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A bouncing bundle of blue and white, Johnny Gallo is a mutant wearing one of Spider-Man's cast-off costumes. With the Slingers, Excelsior, or Avengers Academy, his love of the spotlight often eclipses any real desire for heroism. But hey, we're here already, so today our Spotlight falls on... RICOCHET!

Encountering this powerful telepath convinced Charles Xavier that humanity needed protection from evil mutants. Corruption made flesh, he always returns to tempt new victims into supporting his bids for power. Can a Spotlight ever illuminate the darkness of... SHADOW KING!

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Spotlight update on... BANSHEE!

2025 is a big year, celebrating 25 years of UncannyXmen.Net and 50 years since Giant-Size X-Men #1 redefined the franchise. In tribute, we'll be working up to our anniversary in August with a Spotlight Update each month on one of the All-New, All-Different X-Men! Banshee hasn't had overly many appearances since we last touched base in 2017, but he's had a rough time. His recovery from the Apocalypse Seed was a slow process, and his body and trust were horribly abused by Moira MacTaggert in her conflict with Krakoa. Sean had a new purpose in life when he bonded with the Spirit of Variance as Vog Ignis, but this too was a manipulation at the hands of Mother Righteous. That symbiosis was un-written from reality through magic, leaving Banshee's next path unclear.

Spotlight On... RICOCHET!

Today we take a sharp look at Ricochet, formerly of the Slingers and the Avengers Academy! Earlier this year, blindfaith311 won our Unusual Suspects 4 contest, and Ricochet was his choice to receive a Spotlight! Congratulations again, blindfaith311! And hey... did everyone know that Ricochet is the 99th Spotlight for MightyAvengers.net? And, added together, MightyAvengers.net and UncannyXmen.net now have 499 Character Articles between them? It's true! So before Christmas arrives and our content for 2024 comes to a close, be on the look out for next week's monolithic article on the man in the red suit!

Spotlight On... the SHADOW KING!

Once considered Charles Xavier's greatest foe, the Shadow King has had a lasting impact on the X-Men and many of their members. He possessed Karma for months, tormented Storm as a child, and nearly killed his hated rival's son, Legion. A powerful telepath from the onset, Amahl Farouk later proved he was also supported by a malevolent force independent of his own abilities. Farouk found some measure of peace on Krakoa, after centuries of being twisted to the Shadow King's ends, but that lingering fount of pure evil can never be truly destroyed, and will inevitably return through one host vessel or another. (We have reached #498. But what happens next..?)

Update On... MIKHAIL RASPUTIN!

Our final update this week is Mikhail Rasputin, who we last saw consigning himself to a void dimension, never to return. Well...he returned. Too proud to serve in Krakoa as a lesser figure to his more prominent younger siblings, Mikhail instead forged a rival mutant power within Russia. He made pacts with the anti-mutant geneticists in Xeno and turned his own brother Colossus into a Manchurian Candidate sleeper agent inside Krakoa. Still, he overreached and was eventually brought down by Piotr and X-Force. We last saw Mikhail dying of his wounds and consigned to a void dimension never to return, but...those are familiar notes for the grand conductor of space and matter.

Update On... MAVERICK

This week, we're bringing you a pair of Spotlight Updates before turkey time! When we last saw Maverick, he was depressed and depowered after the one-two punch of the Weapon X Program and the Decimation. With the Age of Krakoa, Maverick rediscovered his roots as a mercenary and thrilled at being his own boss. His "Mercs" were often at odds with Krakoa, for the mutant nation-state was now in the 1% and plenty of opportunities for profit targeted the opulent country. Still, North and Logan remained brothers-at-arms, and Maverick quietly wished he could one day draw Wolverine away from his new loyalties and return to their roots as soldiers-for-hire.

Profile On... SLAYBACK!

One of Wade Wilson's earliest foes, Slayback was designed as a dark mirror to Deadpool. As a mercenary with no scruples and a love for killing, Terraerton made the merc with a mouth look heroic by comparison, beginning Wilson's long trek towards becoming a true protagonist in the Marvel Universe. Today's Profile covers the short but vicious history of one of the Weapon X Program's most gruesome graduates. (Oh, look at that...#497.)