Senyaka

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character_name=Senyaka
real_name=Suvik Senyaka
species=Human Mutant
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Uncanny X-Men" #300
creators=Scott Lobdell & John Romita Jr.
alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0
alliances=Acolytes
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Suvik Senyaka is a fictional mutant villain character in the Marvel Comics Universe.

History

Senyaka is a mutant recruited by Fabian Cortez as a member of a second group of the Acolytes. On their first mission, this new team of Acolytes attacked the Our Mother of The Sacred Heart school whilst searching for a mutant child. During the assault, Senyaka displeased his lord Magneto after critically injuring a human nurse with his energy coils and was subsequently slain by Magneto who crushed the life out of Senyaka with his own coils. (It is worth noting, however, that Magneto killed him because he had acted without Magneto's approval, not because of Senyaka's sadistic nature. Magneto explained that, had he been present, he would have given Senyaka his blessing, but as he was not, he punished the Acolyte for acting without his orders.)

Senyaka survived, however, by siphoning the life energy from agents from the international law enforcement agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D. who had recovered Senyaka's body. Seeking revenge on Magneto, Senyaka set out to kill sea captain Lee Forrester, a former paramour of the self-styled master of magnetism. Forrester teamed up with the mutant soldier from the future named Cable, and Senyaka was seemingly killed once more in the ensuing battle.

Senyaka later reappeared once more as a member of a faction of Acolytes led by Exodus, who has the ability to bring people back to life. The Acolytes participated in an assault on Wundagore Mountain in the European country of Transia, home of the enigmatic scientist known as the High Evolutionary. The Evolutionary had developed a powerful mutagenic compound known as Isotope-E, which the Acolytes coveted for themselves.

After Exodus was defeated, Senyaka found himself amongst the ranks of former Acolytes who were aiding the Carrion Cove rebellion against Magneto's rule of the island nation of Genosha. With the genocide of the Genoshan population at the hands of giant mutant-hunting robot Sentinels controlled by Cassandra Nova, the genetic twin of Professor Charles Xavier, Senyaka was believed dead.

After M-Day

Senyaka either survived the destruction of Genosha or was reanimated. He also was one of the few mutants to retain his powers following M-Day. He most recently rejoined Exodus' new team of Acolytes. Following the X-Men's battle against the Hecatomb, Senyaka appeared on Cable's decimated island nation of Providence alongside new Marauders, Gambit and Sunfire, in an attempt to claim the island's information archives, which would allow access to Cable's future technology. While Gambit and Sunfire faced Cable, Senyaka battled Deadpool and appeared to gain the upperhand before Deadpool was teleported away by Cable's technology. It is unknown whether Senyaka was still on Providence when it was destroyed or if he escaped the island alongside his teammates, however due to Senyaka's absence from the Messiah Complex storyline, it is believed that he was killed when Providence was destroyed.

Powers

Senyaka is a mutant possessed of the power to drain the bio-electrical essence of others upon physical contact. The living energy he drains augments his natural strength, endurance, and reflexes, as well as accelerating his recuperative powers significantly.

Senyaka can also utilize the excess life-force he drains to generate a pair of psionic whips composed of bio-electric energy. These whips move according to his mental command and can greatly increase the distance of his absorption ability. The whips can also conduct his bio-electric energy to ignite nerve clusters in an opponent to cause intense pain or paralysis, as well as sear into their flesh.

In other media

"X-Men Animated Series"

Senyaka made a cameo appearance in the "X-Men Animated Series" episode "Secrets, Not Long Buried'. Senyaka is one of the many residents of the mutant-dominated community of Skull Mesa.

"Wolverine and the X-Men"

Senyaka also appears in "Wolverine and the X-Men" where he is one of the many Acolytes of Magneto.