History
Origins[]
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Forge was a mutant with the intuitive ability to invent almost anything. He became a soldier, and while fighting in a war lost his right leg and right hand. After the war, Forge was left impoverished and bitter. The U.S. Department of Defense offered to help Forge, in exchange for his constructing devices that could be used to neutralize dangerous mutants. Forge eventually left the department, but his designs would lead to the invention of inhibitor collars.[2]
Taking a job for the U.S. government, he created the government-sponsored team of mutants known as X-Factor. When former X-Man Polaris left her boyfriend, another former X-Man known as Iceman, to join X-Factor without telling him where she had gone, Iceman, joined by the X-Men, came looking for her.[3]
Forge allowed his team to brawl with the X-Men, hoping that they would learn a thing or two from a "friendly skirmish", before breaking things up. With Polaris revealing the truth to Iceman, he and the X-Men departed.[3]
When Magneto announced the creation of Asteroid M, Forge and his team were among the many mutants who watched his broadcast.[4]
Phalanx Covenant[]
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When Earth was attacked by the alien Phalanx, one of their number Warlock allied with X-Man Beast. With the rest of the X-Men taken out by the Phalanx, Beast called Forge for help. While meeting at a diner to discuss what was happening, they were attacked by the Phalanx, and only narrowly saved by Mr. Sinister.[5]
They first traveled to Muir Island to use its facilities to research the Phalanx. Realizing that the answer lay in magnetism, they resolved to find Magneto, who had sequestered himself in the Arctic Circle. They convinced Magneto to aid them, with his powers being instrumental in capturing a sample of the Phalanx. Forge and the other scientists engineered a virus designed to infect and destroy the Phalanx. With Warlock volunteering to deliver the virus, the Phalanx were stopped, and all those captured by them, including Forge's team, were freed.[5][6] Forge agreed to help Warlock return to his world, so that he could free his homeworld from its oppressive rulers.[6]
Storm[]
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When X-Man Storm lost her powers during an attack by the Friends of Humanity, she left the X-Men and eventually travelled to Texas. Feeling guilt that his designs had led to the technology that cost Storm her powers, Forge tracked her down and offered to help her regain her powers, telling her he was doing so as a favor for Charles Xavier.[7] The pair grew closer as Forge worked on ways to reverse the loss of her powers. His first attempt was successful (though Storm still had mental barriers stopping herself) and guilty over not having told her the truth of why he had sought her out, he confessed. Storm grew angry, and even after Forge told her that he loved her, she angrily rejected him for lying to her.[2]
While Storm attempted to leave, she found herself teleported back to Forge's home, as the two came under attack from the Adversary.[2]
After banishing the Adversary, he and Storm rode together to get a cactus with magical properties to heal him. As he laid in the cave, he watched as Storm ridded herself of the mental block and regained her powers. Storm later tended to his wounds before turning on the television and witnessing the news about Genosha.[8]
Joining the X-Men[]
Forge and Storm went off to rejoin the X-Men after Xavier's call to action and rescued Jubilee and Roberto. Returning to the mansion, he joked about missing the hoedown before reuniting with his old friend Beast. The pair went to make a Mnemonic Scrambler and considered using neutralizer technology before Storm quickly shut them down. The trio, alongside Cable, Jean, and Morph were put on Gold Team and went to fight Bastion. The lovers went and fought the Sentinels while the ground team went to fight Bastion, before being knocked out of the sky.[9]
He was eventually captured by Bastion alongside the rest of Gold Team and struggled when Bastion had Storm by the neck before being freed by a Phoenix possessed Jean. Once freed, he and Beast quickly started working on getting a Sentinel functional to get Gold Team up to Asteroid M to assist Blue Team against Bastion. However he stayed behind with Cable to tend to his wounds. He, Val Cooper, Jubilee, and Sunspot all watched in horror as Asteroid M vanished.
Forge looked for months to find the X-Men to no avail. Six months after the disappearance of the active X-Men team and Asteroid M, Forge was working out the remains of the X-Mansion in front of his board of mutants, searching for a new team to take up the torch when Bishop finally made it back to the past and referred to him as Daniel. The time traveler introduced himself and explained that this wasn't their first "The X-Men are dead rodeo" and that it was less of a question of "where" and more of a "when" insinuating that the X-Men had been scattered across time.[1]Attributes
Powers
- Technological Genius: Forge's mutation gives him the intuitive ability to invent almost anything.
- Magic
Paraphernalia
Equipment
- Forge's right leg and hand are cybernetic. The reason for this isn't explained in the show, but is presumed to be the same reasoning as that of Forge.
Notes
- Forge was voiced by the late Marc Strange in the original series and by Gil Birmingham in X-Men '97.
- Developed for television by Larry Houston and Frank Squillace.
- His original character outline gives his full name as Daniel Lone Eagle. He was never referred to by this name in the original series, but in X-Men '97, Bishop calls him Daniel.
See Also
- 9 appearance(s) of Forge (Daniel) (Earth-92131)
- 3 minor appearance(s) of Forge (Daniel) (Earth-92131)
- 14 image(s) of Forge (Daniel) (Earth-92131)