For Alex Summers, life has always been an adventure. Having the star-spanning Corsair as a father and the eye-blasting X-Man Cyclops as a brother, Havok has never been afraid of his mutant ability to create intense blasts of plasma by absorbing cosmic energy - only of his ability to control it. But, after becoming an X-Man himself, and now as a leader of the government run X-Factor, Havok has gained greater control over his phenomenal power, and now uses that forced to defeat the many foes that threaten mankind!