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Spike and The Spike are the names of several fictional characters in Marvel Comics. Recent characters of this name have had similar powers to generate projectile spikes, possibly inspired by Spyke from X-Men: Evolution. more...

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The Spike is a character in the the X-Statix series from Marvel Comics. He first appeared in X-Force #121, and was created by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred. He is a mutant with superhuman powers. He should not be confused with Spike Freeman, another character in X-Statix/X-Force.

Spike is also the name of a similar character from New X-Men, and also appeared in the film X-Men: The Last Stand, albeit as a hulking villain with no apparent connection to the more commonly known character, aside from name and powers.

The Spike (X-Statix)

After watching video footage of the Spike in action, the senior members of X-Statix, except the Anarchist, voted to have him join the team. At the press conference to announce his membership, the Spike arrived calling the Anarchist racial names and the two instantly began butting heads. Eager to gain more media attention, Vivisector and Phat jumped into a fight with the Spike in “defense” of their teammate.

When U-Go Girl hosted the Larry King Show, she had the Spike show up as her first guest. This swiftly erupted once again into a battle between the Anarchist, Vivisector, Phat, and the Spike. In the middle of the battle, Lacuna traveled between seconds and removed everyone’s clothing. After announcing her candidacy in X-Statix, she returned their clothing and left.

During some downtime with the team, the Spike, along with the other members of X-Statix, were transported to a dimension residing inside Doop, where they each faced their worst fears. In Spike’s “torture realm,” the only thing Doop found was a book entitled “Spikey Cross-Dressing,” bearing the image of the Spike wearing a red dress and fishnets. After saving them and returning them to their Santa Monica HQ, Doop noticed that only a second had gone by and no one appeared to have any memory of ever leaving.

The Spike returned home from a mission with the rest of X-Statix, but they wound up in the ocean, due to U-Go Girl’s malfunctioning mutant power. She attempted to teleport them from the ocean, only to wind up in a forest. In the forest, the team signaled a plane and they hitched a ride by to California via Federal Express.

He was among the X-Statix members seen at a parade in their honor, after they successfully took out a Japanese terrorist sect. The mutant terrorist group the Brotherhood attacked X-Statix, calling them “mutant sellouts,” due to their popularity and media attention. As the Brotherhood attacked, the Spike joined his teammates into jumping into action. The Spike aided the Orphan in killing one of the Brotherhood members by impaling her as she fell backwards from the Orphan’s punch. After defeating the Brotherhood, the Orphan asked what just happened and U-Go Girl replied, “The end of a revolution?”

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