Marvel Universe

Kylun

Universe
Marvel Universe

Real Name
Colin McKay

Aliases
None

Identity
Secret

Occupation
Adventurer

Citizenship
U.K.

Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.

Known Relatives
Sa'tneen (chosen lifemate, deceased), Ai'sha (lifemate's mother, deceased), unidentified parents, unidentified cousins

Group Affiliation
Formerly Excalibur

Education
Primary school (unfinished); trained as a warrior

Height
5'11"

Weight
170 lbs.

Eyes
Red slit iris with yellow sclera

Hair
Orange

Powers
Kylun is a mutant who can precisely reproduce any sound he hears.

Abilities
Kylun is an exceptionally skilled swordsman.

Weapons
Kylun wields a pair of mystic blades, forged by Zz’ria, can dissipate demonic forces, disrupt magic, and slice through the hardest steel with ease, but will pass through the pure and virtuous without causing any harm.

First Appearance
(As McKay) Excalibur #2 (1988); (as Kylun) Excalibur #43 (1991)

Significant Issues
Kidnapped from family by Vixen's men, escaped, hid in abandoned Loch Daemon factory, met Widget, sent to Ee'rath (Excalibur #2/Excalibur #46, 1988/1992); raised by Zz'ria in exiled court of Queen Ai'sha, grew to become warrior, betrothed to Sa'tneen, Necrom's forces massacred court, Kylun survived & began resistance (Excalibur #46, 1992); rallied forces to fight Necrom, rescued Sa'tneen (Excalibur #42-44, 1991); rebel forces drove Necrom's army back to Dark Citadel, Kylun & Sa'tneen breached it, confronted Necrom & zombie Ee'rath Excalibur (Excalibur #45, 1991); Sa'tneen disrupted Necrom's control of zombies, mortally wounded by him, died in Kylun's arms, Kylun pursued Necrom to Earth-616, allied with Excalibur (Excalibur #46, 1992); in Ireland, helped Excalibur against re-awakened Anti-Phoenix (Excalibur #48, 1992); vs Necrom, confronted by Sa'tneen's reanimated remains, Necrom defeated, Kylun moved into Braddock Manor (Excalibur #50, 1992); sent to primeval times by Sidestep, vs Iceman & dinosaurs (Excalibur: XX Crossing, 1992); entered Crazy Gang's Wonderland (Excalibur #54, 1992); departed Braddock Manor to find family (Excalibur #55, 1992); ambushed on parents' doorstep by RCX Warpies, captured & taken to Cloud Nine (Excalibur #63, 1993); freed by Nightcrawler, helped oppose Warpies (Excalibur #65, 1993); assisted extra-dimensional warrior Khaos against sorcerer Ghath (Excalibur Annual #1, 1993); inadvertently traveled with rest of Excalibur to Earth-811 & 2015 A.D., helped local heroes overthrow Sentinel regime (Excalibur #66-67, 1993); accompanied Excalibur in trying to free teammate Cerise from Shi'ar custody (Excalibur #68-70, 1993); attended wedding of Brian Braddock & Meggan, revealed he had moved back in with parents (Excalibur #125, 1998)

Mutant Colin McKay was seven when the crimelord Vixen had him kidnapped from his home outside Edinburgh. Escaping, he hid in a derelict factory on the shores of Loch Daemon, where, scared and lonely, he chanced upon the robotic Widget, making an instant friend. When the Vixen’s men followed, Widget sent Colin through a portal to another reality. Colin re-appeared on the ice plains of Ee’rath (Earth-148) and was taken to the exiled Royal Household of Queen Ai'sha, recently deposed by the evil mage Necrom. The benevolent witch-queen entrusted Colin to the mystic Zz'ria, who trained him as a warrior. Over the next twenty years, an increasingly leonine Colin became known as Kylun while developing his mutant talent for sound mimicry and pledging his heart to the sorceress Princess Sa'tneen, Ai'sha's daughter. Fearing the queen’s growing army, Necrom launched a surprise attack. Most were slain or captured; badly wounded, Kylun was left for dead. Recovering, he rescued Sa’tneen and they rallied an army, gradually driving the tyrant’s men back to the Dark Citadel, Necrom’s last stronghold. Penetrating this bastion, the lovers confronted Necrom, who attacked them with the zombified remains of their world’s greatest heroes, Excalibur. Sa’tneen neutralized the zombies by attacking Necrom, who killed her. She died in the arms of Kylun, who pursued the fleeing Necrom through a door, emerging in the lighthouse of Earth-616’s Excalibur team. Mistaking Nightcrawler for a demon, Kylun attacked him, but realized his mistake after his mystic blades proved unable to hurt the virtuous Nightcrawler. Widget’s arrival confirmed that Kylun had returned to his own Earth, though the time-rate differential between worlds meant only a year had passed since his departure, and that Necrom had arrived there a month earlier.

Kylun teamed with Excalibur to fight Necrom, his blades proving to be one of the few effective weapons against the mage. After Necrom’s defeat, Kylun elected to stay with the team, fighting the time-manipulating assassin Sidestep and the early X-Men (or alternate dimensional counterparts), and helping to investigate the Crazy Gang’s bizarre Wonderland. Still brooding over his lost love, Kylun returned to Scotland in search of his family, but on his parents’ doorstep, before he could ring the doorbell, he was assaulted and kidnapped by Warpie agents of R.C.X. (the Resources Control Executive). Taken to their base, Cloud Nine, he and other similarly abducted Excalibur allies were held in stasis until Nightcrawler freed them. Back with Excalibur, he helped the extra-dimensional warrior Khaos defeat the evil Ghath, traveled to Earth-811 to assist its surviving heroes in overthrowing the ruling Sentinel regime, and joined in trying to rescue his teammate Cerise after she was apprehended for war crimes by the Shi'ar.

Finally locating his parents, Kylun left Excalibur to move back in with them. He later attended the Otherworld wedding of his teammates Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) and Meggan.

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