Cosmo (Shi'ar Superguardian) (original) (raw)
Alerted by Arc, Cosmo followed Gladiator into the Mansion to stop the counterattack of Beast and Wolverine. The two duos confonted each other. After Gladiator announced that the bladed mutant was to "sterilized", Cosmo asked that Wolverine show courage in facing death. 
(New X-Men I#124 - BTS) - Wolverine and Beast fought back but were easily overpowered by Cosmo and Gladiator.
(New X-Men I#124) - With his heat vision, Gladiator attacked the ten-foot thick steel door that blocked entry to the School's vaults, where Phoenix, School mutants and reporters from the School's Open Day were hiding. Cosmo assisted by pulling back the softened metal. Cosmo, carrying Beast, and Gladiator, holding Wolverine, soon climbed through, dropping their beaten foes on the floor. Gladiator then challenged Phoenix, warning her of the mutants' imminent destruction. However, Cosmo stopped him once he saw Plutonia walk through the destroyed door holding the badly injured Smasher, who related the truth. Hearing Smasher's account, Gladiator halted the Superguardians' attack on the X-Men.
(New X-Men I#125) - Gladiator assembled the remaining Superguardians, including Smasher, Plutonia, Manta and Cosmo, against the threat of Cassandra Nova. Despite activating their mind armour, the five Superguardians fell quickly before Cassandra Nova, with Cosmo punching himself in the head.
(New X-Men I#126) - Cassandra Nova, nestled inside Professor X's body, walked past the defeated Superguardians to confront the X-Men. Cosmo was covering his ears in agony at this point.
(New X-Men I#133 - BTS) - Cosmo left Earth space along with the rest of Lilandra's Superguardians bound for Shi'ar space after the increasing and repeated manifestation of the Phoenix force in Jean Grey.
(Uncanny X-Men I#477 - BTS) - The Imperial Guard was dispatched to defeat Vulcan, who’d been destroying ships in Shi’ar space.
(Uncanny X-Men I#480) - The Guard finally defeated Vulcan (keeping him alive at the orders of K’tor) after a deadly battle which left some Guard members, including Cosmo, Impulse, Smasher, and Titan, seemingly slain. Scintilla was furious about Vulcan being allowed to live. Guard members in this mission: Astra, Cosmo, Electron, Gladiator, Hobgoblin, Impulse, Manta, Mentor, Neutron, Nightside, Oracle, Plutonia, Scintilla, Smasher, Starbolt, and Titan.
Although not actually named in the story, Grant Morrison revealed the character's name in an interview with X-Fan (thanks to www.uncannyxmen.net for this information; they also identify a similarity between Cosmo and an earlier Shi'ar superguardian, Neutron).
Clarifications:
Cosmo has no known connections to:
- Any other "Cosmo-" or "Cosmic" character.
images:
New X-Men I#123, p22-23 (flying)
New X-Men I#124, p20, pan1 (head profile)
New X-Men I#124, p18, pan4 (facing)
Uncanny X-Men I#480, p7, pan4 (frying)
Uncanny X-Men I#480, p9, pan1 (dead)
Appearances:
New X-Men I#123 (April, 2002) - Grant Morrison (writer), Ethan van Sciver with Tom Derenick (pencils), Townsend, Miki, Hanna, Florea (inks), Mark Powers (editor)
New X-Men I#124 (May, 2002) - Grant Morrison (writer), Igor Kordey (artist), Mark Powers (editor)
New X-Men I#125 (June, 2002) - Grant Morrison (writer), Igor Kordey (artist), Mark Powers (editor)
New X-Men I#126 (July, 2002) - Grant Morrison (writer), Frank Quitely (pencils), Mark Townsend (inks), Mark Powers (editor)
New X-Men I#133 (December, 2002) - Grant Morrison (writer), Ethan van Sciver (pencils), Norm Rapmund (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
Uncanny X-Men I#477 (October, 2006) - Ed Brubaker (writer), Clayton Henry (penciler), Mark Morales (inker), Mike Marts (editor)
Uncanny X-Men I#480 (January, 2007) - Ed Brubaker (writer), Clayton Henry (penciler), Mark Morales (inker), Mike Marts, Nick Lowe (editors)
Last updated: 09/26/13
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