Blind Faith (comics)

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Blind Faith
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance X-Factor (1st series) Annual #1
Created by
Characteristics
Alter ego Alexi Garnoff
Species Human Mutant
Affiliations None, Exiles, Soviet Super-Soldiers
Notable aliases Father Garnoff, Holy Ghost
Abilities Telepathy,
Hypnosis,
Memory alteration,
Mind control

Blind Faith (Alexi Garnoff) is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in X-Factor (1st series) Annual #1.

Not much is known about Blind Faith's history prior to his first known rebellion against the Soviet's mutant genocide program, which brought him in contact with the original X-Factor team.

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[edit] Fictional character biography

Under the Soviet government, all of the communist states viewed mutants as a threat to humanity's survival. As such, mutants were forced to ban together in subversive hideaways in an elaborate safehouse system. The cyborg assassin, Firefox, under orders from Project: Remont, soon infiltrated the safehouses looking for mutant runaways. He brutally killed many mutants until Blind Faith called for the abandonment of the safehouse system and escaped with five other mutants, Vanguard, Darkstar, Ursa Major, Sibercat and Stencil.

Garnoff saw the need for a mutant freedom fighting force to undertake dangerous missions, and organised the surviving mutants into a team called the Exiles, dedicated to fighting for the rights of other Russian mutants. In one such mission, Blind Faith and Darkstar encountered an immensely powerful psychic being, the Soul Skinner, who had taken over a small Russian town. With the help of the X-Men, the Soul Skinner was defeated.

Garnoff was also once leader of an incarnation of the Russian superteam formerly known as the Soviet Super-Soldiers, now known as the Winter Guard. Blind Faith lost his mutant powers after the M-Day (this was confirmed in New Avengers #18).

[edit] Powers

Alexi could sense the thoughts of others, emit hypnotic lights from his eyes that are able to entrance others, alter their memories, and place them under his direct mental control.

[edit] Notes

  • In the Ultraverse there is a character, also known as Blind Faith.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Soviet Super-Soldiers #1
  • Starblast #1
  • X-Factor Annual #1
  • X-Men vol. 2 #17-19
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