Mercury
Mercury is a comic book character that first appeared in New Mutants #2
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Former member of the Hellions training squad, Cessily Kicaid is a junior member of the X-Men, now living in San Fransisco. Cessily continually struggles to accept her mutant form.
History
Origin
Before her powers manifested, Cessily Kincaid was a high-school cheerleader. When her powers manifested at age sixteen, she and her parents were horrified at her mutant condition which seemed to have metalic skin covering her body. However, her powers went deeper than that, and had actually changed her entire physiology into a melleable liquid metal substance. Embarrassed by this, they kept her inside and out of public view before sending her to the Xavier Institutefor Higher Learning.
Hellions Squad
At the Institute, Cessily became part of the new Hellions Squad, mentored by Emma Frost. Ms Frost gave her squad the chance to chose their own codenames, and so Cesilly named herself Mercury. In the Hellions, Mercuru worked hard and made new friends. She developed a close sibling-like relationship with her squad leader Hellion. Her mutation meant that she wasn't made of flesh & bone, which made her immune to the 'death touch' of Wither. She quickly developed a crush on Wither, and confided in Hellion how she felt. At a time when Wither wanted to leave the New Mutants Squad, Hellion made an open invitation for Wither to join them. However, Wither enjoyed his new friends in the Hellions Squad, he remained infatuated with Wallflower , and Mercury's feelings were unrequited. Although she didn't push herself onto Wither, Mercury remained close to him and accompanied him to the school dance. Unfortunately, despite her efforts he confessed to Hellion that he still had feelings for Wallflower during the dance.
Loving Parents
During the summer break, the Hellions made an eventful journey to Hellion's home in California. They had already run into trouble with airport security because they didn't trust either Rockslide or Mercury, due to their noticably mutated physiologies. The situation was difused when hellion made a call to his family's lawyers, but this only served to enrage his parents. therefore the Hellions received a cold & bitter reception from Hellion's parents. This spurred them to search the house for any secrets with which to blackmail them. Instead they found a 'spell' to call the King Maker.
They collected the various herbs and performed the spell, which involved making a telephone call. When the call was answered they were asked for their names. After that the ceremony seemed to end with an anti-climax. However, the next day the King Maker arrived at the house and offered to grant any of their wishes.
Mercury's one wish was to be reunited with her parents who would love her. Sure enough, when she arrived home her mother offered to take her out shopping and her father introduced her to their neighbours. It was a dream come true for Mercury, and she enjoyed every moment with her loving parents.
However, she was so happy that they had accepted her that Mercury hadn't considered what had happened to make her parents change their minds. The King Maker asked the Hellions to help him secure a biological weapon. Yet when they discovered that they had been tricked into stealing the weapon, they broke their deal with the King Maker. Unfrotunately the ramifications of severing their deal meant that Mercury's parents became aware of what had been done to them. They had been hypnotised by low-level telepaths, and when the process had been reverse it made her parents fear & distrust Mercury even more.
M-Day
The students at the institute were devasted by the effects of M-Day. Many who were desperate to keep their mutant abilities found themselves without their powers. Meanwhile, both Wither and Mercury were disappointed to discover that they had kept their powers. She longed to be a normal girl & go home to parents who loved her.Since the student population had been radically decreased, the various Squads were disbanded. As a remaining student, she was forced to go into the Danger Room and enter into a Battle Royale with all the other trainees. The outcome of the fight resulted in a team of elite students who were branded the New X-Men. Mercury joined the majority of others from the Hellions & New Mutants in the new team of New X-Men.
Nimrod
After the Purifiers lost control of Nimrod it attacked Forge to force him to build it a new body. The New X-Men discovered what Nimrod was planning, and tried to alert the X-Men. However, Cyclops wouldn't listen to them and dismissed them as children. Frustrated, the New X-Men decided to take action themselves, stole the plane and flew out to Dallas.
Mercury was among the New X-Men who went to Texas. They attacked nimrod directly after it had assimilated a new body created by Forge. During the assault it caught Mercury's hands and X-23 was forced to use her Adamantium claws to slice them off. Initially frightened and shocked from being decapitated in battle, Mercury's powers allowed her to reform and grow a new pair of hands afterwards. She then played an important role in defeating Nimrod, as she used her lims to hold open a cavity in Nimro'd chest. The cavity exposed the Nimrod's time device and allowed Surge to overload it.
New Friendship
Battered and weary, the New X-Men returned to New York. However, Emma Frost had already begun making attempts to evict X-23 from the Institute. Mercury had at first pitied X-23 for being a social outcast who didn't know how to express her feelings towards Hellion. As such, Mercury made efforts to befriend X-23 and reassure her that she had a home at the Instititute. Soon after their return from Dallas, Mercury observed one of Emma Frost's attempts to remove X-23, and defended her new friend by verbally attacking her old mentor.Together Laura & Cessily went into town for coffee. Although there was a curfew placed on the student body, they still managed to sneak passed the Sentinel guards who were monitoring the 198. In town, away from prying eyes, they discussed X-23's obvious romantic feelings for Hellion. For Mercury it was a chance to feel like a nomal girl again, just as she had done when she was a cheerleader. She even made light-heartedly jokes about having her hands cut off in battle, telling X-23 that she was trying to lose a few pounds.
Mercury Falling
X-23's training alerted her to danger, but Mercury seemed oblivious. Aware that they were about to be attacked X-23 defended her new
X-23 was powerless to defend herself or Mercuty against Kimura. Defeated & desperate she returned to the Institute to collect herself and any resources she could get her hands on. Her behaviour started rumours, and when Hellion heard what was happening he insisted on joining X-23 as she searched for Mercury.
At the Facility, Mercury was held in a test-tube like cell that prevented her from escaping in a fluid-metal state. There, she was subjected to all kinds of torturous experiments that made her scream out and feint from the pain. When awake, she begged for her tormentors to let her go home. Instead, she was informed that they need her skin for the creatures that Weapon X had biological engineered. The creatures were created to order; designed to hunt down and kill mutants, on behalf of The Purifiers. While imprisoned, samples of Mercury's skin were successfully extracted and grafted onto three of the creatures. The collection of Predator X finally had a metallic skin that would be morphic and help heal any wound. It was likely that the process would have continued if it were not for the surprise attack by X-23 and Hellion. Freed by her team-mates Mercury then absorbed back her skin from two of the creatures, but one still managed to escape.
Upon their arrival back at the mansion, Mercury passionately hugged X-23. She emotionally lamented over how terrible X-23's childhood must have been for her to have grown into such a ferocious fighter.
Dust and Mercury VS BelascoQuest For Magik
Despite how she is usually determined, passionate and light-hearted, Mercury was traumatized by her experiences at The Facility. To make matters worse, she was then sucked into Limbo by Belasco. Mercury and Dust did their best to fight off the demon lord & sorcerer Belasco as he tortured and killed their friends searching for Illyana Rasputin. Fortunately for her, Mercury's powers grant her immunity to magic. Together, the New X-Men defeated Belasco and Illyana sent them all back.
Messiah Complex
During some much needed downtime at their home, Mercury went around the school questioning the students on how old they are in an attempt to find the youngest student. Unfortunately, the downtime didn't last long. During Messiah CompleX, she accompanied the New X-Men in their assault on the Purifier's base of operations: a church. After their assault she battled the final Predator X when it attempted to attack the students at the school. This fight ultimately led to her and the others participating in the final battle on Muir Island.
Infernus
Some time later, Cyclops selected Mercury for a mission to Limbo because she's had experience fighting there before, and has shown to be resistant to the magicks there. She went along with Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Rockslide, and Pixie. The mission is to save Illyana Rasputin and repair Pixie's damanged soul.
Powers
It has been stated that Mercury subconsciously keeps her hair the original orange-reddish color. This would seem to indicate that she can change color if she knew how. At the moment, it is as much of her original appearance that she has retained.
Being metallic, Mercury's main weakness is electricity. Large bursts of electric current can incapacitate her. Similarly extreme amounts of heat can also damage her, as seen when a high-powered laser burned and removed pieces of her skin.
Statistics
Citizenship: American
Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Adventurer, student
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 114 lbs
Eyes: Silver with no pupils
Hair: red
Unusual Features: Liquid metal body
Alternate Realities
Earth-58163
In the House of M reality Mercury was a member of New Mutants. She did not play a prominent role.
Other Media
Wolverine and the x-MenWolverine and the X Men
In Wolverine and the X-Men, Mercury is one of Magneto's Acolytes. She works as a Genoshan peacekeeper, yet also shares in Magneto's secret plans for the up-coming war between humans and mutants. She first appears as one of Magneto's Acolytes, fighting a violent mutant who rampages through Genosha and helps to trap and later calm him down. Later she is briefly seen breaking intothe MRD's mutant detainment centre with the aid of the other Acolytes in order to liberate powerful and destructive captive mutants.
| Super Name: | Mercury |
| Real Name: | Cessily Kincaid |
| Aliases: |
Cessily Kincaid Cess |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| Gender: | Female |
| Character Type: | Mutant |
| 1st Appearance: | New Mutants #2 |
| Appears in: | 97 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
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