The character is a mutant with the ability to manipulate the extra-dimensional Darkforce in the form of a thick, dark, viscous tar-like substance.
He can open a dimensional interface anywhere within thirty feet of him, and can control the flow of Darkforce from a thin spray of globules to a thick torrent of oozing slime.
His darkforce manifestation is extremely adhesive: a sufficient quantity can immobilize beings of significant superhuman strength.
Created by Steve Englehart and Al Milgrom, the character first appeared in West Coast Avengers vol.
Within the context of the stories, Quantum is an alien soldier from the planet Dakkam, one of the platoon of superpowered Dakkamite troops known as The Elect.
Searching for his comrades, he becomes part of a supervillain team assembled by Graviton to resemble the Unified Field Theory.
However, Quasar intervenes, saving the Aquarian and, using his abilities to distort Quantum's powers, traps him as a trio of intangible duplicates.
[7] Quantum reappears as one of the beings who have been subtly drawn to the planet Godthab Omega by the manipulations of Glorian.
Quasimodo is a supervillain, a computer (or "Quasi-Motivational Destruct Organ") created and abandoned by the Mad Thinker.
[10] The character was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in Fantastic Four Annual #4 (Nov 1966).
[11] The Silver Surfer finds the computer and, feeling pity for his desire to be human, grants him a partly organic, semi-humanoid cyborg body.
[12] Eventually regaining his mobility, Quasimodo comes into conflict with Captain Marvel,[13] the Beast,[14] Spider-Man and Hawkeye,[15] the Fantastic Four,[16] the Galadorian Spaceknight Rom,[17] and finally the Vision, who expels the villain's consciousness into space.
[24] The All-Mother, created by Paul Tobin and Pepe Larraz, first appears in Spider-Island: The Amazing Spider-Girl #2 (September 2011).
[26] The All-Mother reluctantly team-up with Spider-Girl in stopping the Man-Spiders from advancing on the superheroes fighting the Spider-Queen, however, the Hobgoblin killed her.
Thor confronts her and prevents disaster by using his hammer to transport the entire facility to another dimension, and Quicksand escapes.
[29] She is later contacted by Mongoose on behalf of Count Tagar, who wants a cell sample from Thor to create a race of gods.
She initially refuses, but is persuaded when Mongoose demonstrates a device which can temporarily transform her back into human form.
Later, Quicksand somehow comes to the attention of the rogue Egyptian god Seth, who sends her, Bison, and Mongoose to steal a sample of Inferno-42 from S.H.I.E.L.D.
When their leader, Baron Zemo, is contacted by Iron Man to hunt down villains so Stark can recruit them into his own team, Quicksand is one of them.
[34] After a period of dream manipulation, she becomes part of Thunderbolts Team B and helps arrest the U-Foes in Portland.
[35] In Dark Reign, Quicksand is revealed as a member of the Initiative's new team for the state of Delaware, the Women Warriors.
[39] Quicksand's strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes, and durability have all been enhanced as a result of exposure to atomic radiation.
Although Quicksand's body is capable of transforming to human form, she does not appear to be able to initiate this change without artificial assistance.
[41] The Warpies are again abducted shortly afterwards by Black Air, another government organisation, who experiments on the group in an attempt to keep them superhuman.
Quill (Max Jordan), a student at the Xavier Institute, first appeared in New X-Men: Academy X #1 and was created by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir.
[45] His body is seen in a telepathic image Emma Frost used to torment Carol Danvers about her persistence with the Registration Act.