Quentin Quire
Quentin Quire | |
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Partnerships | Wolverine |
Notable aliases | Kid Omega Phoenix |
Abilities |
Quintavius Quirinius "Quentin" Quire,[1] also known as Kid Omega, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually in those featuring the X-Men. Quire first appeared in New X-Men #134 (January 2003).[2] He was created by writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely.
A character inspired by
Publication history
Quire made his first appearance in New X-Men #134 (Jan. 2003). His first appearance as Kid Omega and the first appearance of the Omega Gang were in New X-Men #135 (Feb. 2003). Grant Morrison has cited The Sekhmet Hypothesis as an influence on the story as well as Quire's angry punk rock aesthetic, referring to it in their book, Supergods.[3]
Fictional character biography
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Xavier Institute
Quentin Quire joins the student body of the Xavier Institute after Professor X's return from averting a war with Genosha and the rebuilding of the X-Mansion. He immediately stands out as a brilliant intellect and quickly becomes Xavier's prize pupil. Xavier teaches Quire to control his powers when they first appear. The extent and type of his mutant abilities are never clearly defined. Quire appears to be a very powerful telepath, and the Stepford Cuckoos describe him as having a 'see-through mind', but he is not necessarily limited to that.[4]
Quentin often associates with
Omega Gang: New X-Men
While a student at Xavier's, Quire invents the anti-gravity floats for
Shortly afterward, Quire and a group of like-minded students visit town wearing the Trask-overlord clothes, and Quire convinces them to take the mutant drug Kick. They accost a gang of humans in an alley and kill or maim them all. When Herman asks what had happened to a human Quentin himself had murdered, Quire replies he had carved his name across the man's mind. Back at school, Xavier confronts the students, but Quire is not implicated. Quire and his gang later go to a mutant tattooist and have their arms marked with an Omega symbol over an X, then attack U-Men Central. Returning to school, the "Omega Gang" ambushes Professor X with a baseball bat and clamps his head in a thought-proof helmet. The next day, at the school's "Open Day" to parents and the media, Quire publicly proclaims it is "open season on humans" and starts a riot.[6]
Riot at Xavier's
Some of the students join Quire in protesting
Quire is taken to the Infirmary, where
"A Higher Plane of Existence"
However, Quire is not truly dead and Professor Xavier announces to the student body that he believes Quire has ascended to a higher plane of existence. Quentin remains in a dormant, semi-alive, energy form in a containment unit on Beast's lab table. The potential future shown in the New X-Men story "Here Comes Tomorrow" indicated that Quentin is destined to become an avatar for the Phoenix Force. A young boy, wearing a Phoenix costume and Quentin's distinct pink haircut, is seen telling Jean Grey, who vaguely recognizes him, that she doesn't have long to set the events in the timeline right.[9]
A few months later in X-Men: Phoenix – Endsong, when a fragment of the shattered Phoenix Force returns to Earth, it senses Quire and investigates him, thinking he might be Jean Grey. Though the Phoenix passes up Quire, it shocks him back to consciousness and he reconstitutes his body. Furthermore, he seeks out and reanimates Sophie's corpse, but is unable to complete the process, so he sets off to find the Phoenix Force so he can be with his love. Quire finds the Phoenix, which has resurrected Jean Grey to attract Cyclops' attention, engaged in battle with the X-Men. Just prior to his arrival on the scene, the X-Men get the Phoenix to inhabit Emma Frost, Cyclops's current lover, and imprisons both her and Scott inside a containment vessel. Quire arrives and breaks the containment chamber open, releasing the Phoenix fragment. Quentin then asks the Phoenix to resurrect Sophie, which it does. Sophie is still disgusted by him (and/or his actions) and chooses to return to death. Quire breaks down in anguish, and the Phoenix leaves him to his "sickness". Having spent too much of his energy, Quire apologizes to the X-Men for his rash behavior and returns to his non-corporeal state in the container in Beast's lab.[10]
Nation X
Beast brings Quentin's container to his lab on
"Schism"
Quire returns in the
After the events of "Schism", Quire is considered one of the world's worst terrorists. Feeling that jail would only make Quentin's sociopathic tendencies worse, Wolverine strikes a deal with Captain America. He is released into Wolverine's custody and Quire is to attend the newly reformed Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning in an effort to rehabilitate him. Nobody consulted Cyclops on this.[16]
Wolverine and the X-Men
Quentin Quire is shown in promotional art for Wolverine and the X-Men #1 as a member of Wolverine's post-Schism team.[17] In issue #3 of that series, Quire helps Wolverine's team by successfully reasoning with an offshoot of Krakoa.[18] Later, while helping Wolverine con a "space casino" out of money needed for the school, Quire is able to manifest and use what he calls a "psychic shotgun," which is very similar to the psychic swords used by characters like Psylocke.[19]
Quire faces off against Wolverine in a mental construct of his own devising in an attempt both to show Wolverine who is tougher and to punish him. This incident draws in Armor, a fellow student. Quire finds the effort extremely taxing to the point where he loses control of his own creation, leaving Wolverine's body a beastly, raging nightmare hellbent on killing Quentin. The limited series is titled Wolverine and the X-Men: Alpha & Omega, which is written by Brian Wood.
Over time, Quire begins to accept his fellow students by first helping them save the faculty after
During Infinity, Quire is chosen as one of the few students to represent Wolverine's school in a friendly competition among similar schools for super-youngsters. This 'Contest of Champions' is attacked by an alien armada. Quire witnesses fellow student Crimson being flattened right next to him. Ultimately, Quire's telepathy is essential in the other students joining to defeat an alien giant.[20]
After several members of the Jean Grey School defected to join the new Hellfire Academy, Quentin followed them, hoping to discover why Idie Okonkwo switched sides. After gaining entrance to the Hellfire Academy, it was discovered that Quentin did not change allegiances but was looking for Idie. This led to Quentin getting "detention", in which he was beaten, until Toad helped him escape his tormentors. While trying to escape, Quentin and Toad were confronted by the other students of the academy. Together with Idie and Wolverine's X-Men, they defeat the Hellfire Academy and he returns to the school. Quentin later graduates and becomes a graduate student/assistant at the school. In Battle of the Atom, he comes face to face with his future Phoenix self and begins to question his stay at the school.
Due to his anger towards Logan and others, Quire later breaks off association with the facility when he becomes independently wealthy and leaves the school to join the Phoenix Corporation, later becoming the new White King of the Hellfire Club. However, he finds himself not quite able to enjoy the riches and fame because he saw his own death on a time travel adventure. Wolverine and Iron Man try to bring Quire out of his self-imposed isolation but fail.[21] The events of AXIS and Wolverine's death cause him to finally return to the Jean Grey School and help both the Avengers and X-Men battle Red Onslaught.
Generation X
When
"The Phoenix"
Having become fed up with people, Quentin decided to exile himself from society and live in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with Krakoa taking the shape of a small desert island. Quentin's little vacation was interrupted by
Marvel Legacy
Kid Omega joined
During the "Empyre" storyline, Quentin Quire is among the psychic mutants that are summoned to Genosha.[29] He is among those who witness Magik's fight with the Cotatinaught.[30]
Powers and abilities
In New X-Men, Quire is depicted as an Omega level mutant possessing advanced cognitive and telepathic abilities that enable him to organize and construct his thoughts at accelerated rates, overtly or covertly manipulate the minds of others, resist mind probes, and disable other forms of psychic manipulation.[7] His level of psychic influence on others depends on the number of individuals he wishes to affect — his influence is strongest among fewer individuals and subtler in large numbers of people.[11] Xavier explains that Quentin's psychic powers are "deep, subtle, and he's able to influence minds around him".[5] Emma Frost also states that his mind processes several thousand "brilliant" thoughts a second.[5] Given that Quire is under the influence of the drug Kick for much of his time at the academy, it is unknown how much his power was being boosted by its effects. However, after the events of "Schism", Quire is shown to have most of his telepathic and telekinetic powers still intact, even without Kick. His powers also seem to continue to develop, as Quire is able to manifest and use a "psychic shotgun", as well as other firearms and explosives, much in the same way other mutants (such as Psylocke) can manifest swords with their minds. He has also been shown to create an entire universe, which he calls "The Construct", within his mind, allowing him to imprison others within this world.[19]
In the miniseries X-Men: Phoenix – Endsong, Quire generates massive amounts of telekinetic energy which manifest in the form of tentacles, allowing him to break free of his containment chamber, blast through the Xavier School's foundation, pull Sophie's body out of the ground, restructure it a bit, instantly heal wounds on his body inflicted through Wolverine's claws, and fly at supersonic speed.
Quentin Quire has existed without a body as a form of energy inside a jar. He is also depicted as being an alternate reality host of the
Omega Gang
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Tattoo |
The Omega Gang is a group of teenage
The Omega Gang is formed by Quentin Quire, a young telepath and one of the top students of the
At Quire's request, all members tattoo themselves with a symbol formed by an
The gang is responsible for the attack on a teenage anti-mutant gang and later for the
Other versions
Age of Apocalypse
In this harsh reality, it is revealed that Quentin was examined by the
Prophet, leader of a group of human freedom fighters, and
His suicide appeared to be a ruse as he was later seen alive and well with the Overmind. He confronts the Shadow King in his penthouse apartment, where the Shadow King managed to easily kill the Mind Dolls, yet he finds himself unable to defeat Quentin who reveals himself to be actually Goodnight in disguise. As it turns out, Prophet had secretly cloned Quentin's powerful mutant brain in order to be used to trap the Shadow King. Unable to navigate Quentin's labyrinth of a mind, the Shadow King was successfully taken off the board before the final battle against Weapon Omega.[34]
Exiles
In Exiles: Days of Then and Now, Quentin Quire is one of the surviving heroes during the
House of M
In the "
Post-Graduation
An adult Quire is now host to the Phoenix Force. He returns to the now defunct Jean Grey School for Higher Learning to confront his nemesis, Wolverine. Backed up only by bamfs, Wolverine is confronted with Quire's newest surprise: two million Negative Zone mutants in need of schooling. However, Logan relishes his new-found role as teacher and welcomes them in.[37]
Ultimate Marvel
Quentin Quire appeared in the
What If
An alternate version of Quentin briefly appears in the
In other media
Film
- A loose interpretation of the Omega Gang, simply called the "Omegas", appear in Phat. Additionally, Quill (portrayed by portrayed by Ken Leung) is credited as "Kid Omega", which the production team has stated was a typo in the audio commentary.[39]
- Quentin Quire makes a cameo appearance in Dark Phoenix.[40]
Video games
Kid Omega appears as a playable character in
References
- ^ Wolverine and the X-Men #15 (Oct. 2012)
- ISBN 978-1-4654-7890-0.
- ISBN 9781400069125.
- ^ a b New X-Men #134 (Jan. 2003)
- ^ a b c d New X-Men #135 (February 2003)
- ^ New X-Men #136 (March 2003)
- ^ a b c New X-Men #137 (April 2003)
- ^ New X-Men #138 (May 2003)
- ^ a b c New X-Men #154 (May 2004)
- ^ X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong #5 (June 2005)
- ^ David López (p), Álvaro López (i). "Martha Johansson vs. Quentin Quire in: 7½" Nation X, no. 2 (March 2010). Marvel Comics.
- ^ "IGN.com "Closer Look at the X-Men Civil War"".
- ^ "Marvel Press Conference: X-Men Schism". Retrieved 2011-06-11.
- ^ X-Men: Schism #1 (Sept. 2011)
- ^ X-Men: Schism #2 (Sept. 2011)
- ^ X-Men: Regenesis (Dec. 2011)
- ^ "X-Men: Regenesis teaser by Nick Bradshaw". Marvel Comics. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
- ^ Wolverine and the X-Men #3 (February 2012)
- ^ a b Wolverine and the X-Men #7 (May 2012)
- ^ Infinity: The Hunt #1-4 (2013)
- ^ Wolverine and the X-Men #9 (2014)
- ^ Generation X vol. 2 #2
- ^ Generation X vol. 2 #3-4
- ^ Generation X vol. 2 #6-7
- ^ The Mighty Thor vol. 2 #6
- ^ The Mighty Thor vol. 2 #19
- ^ Generation X vol. 2 #85-86
- ^ Thompson, Kelly (w), Caselli, Stefano (p). West Coast Avengers, vol. 3, no. 1 (August 2018).
- ^ Empyre: X-Men #2. Marvel Comics.
- ^ Empyre: X-Men #4. Marvel Comics.
- ^ All-New X-Men #17 (2013)
- ^ Battle of the Atom. Marvel Comics. 2013. pp. 19–21.
- ^ a b Age of Apocalypse #5 (September 2012)
- ^ Age of Apocalypse #11 (March 2013)
- ^ Exiles: Days of Then and Now (March 2008)
- ^ New X-Men vol. 2, #16 (Sept. 2005)
- ^ Wolverine and the X-Men 42 (April 2014)
- ^ Ultimate Comics: X-Men #18 (December 2012)
- ^ Brett Ratner, Simon Kinberg, Zak Penn (2006). Audio Commentary (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
- ^ "X-Men: Dark Phoenix Fan Shares Our Best Look at Quentin Quire Yet". 3 September 2019.
- ^ "Kitty Pryde, Rachel Summers, Kid Omega and the Danger Room come to Marvel Future Fight". 11 September 2019.