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Braddock, Jamie


Full Name: James Braddock, Jr.
Affiliation: None
Status: Comatose on Muir Island
Codename Etymology: Pronounced brăd'dŏk, jā'mē [From Old English brad docke "broad dock"], [From Scottish form JAMES, English, form of the Hebrew Ya'aqob: "holder of the heel"];
Relatives: Sir James, Sr. (father, deceased), Elizabeth (mother, deceased), Brian (Captain Britain, brother), Elisabeth (Psylocke, sister)
Powers: Jamie percieves reality in terms of strings that he can manipulate, pulling, tying, knotting and tearing to bend physical reality to his will. While his sibling manifested their powers earlier in life, Jamie did not appear to be a mutant until his late twenties / early thirties. He was a champion race car driver, but made some bad bets on himself and was forced to raid medical supplies in Africa. One of his jobs turned violent, and another was botched, with Jamie ending up running a slaver operation and killing Red Cross workers.

In an effort to lure Captain Britain out of the country, the Mastermind computer had Jamie captured by Joshua N'Dingi, AKA Doc Croc a former RCX employee who had returned to his home nation to rule in his father's place. Jamie called his brother, and Captain Britain went to save him. N'Dingi battled Brian, thinking that he was involved, but soon he realized Captain Britain's innocence. Brian left Jamie to rot in N'Dingi's compound.

Doc Croc tortured Jamie, and under the stress of the pain his mutant powers flared, allowing Jamie to free himself, but leaving him more than a little insane. He was returned to England by the Technet, who were hired by Nigel Frobisher, a puppet of the evil Sat-Yr-9, an old foe of Captain Britain.

Back in England, Jamie's now-active Otherworld genes responded to the increase in power and he was virtually unstoppable, though he was incoherent until Scatterbrain tried to drain his mental energy and he backfired her power onto her. Jamie became more lucid, though he thought he was just dreaming, which made him all the more dangerous. However, though he attacked some of the Technet before, now he paid them and only transformed Doc Croc into a baby cyborg crocodile. Before agreeing to a partnership with Sat-Yr-9, he also manipulated Nigel Frobisher's body, turning him into the female criminal the Vixen, and turning Vixen herself into a female fox.

While Excalibur was traveling between dimensions trying to find a way home, Jamie somehow tapped into or perhaps even created an alternate reality version of himself and fought his brother's team, taking control of Meggan, and then of Brian. Phoenix III managed to free Meggan from his control, and together they transformed into the various X-Men to fight Jamie. Jamie, however, could not be killed, since he was not real, but was instead a projection of the Jamie from our world, who was playing with X-Men dolls dressed as Meggan, thinking it was just a game. However, our Jamie could be hurt by Meggan in the alternate timeline, as evidenced by the scorched back he received when Meggan/Havok burned a hole through his doppelganger. Jamie was eventually shut down by Shadowcat, who had returned to Earth via Widget's portal. Kitty made the link between what she had experienced in the alternate reality and Jamie and his toys, and acting as an irate babysitter, she scolded Jamie and sent him to bed, then destroyed the toys.

Months later, in the final showdown between Sat-Yr-9 and Excalibur, Jamie killed Alysande Stuart, head of the Weird Happenings Organization, and was playing with the entire team, warping their bodies into horrific shapes, still believing it was all a dream He was finally stopped by Meggan, whose powers allowed her to resist his reality-warping once the tranqulizers wore off. Jamie was then shocked by Psylocke's psychic knife, but was taken away by Sat-Yr-9's army. Somehow, Jamie ended up on Muir Island in a coma. After Captain Britain returned from being lost in the timestream, he and Betsy went into Jamie's mind to try and "cure" him of his coma and of his evil ways, because Brian had seen a future in which he and Jamie fought side-by-side to defend England. While the twins managed to get Jamie's memories to paint a better picture of his childhood, one in which he joined them at play, he did not wake up.

Recently, however, Marvel Girl III (formerly Phoenix III) saw two visions of Jamie, one (with the then-deceased Psylocke at his side) while fighting the Fury, and again among the ruins of Braddock Manor, which immediately returned to appearing to be in perfect condition. Jamie's connection to the Fury, and to the recent resurrection of Psylocke, remains to be seen. Jamie has also appeared to Betsy, and seems to have saved her and Rachel from the Scarlet Witch's reality warp in order to have them return the world to normal. However, his powers were limited and Rachel and Betsy became embroiled in the reality warp, though they maintained some memory of the true reality and were able to repair a rip in the space-time continuum centered in England.

After M-Day, Jamie re-appeared on the Mansion grounds, along with the Watcher, and revealed that he had resurrected Psylocke and "tweaked her strings" making them denser and harder, so that she would be psychically invulnerable and immune to possession. He also told a story of the Foursaken, compatriots of his who had seemingly died on a difficult desert race, but who were mutants like him and had survived to pledge themselves to the First Forsaken, a kind of anti-Phoenix Force. When the X-Men and Jamie were taken to the First Forsaken's planet, Jamie refused to join his former friends, and eventually Psylocke figured out the trap and attacked the evil entity. Though Jamie's plan came to fruition as Psylocke held open a portal back to Earth, he refused to let Betsy sacrifice herself and pushed her home, apparently trapping himself on that other world or plane of reality.
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