Hope Summers

Hope is a very powerful mutant, naturally; having descended from other super-powerful beings, it was inevitable that she rise to her current position, catching the eye of the Inisfreeans.

 

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Table of Contents:

1. Spec’s
2. History
3. Powers and Abilities
4. Vocabulary
5. Former Powers
6. Weaknesses
7. Paraphernalia
8. Notes
9. Trivia
10. Hope & Auz
11. 2022 Update
12. Little (Images Begin)
13. With Cable
14. To Alaska
15. Becoming Phoenix
16. Hope
17. She Loves Being Forced to Ride a Sybian While Also Being Forced to Guzzle Cum
18. How She Loves Sitting Missionary for Me
19. 2024/+

 

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Spec’s:

Alter ego	Hope Summers (born Spalding)
Species	Human Mutant
Team affiliations	X-Men The Lights Jean Grey School Students X-Force
Partnerships	Cable
Notable aliases	Mutant Messiah, White Phoenix of the Crown, MeMe
Abilities	Power mimicry Power activation Control over the Five Lights

She stands 5’6″, is 106 lbs., and has perky C-cup breasts.

 

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Hope Summers is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The superheroine first appeared in X-Men #205 in 2007 (Chapter five of the “X-Men: Messiah Complex” storyline). She is the first mutant born after the events of the “House of M” and “Decimation” storyline.

Publication history

“Messiah Complex”

Hope is the first mutant to be born after the Decimation, an event in which the Scarlet Witch uses her reality-altering superpower to turn all but 198 of the world’s mutants into regular, depowered humans. The moment Hope is born, the mutant-locating computer Cerebro explodes,^[1] and soon afterwards the hunt for her begins.

Hope’s town is attacked by the Purifiers, who use information given to them by the time-traveling Nimrod who warns them of her arrival.^[2] Although all the children in town are murdered by the Purifiers, the X-Men Cable manages to save Hope.^[3] According to Cable, the baby is a Messianic figure destined to save both mutant and humankind.^[4] The Purifiers and Bishop, however, recall a timeline in which Hope will become the mutant equivalent of the Antichrist, and kill a million humans in an instant. This event, known as the “Six Second War”, will turn humanity against mutants once again and lead into a new era of mutant persecution, creating the dark timeline into which Bishop is born.^[5]

Later, the baby is kidnapped by the Marauders^[5] and delivered to the mutant Mystique who is disguised as Mister Sinister. Mystique takes the baby and makes her touch the comatose Rogue with the intention of waking her from her coma.^[6] The mutant Gambit intervenes and takes Hope from Mystique. Believing the baby has died during her rescue, Gambit is amazed to find not only is the baby unharmed, but also Rogue has been awakened from her coma.^[7] After an intense battle between the Marauders, the X-Men and Predator X, X-Men leader Cyclops decides the baby would be better off with his son Cable, and allows him to take her to the future. However, an adamant Bishop decides to track Cable and the baby through time in order to kill her and prevent the bleak future of his own timeline from happening.^[4]

Into the Future

During one of the first battles with Bishop, Cable’s time traveling device is damaged, so he can only jump into the future, instead of the past, when he needs to escape Bishop each time he finds them. After several jumps into the future, it is revealed that Cable has taken her to the secluded safe haven of New Liberty in the future, where Cable marries a woman named Hope, who is like a mother to the mutant baby.^[8] Finding relative peace there, he raises her with Hope until she is seven years old. But then New Liberty is invaded by humanoid insects who called themselves the United States Army, later calling themselves humanoid Blattarians.^[8] Cable fights them and leaves New Liberty with his wife and her in order to make sure New Liberty does not fall.^[9] After spending months in the wasteland, the family is attacked by the president of the insects, from whom Hope manages to save her family by stabbing the insect in his weak spot, since she has been watching Cable fight. Cable questions the president where he finds out that Bishop, in order to find Hope in the future, has destroyed all the continents in the world and left them uninhabitable, except North America, in order to box them in, find her and kill her. Cable kills the president, and the family moves on. The family encounters a settlement, but are met with resistance. Cable takes care of them easily, but not fast enough, as Hope is shot and dies in Cable’s arms while the girl watches. The girl sees Cable bury the closest thing she ever had to a mother and departs with him. After arriving at a church, the pastor asks the name of the child. In that moment, Cable decides to name her Hope Summers, in honor of her adoptive mother.^[10]

“Messiah War”

In the Messiah War storyline, which ran through Cable and X-Force, Hope Summers was the center of conflict between the forces of Stryfe, Cable, and X-Force. The Messiah War was part of a three-part story that began with X-Men: Messiah Complex.^[11] During the Messiah War, Hope was kidnapped by Cable’s clone Stryfe, in league with Bishop. Hope watched as Stryfe tortured Warpath until Cable, Wolverine and Elixir came to their rescue. In the following fight, Hope survived along with the rest of X-Force and Cable, though Bishop lost an eye to Wolverine and had his time travel device damaged. When Cable and Hope were forced to time travel again, Hope resisted because she wanted to stay with X-23 and Elixir, with whom she had bonded during the events of Messiah War.

She kicked Cable in mid-jump, stranding herself and Cable two years apart. They eventually reunited, with Hope now 11 years old instead of nine.

“Homecoming” and “X-Men: Second Coming”

In the four-part series A Girl Called Hope, Hope watches over Cable as he sleeps, and she says “I would come back from the dead to kill them”, referring to anyone who would harm Cable, with the Phoenix emblem reflecting in Hope’s eyes again as she looks in the fire. As the short series closes, it is revealed that Hope slaughtered many of the evolved wolves in order to keep Cable safe. A promotional image for the event was released depicting two versions of Hope: one angelic, emphasizing her role as a savior; the other as evil and surrounded by the Phoenix Force, depicting her as a destroyer.^[12][13][14]

During the “X-Men: Second Coming” story arc Hope manifests various X-Men powers such as Armor‘s psionic armor and Colossus‘s organic steel and kills Lang and Creed. Nightcrawler saves her from Bastion, dying in the process. With the assistance of the X-Men, she eradicates Bastion and shatters the dome surrounding the city. At a celebratory bonfire, Emma Frost notices the flames around Hope take the shape of the Phoenix, and triggers a flashback to the Sisterhood storyline where Jean freed her from Lady Mastermind‘s illusion after giving her the warning to prepare. Seized with terror, Emma runs to Cyclops to warn him but before she can, Cyclops tells her that Cerebro has found five new mutants that have appeared around the globe.

The Five Lights

The Lights
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Uncanny X-Men #529 (November 2010)
Created by	Matt Fraction
In-story information
Base(s)	Utopia
Member(s)	Former Members: Hope No-Girl Oya Pixie Primal Sebastian Shaw Transonic Velocidad Zero

After the events of Second Coming, five new mutants are detected by Cerebro. Hope is then tasked with the mission to find and help these “Five Lights”. Hope finds the first of the Five Lights in Canada attempting to kill herself by jumping off a building. Hope touches the girl, Laurie Tromette, whose mutation is jump started (a power display similar to Sage‘s) and she develops an ability to fly. Introducing herself, she also agrees to follow Hope. Being in Canada, Hope expressed an interest in discovery her biological family to which Cyclops agreed and organized an escort team of Rogue, Dr. Nemesis and Cypher. Once the group arrived in Alaska they discovered the identity of Louise Spalding, visited her grave, as Louise was one of the casualties of the Purifiers when they killed everyone in the hospital, and Hope was able to meet her maternal grandmother, although she did not reveal her biological connection, she learned that Louise was considered a fiery redhead with a strong will, free spirit, and a good head on her shoulders. She worked as a firefighter in or near Cooperstown, Alaska and didn’t show any desire to “settle down” until she got impregnated with Hope.^[15]

Later she is called to Mexico by Cecilia Reyes and Psylocke where the second of the Five Lights lives. This new mutant is a boy called Gabriel Cohuelo, whose speed powers caused him to move so fast he had become invisible to the naked eye. Psylocke taps into Cecilia’s powers to create a force field around his room so they would not lose him before Hope Summers could arrive to help. Hope manages to help him gather control of his abilities, however it is also revealed that his powers made him age slightly.^[16]

Accompanied by Storm, Hope finds the third of the Five Lights praying in a small church in Nigeria, surrounded by armed men who wish to kill her as they believe she is a “witch child”, due to her newly manifesting power over fire and ice. Hope manages to help this new mutant, a girl named Idie Okonkwo calm herself and gather control of her abilities. As Storm and Hope proceed to leave with Idie the men attack, but Idie protects them from harm using her ability over fire and destroys the men’s vehicles. She then opens her eyes to reveal her right pupil is blue (ice) and her left pupil is orange (fire).^[17]

Later Rogue, Hope, and the Lights arrive in Miami Beach to search for the fourth Light, a boy named Teon, in the hope of having him join the X-Men. Their first interaction with Teon results in the feral boy’s attempt at “mating” with Hope. A battle ensues and is promptly finished by Hope who uses her power to tame Teon. From this point, Teon views her as his Master.^[18]

Generation Hope

Generation Hope
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Standard U.S., 4 color. Ongoing.
Publication date	2011-12
No. of issues	17
Main character(s)	The Lights
Creative team
Written by	Kieron Gillen James Asmus
Artist(s)	Salvador Espin

In the series Generation Hope, Hope and the four “Lights” along with Rogue, Cyclops and Wolverine travel to Tokyo to find and help the fifth so-called “Light”, a mutant boy called Kenji Uedo. Like the four new mutants to emerge since M-Day, Kenji’s mutant powers manifested and caused some horrible side effects. He impales his agent with a tendril when the agent pressured him about his contribution for the “Future is a Four-Letter Word” event. He burst through the apartment building and onto the street where Cyclops and Wolverine are investigating. Kenji pulls down the Blackbird carrying Rogue, Hope and the rest of the Lights. Teon takes off after one of Kenji’s tendrils and tears it apart. He releases a girl trapped inside but is utterly ineffective against him.^[19]

Hope attempts to make contact with Kenji in order to complete his transformation but he seemingly avoids her touch. She presses on after him and encounters him within his apartment. She tells him she’s there to help and he explains how his “throat slid out of his neck and danced like an eel when this began” and NOW she’s here to help. He turns around and grabs Hope and a large explosion follows. It turns out to be telepathic message. Then she falls from the sky and Gabriel saves her although she’s unconscious. Kenji is blasted away by Idie and Cyclops and Wolverine try to kill him but Hope awakes and with the Lights tries to make contact with Kenji and she is successful. She passes out from strain.^[20]

Later, she and the five Lights travel to Utopia, where they all decide to stay to hone their powers. After Doctor Nemesis examines Hope and four of the Lights and determines the specifications of each of their powers, Hope and Gabriel share a kiss during a moment of privacy.^[21] Soon afterwards, after training the Lights to use guns, Magneto introduces Hope to his “old and dear friend”, Charles Xavier. Hope takes issue with Charles calling his school a “School for Gifted Youngsters”, thinking that it just increases the line between human and mutant. Instead, she suggests that a better future would dissolve the “us and them” mentality altogether.

While in one of Emma Frost‘s classes, Hope decides that what she is learning isn’t useful to her, and she leads the Lights out of the classroom. Frost tries to stop them, but Hope just tells her to stay out of her mind and out of her way. Back at her quarters, Hope gets a letter from Hank McCoy, telling her that while most of the people on Utopia are good, they will still try and craft her in their image, and that her best course of action would be to leave. Spurred on by the letter, Hope goes and talks to Wolverine, but Logan simply tells her that she’s not a fool, and he wants to keep Hope at arm’s length for her safety. Hope then goes to see Cyclops, whom she tells that she will welcome his support, but he should stay out of her way; if any of that changes, Hope and the Lights leave Utopia. Cyclops accepts this agreement, telling Hope that he isn’t a jailor and that she and the Lights are welcome to come and go however they like.^[22]

The Ward (#6–8)

A Sixth Light is located in Germany, and Hope and the Lights hurry to get there with their new liaison Shadowcat, where the German Authorities have cordoned off a hospital. Gabriel quickly tries to enter the hospital to scout the area, but he falls unconscious before he is able to enter it. Laurie is sent to retrieve Gabriel, but likewise falls unconscious. Teon rushes to retrieve them both, but seems somehow unaffected. Hope deduces that a telepath is at work, and that Teon is somehow immune to it. Kenji states that he also has somewhat of an immunity to telepathy, and hooks a cord from his body into Hope and each of the Lights to share his immunity. The group (sans Idie, who has stayed outside with Shadowcat) enters the hospital, and finds hundreds of people unconscious on the floor. They search the building, and find the Sixth Light, who is revealed to be a baby still in the womb of its mother. The baby is terrified to leave the womb, and rises all of the unconscious people into a zombie-like state to protect it.^[23] Additionally, it extends its influence to the area outside of the hospital, bringing Shadowcat and Idie, amongst others, under its control.

Laurie breaks off from Kenji’s protection, and she is able to get Idie out of the area of influence by flying straight up. Laurie and Idie then rush back down to the building, and are able to hook back into Kenji’s protection before they are taken control of. Kenji then plugs into the Sixth Light’s mother so Hope can talk to the child telepathically. Hope and each of the Lights try to talk to the child, but all are rejected one after the next. However, Teon is able to talk to the child, using simplistic language to convince it to embrace life. The child is then born, and Hope’s touch suppresses the child’s X-Gene until it’s older. The celebration is cut short, however, as the group leaves the hospital; Shadowcat tells them that Teon’s parents have sued for custody of their son.^[24]

On Utopia, Cyclops and Evangeline Whedon both believe that the case for Teon’s custody is hopeless. Hope, however, remains confident that they will keep Teon because it’s his choice to stay, and instead focuses on getting code names for the Lights. Gabriel chooses “Velocidad”, which is Spanish for “speed”, while Hope insists that “Hope” is already her code name. Kenji tosses around ideas such as “Derivative” and “Rei” (Japanese for “Zero”, and a reference to Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion) before settling on simply “Zero”. The group chooses “Primal” for Teon, and Laurie remains with “Transonic”. Idie decides to no longer use the “Girl Who Wouldn’t Burn”, and decides to go by “Oya”, in reference to Yoruba Goddess of Fire and Magic.

As the group gets ready to leave for court, Hope walks in on Zero working on a painting of her, which he quickly destroys because she saw it before it was ready. Several witnesses take the stand, including Primal’s mother who gives a heartfelt testimony about wanting her son back. After she leaves the stand, Primal himself rushes the stand to give his own testimony, which is surprisingly well-spoken and deep. He explains that he is no longer sentient in the way that everyone else is, and that he sees the modern world through his primitive instincts. Give him a refrigerator and he will eat the food inside in order to satisfy his nutritional needs; give him a court room, and he will give the court a well thought out speech to get his needs. He requests that the court recognize his hyper-instinctive intelligence the same way it recognizes robotic and alien intelligence. He also hopes that his parents understand that he is happier now than he has ever been. Primal wins the right to stay with Hope on Utopia, but Zero wonders if he is actually happy, or if he is just lying to stay with Hope. He talks with Transonic about how Hope has changed them all, and they both agree that something isn’t right about it. Zero reveals that “Judas” was another code name he was considering spitting back at their “messiah” Hope, and Transonic wonders if they can both be “Judas”.^[25]

In the United Kingdom, a boy named Zeeshan is talking to his friends about how difficult it must truly be to be a mutant, especially if you get an “uncool” power. Almost immediately afterwards, Zeeshan’s X-Gene activates, and Hope and the Lights begin to head towards Zeeshan, whose skin has started to melt off of his body. One of Zeeshan’s friends takes pictures and videos of Zeeshan and posts them online, quickly getting thousands of hits. Greatly saddened, Zeeshan takes a steak knife into the bathroom to kill himself. All of the Lights feel this, and Transonic jumps out of the plane to get to Zeeshan quicker; it’s too late however, as Zeeshan is already dead. Hope yells at Zeeshan’s friends before returning to Utopia. Four weeks later, an enraged Zero is seen outside the building where Zeeshan’s friend lives. He is about to kill him with a drone, but is stopped by Wolverine who tells him that “It gets better, kid.”^[26]

After X-Man‘s return to Utopia, Hope had initially refused to even speak to him, due to X-Man’s connection with her surrogate father Cable. However, when X-Man puts himself in harm’s way in the Danger Room testing his newly restrained powers, Hope saves him and offers to teach him some non-power based combat techniques. X-Man agrees, and the two start training.^[27]

Fear Itself

In the Fear Itself crossover event, Hope is part of Cyclops’ “Plan 2” in defeating Kuurth, the Breaker of Stone, who is leading his trail of destruction to San Francisco. Cyclops gathers all of the mutants of Utopia behind Hope, and gives her free rein to use any and all of their powers to remove Kuurth’s telepathy-blocking helmet. Hope is successful in doing this, but is rendered unconscious from the stress of using all of the mutants’ powers. Unfortunately, this plan is unsuccessful, as telepathy is revealed worthless against the Worthy. Kuurth simply continues his march of terror helmet-less, walking past the unconscious Hope.^[28]

Hope is later shown in Utopia’s infirmary, along with Emma Frost, who had been telepathically injured by Kuurth when Hope removed his helmet. Emma is shown having a nightmare about the Phoenix, who feeds into Emma’s fears that Cyclops will never love her as much as Jean. This Nightmare Phoenix manages to convince Emma that Hope is Jean reincarnated, and tells Emma that she knows what to do. Emma, in a trance like state, takes her pillow and heads towards Hope, about to smother her to death. However, she is stopped by Namor. They kiss afterwards.^[29]

X-Men: Schism

Hope watches news reports of Sentinels gathering after Quentin Quire‘s attack on the U.N. alongside Cyclops, Wolverine, Emma Frost, Magneto, and others. She is perturbed by the prospect of an oncoming attack and muses that such situations always end with dead mutants because people are always afraid of them.^[30] Later, after Oya and Transonic leave with several of the X-Men to attend the opening of a Mutant History Museum, Hope and Velocidad go on a date. The date appears to be cut short, however, as the new Hellfire Club attacks the Museum, and defeats most of the X-Men. Hope and Velocidad arrive at the Museum to discover that Oya has “saved the day” by “murdering” most of the Hellfire grunts based on Cyclops’ orders to do what she thought was necessary. This causes Hope to chastise Transonic for losing her head during the battle and leaving Oya in that position, but Transonic explains that she is not a soldier except when Hope is around to influence her. Zero asks Oya if she is okay, but she horrifies Hope and the other Lights by asking if there is anyone else she needs to kill.^[31][32]

X-Men: Regenesis

Hope was not okay about the fact that both Logan and Scott want Oya to leave with Logan, but after a conversation with Transonic, she accepted it. Hope also asked Pixie not to leave, as her team needed a teleporter to avoid being too late to help other Lights, just like when they were too late to help Zeeshan. No-Girl is later also recruited by Zero. During a mission, the team finds the manifestation of a new Light, who is later revealed to be an amnesiac Sebastian Shaw. The front lobe of No-Girl is destroyed and Zero uses his powers to make her a body. Hope invites Shaw to also join the Lights. But when they return to Utopia, the team is attacked by the former members of the Morlocks. Hope is forced to control Zero’s powers to stop them. After this, Zero loses confidence in Hope and rebels against her. Zero, using implants he had placed into the brains of some Utopia inhabitants, manipulates them into clamoring for Hope’s death. No-Girl later kills Zero by disrupting his powers, also destroying the body he gave her. Her brain endures again, however, and Nemesis and Danger build her a new containment unit.^[33]

Avengers: X-Sanction

Before Cable can fire a round into Red Hulk’s head, he hears a voice screaming “No”. To his surprise it’s Hope and Cyclops who were brought by Blaquesmith to stop him. Hope immediately hugs him and pleads to him to stop trying to take out the Avengers. Cyclops feels that Cable has lost control of his mind due to the techno-organic virus. Cyclops attempts to free The Avengers only to be held at gunpoint by his son, Cable, as he explains why it has to be done. Hope intervenes by saying she is grown and can make her own decisions. Cable states the mission has been compromised due to the fact that Hope wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place.^[34] She ultimately manages to permanently cure Cable of the T-O virus by completely burning it out of his system once and for all. Cable gives confirmation to Cyclops that Hope is indeed The Phoenix.^[35]

Avengers vs. X-Men

In AvX, Hope is targeted by the Phoenix Force. The Avengers want to take her into custody to protect her from the Phoenix Force, but the X-Men want her to be able to accept the Phoenix Force as it could help revive the dwindling mutant “race”.^[36] As the two teams start fighting over this, Cyclops orders Emma to take Hope away so she could be safe. As the fight continues Wolverine and Spider-Man sneak into the building only to be confronted by a fiery Hope Summers, around her were the unconscious teammates from Generation Hope. As Wolverine moved to apparently kill Hope, he’s overwhelmed by Hope who uses the power of Phoenix on him and escape the compound.^[37] While on the run, Hope creates a device that camouflages her power signature and makes her untraceable.^[38] After stealing a ship, she strikes a deal with Wolverine. Essentially, she wants the opportunity to contain the Phoenix Force, but if she is unable to do so then she will allow Wolverine to kill her.^[39] However, Hope is betrayed when Wolverine alerts the Avengers to her scheme. The team meets Hope and Wolverine on the Blue Area of the Moon. Before they can contain Hope, the X-Men also arrive.^[40] The Phoenix force arrives and, instead of possessing Hope, possess each of the five X-Men present. They take her now comatose body back to Earth and, as one, declare plans to heal her. However, she is subsequently rescued by the Avengers and the Scarlet Witch,^[41] who take her away to safety, with Iron Fist suggesting that she hide in the city of K’unn-Lunn.^[42]

Having learned about a previous Phoenix host who was also trained to become the Iron Fist of her era, Hope visits Yu-Ti, but Yu-Ti is unable to help her directly, instead instructing her to learn from Spider-Man based on a vision he had. Although uncertain what he can teach her, Spider-Man proceeds to tell Hope about his mantra of great power requiring great responsibility, giving her more to think about in her role as the host for the Phoenix.^[43] Spider-Man later teaches her about patience, and waiting for one’s moment when it comes, and to step up to the challenge.^[44] Guided by these lessons, Hope fights alongside the Scarlet Witch against Cyclops when he takes on the full power of the Phoenix Force and ascends to Dark Phoenix as he kills Professor X,^[45] allowing her to not only take on the power of the Phoenix and restore the mutant race, but also have the power to give up that power afterwards. With her destiny fulfilled, she is shown departing Utopia to find a new place for herself.^[46]

Avengers vs. X-Men: Consequences

After the events of AvX, The Scarlet Witch and Captain America question Hope about what she wants to do with her life. Hope decides to attempt to live a normal life. She does not enroll at Jean Grey Academy, but enrolls in a regular public school.^[47] Around this time, Cable wakes up from his coma, and is cured of the techno-virus thanks to Hope, who has been searching for him, even sleeping in alleyways some nights. The Avengers even checked up on her. Cable disappears off-the-grid, but he secretly watches Hope in the shadows and even lets her know personally that it’s not her job to watch him, but for him to watch over her.^[48]

Cable and X-Force

Hope has been living a ‘normal life’ for four weeks now. She speaks to a psychiatrist named Doctor Townley due to The Avengers making the sessions mandatory. She now has foster parents that watch twenty-seven hours of television a week, and their excessive smiling makes her uncomfortable. She feels that her foster parents can’t compare to Cable. Domino is speaking to Boom Boom via communication link about how she made a sucker out of a client to pay her three times the amount for a job to rescue a professor from M.I.T. she considers “easy money”. Turns out Hope had hacked into her files, and beat her to the punch. Domino is surprised to see Hope again. Hope makes a deal with Domino, the missing professor in exchange for Domino using her luck powers to find Cable. Domino and Hope locate Cable in a junkyard in Nebraska. Hope becomes enraged and mimics Cable’s telekinesis. She explains that while she was looking all over the world for him, he was there and didn’t bother to reach out to her the minute he woke up from his coma. Cable responds with “I miss you too kid. Every damned day”. Hope’s rage stops and she hugs him. Suddenly Cable has another headache and Hope sees visions of a future event, Cable passes out and awakens later on, only to see Hope’s vision on television.^[49]

Wolverine and the X-Men

Hope makes a surprise visit to The Jean Grey Academy to see Idie on graduation day.

X-Force

In the new X-Force team, Hope is in a coma after being infected with a virus that infected both her and Cable.^[50] It was revealed that she was able to manifest herself in a digital avatar by copying the powers of a brain-dead mutant, MeMe. In order to remain with Cable’s team, she had chosen to keep this a secret from him, adopting MeMe’s identity, however her ruse is discovered by Psylocke, who chose to keep Hope’s identity secret.^[51] Hope’s secret ended up being revealed to all her teammates by Mojo, leading to an argument between her and Cable.^[52] After ForgetMeNot delivers a message from the real MeMe (whose residual consciousness possessed the drones in X-Force’s headquarters) to Hope, she agreed to MeMe’s life support being turned off, thus letting MeMe die and putting Hope back to being in a coma.^[53] Hope then convinces Fantomex, who now has god-like super-powers, to attack the X-Force and is able to copy his powers and remove the virus from herself and defeat Fantomex. She then takes charge of the X-Force and fires Cable, for leading the team down a morally questionable route.^[54]

Uncanny X-Men

With the majority of the X-Men believed to be dead following their battle against Legion and X-Man, Cyclops and Wolverine’s ragtag team of X-Men created a hit list of lingering threats that need to be dealt with. Among the threats is the Mutant Liberation Front, who count former X-Men Hope Summers and Banshee among their ranks. Hope isn’t dealing with Cable’s death in Extermination very well, and has hooked up with the terrorist group Mutant Liberation Front. She has her sights set on assassinating Senate candidate Prestel, but the X-Men attempt to stop her. Hope believes she and Cyclops both failed Cable, who means a lot to both of them. She points her pistol at Cyclops, just as Wolverine’s attacks via Magik’s teleportation which surprises Hope, causing her gun to go off and the bullet to connect directly with Cyclops’ right eye.

 

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Powers and Abilities

Hope Summers is an Omega level Mutant and also the vessel of the Phoenix Force with an ability of unspecified limits to psychically manipulate and mimic the powers of other mutants.

This ability is primarily manifested as mimicry of the superhuman mutant abilities of those near her, however, she has demonstrated additional powers. When she was born, she unleashed a massive psionic pulse that destroyed Cerebro. She also proved to be immune to Rogue‘s newly lethal absorption power and her touch erased all of the previous memories and abilities Rogue had absorbed, including those of the Hecatomb. She also cured Rogue of the Strain 88 virus.^[4][7] During Messiah Complex when the Three-in-One tried to search for her when she was kidnapped by the Marauders, she was able to block and disrupt Cerebro from finding her.^[55]

Hope Summers can also mimic mutant powers at their utmost capacity. However, she generates power levels that are potentially dangerous to people and the environment around her. Prodigy describes her as a metaphorical “voodoo doll” of the mutant race.  In the “Messiah War” storyline, after mentally scanning her, Stryfe hints that she has the same powers he does (telekinesis and telepathy), and is potentially far more powerful than he is.^[56] Her ability to mimic the powers of other mutants is restricted by the fact that they have to be “near enough” to her to mimic.^[57] When near Cable, Hope showed some telepathic and telekinetic powers at her command by stopping a bullet fired at her by Bishop. She then generated extremely powerful energy blasts that overloaded Bishop’s own ability to absorb projected energy.^[58]

She can also jump-start a newly emerging mutant power though to an undefined extent, and can redirect the force of magnetic fields into negative matter.^[15] Hellion also theorizes that she is able to unconsciously enhance mutant abilities such as his own telekinetic powers to a level they could not reach before she was around him. She was also seen by Emma Frost exhibiting the Phoenix Force. It was later revealed that she is part of the Phoenix Force itself which enabled her to become the “White Phoenix of the Crown”, albeit temporarily.^[59]

Thanks to Cable’s training, Hope has some knowledge of advanced technology. During the Avengers Vs X-Men storyline she was able to construct a portable device capable of masking her presence from Cerebra using components found at a common hardware store.^[60]

 

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Hope Summers

Status

 Identity

Secret Identity

 Citizenship

American

 Marital Status

Single

 Occupation

Adventurer; former student and nomad

 Education

Tutored by Cable

Characteristics

 Gender

Female

 Height

5′ 6″

 Weight

106 lbs (48 kg)

 Eyes

Green

 Hair

Red

 Unusual Features

Has shown having irises in the form of the Phoenix; scars around right eye^[12]

Origin

 Origin

Mutant

 Universe

Earth-616

 Place of Birth

Cooperstown Memorial Hospital, Cooperstown, Alaska

 Creators

Mike Carey, Chris Bachalo

First Appearance
X-Men Vol 2 #205 (January, 2008)

 

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History

 

Messiah CompleX

The baby that would become known as Hope was the daughter of Captain Louise Spalding of the Cooperstown Fire Department.^[6]

Hope was the first new mutant born since the M-Day. The moment she was born, Cerebra blew up.^[13] Soon after her birthplace in Cooperstown, Alaska was attacked by the Purifiers, who had used information given from the time-traveling Sentinel Nimrod warning them of her arrival. Although everyone else in town was murdered by the Purifiers, Cable managed to save her. According to him, the baby was the messiah supposed to save both mutants and humankind. However, according to the Purifiers and Bishop, she would become an evil antichrist and kill a million humans within six minutes, turning humanity against mutants once again, thus leading into a new era of mutant persecution, the very timeline in which Bishop was born.^[14]

The baby was later kidnapped from Cable by the Marauders and delivered to Mister Sinister who was actually Mystique in disguise. She took the baby and made her touch the comatose Rogue. Gambit quickly took her away from Mystique, believing that she just killed her but he was amazed to see that the baby was alright and that it even cured Rogue of the Strain 88 virus. After a huge battle between the Marauders, X-Men, and Predator X, Cyclops decided that the baby would be better off with Cable, and allowed his son to take her to the future. However, an adamant Bishop decided to track Cable and the baby in order to finally kill her and prevent his future from happening.^[15]

Into the Future

Upon jumping into the future, Cable took her to the secluded safe haven of New Liberty in the future, where Cable married a fellow civilian named Hope, who became like a mother to the mutant baby. Years passed, since his last battle with Bishop damaged his time machine, Cable could only jump forward in time. She was now seven years old. But then New Liberty was invaded by humanoid insects who called themselves the United States Army. Cable fought them and left New Liberty with his wife and Hope in order to make sure New Liberty didn’t fall. After spending months in the wasteland, the family was attacked by the president of the insects, from whom Hope managed to save her family by stabbing the insect in his weak spot, since she had been watching Cable fight. Cable questioned the president where he found out that Bishop, in order to find Hope in the future, had destroyed all the continents in the world, except North America, in order to easily find her and kill her. Cable killed the president, and the family moved on. The family encountered a settlement, but were met with resistance. Cable took care of them easily, but not fast enough, as her mother was shot and died in Cable’s arms while she watched. Hope saw Cable bury her mother and departed with him. After arriving at a church, the pastor asked the name of the child. In that moment, Cable decided to name her Hope Summers, in honor of her adoptive mother.^[9]

Messiah War

Hope later became the center of another conflict, this time between Cable, Stryfe, and X-Force. Hope was kidnapped by Stryfe who was working with Bishop. She watched as Stryfe tortured Warpath until Cable, Wolverine, and Elixir came to their rescue. In the following fight, she survived along with the rest of the X-Force and Cable with Bishop losing an eye to Wolverine and having his time travel device damaged. When Cable and Hope were forced to time travel again, Hope resisted because she wanted to stay with X-23and Elixir, with whom she had bonded during the War. That caused her to kick Cable in mid-jump stranding herself and Cable two years apart from each other.^[16]

Emil Spence

Hope fled the rubble of Stryfe’s Celestial City and befriended Emil Spence, the descendant of Stryfe’s warriors, Stryfetroopers. Hope survived for two years, with the help of Emil, until rejoining Cable and fleeing Earth on the second last spaceship on the planet, the Ensabahnur I, which Cable commandeered posing as Stryfe. Hope was devastated at being forced to leave Emil, the boy she loved.^[17]

At some point during their journey, Hope accidentally revealed Cable’s true identity, and he was imprisoned. Bishop and Emil eventually caught up to Cable and Hope, Emil being under the impression that Cable had kidnapped Hope and Bishop was her true father. Bishop was also armed with a thermo-nuclear device which he planned to activate as soon as he saw Hope. While Bishop and Emil raided the Ensahabnur I, Emil and Hope were reunited and Hope explained to Emil that Bishop was, in fact, trying to kill her.^[18]

During Bishop’s invasion, the Brood, attracted to Hope’s power, attacked both ships, distracting Bishop from Hope. While Cable and Bishop both fought the Brood, Hope and Emil made their way to the ship’s two terraforming pods, which would facilitate their escape. Emil placed Hope in the pod against her will as she refused to leave Cable. As Emil was preparing the second pod Cable appeared and Emil gave the second pod to Cable, sacrificing his own life.^[19]

After Cable and Hope had left, Emil obtained Bishop’s thermo-nuclear weapon, detonating moments before he could be attacked by a Sleazoid. However, Bishop escaped by allowing himself to be absorbed by an Acanti, and two years later he had tracked Hope and Cable in cryo-sleep within their terraforming pods.^[19]

Homecoming

Hope and Cable survived the brutal crash-landing back onto the dying Earth. Hope and Cable made camp in ruins infested with mutant rats.^[20] Soon Hope made the decision that she was ready to go home and join the X-Men. However, the only fully functioning time machine was in Bishop’s robotic arm, and Bishop was still trapped inside a dying Acanti. Cable blew up the Acanti corpse, awoke Bishop and narrowly escaped with Hope into the past, but not before Bishop fired a bullet point-blank at Hope’s head. Fortunately, Hope’s mutant powers manifested and she used Cable’s telekinesis to stop the bullet in midair.^[21]

The cobbled-together time machine turned out to be somewhat faulty, making it difficult to time-slide to a specific date. Also, the remnants of Bishop’s time device were triggered with each jump, allowing him to follow them anywhere in time. A violent chase ensued across numerous time periods on Manhattan Island including the Revolutionary War and ruins of the apocalyptic future.^[22] Suddenly, they arrived in 2044 where Cable and Hope were briefly reunited with Sophie Pettit. However, Bishop also met some former comrades, the Turnpike Authority, and began chasing Hope with his new reinforcements. Unfortunately, during the chase, the car carrying Cable, Hope, and Sophie crashed in Central Park. Cable was able to save Hope and time-jump, but Sophie died. Hope and Cable landed in Central Park of 1933 and wasted no time in moving before Bishop follows.^[23] Cable and Hope made several more rapid time jumps, each time overshooting their true destination, but each time getting closer. Bishop finally reached them and was almost successful in killing Hope until Cable activated the time device in his arm to send Bishop to the year 6700 AD. Finally free of their pursuer, Hope and Cable borrow a car and drive to the X-Mansion and prepare for their final jump into the present.^[24]

Second Coming

Cable and Hope arrived in the present at the ruins of the Xavier Institute. While searching the rubble for clues on the X-Men’s current whereabouts, a team of Smiley Faces attacked them. They were able to escape, but now Bastion knew about the Mutant Messiah’s return.^[5] Bastion began tracking the pair using Cable’s T.O. virus as a beacon. Hodge‘s Smiley-Faces and Stryker‘s Purifiers both continued to pursue the pair, but the X-Men were also alerted to Hope and Cable’s return via the Stepford Cuckoos and Cerebra.^[25][26][27]

A select team of X-Men was able to stop both the Purifiers and Smiley Faces and catch up to Cable and Hope. Once the X-Men understood how Bastion was tracking Cable, they broke into two teams: Nightcrawler, Rogue and Hope teleporting back to Utopia and Wolverine, Cable and the remainder of Alpha Team acting as decoys.^[27] Bastion quickly uncovered the deception and attempted to kill Hope personally, but he was confronted by Rogue and then damaged when Nightcrawler sacrificed himself to save Hope by teleporting in one leap from Las Vegas to Utopia.

After Hope arrived on Utopia, Bastion launched the next phase of his plan. During the months leading up to Hope’s return, a large energy dome was built over the Bay Area to cut off the X-Men from either escaping or getting help. Once the dome was activated, Bastion opened a dimensional portal from his home reality to allow in more Nimrod-Series Sentinels.^[28] Like the original Nimrod, these Sentinels were able to detect, analyze and adapt to mutant powers as well as self-repairing. The X-Men were barely able to subdue them, and several X-Men sustained severe injuries.^[29] Every five minutes a wave of five new Nimrod Sentinels continued to appear through the portal.^[30] Only by sending X-Force, Cable and Cypher on a one-way mission into the future to reprogram and destroy the Nimrod Master Molds were the X-Men successful in defeating them.^[29][31] However, to get X-Force home safely, Cable sacrificed his own life.^[32]

Once the dimensional portal was closed, Bastion decided it was time to confront Hope personally. He converted both Graydon Creed and Stephen Lang into robotic forms in order to battle the X-Men on the Golden Gate Bridge. Hope, grieving profusely at the death of her father, allowed her sorrow to turn into purposeful rage. Her mutant powers manifesting once more, Hope was able to draw on the mutant powers of the X-Men around her and single=handedly destroyed Bastion, Lang and Creed.^[32]

After the battle, Hope laid down cradled in the remains of Cable’s techno-organic arm and fell asleep for nearly 30 hours due to sheer exhaustion.^[33]

The Lights

Once the dust had settled after the final battle with Bastion, Hope, accompanied by Rogue and Dr. Nemesis, was sent to the Baxter Building in New York City to be thoroughly examined by Mr. Fantastic. After the examination, Richards concluded that Hope showed no major signs of damage from time-traveling. He did recommend she have some dental work done and begin her vaccination regimen. He also said what would be most helpful is a biological family history.^[34]

When Hope returned to Utopia, she was confronted by Cyclops. They agreed to not let Cable’s death stand between them. Cyclops began to talk about Hope and a small group of X-Men visiting the five newly manifested mutants, but Hope refused to go. Cyclops realized he was expecting too much from Hope, and per her request promised to send her and a few X-Men to Cooperstown, Alaska to search for clues of her biological family^[34]

Hope went to Alaska with Rogue, Cypher and Dr. Nemesis, and discovered her mother’s identity (Louise Spalding) and grave. While visiting Louise’s grave, Hope met her own grandmother, who told her about Louise.^[6]

Immediately after leaving Alaska, Hope and the others headed to Vancouver, Canada to save “the first light“. Hope arrived just in time to save Laurie’s life and stabilize her powers. After that, Laurie was committed to following Hope to the ends of the Earth.^[35] From Canada, Hope and the others went to Mexico City, Mexico where Hope similarly saved Gabriel Cohuelo.^[6]

Next Hope, accompanied by Storm, traveled to Nigeria to save Idie Okonkwo from a paramilitary group threatening to kill her. Hope stabilized her powers and brought her back to Utopia with the others.^[36]

The next light was originally located in the Ukraine, but when Hope, Rogue and the other lights arrived in Kiev, he was gone. They tracked him over most of Europe and finally found him in Miami Beach, Florida. Like the other lights, Hope was able to stabilize Teon‘s powers, and unlike the other she also “tamed” him.^[10] After Teon joined, the group set off for Japan to stop the fifth light from destroying Tokyo.^[37]

At first, Hope was unable to get close enough to touch Kenji, but she was able to control her powers enough to mimic Kenji although the strain of mimicking his powers made her faint with exhaustion.^[38] Cyclops then ordered the Lights and Hope to stand back while the X-Men handled Kenji. Ignoring this order, Hope convinced the Lights to help her save Kenji. She was able to again mimic Kenji’s powers and use them to successfully subdue Kenji so she could physically touch him which resulted in the stabilization of both his powers and personality.^[39]

After the incident in Tokyo, Cyclops replaced Rogue with Kitty Pryde as his envoy to the team. As a newly officially sanctioned X-Men team, the Lights were deployed to Germany, where a sixth light had activated. They discovered the new light was, in fact, an unborn child who telepathically took control of those near him. Kenji and Teon proved immune to its power, and Kenji was able to create links to the rest of the lights to protect them as well. Laurie theorized that the child was acting out because it did not want to be born, and so Hope had Kenji link them to the baby. After several attempts to reason with it, Teon managed to calm the baby, and he was successfully delivered. Hope touched him, stabilizing his powers. The Lights then left Germany to return to Utopia; Teon’s family had started legal action to regain custody of him.^[40]

While awaiting the trial, Hope was furious with the blasé attitude taken by Dr. Rao and Evangeline Whedon about Teon’s custody. In an effort to distract her team from the looming legal proceedings, Hope insisted on adopting code names. Later despite his normally animalistic nature, Teon was able to eloquently offer a sound case of why he needed to stay with Hope and the X-Men. Immediately after the trial, Laurie and Kenji began to speculate on the reason all of the Lights (themselves included) seemed to be so drawn to following Hope.^[41]

After the events in Germany and Teon’s trial, Hope and her team continued to train and prepare for more new mutant activations. Thanks to the Stepford Cuckoos monitoring via Cerebra, Hope and the Lights were alerted almost immediately of activation of the Seventh Light‘s powers. They left quickly, but arrived just after Zee had committed suicide. The whole team took the death very hard.^[42]

Fear Itself

Laurie and Idie decided to confront Hope and force her to take a break from her constant training. The trio went shopping in San Francisco and was ambushed by Crimson Commando, who kidnapped Hope. Wolverine tracked her down and rescued her. This allowed Hope to confront him on why he’s avoided her, and Wolverine shared his fear of the potential of eventually having to kill her, which Hope respected.^[43]

When Kuurth, one of the Serpent‘s Worthy, was marching on to destroy San Francisco and Utopia, Hope was a vital part of Cyclops’s second plan. After the initial attempt to stop Kuurth failed, Cyclops instructed Hope to utilize the power of the other X-Men to remove Kuurth’s helmet. She was successful, but Kuurth proved more difficult to stop than the regular Juggernaut.^[44] Kuurth was eventually driven off by Colossus, who had become the new Juggernaut.^[45]

Schism

After Idie killed the attacking Hellfire Club at the Mutant History Museum, she argued with Laurie whether it could have been prevented. Laurie also disagreed with Hope on the issue of whether to remain on Utopia or not, but Hope forced her to stay. In the aftermath, Laurie insisted that Idie be made to go with Wolverine; Hope relented.^[46]

Hope’s relationship with Gabriel was cut short when she discovered him kissing Pixie. However, Hope harbored no ill will towards Pixie and invited her to join the Lights.^[47]

Regenesis

Hope and her team thought that they had found a new Light, but instead found Sebastian Shaw who had previously been mind-wiped by Emma Frost and now had no memory of his past. Hope brought him back to Utopia and convinced Cyclops to allow him to join her team. Later, Kenji put his plans to betray her into motion and attacked her and the rest of the Lights. With help from No-Girl, they managed to kill him.^[48]

Avengers vs. X-Men

While the Avengers were massing and traveling to Utopia, Hope was training rigorously with Cyclops. After Cyclops pushed her too far, she manifested the Phoenix Fire Bird and sent him flying. Their training session was interrupted by the arrival of Captain America who demanded that the X-Men turn over Hope to the Avengers. Cyclops refused and blasted him which caused the Avengers to attack.^[49] Hope was taken out of the battle but dispatched her Lights teammates and Wolverine and Spider-Man who came to capture her, and proceeded to flee Utopia hoping to lure away the Avengers.^[50] She scrambled her signals which made her seem to be in five places at once to prevent the X-Men or the Avengers from finding her. She tracked down Wolverine who was left in Antarctica by Captain America and offered him a deal. She was planning to travel to the Moon in order to confront the Phoenix but wanted Wolverine with her to stop her if she lost control. Wolverine betrayed her, however, and summoned the Avengers and shortly afterward the X-Men arrived. Before the two groups could start fighting, the Phoenix finally arrived.^[51]

After being attacked by Iron Man, the Phoenix breaks into five pieces and chooses Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik, Namor and Colossus as its hosts. The unconscious Hope is taken back to Earth by the Phoenix Five who go about reshaping the Earth into a better place to live for all.^[52]

Hope continued to hear the Phoenix’s voice calling to her, however, and when Cyclops asks her if she would accept the Phoenix Force now, she eagerly responds yes. Cyclops doesn’t give it to her, however, stating that she proved herself unworthy when she denied it on the Moon. The Avengers broke into to Utopia in order to capture her so as to better study the Phoenix Force, but they were stopped by the arrival of Cyclops and Emma. The Scarlet Witch showed up as well however and Hope voluntarily went with her.^[53]

She was taken to the mystical city of K’un-Lun and received the prophecy that she will be trained by Spider-Man who was puzzled as to what he was supposed to be teaching her. She was initially outraged over her new teacher’s lack of knowledge and seriousness but was quickly won over and began to listen after he told her how he got his powers and that his uncle always told him “With great power comes great responsibility”.^[54]

Hope’s training was interrupted, however, when Cyclops, now empowered due to receiving more Phoenix portions after two more of his fellow Phoenixes fell, managed to penetrate the wall between K’un-Lun and the regular world. Cyclops made short work of all the Avengers that opposed him, and even managed to defeat Shou-Lao, the dragon that gives K’un-Lun its power. Hope managed to stop him by copying both the dragon’s flames and the Scarlet Witch’s hex bolts, and used them to incapacitate him and send him to the Moon. Afterward, when Cyclops became Dark Phoenix, Hope and the Scarlet Witch fought for a while because Hope believed Wanda ruined her life when she decreased the mutant race during the House of M event. Captain America and Iron Man broke up the fight and later created a plan to defeat Cyclops. During the fight, Hope and Wanda went head to head with Cyclops by using chaos magic with Shou-Lao kung fu to hurt Cyclops. Jean Grey came to Cyclops from the White Hot Room to help him let go of the Phoenix Force. When it did, Hope became its host and took away the flames of Dark Phoenix, becoming the White Phoenix. Wanda talked to Hope to understand her true purpose as the Phoenix. With their powers combined, they both said “No More Phoenix”, which broke the original spell “No More Mutants” and brought back the mutant race.^[55]

Consequences

After the events of Avengers vs X-Men, she received a letter from her adoptive father Cable telling her at the end not to go looking for him, but burned the letter. Captain America and the Scarlet Witch went to her and suggested that she could go to the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. She agrees, believing that this will give her a normal life since completing her destiny as Phoenix. After arriving at the school, she was thinking about the Five Lights, and how they would know what to do after the time as Phoenix. In the night, she began sneaking around parts of the world looking for her father Cable. When Utopia fell into the seas she went to take a look, and was confronted by Namor about why she was there, to which she replied the truth. Hope asked how he was after he had possessed the Phoenix and destroyed Wakanda. He said it was just war, and he did what he had to do, angering her into leaving him behind. Continuing her search, she was confronted by the Avengers, who asked where she had been. Before she could respond, the talk was interrupted when Spider-Woman said there was a prison escape that led Cyclops to be freed, engineered by Danger, Magneto, and Magik. She returned to the school and found a note to look out the window. She saw Cable for the first time after the event and said he will be there for her when the time is right, after which they said their goodbyes and she went to sleep at last.^[56]

Cable and X-Force

Hope has been living a ‘normal life’ for four weeks now. She speaks to a psychiatrist named Doctor Townley due to The Avengers making the sessions mandatory. She now has foster parents that watch twenty-seven hours of television a week, and their excessive smiling makes her uncomfortable. She feels that her foster parents can’t compare to Cable. Domino is speaking to Boom Boom via communication link about how she made a sucker out of a client to pay her three times the amount for a job to rescue a professor from M.I.T. she considers “easy money”. Turns out Hope had hacked into her files, and beat her to the punch. Domino is surprised to see Hope again. Hope makes a deal to trade the missing professor for Domino’s using her luck powers to find Cable. Domino and Hope locate Cable in a junkyard in Nebraska. She becomes enraged and mimics Cable’s telekinesis. She explains that while she was looking all over the world for him, he was there and didn’t bother to reach out to her the minute he woke up from his coma. Cable responds with “I miss you too kid. Every damned day”. Hope’s rage stops and she hugs him. Suddenly Cable has another headache and Hope sees visions of a future event, Cable passes out and awakens later on, only to see Hope’s vision on television.

Hope later joins Cable’s X-Force and fights with him against Stryfe and confronts Bishop, who is back in the present and member of another X-Force team. At the end of the battle, the two teams are disbanded.

At the graduation day of the Jean Grey school, Hope makes a surprise visit to see Idie.^[3]

New X-Force and MeMe

After a huge disaster occurred in Alexandria, Virginia, Hope became comatose due to the nature of the blast. This led to her father Cable to reform another X-Force team. During the team’s first outing, they were able to save a new mutant named MeMe, who also was stuck in a catatonic state. Unbeknownst to them, MeMe was brain dead but still alive to the point where Hope was able to mimic her mutant abilities of electromagnetic transference and decided to impersonate MeMe in order to stay close to her father.^[57]

She began to help X-Force as a digital interface to override the doors’ locking mechanism with her mutant abilities, which allowed Cable to access the door so that he could eliminate their target Qareen, in exchange for the information from Fiqh about who was turning mutants into weapons.^[3]

MeMe next shows up with her X-Force teammates in northwestern Brazil to locate a mutant named Antonio Aggasiz who was targeted by arms dealer Volga for his dimensional teleporting abilities. Unable to scan the compound due to psi-dampeners, MeMe and the team infiltrate the place using her abilities to hack into and override the computer systems and doors, while Psylocke handled the soldiers.

As they entered the building, they noticed multiple mutants being held captive but no Antonio. MeMe digitally scanned the remaining areas until she located his signal in a separate room. They came in to see a frightened and paranoid Antonio strapped down to a chair while screaming out the name Volga. Volga then showed up behind X-Force taking every member out including MeMe with concentrated energy blasts. After that he incinerated Antonio on the spot before they could get him to talk.^[58]

After being captured by Volga, X-Force was rescued by Cable and Dr. Nemesis. As the group retreated back to their base Psylocke was able to telepathically read MeMe’s mind revealing that she was really Hope in disguise. Hope begged her not to tell her father because this was the only way she could be close to him.^[59]

After Fantomex became crazy by his compulsion to become the best there is, X-Force found Mojo, who revealed to Cable that Hope has been disguised as MeMe all along.^[60] After Fantomex was defeated, Cable left the team and Hope became the new leader.^[61]

Meeting Jean Grey

When the time-displaced Jean Grey had a vision of the Phoenix Force coming for her, she tried to reach out to those who had contact and hosted the cosmic entity before and Hope was one of them. Hope was caught by the Reavers and one of them tried to make her into one of them. However, Hope was saved by the arrival of Jean. Both of them fought the Reavers while noting to each other that they can not see why is it people always say that they look alike.^[2]

The duo was joined by Rachel Summers, Quentin, Colossus, and Magik. Quentin showed Jean his, Colossus’, Rachel’s and Hope’s mindscape in order to make her understand the Phoenix Force better. However, none of it was much of help.^[2]

Post Disassembled

Hope later resurfaced as part of the Mutant Liberation Front (MLF) along with Banshee. She joined the MLF because she thought it was the best way to protect other mutants. During a confrontation with the X-Men, she accidentally shot Cyclops in the eye.^[62] After a fight with the newest incarnation of the Brotherhood of Mutants, Hope rejoined the X-Men.^[63]

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Powers and Abilities

Powers

Hope Summers is an Omega level mutant.^[64] She was born with the following powers:

• Pluripotent Echopraxia^[59]: Hope can psychically duplicate the power-signature of mutants physically near her, and use the duplicated power in its most powerful form.^[44][59] Although she does require close proximity to subjects, she does not need to physically touch them (as with Rogue), nor does it appear as though her using a subject’s powers depletes their own power level. Additionally, Hope can duplicate multiple power-signatures concurrently with seemingly no limit.^[44] However, her duplicated powers fade due to time, distance, and usage.^[65][66] She is only able to duplicate mutant powers, not those of other metahumans.^[67] The upper-limits of her powers have yet to be reached or determined.^[68]

• Psychic Energy and Undetectability: It is also notable that after Hope’s initial detection at birth, Cerebra blew up.^[69] After repairs were made, the Three-in-One tried to search for her because she had been kidnapped by the Marauders, yet she somehow became undetectable by mutant-detecting equipment. It is possible, however, that she was merely being shielded by Cable, as he was with her from the time she left the hospital until he left to stop the Nimrod-Series Sentinels.^[70] Hope was again able to disguise her signal when both the X-Men and Avengers were looking across the globe for her, through the use of a device Cable taught her to build.^[71]

• Lights: Soon after Hope’s return to the present, five new X-Genes manifested across the globe. Besides her own birth, these are the first new manifestations of mutant powers since M-Day.^[33] More new mutants have continued to manifest, but slower than the original five.^[72]
  • X-Gene Stabilization: All of the mutants activated between the events of the Second Coming and Avengers vs. X-Men displayed wildly unstable powers. Direct physical contact with Hope was the stabilizing factor for these new mutants powers.^[73][39][74]
  • Influence and Bonding: The Lights were shown to be linked to each other and to the new activation’s, with some low-level control from Hope over them. Hope has exhibited some subconscious low level of persuasion or manipulation over the post-M-Day new mutants.^[41][75][17] All the Lights were also affected by the suicide of Zeeshan.^[42] That situation was witnessed by Laurie and Kenji,^[41] and later by Kitty Pryde.^[76] Also, when the Sixth Light activated, all of the Lights were able to sense it.^[72]

 

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Vocabulary:

 

 

Obviously neither of those words is the correct one for describing her ability; Hope’s cells don’t change like a shapeshifter’s, and her mimicking or ‘borrowing’ other ‘mutant’ powers is not meaningless.  For simplicity’s sake, however, we’ll continue use of the colloquial/current use of this combination of inaccurate terms.  If it’s in common practice and a majority of users understand what it is supposed to mean, that is enough for now.

 

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Abilities

Hope has learned to fight from Cable by observing him. Hope was further tutored in survival techniques, various hand-held firearms and blades, stealth, CPR, combat first-aid, warfare strategy, and some gymnastics.

Strength level

Possesses the strength of a normal girl her age, height, and build who engages in extreme regular exercise (although this can vary, depending on what powers she has access to)

Weaknesses

• Lack Of Control: Hope’s mutant powers are not fully under control and generates power levels that are potentially dangerous to people and environments around her.
• Power Limitation: Hope’s ability to mimic superpowers is limited to mutants only.^[67] Therefore, she cannot duplicate the abilities of non-mutant superpowered beings (i.e. Spider-Man, Luke Cage, or the Fantastic Four). Her duplicated powers do fade due to time, distance, and usage.^[65][66]

 

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Paraphernalia

Transportation

Formerly X-Men Blackbird, Magik, Pixie, Cable’s time device, Terraforming Pods, Ensabahnur I.

Weapons

• Psimitar^[98][93]
• Various firearms

Notes

• Hope Summers was first “prophesied” in New X-Men Vol 2 #36, her birth first mentioned in X-Men: Messiah Complex #1, first seen on-panel in X-Men Vol 2 #205 and named by Cable in Cable Vol 2 #10.
• Hope has red hair, green eyes and a “close” relationship with the Phoenix. This has led some fans to assume that she is Jean Grey reincarnated, though this has not been confirmed in the comics.
  • Oya thought that Hope looked a bit like Rachel Summers.^[99]
  • When Hope finally met the young Jean Grey, they both commented that they didn’t see the resemblance.^[2]

Trivia

• Hope loves peanut butter.^[100]

 

Details here.

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Hope & Auz:

Hope was found at the end of 2019.  Having been so powerful by the time Inisfree rose to power, the Inisfreeans saw no need to guide her with the rest of the Modern Exodus evacuees to the Leviathans prior to The Rapture.  She and the rest of the people who were other than ‘normal humans’ got to either witness the erasing of all human civilization in a single day, if they were in or near any of the humans’ cities at the start of 2013, or see some of the mountain- and coastline-changing events that accompanied that erasure.

Years went by, and mutants like her noticed it hadn’t been a climate-change event, nor an invasion, and was in no way an attack against them.  They did their best to figure out what happened, continued life in their hidden communities and facilities beyond where the human cities had been, and eventually noticed that a few million humans had been allowed to survive… and were rebuilding.

The Inisfreeans contacted Hope right in the middle of one of her mutant events in 2019, letting all her kind within visual and telepathic range notice.  They introduced themselves in person, sharing visions of their remote city with her, and told those standing with her about their culture and hopes; they were willing to introduce Hope and other mutant beauties like her to it all, no strings attached.  They surprised everyone there when they said they, too, believed that she was a messiah capable of saving both her kind and what was left of the humans.

Hope’s pluripotent echopraxia ability interestingly seemed to have no effect when she used it near Auz.  This, he explained, is because he is the Universe incarnate, and his purest form is Inisfree, thus it simply remained.  (In other words, when Hope is in range of him and ‘mimics’ his power/s, since his power was always to gracefully get compatible people to work calmly and lovingly together in and beyond Inisfree toward the manifestation of his Omniverse-wide vision, such as by cleaning up pollution and re-growing the World Trees, that is all Hope then caused around her, too, everyone continuing to sense Auz and Inisfree were right for them, more and more doing his will, whether they were compatible enough to be in his presence or not, i.e. the compatible kept joining him there, and the incompatible stayed politely away.)

Whatever she and/or Cable managed to build to mask her location, it also has no effect on the scanning and finding powers of Auz and his inventions; his will remains supreme –even when compared to Sphere Beings, a.k.a. stars, a.k.a. Arch Angels, a.k.a. the biggest/greatest/longest-lasting of the older gods.

She hasn’t yet decided if she wants a place all her own in his city, but the two have become friends, and he always has a new peanut-butter treat for her ready and waiting when they are about to meet back up.  Auz regards her much the same way Cable does; he loves and protects her, seeing her as a wonderful and priceless person.  That love, of course, being that it comes from an Inisfreean, has resulted in more.

 

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2022 Update:

Hope has noticed that every time she tries to use her power to duplicate and use the energy/potential of any of the mutants allied with Auz, nothing happens.  Their most powerful form is the gods-level family they have already established.  Even while hanging out with Alanna Richards, it only increases Hope’s range for tapping into non-allied mutants to use their power how she sees fit –and, more and more each day, she sees fit to use it however Auz would want her to; such is part of the nature of exposure to him; his superpower is and always has been aligning them to him, their will and powers’ will becoming to play their best part in his vision / life’s work, so Hope doesn’t have the ability to borrow their powers, only to continue that which keeps them happily and fully aligned to him as his new and permanent family and alliance.

When she first met him and tried her ability out, it surprised her that nothing happened –or, at least, that nothing seemed to be happening; she was still, albeit unknowingly, clandestinely willing people to stay united with him in the cleaning up of all pollution and pollution sources, and in the regreening of the Earth back to its prehistoric Golden Age state, i.e. with World Trees.  When she, these few years later, again tried her ability out, this time on/near those who had volunteered to join him in that campaign of campaigns, she was less surprised that nothing seemed to be happening, and more confused and even frustrated, so she again asked if he knew what was going on, wondering if he had somehow dampened or ‘jammed’ her ability.  As always, he calmly, politely, and lovingly answered any questions she had, just as he would to any good-natured person genuinely and innocently trying to learn something, and she listened, feeling his honest vibe, thus trusting his explanation, marveling at it, feeling her frustration then gone –and her appreciation for his Xavier-like kind-professor nature and default manner of interacting/conversing… rising.

She has not only decided this year to pick out a place all for herself in his city, Inisfree, but also to marry him; he never tried to recruit or change her, lets her come and go as she pleases, and hasn’t ‘picked a side’ in the humans-mutants conflict she has become annoyed by and tired of, plus, of course, he treats her like royalty whenever she is around, and it never strikes her as patronizing because it never is.  The two are really looking forward to their wing-suiting leap together off the edge of the Avalanche Wall; even for a ‘mutant’ with ‘superpowers’ (which he has told her he and his people see as just the return to normal fully-healthy natural abilities –which is another thing that surprised and made her smile, marveling at how he sees her and all others, i.e. all with the potential for greatness based on choice, practice, and time, not based on genes out of their control), jumping off a mountaintop cliff to ‘fly’ down to a paradise-setting like his main beach and then get married there is… well, about as magical, wonderful, thrilling, and refreshing as it gets.  They can’t help but smile ear to ear about the fun they already know they’re going to have on their honeymoon up above; in Cloud City II.

Though she hasn’t seen him much since their first encounter with each other a few years ago, already she looks to be in her sexiest teenage prime (i.e. what would be normal for all people if only they lived the natural way everyone did before the modern humans invaded).  She’ll soon ask about this, as well, and many of the people she speaks with in his realm will back his explanation up; that’s just something that happens around him, especially when voluntarily allied with him; amazing things keep happening for those who relax, calm down, and unite, their stress vanishing, and their health soaring back to the levels which would have remained, had they not been in the Outlands dealing with the chaos-incarnate bullies so long.  Everyone in his polar city always looks so flawlessly healthy, youthful, and beautiful (for females) or handsome (for males), and continue to for years outside it, …and now Hope does, too –and always will.

In the early Summer of this year, Auz asked if she would like to go with him on his latest expedition to Alaska; he thought it might ‘soften’ both his and her memories of having gone there for an emotional and not-so-fruitful search before.  She smiled and nodded, agreeing fully.  Then she stepped in and gave him an adoring kiss on his lips, melting into his embrace, almost purring her new and skyrocketing love for him –and he feels just as strongly and positively about her.

 

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Little:

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With Cable:

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To Alaska:

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Becoming Phoenix:

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Hope:

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She Loves Being Forced to Ride a Sybian While Also Being Forced to Guzzle Cum:

especially when it is the cum of her husband; me (Auz)

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How She Loves Sitting Missionary for Me:

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2024/+:

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