Jamie Braddock

Jamie Braddock first appeared in the British comic book Captain Britain Weekly # 9 (December 1976) and was created by Chris Clairmont, Coat of Arms Trimp and Fred Kido.

Jamie is the eldest son of Dr. James and Elizabeth Braddock. Nearly ten years older than his brother and sister, the twins Brian and Elizabeth ("Betsy"), Jamie had a relatively isolated childhood ^[2] .

He made a name for himself as a financial genius and was also a successful race car driver. He led Braddock Industries, a company that flourished under his leadership. Ultimately, Jamie found out about his brother's secret identity as Captain of Britain and helped him several times. In his free time, however, Jamie began making illegal bets, and his debts grew. Soon he engaged in various illegal activities in order to pay his debts. Starting with minor crimes, Jamie eventually engaged in robbery, murder and the slave trade in Africa , with the result that he was abducted by Dr. Crocodile, an African scientist (also a former agent S. A. K.). He made Jamie contact his brother, thinking that Brian was also involved with Jamie’s crimes. The Crocodile Witch doctor created a hallucination for Brian so that she and Crocodile could observe the reaction to the crimes that Jamie committed. Convinced that Brian was innocent, Crocodile told Brian the truth about his brother's actions. Shocked and furious, Brian left Jamie in his fate.

Jamie’s treatment in the hands of Dr. Crocodile eventually broke his mind, causing him to believe that the world around him was just a dream. Torture and hallucinations, also caused by him, awakened his hidden mutant power; the ability to deform and rebuild reality in its immediate environment. Sat-Yr-9, in the stolen identity of Courtney Ross, found out about the forces that had appeared recently and hired interdimensional mercenaries, who are known as Technet, to free him. When confronted with TechNet, Crocodile revealed the crimes of Jamie Technet. The group turned on Jamie, attacking him, but he easily defeated them and erased their memories of these events. Then he used his power to turn Dr. Crocodile into a real crocodile and left with Sat-Yur-9. Jamie was taken to his family home, where he used his forces of warping reality to change things as they were in his youth, even resurrecting the help of his family (who was also his childhood nurse), Emma Collins.

Sat-Yr-9 used Jamie’s reality warping forces to turn the London criminal, known as the Fox, into a fox. Moments later, he turned her assistant Nigel Frobisher (who was also sent by Sat-Yur-9 to hire Technet to free him for the first time) into a duplicate of the Fox. When Frobisher wanted to take the fox underworld and also told Jamie that this was not what he hoped to do. After Frobisher took over the initial embarrassment of the situation, he and Jamie used their newly acquired resources to ambush Excalibur, a superhero team that Brian joined. During the ambush, Jamie killed Alisanda Stewart and took his sister Elizabeth (now X-Man named Psylock) into captivity, torturing them with his own strength. He was defeated when his friend Brian Meggan managed to reject his forces, allowing Psylocke to break free and disable him with his psychic blade. Sat-Yr-9 restored Jamie’s unconscious body when she ran away. After these events, Jamie will remain in a coma for some time, apparently abandoned by Sat-Yur-9 and taken to the Isle of Mure for treatment. His brother and sister tried to rebuild him and heal his broken psyche using Psylocke's telepathy, but he ultimately rejected their offer, removing them from his mind and returning to the inhibited state.

Jamie was briefly seen in Uncanny X-Men # 462-465 in the history of House M , in which Crazy Jim Jaspers, another British villain with the forces of reality manipulation, also mysteriously reappeared. In Uncanny X-Men # 472 , he reveals that he was the one who resurrected his sister Betsy one year to the day after she was killed in Spain. Resurrecting her, Jamie also controlled the quantum forces that made up his sister, giving her complete immunity from psionics, magic, and warping of reality. The Uatu Observer also inexplicably appears, implying that something like a cosmic significance should occur. Jamie mentions the "space threat", now known as the Rejected (one of whom is Jamie's former girlfriend, Amina Sing), who recently reappeared on Earth. He will survive through the mysterious portal into which the X-Men follow him. Most of the team is captured, with the exception of Psylock, which is invisible to the Rejected, thanks to Jamie's changes. During the conflict that follows, Jamie decides that he cannot allow his sister to be used again as a pawn, sacrificing himself instead to save the universe from the First Fallen, the owner of the Rejected.

Jamie briefly appears in Captain Britain and MI: 13 , helping Brian find his way through the illusion created by the demonic Lord Plokta. Whether it was actually Jamie, or the illusion created by Plokta, or Brian's own mind, is unknown.

Jamie appears again alive, along with his brother and the Captain of Britain's Corps, defending the Other World from the forces of a powerful sorcerer named Goat. He proposes to “clean up” Psylock changes made to her mind and body during her time with the X-Men, but she refuses. Although he initially seems to have been transformed and cured of insanity, it eventually turned out that Koz was in fact spoiled by Jamie’s future incarnation, which was determined to consume the multiverse. to attain divinity. When his power grows, Psy-cell, left without any alternatives, telepathically forces his twin, Brian, to kill Jamie, breaking his neck, erasing the Goat from existence and ending his threat to the multiverse ^[3] .

Jamie Braddock is a mutant who has the ability to deform reality in his immediate environment. Unlike most mutants, whose abilities manifest themselves during puberty or even earlier, Jamie's strength remained latent in his adult life, only resulting from extreme mental pressure due to the mystical torture of Dr. Crocodile. Jamie's strength allows him to perceive the universe as a mass of quantum threads , for which you can pull and twist to change the fabric of reality to his whims. Initially, his deformation of reality was relatively limited; it could only affect dense forms, and you need to be close enough to twist the quantum strings surrounding it. Over time, however, the strength of his ability and his control increased significantly; it is no longer limited to dense forms or its close proximity.

Jamie’s deforming reality is enormous in scope, limited only by his imagination and fluctuating sanity. He can create portals from ordinary objects that can instantly transport him across the planet or into other dimensions, transform creatures into completely different forms, provide others with various superhuman abilities (although he tends to disappear over time) and can even resurrect the dead.

An alternative version of him appeared in Excalibur # 18, where he killed his brother ^[4] . And the other, where he was on the side of Brian, colliding with the Commanders of Chaos and Airanits ^[5] .

House M

In reality, House of M , a mutant-human war broke out, and he helped keep the peace, Jamie apparently showed mutant forces, and he was proud of his brother, who disliked mutants, after the mutant-human war had calmed down. Jamie disappeared without a trace, and Magneto asked that the elder should take control of the UK, Psylock was appointed, but she refused, and Brian agreed ^[6] .

Ultimate Marvel

In Ultimate Fallout Ultimate Marvel , Nick Fury is told that the European Union has recreated the Super Soldier Excalibur class program, which will be led by Brian's brother, Jamie, as the new Captain Britain ^[7] . Subsequently, he joins the Ultimate after the death of the Captains of France and Italy. These deaths are part of a prolonged world confrontation with the “City”, a rival army of Jamie, which works closely with Thor in the struggle ^[8] .

• Jamie Braddock Profile in the Unofficial Handbook of the Marvel Universe

• Jamie Braddock on the Comic Book DB