Mimic

Calvin was raised by a bitter, dejected man which led him to gravitate towards the wrong crowd. He first discovered his mutant abilities in his late teens while shoplifting in a convenience store where he came in close proximity of the original X-Men. He followed them for over two hours, feeding off of their energy, and keeping a fraction of their power for his own. After he discovered he was a mutant, Calvin chose to enlist his aid to the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants who were planning to kidnap Senator Robert Kelly, a wealthy mutant-hating politician. They met with conflict as the X-Men arrived and Mimic met them in battle. Unfortunately, power did not equal skill and the true owners of their remarkable powers emerged victorious utilizing their extensive training and teamwork. The Brotherhood abandoned their newest member, leaving Calvin to be arrested and detained at Fort Terahawk in San Antonio, Texas.

It was while he was incarcerated that Professor Charles Xavier visited Mimic and, seeing his vast potential, invited Calvin to join his X-Men. It would take him some time to adjust to the new environment at Xavier's school for the gifted and even longer for him to open up to his teammates. Amazingly, they were not irked at their new member's ability to reproduce their powers, but Calvin provided each youngster with a compatriot who they could share their uniqueness with while they were adjusting to their isolated lives as mutants. This combined with the early timidness of Scott Summers gravitated Mimic towards leadership of the X-Men and beyond. In a world that embraces its mutant heroes, Mimic is their greatest champion and favorite son.

One day, Mimic found himself in the middle of a barren desert alongside five other X-Men from five different realities. They were greeted by the Timebroker, a construct of their collective consciousness, who explained to them that they had all become unhinged from time as a chain of events had caused their realities as they knew it to change. New events in Calvin's past caused a bus full of innocent bystanders and Senator Robert Kelly to all be killed during the Brotherhood's failed attempt to kidnap Kelly. The only member of the Brotherhood not able to escape, Mimi sits on death row for these transgressions. In order to return to their correct timelines, they would have to repair other realities that caused the ripple effect that disrupted their reality. Should they fail, they would return to these new, unfortunate alternate existences.

After being forced to kill an alternate version of Charles Xavier, a man who had been the closest thing to a father figure to Calvin in his own reality, Mimic concluded that Blink was the only member of the team fit to lead. The Exiles would constantly be facing opponents who the rest of the team would consider family and friends, but Clarice's experience in the very different Age of Apocalypse put her outside the relatively similiar and familiar lives they all led. Mimic added that it was Blink who the Timebroker gave the Tallus. the gauntlet that guides the Exiles through their missions. Doubting her actual ability to lead, Blink reluctantly assumed the role of leadership with Mimic's constant support.

On one of the team's venture where the Exiles were pitted against the Dark Phoenix, Calvin attempted to Mimic the Phoenix Force. Because he can only hold five mutant powers at once, he was forced to forfeit one of his abilities and chose to give up his Angel wings. Unfortunately, the battle against the Phoenix did not last long enough for Calvin to permanently retain the power of the Phoenix Force. Calvin would later regain his ability of flight by copying the powers of the Canadian super hero Northstar.

During their time together restoring the multiverse, Mimic educated Blink in the history and general knowledge of the majority of the other timelines. Because the events that comprised Age of Apocalypse diverged greatly from what could be considered typical in other realities, she had no idea who many of the regular heroes and villains they encountered were. The two grew close and eventually became more than friends.

Over time, Calvin became jaded with the Exiles' way of life. Mimic was growing tired of facing corrupted versions of his friends, family, and fellow heroes in each of the worlds they were forced to visit. This was most evident following a bout with Namor, the Sub-Mariner, a fight that saw Calvin unsuccessfully attempting rationalize with the raging Atlantean whom he knew to be a good man in his reality. Calvin grew increasingly distant from the rest of the team and his relationship with Blink also waned. When Clarice question him about the funk he was in, Mimic skirted the issue and denied her claims had any validity. After constant harassment from Clarice, Mimic finally caved in and admitted he had grown sick of their lives and wanted to go home. Calvin asked Clarice to tolerate him and to just be his friend for the time being.

On their visit to a planet that was plagued by an evolved Legacy Virus and ruled by a nation of infected creatures called Vi-Locks, Blink contracted the disease in its purest form while attempt to retrive the body of Cypher in order to create a vaccine. It traveled at an accelerated rate through her body and, though her condition would eventually stabilize, a cure for the virus had not yet been found. While she lay comatose, Calvin visited Clarice in her sick bed to tell her that he was an emotionally detached idiot who didn't realize how much she meant to him until just then.

After Cypher's body was destroyed, both the Exiles and Avengers saw no other pragmatic solutions to the Vi-Lock threat that would now spread across the galaxy other than the destruction of Earth. Nocturne volunteered to pilot an aircraft filled with nuclear warheads on a suicided run to crash land into the Vi-Locks' own store of nuclear weaponry. The explosion from the impact alone would most likely split the planet in half. At the last minute, Mimic hijacked the plane by nerve pinching Nocturne and flew the ship in her place. However, through the combined efforts of Morph and Rachel Summers, the Avengers were able to contact the Norse Gods and use the healing properties within their blood to create a successful vaccine. Blink was treated and was quickly recovering from the illness when she was informed that Mimic had been sent on a mission to destroy the Earth. The Avengers had been trying to contact him to tell him the good news, but all attempts to hail Calvin had been unsuccessful.

Clarice immediately set off to prevent Calvin from destroying the Earth since a cure had been found. She was able to locate him just in time to avert a nuklear catastrohpe that would have split the planet in half. Back at the Avengers Compoud, festivities ensued, though the celebration was halted by the appearance of the Timebroker who had come to inform the Exiles that one of them had repaired their personal broken chain in time and would be sent home. Clarice vanished As their new team member Magik stepped forward, the Tallus was removed from Blink and reappeared on Mimic's wrist. In the blink of an eye, Clarice was gone.

Mimic using a few of his powers