History
Duncan was a star high school football player and classmate of many of the teenage X-Men at Bayville High. Always arrogant, Duncan often bullied those less popular and physically weaker than him like Todd "Toad" Tolensky. For a time, he dated the school's star athlete, Jean Grey, but he often put himself before her. Duncan also had a competitive rivalry with fellow student Scott Summers, mainly due to Scott's jealousy of him dating Jean as well as him defending others from Duncan's reprehensible actions.[citation needed]
When Jean and Scott, along with other X-Men, were seen on live television fighting the Sentinel, the existence of mutants was discovered. As other normal humans started to shun the mutant students, Duncan, very briefly, seemed to be sensitive to Jean being a mutant. When it was revealed that he thought her powers were a āproblemā and wanted to use them to cheat on his tests, Jean ended their relationship. Duncan starts to blame Scott for the break-up and conspires to get him and the other mutants expelled by getting them to use their powers near school grounds.
The school's principal Edward Kelly got Duncan to team up with the Brotherhood to attack the X-Men to provoke them into using their powers the same night a meeting was held to decide their status at Bayville High. Despite their best efforts, the plan failed and the X-Men were able to go back to school full time.[1]
Duncan graduated from Bayville High and found employment at a mining company. He became very anti-mutant, feeling that they were responsible for his troubles, too powerful and, a threat to society. After Duncan and his friends intimidated and almost attacked Sam and Amara, they ran into Spyke who saved them from Duncan and destroyed his car in the process. Duncan and his cronies retreated.
Even more angered than before, Duncan took some mining lasers and explosive from the mining camp intent on going after Spyke and the Morlocks. Duncan and his cronies started to bomb the sewers to flush out Spyke. While Duncan and the others outnumbered Spyke, the Morlocks and X-Men assisted him. In the heat of battle Spyke was shot by Duncan, unaware of a mutant boy who nullified the energy of the weapons of Duncan's group (as well as the powers of all the mutants in the area).
Duncan and his crew tried to escape, but were caught and arrested by the police.[2]Attributes
Abilities
Football Skills
Duncan is a skilled football player from Bayville.Paraphernalia
Equipment
Notes
- Voiced by Vincent Gale
Trivia
- Duncan is the replacement of Wolverine for being Cyclops's love rival for Jean Grey.
See Also
- 13 appearance(s) of Duncan Matthews (Earth-11052)
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Duncan Matthews (Earth-11052)
- 3 mention(s) of Duncan Matthews (Earth-11052)
- 7 image(s) of Duncan Matthews (Earth-11052)