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Occupation: Adventurer Identity: Publicly known, but not believed by the general public of Earth to be an Eternal or from Titan. Legal Status: Citizen of Titan Former Aliases: Unknown Place of Birth: Titan, moon of Saturn Marital Statis: Single Known Relatives: A'Lars (alias Mentor, father), Sui-San (mother, deceased), Thanos (brother) Nebula (grand-neice, unvarified), Zuras (uncle, deceased), Thena (cousin), Chronos (grandfather, discorporated, ascended to statis of cosmic entity) Group Affiliation: Eternals of Titan, Avengers Current Base of Operations: Titan First Appearance: Iron Man vol.1 #55 Origin: Eros is the youngest son of two Titanian Eternals, A'Lars and Sui-San. Originally called Eron, Eros was given his current name (greek word meaning "love") at the age of 5 when his parrents noticed his prodigious interest in the opposite sex. Eros grew up to be a fun-loving, carefree womanizer, in contrast to his brother Thanos, a power hungry, misanthropic schemer. Only when Thanos launched his first major attack on Titan, an attack which left their mother Sui-San dead, did Eros begin to take his life a bit more seriously. In subsequent campaigns against Thanos, fought alongside Titan's hastily trained warriors, somehow managing to become one of its few survivors Eros joined the Kree Captain Mar-Vell and the Avengers in the first major defeat of Thanos. No longer bound by duty, Eros began to wander space, seeking out pleasure and recreation on humanoid-inhabited worlds. When Captain Mar-Vell retreated to Titan to spend his final days of life, Eros was summoned home by his father A'Lars and returned to Titan to help console his friend. Just before Mar-Vell died, he made Eros promise to take care of his companion, Elysius, after he was gone. Eros did for several weeks, until Elysius, realizing his wanderlust, released him from his vow. Eros then consulted I.S.A.A.C. Titan's master computer, for data on the most suitable planets for his needs and temperament. The computer recommended Earth. Travelling there, Eros visited the only people he knew, the Avengers, and petitioned them to make him a member. The Avengers admitted him to their training program and gave him the codename Starfox. He later returned to Titan to take a semi-active role in "taking care" of Elysius and her son by Mar-Vell, Genis, until her death on the surface of Titan at the grave of her deceased love. Eros now keeps an infrequent "eye on" Mar-Vell's son and Heir Genis-Vell (Legacey, Captain Marvel III) Height: 6'1" Weight: 190 lbs Eyes: Blue Hair: Red Powers: Starfox posses several superhuman powers and capacities derived from his Eternal ancestry. Unlike Earth born Eternals, Titan-born Eternals do not possess the same self-regenerating cosmic life-force. (The accident that bestowed this cosmic life force upon the Eternals occurred after some of their number had left for Titan, thus the original Eternals of Titan never gained this practical immortality. Since all Titan-born Eternals are descendants of an original Eternal of Titan, Sui-San, not a recipient of the cosmic life force, and A'Lars who was, Titan-born Eternals tend to have varying degrees of longevity but not true immortality.) Starfox appears to be one of the longer-lived Eternals of Titan. Over one millenium old already, Starfox is still physically young by Eternal standards. Like all Titan-born Eternals, Starfox is immune to all terrestrial diseases, and has limited powers of celluler regeneration and a matabolism far more efficient than Earth humans. Titanian Eternals have the potential to manipulate cosmic enrgies in varrious ways, but Starfox himself has never undertaken the discipline of learning how. Like all Eternals (Earth and Titan-born), Starfox can levitate himself by mentally manipulating gravitons (sub-atomic particles that carry the force of gravitational attraction between particles) around him. He can fly at about 800 miles per hour (aproximately Mach 1.03), a rate exceptional for his kind. His strength, also above average for a male Eternal, enables him to lift (press) aproximately 15 tons. Note: Eros should not be confused with the Olympian god Eros (in latin, Cupid) who was the son of Aphrodite (Venus) |
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