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Madison Jeffries agreed to work with Bochs and together they created a new variation of Box’s “living metal” armor that allowed Roger to physically merge himself into the robot. This symbiosis was keyed to Bochs’ genetic code, providing a failsafe against misuse by anyone else. [Alpha Flight (1st series) #22] Box joined Alpha Flight ...
MADISON JEFFRIES | uncannyxmen.net. Publication Date: 11th Jul 2023. Written By: Monolith, Peter Luzifer, Daytripper. Image Work: Peter Luzifer. Vital Statistics. Biography. Issue Checklist. Costume Gallery. Alternate Versions. Real name. Madison Jeffries. Aliases. Box IV, Gemini III. Height. 6’ 1” Weight. 195 lbs. Hair. Black. Eyes. Blue.
Written By: Monolith, Peter Luzifer and Daytripper. Image Work: Peter Luzifer. Vital Statistics. Biography. Issue Checklist. Costume Gallery. Alternate Versions. ALTERNATE VERSIONS. In the Age of Apocalypse, Madison was a member of the Brotherhood of Chaos, a group of mutant fanatics serving Apocalypse.
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I can create. That's my gift. I can make anything I can imagine. Out of metal. Glass. You name it. With people, I can't create. I just destroy. I betray. I want to be with her. But I know I can never be. I know that if I'm with her, she'll just be hurt again. ... And she was dead an hour later. Four days after that, I put her in a glass box. The separation is better for us.
—Madison Jeffries
Early Life
Much of Madison's past is unknown. He and his brother Lionel served in the US army during the Siancong War. Madison worked as a mechanic, Lionel as a medic. While Madison had always been uncomfortable with his powers, Lionel seemed to relish using his. Their unit was heavily damaged after a mission and Lionel seemed to go insane. He used his powers on the dead and wounded with horrific results. Madison had to use his powers to restrain his brother and had him committed. After returning home, he became a mechanic in the Canadian town of Harbordale, where post traumatic stress disorder caused his powers to go out of control and take over the entire town. The Canadian government sent Wolverine, who was working for Department H at the time, to investigate. He found and woke up Jeffries, freeing the town. After bringing him back to Department H, Madison was checked into a clinic where he met Roger Bochs.
Gamma & Alpha Flight
Madison was apparently recruited by Guardian and was part of the Gamma Flight training group. He became romantically involved with Diamond Lil, also part of Gamma Flight. However, he was let go along with the rest of the training teams when Department H was defunded. Madison worked on a new version of the Box robot with Roger Bochs. He was able to find or make a special type of living metal that allowed the operator to merge into the armor rather than control it via remote. Bochs and Jeffries then both officially joined Alpha Flight. Madison's first major action was to dismantle Delphine Courtney when Omega Flight attacked Alpha Flight. Heather began looking into Madison's past and discovered his brother Lionel in a mental ward. Madison knew his brother was a danger and tried to stop her. Lionel was accidentally freed. Calling himself Scrambler, Lionel escaped and caused a great deal of trouble before supposedly being forced to use his powers on himself, curing his insanity. Lionel set up a "New Life clinic" where he would work on others, claiming he could cure any ailment. Alpha Flight began using his treatments regularly, but Scramble was still insane. When Roger Bochs was transformed from a paraplegic into an athletic man with legs by Lionel, the transformation began to break down. When Bochs started to go insane, Madison took possession of the Box robot. With his powers he could form weapons and devices to augment it as needed. Bochs and Lionel then merged into Omega, wanting to use their combined power and skill. Although Persuasion was able to briefly separate the two, Scramble lobotomized Bochs and reformed Omega. Madison felt that his brother could never be rehabilitated, so he formed a large cannon and destroyed Omega. While James Hudson was presumed dead, Madison and Heather became close, and even became engaged. However, he continued to secretly see Lillian and eventually realized that he loved her and not Heather. He also helped James Hudson when he was captured by Roxxon. He and Lillian retired and married. Lillian attempted to keep him from using the Boxbot. Madison finally admitted he was becoming addicted to using it, as well as being an adventurer. He still rejoined Alpha Flight after it was reinstated by Department H, although his wife asked him not to. However, she was able to convince him not to use Box unless it was absolutely necessary. On a mission with the team, Jeffries was knocked out battling the Zodiac. They brainwashed him into being Gemini and had him create a robot duplicate to control. Despite Puck finding and unmasking him, he seemed to still think Alpha Flight were his enemies.
Brainwashed and Neverland
Having been brainwashed repeatedly, Jeffries was then taken by Weapon X and was manipulated into thinking that Director Colcord was his ally and not to question the intended use of his projects. He was working on a new generation of Sentinels as well as using Box robots to keep the Neverland prisoners in line. So extensive was the brainwashing that he didn't even realize that his wife Lillian was one of the detainees in the camp. With Neverland now abandoned, Madison and his prototypes accompanied Colcord. Following infighting within the project and an attack by Cable's Underground, the Weapon X program was infiltrated and crippled. Colcord was almost killed by the turncoat agent Washout, but was rescued by Madison, after Colcord persuaded Aurora to join him, the three escaped the Weapon X complex using Aurora's superhuman speed to parts unknown, despite the Director's abusive behavior towards her.
Powers
Technokinetic Transmutation: This power allows him to psychokinetically manipulate, alter, and restructure all inorganic materials and their living variants (when/while he inhabits them, as they become living when he phases into them) into anything within his imagination. This included remote manipulation and control of devices made of such materials, even if not of his own creation. Madison can telekinetically manipulate, arrange, and alter objects at the atomic level. On at least one occasion, he was able to somehow utilize the thoughts of someone else via touching their forehead to create machines based off of blueprints in their mind. He is particularly skilled at psionically creating technologies that duplicate or enhance the form and functions of parts of the human body. •Techno Possession: Jeffries could do more than just assume control of machines, he could also phase his own physicality and consciousness into them, thereby using and piloting any and all technological forms as his own body. He often used this function within the Box mecha suit he had developed utilizing it as his makeshift robotic combat form. •Remote Technoforming: He has evolved a secondary mutation of full technomorphation, allowing him to not only communicate with artificial intelligences, base appliances, machinery, and robotics, making it relatively easy for him to control and utilize most of these as a result. But better acclimate and affect distanced transformation of mechanical parts into whatever it is he needs.
Abilities
Madison has experience both as a soldier and as a master mechanic and machinesmith. In the realm of technologies, he seems to have a genius level intuitive gift, allowing him to create amazingly advanced equipment with relative ease. It has been theorized that because he never embraced his powers, until much later in life that he had never fully utilized them before, nor his knack for innovative design.
Weaknesses
While merged with Box, Madison could formerly only transmute the armor itself and absorb added material into the armor, and had to separate from Box to use his powers to affect these materials in any other way. However, this no longer seems to be the case as shown when trying to restrain Sebastian Shaw, while inhabiting the Box robot, he also caused various wires, conduits, and pipes outside his robotic form to wrap around and attempt to hold the mutant in place. Jeffries' mental state has been severely damaged due to brainwashing and manipulation over the years. He seems to be under considerable strain from constant work on projects.
Equipment
•Box Robot: Through an act of will, Madison Jeffries can "phase" into the humanoid robotic body called Box in order to control it from within. The Box robotic body is principally composed of a "living metal," the exact nature of which has not yet been revealed. Jeffries mentally controls Box from within its body, and can perceive whatever its sensors perceive. Although Jeffries cannot actually feel physical pain while within Box, his psychic link with Box makes it so that he can feel psychic pain if enough damage is inflicted upon Box. •Superhuman Strength: The Box robot has vast superhuman strength and can lift 85 tons. He has been able to kill the Thing of Earth-7475 by shattering his rock body with his blows. •Superhuman Durability: The Box robot is highly resistant to physical damage but extremely hard materials like Adamantium could damage it. •Flight: Powerful jets either in the soles of its feet or emerging from its back allow the robot to fly at supersonic speeds, though he can just as easily alter its form to become an aircraft, etc. •Technological Adaptation: Box also contains many different devices to fulfill various functions. In fact, Jeffries can use his psionic powers to create new technologies and adaptive equipment for Box, or to modify existing devices within Box and alter its shape, in any way that he can conceive. When Box flies, he can cause its arms to become wings or extend them from his back and a rudder to appear on its feet. He has also caused a drill to emerge from Box's feet and has created weaponry adapted to face whatever foe is being confronted. Jeffries is able to alter the robot as needed such as forming weapons or adapting sensors, in addition by drawing upon outside material, he can increase the size of the robot to unknown limits. At one point he had developed prototypes for the Weapon X Project and seemed able to control them all simultaneously. •Energy Projection: For example, he has caused part of Box's body to become a cannon and a weapon capable of discharging living light. The energy blasts that his cannon could generate were powerful enough to kill his brother after he had turned into Omega.
•Madison Jeffries' astrological symbol is Gemini. This indicates Madison was born under this sign of the zodiac, sometime between May 20 and June 20.
•204 appearance(s) of Madison Jeffries (Earth-616)
•13 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Madison Jeffries (Earth-616)
•5 minor appearance(s) of Madison Jeffries (Earth-616)
•13 mention(s) of Madison Jeffries (Earth-616)
•6 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Madison Jeffries (Earth-616)
•103 image(s) of Madison Jeffries (Earth-616)
References
1.Sabretooth & the Exiles #2 2.X-Men vs. Agents of Atlas #1 3.X-Men: Blind Science #1 4.Sabretooth & the Exiles #1 5.X-Men: Earth's Mutant Heroes #1 6.Alpha Flight #30 7.Alpha Flight #48 8.Alpha Flight #1 9.Alpha Flight #22–23 10.Alpha Flight #28 11.Alpha Flight #43 12.Alpha Flight #48–49 13.Alpha Flight #87–90 14.Alpha Flight #104 15.Alpha Flight #125–126 16.Alpha Flight (Vol. 2) #1 17.Alpha Flight (Vol. 2) #12 18.Weapon X (Vol. 2) #1–22 19.Uncanny X-Men #512 20.All-New X-Men #40 21.All-New X-Men #41 22.Age of X-Man Alpha #1 23.Age of X-Man: Nextgen #1 24.Age of X-Man Omega #1 25.Sabretooth (Vol. 4) #4 26.Sabretooth (Vol. 4) #3 27.Sabretooth (Vol. 4) #1 28.Sabretooth (Vol. 4) #5 29.Sabretooth & the Exiles #4 30.Alpha Flight #88 31.Alpha Flight #36 32.X-Men: Curse of the Mutants - Smoke & Blood #1 33.Weapon X (Vol. 2) #12 34.Avengers Academy #30 35.Alpha Flight #75 36.Alpha Flight #53 37.Alpha Flight #50 38.Alpha Flight #49 39.X-Men: Earth's Mutant Heroes #1 40.X-Men: Earth's Mutant Heroes Vol 1 1
Dec 17, 2008 · Beast, Angel and Dr. Nemesis track down Madison Jeffries, who is hiding out in Canada fighting some machines of his that became autonomous. They help Jeffries out and recruit him onto the X-Men science team with Beast and Dr. Nemesis.
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Madison Jeffries is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted as having the ability to reshape plastic, metal, and glass to any desired shape. He also possesses the technopathic ability to mentally communicate with A.I., such as machines and robots.
