Real Name: Kevin Sydney
Code Name: Morph
Team Affiliations: New Mutants, X-Men, Avengers, Exiles
First Appearance (as Morph from Exiles): Exiles #1 (2001)
Powers and Abilities: Morph is a mutant shapeshifter capable of shifting his mass into any shape he can imagine. His body has a play-dough like quality that allows him to reattach lost limbs or chunks from battle.
Personality: Morph is often aloof, using his shapeshifting powers to make fun or just make esoteric references. Though often playing the fool, Morph has a masters degree in computer engineering, and has been an X-Men and an Avenger.
Background: The character that would become Morph, then known as Changeling, was an incidental character introduced in the early days of Uncanny X-men. Where he impersonated Professor X before being killed. It wouldn't be until many many years latter that he would repear in the pilot storyline of X-Men the Animated series. This version of the character was also quickly killed off as part of that story. He would return again in the alternate reality saga Age of Apocalypse with a whole new look and a more jokester attitude. This version of Morph proved to be fairly popular, and when Marvel launched their new reality hopping series Exiles Morph was made a main character. Except this Morph, though wearing the same costume as the AoA Morph was actually from yet another alternate reality. One where Morph was enrolled in Xaiver's School for Gifted Youngsters, graduated to the New Mutants, then the X-Men. Before becoming unstuck in reality, forcing him to join with a band of alternate reality characters to travel from world to world fixing realities.
Gender Blender Elements: Morph likes to change his shape. A lot actually. Mostly for comedic effect, if not for others then just for the humor of the moment. One thing Morph tends to shift into a lot is various female forms, and sometimes male forms wearing female clothing. Most of these moments are incidental, meant for laughs at how ridiculousness they are. But there sure are a lot of them. Below are some of Morph's best gender blender moments taken from the first 25 issues of Exiles. There are over 100 issues of Exiles, and Morph is in most of them. So more then likely we will come back to Morph's fun with femininity in the future.
Final Verdict: Morph is one of the most fun characters super-hero comics has ever created. While shapeshifting into a woman is a minor thing he does often only as a background gag, its always cute. On top of Exiles is one of the greatest comic series to come out of Marvel in the last decade, with an incredible cast of characters, wonderful story arcs, and fascinating 'What If?' scenerios. Super-Hero comics don't get much better.
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