Cerebra's Files

Quentin often hung out with "Glob" Herman, and had a crush on Sophie, one of the Stepford Cuckoos. However, something about Quire disturbed the Cuckoos, though Emma Frost dismissed it as academic rivalry. While a student at Xavier's, Quire invented the anti-gravity floats for Martha Johanssen's brain canister, and exposed the charisma-powered Slick's true, ugly body to the other students. On his birthday, Quentin received a call from his parents, who told him he was adopted. This seemed to destabilize him and he went to town, getting a haircut reminiscent of Bolivar Trask's depiction of a mutant overlord, from a newspaper that was published the day Quire was born. Quire also seemed to hop on the bandwagon calling for vengeance for the recently murdered mutant designer Jumbo Carnation, and took to wearing clothing based on the Trask-mutant overlord, which happened to be one of Jumbo's creations. He also debated with Professor X about the merits of the school's policies, wondering if Xavier would allow any dream other than his own to exist.

Shortly afterwards, Quire and a group of like-minded students went into town wearing the Trask-overlord clothes, and Quire got high on the mutant drug Kick. They accosted a gang of humans in an alley and killed or maimed them all. Later back at the school, Xavier confronted the students about it, but Quire was not specifically implicated, though he did debate Xavier's outlawing of trendy clothes at the school.

Afterwards, Quentin and his gang got their arms tattooed with an Omega symbol over an X, then busted up a U-Men gathering, feeling that the U-Men were too dangerous to leave alone. Returning to the school, the "Omega Gang" ambushed Professor X, knocking him out with a baseball bat and clamping his head in a thought-proofed helmet. The next day, the school's "Open Day" to parents and the media, Quire proclaimed to the public that it was "open season on humans" and started a riot.

Some of the students joined Quire in protesting Xaviers' policies, but most of the damage was done by the Omegas themselves, until they were subdued by Cyclops, Emma Frost and Xorn. However, with Quire still guarding Professor X, the situation threatened to continue until the Stepford Cuckoos, led by Sophie, used Cerebra and a dose of Kick to boost their shared powers. They blasted through to Quire's room and disdained his excuse of trying to please them, blowing him through the far wall with a telepathic shockwave.

Quire was taken to the Infirmary, where Beast tried to stabilize him, but his body was burning with energy, apparently from overdoses of Kick, which caused a secondary mutation that changed his brain into faster-than-light energy, apparently allowing him to have telepathic contact with everyone on the planet simultaneously. Seeing that Quire was terminal, Professor X called for Xorn, who opened his helmet to expose Quire to his mini-star-for-a-head, and Quire left the mortal plane.

However, Quire was not truly dead, and remained in a semi-alive energy form in a containment unit on Beast's lab table. A few months later, when the Phoenix Force returned to Earth, it sensed Quire and investigated him, thinking he might be Jean Grey. Though the Phoenix passed Quire up, it shocked him back to consciousness and he reconstituted his body. Furthermore, he sought out and re-animated Sophie's corpse, but was unable to complete the process, so he set off to find and merge with the Phoenix Force so he could be with his love.

Quire found the Phoenix, which had resurrected Jean Grey to attract Cyclops's attention, engaged in battle with the X-Men. Just prior to his arrival on the scene, the X-Men got the Phoenix to inhabit Emma Frost, Cyclops's current lover, and imprisoned both her and Scott inside a containment vessel. Quire arrived and broke the containment chamber open, releasing the Phoenix, which tried to bond with him. Using his increased power, Quire finished resurrecting Sophie, but she was still disgusted by him (and/or his actions) and chose to return to death. Quire broke down in anguish, and released the Phoenix. Having spent too much of his energy, Quire apologized to the X-Men for his rash behavior and returned to his non-corporeal state. He remains in the beaker in Beast's lab.

Quentin was a top student at the New Mutant Learning Institute, though his grades ranked second to Prodigy III's. He was roommates with Tag, but had few other friends due to his personality. After terrorists attacked the Institute, Quentin sensed something strange about Wallflower, and she used her pheromones to make his brain shut off to protect her cover as a S.H.I.E.L.D. secret agent. His corpse was found by Tag with a suicide note, though Tag refused to believe Quentin had killed himself.

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