Avalanche (comics)

Avalanche (comics)

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caption=
comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Avalanche
real_name=Dominikos Ioannis Petrakis [Marvel Atlas #1]
species=Human Mutant
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Uncanny X-Men" #141 (January, 1981)
creators=Chris Claremont
John Byrne
alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0
alliances=X-Corps Freedom Force Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
aliases= Dominic Janos Petros, Jon Bloom, Dominic Szilard
powers=Ability to generate powerful vibrations.|

Avalanche (Dominikos Ioannis Petrakis [Marvel Atlas #1] ) is a Marvel Comics supervillain, an enemy of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, he first appeared in "Uncanny X-Men" #141 (January 1981).

A Cretan mutant, Avalanche, possesses the ability to create earthquakes of varying sizes and to disintegrate any substance other than living tissue. He has been a member of the Brotherhood of Mutants and Freedom Force.

The animated series ' re-imagined him as a misguided mutant teenager and love interest of the X-Men's Shadowcat. In this series, he is named Lance Alvers"'.

Fictional character biography

Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

Avalanche's past, before Mystique recruited him for the second Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, is almost entirely unknown, except for the fact that he is an immigrant from Crete, in Greece. He operated as a professional criminal, terrorist, and subversive. He first publicly appeared with the Brotherhood when they unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Senator Robert Kelly during his hearings on the menace that mutants allegedly pose to humanity. The X-Men arrived to stop the assassination and battled the new Brotherhood. ["Uncanny X-Men" #141-142] He next battled the Avengers with the Brotherhood. ["Avengers Annual" #10]

Avalanche briefly left the Brotherhood in an attempt to blackmail the state of California into paying him an enormous sum to prevent him from using his power to trigger a major earthquake there. Avalanche fought the Hulk alongside Landslide on this occasion, and suffered broken arms when he attempted to use his powers against the Hulk’s body. ["Incredible Hulk" #263]

He returned to the Brotherhood, and with them encountered Rom and Hybrid. ["Rom" #31-32] The team later battled the X-Men as the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants one final time. ["Uncanny X-Men" #177-178]

Freedom Force

The Brotherhood's leader, Mystique, offered the group's services to the United States government. Their first mission under their new name of Freedom Force was to capture the mutant Magneto on behalf of the federal government. ["Uncanny X-Men" #199] The government then sent Freedom Force to capture the Avengers. ["Avengers Annual" #15; "West Coast Avengers Annual" #1] While seeking to arrest Rusty Collins, he clashed with X-Factor. ["X-Factor" #8-10] Freedom Force then fought the X-Men in Dallas, and was present at the X-Men's apparent demise, ["Uncanny X-Men" #223-227] and battled the New Mutants in Dallas as well. ["New Mutants" #65] Freedom Force then battled Cyclops and Marvel Girl. ["X-Factor" #30-31] Freedom Force again tried to arrest Rusty Collins and battled the New Mutants, ["New Mutants" #78] but were able to arrest Rusty and Skids as well. ["New Mutants" #80] Freedom Force then had a costly battle with the Reavers on Muir Island where a number of members were killed or seriously injured. ["Uncanny X-Men" #255] During the Acts of Vengeance, Avalanche teamed with Blob and Pyro against the Avengers. ["Avengers" #312] Avalanche then joined Freedom Force's effort to stop a prison breakout at the Vault. ["Avengers: Deathtrap, the Vault"] Avalanche then participated in Freedom Force's final mission in Kuwait. He abandoned Blob and Pyro during the battle with Desert Sword to save the seriously injured Crimson Commando. ["New Mutants Annual" #7; "Uncanny X-Men Annual" #15; "X-Factor Annual" #6]

Pyro's Death

When Freedom Force was disbanded after the botched mission in the Gulf War, Avalanche continued to work for the government as part of Project: Wideawake, but soon left when he found out that his friend Pyro had contracted the Legacy Virus. Avalanche spent a lot of time afterwards trying to help find a cure for his friend's condition, but he eventually gave up, and Pyro died.

Exodus's Brotherhood

Recently, Avalanche assaulted the center of New York City, but he was taken down quickly and cleanly by the then-powerless Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane) and delivered to the authorities. What he intended to accomplish is unknown. Following that, Avalanche re-appeared in a Brotherhood attack on Philadelphia, where he manifests a newfound ability to affect organic matter by shocking Rogue into submission. He appears again in the attack on the X-Mansion, with the rest of Exodus' Brotherhood. How he escaped the NYPD in the first place is unknown, and his current fate is equally uncertain, as he and the rest of the Brotherhood were sucked into the black hole in Shen Xorn's head.

After M-Day

Avalanche is one of the few mutants to keep his powers during the M-Day, but has not been seen after M-Day yet.

Powers and abilities

Avalanche is a mutant with the superhuman ability to generate powerful waves of vibrations from his hands, creating highly destructive effects. The vibrations can cause an inorganic object to shatter or crumble into dust, and has in recent years been shown to affect organic matter as well. When directed against large objects like buildings or upon the earth itself, the vibrations can produce effects similar to those of an earthquake or avalanche within limited areas. Avalanche need not touch an object to affect it: he can direct the vibrations against it from some distance away.

Avalanche himself is immune to the generation of his vibratory waves. However, if the vibrations were reflected back upon him, he would be injured. Avalanche's power originally had little or no effect on organic tissue, with the reflected vibrations from organic matter ("feedback") injuring him, as when he once tried to attack the Hulk, but lately this has appeared to no longer be the case.

As yet there is no known limit to the amount of area upon which Avalanche can use his powers at one time. There is no evidence yet, however, that he could create an earthquake capable of destroying an entire city.

Avalanche is a fair hand-to-hand combatant, and received unarmed combat training while a member of Freedom Force.

Avalanche wears an armored battle suit that gives him enhanced resistance to injury, up to and including protecting him from a land mine. While a member of Freedom Force, he used a two-way radio device for communication with other Freedom Force members.

Other versions

Age of Apocalypse

In the Age of Apocalypse, Avalanche was one of the select mutants that were approached by Sinister and offered a chance to join his Elite Mutant Force. Avalanche, however, refused Sinister's offer, for which he was captured at the Breeding Pens. During an escape attempt, Avalanche was killed and his corpse turned over to the Dark Beast for experimentation.

House of M

Dominic appears as a member of the NYPD strikeforce known as the Brotherhood. ["House of M: Avengers" #2]

Other media

Television

* Avalanche appeared in the X-Men animated series voiced by Rod Coneybeare. He was always accompanied by Pyro and later on, the Blob. He usually acts as a henchman hired by Mystique.

* In the ' cartoon, Avalanche (voiced by Christopher Grey) has been heavily re-imagined. Here, he is a high school student named Lance Alvers"', and he is a member of the Brotherhood. This Avalanche comes across as a character who is more of a misfit than a thug, often belligerent and angry, but often also showing a more responsible side. In the end, Lance joined S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Freedom Force. Also of interest, this version bears a physical resemblance to the character Rictor, and channels his power in the same manner. In this series, Avalanche mentioned that he gets headaches from using his power. The more powerful the vibration, the more intense the headaches.

* Avalanche appears as a main member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in "Wolverine and the X-Men" voiced by James Patrick Stuart. ["Wolverine e os X-Men (Wolverine and the X-Men)" Ep. 1 - "Hindsight Pt. I"]

Video games

* Avalanche appears as a boss character in "X-Men Legends" voiced by Peter Lurie. He is part of Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants and fights the X-Men at The Mount alongside Sabretooth. The Shadow King also had a Dark Avalanche when the X-Men were in the Astral Plane. Avalanche doesn't appear in the sequel.

Bibliography

*"Avengers Annual" #10, 15
*"Avengers" vol. 1 #312
*"Avengers West Coast" #84
*"Captain America" vol. 1 #333-334, 339, 346
*"Incredible Hulk" vol. 2 #263
*"Marvel Comics Presents" #41, 82-84, 86
*"Marvel Graphic Novel: Avengers: Deathtr

*"Marvel Super-Heroes" vol. 3 #10
*"New Mutants Annual" #7
*"New Mutants" vol. 1 #65, 78, 80
*"New Mutants" vol. 2 #9
*"Punisher" vol. 2 #29
*"Quicksilver" #6, 8-9
*"Rom" #31
*"Uncanny X-Men" #141-142, 177-178, 199, 206, 223-227, 255, 338, 401-406
*"Uncanny X-Men Annual" #15
*"Weapon X" vol. 2 #4
*"West Coast Avengers Annual" #1
*"X-Factor Annual" #6
*"X-Factor" vol. 1 #8-10, 30-31, 33, 108-109
*"X-Men" vol. 2 #161-164
*"X-Men: The 198 Files"

References

External links

* [http://www.marvel.com/universe/Avalanche Avalanche on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki]
* http://www.marveldatabase.com/Avalanche


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