starring in the second Cable series.
Fictional character biography
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Messiah Complex
Hope was born a year after the events of House of M; she was the first new mutant born since the Decimation. The moment she was born, Cerebra blew up.[1] and the town was soon attacked by the Purifiers, who had used information given from the time-travelling Sentinel Nimrod warning them of her arrival.[2] Although all the children in town were murdered by the Purifiers, Cable managed to save her.[3] According to him, the baby was the messiah supposed to save both mutant and humankind.[4] However, according to the Purifiers and Bishop, she will become the equivalent to the Antichrist and kill a million humans in six minutes, turning humanity against mutants once again, thus leading into a new era of mutant persecution, the very timeline in which Bishop was born.[5]
The baby is kidnapped later by the Marauders.[6] and delivered to Mister Sinister, actually Mystique in disguise. She takes the baby and makes her touch the comatose Rogue.[7] Gambit quickly takes her away from Mystique, believing that she just killed her but he is amazed to see that the baby is alright and that it even cured Rogue.[8] After a huge battle between the Marauders, X-Men, and Predator X, Cyclops decides that the baby would be better off with Cable, and allows his son to take her to the future. However, an adamant Bishop decides to track Cable and the baby in order to finally kill her and prevent his future from happening.[9]
Into the Future
Upon jumping into the future, it is revealed that Cable has taken her to the secluded safe haven of New Liberty in the future, where Cable marries Hope, who is like a mother to the mutant baby.[10] Years have passed, since his last battle with Bishop damaged his time machine, Cable can only jump forward in time. She is now seven years old. But then New Liberty is invaded by humanoid insects who called themselves the United States Army.[11] Cable fights them and leaves New Liberty with his wife and her in order to make sure New Liberty doesn't fall.[12] After spending months in the wasteland, the family is attacked by the president of the insects, whom Hope manages to save her family from by stabbing the insect in his weak spot, since she has been watching Cable fight. Cable questions the president where he finds out that Bishop, in order to find Hope in the future, has destroyed all the continents in the world, except North America, in order to easily find her and kill her. Cable kills the president, and the family moves on. The family encounters a settlement, but are met with resistance. Cable takes care of them easily, but not fast enough, as her mother is shot and dies in Cable's arms while she watches. Hope sees Cable bury her mother and departs with him. After arriving at a church, the pastor asks the name of the child. In that moment, Cable decides to name her Hope Summers, in honor of her adoptive mother.[13]
Messiah War
Hope Summers is the center of the conflict between the forces of Stryfe, Cable, and X-Force in the Messiah War storyline, currently running through Cable and X-Force. It is part of a three-part story that began with X-Men: Messiah Complex..[14]
At the 2009 San Francisco Wondercon, it was implied by Matt Fraction that Hope is closely tied to Jean Grey and her resurrection. [15]
Powers and abilities
At this point, Hope's powers have not been explained. The only notable thing is that when she was born, she unleashed a massive psionic impulse that destroyed Cerebra. She also proved to be immune to Rogue's newly lethal absorption power and her touch erased all of the previous memories and abilities Rogue had absorbed, including those of the Hecatomb. She also cured Rogue of the Strain 88 virus.[16]
During Messiah Complex when the Three-in-One tried to search for her when she was kidnapped by the Marauders, she was able to block and disrupt Cerebra from finding her.[17]
While she's a child, she's already an excellent hand-to-hand combatant by copying Cable's movements. Despite not exhibiting further powers, not even the ones displayed while an infant, Hope has become a keen observer and survivalist, able to find shelter and supplies.
Notes
- ^ X-Men: Messiah Complex One-Shot
- ^ New X-Men #36
- ^ X-Men #205
- ^ X-Men #207
- ^ Uncanny X-Men #494
- ^ Uncanny X-Men #494
- ^ X-Factor #27
- ^ New X-Men #46
- ^ X-Men #207
- ^ Cable Vol. 2 #7
- ^ Cable Vol. 2 #7
- ^ Cable Vol. 2 #9
- ^ Cable Vol. 2 #10
- ^ Kyle/Yost/Choi Talk "Messiah War", Comic Book Resources, December 12, 2008
- ^ http://www.newsarama.com/comics/090301-wondercon-xmen.html
- ^ New X-Men #46, X-Men #207
- ^ Uncanny X-Men #494
References
- Hope Summers at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Hope Summers (Cable's wife) at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
