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Alex Summers is the son of a Major in the U.S. Air Force. Alex Summers has a wonderful mom.
Alex has the best brother of them all. Scott is everything people want in a child: smart, attentive, respectful, strong, a born leader. Alex is forgiven because he is younger, but people wonder when he’ll be more like Scott. Alex is Scott’s responsibility when dad isn’t around, and Alex doesn’t want to cause problems for the greatest brother ever.
The family plane burns. Scott promises to take care of Alex. The brothers hold each other until they hit the ground.
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Alex Summers is now Alex Blanding. It must be the shock of his family's… demise. That he still feels like he is abandoning his biological brother, changing his name to fit in the shadow of another, dead, brother. His unresponded letters tell him he did.
He is the son of the coach, pushed into the spotlight through nepotism. He is the brother of a girl that wants to help, but her advice is to bury everything that doesn’t fit their white fence perfect life.
He sees a missing poster for a bully, and he thinks of fire and red eyes.
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Alex Blanding manages to be a star player. Alex Blanding skips grades. Alex Blanding is popular. Alex Summers misses his brother. Alex Summers is constantly too warm. Alex Summers graduates college with a degree in geophysics.
His happy reunion with his brother he dreamed of for years is stopped by a maniac with an Ancient Egypt fetish.
Alex Summers learns his brother is the famous hero Cyclops. Scott Summers has formed around himself a family of heroes who know him better than Alex could ever hope.
Alex Summers learns he is a mutant, and his power is death and destruction.
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Alex Summers gets a manhunt sent against him by the madman who caused his awakening. Alex Summers wonders if he will ever be able to touch another person ever again.
A guy called Larry Trask gets his robots to take Alex to his base. While the melodrama is beyond pathetic, Trask offers Alex a deal: to become his guinea pig in exchange for the safety of the X-men.
Alex’s brother built himself a life he sounded so proud of. Alex has no future. He accepts easily.
Alex’s new name Havok should have warned him his problems had only just started.
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Alex Summers, also known as Havok, meets a beautiful woman, also a subject for the weirdo Larry Trask.
Larry Trask turns out to be a liar. Alex should have known. No words uttered about safety or love stayed true. Maybe Alex Summers-Blanding is the problem.
Alex gets into a spat with an X-man. Maybe it’s fear that this Iceman guy was a better brother to Scott that Alex could be. Maybe it’s jealousy that he got the girl and the fame.
Alex tries to fight. Alex has the most destructive power. Scott wins by guile and Alex gets knocked out.
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Alex Summers, Havok, hasn’t met back with his brother for 3 days and he already caused 3 new villains to go against Scott.
Alex Summers is the problem. He couldn't even help with the Lykos mess, despite being the one to cause the appearance of Sauron.
Alex helps with an alien invasion. Alex fights more with Bobby. Bobby leaves and Alex thinks he had a point to call Xavier’s a nuthouse.
Alex and Lorna try to find the missing rest of the team. Scott and company came back by themselves to fight sentinels.
Alex and Lorna find Iceman instead, somehow.
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Alex Summers is the wannabe hero Havok. He and Lorna, who ditch the name Magnetrix as it doesn’t fit her, try to find a powerful mutant.
The first attempt is a bust, but then, the powerful mutant cabal comes to them and takes Lorna.
Trying to save her, the team falls prey to illusions. Alex is tricked into attacking Scott. Alex is kissed by a woman he doesn’t want. Alex promises himself it won’t happen again.
Alex is influenced to leave Lorna when Namor invades New York. The people hate Alex despite him saving them. Alex has to hurt “innocents”.