Liam Connaughton (Earth-616)

Liam Connaughton
Name	Liam Connaughton
Aliases	CaseIdent5403L/C
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Ally of Legion, formerly an unnamed terrorist group
Relatives	Unnamed mother, unnamed father (deceased)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Blue
Hair	Red
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Mutant
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Personal Information
Identity	Public
Citizenship	Northern Irish, British
Occupation	Formerly reluctant terrorist
Base of Operations	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Karl Bollers, Sam Salgood
First	Muties #6 (July, 2002)
First	Muties #6 (July, 2002)

History

Origin

Liam Connaughton was a young Northern Irishman living with his widowed mother on a farm ever since his father had been killed during an untold event related to the Irish conflict. He was living a happy and simple life there, engaging a romance with a girl named Bridget, whose dad had been killed along with Liam's. But his mutant power to generate massive explosions was emerging at the same period.

Terrorists' weapon

While the police were inquiring on what they thought were bombings, Bridget's brother Colin (a terrorist), made the connection between Liam and those explosions, having witnessed after one of them a perturbed Liam apologizing for it.

He convinced his boss Seamus (friend to the deceased fathers of Bridget, Colin, and Liam) to use the boy, forcing him to perform terrorist acts against pro-conciliation events. But on the last planned attack, on a speech at church against civil war, both Liam and Colin rebelled against Seamus. Seeing his mother and Bridget looking for him, Liam exploded around himself, seemingly killing Seamus.

He was arrested and declared dead, while Colin was incarcerated. The British Military, along with the Coalition government, agreed on the termination of Liam, judging him too dangerous for public safety. He was injected with Potassium chloride and seemingly died. However, it was revealed that he had been saved, and the program allowing that kind of operation was dismantled.

Liam meeting the Queen

Return

He seemingly kept his powers after M-Day, and years later, he was among the British mutants invited by David Haller (Legion) to form a team to follow Xavier's dream. While Legion was making Wisdom thought they refused to cooperate in a complex manipulation, Lila Cheney came to Blindfold and Wisdom into the illusion to explain a false plan about them seemingly tearing apart Britain in order ''to wipe mutophobic Britain off the map", but it was revealed the whole plan was only constituted of good actions to prove the work of human-mutant coexistence. Liam's part of the plan was to meet Queen Elizabeth during a royal charity lunch, in order to prove that mutants were able to solve conflicts (the Northern Irish conflict here) without using violence or their powers.

Attributes

Powers

• Explosions generation
• Energy blasts

Weaknesses

Liam had very poor control over his abilities, and thus they could inadvertently manifest under stress. Later, he seemingly overcame that lack of control.

Notes

• The exact affiliation/position of Liam on the Northern Irish conflict is unknown, but he seems to be more of the Republican side:
  • The terrorist group who use Liam is unrevealed, and can be as well "Republicans" such as the IRA or "Loyalists", like the UDA. The only information about that group was that Liam's father, as well as Bridget and Colin's father and Seamus, were members.
  • Liam seems to be attached to the precision that he was Northern Irish and not Irish.
  • Meeting the Queen, Liam was presented by Lila Cheney as "vaguely Republican".

See Also

• 4 appearance(s) of Liam Connaughton (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Liam Connaughton (Earth-616)
• 3 image(s) of Liam Connaughton (Earth-616)