Gateway (comics)

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caption=Gateway
comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Gateway
real_name="unrevealed"
species=Human Mutant
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Uncanny X-Men" #227 (March 1988)
creators=Chris Claremont
Marc Silvestri
alliance_color=background:#cccccc
status=Active
alliances=
previous_alliances=X-Men (unofficial), Generation X (ally), Reavers (conscripted).
aliases=
relatives=Bishop (great-grandson), Shard (great-granddaughter)
powers=Teleportation,
Telepathy
Precognition.|

Gateway is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe, an Australian mutant with the ability to teleport objects and people from one location to another. He is considered an unofficial member of the X-Men.

Publication history

Gateway first appeared in "Uncanny X-Men" #227 (March 1988), and was created by Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri.

The character subsequently appears in "The Uncanny X-Men" #232 (August 1988), #235-236 (October 1988), "The Uncanny X-Men Annual" #12 (1988), "The Uncanny X-Men" #240 (January 1989), "Marvel Comics Presents" #16 (April 1989), "The Uncanny X-Men" #247-250 (August-October 1989), #252 (November 1989), "Wolverine" #17 (November 1989), "The Uncanny X-Men Annual" #13 (1989), "The Uncanny X-Men" #269 (October 1990), "Wolverine" #35-36 (January-February 1991), "The Uncanny X-Men" #281 (October 1991), "Fantastic Four Annual" #24 (1991), "Marvel Super-Heroes" #8 (January 1992), "Wolverine" #52-53 (March-April 1992), "Generation X" #1-3 (November 1994-January 1995), "Weapon X" #3-4 (May-June 1995), "Generation X" 5-7 (July-September 1995), "The Phoenix Resurrection: Genesis" #1 (December 1995), "The Phoenix Resurrection: Revelations" #1 (December 1995), "The Phoenix Resurrection: Aftermath" #1 (January 1996), "Wolverine" #104 (August 1996), "X-Men Annual" '96, "Generation X" #25 (March 1997), "Beast" #1 (May 1997), #3 (July 1997), "Wolverine" #125 (June 1998), "X-Men: The 198 Files" #1 (March 2006), "X-Men" #202 (October 2007).

Gateway received an entry in the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89" #3, and the "Marvel Encyclopedia" HC vol. 02 #3 (2003).

Fictional character biography

Much of Gateway's past remains a mystery to this day, including where exactly he was born and even his name. It is known that he is an Aborigine who appears to have grown up in the Outback.

It is known that he was forced to join the criminal group known as the Reavers after they discovered his powers and threatened to destroy a place sacred to the Aborigines if he didn't follow their orders. They called him "Gateway" in reference to his ability to create gateways between two points in space. Some time later, the X-Men, who had been believed by the world to have been killed in Dallas, Texas, appeared in the Outback and battled the Reavers in their own headquarters. One of the Reavers, Skullbuster, in attempting to escape the fracas, told Gateway that he would release him of all his obligations to them if he helped them escape, which Gateway did.

Afterward, the X-Men took up residence in the Reavers' former hideout, and Gateway began voluntarily using his powers to assist them. Since he seemed to be unable or unwilling to speak, Psylocke used her telepathic powers to communicate to Gateway where the X-Men wished to go. However, the X-Men eventually went back to the United States, and were discovered by the rest of the world to be alive, and Gateway's close association with them ended.

More recently, he appeared at the Xavier Institute in Massachusetts, where Generation X was training, with a young girl. When he encountered Banshee, he simply spoke her name, "Penance", much to the surprise of Generation X member M, who also apparently knows him, and disappeared. This may have something to do with his feelings of guilt over his part in the downfall of the Hellions.

Gateway appeared briefly to Storm's X-Treme X-Men team, shortly after the death of Psylocke, and revealed that he is Bishop's great-grandfather. Here it was also revealed that he is virtually omniscient, as he is described as "the repository of the knowledge of humanity, the living index of every hard earned scrap of information gleaned in our ascent from mindless savagery." What he has been doing since then is largely unknown, but he has been revealed that is one of the mutants to have retained his powers after the M-Day ["X-Men: The 198 Files"] .

It is revealed to Iceman and Cannonball that Gateway was one of the targeted mutants ["X-Men" #202] the Marauders had killed, along with Cable, Vargas and The Witness due to his powers giving him the ability to see into the future ["X-Men" #200] .

Powers and abilities

Gateway is in tune with the spiritual force of his people that allows himFact|date=August 2008 to create teleportational "gateways" from one location to another. Gateway creates these warp tunnels, which can traverse both time and space, by whirling his bullroarer over his head. Gateway somehow causes a burning fire to appear before him when he creates one of his gatewaysFact|date=August 2008, though the role that the fire and the bullroarer play in the creation and functioning of the gateways is unclear. The gateways can be used for both observation and transport. The exact limits of how much mass can be transported is yet to be revealed.

There are no known limits to Gateway's teleportational range. He has, for example, transported the X-Men from Australia to the United States and back using his powers, as well as transporting them trans-dimensionally to another Earth. He also opened up gateways that observe past events, such as the one that allowed the feral X-Man Wolverine and the ninja named Elektra to learn the truth behind the powerful psionic being known as Onslaught. He has transported Wolverine to the past, 1937 Spain, and returned him to the present.

Gateway also possesses psionic abilities that allow him to communicate with telepaths. Gateway apparently prefers this method of communication over the verbal method, having spoken out loud only twice during his association with the X-Men. It was this ability that allowed him to communicate with the X-Man Psylocke to ascertain where and when the X-Men wished to be teleported, as well as knowing when they wished to return or what their exact location was at the time they wished to come back. Gateway also once spoke to the telepathic Generation X member named Chamber psionically, as well as regularly communicating psionically with the St. Croix twins.

Gateway is skilled in wilderness survival and the lore of his people.

Other versions

Age of Apocalypse

In the Age of Apocalypse, Gateway spends most of his time on Wundagore Mountain, trying to absorb any and all knowledge from multiple media sources before the forces of Apocalypse destroy everything.

Weapon X travels to Gateway's home to recruit him in the effort to deliver a crushing blow to Apocalypse's North American forces. Gateway, who is very talkative in this reality, agrees to listen after his bodyguard, Carol Danvers, sacrifices herself in a battle against Donald Pierce.

He finally agrees to lead the attack force when he is confronted with the holographic image of a seventeen year old victim of one of Apocalypse's Infinites.

House of M

Gateway is seen briefly in House of M: Civil War help Magneto and his followers overthrow Genoshas current rulers by teleporting his forces to the country.

In other media

Television

* While Gateway himself didnt appear in the series his great-grandson Bishop and his great-granddaughter Shard do appear indicating that he exists in .

Video games

* Gateway has a small role in the game "X-Men Legends". The Brotherhood were forcing Gateway to make a portal to the equator so they make it to the teleporter to Magneto's lair. Gateway then helped the X-Men chase after the Brotherhood.

References

External links

* [http://marvel.com/universe/Gateway Gateway on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki]