SUBJECT X
Earth-89149

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-89149) human mutant (see comments)

Occupation: Unrevealed

Group Membership: The second Annex Squad

Affiliations: The second Annex Squad ("Inhibitor," "Laser")

Enemies: Forge's Triploid New Mutants, X-Men (Armor/Hisako Ichiki, Cyclops/Scott Summers, Emma Frost, Storm/Ororo Munroe, Wolverine/James Howlett) (all of Earth-616)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: "Agent X-13" (possibly - see comments)

Base of Operations: Presumably mobile throughout Earth-89149

First Appearance: (hands only, identified) Astonishing X-Men III#25 (September, 2008);
    (fully seen) Astonishing X-Men III#26 (October, 2008)

Powers/Abilities: Subject X had the powers of pyrokinesis but was required to touch the object to set it aflame.

Height: Unrevealed
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Red 
Hair: White

History: (Astonishing X-Men III#30 (fb) - BTS) -  Subject X was a mutant from Earth-89149, whose reality had seemingly been ravaged by its inhabitants' extensive use of Ghost Boxes. He was a member of the second "Annex Squad," whose mission was to seek out alternate realities to annex and relocate to. 

(Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes#1 (fb) - BTS) - Subject X desired to attempt annex Earth-889, as it was a pre-digital culture, but his superiors instead chose Earth-616 (see comments).

(Astonishing X-Men III#30 (fb) - BTS) -  Earth-616's Forge discovered that Earth-89149 had become interested in Earth-616 and created a race of artificial mutants (see comments) to combat their impending invasion force. He was able to kill Earth-89149's  first Annex Squad and obtained their Ghost Box.

(Astonishing X-Men III#28 (fb) - BTS) - After the disappearance of their first team on Earth-616, Earth-89149's Subject X and his Annex Squad were sent to investigate the cause of the disappearance and to activate another Ghost Box on Earth-616. They traveled to Earth-616 and set up base in Tian, China, a city completely hidden from the rest of the world (including China itself) that formally housed the "Chinese X-Men."

(Astonishing X-Men III#29 (fb) - BTS) - Subject X and his second Annex Squad were unable to power the Ghost Box in Tian and were found by Forge's artificial New Mutants. Subject X fled to San Francisco while being pursued by one of these mutants.

(Astonishing X-Men III#25) - Subject X managed to track his pursuer and burned him to death, leaving his body in an alleyway, which brought him to the attention of the X-Men. While the X-Men were investigating the artificial mutant's death, Subject X traveled to a spaceship scrapyard in Chaparanga in an attempt to find a power source for his Ghost Box.

(Astonishing X-Men III#26) - In Chaparanga, Subject X used a floating spaceship as a power source and began to open his Ghost Box. However, he was interrupted by the arrival of Wolverine and the pair fought until the rest of the X-Men arrived. Subject X completed his task and the Box began to open but Storm destroyed the Box-powering spaceship, crashing it to the ground. The Ghost Box ceased opening and Subject X survived but used his abilities to kill himself before the X-Men could obtain any information from him.

Comments: Created by Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi.

    Subject X and other mutants on Earth-89149 have their X-Gene on the 13th chromosome instead of the 23rd chromosome, making these mutants a potentially different species than the "Homo superior" on Earth-616.

    The "New Mutants" created by Forge have a third set of chromosomes which housed the X-Gene (on what would be Chromosome 66), which was grafted onto their genetics.

    Subject X was the only name given to him, revealed only in the notebook of the artificial "New Mutant" he killed. An alternate counterpart was called Agent X-13 so it is assumed but not confirmed to be this character's codename as well.
    The codename of Subject X was also confirmed as more than a nickname in the recap page of Astonishing X-Men III#27. --Proto-Man

    The annexation of Earth-616 vs. Earth-889 is never discussed by this Earth-89149 Subject X counterpart but instead by the Agent X-13 of  Earth-58123 (where the annexation of "Earth-616" was successful, diverging Earth-92272 from Earth-616) and the Agent X-13 of Earth-12472 (where his superiors listened to him and he attempted to annex Earth-889 instead of Earth-616). It can be presumed that this version also had the same desire.

    A series of alternate versions of Subject X/Agent X-13 were seen in the pages of both issues of "Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes." These are all presumably from different realities, as both Earth-616 and Earth-89149 would have diverged due to the events as outlined. These are presented below in the subprofiles of Agent X-13 of Earth-12472, Agent X-13 of Earth-81035 and Agent X-13 of Earth-91138.
    The Annex Squad of Earth-58123 is also covered but Earth-58123's Agent X-13 may be saved for his own profile someday. --Proto-Man

    All characters in this profile are considered native to Earth-89149 unless specifically noted (which, with all of the divergent and alternate realities related to this profile, they NEEDED to be noted, haha!) --Proto-Man

Profile by Copeinator123.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-89149's Subject X has no known connections to:

Agent X-13 (Earth-12472)
                            

The history of this Agent X-13 counterpart was presumed to be identical to that of his Earth-89149 counterpart up until the point where he was sent to Earth-889 (instead of Earth-616, like his Earth-89149 & Earth-81035 counterparts above). On Earth-889, he was discovered by the native Earth-889 X-Society and was about to attacked by Wolverine-889, who had been thrown from their plane. In response, Agent X-13 set fire to a briefcase, which ultimately spread to the zeppelin he was trying to catch, killing him before he could accomplish his mission on Earth-889.

This reality's Agent X-13 possessed the same pyrokinetic abilities shared by his Earth-89149 counterpart.

--Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes#1
Agent X-13 (Earth-81035)


The history of this Agent X-13 counterpart was presumed to be identical to his Earth-89149 counterpart, Subject X, until he attempted to activate the Ghost Box in Chaparanga. Instead of fully engaging Wolverine as his military indoctrination would have suggested, he instead hid and snuck up on Cyclops, killing him and diverging Earth-81211 from Earth-616. On the diverged Earth-81211, Agent X-13 was able to activate the Ghost Box, allowing Earth-21811's Deathlok-Class Sentinel Units powered by a captured Earth-21811 Magneto to begin annexing the diverged Earth-81211. Agent X-13 then returned to his superiors and informed them of what had transpired.

This reality's Agent X-13 presumably possessed the same pyrokinetic abilities as his Earth-89149 counterpart.

--Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes#1

Agent X-13 (Earth-91138)


The history of this Agent X-13 counterpart was presumed to be identical to his Earth-89149 counterpart until he attempted to activate the Ghost Box in Earth-616's Chaparanga. Earth-90227 was diverged from Earth-616 when Cyclops waited a few minutes too long to engage this reality's Agent X-13, allowing X-13 to open the Ghost Box enough for a Sentinel to access the divergent Earth-90227. While Cyclops destroyed the Sentinel, his act threatened Earth-91138, who sent a full invasion force to annex the divergent Earth-90227 and, similar to his Earth-89149 counterpart Subject X, this reality's Agent X-13 killed himself rather than surrender to the X-Men.

This reality's Agent X-13 possessed the same pyrokinetic abilities shared by his Earth-89149 counterpart.

--Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes#2
Annex Squad (Earth-58123)


The Annex Squad of Earth-58123 were successfully able to annex and conquer the divergent Earth-92272. After the defeat of the initial resistance, they laid a trap in Montana to claim the rest of the resistance that was seemingly successful, leaving only the X-Men's time-traveling Beast, Armor and Wolverine of the divergent Earth-92272 alive, as they had no way to quickly travel and arrived a year after the trap had been sprung.

--Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes#2 (fb) - BTS

"Inhibitor"


"Inhibitor" was a member of the second Annex Squad who traveled to Earth-616. When Subject X traveled to San Francisco from Tian, China, "Inhibitor" stayed behind and attacked X-Men Emma Frost and Storm when they explored Tian. Storm was able to knock him out and they used "Inhibitor"'s mind to confirm the story of the artificial New Mutant "Chameleon." After his use was fulfilled, Cyclops had Wolverine kill him.

"Inhibitor" was capable of generating an inhibitor field that suppressed the superhuman abilities of those inside the field. The field did not completely neutralize superhuman powers but it did severely inhibit them. "Inhibitor" also had a creature-like appearance with large pointed ears, multiple horns on his head and numerous mouths all over his body, especially on his arms.

--Astonishing X-Men III#28 (#29d,
"Laser"


"Laser" was a member of the second Annex Squad who traveled to Earth-616. When Subject X traveled to San Francisco from Tian, China, "Laser" stayed behind and attacked X-Men Wolverine and Armor when they explored Tian. He was able to injure Armor and Wolverine killed him.

--Astonishing X-Men III#28d






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 Astonishing X-Men III#26, p12, pan3 (Subject X, main image)
Astonishing X-Men III#26, p11, pan2 (Subject X, headshot)
Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes#1, p14, pan2 (Agent X-13 Earth-12472)
Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes#1, p3, pan1 (Agent X-13 Earth-81035)
Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes#2, p5, pan4 (Agent X-13 Earth-91138)
Astonishing X-Men III#28, p12, pan3 ("Inhibitor")
Astonishing X-Men III#28, p14, pan4 ("Laser")

Appearances:
Astonishing X-Men III#25 (September, 2008) - Warren Ellis (writer), Simone Bianchi (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
Astonishing X-Men III#26 (October, 2008) - Warren Ellis (writer), Simone Bianchi (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes#1 (December, 2008) - Warren Ellis (writer), Alan Davis (pencils), Mark Farmer (inks),
Astonishing X-Men III#28 (March, 2009) - Warren Ellis (writer), Simone Bianchi (pencils, ink washes), Andrea Silvestri (ink washes), Axel Alonso (editor)
Astonishing X-Men III#29 (June, 2009) - Warren Ellis (writer), Simone Bianchi (pencils, inks), Andrea Silvestri (inks), Axel Alonso (editor)
Astonishing X-Men III#30 (August, 2009) - Warren Ellis (writer), Simone Bianchi (art), Axel Alonso (editor)

First Posted: 04/17/2024
Last updated: 04/17/2024

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