| Alias |
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Surge IV |
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| Nick Name | |
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| Civilian ID | |
| Noriko Ashida | |
| Occupation | |
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Adventurer Mutant Rights Activist Student |
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| Legal Status | |
| Citizen of Japan with no criminal record. | |
| Nation or Planet of Origin | |
| Tokyo, Japan | |
| Group Affiliation | |
| New X-Men | |
| Base of Operations | |
| Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York | |
| Height | |
| 5' 7" | |
| Weight | |
| 135 lbs. | |
| Eye Color | |
| Blue | |
| Hair Color | |
| Blue | |
| Skin Tone | |
| Mongoloid | |
| Known Powers | |
| Mutation resulting in an ability to absorb ambient electricity and channel it into bursts of superhuman speed and electrostatic discharges. | |
| Accessories | |
| Stabilizer Gauntlets: Equipment designed to regulate absorbed energies. | |
| Common Enemies | |
| (The) Reavers | |
| Regularly Appearing | |
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New Mutants Vol. 2 New X-Men Vol. 2 |
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| First Appearance | |
| New Mutants Vol. 2 #8 (Jan. 2004) | |
| Creator | |
| Nunzio Defilippis, Christina Weir, Carlo Barberi & Khary Randolph | |
| Origin | |
| Running away from her home in Tokyo Noriko Ashida lived on the streets of New York, resorting to illegal narcotics to keep her mutation under control. Discovered by a group of students from the Xavier Institute, they made it possible for her to control her abilities in a more benign way. When the headmaster Scott Summers (Cyclops) decided to form a new team she was chosen, using the nickname she was given on the street - Surge. |
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