Exemplars (comics)

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The Exemplars are a fictional group appearing in

The first Exemplar was the Juggernaut, who had formerly been Cain Marko, stepbrother to Charles Xavier. Marko found the Crimson Ruby of Cytorrak while serving in the Korean War. Unfortunately for the Juggernaut, the Temple of Cytorrak collapsed while he was inside, and it took the Juggernaut many years to dig himself out.

Seven other humans were transformed into Exemplars: Olisa Kabaki, Count Andreas Zorba, Brigdet Malone, Yoshiro Hachiman, Sam McGee, Utama Somchart, and Nicolette Giroux. Despite all eight Exemplars coming from drastically different backgrounds, all were primarily motivated by their frustration and rage at having failed to get what they wanted out of life. Although each Exemplar committed villainous acts on their own, the first action the Exemplars took as a team was to attack Spider-Man in the basement of the Daily Bugle. As a team, they also fought against Iron Man, Thor, and Professor X when they attempted to recruit the Juggernaut for the construction of the 'God Machine', which they would use to take over the world. With the aid of the four gathered heroes, Iron Man and Thor held off the rest of the Exemplars, while Spider-Man tricked them into destroying a vital component of the machine. Xavier then used his powers to draw out the true Juggernaut. Once free, Juggernaut was able to destroy the machine, causing an explosion that sent the Exemplars flying all around the world while the heroes managed to escape.

Although the Juggernaut resisted Cytorrak's evil influence (Iron Man speculated that the process that gave him his powers had been interrupted) and eventually switched to the side of good, the other Exemplars did not, each of them determined to continue their respective entity's vendetta against the others. Having come together after the explosion, they tracked Juggernaut to New York, declared him a traitor, and captured him, planning on executing him for his crimes against the Octessense. At the last moment, Juggernaut was rescued by the combined force of the

• Bedlam (Olisa Kabaki). An 8-year-old girl from Kenya She was eager to learn as a child but was hampered by the drugs she had to take for a mental disorder. Empowered by the Ivory Idol of Ikonn, she possessed powerful telepathic and mind-control abilities, including the ability to fire off mental bolts of pure madness, which had a debilitating effect. She could only communicate via her telepathic abilities, which always caused pain in the recipient. She also possessed some telekinetic abilities, such as levitation.

Carnivore

• Carnivore (Andreas Zorba): A Greek Count and an independent collector of antiquities, while simultaneously lacking a real interest in maintaining his collection. Empowered by the Fearsome Fist of Farallah, he possessed superhuman physical abilities, coordination, fighting ability, and claws, as well as a pronounced animal nature and animalistic senses. He was killed by the Black Knight.^[2]

Conquest

• Conquest (Bridget Malone): A woman from
  Quicksilver
  while he was in motion. She could also fire powerful bolts of energy from the Kestrel key.

Decay

• Decay (Yoshiro Hachiman): A Japanese
  business efficiency expert, generally disliked for constantly firing people. He is known to have a fondness for artwork. Empowered by the Verdant Vial of Valtorr, he possessed a "touch of death" that caused both organic and inorganic objects to disintegrate (although Thor and Hercules
  were immune to his powers due to their immortality). He also seemed to have some ability to levitate as well as a form of enhanced durability, likely due to his corpselike state.

• Inferno (Samantha McGee): An American pilot from Tennessee. She used to be employed by the United States Air Force but resented the lack of freedom she felt when under the control of her employers. She resigned, moved to Nunavut, Canada, and set up her own company, McGee Charter Service. She was self-employed, but the business was not lucrative. Empowered by the Blinding Brazier of Balthakk, she possessed the ability to fly and generate intense heat and flames, generally focused on powerful bolts of energy strong enough to vaporize steel.

Juggernaut

• Juggernaut (Cain Marko): Stepbrother of Professor X and long-time foe of the X-Men
  . Empowered by the Crimson Crystal of Cyttorak, he possessed superhuman strength and invulnerability, becoming unstoppable once in motion.

• Stonecutter (Utama Somchart): An itinerant worker from Thailand. He was a dreamer and graffiti artist who lacked professional skills and the talent to be the artist he wanted to be. He was empowered by the Ringed Ruby of Raggadorr, possessing enhanced strength and combat skills, as well as the ability to design and build the "God Machine," which would drain humanity of its free will. He could also develop a machine that would have drained the Juggernaut's powers (although he noted that it would take too long to build it before the Juggernaut escaped his current captivity). He possessed the ability to design and create machines rapidly, such as energy cannons, energy restraints, and the flying fortress.

Tempest

• Tempest (Nicolette Giroux): A French woman and an international game warden that was known to take her job too far. Empowered by the Wondrous Waterfall of Watoomb, she possessed the ability to manipulate nature and demonstrated the ability to create and control plant life, manipulate the earth, and manipulate the weather; however, her most useful ability was control over the winds, summoning powerful storms and taking on an insubstantial fog-like form.

References

Black Knight (Marvel Comics)

External links

• Exemplars at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
• History of the Exemplars
• Bedlam at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
• Carnivore at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
• Conquest at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
• Decay at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
• Inferno at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
• Stonecutter Exemplars (comics) at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
• Tempest Exemplars (comics) at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
• Exemplars on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki