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Xraven
 
Xraven
 
Personal Info:
 
Real Name: Xraven
Also Known As: Kraven The Hunter, Hunter X, Kraven X
Place Of Birth: Created in Sinister's Manhattan Labs
First Appearance: X-Men/Spider-Man Vol.1 #4 (2009) Modern Age Villain
Known Associates: Mister Sinister
Group Affiliation: None
Base Of Operations: Mobile
Grudges: X-Men and Spider-Man
Creators: Christos N. Gage and Mario Alberti
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Powers:
 
Xraven is a brilliant and gifted hunter and tracker. He is a master of many forms of armed and unarmed combat. He possesses the memories of Kraven and the five original X-Men.
Enhanced Abilities: Xraven has super human strength, agility, speed, durability and endurance.
Super-humanly Acute Senses: Xraven possesses enhanced, acute senses that are comparable to those of certain animals, enabling him to see and hear distant objects more clearly than a normal human, and identify and track someone purely by scent. He also possesses cat-like night-vision.
Claws and Fangs: Xraven sports retractable, razor sharp claws at the tip of each finger and toe. He also possesses elongated canines that he can use, if he chooses to do so, as effective weapons in close quarter combat situations.
Optic Blast: Xraven possesses the mutant ability to project a powerful beam of concussive, ruby-coloured force from his eyes.
Telepathy: He can manipulate the minds of others and even higher order animals within a vast, potentially limitless radius, including blocking Spider-Man's spider sense, as well as Wolverine's heightened senses
Mind Control: He can control the thoughts and actions of others.
Psionic Blasts: He can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness.
Telekinesis: Telekinetic abilities enable him to levitate himself or other objects, propel or manipulate them however he wishes, stimulate individual molecules to create heat, and generate concussive force or protective shields.
Thermokinesis: Xraven has the superhuman ability to lower his external and internal body temperature, projecting intense coldness from his body.
Cryokinesis: Xraven can use his mutant ability to control moisture such as to freeze any air moisture into super-hard ice. This ice can be formed into any object of his choosing: the only limitations are his own imagination, and the ambient air temperature which determines how long his ice sculpture will stay icy.
Flight: Xraven possesses the superhuman ability to fly by means of his natural wings.
Regenerative Healing Factor: Xraven possesses an accelerated healing factor that enables him to repair damaged tissue with much greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human.
Weapons: Xraven carries a number of weapons including: Flash bombs, Bolas, Rifles and two Vibranium Knives.
 
Origins:
 
In the past, Mr Sinister had hired Kraven the Hunter to collect the genetic DNA samples of the original five X-Men. At the time, the X-Men teamed up with Spider-Man to fight Kraven (who had teamed up with the Blob) and thought that they had successfully thwarted him. It wasn't until a few years later that they realised that there was more to their encounter. After Kraven committed suicide, Spider-Man inspected his personal files to check if he had left any mention of Spider-Man's secret identity. Instead, Spider-Man found a file which detailed the transaction between Sinister and Kraven. Together Spider-Man and a later incarnation of the X-Men destroyed the embryonic clones of the X-Men, and assumed that Sinister had therefore lost the genetic samples of the X-Men. However, Mr Sinsiter later made a deal with another of Spider-Man's foes; Carnage. While Carnage was incarcerated, Sinister telepathically forced the facility's staff into the cafeteria. Once they were alone, Sinister offered to set Carnage free to massacre his captors in exchange for a sample of the symbiote's DNA. Although the X-Men and Spider-Man managed to detain Carnage and return him to his cell, they were unaware of the latest genetic sample that Sinister had collected.
The heroes were ignorant to the fact that Mr Sinister had retained the genetic samples of the first five X-Men and Carnage. For years he laboured in his laboratory to create the perfect slave based on the DNA he'd harvested over the years. The sample that Carnage had provided was tested upon until Sinister had mastered it's malleable abilities without the symbiote's destructive personality. The resulting clone thought he was Kraven the Hunter. However, with the enslaved DNA from Carnage, he was forced to obey Sinsiter. The clone was named Xraven, and as well as the skill & knowledge of Kraven the Hunter he had the mutant abilities of the first five X-Men.
 
Notes:
 
Xraven at Marvel Database
Xraven at X-Men Wiki
Xraven at Comic Vine
Xraven at Spiderfan.Org