Wipeout was an elderly member of the Press Gang, otherwise known as Magistrates, super-powered enforcers of the law on the island-nation of Genosha. Being elderly, he usually stays behind in Genosha to neutralize the prisoners brought to him by Pipeline. In one of his rare, few field missions, he managed to disrupt the living, sentient vehicle called Ship that X-Factor used for their headquarters. When an amnesiac Havok was brainwashed into serving as a Genoshan magistrate, the insane Cameron Hodge killed Wipeout to frame Havok, who was slowly remembering his true loyalties to the X-Men.

Powers: Wipeout was capable of removing a mutant's superhuman powers by creating a self-perpetuating energy "block" in their system that prevented bio-genetic power from properly traveling from their "X-factor" gene to the rest of their system. This power block lasted indefinitely and required no concentration to maintain  "wiped" mutants stayed powerless even after Wipeout fell asleep and after he was killed. He could mentally remove these blocks at will if he chose to. When he first try to use on a non-mutant it had the effect of disruption their power not totally remove, one his victim was the quasi-living alien Ship.