History
After the Living Laser of Earth-616 traveled through the Watcher's dimensional portal to escape being captured by Quasar[1] and ended up on an alternate Earth, his attempts to use the portal to return to his rightful reality somehow caused him to diverge in transit, replicating him into divergent counterparts. This particular Laser counterpart arrived on Earth-89721,[2] an alternate Earth where the High Evolutionary had successfully detonated his Genetic Bomb, thereby causing humanity and mutantkind to evolve.[3]
Quasar was later sent to track down and retrieve all of the replicated Lasers, and Earth-89721 was the the second alternate reality that he visited. Arriving just as the evolved Godlike Ones were leaving the planet, Quasar was able to quickly find this Laser counterpart who didn't initially recognize him and asked if he hadn't evolved either. Quasar didn't know what he was talking about but suggested that the probable answer was that it was because neither of them were from that timeline. The Laser recognized Quasar just as the hero absorbed his energy-form into the Quantum-Bands, and then they returned to the Moon and travelled to the third affected alternate Earth.[2]Notes
- Despite the numeric designation assigned to this character, he is not the Living Laser who was native to Earth-89721. That character, who has never appeared in any Marvel comic, presumably already existed in his energy-form by the time the Evolutionary War occurred on that Earth, and thus, as a mutate, he may have been among those empowered beings who were transformed into the Godlike Ones. However, it's also possible that existing as an energy-form prevented him from being affected by the fallout from the Genetic Bomb.
- What happened to this replicated Living Laser and the other six who were absorbed into the Quantum-Bands has never been revealed. Although Quasar had promised to let the energy-forms of all of the Lasers that he had absorbed out of the Quantum-Bands once they had gotten back home, him actually doing so has never been shown, mentioned or referenced.