Entertainment
 

Silas King (Earth-616)

From Marvel Database

Character Template Help
Real Name
Current Alias

Identity

Affiliation

Relatives
No known relatives

Universe

Characteristics
Gender

Height


Eyes

Hair

Status
Citizenship

Marital Status

Occupation
Dealer and professional criminal

Origin
Origin
Mutant

Place of Birth
Carson City, Nevada, USA


First appearance

Contents

History

Carson City, Nevada. He was a latent Mutant who worked as a smuggler of illicit narcotics. On a drug run from Los Angeles to New York City, his van broke down in the Mojave Desert. Trying to make his way back to civilization, King spent several days out in the desert sun, which catalyzed his latent mutation. While recovering from sunstroke and dehydration in the hospital, he realized he could discharge the solar energy he had stored as heat blasts.

Calling himself Solarr, he began a criminal career in New York City by starting with bank robbery. This activity brought him into partnership with Klaw, and membership in the Emissaries of Evil led by Egghead. He repeatedly met defeat, and was eventually captured and imprisoned at the Project: Pegasus research center in New York State, where scientists studied his powers.

One of the other captives and subjects for study at Project: Pegasus was Bres, a member of the otherdimensional Fomor. Bres began to use his powers to manipulate the staff at the facility, and caused a guard named Harry Winslow to die of heart failure. Bres also freed Solarr from his cell. Solarr hated Winslow, and when he found his corpse he incinerated it. Bres used his magic to animate the charred corpse, which killed Solarr.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Solar Manipulation: Solarr was a mutant with the ability to absorb, store, and manipulate large amounts of energy from light, especially direct sunlight. He can use it to project heat blasts or blinding flashes.

Heat Resistance: Solarr is by the nature of his powers resistant to most heat attacks.

Strength level

Normal Human

Trivia

Solarr appears in the X-Men Animated Series episode Secrets No Longer Buried as the leader of the mutant-supremacist Children of the Shadow and ruler of the mutant-exclusive community of Skull Mesa. He's aided by Toad and Chet, a mutant with phasing powers (an original character). In the episode his true name is not Silas King but Bill Braddock.

Links

Discover and Discuss

Retrieved from "http://marvel.wikia.com/Silas_King_(Earth-616)"