Cerebra's Files: Age of Apocalypse
Cannonball
Real Name: Samuel [Zebulon] GuthrieAffiliation: Elite Mutant Forces
Relatives: [Zebulon (father, presumed deceased), Lucinda (mother, presumed deceased)],Elizabeth (Amazon, sister, deceased), Paige (Husk, sister, deceased), Joshua (“Jay”, brother, deceased), Human siblings (deceased)
Status: Deceased (Magneto)
Alternate-X Versions: (616), (Mutant X), (Ultimate), Evolution), (Last Avengers Story)
Codename Etymology: Pronounced kăn'ən-bôl [From Old Italian, cannone: "tube" + Middle English: bal]; A projectile fired from a cannon.
Powers & History: Cannonball had the ability to create an impervious thermochemical blast field around his body and use it for propulsion.
Samuel Guthrie was found in the mountains of Kentucky by Sinister. Sam and his younger mutant siblings were asked by Sinister to join Apocalypse’s forces. Sam accepted this offer and became a guard in Apocalypse’s pens alongside his sister Elizabeth (Amazon). Taking the name Cannonball, Sam quickly became a ruthless oppressor in the pens and served Prelate Alex Summers loyally. When Alex discovered his brother Scott was helping prisoners escape the pens, Cannonball gladly assisted in capturing him. Alex then took Scott’s position and rewarded Cannonball by promoting him to a Prelate.
When Scott and Jean Grey broke free of Dark Beast’s restraints and tried to free the pens, Cannonball and Amazon tried to stop them. Unfortunately, they were defeated by the Bedlam Brothers (Jesse and Terry Aaronson), two prelates loyal to Scott.
After the fall of Apocalypse, Sam went looking for his sister Paige who did not accept Sinister’s offer and instead chose to fight alongside Magneto. Sam and Elizabeth learned that Paige participated in an assault on the Core and never returned. The two went there and miraculously found Paige alive. The three then reunited with another surviving Guthrie sibling, Joshua and the four decided to get revenge on Magneto. They failed in this attempt and Cannonball was crushed to death by the master of magnetism.
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