Broo

Origin

Broo like any other ordinary Brood was given birth to by the Queen Mother in space, because he was born with kindness, an emotion that the majority of Brood are not born with his kin proposed that they kill him but the Queen Mother argued back as their species was dwindling allowing him to grow into an intelligent off-spring, it wasn't until shortly after his discovery that he was cut-off from the hive-mind leaving him free-willed to do his own thing, he is much like No-Name, Hulk's friend from the Warbound.

Creation

Broo was created by writer Christos Gage and artist Juan Bobillo and made his first ever appearance in Astonishing X-Men #40 in September 2011. He has been created as the second Brood alien in the whole of the Marvel Universe to not be part of the hive-mind. His name wasn't revealed till Wolverine & the X-Men #1.

Character Evolution

Broo started off as a normal independant Brood but has now been enrolled into the Jean Grey School For Higher Learning.

Major Story Arcs

Meanwhile

The X-Men find Broo

Whilst on a mission in space to eliminate the Brood, Abigail Brand mentions to the X-Men that there's a Brood that was left behind in the ship's laboratory. The other Brood had noticed its sense of compassion and abandoned it because it was an abomination to them. With the help of Abigail Brand's temporary Brood abilities they managed to find Broo in a containment chamber. Broo asked if the X-Men had come to kill him. Storm assured him that they were going to take him home.

As the X-Men were about to leave a Brood Queen Mother attacks, releasing a poisonous gas which fast-tracks the Brood larvae that were already in them, leaving Kitty Pryde the only one unaffected. The Queen Mother then tries to stop them but Broo stops her by hitting one of her Brood henchmen rendering him unconscious. He then confronts the Queen Mother on her cruel act of keeping him alone and tells her that he is not one of them. However the Brood had the upper hand so Kitty, Broo and Lockheed began to run. The Queen Mother and the rest quickly gain in on them, however as they arrive, they are met only by Broo who tells them that Kitty and Lockheed didn't trust him and that they had already left and called for help. They quickly see through his lie just as Kitty and Lockheed return and the X-Men begin to regain their minds and the tide of the battle turns. The X-Men fight through the Brood but Colossus notices that one of the Brood Mothers has got hold of Broo, Storm quickly fights her off with a strike of lightning and defends Broo. He then notices that the strike of lightning released him from the Hive-Mind and a new way of living for Broo had come underway.

As the battle waged on the Brood realized that their Queens were dead and they quickly retreated. Later, Storm explains to Broo how he is never alone no matter what his doubts maybe, she also tells him of the new awakening Brood in the pods and that how he and the future Brood will be closer than ever, he still doubts the fact that they will never be like him, not having the Hive-Mind, but she assures him that if something wrong did happen, the X-Men would be more than happy to take him in.

Regenesis

Protected By Idie

Given the fall-out of Schism and Storm's assurance that he would be part of the X-Men, Broo enrolls in the Jean Grey School For Higher Learning. On the open day, Hellion and Glob Herman come across Broo and begin to tease him about his Brood origins, Wolverine and Kitty Pryde quickly come to his rescue and ease the situation, though Broo tells them that the occurence would not cloud his judgment of the school. Later on during the inspector's transformations into monsters with the added Frankenstein's monsters assault on the school, Broo joins the fight against them and during that time he meets Idie Okonkwo, the two quickly become friends and he falls head over heels for her. Later on, Broo and Idie while continuing the fight against the teachers-turned monsters and Frankenstein's men they meet an arrogant Quentin Quire followed by an excited Kid Gladiator who both provide good help against the teachers and the Frankenstein's men.

Reasoning With The Monsters

Later on, Quentin manages to find a way to get the assault under control by getting into the mind of the now alive school grounds. Even though the school had to go under more contruction due to the attack, they all went back to normal lesson schedule.

When headmistress Kitty Pride appeared to be pregnant with a kind of brood virus that Professor Xanto Starblood had created, it was revealed that Broo is an exceptional kind of brood who was born with kindness and for that this Professor must killed him. But when Kitty Pride defended him Broo went mad and attacked Xanto in Berserker state. Then he realized what he had done when he saw all the blood that was covering him. He must face his natural killer instinct and learn how to control it.

Mutatis Mutandis

Interesting

It's a new school term for the Broo and the other kids at the Jean Grey School For Higher Learning which also calls in for new students. As the students get settled in, Broo welcomes Genesis into the class as well as the school, at that, Kid Omega as usual, leaves a rude remark of which causes an argument between the two, as it usually does. Later on, Deathlok of Uncanny X-Force guest lectures with Kitty Pryde and tells a few students about their possible futures, Deathlok tells Broo that in the next few years there is a 22.3% that we will discover the cure for cancer and then adds that during the same time there is 34.7% chance that he will consume at least four of his classmater, Broo is intrigued, as well as shocked by the whole revelation.

The next day, Beast and a couple of the other students including Glob Herman took a trip into Toads human body as a science expedition, out of everyone there, Broo was mostly intrigued and asked for someone to take a picture of him near the nucletoides, during this same event, Kid Omega tried to flirt with Idie much to Broo's annoyance and quickly got involved in order to thwart the little plans that Quentin had, Broo still has strong feelings for Idie.

Later on, Kitty Pryde finds that her belly resembles that of a woman who is 8-9 months pregnant, Beast later sees that she isn't pregnant with a normal baby, but, that a swarm of brood have made a nest inside Kitty's belly and will soon kill her, this left Kitty extremely ill while the other X-Men figured out a way to help her. With that going on, Husk sounded a school alert and ordered all the students to immediately head for the panic room to stay safe, amongst the trouble, Broo was hesitant to go, Idie then found him in the hallway on the ground, saying that he could hear "them" in his head.

As the battle for Kitty Pryde's health rages on, Broo is still in the hallway saying "No...But these are my friends...Please don't kill them". Unbeknownst to them, those weren't the only Broo running rampant, the school was then infiltrated by a Professor Xanto Starblood, a zoologist. While Kitty was on the hospital bed Broo when to go find her, much to her suprises, he then jumped on her belly and listened in on it to confirm that there were Brood inside her belly but those were not the ones he was looking for, all of a sudden rogue Brood storm into the hospital room and the duo try to make their escape as they rogue Brood attack them, Kitty then realises that this was putting Broo in danger, so she takes matters into her own hands, uses the controls of the Danger Room and places Broo inside a shield even though he tries to fight his way through it, she then attempts to go up against Xanto but then falls unconcious and he clearly states that she wasn't his target, Broo was, Broo is then not aware of Xanto's presence so then he calls out to Kitty and get's no reply, out of no where, Xanto apprehends him.

With Broo now in his clutches, Xanto then attempts to kill him but Broo stalls by asking him why he does, Xanto then explains that Broo's kind nature is a Universally known fact and that by Broo not coming into the normal tradition of a usual Broo he is singlehandedly distrupting the world order Broo then states that he was not planning on doing so, then, Kitty gains consciousness again and with the help of the Bamfs she teleports over to Broo, the Bamfs then help Broo and teleport Xanto out of the school, even Krakoa helps out but even with all that, Xanto still manages to come back in as his prime objective is to kill Broo, Kitty then tells Broo to go to the panic room but he insists that he is not leaving without her, Xanto punches Kitty out of the way which enrages Broo to great extents, in anger, he jumps onto Xanto and and starts tearing and biting on his mouth with his teeth, while doing so shouts out "DIE DIE DIE ! KILL YOU ! EAT YOU !" while this was happening, the other X-Men were vomitted out of Kitty's system, Beast called out to Broo and took him way from beating up Xanto in his berserker rage.

Broo coming back to his senses quickly questions how and why he was covered in blood, while Xanto was heading into Abigail Brand's ship, she asks if the whole stunt was worth it, he says yes in that the rumour about Broo appeared to be false, even though he was more eloquent then his untamed brethren, deep down inside he was all Brood, hearing this Broo withdrew himself away from everyone, looking at his blood stained Doctors Robe.

Powers

Broo has the same abilities as any other ordinary Brood, though a more obvious trait would be his uncanny degree of intellect.