Cameron Hodge
Anti-mutant terrorist who made a pact with a demon.
Cameron Hodge is a Marvel Comics supervillain who primarily battles the X-Men. He debuted in X-Factor #1 as a supporting character, created by Bob Layton and Jackson Guice. Hodge was a founding member of X-Factor and its public relations agent. He later made a pact with the demon N'astirh, gaining immortality that allowed his severed head to survive decapitation.
Quick Facts
- Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Debut
- X-Factor #1 (February 1986)
- Creators
- Bob Layton; Jackson Guice
- Species
- Human mutate-cyborg
- Alliances
- Phalanx
- Purifiers
- The Right
- N'astirh
- Genoshan Cabinet
- X-Factor
- Also known as
- The Commander
- Powers
- Immortality; Superhuman physical attributes through cybernetic body
Facts from the source article.
Publication history
Cameron Hodge debuted in X-Factor #1 (February 1986), created by Bob Layton and Jackson Guice. This series, a spinoff of Uncanny X-Men, centered on the original five X-Men. Hodge was a founding member of X-Factor, serving as its public relations agent. Writer Louise Simonson later revealed Hodge was secretly the leader of the Right, an anti-mutant terrorist group working against X-Factor. Angel decapitated Hodge, but his head survived and was attached to a large robotic body in the 1990 storyline "X-Tinction Agenda." A 1993 storyline showed Hodge had merged with the Phalanx, an alien cybernetic race. An entry for Hodge appeared in the 1989 reference book Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #3.
Fictional character biography
Hodge is a founding member of X-Factor and serves as its public relations agent; he is also the former college roommate of co-founder Warren Worthington III, also known as Angel. Under Hodge's plan, the members of X-Factor contact and teach young mutants while posing as professional mutant hunters. Hodge is later revealed to have been secretly acting against X-Factor. The company's advertising campaign actually increased anti-mutant hysteria. In addition, the team suffers a series of major setbacks. After being injured by Harpoon during the Mutant Massacre, Angel has his wings amputated, and then seemingly dies in a private jet explosion. X-Factor later discovered that Hodge had orchestrated Angel's amputation and plane accident and had created holograms simulating the Phoenix Force. They also discover that Hodge had secretly been the commander of an anti-mutant terrorist group known as the Right. Hodge and The Right form a pact with the demon N'astirh. In exchange for collecting mutant babies the Right needed for a spell to open up a portal from Limbo to Earth, N'astirh promises Hodge immortality and the continued existence of The Right and its work creating conflict between humans and mutants. Hodge later kidnaps and kills Candy Southern, Warren's former girlfriend. Warren is revealed to have survived the plane explosion and is transformed into Archangel by Apocalypse. Archangel invades the Right's headquarters and confronts Hodge, decapitating him. During the 1990 crossover storyline "X-Tinction Agenda", Cameron Hodge is revealed to be alive. His severed head has been attached to a large robotic body, a fate Hodge says he survived as a result of the pact he made with N'astirh. Hodge has allied with the government of the island nation of Genosha, where mutants are enslaved as obedient servants. Hodge and the Genoshan government launch an attack upon the X-Men, X-Factor, and the New Mutants. During these events, Warlock is killed in the course of Hodge's experiments on him. His captives free themselves and defeat Hodge, whose still-surviving head is buried beneath a collapsed building. In a 1993 storyline, Cameron Hodge is revealed to have merged with the Phalanx, a cybernetic alien species. He is again apparently killed by Archangel. Hodge is defeated by Steven Lang when the Phalanx's human interface causes the Phalanx citadel to fall from the top of Mount Everest. Cameron Hodge's remains are found in the Himalayas by a group of Purifiers. He is later revived when Bastion infects him with the transmode virus gained from one of Magus' offspring. At Cypher's behest, Warlock kills Hodge by absorbing his life force.
In other media
Cameron Hodge appears in X-Men: The Animated Series, voiced by Brett Halsey in the first season and later by Gary Krawford in "The Phalanx Covenant". Throughout the series, he has served as a lawyer for Beast and ambassador for Genosha. Following an attack by Cable, Hodge loses an arm and a leg. Seeking revenge on mutants, he releases the Phalanx infection before merging himself with the alien race's leader to help them assimilate Earth and its inhabitants, only to be defeated and restored by Beast, Warlock, Forge, Mister Sinister, Amelia Voght, and Magneto. Cameron Hodge appears as a boss in X-Men: Destiny, voiced by Keith Ferguson. This version is a member of the Purifiers who wears a suit capable of utilizing mutant powers farmed by the U-Men.
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