Havok

*X-Men: Apocalypse*

**Havok** (born **Alexander "Alex" Summers**) was a mutant, the older brother of Cyclops, and one of the first members of the Charles Xavier's mutant team, the X-Men. He had the ability to generate strong plasma blasts.

## Biography

### X-Men: First Class

Alex Summers is first shown to be in solitary confinement in a government prison, preferring it due to the uncontrollable nature of his powers. In 1962 his release was arranged by Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr in order for him to join their team of mutant peacekeepers they were forming for the CIA. The warden cautioned them about putting him with others in a group, as Alex was the only prisoner he'd known to actually prefer solitary confinement. Alex reluctantly joins them.

While bonding with Xavier's other recruits (except for Hank McCoy as they initially had a more atagonistic relationship), the secret CIA facility where they were staying was attacked by the Hellfire Club. Their leader, Sebastian Shaw, encouraged them to join him in overthrowing humanity, saying that they should be with their fellow mutants, not guarding the humans. Angel Salvadore accepted the offer, and when Alex attempted to hit Shaw with his energy waves, Shaw absorbed the blast and used the energy to murder the mutant Darwin, who was trying to rescue Angel.

Afterwards, Alex and the others relocated to Xavier's Mansion where they began training to defeat Shaw. Xavier had turned an underground bomb shelter into a training room for Alex, setting up mannequins for him to use as targets. Alex on his own is unable to focus and control his energy beams. Hank McCoy constructed a containment unit for him, allowing Alex to focus his energy blasts. After a successful test, he had one built into his X-Men uniform. However, some tension still existed between him and Hank as he mocked McCoy's large mutant feet, comparing them to clown shoes.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the team assembled to finally confront the Hellfire Club. Shaw was attempting to get America and Russia to engage in a nuclear war. Despite their initial friction, Summers was impressed with Hank McCoy's ferocity, accompanying his beastial transformation and dubbed him "Beast". He and Hank fought the mutant Azazel and he also faced Angel alongside Banshee. Although his containment unit was damaged in battle, he was able to focus his ability enough to project a beam that sliced off one of Angels wings, causing her to crash.

After the battle, Alex stayed with Xavier at his new school for a short period, until he was drafted into the Vietnam War.

### X-Men: Days of Future Past

In 1973, Havok was present in a military camp in Saigon along with his comrades Toad and Ink, waiting to be taken in for testing at Trask Industries by William Stryker. However, they are interrupted by the arrival of an Army Colonel (a disguised Mystique), who questions the legality of Stryker's actions in taking Havok and the others away, when they are due to be returned home. Mystique reveals her true nature and attacks Stryker's soldiers, as the other mutants attack in suit. When Mystique has Stryker pinned by the throat, Havok fires off an energy blast, sending him hurtling across a table, Mystique tells him that she had it under control and Havok said he knew, meaning that he did it to protect her. Havok asks Mystique of the whereabouts of Magneto, to which she replies that she is on her own now. Havok then boards a military plane with his comrades to return to America, as Mystique remains. A disgruntled Stryker emerges and tries to stop the plane from taking off, but ultimately fails.

### X-Men: Apocalypse

After his younger brother begins to manifest his own mutant power, Alex takes Scott to the X-Mansion and reunites with Hank McCoy and Professor Xavier once again. He later accompanied Xavier to visit Moira MacTaggert. Later, when Xavier uses Cerebro to reach Magneto, Apocalypse takes control of the professor and uses his telepathy to get every nuclear weapon across the globe launched into space. In an attempt to stop him, Xavier orders Alex to "wreak havoc" and Alex destroys Cerebro.

Upon exiting Cerebro, Apocalypse and his Horsemen arrive at the X-Mansion to kidnap a weakened Xavier. In an attempt to stop them, Havok fires an energy blast intended to Archangel, but they teleport, causing the projectile to strike a generator. The resulting explosion destroys the X-Mansion, with Quicksilver managing to arrive and save everyone else inside except for Alex, who was killed since he was the closest to the blast.

His death struck Scott with grief. When Scott, Jean, and Kurt sneak into the helicopter to Alkali Lake, Scott tells Jean that he should have died instead of Alex, since Alex was the one who was actually going to do something with his life. Jean consoles him, telling him that she had read his mind before and that Alex believed that Scott would do something great with his life.

His death had a lasting effect on Scott, causing him to become a hero and an X-Man, to live up to his brother's legacy.

## Powers, Abilities, & Weaknesses

* **Ambient Plasma Conversion** - Havok is able to absorb plasma energy into the cells of his body and transform it into energy (making him an extremely powerful mutant). With this, he is able to shoot powerful energy discs from his body, which were able to burn clean through stone and leave behind the damage of an explosion wherever they hit.

* **Hand-to-Hand Combatant** - As a former Army veteran, Alex knows a number of hand-to-hand combat and/or martial art techniques.

* **Lack of Control (formerly)** - When creating his energy discs, he could not fully control the energy and it tended to shoot out in multiple directions when he tried aiming it precisely. However, Havok was able to overcome this weakness after Beast built him a power containment unit, until the device was destroyed during the Cuban Missile Crises. In later years, Havok manage to control his powers unaided.

## Relationships

### Family

* Mr. Summers - Father
* Ms. Summers - Mother
* Scott Summers/Cyclops - Younger Brother

### Allies

* Charles Xavier/Professor X
	+ X-Men
		- Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto - Mentor, Former Teammate, and Turned Enemy
		- Raven Dalkhome/Mystique - Former Teammate, Friend, and Savior
		- Sean Cassidy/Banshee † - Former Teammate and Friend
		- Hank McCoy/Beast - Former Teammate and Friend
* Division-X
	+ Armando Muñoz/Darwin † - Former Teammate and Friend
* Moira MacTaggert - Former Teammate and Friend
* Erik Gitter/Ink - Former Army Teammate
* Mortimer Toynbee/Toad - Former Army Teammate
* Daniels - Former Army Teammate

### Enemies

* Hellfire Club
	+ Sebastian Shaw † - Enemy
* Brotherhood of Mutants
	+ Janos Quested/Riptide - Enemy
	+ Angel Salvadore † - Friend and Teammate turned Enemy
	+ Azazel † - Enemy
* William Stryker - Enemy
* Apocalypse † - Enemy
	+ Horsemen of Apocalypse
		- Ororo Munroe/Storm - Enemy
		- Elizabeth Braddock/Psylocke - Enemy
		- Warren Worthington III/Archangel † - Enemy