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Longshot is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Ann Nocenti and artist Art Adams, he first appeared in ''Longshot'' #1 (September 1985), the first issue of a six-issue miniseries that represents the first major work of both Nocenti and Adams. The ''Longshot'' series established Longshot as an amnesiac fugitive from another dimension who discovers that he has favorable probability outcomes, or "good luck," that protect him when his motives are pure, and that he was a genetically engineered slave who led a rebellion on his dystopian world against his former master and archenemy, Mojo. The character subsequently becomes a recurring fixture in the various X-Men related books, which see him as a member of the X-Men from 1986 to 1989, a member of Tony Bedard and Chris Claremont's Exiles teams, and a member of the third incarnation of ''X-Factor'' from 2008 - 2013, as well as in his own solo adventures. Versions of the character have also appeared in the Ultimate Marvel line of books, and television and video games. ==Publication history== Ann Nocenti wrote the story for the ''Longshot'' limited series. After most of Marvel's artists had declined to take on the project, it was offered to aspiring artist Arthur Adams, whose samples had been given to editor Carl Potts and Nocenti, his assistant editor, by editor Al Milgrom.〔 Explaining the concept of the character, which Nocenti borrowed from existentialist writers, she states, "Longshot is the idea of stripping someone of everything that they are. I never read comics, so the idea of a hero to me was different. I couldn't think of it in terms of a 'super hero' hero. I thought of it more as a conceptual hero. Not having a comic book background, I tend to come up with the metaphysics before I come up with the characters. I knew that I wanted to deal with the metaphysics of luck. It was a concept that interested me...what luck is, what probability is, how you could shift probabilities towards yourself. What are the repercussions of that? So, I did a character centered around that idea." Nocenti describes Longshot's state at the beginning of the miniseries by referring to him as "a clean slate. He has no memories, no past, no name, no nothing...In a sense, what I was trying to do was strip someone down to where he had none of the crutches that we normally have. Memory, in a way, is a crutch, or your name, or what you believe you are. So, Longshot's odyssey begins with some very basic questions: Who is he? Why is he here? Ultimately, he goes on a quest for his past and finds it in search of him."〔Ringgenberg, Steve (August 1985). ''Marvel Age'' #29. p. 13-15.〕 A design for the character of Longshot was put forward by Carl Potts, who outfitted the character in a jumpsuit that Adams thought to be reminiscent of the Starfleet uniforms from ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture''.〔Cooke, Jon B. ("The Art of Arthur Adams" ), Reprinted from ''Comic Book Artist'' No. 17, 15 November 2001〕 Nocenti, suggested that Longshot look distinct from other superheroes. She prescribed that he be an alien, have only four fingers on each hand, and has an unusual spine, though this last trait was not mentioned in the comics.〔"Art Adams interview". "The Mutant Report". Volume 3. ''Marvel Age'' #71 (February 1989). Marvel Comics. pp. 12 - 15.〕 Adams created his own design, and wanting to distinguish the character visually, based his mullet haircut on that of musician Limahl, as no other major Marvel character had such a haircut.〔 Adams, who disliked the practice of having characters produce weapons and other devices from their boots or secret pockets that had never before been established, decided to include some pouches on the character's belt, a practice that influenced the artwork of the founders of Image Comics. Longshot debuted in a six-issue, eponymous 1985–1986 mini-series. The series established the "Mojoverse", an alien dimension whose residents are addicted to televised gladiator-like entertainment and ruled by the tyrannical network head Mojo. Longshot possesses probability-altering or "luck" powers, and is an action star who escapes enslavement by Mojo. A ''Longshot'' ongoing series with Nocenti and Adams as the creative team was announced in 1988. According to Nocenti, "every issue is going to throw him into a completely different universe. So one issue, he's going to enter the world of the dead, and one issue he's going to go into a future world where he meets ageing heroes..." However, the series never materialized. Mephisto was to be the central villain;〔 shortly after the series was cancelled, Nocenti began using Mephisto as a major villain in ''Daredevil''. After the miniseries, Longshot joined the X-Men in ''Uncanny X-Men Annual'' #10 in 1986, and remained with them until ''Uncanny X-Men'' #248 (September 1989), appearing in various Marvel books occasionally, such as ''Exiles'', the 1997 one-shot ''Fools'' and ''X-Factor'', a book whose cast he joined in issue #35 (November 2008). He remained a part of that cast until that book's cancellation in 2013. In November 2013 Marvel premiered ''Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe'', a four-issue miniseries written by Christopher Hastings and illustrated by Jacopo Camagni.〔Hastings, Christopher (July 22, 2013). ("Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe" ). The Adventures of Dr. McNinja.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Longshot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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