Trevor Fitzroy

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Trevor Fitzroy
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Trevor Fitzroy
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance The Uncanny X-Men #281 (October 1991)
Created by John Byrne
Jim Lee
Whilce Portacio
In-story information
Species Human Mutant
Team affiliations Xavier's Security Enforcers
Upstarts
Hellfire Club
Summers Rebellion
Notable aliasesChronomancer, White Rook
Abilities
  • Life energy absorption
  • Portal generation
  • Time travel

Trevor Fitzroy is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an enemy of the X-Men, in particular Bishop. Created by Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio, he first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #281 (October 1991).

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Fitzroy hails from the same dystopian future as Bishop. A mutant criminal, he possesses the ability to absorb energy from human beings and use that energy to open time portals, which is how Bishop traveled to the present. He has since been featured as the main adversary in the series featuring Bishop.

Fictional character biography

The future

Trevor Fitzroy is the illegitimate son of Anthony Shaw, the future Black King of the Hellfire Club, in a dystopian future. [1] He joins the Academy for Xavier's Security Enforcers (XSE) and has a romantic relationship with Shard. However, Fitzroy's criminal tendencies surface, resulting in his expulsion from the academy. Initially, his influential father attempts to shield him, but when Fitzroy is apprehended for murder, his father could no longer protect him. Bishop (Shard's brother and an XSE officer) captures Fitzroy.

Initially, Fitzroy believed that he possessed the ability to teleport. However, a clandestine faction of XSE agents called the Xavier's Underground Enforcers (XUE) uncover his true power of time travel. The XUE recruit Shard and orchestrate Fitzroy's release, intending to exploit his temporal abilities to alter the past and create a better future. Shard, recognizing Fitzroy's inherent danger, intervened and thwarted their plan, resulting in Fitzroy's return to prison.

The Upstarts

From prison, Fitzroy escaped to the present time with his mutant minion Bantam. There, he became involved with a group known as the Upstarts, a competition set up by Selene to eliminate her rivals in the Hellfire Club. [2]

Fitzroy attacks X-Force, demanding they turn over Rictor and Warpath. In the ensuing confrontation, Cable tricks Fitzroy by disguising his techno-organic arm as wholly organic. When Fitzroy attempts to absorb Cable's energy through the arm, his powers backfire and cause him to use his own life energy to open a portal, seemingly killing him.

After the Upstarts

How he survived is left unknown, but Fitzroy eventually reappeared under the thrall of Selene as the White Rook of the Hellfire Club. During this time, he cooperates with Pierce and Shaw, despite his previous attempts to kill them. He leaves the club and travels back to an alternate future (Earth-9910), now calling himself the Chronomancer. He takes control of the new timeline, but Bishop arrives and fights Fitzroy, eventually killing him. [3]

X-Factor

A younger, benevolent version of Fitzroy appears as a participant in the Summers Rebellion. After Cortex kills him during a fight, Layla Miller resurrects him physically but is unable to revive him with a soul, establishing the point at which he becomes a villain. [4] [1]

Return of the Upstarts


In X-Men (vol. 7), Fitzroy resurfaces and begins killing mutants, which he live-streams on social media. [5] [6] [7]

Powers and abilities

Fitzroy possesses the mutant ability to drain the life force of living beings through physical contact. With these energies, Fitzroy can create portals that can teleport those passing through them across time and space, yet the portals are one way; trying to pass through the wrong way results in the traveler's body being fatally transformed. He was often dependent on the mutant Bantam to direct and catalog his portals.

In early appearances, Fitzroy wore futuristic battle armor that increased his strength. This battle armor was destroyed by the X-Men, and a second suit of armor was destroyed by the X-Force.

Fitzroy also had several Sentinels that obeyed his commands. These Sentinels were smaller than the 20th-century type but could repair themselves using material in their vicinity.

Other versions

Trevor Fitzroy appears in X-Men '92 . [8]

In other media

Television

Trevor Fitzroy and Bantam as depicted in X-Men: The Animated Series. Trevor Fitzroy & Bantam.jpg
Trevor Fitzroy and Bantam as depicted in X-Men: The Animated Series.

Trevor Fitzroy appears in the X-Men: The Animated Series episode "One Man's Worth", voiced by an uncredited actor. [9] [10] This version's energy-absorbing abilities are non-lethal, and instead leave those they affect comatose for several days.

Video games

Merchandise

Toy Biz produced an action figure of Trevor Fitzroy in 1994 as part of the fourth X-Men wave.[ citation needed ]

References

  1. 1 2 Stone, Sam (April 9, 2020). "X-Men: How House of M's Hero DESTROYED Marvel's Mutant Future". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved February 23, 2025. As the illegitimate son of Hellfire Club leader and longtime X-Men villain Sebastian Shaw, Trevor was a fellow revolutionary who rescued Layla and Multiple Man from a Sentinel attack in this future timeline, although he was visibly younger than he had been in his comic book appearances. After a rogue Multiple Man duplicate known as Cortex murdered Trevor, Cyclops' daughter in the timeline Ruby Summers implored Layla to resurrect Trevor. Despite knowing the consequences that resurrection would have decades ago, Layla agreed, setting up the soulless Fitzroy to become one of the deadliest X-villains of the '90s.
  2. Dodge, John (April 8, 2024). "X-Men '97 Introduces a New Version of a Classic Supervillain Team". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved February 23, 2025. Siena Blaze's first appearance came in the pages of 1993's Uncanny X-Men #301 by writer Scott Lobdell and John Romita Jr., during which she was a member of the mutant team known as the Upstarts. Along with the likes of Trevor Fitzroy, Shinobi Shaw, and Fabian Cortez, the Upstarts terrorized the X-Men and various other heroes during their relatively short-lived heyday.
  3. Bishop the Last X-Man #14 (November 2000)
  4. X-Factor (vol. 3) #46 (September 2009)
  5. Terror, Jude (September 15, 2024). "X-Men #4 Preview: Trevor Fitzroy's Mutant Murder Livestream". Bleeding Cool . Retrieved February 23, 2025.
  6. Cronin, Brian (September 12, 2024). "EXCLUSIVE: The X-Men Fight the Upstarts in a Deadly Social Media Battle". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved February 23, 2025. In the preview pages, we see that Illyana Rasputin is playing chess with a mysterious person over her phone when she is informed that Trevor Fitzroy is making an announcement on social media that the Upstarts are planning to kill mutants live over social media if people subscribe to their service.
  7. Johnston, Rich (September 17, 2024). "Bringing Back Old Names To The X-Men This Week (XSpoilers)". Bleeding Cool . Retrieved February 23, 2025. Trevor Fitzroy returns with these remaining O-Force renamed the Upstarts, with a Watchmen-like smiley face without the eyes symbol to be spread around the world in opposition to gthe [ sic ] remaining mutants on Earth.
  8. X-Men '92 (vol. 2) #1 (May 2016)
  9. Outlaw, Kofi (April 26, 2024). "X-Men '97 Showrunner Reveals Key Animated Series Arc to Watch Before Episode 8". ComicBook.com . Retrieved February 23, 2024. X-Men time traveler Bishop and his sister Shard allied with AoA variants of Storm and Wolverine (who are married!) to go back in time to 1959 and stop Nimrod, Master Mold, and the Sentinels' mutant lackey Trevor Fitzroy from killing Xavier.
  10. Hoffer, Christian (September 5, 2017). "X-Men: The Animated Series - Every Mutant That's Ever Appeared On The Show". ComicBook.com . Retrieved February 23, 2025. Trevor Fitzroy appears as a time traveling assassin working for Master Mold who kills Xavier in the 1950s, thus creating an Age of Apocalypse-esque alternate timeline...In the comics, Fitzroy left his victims as a lifeless husk, but the cartoon version of Fitzroy simply knocked out victims when using his powers.