Quantum
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Quantum is an alien supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by Steve Englehart and Al Milgrom, the character first appeared in West Coast Avengers vol. 2, #12 (September 1986).
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. The scientists of his race noted that exposure to earth's sun had given one Dakkamite renegade superpowers - they sought to exploit this by placing a platoon of soldiers inside specially designed 'incubator capsules', which were then located close to the sun. Quantum wakes at the end of this treatment to discover that his powers have manifested - but that the rest of The Elect has already gone. Searching for his comrades, he becomes part of a supervillain team assembled by Graviton to resemble the Unified Field Theory. Halflife represents the weak force, Quantum represents the strong force, while Zzzax represents electromagnetism. Graviton himself represented gravity, and promiss Quantum that he would help to locate the missing soldiers. Graviton and his allies are defeated by the West Coast Avengers. Quantum, no longer believing Graviton's promises, abandons the team and goes his own way.
Quantum finds another superpowered Dakkamite on earth — the Aquarian, the now-pacifist whose powers originally inspired the plan to enhance Dakkamite soldiers. Quantum considers the Aquarian, the son of a renegade, to be a traitor to the fatherworld, so Quantum attempts to kill him. However, Quasar intervenes, saving the Aquarian and, using his abilities to distort Quantum's powers, traps him as a trio of intangible duplicates. The whereabouts of his fellow members of the Elect, imprisoned on the Stranger's laboratory world, are later revealed. Quantum reappears as one of the beings who have been subtly drawn to the planet Godthab Omega by the manipulations of Glorian. This planet is later assaulted by the Annihilation Wave, killing many of the inhabitants.
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