Ulysses Cain (Earth-616)

Ulysses Cain
Name	Ulysses Cain
Aliases	Predictor
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Friends of the Tower
Relatives	Mr. Cain (father); Mrs. Cain (mother); Numerous foster siblings
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Brown
Unusual Features	Whenever Ulysses' powers are triggered, the iris of his eyes turn red, and the scalera black
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human with Inhuman lineage activated by a Terrigen Bomb
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	Point Pleasant, Ohio, United States of America
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	American
Occupation	College student
Education	Ohio State University
Base of Operations	New Attilan Formerly Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Brian Michael Bendis, David Marquez
First	Free Comic Book Day Vol 2016 Avengers
First	Free Comic Book Day Vol 2016 Avengers

History

Ulysses Cain was born to a couple of tour guides in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He also lived with fifteen foster siblings, who were difficult cases from all over the state adopted by Ulysses' parents to ensure their future. Ulysses was friends since grade school with a local girl named Amy, the daughter of the sheriff.

After finishing high school, Ulysses attended the Ohio State University. He was a fairly tame student, who got along with everybody, but didn't leave much impression either. When the Terrigen Cloud released by Black Bolt swept through the campus, Ulysses was exposed to the cloud and underwent Terrigenesis.

Ulysses' emergence from his cocoon was shadowed by that of another classmate, Michelle, whose transformation resulted in a much more monstrous and terrifying appearance. Cain was overwhelmed by his newfound powers, the ability to see into the future, and vividly experienced one premonition after another. The young boy panicked and run away several miles off the campus, until he was intercepted by the Inhuman royal family and taken in by Queen Medusa. Magister Karnak trained Ulysses for the following weeks, and helped him focus on using his powers, allowing him to properly interpret his visions.

Ulysses meditating with Karnak

Cain experienced a vision which foretold the destruction of the Earth at the hands of the Celestial Destructor. The Inhumans warned the Avengers of the upcoming threat, allowing Earth's heroes to properly defend the planet, exile the Celestial to another dimension, and save the day.

The celebration of the heroes' victory was cut short when the Inhumans decided to reveal the origin of the warning to several heroes, including Avengers leader Tony Stark and Alpha Flight commander Captain Marvel, introducing Ulysses Cain to them. While Captain Marvel wanted to use Ulysses to preemptively tackle disasters before they happened, Stark suggested it was dangerous to take his visions at face value, not only basing his arguments on the morality of punishing a person for something they could potentially do, and might not even know they'd do, but also arguing that the ability to prevent the events Cain sees from happening meant he didn't have access to anything set in stone.

Three weeks later, Ulysses had a premonition of the villain Thanos attacking the Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Facility to steal a Cosmic Cube. His prediction allowed a team of heroes led by Captain Marvel to foil Thanos' plan at the cost of War Machine's life and She-Hulk ending up in critical condition.

Ulysses' powers manifesting

As soon as he was notified of the tragedy surrounding Thanos' defeat, Stark vowed that Ulysses' talent would not be used for crime-prevention ever again, in order to prevent his fellow colleagues from "playing God." Iron Man kidnapped Ulysses from New Attilan, and took him to an undisclosed location where he tried to begin to study his abilities. They were interrupted by the arrival of an army of heroes led by Captain Marvel, who had the objective to retrieve Cain. The confrontation was stopped when Ulysses projected a vision to everyone in the scene of the Hulk killing several heroes.

After witnessing how the heroes handled his latest vision, which resulted in the tragic death of Bruce Banner at the hands of Hawkeye, Ulysses returned to the Inhumans and continued both training with Karnak and providing S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain Marvel with visions of the future. He would be regularly placed in a device built by Black Panther and Spider-Man known as the "information womb," engineered to flood his senses with current-events data to try to incite his powers.

Attributes

Powers

Diagnostic Precognition: Ulysses has the ability to forecast the future. His brain automatically absorbs data and energies cascading from all over the world and through a mental algorithm generates the visions of a theoretical future with a probability percentage of ten percent. He then vividly envisions these possible upcoming events; however, his powers are mostly triggered randomly, meaning he cannot control which events he sees. Accumulated stress can also work as a trigger. Following months of training, Ulysses gained the ability to enter in a partial trance which allows him to "pause" his visions to gather as much information from them as he can. This trance not only helps ease the mental strain from experiencing the visions but also improve his accuracy.

• Visionary Thought Projection: Another aspect to Ulysses growing abilities is to encompass individuals around him directly into whatever glimpses of whats to come onto them. He can then make them see feel, and all around experience, what he sees around the bend.
• Remote Projection Tendrils: Ulysses can seemingly generate several chromatic glowing coils from his hands to around his body, which can reach up to several miles away in order to show the future to another persons from a sizable distance. From New Attilan to the Triskelion and back.

Psychic Shields: Cain's mind has been described by Jean Grey as a closed system, which cannot be read by telepaths.

Weaknesses

Prediction Accuracy: Ulysses' visions were accurate only 10% of the time, but he has been able to increase this accuracy to an unknown extent through training.

Notes

• Based on panel layouts from Civil War II #1, Ulysses was originally going to be named Homer.
• Writer Brian Michael Bendis conceived Ulysses as "college aged, tall, thin, lanky, like a young Benedict Cumberbatch."

Trivia

• Ulysses' parents named him after Ulysses S. Grant.
• Ulysses loves puppies and toads.
• Horrorscope claims that even with the ability to see the future, Ulysses cannot see the Uprising Storm.

See Also

• 41 appearance(s) of Ulysses Cain (Earth-616)
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Ulysses Cain (Earth-616)
• 13 minor appearance(s) of Ulysses Cain (Earth-616)
• 68 mention(s) of Ulysses Cain (Earth-616)
• 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Ulysses Cain (Earth-616)
• 42 image(s) of Ulysses Cain (Earth-616)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Ulysses Cain (Earth-616)
• 1 item(s) used/owned by Ulysses Cain (Earth-616)