Cannonball (Marvel Comics) Character Review
Cannonball (Samuel Zachary Guthrie) is a fictional (Character) Marvel Comics superhero, associated with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, Cannonball first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel: The New Mutants (1982).
Cannonball is a mutant who possesses the ability to fly at jet speeds while encased in an invulnerable force field. The eldest of a large Kentucky coal mining family, Cannonball is one of few X-Men from a southern, rural
background and has maintained the values of civility, hard work, and a
strong commitment to his beliefs throughout his career as a superhero.
Several of his siblings are also mutants and have joined X-Men-related
teams, including his sisters, Paige and Melody, and brothers Jay and Jeb. Other siblings include a brother named Lewis, and four more sisters: Joelle, Elizabeth, Cissie and another unnamed sister - More about Cannonball (Marvel Comics) Character Review...keep reading !!
Cannonball was a founding member of the X-Men's junior team The New Mutants. He joined The New Mutants' later incarnation X-Force,
serving as second-in-command and field leader. He joined the X-Men,
becoming the first member of a secondary team to "graduate". His tenure
was complicated by clashes with superiors and he eventually rejoined
X-Force and later the X-Men once more.
A "salt-of-the-earth", honest, well-mannered and responsible young
man, Guthrie is a natural leader. Guthrie is a fan of science fiction,
especially the works of Robert A. Heinlein.
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Fictional Character Biography (Origin)
Sam Guthrie was born in Cumberland, Kentucky. As a young boy, he attempted to help out his family by working in the coal mine
in which his father had worked before he died. Given the dangerous
nature of this work, Sam found himself trapped in a collapsing mine
shaft. While trying to rescue his fellow worker, Mr. Lewis, a friend of
his father's who had introduced him to the job, Sam unconsciously
activated his mutant ability and used it to save himself and Lewis from
the collapsing mine. This incident led to Sam being found by Donald Pierce, who hired him as a mercenary for the Hellfire Club, and used him in a plot to attack the New Mutants. Sam eventually came to his senses and turned against Pierce. Professor Charles Xavier saw the good qualities inside Sam and asked him to join his New Mutants. Cannonball left his large farming family in Kentucky to join the team.
Powers and Abilities (Cannonball)
Cannonball is a mutant
who possesses the ability to bodily generate thermo-chemical energy and
release it from his skin. This energy is used as thrust to cause his
body to be propelled through the air like a rocket, at great heights and
speeds with considerable maneuverability. He can control his speed and
direction through sheer act of will. At first, he could only release
this energy from his feet and legs, but now he can fire it from almost
any part of his body, to a wide variety of effects. This energy also
manifests itself as an impenetrable and virtually indestructible "blast
field" that protects him from bodily harm. He can use this blast-field
for the following effects: to function as a personal shield or extending
it to encompass others, to shape the field around another person to
imprison them, or to absorb outside kinetic impact into his own energy
supply, enabling him to increase the bludgeoning power of his blows or
to create explosive shock waves upon impact.
His power levels have varied over the years - but at his peak, he has been able to absorb (and redirect) the force of one of Gladiator's punches. He may also be a member of the immortal mutant group the Externals, due to his apparent ability to return to life after death.
In Other Media (Film/Movie)
In the film X2, his name along with that of his sister Paige, appears on a list of names Mystique scrolls through on Stryker's computer while looking for Magneto's file.
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