Origin

Quentin Quire joined the student body of the Xavier Institute after Professor X's return from averting a war with Genosha and the rebuilding of the X-Mansion. He immediately stood out as a brilliant intellect and quickly became Xavier's prize pupil, though the extent and type of his mutant abilities were never clearly defined.

He was a prized student and protege of Jean Grey herself.

Quentin kept a piece of newspaper with him from the day he was born. It was the cover of an issue of the Daily Bugle which was put out at a time when mutants had just begun to be noticed in society. The main artwork on the page was a picture of a mutant with a whip that had rather distinctive clothing and hairstyle. The image represented the fear that humans felt towards mutants at the time.

As is sometimes the case with extremely bright, promising youth, Quentin was not socially adept, and resented it. He had feelings for the Stepford Cuckoos Sophie, but the Cukoos found him to be disturbing. He only had one classmate that he would hang out with, Glob Herman, which didn't help his social status. He found one of his tormentors, Slick, to be particularly irritating because Slick's ultra-cool image was a charade generated by his power to generate illusions.

Riot at Xavier's

Quentin began to fall into a downward spiral around the time of the death of famed mutant fashion designer Jumbo Carnation. He had recently received a phone call from his mother informing him that he was actually adopted. This news brought up questions about his very identity. Quentin lashed out at Slick one of his main tormentors, revealing Slick's true appearance in front of the student body, in particular his girlfriend Longstrike. Quentin began to use the mutant enhancing drug Kick, and his brain began to work overtime burning sugar as fuel. He visited the site of Jumbo's murder and decided to get his hair cut in the same manner as the mutant in the artist's depiction on his newspaper cover. He returned to the mansion also wearing clothing designed by the late Jumbo Carnation. With the X-Mansion's public open house coming up Quentin wished to make a confrontational statement about how far mutants have come by embracing stereotypical images generated by fearful humans. With his identity coming into question, Quentin had attached himself to Jumbo's death. Quentin's brian function had also increased dramatically. As Emma Frost put it, Quentin's brain was processing over 10,000 brilliant ideas per second.

Quentin would have a public confrontation with Professor Xavier during their telepathy class. He openly challenged Xavier's ideals of tolerance in favor of a much more radical view of human mutant relations, desiring not to live in a world side-by-side with Jumbo's human killers. This display impressed several other students who began to follow Quentin's line of thinking. With Glob Herman still by his side fellow students Tattoo, Phaser, and Skybolt adopted the same clothing as Quentin forming the Omega Gang. Now all five were abusing Kick, and ventured outside of the mansion that night. In a back-alley they found a group of humans who they savagely beat, killing some.

Xavier and the rest of the school faculty knew that Quentin was becoming dangerous, subtly influencing those around him with his telepathy, but they were unable to come to agreement on how to resolve the situation. Quentin led the Omega Gang in a raid of a U-Men hide-out, killing all they found inside. When the group returned to the mansion they ambushed Xavier in his office, knocking him out with a baseball bat. The following day was to be the day of the open house.

When Xavier became conscious again he was wearing a mask similar in design to the helmet Magneto wore. As Magneto's helmet disallowed telepathy from getting into his brain, this helmet prevented Xavier's telepathy from reaching anyone else. As the open house was beginning Quentin announced that they were holding Xavier hostage and began a riot at the school. Quentin influenced the student population of the school into demonstrating which evolved into a full fledged riot when the X-Men approached to calm the situation. In order to stop Quentin, Sophie took a does of Kick and using the power of Cerebro the five Cuckoos enhanced their already great power level to take down Quentin. Quentin was left beaten and humbled, and the strain of the incident had killed Sophie.

Quentin was taken into Beast's lab. Quentin's neurons were continuing to accelerate the rate at which they were firing until, one-by-one, they were turning into faster-than-light energy and disappearing. Beast could only hypothesize that the stimulation by Kick had triggered a secondary mutation within Quentin. Xorn was brought in to heal him, but what was happening could not be stopped. Xorn helped ease Quentin into a different state of being, killing his body.

Phoenix: Endsong

His body was destroyed, and his mind was kept in a semi conscious form in beasts lab, where it was eventually brought back to full Consciousness and then given a body by the phoenix force returning to earth.

He then attempted to resurrect his lost love Sophie (previously mentioned) but was unable to complete the process with the help of the phoenix she was returned to life but ultimately she hated him for it and destroyed herself once more.

In the sequel, Phoenix: Warsong, Kid Omega appears in his human form again and it is rumoured that the Stepford Cuckoos are responsible.

Characteristics

Gender--Male

Height--5' 8"

Weight--129 lbs (59 kg)

Eyes--Brown

Hair--Brown

Unusual Features--Currently disembodied

Powers

Quentin Quire is an Omega level mutant

Telepathy

Mass Manipulation

Telepathic Cloak

Mind Control

Telepathic Illusions

Mental Paralysis

Mental Amnesia

Psionic Blasts

Astral Projection

Telekinesis

Psychic Intelligence

Phoenix Force Tap

Alternate Realities

Earth-15104

In the Here Comes Tomorrow storyline, Quentin lives in the extra-dimensional White Hot Room with other past hosts to the Phoenix as the Green Phoenix. He guides Jean Grey and helps her fix this timeline, despite the fact that he would have just killed it.

Earth-91172

On Earth-91172, a world ravaged by the Hulk, Quentin is the leader of the Next Wave of Heroes - the last heroes of earth. The members are Patriot, Wiccan, Lightspeed, Speedball and Sophie, Mindee and Esme Cuckoo. He is in a relationship with Sophie.

The Exiles were supposed to come and save this reality, but never showed up, so Quentin traveled to different realities to search for them. This ended with him leading a new group of Exiles consisting of himself, Wild Child, Spitfire, Power Fist and Nighthawk. Their first mission will be to save Earth-91172.

Movie Appearances

In the Movie X-Men:The Last Stand, Kid Omega is manifested by Ken Leung. Though his powers completely differ, as does his appearance from the comic version, they still kept the name. He seems to more represent the New X-Men character Quill. The makers of the movie have confirmed that the character indeed is supposed to be Quill, and he just got the wrong name.