Christian Cord (Character)

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Created by: Grant Morrison

1st appearance: New X-men #134 (2003)

Alias: Radian, Black Iron Man, Phaser

Team Affiliations: New Warriors, Omega Gang

Legal Status: U.S citizen with criminal record

Height: 5’11              Weight: 180 lbs

Eyes: Brown                  Hair: Black

Relatives: Unnamed parents, Christine Cord/Longstrike/Tatoo (Sister, deceased)

Skills and Abilities:  Trained in unarmed combat while at Xavier’s school for the gifted. He also displays gymnastics abilities and is very agile.

Powers: As a mutant he could produce a brilliant blinding light from his body.

Currently: He wears a suit based on the armor of Iron Man. He can shoot pulse blasts from his wrist and chest. additionally the suit allows him to also become intangible

Biography

When his powers manifested his parents sent him and his sister to Xavier’s school for the gifted to learn how to control his powers. Once their they got addicted to the mutant power enhancing drug Kick and joined the Omega Gang who terrorized humans who were anti-mutant. He was also responsible for the capture and submission of Prof-X before they were defeated by the teaching staff. He had his leg broken by Cyclops.

He was sent to prison and after losing his powers he was recruited into a post civil war New Warriors along with his sister. Over the course of his adventures his sister was killed and he was severely traumatized. Soon after the team disbanded. It’s unknown what became of him.