Real Name: Genis Vell
Aliases: Captain Marvel, Legacy
Identity: Public Identity
Occupation: Adventurer
Citizenship: Titan
Place of Birth: Titan (14th Moon of Saturn)
Known Relatives: Mar Vell (Captain Marvel, Father, deceased), Elysius (Mother), Phyla Vell (Sister, deceased), Hulking (half brother, deceased)
Group Affiliation: Formerly the Thunderbolts
First Appearance: Silver Surfer Annual #6
History: After the death of her husband, Mar Vell, Elysius grew increasingly lonely and using Titanian science sampled some of Mar Vell’s genetic sample to conceive the child, Genis. Genis was artificially aged to allow him to defend himself against Mar Vell’s enemies who might seek him out. Learning of his true lineage, Genis came into possession of the Nega Bands that had been worn by his father. In honor of his father, and continuing his father’s legacy, Genis adopted the name Legacy for a brief while.
Adam-X would next encounter Legacy, while Adam was under the influence of Eric the Red’s mind control. Adam-X attacks Legacy; but with his help is able to break free of Eric the Red’s mental hold.
Together, Legacy and Adam-X track down Eric the Red. It’s there that Eric the Red explains that Adam-X is dubbed “The Forsaken One” and that he is a hybrid of specific genetic potential into the Shi’ar monarchy – and that Adam-X was born to rule the Shi’ar throne as the only living child of Majestor D’Ken.
Eric the Red explains that Katherine Summers was not immediately killed by D’Ken. He had been fond of Katherine and kept her as a consort, while Christopher Summers Corsair was sent into the slave pens. For a time, D’Ken used Katherine as his pleasure maid, until one day Christopher escaped from the pits and made his way to the palace, where he was recaptured. As punishment, it was there that D’Ken made Christopher watch as he killed Katherine Summers.
Erik the Red is seemingly destroyed; though Adam notes that he doubts that’s the end of Erik the Red. Adam and Legacy then parted way.
Genis Vell eventually took on the handle of Captain Marvel. Genis would eventually also become merged with Rick Jone’s psyche which would then trigger his Cosmic Awareness. As a part of a pawn of Entropy and Epiphany, Captain Marvel was manipulated into recreating the universe; and in doing so, the world was changed and Phyla Vell was created, who would go on to become his sister. However, Genis was driven insane by his Cosmic Awareness – Genis went to Titan to attack them, but was pulled into a vortex where his sanity was restored; but the name of Captain Marvel tarnished forever, for the crimes he had committed while insane.
Genis would eventually encounter a future version of himself and merge, creating a new, more powerful version of himself. He would then return to Earth and become a part of the Thunderbolts.
Genis adopted the name Photon, which drew the attention of Monica Rambeau, who had at one time had the name Captain Marvel as well; and had changed her name to Photon when Genis surfaced with the name Captain Marvel. They went to a bar to discuss code names and agreed that Genis could keep the name Photon and that Monica would adopt the name Pulsar.
Baron Zemo returned when Genis’ Nega Bands were absorbed into his body and claimed that Genis was too powerful, too insane, and would be responsible for the destruction of the entire Universe. Zemo then used the Moonstones to rip Genis’ energy apart and send portions of him into the different corners of the Dark Dimension, so that ideally, he could never pull himself back together.
Height: 6’2″
Weight: 210 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Silver (dyed blond), White (when using Cosmic Awareness)
Powers: Being part Kree and part Eternal, Genis’ genetic make up was rather unique in that it adopted the strengths of both sides of his lineage. He possessed a resistance to poison, toxins, disease and infections as well as a higher natural physical capability, as well as, psionic and cosmic energy reserves which they use to bolster their physical power to greater heights. This genetic make up also gave Genis super strength that exceeded that of his father, allowing him to lift 15 tons.
He was also able to survive in the vacuum of space without need of oxygen or even suffering from temperature extremes.
Inheriting his mother and father’s energy-based powers, Genis-Vell could absorb and metabolize stellar energy which gave him all sorts of phenomenal cosmic power which he regularly used to ballast his body and mind; building both to incredible heights.
Genis-Vell was able to teleport himself and others to and from any known point within the universe at will.
Like his parents, Captain Marvel could harness and discharge stellar energies as potent photon blasts from his hands which could decimate most anything they were faced against.
Genis-vell was so adept at manipulating ambient energy through the Nega-Bands he could create and shape protective energy barriers which he had total control over. More than using it for himself he even created protective shielding around others by focusing his powers on them.
In his Photon persona, Genis became able to read, sense, broadcast and receive psychic imprints from across the multiverse and back. This in tune with his Hyper-Cosmic Awareness enabled him to manipulate psychoactive phenomena from the past, present, ever changing future as well as from alternate timelines and realities as a whole.
While bonded to Mr. Jones, Genis later manifested a version of his father’s “Cosmic Awareness” somehow activated by their physical union and broadened with his transformation into a more “mature” form of himself from the future. This awareness granted him a sort of omnipresent consciousness that enables him to perceive objects, individuals, and cosmic threats or anything of significance to him anywhere, even if they were cloaked by invisibility or illusion.
Genis-Vell like his father, could also drawn power from the Nega-Bands themselves. When he achieved his fullest potential, Genis consumed the Nega Bands making their power and access to other universes his own.
In truth, there was virtually no end to the power level in which Genis could achieve had he not been killed by Zemo.
