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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Uncanny X-Men #229 (May 1988) |
| Created by | Chris Claremont Marc Silvestri |
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| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations | X-Men Generation X Reavers |
| Abilities | Teleportation, Telepathy Remote Viewing Precognition Postcognition |
Gateway is a fictional comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe, an Australian mutant with the ability to teleport objects and people from one location to another. He is considered an unofficial member of the X-Men. Gateway first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #229 (May 1988), and was created by Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri.
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Much of Gateway's past remains a mystery to this day, including where exactly he was born and even his name. It is known that he is an Aborigine who appears to have grown up in the Outback.
It is known that he was forced to join the criminal group known as the Reavers after they discovered his powers and threatened to destroy a place sacred to the Aborigines if he didn't follow their orders.[1] They called him "Gateway" in reference to his ability to create gateways between two points in space. Some time later, the X-Men, who had been believed by the world to have been killed in Dallas, Texas, appeared in the Outback and battled the Reavers in their own headquarters. One of the Reavers, Skullbuster, in attempting to escape the fracas, told Gateway that he would release him of all his obligations to them if he helped them escape, which Gateway did.[2]
Afterward, the X-Men took up residence in the Reavers' former hideout, and Gateway began voluntarily using his powers to assist them. Since he seemed to be unable or unwilling to speak, Psylocke used her telepathic powers to communicate to Gateway where the X-Men wished to go. However, the X-Men eventually went back to the United States, and were discovered by the rest of the world to be alive, and Gateway's close association with them ended.
More recently, he appeared at the Xavier Institute in Massachusetts, where Generation X was training, with a young girl. When he encountered Banshee, he simply spoke her name, "Penance", much to the surprise of Generation X member M, who also apparently knows him, and disappeared. This may have something to do with his feelings of guilt over his part in the downfall of the Hellions.
Gateway appeared briefly to Storm's X-Treme X-Men team, shortly after the death of Psylocke, and revealed that he is Bishop's great-grandfather. Here it was also revealed that he is virtually omniscient, as he is described as "the repository of the knowledge of humanity, the living index of every hard earned scrap of information gleaned in our ascent from mindless savagery."
What he has been doing since then is largely unknown, but he has been revealed to be one of the mutants to have retained his powers after the M-Day.[3]
It is revealed to Iceman and Cannonball that Gateway was one of the targeted mutants[4] the Marauders were killing, along with Cable, Vargas and The Witness due to his powers giving him the ability to see into the future. The Marauders are later seen reporting to Mister Sinister to have killed Gateway, the Witness and Vargas.[5]
In Secret Warriors #4 it is revealed Gateway survived the assassination attempt and now is the teacher of Eden Fesi, a young man with the power to manipulate reality itself.[6]
Gateway is a mutant with teleportation and psychic abilities.
Gateway creates wormholes which allow travel through space, time and dimensions. He opens these gateways by whirling his bullroarer over his head. The role the bullroarer play in the creation and functioning of the gateways is unclear. The gateways can be used for both observation and transport. No limits have been shown to Gateway's teleportational range or the mass he can transport. He has, for example, transported the X-Men from Australia to the United States and back using his powers, as well as transporting them trans-dimensionally to another Earth. He also opened up gateways that observe past events, such as the one that allowed the feral X-Man Wolverine and the ninja named Elektra to learn the truth behind the powerful psionic being known as Onslaught.[7] He has transported Wolverine to the past, 1937 Spain, and returned him to the present.
Gateway also possesses psionic abilities that allow him to communicate with telepaths. Gateway apparently prefers this method of communication over the verbal method, having spoken out loud only twice during his association with the X-Men. It was this ability that allowed him to communicate with the X-Man Psylocke to ascertain where and when the X-Men wished to be teleported, as well as knowing when they wished to return or what their exact location was at the time they wished to come back. Gateway also once spoke to the telepathic Generation X member named Chamber psionically, as well as regularly communicating psionically with the St. Croix twins.
Gateway is skilled in wilderness survival and the lore of his people.
In the Age of Apocalypse, Gateway spends most of his time on Wundagore Mountain, trying to absorb any and all knowledge from multiple sources before the forces of Apocalypse destroy everything.
Weapon X travels to Gateway's home to recruit him in the effort to deliver a crushing blow to Apocalypse's North American forces. Gateway, who is very talkative in this reality, agrees to listen after his bodyguard, Carol Danvers, sacrifices herself in a battle against Donald Pierce.
He finally agrees to lead the attack force when he is confronted with the holographic image of a sixteen year old victim of one of Apocalypse's Infinites. Gateway was later captured and imprisoned in the mysterious floating city known only as The Sky.[8] He was eventually rescued by the combined efforts of the Amazing X-Men and the Uncanny X-Force team.
Gateway is briefly seen helping Magneto and his followers overthrow Genosha's current rulers by teleporting his forces to the country.