Radius (comics)
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Radius (Jared Corbo) is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. He is a former member of the superhero team Alpha Flight. He first appeared in Alpha Flight: In The Beginning #-1, and first appeared as Radius in Alpha Flight volume 2 #1 (both published in 1998).
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[edit] Character biography
Jared and his younger half-brother Adrian (later codenamed Flex) were raised in the Hull House orphanage, which was actually a facility operated by the Canadian government's secretive Department H. While Adrian became shy, reserved and bookish, Jared became athletically inclined, aggressive, and arrogant. Both brothers manifested mutant powers after puberty: Adrian gained the ability to transform parts of his body into blades, while Jared manifested a personal force field that could not be shut down. The brothers were recruited into a new incarnation of the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight.
They assisted the new Alpha Flight in battling several foes, including the Zodiac, the Brass Bishop, and Department H's own power-mad leader, Jeremy Clarke, who died of radiation poisoning during a Zodiac raid on the Department H headquarters. Their Alpha Flight team fought several members of the original Flight and later teamed up with them to defeat a new Weapon X, who had been created by a rogue Department H scientist. Both groups of Alphans merged into a unified Alpha Flight following this adventure. The Corbo brothers and several other members of the new team were later reasigned to Alpha Flight's trainee team, Beta Flight.
Radius was later recruited into the X-Corps, a militaristic strike force founded by former Generation X headmaster and former X-Man Sean Cassidy, a.k.a. Banshee. The X-Corps was ultimately betrayed by its criminal members, and Radius was defeated when the villain Avalanche opened a chasm beneath Radius, swallowing him. Apparently Radius survived this to be depowered on M-Day. He was shown to be depowered in New Avengers #18.
It was revealed in Alpha Flight (2nd series) #10 that Unus the Untouchable was Radius' father after Flex started searching for their fathers through their adoption agency.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Radius generates a permanent force field around him that he is unable to deactivate. He does not feel the impact of blows upon it. While the shield is generally porous enough for him to breathe, he can make it almost impervious, even to air.
He can also create extensions of the field to use as a ranged attack, and brace objects against it to "fake" super-strength.
[edit] Notes
- Ralph Hutchins has been also called Radius which was his third form. He is also known as Brute, Seeker, Torque, Earthlord and Entity. He first appeared in She-Hulk vol. 1 #6 and as Radius in She-Hulk vol. 1 #24
[edit] Bibliography
- Alpha Flight vol. 2 #-1, 1-20
- Uncanny X-Men #355, 401-404
- Wolverine vol. 2 #142
