Nathaniel Grey is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men.
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Nathaniel Grey is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men.
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Nate Grey is the biological son of his dimension's Scott Summers and Jean Grey, born of genetic tampering by Mr Sinister.
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The series ran until 2001, during which Nate Grey struggled with being the most powerful person in a strange world.
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Shortly before the "Onslaught" storyline, Nate Grey began to be sporadically referred to as X-Man, without explanation for the in-universe origin of the code name.
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Nate Grey first appeared in an eponymous four-issue miniseries in 1995 written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by Steve Skroce.
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However, Cyclops, in his many subversive raids on Sinister's pens, helped Nate Grey escape Sinister's hideout; neither Cyclops nor Nate Grey knew their connection to each other.
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Nate Grey came under the tutelage of Forge and several other mutant outcasts.
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Nate Grey began to see the horrors of Apocalypse's world firsthand, and was determined to bring him down.
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Nate Grey arrives in Switzerland, and is approached by a very alive but amnesic Madelyne Pryor.
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Madelyne helps Nate Grey adjust to this reality, but they are separated soon after by Selene.
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Nate Grey is then attacked by Morbius the Living Vampire, who is drawn to Threnody via the strong attachment to her in Nate Grey's blood.
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The reunion is interrupted by Jean Nate Grey, who is alerted to Madelyne's return by Madame Sanctity.
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Nate Grey is doubly shocked, first when Madelyne immediately begins trying to kill their visitor, and again when he sees that the two women are virtually twins.
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Nate Grey turns down Jean's offer to contact the X-Men, but then discovers that his telekinesis is gone.
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Havok appears as Nate Grey is leaving, and invites him to join the Brotherhood of Mutants.
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Nate helps the Brotherhood liberate Aurora, a former member of Alpha Flight, from Department H Havok helps Nate regain his telekinesis to the point where he can fly again via a meditation chamber.
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Nate Grey later discovers the operation to free Aurora had a second purpose: to obtain canisters of Coldsnap-9, a deadly gas.
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Worse, Nate Grey learns that Dark Beast is a member of the Brotherhood.
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Nate Grey tries to separate Aurora from the Brotherhood, but quickly learns that due to her personality shifts, she needs treatment that Dark Beast can best provide.
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However, Nate Grey refuses to leave the gas in the Brotherhood's hands, and opens all of the canisters, exposing himself to the gas.
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Nate Grey survives due to the timely return of his telekinetics at their peak, but collapses from exhaustion in New York, where he is found and cared for by three mysterious girls named Jam, Marita, and Bux.
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Nate Grey is attacked by the psychotic killer Jackknife, a remnant of the Abomination's followers.
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Nate Grey learns that the one responsible for Jam's accident, as well as his curiously fast rise to and fall from fame, is the Purple Man, who has been controlling Nate Grey and the citizens with his pheromones.
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The plan backfires: Nate Grey resists being controlled, and upon learning that Jam's healed arm was only a solid psionic projection, he loses faith in himself.
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In desperation, Nate Grey tries to erase all memories of himself from the minds of New Yorkers.
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Nate Grey is still plagued by self-doubt when Madelyne Pryor returns to him.
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Nate Grey destroys Tundra, and launches Kolomaq and Somon into space to keep them from destroying a nearby town.
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Madelyne refuses to play the part of the hero and help Nate Grey fight, but returns to teleport him back to Switzerland.
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Nate Grey seeks her on the psi-plane, but Madelyne jealously interferes.
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Nate Grey's effort is interrupted when the psi-plane shatters around him, robbing he and Madelyne both of their telepathy.
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Nate Grey detects an AOA energy signature on the corpses, and discovers that Nemesis is responsible.
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Nate Grey then learns that Blaquesmith has been sending him the visions as a warning, and the tech-gnomes as a test, in order to prepare Nate Grey for a future that he must avoid at all costs.
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Nate Grey was continually hunted by Operation: Gauntlet, a special task force of the United Nations, who had been especially ordered to target and destroy him specifically, as the potential single greatest threat to all life on Earth.
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Nate Grey went on to have additional rematches with fellow AoA refugees Dark Beast, Sugar Man and Holocaust.
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Nate Grey visited his "parents, " Scott and Jean, who were at the time recuperating in Alaska.
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Nate Grey was reunited with Threnody, who revealed the circumstances of their separation, which had been unknown to Nate Grey until then.
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Nate Grey finally revealed that she was a Madelyne from another dimension, who had killed the original Madelyne shortly after her last meeting with Nate in Ireland.
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Nate Grey wanted to use Nate's vast power to help her rule her Earth.
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Nate rejected her, and was located by that alternative reality's version of himself, who was a broken version of Nate Grey and was slightly insane from his experiences; he considered himself a shaman to the people of that Earth.
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Nate Grey read the mind of his alternate self to learn the intricacies of alternate realities.
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Nate Grey showed Nate how to talk with a dead man so that they could get information from him about Madelyne; the dead man was that reality's Forge, who was at one time Madelyne's lover.
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The broken version of Nate Grey told Madelyne he sent Nate Grey somewhere she would never find him.
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Nate Grey killed the broken Nate and began to power her parallel world device to find Nate again, but Nate returned and put an end to her world conquering days.
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Nate Grey became immensely powerful, and had few qualms about using his power to mete out justice to his fellow mutants.
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Nate Grey then dealt with and stopped the madman Qabiri from destroying all alternate earths on the Spiral of Earths.
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Unbeknown to the Dark X-Men, Nate Grey has taken possession of Norman's body, something that only Mystique notices.
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Yet Nate Grey reveals that this was his plan all along, and that while he and Norman are deadlocked his X-Men are free to roam the deepest recesses of Norman's mind.
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Now returned to the physical world, a powerless Nate Grey is tortured in front of the Dark X-Men as an example to them.
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Nate Grey is taken away to the machine, though his eventual fate is not shown.
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Sugar Man has Nate Grey hooked up into the Omega Machine, a device built by Norman Osborn to open portals to other realities, hoping that he will open a portal to Sugar Man's home reality.
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Nate Grey is taken to Utopia, where it is revealed that he burnt out most of his powers while opening Sugar Man's portal, and the only remaining power he has is telekinesis.
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Nate Grey stepped in and offered to teach Nate what Cable taught her: how to get by without powers.
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Nate Grey gladly accepted and the two began to train regularly together.
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Tensions flared when Nate Grey began to question Doug's mental stability which led to Dani insulting Nate Grey's low-level telekinesis.
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Nate Grey mastered his X-shaped telekinetic technique and even managed to use his telepathy in small doses.
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When Moonstar joined the superhero team, the Defenders, Nate Grey remained close to her and the pair finally confirmed their relationship status when they awkwardly ran into Dani's former flame, Cannonball.
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Nate Grey later reveals that his powers are killing him, even though he possesses the black x-shaped tattoo, and for that reason he decided to change the world for better.
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Originally designed so his powers would eventually kill him, Nate Grey was an Omega-level mutant who had the ability to tap into the enormous psychic resources of the astral plane in order to manipulate matter and energy at vast scales until his powers were burnt out by the Omega Machine.
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Nate Grey's telekinesis was so powerful that he could move massive objects with his mind, fire blasts of psychokinetic energy that could shatter steel, create mental barriers that could stop most attacks, levitate his body, and fly at supersonic speeds.
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Nate Grey was powerful enough to single handedly defeat Tundra of the Great Beasts and was even able to psionically isolate the planet's gravitational pull on the two other Great Beasts, Tolomaq and Somon.
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Nate Grey crushed the whole city of San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador while asleep in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the cities are over 2600 miles apart.
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Nate Grey was able to use his telekinesis to bend the Earth's magnetic field and create electromagnetic pulses.
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Nate Grey's telekinesis extended to at least a molecular level, and he could imbue himself with super human physical attributes by focusing his telekinesis inwards.
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Nate Grey was even described by Norman Osborn as powerful enough to go toe-to-toe with the Sentry.
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However, Nate Grey lost most of his powers after using nearly all of his strength and willpower to open a portal to Sugar Man's home reality, a process that gave him acute nerve damage, which effectively burnt out his power set.
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Nate Grey has shown the power to produce small but powerful telekinetic blasts and demonstrated some residual telepathy that enabled him to deliberately scan and perceive his immediate vicinity for sentient beings; along with assist his teammate Cypher in entering his own mind.
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Nate Grey can capture and humiliate Apocalypse; turn off Kitty Pryde's powers; control Omega-level mutants like Magneto and Storm, turning them into his Horsemen of Salvation; telepathically communicate with everyone on Earth; wipe out all places of worship on Earth with a thought; overpower Legion in Legion's own mind and take over his body; and create a new reality where everyone is a mutant, and then transport people to that reality against their will.
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Legion claims that Nate Grey is so powerful that he belongs to a level above Omega.
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Second, Nate Grey is much more powerful than Cable, as Cable's techno-virus infection means that he must continuously use most of his power to keep the virus at bay, while Nate Grey has full access to his mutant abilities - though at least at first, Cable had a far greater degree of skill in using those powers.
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Finally, Cable possesses extensive military and weapons skills as a result of being raised in a war torn future ruled by Apocalypse, while Nate Grey primarily relies on his considerable mutant powers.
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Each Nate Grey being the ultimate telekinetic weapon, Queen Jean hunted them down and lured them to her reality, to make good use of them.
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Nate Grey had her scientists come up with a special genetic brand that would prevent the Nates from burning out their powers.
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Nate Grey came to the Earth-998 from his native reality, Earth-2098, which was sacrificed to restore Earth-998.
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Nate Grey told X-Man that the Queen tried to use his powers, but failed, and began traveling to different realities, in search of the perfect weapon, a "working Nate Grey".
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Together both Nate Grey's went to a hidden village where, under the guidance of the Shaman, X-Man used his powers to talk with Forge, who told them the truth about the Queen.
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On Earth-253 Nate Grey Xavier was one of the three strongest people on the planet.
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Nate Grey was a member of the team of heroes known as the People's Protectorate.
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When Qabiri arrived on Earth-253 the team tried to stop him, but they all failed, Nate Grey was killed by Qabiri, and the entire reality was destroyed.
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Nate Grey used his precognitive powers and saw a future, where he fought with Stryfe to death, and when he died his powers destroyed the half Earth.
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Nate wasn't created in a lab but was the natural son of Scott Summers and Jean Grey and grew up in a peaceful haven that mutants created for themselves in the Savage Land.
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Nate Grey was the sole survivor and joined a band of heroes led by Captain America to end Apocalypse's rule.
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