Charles Little Sky (Earth-616)

Portal
Name	Charles Little Sky
Current Alias	Portal
Aliases	Director Little Sky
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	A.R.M.O.R., Kisani Nation
Relatives	Unnamed mother; Evan Little Sky, Sylvia Little Sky (younger siblings)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	5′8″ (1.73 m), 5′11″ (1.8 m) (in armor)
Weight	165 lbs (74.84 kg), 190 lbs (86.18 kg) (in armor)
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Black
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Mutant
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	Lost Mesa Indian Reservation, near Hartsdale, New Mexico
Personal Information
Identity	Public
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Director of A.R.M.O.R., Former explorer
Base of Operations	The Hollow
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Danny Fingeroth, Rich Buckler
First	Avengers #304 (February, 1989) (First appearance) Darkhawk #5 (May, 1991) (as Portal)
First	Avengers #304 (February, 1989) (First appearance) Darkhawk #5 (May, 1991) (as Portal)

History

Charles Little Sky was a member of the Kisani Nation. When a shaman identified Charles as having "special abilities," he ran away to New York City in fear. While working at Ellis Island as a caretaker, Puma tracked Charles down. The Avengers, Thor, Captain America, and Gilgamesh were at the center when Puma appeared, and in the ensuing battle, Charles reacted in fear by activating a portal. Through this portal came the U-Foes, who had been trapped in another dimensional plane. Eventually, Charles escaped through another portal. While in absence, Charles accumulated various weaponry, and wound up having to kill (in self-defense) Kistur, a Mahari alien wearing Darkhawk armor. When Charles reappeared at a museum where Chris Powell (Darkhawk) and his family were, he thought Darkhawk was a comrade of the dead Mahari.

Portal's relationship with Darkhawk changed over the years. When Portal was kidnapped and brainwashed by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Darkhawk, Sleepwalker, and Spider-Man came to his aid. Later, when Darkhawk "2.0" fell ill, Portal took over DH's heroic responsibilities in New York. Later, he helped Darkhawk fight against the the reborn Kistur, now going by the name of Overhawk, and a Mahari of his fellow space-pirates.

Director of A.R.M.O.R.

Marvel Zombies

Sometime after, Charles become the leader of A.R.M.O.R., an organization tasked with keeping an eye on all extra-dimensional activities in the planet. When reports of strange occurrences in Man-Thing's swamp began to surface, the Initiative team responsible for Florida was called. Transporting himself and the rest of the team to the location, he discovered that the Nexus of All Realities came into sync with a universe infested with zombies, and they were then attacked by zombies who zombified most of the Command team. Portal then had to save himself and Jennifer Kale from a zombified Siege. Little Sky decided to lead A.R.M.O.R.'s containment of the situation.

He recruited Machine Man and Jocasta to retrieve a blood sample from the alternate Earth so that Morbius could create a vaccine against the zombie plague. He took the two synthetic beings there himself, pointing out that he wasn't only the director but also the designated driver. Unfortunately, the Morbius he was working with had been replaced by a zombie counterpart and caused an outbreak within A.R.M.O.R. central command, the Hollow. Little Sky fought along with Jocasta and Machine Man to contain the zombie outbreak, but at least one zombie managed to escape via the teleportation bay.

He tasked Morbius to assemble the Midnight Sons and track and kill the remaining infected.

She-Hulk

When Lyra arrived on Earth-616 from her native alternate future, Little Sky and A.R.M.O.R. were on the job. Not only did he have to contend with the daughter of Thundra and the Hulk, but he also had the ever present problem of Norman Osborn and H.A.M.M.E.R. watching for him to make the slightest mistake. Since Osborn had come to power, Little Sky had to keep vigilant to stop Osborn from having A.R.M.O.R. go the way of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Little Sky had a contingency plan to deal with someone like Lyra, and that contingency's name was She-Hulk. Unfortunately, it was the Dark Avengers who ended up apprehending Lyra, and she was held in Avengers Tower instead of the Hollow as Little Sky would have wanted.

Wolverines

After an apparently failed assassination attempt, Charles tried to track down Mystique, the alleged client, to get answers. However given the people that Mystique was with, Portal was quickly subdued. He was held on the Changeling for interrogation. Mystique bribed him with the Zhulong, the torch dragon, an artifact from Taipei that would allow him to go anywhere. With the artifact transferring energy from Siphon, Charles was able to do just that. He created a multidimensional portal through the Nexus for Mystique and left her calling and terrified.

Attributes

Power Grid

Powers

Portal Creation: Little Sky is a mutant with power to open up dimensional warps to teleport to other locations in his own reality, to other dimensions or to alternate realities.

Abilities

Highly trained in combat gymnastics by tribal elders. Knowledge of alien technology. Expert in using various types of weaponry from his dimensional scavenging.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Protective armor fashioned from alien technology.

Weapons

Various; includes powerful energy rifle.

Transportation

Teleportation.

Notes

• Portal could not use Kistur's amulet after he killed him so he dumped the amulet in another dimension. Darkhawk would later retrieve the amulet as its decay threatened the destruction of the multiverse.

Although some believe the teleportation abilities lie within his armor, he is in fact a mutant.

Fraternity of Raptors retcon

Much of Charles Little Sky's background as Portal may have been rendered apocryphal with the Fraternity of Raptors retcon. Chris Powell discovered that everything relating to the origin of his Darkhawk armor was false, and was a manifestation of his subconscious being unable to process the large amounts of information uploaded to his brain via the amulet's datasong. Darkhawk characters like Evilhawk, Overhawk, Ocsh, St. Johnny, and Ned Dobbs may have never existed. Charles Little Sky debuted prior to Darkhawk, so he shouldn't be a manifestation of Chris's mind, but presumably his armor would be affected by the retcon somehow.

See Also

• 36 appearance(s) of Charles Little Sky (Earth-616)
• 5 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Charles Little Sky (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) of Charles Little Sky (Earth-616)
• 6 image(s) of Charles Little Sky (Earth-616)
• 2 quotation(s) by or about Charles Little Sky (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Charles Little Sky on Marvel.com