Forge

Origin

Forge loves his BFGs

Years later, Forge had created  cybernetic replacements for his lost limbs. When  Tony Stark stopped making advanced weaponry for the  Federal government, Forge was hired as an employee of the  Defense Department. One of his earliest commissions was to design a weapon to detect the shape-shifting aliens, known as the  Dire Wraiths. Subsequently, Forge constructed a device capable of neutralizing mutant powers. Following orders from the  President,  Henry Peter Gyrich, an agent of the  National Security Council, took the device. Forge protested because the device was untested and it was extremely dangerous to use. The device was to be used against a member of the  X-Men, named  Rogue, who was wanted for allegedly killing a  S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. However, the device instead removed the powers of her teammate, Storm.

Forge rescued Storm, after she fell into a river. Forge brought her back to his home, in  Dallas, Texas. During her stay, Storm began to have a romantic connection with Forge. Yet, Storm began to hold Forge in contempt, when she found out he was the reason she lost her abilities. Storm left and rejoined the X-Men. Storm later returned to Forge, to help him fight the Dire Wraiths. The Dire Wraiths resurfaced to prevent Forge from perfecting his neutralizer and they were defeated by the combined forces of the X-Men,  Magik and  Amanda Sefton.

Forge later improved his Neutralizer, against the Wraiths. Yet, he became hesitant to design more devices like it because of what happened with Storm. With the help of the Wraiths' enemy,  Rom the Spaceknight, Forge was able to create a large scale version of the neutralizer in Earth's orbit. Rom and Forge used the device on the Wraith's home-world, casting the entire race into the other-dimensional  Limbo.

After saving the world, Forge destroyed all remaining Neutralizers and focused on ridding the Earth of the Adversary once and for all. The Adversary had other plans though and in the shape of Naze convinced Storm that Forge had gone insane with grief after she left and was planning to open a gate to hell. Storm tried to kill Forge, but the moment she stabbed him she saw that he was sane and that she had been tricked. The Adversary banished Storm and Forge to another dimension, devoid of human life. Storm and Forge spent an unknown amount of time there, rekindling their romance. Finally they decided to return to Earth to stop the Adversary. Forge restored Storm's abilities and used her abilities to power a gate back home.

Forge and Storm arrived on Earth and joined the X-Men in their battle with the Adversary. In the X-Men's final battle with the Adversary, Forge was required to  sacrifice nine willing lives to banish the Adversary forever; eight X-Men and  Madelyne Pryor volunteered and died in the casting of Forge's  spell. However, the  goddess  Roma intervened and secretly restored the X-Men to life. Seeing Forge responsible for the death of her brother, Forge battled  Magikusing his knowledge of Native-American sorcery. Feeling guilty over his involvement, Forge allowed Magik to stab him with her  Soulsword in the hopes it would kill him. Instead its effects caused both mutants to come to terms with their shortcomings.

Forge, unaware of their resurrection, found himself fighting alongside  Mystique's  Freedom Force and an interim team of "X-Men" against the  Reavers at Muir Island. He was essential in winning the battle, having used his mutant skills to create a rifle that deactivated the cyborg enemy 'Skullbuster' and forced the rest of the Reavers to retreat. During this battle,  Destiny was killed, but not before  foreseeing that Forge and Mystique would one day love one another, a fact that both parties found implausible. Afterwards, Mystique blamed him for Destiny's death.

Banshee approached Forge, hunting for leads about the whereabouts of the X-Men. Forge was convinced by visions that all the X-Men were still alive. During this time, his days as a soldier in the Vietnam War were depicted. The two of them traveled all over the world looking for their missing friends. Forge and Banshee eventually found the X-Men and became full time members. They fought against several threats, such as  Genoshan soldiers,  Skrulls and the Shadow King. The fight against the Skrulls was Forge's first trip into outer space. Forge's skills were critical in defeating  Cameron Hodge and overthrowing the Genoshan government. His plans were kept deep inside his own mind by a self-induced trance that even the forced removal of his false limbs did not break.

Forge later became a member of the  X-Mansion's "support team". He was responsible for redesigning the  Danger Room and the  Blackbird jet.

With the arrival of  Bishop and Storm's constant involvement with the team, Forge and Storm's relationship became rocky. Forge came to eventually leave the X-Men, when he believed that Storm would've rejected his proposal of marriage. Ironically, she would have said yes. The pair continued to have an on-again-off-again relationship, until it ended for good. Forge went back home to Dallas to become a government contractor again and to help with the mental care of Emma Frost. During her stay, Forge and Emma Frost grew closer and had an affair.

Forge

When the team began to experience personal problems, Forge took a more active involvement in the team. In this context, he saw the mutant criminals Mystique and  Sabretooth forced unwillingly onto the team.

During this time former X-Factor member  Strong Guy awoke from a coma due to over-stress on his heart. Forge created a device which saved his life.

Forge helped the team go underground after they were tricked into hunting and battling  Multiple Man, an old friend.

Forge also came to terms with his heritage when the Adversary returned. Forge and Naze were able to defeat him. Forge and Mystique became more attracted to one another and fell in love. This did not prevent Mystique from escaping. X-Factor was later disbanded and Forge was no longer active in any mutant groups.

Forge later took part in Xavier's Underground movement. He worked with a former X-Factor member,  Multiple Man, in Genosha. Later, Forge returned to the X-Men and became a mentor to  Danielle Moonstar, for a brief stint.

Forge Reunited with Mystique

Charles Xavier asked him for help in locating Mystique whom he needed for a clandestine mission. Forge also helped  Cannonball and  Siryn find Cable with the aid of  Deadpool and built a pair of special gauntlets for New X-Men team member  Surge; afterward, he returned to his lab to build a  Nimrod unit with the primary objective of protecting mutants and secondary objective of protecting humans. He then encountered a time-traveling Nimrod suffering from severe damage, demanding that Forge fix him; this version of Nimrod came from an alternate future, and had compelled an alternate version of Forge (married to Storm, with two children) to build a device to allow it to travel to the past. The alternate Forge had seemingly complied, but actually built a device to send Nimrod not only back in time, but also to another timeline, and to disable him upon arrival. Nimrod threatened to harm this reality's Storm, and Forge offered to transfer Nimrod into his own version of the Sentinel, which Nimrod agreed to. The transfer was interrupted by the arrival of Surge and the rest of the New X-Men, who had received Forge's distress call through Surge's own gauntlets; in the ensuing battle, Forge helped them defeat Nimrod.

After Forge sends Madrox and Layla to the future, he goes on a mission at Cyclops' behest to rendezvous with the other X-Men, who are on their way to confront Sinister's forces. He is shot by a seemingly treacherous Bishop. He is then seen in the recovery room along with other injured X-Men.

Forge has not been the same since Bishop attacked him during his mad quest to murder the first mutant child following M-Day. Forge suffered an array of injuries including serious head trauma. Bishop stole several time travel devices that Forge was reverse engineering. Throughout his recovery, Forge has been obsessed with recreating his notes and research on these devices. Fixated to an unhealthy degree on this project, Forge shuts himself off in his home at Eagle Plaza to devote all his time to this work. But before he begins, he enhances his home’s defense systems to ensure that he never falls victim to such an attack again.

At a comic convention some years ago, Marvel announced plans in the works to publish a Forge miniseries written by critically acclaimed Native American author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie.  Unfortunately, this deal would seem to have fallen through as years have passed with no further word on the subject. 

Powers and Abilities

Forge is a mutant with a superhuman talent for inventing mechanical devices.  Forge's mutant talent for inventing mechanical devices appears to function via perception and subconscious thought.  He can perceive, or "see", mechanical energy with his eyes to understand the capabilities of any device, while his subconscious mind determines the theoretical principles behind it and the steps necessary to create it.  It has been shown that forge must only think of machine, or even a function able to be performed by a machine, in order for his brain to devise the process to construct it.  Forge once told Mystique that thinking of perpetual motion machines gives him insomnia.  He can invent, disassemble, are recreate machine with ease. He also has vast knowledge over scientific and technological fields.

Forge has also been trained in the mystic arts of the Cheyenne shaman, though he prefers to employ technology over magic.

Alternate Realities

Earth-2149: Marvel Zombies

In the Marvel Zombies Forge sought refuge on Asteroid M with Magneto's Acolytes, and helped develop prosthetic limbs for the Black Panther and a mechanical body for the severed zombie head of Wasp.  He survived 40 years into the future by which point he also supplied a robot body for the disembodied Hawkeye zombie head and patched up the reformed zombies Spider-Man and Luke Cage.   
     

 

He was also a member of Black Panther's royal family as his daughter had married Black Panther's late son, who bore a son.  Therefore, Forge was presumably just as much a grandfather to that boy as the Black Panther, but the boy pays no heed to this; doting on Black Panther while never referring to Forge as grandfather. 
 
Forge is instrumental in repelling the zombie assault in 'Marvel Zombies 2' as he, with Reynolds, designed the force field that keeps the bad zombies out, and he had also over the past 40 years raided Tony Stark and Reed Richards' labs for useful tech to use for defense such as old Iron Man armors.

 
Earth-295: Age of Apocalypse

In the Age of Apocalypse, he is a member of Magneto's X-Men. He left to create a team called the Outcast, a group who is against Apocalypse's rule but are disguised as a traveling circus. The group is composed of Sauron, Toad, Mastermind and Siryn (named Sonique in this universe). He also taught X-Man to fight without using his powers. When the group is attacked by Domino, Caliban, and Grizzly, Forge was killed by Mr. Sinister. 

Ultimate Forge

Earth-1610

In the Ultimate Universe, Forge is with the Brotherhood of Mutants being led by Magneto. He joined the group because he was promised to be given Canada. When Magneto ask Forge to create a machine that will kill all humans, Forge thought that they only want to terrorize the humans. When Mystique got him out of prison, they plan to free the prisoners in the Triskelion, the Ultimates' base of operations and super villain prison.

 
Earth-15104

In this reality, a British mutant named Smith has taken the name of Forge. They have same powers and are physical resemblances.

 
Earth-58163: House of M

In the House of M reality, Forge is a scientist working for Tony Stark, and one of the first to know that he is Iron Man. He use his technical skill to searched for the Gene Bomb with Jarvis where Tony and Johnny Storm was looking all over the city before it kills all the mutants in the said vicinity.

 
Earth-9200

In this reality, the Maestro have said that Forge created a weapon that is specifically used to kill the Maestro. Unfortunately, the Maestro killed before he could use it. The Hulk used this weapon to kill the Maestro, it was made by Earth-616 Forge.

 
Earth-1298

In the Mutant X reality, Forge was deemed a traitor to all mutants. As punishment, Bloodstorm use as food to feed on. Forge stated that he deserved his punishment.   
 

X-Men: Misfits

In the re-imagined manga version of the X-Men, Forge was a student at Xavier's Academy.  His real name was Matt Jenkins, and he was a member of the Hellfire Club; a group of elite students who often used and abused the capabilities of the Danger Room.  As a member of the Hellfire Club, Forge would announce Angel's arrival to the rest of the student body.  He soon became a close brotherl-like friend to Kitty Pryde, and continued to demonstrate his mutant ability of inventions as he boasted that he helped perfect the Danger Room. Although he does appear to have darkly tanned skin & black hair, it is unclear whether he was still of Native American descent.  Unlike most other versions of Forge, he does not have any cybernetic limbs or body parts.

Film & Television

X-Men Animated Series

X-Men: The Animated Series

When Iceman thought that Polaris had been kidnapped the X-Men attempted to imprison him to prevent him from beavhing irrationally.  Jubilee helped Iceman to escape and hunt down his lost love, which lead them to X-Factor.  The X-Men trailed them, which led to a fight with the X-factor.  As the two teams fought, Forge appeared to clarify the issues.  He stated that X-Factor the local government team of mutants.  As the tension also went down, he introduced his team to the X-Men including Quicklsilver, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane and the young romantic couple of Polaris & Havok.  
 
Forge also existed in Bishop's future timeline where he had invented the time machine that transported Bishop back to the X-Men's present day.  He worked closely with Wolverine and survived a Nimrod attack.  As an older man his hair had grown white at the temples, much like Reed Richards.

X-men Evolution

X-Men: Evolution

Wolverine and the X Men

When Wolverine re-assembled the X-Men, Forge became the resident gadget guy.  He repaired Cerebro and the Danger room after the institute was destroyed.  He also created a new version of the Black Bird which was destroyed forcing him to rebuild it again.  He did not usually go on missions due to his lack of experience in the field.  However, he was always keen to prove himself and aid the X-men.  On one of the few occasions he went on a mission, he accompanied Kitty Pryde & Wolverine and hacked into the Mastermold IT system.  However, when Kitty tried to hide him, she dumped him in the back of an MRD truck and therefore was forced to rescue him later on.   
 
He was very protective over his work and warned Wolverine to be careful with it.  When the X-men went to find Storm, Forge appeared to warn them, possibly out of an emotional attachment to Storm.  Forge also invented a collar that could temporarily de-power mutants.  The collar was used successfully to calm Magma as she was being chased through the streets by the MRD, and it later became the target of Dr Kavita who hired Gambit to steal it.  
 

X-Men The Last: Stand Novelization 

He is mentioned here as the inventor of Mystique's mobile prison, which holds her, Juggernaut and Multiple Man.     

Video Games

X-Men 2 : Mutant Academy

Here Forge is a playable character. 
 

X-Men Next Dimension

Forge again is a prominent playable character here.

 
X-Men Legends

X-Men Legends 2 : Rise Of Apocalypse