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Cover art for Gravity #1 (2005). Art by Mike Norton.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Gravity #1 (Aug. 2005) |
| Created by | Sean McKeever Mike Norton |
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| Alter ego | Greg Willis |
| Team affiliations | Great Lakes Avengers Heavy Hitters Initiative Young Allies |
| Abilities | Gravity manipulation |
Gravity (Greg Willis) is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. He first appeared in Gravity #1 (Aug. 2005) and was created by Sean McKeever and Mike Norton.
Gravity's first appearance was in his own limited series: Gravity #1-5 (2005), later released as a digest-formatted graphic novel as part of the Marvel Next imprint aimed at younger readers. In the same year, Gravity was featured in Marvel Holiday Special (2005) in a minor role.
The character's next appearance was in the crossover storyline Beyond! #1-6 (2006) which was followed up by related appearances in Fantastic Four #545-546 and #550 (2007) and Black Panther vol.4 #27 (2007). Gravity then had minor appearances in Fantastic Four #556 (2008), Avengers: The Initiative #17-19 (2008–2009), Avengers: The Initiative Special #1 (2009), Fantastic Four #563 (2009), Avengers: The Initiative #25 (2009) and Avengers Academy #13 (2011).
A solo storyline in Age of Heroes #2 (2010) provided the prologue to Gravity's next appearance as a member of the Young AlliesinYoung Allies #1-6 (2010–2011) then later in Onslaught Unleashed #1-4 (2011). Gravity was prominently featured in the Fear Itself tie-in series Fear Itself: Youth In Revolt #1-7 (2011).
Greg Willis was born and raised in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. During the summer after his high school graduation, while on board his family's yacht, Greg was sucked into a mysterious black hole. He was found alive and well hours later by his parents. After the incident, Greg found that he was able to manipulate the gravitational force around his body and nearby objects.[1] Looking to take advantage of his new powers, Greg moved east to New York City to study licensing and merchandising at New York University and become a marketable member of the superhero community known as Gravity.[2]
On his first outing, Gravity encountered a battle between Rage and Black Death. Unfortunately, Gravity accidentally mistook Rage as a villain and allowed Black Death to escape. His confidence began to waver as life as a superhero proved tougher than he first thought. But after he saves the life of a frail old woman, and meets new friends Lauren Singh and Frog, Gravity slowly becomes more competent in his double identity. His later battles prove to be more fruitful, defeating the likes of Rhino, Shocker and Whirlwind. However, Black Death took a special interest in Gravity, appearing numerous times to humiliate the new hero. Black Death then masqueraded as a hero known as the Greenwich Guardian (which was Black Death's identity before he became a supervillain) to further break Gravity's confidence and use him in a plot to destroy the university. Ultimately, his resolve is too strong for Black Death and the villain was defeated. After the battle, Gravity was congratulated by Spider-Man, filling him with confidence. Finally feeling accepted, Gravity begins a relationship with his friend Lauren and continues his superhero career.[3] Gravity later revealed his double identity to Lauren.[4]
After defeating a villain called Brushfire, Gravity stumbled upon a mysterious structure in Central Park and was transported to an alien world where he met Spider-Man, Henry Pym, the Wasp, Venom, Kraven, Firebird, and the Hood. A mysterious voice claiming to be the Beyonder explained to the gathered heroes and villains that they must slay their enemies to win their reward.[4] During their attempts to survive the hostile alien world, the group meet Michael Collins, who helps them survive and come to the realisation that the Beyonder has seemingly brought them together to evaluate them and see who wins in a battle amongst themselves. Eventually, the group battled one another, and Henry Pym emerges as the victor when he seemingly killed the other heroes and villains. He then deceived the Beyonder into revealing his true identity as the Stranger and restored the rest of the group who were shrunken down using Pym Particles. An angered Stranger was about to destroy the group until Uatu appeared. The presence of a Watcher unnerved the Stranger, who then allowed the group to leave peacefully, and disappeared. Without the Stanger's power, the planet began to pull itself apart. Gravity used his powers to hold the planet together and allowed the rest of the group to escape. He used the last of his power to join the group on the spaceship, but died shortly afterwards. The remaining heroes and villains attended Gravity's funeral to pay their respects for his actions. Later, Uatu stood by Gravity's grave, waiting to witness a cosmic destiny.[5]
When Gravity's grave was desecrated and his body is stolen, Michael Collins enlisted the help of the new Fantastic Four (now consisting of Black Panther and Storm as well as the Human Torch and the Thing) to find his fallen comrade. Following a cosmic residue left behind at the graveyard, the team ventured into deep space to discover that Gravity's body was stolen and resurrected by Epoch as the new Protector of the Universe. To protect Epoch from being consumed, Gravity emptied his new cosmic-level powers into Galactus and returned to Earth to see his parents and Lauren once more.[6] Later, when the Fantastic Four are fighting along with Doctor Strange and the Silver Surfer to save Eternity from dying, Uatu sought out Gravity's help to act as a 'scalpel' to cut out the infected portions of the universe. Fulfilling his cosmic destiny, Uatu informed Gravity that his secret identity (revealed after his demise) had been magically restored.[7]
Gravity later joined the Fifty State Initiative. After passing a leadership course, Gravity was made the leader of Nevada's Initiative team, the Heavy Hitters,[8] where he was joined by Initiative graduates Hardball, Nonstop and Telemetry.[9]
The Heavy Hitters were one of the few teams not to be infiltrated by the Skrulls during their secret invasion of Earth. Gravity and the Heavy Hitters aided the rest of the Initiative to battle and defeat Skrulls posing as the Revolutionary, Equinox, Thor Girl and Great Lakes Avengers member Grasshopper. During the battle with the Skrull Grasshopper, Flatman invited Gravity to join his home-state team, which he quickly rejected. The surviving members of the Initiative (including Gravity) stormed Camp Hammond and retook it from the Skrulls.[10] When Hardball confessed to Komodo that he had been forced to become a HYDRA double agent, Komodo enlisted Gravity and the rest of the Heavy Hitters to help free him. However, the plan backfireed when Hardball felt betrayed by Komodo and his team. He forcibly quit the Initiative and joined HYDRA, swearing enmity to his former friends.[11] After the Skrulls' secret invasion, when Norman Osborn gained control of the Initiative, he replaced Gravity as the leader of the Heavy Hitters with Prodigy. Gravity was transferred to Wisconsin as leader of the Great Lakes Avengers, much to his dismay.[12]
With the fall of Norman Osborn's Initiative, and the abolishment of the Superhuman Registration Act, Gravity quit the Great Lakes Avengers and considered giving up his position as a hero. While flying back to see his parents, Gravity attempted to save a young couple from a mysterious explosion. But before he could get them to safety, the couple were killed by Warhead, a member of the anarchist terrorist group known as the Bastards of Evil. In retaliation, Gravity angrily beat the villain unconscious, and found renewed reason to continue to be a hero.[13]
Returning to his studies at New York University, Gravity found himself with his friends Lauren and Frog once more. The return of Warhead and the Bastards of Evil, an anarchist group claiming to be the estranged children of supervillains, brought Gravity togther with fellow hero and university student Firestar. However, their team-up wasn't enough to stop Warhead from detonating his powers, killing himself and many others around him at Ground Zero. Becoming obsessed, Gravity struggled to keep up with his double life. He managed to see the errors of his ways with the help of Frog and Firestar respectively. Later, Gravity and Firestar teamed-up with Nomad, Spider-Girl, and Toro to defeat Superior, the son of the Leader, who had created the Bastards of Evil.[14] Teaming-up with the Secret Avengers, Gravity and his new young allies fought and defeated the entity known as Onslaught.[15]
When Steve Rogers requested that Prodigy create a new Initiative of volunteers to combat the growing fear within the nation, Gravity was among the former Initiative members that answered the call. Accompanied by Firestar, Gravity was appointed as co-team leader of one of the sections. His former Heavy Hitters teammate Hardball, recognised as a hero once again due to his role in Camp H.A.M.M.E.R.'s downfall, taunted Gravity for his lack of leadership skills, leading to a confrontation between the two. Komodo and Firestar quickly broke it up.[16]
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Acquiring his powers through mysterious circumstances, Gravity has the ability to manipulate gravitons in various ways, such as decreasing his own gravity, enabling him to fly; decreasing the gravity of objects around him, enabling him to simulate super-strength; and attract or repel objects.
Gravity has a minor cameo appearance in Marvel Zombies: Dead Days (2007). He is seen attempting to eat Nova who manges to evade him. A primate version of Gravity appears in the Marvel Apes titles Marvel Apes: Evolution Starts Here #1 (2009) and Marvel Apes: Speedball Special #1 (2009).
Various alternative versions of Gravity appear in the What If? storylines What If? Secret Wars #1 (2009), What If? House of M #1 (2009), What If? Spider-Man of House of M #1 (2009), and What If? Secret Invasion #1 (2010) in minor and cameo roles.
Gravity appeared in Robert Kirkman's "League of Losers" storyline in Marvel Team-Up vol.3 #15-18 (2006). A group of heroes including Gravity, Darkhawk, Dagger, Araña, X-23, Sleepwalker, and Terror travel to the future to stop the villainous Chronok from stealing Reed Richards' time machine, thus preventing him from travelling to the present and killing all the heroes of Earth.[17] During this time, Gravity sparks a relationship with X-23. With the help of Mutant 2099, a native of the future timeline, the group is able to defeat Chronok. However, they are unable to travel back to their original timeline and are forced to remain in the future. Gravity and the rest of the group accept their fate and take peace knowing that they saved the world, despite their sacrifice going unnoticed.[18]
IGN praised the Gravity comics, comparing the comics favorably to the classic Spider-Man comics.[citation needed] The character of Gravity was awarded Best New Comic Character for 2005 by IGN.[citation needed]
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