Mercury (Marvel Comics)
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Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | New Mutants vol. 2 #2 (August 2003) |
Created by | Nunzio DeFilippis Christina Weir Keron Grant |
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Alter ego | Cessily Kincaid |
Species | Human mutant |
Team affiliations | Jean Grey School Students Hellions training squad X-Men-In-Training Xavier Institute New X-Men |
Notable aliases | Mercury |
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Mercury (Cessily Kincaid) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, and Keron Grant, the character first appeared in New Mutants vol. 2 #2 (August 2003). Mercury is a teenage member of the student body at the Xavier Institute and a recurring member of the X-Men.
Publication history
Mercury debuted in New Mutants vol. 2 #2 (August 2003), created by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, and Keron Grant.
Fictional character biography
Introduction
Cessily Kincaid, an
She's extremely close to
Hellions Miniseries
The Hellions squad won the squad challenge, and during their summer vacation, they travelled with Julian to his home. There they encountered the Kingmaker, from whom they each received a trial wish. Cessily's wish was to have her parents accept and love her, a wish the Kingmaker granted by manipulating her parents with telepaths. When the Hellions eventually refused a permanent deal with the Kingmaker, Cessily's parents reverted to normal and Cessily returned to the institute, defeated.[volume & issue needed]
Decimation
After the events of
All of the remaining students were placed by Emma Frost into an all-out brawl, and the ones deemed to be the best were to be assigned to become a group of in-training X-Men. Cessily made the team and began training to become an X-Man.[volume & issue needed]
Childhood's End and Nimrod
In the Childhood's End arc, Cessily and the New X-Men defeated Stryker,
Mercury Falling
After learning of Emma Frost's plan to have
Quest for Magik
Mercury is recovering in bed after what happened to her in the last arc when the students are teleported to
World War Hulk
Mercury is one of the students that intercepts the
Children of X-Men
Cessily still maintains her disapproval and distrust of Emma Frost after overhearing her conversation with X-23 during the "Mercury Falling" arc. She also feels that Emma has carelessly "lost" track of Wither and constantly reminds her of the fact that Kevin is no longer in the school or under her surveillance.[volume & issue needed]
Mercury has also been deeply affected by the events of Decimation, as depicted in the "Endangered Species" miniseries. She is distraught by the death of a teenage civilian mutant and is one of the students at the institute trying to determine the youngest mutant, as she believes that the youngest mutant always tends to be killed.[volume & issue needed] Mercury later comforts X-23 after she ran off and wrecked the woman's restroom in rage due to Surge kissing Hellion, and is later seen hanging out with her and Dust.[volume & issue needed]
Messiah Complex
Mercury is one of the New X-Men led by Surge that launch a strike against the Purifiers to incapacitate them and rescue the mutant baby. After Hellion is critically wounded by
Secret Invasion
Cessily is among the several X-Men helping to fight off Skrulls during their invasion of San Francisco.[2]
Manifest Destiny
Mercury and X-23 are walking down Fisherman's Wharf when X-23 realizes Mercury is upset. Mercury misses her parents and feels like a freak because they were disgusted when her powers manifested. While playing with Silly Putty, she comments:
I'm like this stuff... A blob of malleable goop. Doesn't matter, metal or clay... We're one and the same. You fool yourself and think it's like magic. You can change shape at will. There's freedom in making yourself into anything you can imagine. Until you realize that no matter what... You're still a metal freak. You don't have skin, you don't have... You're not... A person. You're not... Human.
— Cessily Kincaid, X-Men: Manifest Destiny #4
They are then attacked by 3 members of the Hellfire Cult and Mercury takes them all out. X-23 points out she is more than just lifeless metal, she is a person and a hero and to put her past behind her and look at who she is now. She just might like what she sees.[volume & issue needed]
X-Infernus
Mercury and Rockslide are watching a training session between Pixie and Nightcrawler when Pixie stabs Kurt with her soul dagger. They run in and move Pixie away from Kurt's unconscious body, Beast enters and Pixie regains her senses. When she removes her dagger, Magik's soulsword emerges from his chest and Magik teleports in ready to reclaim her sword.[3]
Mercury engages Magik in combat and manages to stab her in the shoulder; Illyana responds by blowing her up, noting that she has some immunity to magic, but is not invulnerable. After she reforms, she is placed on a team of X-Men being sent to Limbo along with Rockslide due to their resistance to magic.[4]
Upon entering Limbo, the team fights their way through many demons. Pixie senses the darkness within her suddenly growing and she teleports off to Belasco's castle by herself.[volume & issue needed]
Hearing the screams from the castle, Kurt teleports the X-Men into the throne room. Once there, Witchfire turns Colossus and Wolverine against Mercury and Rockslide who get taken out, leaving Kurt the last X-Man standing.[5]
Utopia
Mercury, along with fellow students
After Osborn's defeat by the X-Men and the official creation of Utopia, Mercury is involved in a media tug of war between Norman Osborn, her biological father and their claims that she is being held captive against her will. Although she confronts her father over the phone, during a live television broadcast, and disputes his claims going as far as to call him a bad father her situation gets more complicated as Deadpool intervenes.[volume & issue needed]
Believing that he is doing them a favor he attempts to kill Mr. Kincaid on live television only to be stopped by
The following storyline created some continuity errors as it was implied that Mr. Kincaid had been an absentee father for most of Mercury's life, and it also implied that he was divorced/separated from Mercury's mother. This is in direct conflict from the Hellion's mini-series which showed both Mercury's parents living together happily. Furthermore, in a New X-Men flashback during the Mercury Rising storyline it showed a concerned father discovering Cessily during the onset of her mutation.[volume & issue needed]
Regenesis
Cessily left with Wolverine and returned to the school.[9] In the first issue of Wolverine and the X-Men: Alpha & Omega, she is seen at school.[volume & issue needed]
Powers and abilities
The body of Mercury is composed of a non-toxic metal resembling
Reception
Critical response
Deirdre Kaye of
Other versions
House of M
An alternate version of Mercury appears in the
In other media
- Mercury makes non-speaking appearances in Acolytes.
- Mercury appears in early concept art for X-Men: Days of Future Past.[17]
References
- ^ "Comixfan Forums - Question And Answers Thread!". www.comixfan.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27.
- ^ Secret Invasion: X-Men #1
- ^ X-Infernus #1
- ^ a b X-Infernus #2
- ^ X-Infernus #3
- ^ Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men: Utopia #1
- ^ Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus #1
- ^ Deadpool vol. 4 #16-18 (2010)
- ^ X-Men: Regenesis #1
- ^ Watanabe, Tommy Bobby (2014-07-17). "10 X-Men Who Looks Like Monsters". WhatCulture. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- ^ Stay, Grant (April 20, 2020). "X-Men: The 10 Most Powerful Members Of The Hellions, Ranked". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- ^ New X-Men vol. 2 #39
- ^ Kaye, Deirdre (November 16, 2020). "Looking For A Role Model? These 195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic". Scary Mommy. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
- ^ Ukil, Aparna (2022-03-23). "5 Coolest Comic Book Characters With Elastic Abilities". Sportskeeda. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- ^ Gawaran, Alyssa (2022-06-20). "8 LGBTQ+ Marvel Comics Characters That Need to Be in the MCU". MovieWeb. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- ^ New X-Men: Academy X #16–19
- ^ "Simon Kinberg: X-Men: Apocalypse Completes the First Class Trilogy". September 26, 2014. Archived from the original on September 29, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2014.