Darkhawk ( Christopher Powell ) is a fictional comic book superhero who first appeared in his own self-titled series, Darkhawk # 1 ( March 1991 ).

Deciding to register with the government, Darkhawk is assigned to the position of Security Chief at Project P. E. G. A. S. U. S .. During the Skrull invasion, he teams up with his old team-mate Nova for two issues of that character's own title, but is also seen in the background of several issues thereafter.

Darkhawk is involved with the War of Kings Event in a four-issue series written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning called War Of Kings: Ascension.

With this understanding, Powell is able to reassert control over the Darkhawk armor, but not before Razor shoots several Shi ' ar and kills Lilandra.

Nevertheless, the heroes are able to defeat the double-powered Sphinx and return to their proper places in time ( except Namorita, who is pulled into Darkhawk and Nova's time ).

As the Darkhawk body is no longer separate from Chris and does not teleport to Null Space when not in use, it is questionable whether it can be repaired as quickly as it once was.

The program itself also appeared in the final pages of US War Machine 2. 0 in which Tony Stark's damaged body is placed inside the Darkhawk program in order to keep him alive.

In Marvel Zombies Dead Days, Darkhawk is seen in the S. H. I. E. L. D.

Reed Richards remarks that while he had never thought of Darkhawk as leader material in the past, he is impressed by Chris ' efforts.

In the Ultimate Spider-Man video game, Spider-Man can be heard mocking the Human Torch during one of their races, stating, " Darkhawk is faster than you !".

* Darkhawk Zone is a fansite devoted to Darkhawk.

* Comprehensive Darkhawk Timeline is an ongoing attempt to document the history of Chris Powell / Darkhawk.

As with other continuity errors and discrepancies thrown up during the course of the Loners miniseries, no explanation is given as to the drastic change in the group's purpose between series — though miniseries writer C. B. Cebulski ( the third writer to tackle the team-after Brian K. Vaughan / Robert Kirkman-and the only one to use this direction for the team ) has attempted to suggest some answers directly to fans who frequent the Newsarama forums rather than within the pages of the book itself, though many suggestions ( notably those centering on Darkhawk ) were later debunked by events in canon titles such as Nova and War of Kings: Ascension.

In a stylistic departure from their debut appearance in Runaways as comic relief, Loners is not a comedy, though the covers of the individual issues still suggest a light-hearted tone by being direct homages to the iconic imagery of the teen comedy feature films of John Hughes, and the exaggerated personalities from their Runaways debut are also retained entirely for the cast, though this does create some continuity discrepancies, particularly Darkhawk's infrequent lapses into potentially murderous violence and sudden reversion to switching bodies in a manner that ignores later events from the Darkhawk series ( this continuity gaffe even being referenced in Marvel Team-Up Vol. 3 # 15 ), and Julie Power no longer having the ability to teleport, her powers now including the ability to hover in the air without being in motion, and her character purporting to be from New York instead of the family home of Bainbridge Island.

Chris is short-tempered and prone to violence, especially in his Darkhawk form, attacking not only his targets, but his own teammates.

Chris is recovering from the attack, only to witness Phil in Darkhawk armor attacking Hollow and advancing on Mickey.

Chris manages to tap into the amulet's power and becomes Darkhawk in his second armored form, though it is not explained how he can utilise the armor without a whole amulet, as it has been previously established that without such an artifact, the Darkhawk armor remains inert.

During the events of War of Kings: Ascension, it is revealed that Darkhawk is now ' the most wanted man in the galaxy ' and will play a role in future issues of Nova-it seems unlikely he will rejoin the Loners in comic book limbo for the foreseeable future.

Darkhawk also battled a number of costumed villains, including the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

Darkhawk also has telescopic and infra-red vision, and a grappling hook claw-cable on his right arm shaped like a claw.

He could also mentally communicate with the Darkhawk ship, and could teleport weapons from the ship when he was on Earth.

And although she was terrified of dying ( since she wasn't wearing the Turbo suit at the time ); Mickey was also angered by the facts that Julie revealed the truth that she wasn't a registered hero and that Chris refused to remove the Darkhawk amulet from himself.

She was also surprised to learn that Phil harbored feelings for her and witnessing his attack on Chris, in which he grabbed the amulet and transformed into an alternate version of Darkhawk.

Darkhawk occasionally worked with the New Warriors and was a provisional member of the West Coast Avengers.

Darkhawk appears as a member of Wolfpack.

The program, a " fiction " within that universe, played out the events where Darkhawk had been a member of the West Coast Avengers within normal Marvel continuity.

Gravity appeared in Marvel Team-Up, alongside other new heroes such as Araña and X-23, and Excelsior member Darkhawk.

Luckily, support group member Johnny Gallo ( Ricochet ) has followed Darkhawk and Spider-Woman to the dealers ' base of operations and aids them in escaping Nekra's clutches.

Mickey appears as a member of the Wolfpack ; along with Speedball, Rage, Zero-G, Lightspeed and Darkhawk.

Darkhawk appeared within the Secret Invasion tie-in issues of Nova (# 17-18 )

Though no longer associated with the Loners, Darkhawk's former teammates appear within both issues of his miniseries ( though it remains unexplained how they-and the church in which they held their meetings-relocated from Los Angeles to New York ), and it becomes apparent that Darkhawk left the team because he could no longer turn his back on his responsibilities as a superhero and wished to " focus ( his ) anger into something productive ", creating friction with some members of the Loners.

In Nova, a time displaced Namorita was rescued by a time displaced Nova within the Fault, having been summoned alongside time-displaced versions of Mister Fantastic, Black Bolt and Darkhawk by the Sphinx to battle his younger self.

Iron Man and Wonder Man leave the team, and are replaced by War Machine ( Jim Rhodes, one of the founding West Coast Avengers ) and Darkhawk, with the latter acting as a reservist.

and was the focus of the two-issue mini-series War of Kings: Darkhawk, written by C. B. Cebulski, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning.

War Of Kings: Darkhawk brought closure to Chris Powell's earthbound human relationships with his family and fellow Loners team members, and serves to establish a clean slate for the sequel series, War Of Kings: Ascension, written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning.

With the Loners series ending with low sales and unlikely to be followed with a sequel series, series writer CB Cebulski was assigned to write a two-issue War of Kings: Darkhawk series, with Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning co-scripting the second issue to ensure it tied into their own ' Ascension ' series.

In the mini-series U. S. War Machine, set in an alternate universe, Darkhawk was a psychopathic android, which could only be controlled by running a virtual reality program.

Within War of Kings: Darkhawk # 1 are three former heroes that are seen among the Loners ' support group, although they have not been identified.

Working with Darkhawk, Rider successfully stops the Skrulls ' advance.

Later, Powell and Darkhawk were split into two separate beings, each with Powell's memories.

Powell displayed trouble controlling his anger in his Darkhawk persona, leading to a short skirmish with Turbo.

During the various battles with Chronok and his army, Chris did not appear prone to irrational violence or uncontrollable anger while in his Darkhawk form, as he had during Excelsior's encounter with the Runaways.

Meanwhile, Mickey confronts Chris about feeling helpless in the battle with Nekra, as well as for Chris not giving up the Darkhawk amulet.

During his tenure with the Avengers West Coast, he teamed with heroes such as the Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange, Darkhawk, and Spider-Man.

He is best known for co-creating ( with writers Danny Fingeroth and Tom DeFalco ) the Marvel Comics character Darkhawk in 1991.