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Shatterstar (Comic Book)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Shatterstar (born Gaveedra-Seven, sometimes known as Benjamin Russell) is a Marvel Comics character created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza, first appearing in New Mutants #99 (dated March 1991).Shatterstar is one of those comic book characters who have a weirdly overcomplicated origin. On the surface, he's just a mutant alien gladiator from the planet Mojoworld, and a frequent member of X-Force. In actually, Shatterstar is both the son and father of occasional X-Man Longshot.Let's explain. Due to a Temporal Paradox, Shatterstar's DNA was taken from him during a time-traveling trip, and was subsequently used to create Longshot. Years later, he and Dazzler would conceive a child, who would grow up (in a possible future) to be... you get the picture.After time-traveling to his past, Shatterstar became a founding member of X-Force, where he met his on-off love interest Rictor. After years of ship teasing, they shared their first on-panel kiss in X-Factor #45, making them the first same-sex (male) pairing to do so in Marvel Comics history. His exact orientation was a common discussion among fans, but according to Peter David —who wrote the aforementioned scene— Shatterstar is canonically bisexual.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Likely because of his convoluted origin, Shatterstar is fairly obscure, but a vastly simplified version of the character appears in Deadpool 2, portrayed there by Lewis Tan. Introducing himself as an alien from Mojoworld —one who's superior to Deadpool in every way— he's quickly dispatched in a death montage where every member of DP's X-Force (save for Domino) is brutally killed.
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Bizarre Alien Biology
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Bizarre Alien Biology: Shatterstar has hollow bones, making him lighter and faster than a regular human. Despite this, he's strong enough to send a person of Strong Guy's size and strength flying through a wall.
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Thinking Up Portals
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Thinking Up Portals: Shatterstar can create X-shaped portals through space, time and into other dimensions by focusing energy through his swords. He also needs an "anchor" to help him do this, which is a person with whom he has a special relationship. Shatterstar also has to be outside when he opens up his portals because the energies released could destroy whatever structure he is inside of. Thus far he has been able to use Rictor and Layla Miller (both of whom he has slept with), as well as Longshot (who is both a partial clone of him, as well as being his biological father).
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Katanas Are Just Better
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Katanas Are Just Better: Because otherwise there's no real reason for him to have one.
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Brainwashed and Crazy
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Brainwashed and Crazy: Inbetween his return to Mojoworld and his reappearance in X-Factor, he wound up under the control of Cortex, a time-travelling cyborg out to eradicate mutantkind.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Rictor for years, to the point where it eventually became Ho Yay. Then they were given a Relationship Upgrade and the "heterosexual" part got tossed out the window.
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Anything That Moves
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Anything That Moves: Originally asexual, but has recently become "sexually curious about anything with a pulse." Actually gets deconstructed when Rictor points out this makes him very uncertain whether Star loves him.
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Good Thing You Can Heal
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Good Thing You Can Heal: Let's just say that his love of combat, and willingness to accept injury as a part of it, make this essential.
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Demoted to Satellite Love Interest
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Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: Played for Laughs in the Dead Souls mini-series. While Rictor is a member of the latest version of the New Mutants, Shatterstar is simply his boyfriend and friends with the team. He doesn't seem particularly bothered to be left out of missions.
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Dark Age of Supernames
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Dark Age of Supernames: Lampshaded by The Thing.
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My Own Grampa
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My Own Grampa: Now officially gives the Summers family a run for their money when it comes to Time Travel tangled origin stories.
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Facial Markings
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Facial Markings: He has a starburst-shaped marking on his right eye
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Kid from the Future
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Kid from the Future: Comes from the future of Mojoworld, but is in fact the son of Dazzler and Longshot, neither of whom remembers his birth because he wiped their memories of it.
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Improvised Weapon
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Improvised Weapon: Shatterstar once beat up The Thing with a barbell.
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Smug Super
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Smug Super: He's a badass and he knows it.
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What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
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What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: He was brought up to be a killing machine, to have no sense of emotional connections with people. Most of his character growth since his first appearance has been about learning all about human emotions.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: In X-Factor Issue #209, Shatterstar beats up a guy for making fun of his star tattoo.
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Dual Wielding
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Dual Wielding: He very often uses multiple swords.
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Awesome McCoolname
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Awesome Mc Coolname: An essential trait for any successful "entertainer" in Mojoworld.
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Cannot Spit It Out
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Cannot Spit It Out: Throughout X-Factor, he sometimes starts to tell the truth about his apparent connection to Longshot, but usually stops himself or gets interrupted.
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Light Is Good
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Light Is Good: He often wears white mostly white clothing.
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Naked Apron
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Naked Apron: In the Dead Souls mini-series, Karma complains about him doing this while she's talking with Rictor.
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Refugee from TV Land
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Refugee from TV Land: Comes from Mojoworld, where television is life; tends to say things like "May you have many spinoffs." Also offended by the fact that actors on Earth that perform fighting roles often lack genuine combat skills since on Mojoworld all the "shows" are real.
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Proud Warrior Race Guy
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Proud Warrior Race Guy: Was raised specifically to be a gladiator.
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Revenge
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Revenge: He's out to get Kid Cable for killing the older Cable. He eventually comes around to him when they rescue Rachel Summers.
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Half-Human Hybrid
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Half-Human Hybrid: He is the biological son of Dazzler, a human mutant, and Longshot, an Artificial Human who also happens to be genetically based on Shatterstar himself, due to a Stable Time Loop.
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Take That!
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Take That!: His bisexuality, and Marvel's insistence on its remaining canon, seems to be an open dig on creator Liefeld's own aversion to gay characters.
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Blood Knight
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Blood Knight: Star likes to fight.
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Vibroweapon
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Vibroweapon: His seldom-used mutant power is to generate vibrations from his body, turning his swords into these. At one point it was revealed that the oddest of his swords, which has two side-by-side blades, was designed to somehow convert this power into a Sword Beam. The number of times he has actually used this power on-panel, however, can be counted on both hands.
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice He's been known to run himself through with his swords in order to get an opponent coming at him behind.
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Impossibly Cool Weapon
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Impossibly Cool Weapon: Shatterstar's main weapons of choice are two single-edged swords with spiked hand-guards.
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Gladiator Revolt
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Gladiator Revolt: Was involved in the Cadre Alliance back on Mojoworld, which was fighting to overthrow Mojo V.
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'90s Anti-Hero
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'90s Anti-Hero: Originally a standard bearer for the genre, complete with impractically long hair, lots of pouches and padded headgear, and lots and lots of swords. Although when he reappeared in X-Factor he had abandoned the long braids and taken to wearing what could be seen as very hip, but plausible street clothes and his weapons were usually concealed.
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Lightning Bruiser
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Lightning Bruiser: Shatterstar is strong enough to beat up Strong Guy and the Thing ad fast enough to dodge point blank automatic weapon fire.
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Continuity Snarl
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Continuity Snarl: The whole "Benjamin Russell" thing, whether he was connected to a asylum inmate with that name. Not surprising that Peter David just junked it and went with a more straightforward explanation. (well, "straightforward"...)
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Manly Gay
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Manly Gay: Almost to the point of Testosterone Poisoning.
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Strong and Skilled
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Strong and Skilled: Shatterstar has a superhuman physiology and is a trained combatant.
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Drives Like Crazy
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Drives Like Crazy: He hasn't gotten the hang of cars. He also thinks that brakes are pointless.
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Thinking Up Portals / int_32cb5c0f
 Shatterstar (Comic Book)
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What Is This Thing You Call "Love"? / int_32cb5c0f