Solarr

Solarr is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Fictional character biography

Silas King was born in Carson City, Nevada. He was a latent Mutant who worked as a smuggler of illicit narcotics. On a drug run from New York City to Los Angeles, his van broke down in the Mojave Desert. Trying to make his way back to civilization, King spent several days out in the desert sun, which catalyzed his latent mutation. While recovering from sunstroke and dehydration in the hospital, he realized he could discharge the solar energy he had stored as heat blasts.

Calling himself Solarr, he began a criminal career in New York City by starting with bank robbery. This activity brought him into partnership with Klaw, and membership in the Emissaries of Evil led by Egghead.^[1]

Solarr later battled Daredevil and Spider-Man when he was hired to kill a more hitman. The duo defeated Solarr, though the hitman went insane.

He repeatedly met defeat, and was eventually captured and imprisoned at the Project Pegasus research center in New York State, where scientists studied his powers.

One of the other captives and subjects for study at Project Pegasus was Bres, a member of the other-dimensional Fomor. Bres began to use his powers to manipulate the staff at the facility, and caused a guard named Harry Winslow to die of heart failure. Bres also freed Solarr from his cell. Solarr hated Winslow, and when he found his corpse he incinerated it. Bres used his magic to animate the charred corpse, which killed Solarr. It was later revealed that Solarr was one of the possible targets of Scourge of the Underworld, until Scourge found out that Solarr was already dead.

Powers and abilities

Solarr was a Mutant with the ability to absorb, store, and manipulate large amounts of energy from light, especially direct sunlight.

In other media

Television

• Solarr appears in the X-Men episode "Secrets, Not Long Buried." This version's identity is of Bill Braddock. He appears as the leader of the mutant-supremacist group, Children of the Shadow, and ruler of the mutant and human cohabitation community called Skull Mesa founded by Taylor Prescott. He's aided by Toad and an original mutant character Chet (a mutant with phasing powers).

References

External links

• Solarr at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe