Vector (comics)

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Vector

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Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Incredible Hulk (2nd series) #254 (December 1980)
Created by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema
In story information
Alter ego Simon Utrecht
Team affiliations U-Foes
Avengers: The Initiative
Notable aliases Prisoner V224
Abilities repel matter

Vector (Simon Utrecht) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe whose first appearance was in Incredible Hulk (2nd series) #254.

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[edit] Fictional character biography

Simon Utrecht was an industrialist before gaining his powers.

He is the leader of the villainous group, the U-Foes. He alongside the other members of the U-Foes appear primarily as enemies of the Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man.

[edit] Breakout

He plays a big part with the U-Foes in the New Avengers tie-in Spider-Man: Breakout.

[edit] Civil War/Initiative

Along with his team, he is arrested by the Thunderbolts and given the choice of working for the government or facing jail time with no trial. [1] Simon was identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book Avengers: The Initiative #1. [2]

[edit] Hood

Though a registered hero, Vector is later seen as part of the Hood's criminal organization who plan to take advantage of the split in the superhero community caused by the Superhuman Registration Act.

[edit] Powers and abilities

Vector has the power to telekinetically attract, block, and, most prominently, repel matter and energy, directing it away from himself. He can use this power in a variety of ways: repelling inanimate objects to send them flying through the air as deadly missiles; releasing a concentrated blast of energy to strike his foes; and even using the power on the ground to allow himself to fly.

Enormously powerful, as, by focusing his power into blasts, he was even capable of flaying most of the Hulk's skin and muscle tissue from his body when the latter resisted,[3] and repelled the structure of reality itself within the 'Crossroads' nexus, with force he claimed was sufficient to hurl entire worlds,[4] but his power can be resisted by sufficiently powerful foes, such as the Hulk, who twice managed to bull through Vector's repulsion to physically attack him. He is also capable of flight.

Vector was once shown to be able to block and repel the attempts of various superheroes and friends of the Hulk to locate Gamma Base, including the magic of Doctor Strange and the tracking technology of Iron Man and Reed Richards.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Thunderbolts" #104
  2. ^ Avengers: The Initiative #1 Character Map
  3. ^ The Incredible Hulk vol. 1, #398 (Oct. 1992)
  4. ^ Incredible Hulk vol.2, #305