Alex Summers

Alexander Summers a.k.a. Havok

Alexander Summers was the son of Major Christopher Summers, a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force, and his wife, Katherine Ann Summers. He had two brothers, older brother Scott Summers and younger brother Gabriel Summers. All three were mutants.

When Scott and Alex were boys flying home from a family vacation in their father's vintage private plane, a scout ship from the alien Shi'ar Empire suddenly materialized and set the plane ablaze. Katherine pushed Scott and Alex out the plane door with the only available parachute. The parachute caught fire, so Scott used his mutant optic blasts for the first time to slow their descent. Scott and Alex were unaware that their parents had been teleported from the plane by the Shi'ar a moment before it exploded.