David haller marvel comics

Xavier and Gabrielle Haller had an affair in Israel nearly two decades ago, and Xavier was unaware when he left Israel that Haller was pregnant with his son.

Legion David Charles Haller is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics , typically as a villain or supporting character in stories featuring the X-Men and related characters. He is the mutant son of Charles Xavier and Gabrielle Haller. Legion takes the role of an antihero who has a severe mental illness, including a form of dissociative identity disorder in which each of his identities exhibits different mutant abilities or powers. The character was portrayed by Dan Stevens in the FX television series Legion —19 , which was developed, written, directed, and produced by Noah Hawley. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkiewicz , Legion first appeared at the conclusion of New Mutants 25 March [2] leading to his full story appearance in the following issue: New Mutants 26 April In , Legion was assigned to be a co-starring character in the newly revamped X-Factor , as a member of the eponymous superteam. However, writer Peter David was uncomfortable with this, and ultimately editor Bob Harras independently came to the conclusion that Legion should not be used in the series.

David haller marvel comics

Charles and Gabrielle Haller had an affair in Israel nearly two decades ago, and Charles was unaware when he left Israel that Haller was pregnant with his son. Haller concealed the fact that Charles was the father of her son, David, and Charles himself only learned that he was David's father some time after founding the New Mutants. David was born a mutant with the potential for superhuman powers. Xavier had identified the need for a mutant with the power to warp reality, and Moira had identified potential matches for herself and Xavier that might result in such a mutant. When David was living in Paris with his mother, who was a member of the Israel diplomatic service, her home was invaded by a terrorist assassination team out to kill every Israeli they could find there. They murdered David's stepfather, Daniel Shomron , before his eyes. David's terror catalyzed his latent psionic powers, which he used to incinerate the brains of the assassins. However, as he did so, he found himself making telepathic contact with each of his victims, thus experiencing their thoughts and emotions as they died. The horror of all this deeply traumatized the gentle, loving David, forcing him into a catatonic state. The consciousness of the leader of the assassins, Jemail Karami, was absorbed into David's mind. Karami's consciousness merged with David's, and it took Karami years to separate his consciousness from his psychic captor's. Nevertheless, although Karami regained his sense of self, his consciousness remained trapped within David's mind. Karami discovered that he somehow gained control of David's mutant telepathic power and used it to read David's mind. Karami thus discovered that David was essentially a gentle, innocent person. Karami then read the minds of Gabrielle Haller and others, and with a better understanding of those around him, decided to restore David's mind to normalcy.

Legion overpowers him however, and takes his powers of telepathy for himself. The first alter to manifest, Jemail Karami, was telepathic.

David Haller is a schizophrenic mutant with immense psychic powers. He was recruited by Melanie Bird to join Summerland in the war between mutants and Division 3. David was also host to a parasitic being known as the Shadow King , which attempted to gain control of David's body and wield his power. When David was a baby, his biological father gave him to the Haller family. Haller and Mrs. Haller happily adopted David, and while their daughter, Amy Haller , originally believed it to be a dream she too accepted David into the family. Growing up David was never told of the adoption and believed that the Hallers were his biological family.

Christian Holub is a writer covering comics and other geeky pop culture. He's still mad about 'Firefly' getting canceled. Almost three years after the X-Men radically changed the Marvel status quo by announcing the foundation of Krakoa, their mutant nation is still standing. But building a new way to live is not an easy process, and some things still need to be figured out. As the title suggests, this series centers on Legion, a. Blessed and cursed with an infinite supply of mutant powers tied into his dissociative identity disorder, Legion once starred in his own FX show starring Dan Stevens , but he was largely absent from the early Krakoa era. That was partly because his father, one of the principal founders of Krakoa, fears David's powers and the chaos they bring. But as last year's Inferno series proved, Xavier does not have all the answers. Massive as his contributions have been to mutantkind so far, Xavier might not have what it takes to make Krakoa last. If you're the person who's good at maintaining and equalizing, then you were never the right person to be fighting for this in the first place.

David haller marvel comics

Xavier and Gabrielle Haller had an affair in Israel nearly two decades ago, and Xavier was unaware when he left Israel that Haller was pregnant with his son. Haller concealed the fact that Xavier was the father of her son, David, and Xavier himself only learned that he was David's father recently. Because Xavier was himself a superhuman mutant, David was born a mutant with the potential for superhuman powers. Legion was created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz and first appeared in a cameo in New Mutants issue 25 where a photo of him was seen and his character was discussed on paper by Professor Xavier. He first fully appeared in comics one issue later in The New Mutants issue 26 After David, his mother and his step-father, Daniel Shomron, moved to Paris, their home was invaded by an anti-semitic assassination team who killed Daniel Shomron before year old David's eyes, the terror catalyzing his mutant powers, which he used to destroy the assassination team's minds. However, while doing so he unwittingly psychically connected with their thoughts and emotions as they died, shattering David's mind in multiple personas dissociative identity disorder and rendering him catatonic. The consciousness of the assassination team's leader, Jermail Karami, was absorbed into David's mind. After years of being merged, Karami's consciousness separated from David's, remained trapped within David's mind and gaining control of David's telepathic powers.

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There he found the other personalities dead and their rotting corpses left in their containment units. While David and Ptonomy discuss how there is no going back to a normal life after the mental illness starts, Sydney comes up to them. His subconscious is seemingly uniting and fights off Syd's power. Instead he shows her that he's learned to control his power placing their minds into an illusion of a beautiful white-walled room by a beach. In the Age of X reality, Legion leads the Force Warriors, a select group of telekinetics who rebuild the "Force Walls" telekinetic shields that protect Fortress X on a daily basis to protect mutants from human attacks. Yi's lip is bloodied When everything calm down David found and apologized to Merzah who told him to trust the X-Men and then died. Weeks later, Magik managed to bring the Elder Gods back to Earth, planning to have her revenge on them. While the young X-Men try to ascertain what he wants, elsewhere Jean Grey and Psylocke team up to psychically purge whatever force is controlling the army of Madrox duplicates. This causes the demons that were attacking Team Farouk to back off. David tries to defend them, saying Oliver told him it wasn't their fault before asking who "Lenny" really is.

So just who is Legion? Or specifically, who is David Haller?

Originally only psychic in nature, David's powers now include physical mutants. David appears to be a Star Wars fan. Legion begins to seduce his own mother, and the real Charles Xavier realizes that something is wrong. This wasn't a mistake. During his late teenage years, David Haller had left his catatonic state and become autistic. Season 2. Jemail was once a real man, but died near David and thereby became the first psyche David absorbed. Yi's lip is bloodied In , Legion was assigned to be a co-starring character in the newly revamped X-Factor , as a member of the eponymous superteam. While generally doing good things for the benefit of mutantkind and the world at large, David had issues trusting others.