 Lance Alvers
Name: Lance Alvers
Codename: Avalanche
Team: The Brotherhood
Mutant Power: Geological manipulations
Marvel Description: That's no earthquake, that's Avalanche! High-school senior Lance Alvers -- a snide, surly jerk -- can project waves of energy into the ground, producing all manner of seismic mayhem. Lance's powers are very taxing, and using them gives him headaches. Therefore, he can only employ his abilities on a limited basis before losing control of his potentially unlimited powers.
Lance Alvers, aka Avalanche, was first introduced in the second episode of X:Men Evolution, The X-Impulse, which surprisingly... (coincidence, I think not!) was the same episode a certain Kitty Pryde also made her first appearance.
Considering he was put into foster care, it's safe to assume that Lance is an orphan. As the story goes, he arrives in Bayville around the same time period as Kitty but is recruited by Mystique while Kitty is welcomed to the X-team. Sooner or later, Lance becomes more or less the unofficial leader of the Brotherhood - technically, it's assumed Pietro should be leader, being a son of Magneto, but in terms of actual leadership - Lance takes over.
Lance possesses a very cool, very taxing power of the ability to cause seismic earthquakes which causes incredible damage to property around him. Which, naturally, makes him very popular with the adminstration. However, using his powers gives him a heck of an immense headache. Hanging out with the Brotherhood, the whole ripped-jeans, long hair look quite frankly, puts him in the category of rebel, along with his friends - Pietro (Quicksilver), Todd (Toad), Fred (Blob) and Co.
Lance meets Kitty as she flies out of a locker when discovering her powers (don't ask, just go along with it). Realizing he could possibly manipulate the younger mutant, he cons her into slipping into adminstration with the intention of stealing exam answers, which sadly goes awry when the rest of the X-men step in to interfere. And alas, the love story is temporarily halted.
But Lance himself doesn't revert 180 degrees for the sake of a girl. Naturally, enter the feuds. Scott Summers is also known as Public Enemy No. 1 for Lance. Leader of the Brotherhood and Leader of the X-Men don't mix, and it's often those two that are seen showing outright animosity towards each other.
Lance is fairly intelligent, when need be, and by default, has to take it upon himself to scrounge the money and the food to keep the Brotherhood going. He's had some brain lapses, such as his idea to reveal their mutant powers to the public, but overall, he's the one the Brotherhood depend on for the most part.
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