Mutant is a fictional character

Fictional character

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 in the Marvel Knights 2099 universe, published by Marvel Comics

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, and created by Robert Kirkman

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.

Publication history

Mutant 2099 appeared initially in a one-shot comic book under Marvel's Marvel Knights line.

Fictional character biography

Chad Channing is a teenage mutant

Mutant

In biology and especially genetics, a mutant is an individual, organism, or new genetic character, arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is a base-pair sequence change within the DNA of a gene or chromosome of an organism resulting in the creation of a new character or trait not...

 in a future where superheroes are outlawed and there is a Sentinel

Sentinel (comics)

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 on every street corner. After the Mutant Registration Act

Registration Acts (comics)

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 all mutants are identified at birth and given registration numbers (which are burnt into the forearm) as well as suppression medication that stops their mutant abilities from manifesting. Beneath the futuristic New York streets, Chad stumbles upon the preserved brain of scientific genius and former superhero Reed Richards

Mister Fantastic

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, who supplies him with placebo

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 medicine, allowing his suppressed mutant abilities to manifest. Together the pair protect the innocent from threats such as the Mole People or, more often, from being harmed during the single-minded Sentinel fights with rogue mutants. Reed aids Chad with a cybernetic body built in the form of his former colleague Ben Grimm

Thing (comics)

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.

Marvel Team-Up

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: League of Losers

Chad features in an arc of Kirkman's Marvel Team-Up

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featuring a group of C-list heroes called "The League of Losers". A group of heroes including Darkhawk

Darkhawk

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, Speedball

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, Dagger of Cloak and Dagger

Cloak and Dagger (comics)

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, Araña

Anya Corazon

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, X-23

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, Sleepwalker

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 and Gravity

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 coming to the future to prevent the villain Chronok from stealing Richards' time machine, who plans to come to the present and kill all Marvel's major heroes. The team defeats Chronok, but at the end of the story, Richards reveals they can't go back to their present, due to time-travel and alternate timelines. The group decides to stay in the future, satisfied with the impact they made, however unnoticed. Mutant 2099 suggests reforming the Avengers

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 or the "Fantastic Nine".

This grouping also appears in Deadpool/GLI: Summer Fun Spectacular #1 (September 2007). Squirrel Girl

Squirrel Girl

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, having misunderstood the particulars of time travel, visits the group for a short period. She learns they are allied with the long-lived hero Mr. Immortal

Mr. Immortal

Mr. Immortal is a comic book character, a mutant superhero in Marvel Comics' main shared universe. He is the leader of the Great Lakes Avengers and first appeared in the pages of the Avengers West Coast in 1989.-Profile:Mr...

.

Powers and appearance

Mutant wears a form fitting blue costume, a full head mask (except for an open hair top), and lenses on the eyes. Mutant's powers include telekinetic abilities he can use to enhance his agility and strength to above human standards, he can also propel himself through the air.

Clarification

• "Marvel Knights 2099" timeline should not be confused with 'original' Marvel 2099
  Marvel 2099
  Marvel 2099 is a Marvel Comics imprint, started in 1992, that explores one possible future of the Marvel Universe. It was originally announced by Stan Lee in his "Stan's Soapbox" column as a single series entitled The Marvel World of Tomorrow, which was being developed by Lee and John Byrne...
  
  time line.