Harper Simmons (Earth-616)

Harper Simmons
Name	Harper Simmons
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Ally of the X-Terminated/Human Resistance, formerly Guardian newspaper
Relatives	Spouses: Unnamed wife Children: Unborn child
Marital Status	Married
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Blue
Hair	Brown
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Journalist
Base of Operations	New York formerly New Apocalypse, Earth-295
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Rick Remender, Rich Elson
First	Uncanny X-Force #10 (May, 2011)
First	Uncanny X-Force #10 (May, 2011)

History

Harper Simmons was a journalist working for the Guardian, a newspaper owned by a subsidiary of Worthington Industries.

He was approached by the Shadow King, who gave him a camera-recording of an X-Force mission, stating that it was a proof that the X-Man Warren Worthington and the Avenger Wolverine were running a hit-squad against rivals and dissidents to their cause.

He contacted Edmund, his editor, but he was in a meeting with Warren, and Edmund was killed once the documents were recovered, in order to erase any evidence of X-Force and Archangel. Harper was then targeted himself by Archangel, but was saved thanks to Wolverine, Warren's persona, and Psylocke's interventions. Betsy then erased Harper's memories of X-Force and left him lost in the street.

At some point, he was investigating Dark Beast's prison break, thanks to another mutant, Sugar Man. Simmons received a tip on the location of the fugitive, so he went to a laboratory.

He found both of them there, and saw how they sealed the laboratory and went inside of a portal to another universe. Being his only way out, he enter in the portal also and ended up in the Age of Apocalypse.

After some time in that universe, he started to print a pamphlet with revolutionary ideas, fomenting several riots of mutants and humans alike wanting unity and peace.

Keeper Murdock was sent to find and kill him, but the X-Terminated found him first and saved him from Weapon Omega's hounds. Simmons told his story to the Prophet, and led them to the place were the portal was. But when they arrived, they found Prelate Summers.

...

X-Termination / Back on Earth-616

When Earth-295 was invaded by the Exterminators, Prophet had a Samurai Sentinel go find Simmons, in order to send him back to his world. As Harper argued that New Apocalypse was now his world, Stryker asked him to live as the living memory of his world and of the X-Terminated. He was brought back to Earth-616 by Nightcrawler.

Two weeks later, he met Prophet on Coney Island.

See Also

• 10 appearance(s) of Harper Simmons (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Harper Simmons (Earth-616)
• 1 image(s) of Harper Simmons (Earth-616)
• 2 quotation(s) by or about Harper Simmons (Earth-616)