Post by Z451 on Jun 20, 2014 2:00:54 GMT
Cannonball
Sam Guthrie was born in Cumberland, Kentucky.
As a young boy, he attempted to help out his family by working in the coal mine in which his father had worked before he died.
One day, Sam finds himself trapped in a collapsing mine shaft.
While trying to rescue his fellow worker, Mr. Lewis, a friend of his father's who had introduced him to the job, Sam unconsciously activates his mutant ability and uses it to save himself and Lewis from the collapsing mine.
This incident leads Donald Pierce to find Sam and hire him as a mercenary for the Hellfire Club, to use him in a plot to attack the New Mutants.
However, when Pierce orders him to kill the defeated New Mutants, Sam rebels against him.
Professor Charles Xavier sees the good qualities inside Sam and, after saving him from Pierce, asks him to join his New Mutants.
Cannonball leaves his large farming family in Kentucky to join the team.
As part of the New Mutants, Sam forms a close friendship with his teammate, Sunspot, despite their differing interests and temperaments (Sam's modest politeness against Sunspot's boastfulness and hot temper).
Sam develops a brotherly affection for Rahne, oblivious for some time that Rahne harbors romantic feelings for him.
Sam and Danielle Moonstar act as the team's co-leaders.
He also supervises other teammates, including Magik, Karma, Cypher, Magma, and Warlock.
Early on in his career with the team, Cannonball visits Nova Roma and meets Magma, on whom he develops a long-standing but unrequited crush.
The New Mutants and their fellow mutant students at the Massachusetts Academy, the Hellions, have a relationship that varies between uneasy friendship and outright enmity, with Jetstream (a Hellion with powers similar to Cannonball's) pushing himself as Sam's particular rival.
Sam also meets and shares his first kiss with the young mutant Firestar, then a student of the Massachusetts Academy.
The machinations of the school's headmistress, Emma Frost, however, force them apart before they can develop their relationship, though they remain good friends afterwards.
Cannonball later on saves the life of international rock star Lila Cheney, with whom he becomes romantically involved.
Due to the nature of Lila's career, their relationship went slowly.
Cannonball helps lead the team through many adventures, which take them across time and space, from ancient Scotland to other galaxies, even back home to Kentucky.
There, he teams up with longtime X-Man Dazzler and his own brother Jay to save Lila's life.
While lost in Asgard, Sam helps a group of dwarves being attacked by Malekith's warriors, at the cost of severe injury to himself.
This earns him the friendship of Eitri, ruler of the dwarves, and the affection of his daughter Kindra.
He develops an affection towards Kindra herself.
The New Mutants find themselves under the guidance of Magneto at the behest of Professor Xavier.
Magneto's heavy handed leadership did not sit well with the team, and Cannonball began to display a measure of independence and rebellion against authority.
These traits would grow stronger as he matured.
The entity known as the Beyonder encounters the New Mutants, and in his curiosity, he kills them.
They are resurrected by the Beyonder soon after, but this trauma leaves the team deeply shaken.
For a time, they go with Emma Frost, to her Massachusetts Academy to join the Hellions.
They eventually recover from the trauma, especially after a fight with the Avengers, in which they are forced to rescue Warlock and Magneto.
While the New Mutants are at a Lila Cheney concert, Lila is kidnapped and they ally themselves with the powerful entity Gosamyr.
To prevent Gosamyr's relatives from destroying the world, Lila teleports them into the sun, apparently dying with them.
Afterwards the New Mutants find the X-Mansion has been destroyed, and formally reject Magneto's mentorship.
Following two successful team-ups with the X-Terminators, the group merges into the New Mutants.
One of the new members, Boom Boom, soon becomes a primary romantic interest.
To deal with problems with Danielle's Valkyrie powers, the team returns to Asgard.
Sam's feelings for Kindra get the team in trouble.
When he sees her being threatened, he rashly rushes out to save her and all the New Mutants are captured by Hela's forces.
The group is split up, but Sam manages to lead his half safely through many dangers, later reuniting with his friends.
The New Mutants form a resistance army, which includes the wolf-prince Hrimhari and the Warriors Three. All manage to save Odin, who was vulnerable, from a murder attempt.
Soon after returning to Earth, the team meets Cable.
They then assist Cable in fighting the Mutant Liberation Front.
Wolfsbane, Warlock, Rictor, and Tabitha are kidnapped from the grounds of the X-Mansion by Genoshan forces under the control of Cameron Hodge.
Warlock is murdered by Hodge in an attempt to get his powers.
Sam joins the X-Men on a rescue mission and Genosha's government is toppled. Rahne stays behind to help the fellow victims of Genosha's regime.
Cannonball and the other New Mutants leave the X-Men's supervision, and join forces with the mysterious Cable to become the hard-edged X-Force.
Cable names Cannonball as second-in-command and field leader of the team.
Sam is impaled and killed by the mutant Sauron during a clash with the Brotherhood of Mutants.
However, only a few minutes later, he heals and returns to life.
Cable reveals that he chose Sam to lead the New Mutants initially because he suspected Cannonball to be an External - a particularly rare type of mutant who is virtually immortal.
Cable had come to train Sam to fight Apocalypse, another External who, in Cable's future time, had conquered the world.
Many other Externals, such as Saul and Gideon, also come to believe Sam is one of them.
It is around this time that Sam's sister, Paige, is revealed to have mutant powers.
Though Cable did not stay with the team consistently, he and Sam developed a father-son type relationship.
Cannonball's existence as an External is disputed by Selene.
His immortality is later brought up when the time-traveling Jon Spectre hints at Sam's important role in the distant future.
Not long after Spectre's comments, Sam also survives three gunshot wounds to the chest.
Sam's time in X-Force is not easy, as he is considered 'out of line' by the X-Men and X-Force are considered outright criminals by S.H.I.E.L.D.
This devolves into a fight between a S.H.I.E.L.D. team led by Nick Fury and supported by veteran superhero War Machine.
Later, any rivalries are put aside as Sam is instrumental in helping the other X-Men, particularly Forge and Wolfsbane, defeat the Phalanx.
Sam later officially accepts an invitation to join the X-Men.
Initially, Sam is excited, this having been his dream since first arriving at Xavier's school. But Sam becomes unsure of himself and his abilities.
He privately expresses his doubts to Iceman, causing the veteran X-Man much discomfort.
Sam battles the head of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, Gladiator to a standstill, despite being overpowered, thus facing his doubts about his abilities,only to be left behind as the rest of the X-Men were taken into space to save the Shi'ar Empire.
This leads Sam to again question his place on the X-Men.
Cannonball finds his relationship with Tabitha strained, and she turns to Sam's best friend, Sunspot, for "support".
Sam leaves the X-Men to help his ailing mother.
During his time with the X-Men, he also infiltrates the presidential campaign of anti-mutant candidate Graydon Creed, using the alias "Samson Guthry".
Despite the rather transparent alias, Sam is able to remain undetected until Creed is assassinated on the eve of the election.
Cannonball rejoins X-Force, now independent of Cable and operating in San Francisco.
Cannonball becomes team leader again, after the injuries sustained by Siryn.
The team find a new mentor in Pete Wisdom, who introduces the team to the world of espionage.
Sam and Tabitha get back together.
After Wisdom's alleged death, Sam leads the team again and attempts to continue Wisdom's crusade.
Eventually, Sam and the other members of X-Force had to fake their deaths.
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As a young boy, he attempted to help out his family by working in the coal mine in which his father had worked before he died.
One day, Sam finds himself trapped in a collapsing mine shaft.
While trying to rescue his fellow worker, Mr. Lewis, a friend of his father's who had introduced him to the job, Sam unconsciously activates his mutant ability and uses it to save himself and Lewis from the collapsing mine.
This incident leads Donald Pierce to find Sam and hire him as a mercenary for the Hellfire Club, to use him in a plot to attack the New Mutants.
However, when Pierce orders him to kill the defeated New Mutants, Sam rebels against him.
Professor Charles Xavier sees the good qualities inside Sam and, after saving him from Pierce, asks him to join his New Mutants.
Cannonball leaves his large farming family in Kentucky to join the team.
As part of the New Mutants, Sam forms a close friendship with his teammate, Sunspot, despite their differing interests and temperaments (Sam's modest politeness against Sunspot's boastfulness and hot temper).
Sam develops a brotherly affection for Rahne, oblivious for some time that Rahne harbors romantic feelings for him.
Sam and Danielle Moonstar act as the team's co-leaders.
He also supervises other teammates, including Magik, Karma, Cypher, Magma, and Warlock.
Early on in his career with the team, Cannonball visits Nova Roma and meets Magma, on whom he develops a long-standing but unrequited crush.
The New Mutants and their fellow mutant students at the Massachusetts Academy, the Hellions, have a relationship that varies between uneasy friendship and outright enmity, with Jetstream (a Hellion with powers similar to Cannonball's) pushing himself as Sam's particular rival.
Sam also meets and shares his first kiss with the young mutant Firestar, then a student of the Massachusetts Academy.
The machinations of the school's headmistress, Emma Frost, however, force them apart before they can develop their relationship, though they remain good friends afterwards.
Cannonball later on saves the life of international rock star Lila Cheney, with whom he becomes romantically involved.
Due to the nature of Lila's career, their relationship went slowly.
Cannonball helps lead the team through many adventures, which take them across time and space, from ancient Scotland to other galaxies, even back home to Kentucky.
There, he teams up with longtime X-Man Dazzler and his own brother Jay to save Lila's life.
While lost in Asgard, Sam helps a group of dwarves being attacked by Malekith's warriors, at the cost of severe injury to himself.
This earns him the friendship of Eitri, ruler of the dwarves, and the affection of his daughter Kindra.
He develops an affection towards Kindra herself.
The New Mutants find themselves under the guidance of Magneto at the behest of Professor Xavier.
Magneto's heavy handed leadership did not sit well with the team, and Cannonball began to display a measure of independence and rebellion against authority.
These traits would grow stronger as he matured.
The entity known as the Beyonder encounters the New Mutants, and in his curiosity, he kills them.
They are resurrected by the Beyonder soon after, but this trauma leaves the team deeply shaken.
For a time, they go with Emma Frost, to her Massachusetts Academy to join the Hellions.
They eventually recover from the trauma, especially after a fight with the Avengers, in which they are forced to rescue Warlock and Magneto.
While the New Mutants are at a Lila Cheney concert, Lila is kidnapped and they ally themselves with the powerful entity Gosamyr.
To prevent Gosamyr's relatives from destroying the world, Lila teleports them into the sun, apparently dying with them.
Afterwards the New Mutants find the X-Mansion has been destroyed, and formally reject Magneto's mentorship.
Following two successful team-ups with the X-Terminators, the group merges into the New Mutants.
One of the new members, Boom Boom, soon becomes a primary romantic interest.
To deal with problems with Danielle's Valkyrie powers, the team returns to Asgard.
Sam's feelings for Kindra get the team in trouble.
When he sees her being threatened, he rashly rushes out to save her and all the New Mutants are captured by Hela's forces.
The group is split up, but Sam manages to lead his half safely through many dangers, later reuniting with his friends.
The New Mutants form a resistance army, which includes the wolf-prince Hrimhari and the Warriors Three. All manage to save Odin, who was vulnerable, from a murder attempt.
Soon after returning to Earth, the team meets Cable.
They then assist Cable in fighting the Mutant Liberation Front.
Wolfsbane, Warlock, Rictor, and Tabitha are kidnapped from the grounds of the X-Mansion by Genoshan forces under the control of Cameron Hodge.
Warlock is murdered by Hodge in an attempt to get his powers.
Sam joins the X-Men on a rescue mission and Genosha's government is toppled. Rahne stays behind to help the fellow victims of Genosha's regime.
Cannonball and the other New Mutants leave the X-Men's supervision, and join forces with the mysterious Cable to become the hard-edged X-Force.
Cable names Cannonball as second-in-command and field leader of the team.
Sam is impaled and killed by the mutant Sauron during a clash with the Brotherhood of Mutants.
However, only a few minutes later, he heals and returns to life.
Cable reveals that he chose Sam to lead the New Mutants initially because he suspected Cannonball to be an External - a particularly rare type of mutant who is virtually immortal.
Cable had come to train Sam to fight Apocalypse, another External who, in Cable's future time, had conquered the world.
Many other Externals, such as Saul and Gideon, also come to believe Sam is one of them.
It is around this time that Sam's sister, Paige, is revealed to have mutant powers.
Though Cable did not stay with the team consistently, he and Sam developed a father-son type relationship.
Cannonball's existence as an External is disputed by Selene.
His immortality is later brought up when the time-traveling Jon Spectre hints at Sam's important role in the distant future.
Not long after Spectre's comments, Sam also survives three gunshot wounds to the chest.
Sam's time in X-Force is not easy, as he is considered 'out of line' by the X-Men and X-Force are considered outright criminals by S.H.I.E.L.D.
This devolves into a fight between a S.H.I.E.L.D. team led by Nick Fury and supported by veteran superhero War Machine.
Later, any rivalries are put aside as Sam is instrumental in helping the other X-Men, particularly Forge and Wolfsbane, defeat the Phalanx.
Sam later officially accepts an invitation to join the X-Men.
Initially, Sam is excited, this having been his dream since first arriving at Xavier's school. But Sam becomes unsure of himself and his abilities.
He privately expresses his doubts to Iceman, causing the veteran X-Man much discomfort.
Sam battles the head of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, Gladiator to a standstill, despite being overpowered, thus facing his doubts about his abilities,only to be left behind as the rest of the X-Men were taken into space to save the Shi'ar Empire.
This leads Sam to again question his place on the X-Men.
Cannonball finds his relationship with Tabitha strained, and she turns to Sam's best friend, Sunspot, for "support".
Sam leaves the X-Men to help his ailing mother.
During his time with the X-Men, he also infiltrates the presidential campaign of anti-mutant candidate Graydon Creed, using the alias "Samson Guthry".
Despite the rather transparent alias, Sam is able to remain undetected until Creed is assassinated on the eve of the election.
Cannonball rejoins X-Force, now independent of Cable and operating in San Francisco.
Cannonball becomes team leader again, after the injuries sustained by Siryn.
The team find a new mentor in Pete Wisdom, who introduces the team to the world of espionage.
Sam and Tabitha get back together.
After Wisdom's alleged death, Sam leads the team again and attempts to continue Wisdom's crusade.
Eventually, Sam and the other members of X-Force had to fake their deaths.
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Uncanny X-Men.net
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