Predator X (character)

Predator X
Predator X. Art by Trevor Hairsine.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	New X-Men #34 (2007)
Created by	Christopher Yost Craig Kyle Paco Medina
In-story information
Team affiliations	The Facility
Abilities	Large monsterous genetically-modified creature capable of tearing apart superhuman beings, body covered in non-toxic inorganic mercury

Predator X is a fictional character, in the Marvel Universe and a deadly enemy of mutants including the X-Men.

Fictional Biography

After learning of Emma Frost's plan to have X-23 leave the school, Cessily Kincaid takes X-23 to Salem Center for coffee to cool Laura down. Facility agents led by the Weapon Plus program, including X-23's former handler, Kimura come for one of them. Laura believing it is her begs Cessily to leave, but not before Kimura shoots Cessily with an electric bullet, stopping Cessily from doing anything, and stating that they were actually there for Cessily. After capturing Cessily, Kimura leaves before Laura can recooperate from a grenade blast. At the lab, Cessily questions who they are and what they want but is given no answers. When she replies that her friends will come for her, Kimura informs that "The Elephant" (Mammomax) said the same thing while showing a picture of his corpse in a cell. Apparently Stryker, before dying, had requested a living weapon, a huge beast called the "Predator X", and Mercury's metal skin was needed to give him more durability and powers. Gruesome experiments partly stripped the girl of the needed biometal, granting the beast her powers and leaving her in extreme pain. The experiments left her physically and mentally traumatized, and she is currently in recovery at the institute. Predator X is, presumably, now covered in a flexible metalic skin.

Recently, the Purifiers have begun tracking down the creature, in hopes of using it as a weapon against their mutant enemies and William Stryker's predicted "Antichrist" in particular.

In X-Men: Messiah Complex, Predator X is seen looking for the child with the X-Gene, pausing to feast upon the body of Blockbuster.

Powers and abilities

Created by the scientists of the Facility and having absorbed some of Mercury's bio-metal skin, Predator X is highly resistant to physical damage, being able to draw in materials from the surrounding environment to help reform itself. The beast also possesses superhuman strength and endurance, as well as the ability to track mutants by their genetic signature alone. Predator X is essentially tireless, able to track and pursue prey without pause for great distances and lengths of time, eventually wearing the target down before going for the kill In New X-Men #43, the creature was reported to run at speeds of 100 km/h for nineteen hours without slowing down. This, combined with its regenerative abilities, means that the creature can hunt down even a determined and powerful mutant and come out victorious. Predator X does appear to be vulnerable to energy blasts, as the two other creatures were swiftly dispatched by the energy weapons of a O.N.E. Sentinel or Hellion's telekinesis.

External links

• Weapons Plus Program
• Metallic | The Cessily Kincaid (Mercury) Fanlisting
• The Cessily Kincaid LJ Fan Community