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''Longshot'' is a 1985 miniseries by ''Creator/MarvelComics'', written by Creator/AnnNocenti with art by Arthur Adams.
The series follows Longshot, An {{artificial human}} bred for slavery in the media-obsessed [[Characters/XMenMojoverse Mojoverse]]. Improbably lucky, he is able to emerge from any scenario victorious.
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After rebelling against the Mojoverse's Spineless Ones and freeing his fellow slaves, Longshot finds himself transported to New York in the mainstream Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
After the end of the series, Longshot would soon join the ComicBook/XMen as a member of their field team.
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!!''Longshot'' provides examples of:
* AbortedArc: The mini actually seemed to be setting Mojo up as a villain for ComicBook/DoctorStrange, who he never fought again.
* ArtificialHuman: Well, artificial [[AnotherDimension other-dimensional]] "human". Longshot and others like him were created by the Spineless Ones to serve as performers in their TV-like entertainments.
* BareHandedBladeBlock: Longshot catches Spiral's sword between his hands. It helps that part of his powers is to have [[BornLucky chance fall in his favor]].
* BlankSlate: Longshot has no memories from before escaping to New York.
* CoolAirship: Mojo uses one of these to get around.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mojo is perhaps the most bizarre example ever. On Mojoworld, TV is life, and Mojo has the remote. So if you don't amuse him, you're [[DeadlyEuphemism cancelled]].
* EightiesHair: Longshot was modelled on the singer Limahl.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the original ''Longshot'' mini-series, he made movies with his slaves, but it was not the all-consuming obsession for him it would later become in ''X-Men''.
* GreenEyedMonster: The original ''Longshot'' mini showed her as being very jealous and resentful of ordinary humans, seeing herself as [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer a freak compared to them]]. Mojo states outright this is why he gave Spiral her extra arms.
* HourglassPlot: In his debut solo the bounty hunter sent by Mojo who hates his guts at first develops a deep respect for him while his son who assisted him at first is corrupted by absorbing the ambient magic on Earth and grows to hate him.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Explicitly a part of how his luck powers work in the earlier parts of his continuity. So long as his motives are pure rather than selfish, everything that can ''possibly'' go in his favor will do so, frequently in drastic fashion. If he attempts to use his luck for his own profit, however - such as his attempt in his introductory LS to work as a stuntman - his luck turns against him and reality quite painfully ensues.
* InMediasRes: The story opens on the then nameless Longshot running from goons in another dimension.
* IronicNickname: Mojo likes calling himself 'Mojo Lifebringer', which [[WalkingWasteland couldn't be further]] from the truth.
* ItAmusedMe: Mojo let Arize and his rebellion run around for this reason, and because it occasionally gives him cool things to steal and play with, like Longshot.
* KickTheDog: Shortly after arriving in our reality Spiral rips the shawl off an elderly woman and walks on the poor woman's head while making cracks about her 'pathetic face'.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Gog n'Magog (or "Pup" as Longshot calls him) from the original miniseries starts the story as something best described as a clawed monkey/bear hybrid with a beard and a mohawk. He keeps absorbing Earth's magic during the story, thus mutating from issue to issue. He ends up with a reptilian tail and stegosaurus plates on his back.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Mojo is heavily implied to be doing this.
--> '''Spiral:''' You act completely psychotic but I know you're really thirty moves ahead of everyone.
--> '''Mojo:''' [[SmugSnake Smile when you talk like that]], darling.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Longshot has a real name, but doesn't remember it due to being mindwiped.
* TropeCodifier: For a whole host of visual tropes from the Dark Age of comics. Art Adams' scratchy style in the original Longshot miniseries was a major influence on his inker, Whilce Portacio, and Jim Lee, and Adams actually gave Longshot pouches because of his dislike of the [[HyperspaceArsenal hyperspace arsenal trope.]]
* UtilityBelt: Longshot has bandoliers for his throwing knives because it bothered Creator/ArtAdams when characters with weapons like this just [[HyperspaceArsenal pulled them out of nowhere]]. Ironically, given the connection between Longshot and Shatterstar, this may have been the inspiration for the Creator/RobLiefeld tradition of characters with belts full of pouches they ''don't'' use for anything.
* WouldHurtAChild: The then nameless Spiral and several other nameless Mojoworld {{Mooks}} kidnapped a woman's baby. Her distinctive appearance led to her returning two issues later as a proper villain.
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'''Longshot''' is a Creator/MarvelComics character created by Ann Nocenti and Art Adams, first appearing in ''Longshot'' #1 (dated September 1985).
An {{artificial human}} bred for slavery in the media-obsessed [[Characters/XMenMojoverse Mojoverse]], Longshot's deal is improbable luck, able to emerge from any scenario victorious; his abilities are similar to that of the ComicBook/ScarletWitch.
After rebelling against the Mojoverse's Spineless Ones and freeing his fellow slaves, Longshot found himself transplanted in the mainstream Franchise/MarvelUniverse, soon joining the ComicBook/XMen as a member of their field team. It's there he met ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}, with whom he's been ([[WillTheyOrWontThey invariably]]) romantically linked. He later served as a member of the ''X-Factor Investigations'' team.
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[[AC:Notable ComicBooks]]
* ''Longshot'' (1985 -- 1986)
* ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' vol. 1 (1987 -- 1989)
* ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' vol. 1 (2006-2007)
* ''ComicBook/XFactor'' [[ComicBook/XFactor2006 vol. 3]] (2008 -- 2013)
* ''Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe'' (2013 -- 2014)
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/XMenIITheFallOfTheMutants'' (1990)
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' (1994)
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!! Longshot provides examples of the following tropes:
* EightiesHair: His original look was modelled on the singer Limahl. For his ''Comicbook/XFactor'' tenure he had a more generic look, but for ''Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe'', Christopher decided to honour the spirit of this trope - a similarly bleeding-edge modern haircut - and gave him a new look designed by a barber he knew.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Longshot claims that his knives can cut through anything. In ''X-Factor'' Issue #201, he used them to cut open a casket that had been soldered shut.
* ArtificialHuman: Well, artificial [[AnotherDimension other-dimensional]] "human". Longshot and others like him were created by the Spineless Ones to serve as performers in their TV-like entertainments.
* {{Bishonen}}: The reason for Longshot's attractiveness.
* BoldlyComing: He's been romancing "alien" (human and human-mutants) women since first stepping foot on Earth. Since his marriage to Dazzler ended, he's been making ''plenty'' of human women very, very happy. Sometimes repeatedly.
* BornIntoSlavery: Longshot was a clone created by scientists working for Mojo, with the express purpose of working as a stuntman in movies; however, the inventor of the technology had planted a seed that would grow into the desire for freedom in his creations, and Longshot's first words were to tell Mojo, "No-one owns me." Eventually, he would indeed lead a [[SlaveLiberation slave rebellion]] and escape to Earth, beginning Mojo's long enmity with the ''ComicBook/XMen'' and other heroes.
* BornLucky: Longshot's powers is the ability to affect probability fields through psionic means in order to give himself "good luck" in his activities, allowing incredibly unlikely events to happen in his favor.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
** Spiral is his former LoveInterest that he met on Earth, kidnapped and brainwashed by Mojo into despising him.
** Happens to Longshot himself in Chris Claremont's first issue on ''Exiles'' (because [[AuthorAppeal of course it does]]). Fortunately, Longshot's powers mean it quickly wears off.
* BreakTheBadass: Early on in ''Exiles'', the team finds him locked up in his own special prison in Mojoworld, and when they try to bust him out, he refuses, due to multiple repeated failures against Mojo. The team just drag his ass out of prison anyway, and in the meantime manage to rekindle his fighting spirit.
* CharmPerson: Longshot's power makes him irresistible to anyone that finds him attractive, be it male or female. However, he notes that after a while, they realize this and start to become repulsed in just as equal magnitude.
* ChickMagnet: Ladies ''love'' him. And sometimes, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim dudes too.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: Comes from being from Mojo world. He's a very odd guy that is very LiteralMinded.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: In ''ComicBook/XFactor'', when he first showed up Detective Lieutenant Weiss is immediately smitten (which does wonders to move the investigation process along).
%%* TheFool
* FourFingeredHands: Has only three fingers and a thumb on each hand.
* GlowingEyes: His left eye glows when he uses his luck or psychometry powers.
* HourglassPlot: In his debut solo the bounty hunter sent by Mojo who hates his guts at first develops a deep respect for him while his son who assisted him at first is corrupted by absorbing the ambient magic on Earth and grows to hate him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: What with his luck powers, his knives always hit their target, eventually.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Explicitly a part of how his luck powers work in the earlier parts of his continuity. So long as his motives are pure rather than selfish, everything that can ''possibly'' go in his favor will do so, frequently in drastic fashion. If he attempts to use his luck for his own profit, however - such as his attempt in his introductory LS to work as a stuntman - his luck turns against him and reality quite painfully ensues.
* InformedAttractiveness: Almost every female character he comes into contact with comments on his handsomeness. Kitty Pryde was so entranced by him she stole a kiss from him while he was asleep.
* KilledOffForReal: In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, during ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** Mojo did this to him before his reappearance in ComicBook/{{Exiles}}.
** [[spoiler:Longshot has no recollection of Dazzler's pregnancy because his son, ComicBook/{{Shatterstar}}, erased his memories of this in order to preserve the StableTimeLoop of his own history]].
* LegoGenetics: Was created by the Spineless One scientist Arize, partly using DNA taken from [[spoiler: Shatterstar, who is also Longshot's biological son with Dazzler]].
* LoopholeAbuse: In ''X-Factor'', Layla, and then Jamie, encourage Longshot to break the bank at a Vegas casino to attract the attention of the goddess Hela. This works because he's winning money for ''them'', not himself.
* MistakenForAnImposter:A crossover between ''ComicBook/XFactor'' and ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' dealt with a Skrull named Nogor who impersonated ComicBook/{{Longshot}}. When the real Longshot comes to X-Factor's new headquarters, Guido attacks him thinking he was Nogor. Longshot points out that if he were Nogor, he wouldn't use the same disguise twice on the same people.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Gog n'Magog (or "Pup" as Longshot calls him) from the original miniseries starts the story as something best described as a clawed monkey/bear hybrid with a beard and a mohawk. He keeps absorbing Earth's magic during the story, thus mutating from issue to issue. He ends up with a reptilian tail and stegosaurus plates on his back.
* MyOwnGrampa: He is technically speaking a clone of his son.
* NoSell: He was rented out to the Exiles because his luck powers cancelled out Proteus' reality warping.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He has a real name, but doesn't remember it.
* OutdatedOutfit: The leather jumpsuit. In his debut, he also had a mullet-style haircut modeled after the musician Limahl. For the ''Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe'' miniseries, he got a more modern look.
* {{Psychometry}}: He can read "psychic imprints" that people leave on objects that they have handled and sometimes can even look into the future of the person or object he touches. On occasion, if the person he's reading is sufficiently strong enough, it can backfire. Like when he tried reading an alternate version of Galactus, which catapulted him across the room.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: He's from Mojoworld, where TV is life, and life is controlled by Mojo.
* RunningGag: During ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'', Once Comicbook/{{Shatterstar}} shows up, it becomes a running thing that there is clearly some connection between him and Longshot, but which the audience doesn't get to hear as it's always interrupted just as Shatterstar is about to explain it.
* SexGod: He's very good in bed. according to his On Again Off Again lover Alison.
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:Due to TimeTravel and the non-multiversal nature of Mojoworld, Longshot was created using genes collected from his own son Shatterstar after the latter had been blasted into Mojoworld's past]].
* TookALevelInDumbass: For his reappearance in ''X-Factor'', somewhere after ''X-Men: Die by the Sword'', he's suddenly become a hell of a lot ditzier.
* TropeCodifier: For a whole host of visual tropes from the Dark Age of comics. Art Adams' scratchy style in the original Longshot miniseries was a major influence on his inker, Whilce Portacio, and Jim Lee, and Adams actually gave Longshot pouches because of his dislike of the [[HyperspaceArsenal hyperspace arsenal trope.]]
%%* WindsOfDestinyChange
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[BornLucky Some guys have all the luck]]. Longshot's that guy.]]
'''Longshot''' is a Creator/MarvelComics character created by Ann Nocenti and Art Adams, first appearing in ''Longshot'' #1 (dated September 1985).
An {{artificial human}} bred for slavery in the media-obsessed [[Characters/XMenMojoverse Mojoverse]], Longshot's deal is improbable luck, able to emerge from any scenario victorious; his abilities are similar to that of the ComicBook/ScarletWitch.
After rebelling against the Mojoverse's Spineless Ones and freeing his fellow slaves, Longshot found himself transplanted in the mainstream Franchise/MarvelUniverse, soon joining the ComicBook/XMen as a member of their field team. It's there he met ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}, with whom he's been ([[WillTheyOrWontThey invariably]]) romantically linked. He later served as a member of the ''X-Factor Investigations'' team.
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[[AC:Notable ComicBooks]]
* ''Longshot'' (1985 -- 1986)
* ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' vol. 1 (1987 -- 1989)
* ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' vol. 1 (2006-2007)
* ''ComicBook/XFactor'' [[ComicBook/XFactor2006 vol. 3]] (2008 -- 2013)
* ''Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe'' (2013 -- 2014)
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/XMenIITheFallOfTheMutants'' (1990)
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' (1994)
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!! Longshot provides examples of the following tropes:
* EightiesHair: His original look was modelled on the singer Limahl. For his ''Comicbook/XFactor'' tenure he had a more generic look, but for ''Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe'', Christopher decided to honour the spirit of this trope - a similarly bleeding-edge modern haircut - and gave him a new look designed by a barber he knew.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Longshot claims that his knives can cut through anything. In ''X-Factor'' Issue #201, he used them to cut open a casket that had been soldered shut.
* ArtificialHuman: Well, artificial [[AnotherDimension other-dimensional]] "human". Longshot and others like him were created by the Spineless Ones to serve as performers in their TV-like entertainments.
* {{Bishonen}}: The reason for Longshot's attractiveness.
* BoldlyComing: He's been romancing "alien" (human and human-mutants) women since first stepping foot on Earth. Since his marriage to Dazzler ended, he's been making ''plenty'' of human women very, very happy. Sometimes repeatedly.
* BornIntoSlavery: Longshot was a clone created by scientists working for Mojo, with the express purpose of working as a stuntman in movies; however, the inventor of the technology had planted a seed that would grow into the desire for freedom in his creations, and Longshot's first words were to tell Mojo, "No-one owns me." Eventually, he would indeed lead a [[SlaveLiberation slave rebellion]] and escape to Earth, beginning Mojo's long enmity with the ''ComicBook/XMen'' and other heroes.
* BornLucky: Longshot's powers is the ability to affect probability fields through psionic means in order to give himself "good luck" in his activities, allowing incredibly unlikely events to happen in his favor.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
** Spiral is his former LoveInterest that he met on Earth, kidnapped and brainwashed by Mojo into despising him.
** Happens to Longshot himself in Chris Claremont's first issue on ''Exiles'' (because [[AuthorAppeal of course it does]]). Fortunately, Longshot's powers mean it quickly wears off.
* BreakTheBadass: Early on in ''Exiles'', the team finds him locked up in his own special prison in Mojoworld, and when they try to bust him out, he refuses, due to multiple repeated failures against Mojo. The team just drag his ass out of prison anyway, and in the meantime manage to rekindle his fighting spirit.
* CharmPerson: Longshot's power makes him irresistible to anyone that finds him attractive, be it male or female. However, he notes that after a while, they realize this and start to become repulsed in just as equal magnitude.
* ChickMagnet: Ladies ''love'' him. And sometimes, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim dudes too.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: Comes from being from Mojo world. He's a very odd guy that is very LiteralMinded.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: In ''ComicBook/XFactor'', when he first showed up Detective Lieutenant Weiss is immediately smitten (which does wonders to move the investigation process along).
%%* TheFool
* FourFingeredHands: Has only three fingers and a thumb on each hand.
* GlowingEyes: His left eye glows when he uses his luck or psychometry powers.
* HourglassPlot: In his debut solo the bounty hunter sent by Mojo who hates his guts at first develops a deep respect for him while his son who assisted him at first is corrupted by absorbing the ambient magic on Earth and grows to hate him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: What with his luck powers, his knives always hit their target, eventually.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Explicitly a part of how his luck powers work in the earlier parts of his continuity. So long as his motives are pure rather than selfish, everything that can ''possibly'' go in his favor will do so, frequently in drastic fashion. If he attempts to use his luck for his own profit, however - such as his attempt in his introductory LS to work as a stuntman - his luck turns against him and reality quite painfully ensues.
* InformedAttractiveness: Almost every female character he comes into contact with comments on his handsomeness. Kitty Pryde was so entranced by him she stole a kiss from him while he was asleep.
* KilledOffForReal: In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, during ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** Mojo did this to him before his reappearance in ComicBook/{{Exiles}}.
** [[spoiler:Longshot has no recollection of Dazzler's pregnancy because his son, ComicBook/{{Shatterstar}}, erased his memories of this in order to preserve the StableTimeLoop of his own history]].
* LegoGenetics: Was created by the Spineless One scientist Arize, partly using DNA taken from [[spoiler: Shatterstar, who is also Longshot's biological son with Dazzler]].
* LoopholeAbuse: In ''X-Factor'', Layla, and then Jamie, encourage Longshot to break the bank at a Vegas casino to attract the attention of the goddess Hela. This works because he's winning money for ''them'', not himself.
* MistakenForAnImposter:A crossover between ''ComicBook/XFactor'' and ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' dealt with a Skrull named Nogor who impersonated ComicBook/{{Longshot}}. When the real Longshot comes to X-Factor's new headquarters, Guido attacks him thinking he was Nogor. Longshot points out that if he were Nogor, he wouldn't use the same disguise twice on the same people.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Gog n'Magog (or "Pup" as Longshot calls him) from the original miniseries starts the story as something best described as a clawed monkey/bear hybrid with a beard and a mohawk. He keeps absorbing Earth's magic during the story, thus mutating from issue to issue. He ends up with a reptilian tail and stegosaurus plates on his back.
* MyOwnGrampa: He is technically speaking a clone of his son.
* NoSell: He was rented out to the Exiles because his luck powers cancelled out Proteus' reality warping.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He has a real name, but doesn't remember it.
* OutdatedOutfit: The leather jumpsuit. In his debut, he also had a mullet-style haircut modeled after the musician Limahl. For the ''Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe'' miniseries, he got a more modern look.
* {{Psychometry}}: He can read "psychic imprints" that people leave on objects that they have handled and sometimes can even look into the future of the person or object he touches. On occasion, if the person he's reading is sufficiently strong enough, it can backfire. Like when he tried reading an alternate version of Galactus, which catapulted him across the room.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: He's from Mojoworld, where TV is life, and life is controlled by Mojo.
* RunningGag: During ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'', Once Comicbook/{{Shatterstar}} shows up, it becomes a running thing that there is clearly some connection between him and Longshot, but which the audience doesn't get to hear as it's always interrupted just as Shatterstar is about to explain it.
* SexGod: He's very good in bed. according to his On Again Off Again lover Alison.
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:Due to TimeTravel and the non-multiversal nature of Mojoworld, Longshot was created using genes collected from his own son Shatterstar after the latter had been blasted into Mojoworld's past]].
* TookALevelInDumbass: For his reappearance in ''X-Factor'', somewhere after ''X-Men: Die by the Sword'', he's suddenly become a hell of a lot ditzier.
* TropeCodifier: For a whole host of visual tropes from the Dark Age of comics. Art Adams' scratchy style in the original Longshot miniseries was a major influence on his inker, Whilce Portacio, and Jim Lee, and Adams actually gave Longshot pouches because of his dislike of the [[HyperspaceArsenal hyperspace arsenal trope.]]
%%* WindsOfDestinyChange
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'''Longshot''' is a Creator/MarvelComics character created by Ann Nocenti and Art Adams, first appearing in ''Longshot'' #1 (dated September 1985).
An {{artificial human}} bred for slavery in the media-obsessed [[Characters/XMenMojoverse Mojoverse]], Longshot's deal is improbable luck, able to emerge from any scenario victorious; his abilities are similar to that of the ComicBook/ScarletWitch.
After rebelling against the Mojoverse's Spineless Ones and freeing his fellow slaves, Longshot found himself transplanted in the mainstream Franchise/MarvelUniverse, soon joining the ComicBook/XMen as a member of their field team. It's there he met ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}, with whom he's been ([[WillTheyOrWontThey invariably]]) romantically linked. He later served as a member of the ''X-Factor Investigations'' team.
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[[AC:Notable ComicBooks]]
* ''Longshot'' (1985 -- 1986)
* ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' vol. 1 (1987 -- 1989)
* ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' vol. 1 (2006-2007)
* ''ComicBook/XFactor'' [[ComicBook/XFactor2006 vol. 3]] (2008 -- 2013)
* ''Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe'' (2013 -- 2014)
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/XMenIITheFallOfTheMutants'' (1990)
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' (1994)
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!! Longshot provides examples of the following tropes:
* EightiesHair: His original look was modelled on the singer Limahl. For his ''Comicbook/XFactor'' tenure he had a more generic look, but for ''Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe'', Christopher decided to honour the spirit of this trope - a similarly bleeding-edge modern haircut - and gave him a new look designed by a barber he knew.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Longshot claims that his knives can cut through anything. In ''X-Factor'' Issue #201, he used them to cut open a casket that had been soldered shut.
* ArtificialHuman: Well, artificial [[AnotherDimension other-dimensional]] "human". Longshot and others like him were created by the Spineless Ones to serve as performers in their TV-like entertainments.
* {{Bishonen}}: The reason for Longshot's attractiveness.
* BoldlyComing: He's been romancing "alien" (human and human-mutants) women since first stepping foot on Earth. Since his marriage to Dazzler ended, he's been making ''plenty'' of human women very, very happy. Sometimes repeatedly.
* BornIntoSlavery: Longshot was a clone created by scientists working for Mojo, with the express purpose of working as a stuntman in movies; however, the inventor of the technology had planted a seed that would grow into the desire for freedom in his creations, and Longshot's first words were to tell Mojo, "No-one owns me." Eventually, he would indeed lead a [[SlaveLiberation slave rebellion]] and escape to Earth, beginning Mojo's long enmity with the ''ComicBook/XMen'' and other heroes.
* BornLucky: Longshot's powers is the ability to affect probability fields through psionic means in order to give himself "good luck" in his activities, allowing incredibly unlikely events to happen in his favor.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
** Spiral is his former LoveInterest that he met on Earth, kidnapped and brainwashed by Mojo into despising him.
** Happens to Longshot himself in Chris Claremont's first issue on ''Exiles'' (because [[AuthorAppeal of course it does]]). Fortunately, Longshot's powers mean it quickly wears off.
* BreakTheBadass: Early on in ''Exiles'', the team finds him locked up in his own special prison in Mojoworld, and when they try to bust him out, he refuses, due to multiple repeated failures against Mojo. The team just drag his ass out of prison anyway, and in the meantime manage to rekindle his fighting spirit.
* CharmPerson: Longshot's power makes him irresistible to anyone that finds him attractive, be it male or female. However, he notes that after a while, they realize this and start to become repulsed in just as equal magnitude.
* ChickMagnet: Ladies ''love'' him. And sometimes, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim dudes too.]]
* CloudCuckooLander: Comes from being from Mojo world. He's a very odd guy that is very LiteralMinded.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: In ''ComicBook/XFactor'', when he first showed up Detective Lieutenant Weiss is immediately smitten (which does wonders to move the investigation process along).
%%* TheFool
* FourFingeredHands: Has only three fingers and a thumb on each hand.
* GlowingEyes: His left eye glows when he uses his luck or psychometry powers.
* HourglassPlot: In his debut solo the bounty hunter sent by Mojo who hates his guts at first develops a deep respect for him while his son who assisted him at first is corrupted by absorbing the ambient magic on Earth and grows to hate him.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: What with his luck powers, his knives always hit their target, eventually.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Explicitly a part of how his luck powers work in the earlier parts of his continuity. So long as his motives are pure rather than selfish, everything that can ''possibly'' go in his favor will do so, frequently in drastic fashion. If he attempts to use his luck for his own profit, however - such as his attempt in his introductory LS to work as a stuntman - his luck turns against him and reality quite painfully ensues.
* InformedAttractiveness: Almost every female character he comes into contact with comments on his handsomeness. Kitty Pryde was so entranced by him she stole a kiss from him while he was asleep.
* KilledOffForReal: In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, during ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** Mojo did this to him before his reappearance in ComicBook/{{Exiles}}.
** [[spoiler:Longshot has no recollection of Dazzler's pregnancy because his son, ComicBook/{{Shatterstar}}, erased his memories of this in order to preserve the StableTimeLoop of his own history]].
* LegoGenetics: Was created by the Spineless One scientist Arize, partly using DNA taken from [[spoiler: Shatterstar, who is also Longshot's biological son with Dazzler]].
* LoopholeAbuse: In ''X-Factor'', Layla, and then Jamie, encourage Longshot to break the bank at a Vegas casino to attract the attention of the goddess Hela. This works because he's winning money for ''them'', not himself.
* MistakenForAnImposter:A crossover between ''ComicBook/XFactor'' and ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' dealt with a Skrull named Nogor who impersonated ComicBook/{{Longshot}}. When the real Longshot comes to X-Factor's new headquarters, Guido attacks him thinking he was Nogor. Longshot points out that if he were Nogor, he wouldn't use the same disguise twice on the same people.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Gog n'Magog (or "Pup" as Longshot calls him) from the original miniseries starts the story as something best described as a clawed monkey/bear hybrid with a beard and a mohawk. He keeps absorbing Earth's magic during the story, thus mutating from issue to issue. He ends up with a reptilian tail and stegosaurus plates on his back.
* MyOwnGrampa: He is technically speaking a clone of his son.
* NoSell: He was rented out to the Exiles because his luck powers cancelled out Proteus' reality warping.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He has a real name, but doesn't remember it.
* OutdatedOutfit: The leather jumpsuit. In his debut, he also had a mullet-style haircut modeled after the musician Limahl. For the ''Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe'' miniseries, he got a more modern look.
* {{Psychometry}}: He can read "psychic imprints" that people leave on objects that they have handled and sometimes can even look into the future of the person or object he touches. On occasion, if the person he's reading is sufficiently strong enough, it can backfire. Like when he tried reading an alternate version of Galactus, which catapulted him across the room.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: He's from Mojoworld, where TV is life, and life is controlled by Mojo.
* RunningGag: During ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'', Once Comicbook/{{Shatterstar}} shows up, it becomes a running thing that there is clearly some connection between him and Longshot, but which the audience doesn't get to hear as it's always interrupted just as Shatterstar is about to explain it.
* SexGod: He's very good in bed. according to his On Again Off Again lover Alison.
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:Due to TimeTravel and the non-multiversal nature of Mojoworld, Longshot was created using genes collected from his own son Shatterstar after the latter had been blasted into Mojoworld's past]].
* TookALevelInDumbass: For his reappearance in ''X-Factor'', somewhere after ''X-Men: Die by the Sword'', he's suddenly become a hell of a lot ditzier.
* TropeCodifier: For a whole host of visual tropes from the Dark Age of comics. Art Adams' scratchy style in the original Longshot miniseries was a major influence on his inker, Whilce Portacio, and Jim Lee, and Adams actually gave Longshot pouches because of his dislike of the [[HyperspaceArsenal hyperspace arsenal trope.]]
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An {{artificial human}} bred for slavery in the media-obsessed [[AnotherDimension [[Characters/XMenMojoverse Mojoverse]], Longshot's deal is improbable luck, able to emerge from any scenario victorious; his abilities are similar to that of the ComicBook/ScarletWitch.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Longshot claims that his knives can cut through anything. He once used them to cut open a casket that had been soldered shut.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Longshot claims that his knives can cut through anything. He once In ''X-Factor'' Issue #201, he used them to cut open a casket that had been soldered shut.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Used to explain his and Dazzler's off-screen breakup between the end of ''X-Men: Die by the Sword''. Longshot slept around, not getting why Alison was so angry about this. However, in ''X-Factor'' he claims he never cheated on her and that Dazzler was simply jealous.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Used to explain his and Dazzler's off-screen breakup between the end of ''X-Men: Die by the Sword'' and his reappearance in ''X-Factor''. Sword''. Longshot slept around, not getting why Alison was so angry about this.
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* MistakenForAnImposter:A crossover between ''ComicBook/XFactor'' and ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' dealt with a Skrull named Nogor who impersonated ComicBook/{{Longshot}}. When the real Longshot comes to X-Factor's new headquarters, Guido attacks him thinking he was Nogor. Longshot points out that if he were Nogor, he wouldn't use the same disguise twice on the same people.
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* LoopholeAbuse: In ''X-Factor'', Layla, and then Jamie, encourage Longshot to break the bank at a Vegas casino to attract the attention of the goddess Hela. This works because he's winning money for ''them'', not himself.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Spiral is his former LoveInterest that he met on Earth, kidnapped and brainwashed by Mojo into despising him.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: BrainwashedAndCrazy:
** Spiral is his former LoveInterest that he met on Earth, kidnapped and brainwashed by Mojo into despisinghim.him.
** Happens to Longshot himself in Chris Claremont's first issue on ''Exiles'' (because [[AuthorAppeal of course it does]]). Fortunately, Longshot's powers mean it quickly wears off.
* BreakTheBadass: Early on in ''Exiles'', the team finds him locked up in his own special prison in Mojoworld, and when they try to bust him out, he refuses, due to multiple repeated failures against Mojo. The team just drag his ass out of prison anyway, and in the meantime manage to rekindle his fighting spirit.
** Spiral is his former LoveInterest that he met on Earth, kidnapped and brainwashed by Mojo into despising
** Happens to Longshot himself in Chris Claremont's first issue on ''Exiles'' (because [[AuthorAppeal of course it does]]). Fortunately, Longshot's powers mean it quickly wears off.
* BreakTheBadass: Early on in ''Exiles'', the team finds him locked up in his own special prison in Mojoworld, and when they try to bust him out, he refuses, due to multiple repeated failures against Mojo. The team just drag his ass out of prison anyway, and in the meantime manage to rekindle his fighting spirit.
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: In ComicBook/XFactor, when he first showed up Detective Lieutenant Weiss is immediately smitten (which does wonders to move the investigation process along).
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: In ComicBook/XFactor, ''ComicBook/XFactor'', when he first showed up Detective Lieutenant Weiss is immediately smitten (which does wonders to move the investigation process along).
* ImprobableAimingSkills: What with his luck powers, his knives always hit their target, eventually.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Mojo did this to him before his reappearance in ComicBook/{{Exiles}}.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** Mojo did this to him before his reappearance in ComicBook/{{Exiles}}.
** Mojo did this to him before his reappearance in ComicBook/{{Exiles}}.
* NoSell: He was rented out to the Exiles because his luck powers cancelled out Proteus' reality warping.
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* {{Psychometry}}: He can read "psychic imprints" that people leave on objects that they have handled and sometimes can even look into the future of the person or object he touches.
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* {{Psychometry}}: He can read "psychic imprints" that people leave on objects that they have handled and sometimes can even look into the future of the person or object he touches. On occasion, if the person he's reading is sufficiently strong enough, it can backfire. Like when he tried reading an alternate version of Galactus, which catapulted him across the room.
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* RunningGag: During ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'', Once Comicbook/{{Shatterstar}} shows up, it becomes a running thing that there is clearly some connection between gim and Longshot, but which the audience doesn't get to hear as it's always interrupted just as Shatterstar is about to explain it.
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* RunningGag: During ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'', Once Comicbook/{{Shatterstar}} shows up, it becomes a running thing that there is clearly some connection between gim him and Longshot, but which the audience doesn't get to hear as it's always interrupted just as Shatterstar is about to explain it.
* TookALevelInDumbass: For his reappearance in ''X-Factor'', somewhere after ''X-Men: Die by the Sword'', he's suddenly become a hell of a lot ditzier.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Used to explain his and Dazzler's off-screen breakup between the end of ''X-Men: Die by the Sword'' and his reappearance in ''X-Factor''. Longshot slept around, not getting why Alison was so angry about this.
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* ''ComicBook/XFactor'' [[ComicBook/XFactor2006 vol. 3 3]] (2008 -- 2013)
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* BornLucky: His powers.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Spiral is his former love interest that he met on Earth, kidnapped and brainwashed by Mojo into despising him.
* ChickMagnet: Ladies ''love'' him.
* CloudCuckooLander
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Spiral is his former love interest that he met on Earth, kidnapped and brainwashed by Mojo into despising him.
* ChickMagnet: Ladies ''love'' him.
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* BornIntoSlavery: Longshot was a clone created by scientists working for Mojo, with the express purpose of working as a stuntman in movies; however, the inventor of the technology had planted a seed that would grow into the desire for freedom in his creations, and Longshot's first words were to tell Mojo, "No-one owns me." Eventually, he would indeed lead a [[SlaveLiberation slave rebellion]] and escape to Earth, beginning Mojo's long enmity with the ''ComicBook/XMen'' and other heroes.
* BornLucky:His powers.
Longshot's powers is the ability to affect probability fields through psionic means in order to give himself "good luck" in his activities, allowing incredibly unlikely events to happen in his favor.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Spiral is his formerlove interest LoveInterest that he met on Earth, kidnapped and brainwashed by Mojo into despising him.
* CharmPerson: Longshot's power makes him irresistible to anyone that finds him attractive, be it male or female. However, he notes that after a while, they realize this and start to become repulsed in just as equal magnitude.
* ChickMagnet: Ladies ''love''him.
him. And sometimes, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim dudes too.]]
*CloudCuckooLander CloudCuckooLander: Comes from being from Mojo world. He's a very odd guy that is very LiteralMinded.
* BornLucky:
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Spiral is his former
* CharmPerson: Longshot's power makes him irresistible to anyone that finds him attractive, be it male or female. However, he notes that after a while, they realize this and start to become repulsed in just as equal magnitude.
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* RunningGag: During ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'', Once Comicbook/{{Shatterstar}} shows up, it becomes a running thing that there is clearly some connection between gim and Longshot, but which the audience doesn't get to hear as it's always interrupted just as Shatterstar is about to explain it.
* SexGod: He's very good in bed. according to his On Again Off Again lover Alison.
* SexGod: He's very good in bed. according to his On Again Off Again lover Alison.
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* KilledOffForReal: In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, during ''ComicBook/[[Ultimatum]]''
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** [[spoiler:Longshot has no recollection of Dazzler's pregnancy because his son, Shatterstar, erased his memories of this in order to preserve the StableTimeLoop of his own history]].
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** [[spoiler:Longshot has no recollection of Dazzler's pregnancy because his son, Shatterstar, ComicBook/{{Shatterstar}}, erased his memories of this in order to preserve the StableTimeLoop of his own history]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[BornLucky Some guys have all the luck]]. Longshot's that guy.]]
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* 80sHair: His original look was modelled on the singer Limahl. For his ''Comicbook/XFactor'' tenure he had a more generic look, but for ''Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe'', Christopher decided to honour the spirit of this trope - a similarly bleeding-edge modern haircut - and gave him a new look designed by a barber he knew.
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* 80sHair: EightiesHair: His original look was modelled on the singer Limahl. For his ''Comicbook/XFactor'' tenure he had a more generic look, but for ''Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe'', Christopher decided to honour the spirit of this trope - a similarly bleeding-edge modern haircut - and gave him a new look designed by a barber he knew.
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* 80sHair: His original look was modelled on the singer Limahl. For his ''Comicbook/XFactor'' tenure he had a more generic look, but for ''Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe'', Christopher decided to honour the spirit of this trope - a similarly bleeding-edge modern haircut - - and gave him a new look designed by a barber he knew.
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* MixAndMatchCritters: Gog n'Magog (or "Pup" as Longshot calls him) from the original miniseries starts the story as something best described as a clawed monkey/bear hybrid with a beard and a mohawk. He keeps absorbing Earth's magic during the story, thus mutating from issue to issue. He ends up with a reptilian tail and stegosaurus plates on his back.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[BornLucky Some guys have all the luck]].]]
'''Longshot''' is a Creator/MarvelComics character created by Ann Nocenti and Art Adams, first appearing in ''Longshot'' #1 (dated September 1985).
An {{artificial human}} bred for slavery in the media-obsessed [[AnotherDimension Mojoverse]], Longshot's deal is improbable luck, able to emerge from any scenario victorious; his abilities are similar to that of the ComicBook/ScarletWitch.
After rebelling against the Mojoverse's Spineless Ones and freeing his fellow slaves, Longshot found himself transplanted in the mainstream Franchise/MarvelUniverse, soon joining the ComicBook/XMen as a member of their field team. It's there he met ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}, with whom he's been ([[WillTheyOrWontThey invariably]]) romantically linked. He later served as a member of the ''X-Factor Investigations'' team.
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[[AC:Notable ComicBooks]]
* ''Longshot'' (1985 -- 1986)
* ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' vol. 1 (1987 -- 1989)
* ''ComicBook/XFactor'' vol. 3 (2008 -- 2013)
* ''Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe'' (2013 -- 2014)
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/XMenIITheFallOfTheMutants'' (1990)
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' (1994)
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!! Longshot provides examples of the following tropes:
* ArtificialHuman: Well, artificial [[AnotherDimension other-dimensional]] "human". Longshot and others like him were created by the Spineless Ones to serve as performers in their TV-like entertainments.
* {{Bishonen}}: The reason for Longshot's attractiveness.
* BoldlyComing: He's been romancing "alien" (human and human-mutants) women since first stepping foot on Earth. Since his marriage to Dazzler ended, he's been making ''plenty'' of human women very, very happy. Sometimes repeatedly.
* BornLucky: His powers.
* ChickMagnet: Ladies ''love'' him.
* CloudCuckooLander
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: In ComicBook/XFactor, when he first showed up Detective Lieutenant Weiss is immediately smitten (which does wonders to move the investigation process along).
* TheFool
* FourFingeredHands: Has only three fingers and a thumb on each hand.
* GlowingEyes: His left eye glows when he uses his luck or psychometry powers.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Explicitly a part of how his luck powers work in the earlier parts of his continuity. So long as his motives are pure rather than selfish, everything that can ''possibly'' go in his favor will do so, frequently in drastic fashion. If he attempts to use his luck for his own profit, however - such as his attempt in his introductory LS to work as a stuntman - his luck turns against him and reality quite painfully ensues.
* InformedAttractiveness: Almost every female character he comes into contact with comments on his handsomeness. Kitty Pryde was so entranced by him she stole a kiss from him while he was asleep.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Mojo did this to him before his reappearance in ComicBook/{{Exiles}}.
** [[spoiler:Longshot has no recollection of Dazzler's pregnancy because his son, Shatterstar, erased his memories of this in order to preserve the StableTimeLoop of his own history]].
* LegoGenetics: Was created by the Spineless One scientist Arize, partly using DNA taken from [[spoiler: Shatterstar, who is also Longshot's biological son with Dazzler]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He has a real name, but doesn't remember it.
* OutdatedOutfit: The leather jumpsuit. In his debut, he also had a mullet-style haircut modeled after the musician Limahl. For the ''Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe'' miniseries, he got a more modern look.
* {{Psychometry}}: He can read "psychic imprints" that people leave on objects that they have handled and sometimes can even look into the future of the person or object he touches.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: He's from Mojoworld, where TV is life, and life is controlled by Mojo.
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:Due to TimeTravel and the non-multiversal nature of Mojoworld, Longshot was created using genes collected from his own son Shatterstar after the latter had been blasted into Mojoworld's past]].
* TropeCodifier: For a whole host of visual tropes from the Dark Age of comics. Art Adams' scratchy style in the original Longshot miniseries was a major influence on his inker, Whilce Portacio, and Jim Lee, and Adams actually gave Longshot pouches because of his dislike of the [[HyperspaceArsenal hyperspace arsenal trope.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[BornLucky Some guys have all the luck]].]]
'''Longshot''' is a Creator/MarvelComics character created by Ann Nocenti and Art Adams, first appearing in ''Longshot'' #1 (dated September 1985).
An {{artificial human}} bred for slavery in the media-obsessed [[AnotherDimension Mojoverse]], Longshot's deal is improbable luck, able to emerge from any scenario victorious; his abilities are similar to that of the ComicBook/ScarletWitch.
After rebelling against the Mojoverse's Spineless Ones and freeing his fellow slaves, Longshot found himself transplanted in the mainstream Franchise/MarvelUniverse, soon joining the ComicBook/XMen as a member of their field team. It's there he met ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}, with whom he's been ([[WillTheyOrWontThey invariably]]) romantically linked. He later served as a member of the ''X-Factor Investigations'' team.
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[[AC:Notable ComicBooks]]
* ''Longshot'' (1985 -- 1986)
* ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' vol. 1 (1987 -- 1989)
* ''ComicBook/XFactor'' vol. 3 (2008 -- 2013)
* ''Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe'' (2013 -- 2014)
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/XMenIITheFallOfTheMutants'' (1990)
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' (1994)
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!! Longshot provides examples of the following tropes:
* ArtificialHuman: Well, artificial [[AnotherDimension other-dimensional]] "human". Longshot and others like him were created by the Spineless Ones to serve as performers in their TV-like entertainments.
* {{Bishonen}}: The reason for Longshot's attractiveness.
* BoldlyComing: He's been romancing "alien" (human and human-mutants) women since first stepping foot on Earth. Since his marriage to Dazzler ended, he's been making ''plenty'' of human women very, very happy. Sometimes repeatedly.
* BornLucky: His powers.
* ChickMagnet: Ladies ''love'' him.
* CloudCuckooLander
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: In ComicBook/XFactor, when he first showed up Detective Lieutenant Weiss is immediately smitten (which does wonders to move the investigation process along).
* TheFool
* FourFingeredHands: Has only three fingers and a thumb on each hand.
* GlowingEyes: His left eye glows when he uses his luck or psychometry powers.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Explicitly a part of how his luck powers work in the earlier parts of his continuity. So long as his motives are pure rather than selfish, everything that can ''possibly'' go in his favor will do so, frequently in drastic fashion. If he attempts to use his luck for his own profit, however - such as his attempt in his introductory LS to work as a stuntman - his luck turns against him and reality quite painfully ensues.
* InformedAttractiveness: Almost every female character he comes into contact with comments on his handsomeness. Kitty Pryde was so entranced by him she stole a kiss from him while he was asleep.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Mojo did this to him before his reappearance in ComicBook/{{Exiles}}.
** [[spoiler:Longshot has no recollection of Dazzler's pregnancy because his son, Shatterstar, erased his memories of this in order to preserve the StableTimeLoop of his own history]].
* LegoGenetics: Was created by the Spineless One scientist Arize, partly using DNA taken from [[spoiler: Shatterstar, who is also Longshot's biological son with Dazzler]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He has a real name, but doesn't remember it.
* OutdatedOutfit: The leather jumpsuit. In his debut, he also had a mullet-style haircut modeled after the musician Limahl. For the ''Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe'' miniseries, he got a more modern look.
* {{Psychometry}}: He can read "psychic imprints" that people leave on objects that they have handled and sometimes can even look into the future of the person or object he touches.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: He's from Mojoworld, where TV is life, and life is controlled by Mojo.
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:Due to TimeTravel and the non-multiversal nature of Mojoworld, Longshot was created using genes collected from his own son Shatterstar after the latter had been blasted into Mojoworld's past]].
* TropeCodifier: For a whole host of visual tropes from the Dark Age of comics. Art Adams' scratchy style in the original Longshot miniseries was a major influence on his inker, Whilce Portacio, and Jim Lee, and Adams actually gave Longshot pouches because of his dislike of the [[HyperspaceArsenal hyperspace arsenal trope.]]
* WindsOfDestinyChange
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