Marvel комиксінің кейіпкері Аноле

Marvel Comics superhero

Anole (Victor Borkowski) is a fictional mutant superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was created by Christina Weir and Nunzio DeFilippis and first appeared in issue #2 of New Mutants vol. 2 (August 2003). A student at the Xavier Institute and junior member of the X Men, Anole is also openly gay. His reptilian mutation grants him superhuman abilities including wallcrawling, a prehensile tongue, and adaptive camouflage. Initially a supporting character in New Mutants vol. 2 and its relaunched title, New X Men: Academy X, Weir and DeFilippis intended for the character to commit suicide early in the series after coming out as gay and finding himself rejected by his family and friends. According to the writers, the story was to serve as a message about intolerance. Marvel editors scrapped the story due to concerns about the controversy it might generate. The storyline was rewritten and the character survived. He since became a fan favorite and began to be featured regularly throughout the series and as a main character in subsequent X Men related titles, including New X Men and the short lived Young X Men.

Victor Borkowski first appears in New Mutants vol. 2 #2 in August 2003. Christina Weir and Nunzio DeFilippis originally wrote a storyline for New Mutants that was to take place between issues 8 and 10. He continued to make numerous appearances during Craig Kyle and Chris Yost's run on New X Men (2nd Series), having a more active role in the plots than most of the other background characters. Anole was featured as a main character beginning in New X Men vol. 2 #37, illustrated by comic book artist Skottie Young. He was later added to the New X Men as a teammate. Anole was a "pretty early pick" for new additions to the team, according to Yost, who felt that Anole had a decent set of abilities and represented "a kind of level headed, good, normal kid." Additionally, Yost and Kyle felt adding Anole and the character Pixie to the New X Men team gave the roster "tonal balance" and the opportunity to slightly "twist and warp" the characters through darker events to come in the series. While alluded to since his first main appearances in the franchise In developing Anole's backstory, Young also established the character's hometown as his own—Fairbury, Illinois. Young added that he chose to write Anole's divestment from the X Men at the conclusion of the story in a way that would allow him to explore more of the character's future decisions and experiences at another time. Anole would later reappear as a team member in the main cast of Young X Men as of Young X Men #6 and as a supporting character in X Men franchise crossover events such as X Men: Manifest Destiny,

Victor Borkowski is a sixteen year old mutant born and raised in Fairbury, Illinois, a small, typical American town in which he lives a normal life despite his reptilian features. The close knit community accepts him for who he is until anti mutant sentiment begins to spread. For his own safety, his parents send him to the Xavier Institute where he quickly excels academically. When the advisor system is set up at the Xavier Institute, Victor chooses Karma as his advisor and is given the code name Anole. During the formation of training squads throughout the school, he is reassigned to Northstar's Alpha Squadron where he serves as the squad leader.

Anole is one of only 27 students at the Institute who does not lose his mutant powers in the aftermath of House of M, also known as Decimation or "M Day." The squad system is dissolved and the remaining students are merged into one group. Shortly afterward, Emma Frost sets up an all out brawl amongst the remaining students to determine who will become the new team of X Men trainees (dubbed the "New X Men"); Victor is not selected for the squad, but remains at the school. When a resurrected and brainwashed Northstar returns with his sister Aurora and attacks the Institute, Anole finds him and is able to temporarily snap him out of the mind control set in place by the Children of the Vault. Anole's joy at seeing his former mentor is short lived, as Northstar returns to his mind controlled status and knocks him out.

During the New X Men story arc "The Quest for Magik," Anole and his classmates are sucked down into the dimension of Limbo by the demon Belasco. They are soon attacked by a large group of demons, and Anole takes charge, rallying the students around the defenseless Blindfold, only to have his right arm severed at the shoulder by a demon. Later he is trapped in stone by the machinations of Darkchilde as she attempts to create a powerful Soulsword from Pixie's soul. Anole manages to break himself free and stop Darkchilde from completing the process, saving Pixie. Anole then finds that he has generated a larger and stronger reptilian arm replacing the one he lost, a previously unknown aspect of his mutation. The arm itself is spikey, resembling his scalp, with razor sharp claws. After helping to defeat Belasco, Anole and Pixie are made members of the New X Men squad on recommendation of Rockslide, who threatens to quit if they are not appointed to the team. Rockslide and X 23 later try to convince Anole to cut off his other arm in order to generate a stronger replacement. When he refuses, Rockslide calls him a sissy, which Anole finds offensive enough for him to reveal his sexual identity to Rockslide and attack him. Rockslide apologizes, swearing that he did not know. Later, in a misguided attempt at group bonding, Rockslide voices his acceptance of Anole's sexuality, outing him to some of the other students, though Loa states that she was already aware and that everyone already knew. Moving to San Francisco, he engages in various missions with the Young X Men, including assisting during the Skrull invasion of San Francisco. When his teammate Dust dies from a hidden medical condition brought on by her fight with Magma, Anole once again voices his opinions about leaving the team as they are constantly put in danger with mortal consequences. Dust is revived by teammate Ink and she convinces the team not to disband.

During the Utopia storyline, the X Men leave their San Francisco base and establish the island "Utopia" for mutants on the remains of Asteroid M. The anthology series Nation X explores the characters' reactions to this relocation, with Anole featuring in his own story, "Big Boy Pants". The story depicts Cannonball teaching the younger X Men how to farm their own crops, but Anole argues that it is a waste of time since they could just buy their food from a store. He looks to Magik for agreement, but she responds by teleporting him to Limbo for five days without food or water. Eventually she returns to bring him water, and Anole tells her that he learned his lesson: without their own food supply, the mutant race could die. Magik informs him that this was not a lesson and that she merely sent him to Limbo because she was sick of looking at him. She returns them both to Utopia and Anole resumes farming, too afraid of Magik to tell anyone what happened.

During the Second Coming crossover storyline, Anole appears prominently in the three issue tie in series X Men: Hellbound. In it, he joins a team of X Men in rescuing Magik from Limbo after she is sent there by Bastion's forces. Cannonball chooses Anole for the mission to provide moral support for Pixie, whose teleportation ability they require to travel to Limbo. Anole and Pixie are extremely reluctant to risk themselves for Magik, who they believe does not deserve to be saved, but decide to go because they are heroes. In Limbo, Anole fends off demons and bickers with Cannonball; he also takes out his teammate Dazzler when she is corrupted by Limbo's influence. In the end, Pixie and Anole somewhat resolve their issues with Magik and the team return home.

Anole returned to New York to attend the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning alongside many of his former classmates. At some point he began taking AP Economics, and soon became a member of the reborn Angel's Board of Directors for Worthington Industries. Anole later graduates to official X Men status.

Under the All New, All Different Marvel branding, Anole is a supporting character in the pages of Extraordinary X Men (2015–present). He has been seen assisting the X Men at X Haven with helping refugee mutants. Anole along with Glob, Martha and Ernest are under the tutelage of Colossus in training to become more experienced X Men. The four of them become lost in the future for a full year before the X Men manage to bring them back to the 'current' time period.

In the pages of "House of X and Powers of X," Anole became a resident of Krakoa when it became a mutant nation. He and Blob become the co owners and bartenders of the tiki bar Green Lagoon. During the "Empyre" storyline, Anole, Rockslide, and Loa go to Arrako Point on Krakoa and meet with the High Summoner of Arrako where he teaches them the game of weakness which gets interrupted when a Cotati fleet approaches Krakoa. He was later seen being trained by the New Mutants in how to use his powers in combination with the other young mutants of the Akadamos Habitat. He was shown to have bonded with other students Cosmar, Rain Boy and No Girl, who all felt shame due to their inhuman appearances and resented their teachers for refusing to kill them in The Crucible and so they can be resurrected by The Five in human passing bodies. After training they secretly went off to the Wild Hunt, the home of the Shadow King for further training. Farouk taught them how to switch bodies using No Girl's powers, he then took them to The Boneyard, a Krakoan morgue, and had them inhabit the bodies so they could experience being human passing. Scout became suspicious of all the time they were spending with the Shadow King and voiced her concerns about him to them and the New Mutants, The New Mutants were unhelpful and Anole and his friends angrilly rebuffed her. They refused to believe Farouk had malicious intent until they after the Hellfire Gala when they found Gabby's dead body on the newly founded Planet Arrako. Not wanting Farouk to get caught up in this and not trusting any adults due to their recent secretive and unhelpful behaviour, as well as Krakoa's established rule against resurrecting clones. They took it upon themselves to get Gabby to Arbor Magna and have her resurrected, using the methods Farouk had taught them. Although they were able to fool Daken with No Girls impression, they were eventually caught by Wolfsbane and The Five. After explaining the circumstances and accepting that the Shadow King was the most likely culprit, The Five decided to do the right thing and ignore the rule about clones and help Gabby. They were told to stay home while the New Mutants confronted Farouk, but after apologising to Gabby for blowing of her concerns and inadvertently getting her killed, the went to the Wild Hunt to confront the Shadow King themselves. Combining their powers the way their teachers showed them, they were able to break the New Mutants free from the Shadow Kings mental prison. They were able to track down the consciousnesses of the real Amahl Ferouk, who had been trapped inside his own mind since childhood. After fighting with Magik and Warpath over whether to kill the child to stop the Shadow King onconce and for all, they agreed to do it the kids way and used Cosmars powers to reach out to the child Farouk and finally free him from the Shadow Kings control.

Anole's reptilian mutation gives him green scaly skin, a spiked head carapace instead of hair, a prehensile sticky tongue, the ability to stick to solid surfaces, and enhanced agility, speed, reflexes/reactions, coordination, and balance. He can also rapidly camouflage himself through physiological color change to his surroundings to become "invisible." He can grow back lost limbs and damaged body parts but they appear larger, scaled and reptilian like his carapace and grant him a higher level of physical ability. A new arm he regenerated has sharp claws at the ends of his fingers that he can use for attack purposes. and was reaffirmed in The X Men: 198 Files. His sexual orientation continued to be mentioned indirectly, and other allusions included him pointing out that Young Avengers characters Wiccan and Hulkling are gay before being cut off and Anole attacking Rockslide for calling him a "sissy," Rockslide shouting that he "didn't know" and that he "shouldn't be so sensitive." In the following issue, Anole's sexuality was officially stated outright for the first time when Rockslide announces, "Anole's gay!" in an attempt to quickly get the remaining students to bond with each other by opening up about their secrets. Despite Rockslide's vocal acceptance of his sexuality, Anole was outraged, though Loa stated that his classmates already knew. When discussing further story development of Anole's sexuality during their run on New X Men, Yost and Kyle stated that they had no plans to further cover the issue, emphasizing that Anole would be able to work out any issues he had regarding his sexuality or his lack of reconciliation with his former mentor Northstar by covering them off panel with teammate Rockslide. Anole would later confront a rehabilitated Northstar in the X Men: Divided We Stand vignette "Blend In," revealing that contrary to Jean Paul's assumptions, he experienced no difficulties being accepted as a mutant or gay from his family or residents of his hometown, and instead experienced posttraumatic stress disorder and a sense of being used and abandoned after his time with the X Men. In the vignette "Abomination" featured in X Men: Manifest Destiny, Anole and his Young X Men teammate Jonas Graymalkin have a talk where Graymalkin discusses his past and reveals that he too is gay and was a victim of a near fatal homophobic attack at the hands of his father. Anole reassures him that he will be all right and the two form a friendship. stating that, "[w]ith the small number of gay superheroes out there, camaraderie between gay characters is as rare as same sex couples." Though issue 8 was printed and issue 9 drawn, Marvel put a hold on releasing the issues due to the storyline's controversial nature.

In a dystopic future depicted in the final two issues of Young X Men, an adult Anole is one of only four remaining mutants on "Xaviera," a former mutant safe haven independent state and utopia. Both his arms are now super sized. He remains on a team of X Men with Graymalkin, Emma Frost (now calling herself "Diamondheart"), Wolverine, and an incapacitated and greatly aged Ink. Dust suddenly appears, now greatly changed in her appearance and persona with altered powers, and proceeds to confront and easily kill each member. Anole tries in vain to reason with her. Defeated, he asks her why she is doing this and she replies that mutants are a "plague upon the earth" and that she has become "the cure", before killing him with her powers.