Peter Wisdom
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Peter "Pete" Wisdom is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. Wisdom is a former British Secret Service agent with the mutant ability to throw 'blades' of energy ("hot knives") from his fingertips. He was briefly a member of the X-Men spinoffs Excalibur and X-Force. Wisdom is rarely seen in anything other than a scruffy suit (sometimes under a trenchcoat) or without a cigarette or a bottle of liquor in hand.
Pete Wisdom was intially created by writer Warren Ellis early on during Ellis' two-year run on Excalibur (issues 83-103). His first appearance was as an agent for the British covert organization Black Air in Excalibur volume 1, issue 86. Soon therafter he left Black Air and joined the Excalibur team. He was romantically (and, controversially among fandom, sexually) involved with Kitty Pryde for a while. The controversy of their relationship stems mainly from their disparate ages: Wisdom is said to be at least ten years older than Pryde, who at this time may still have been in her late teens. The pair starred in the Pryde and Wisdom three-issue miniseries, which was also written by Ellis; this series also introduced Wisdom's sister Romany, as well as his father. He had a somewhat antagonistic (though ultimately friendly) relationship with the other team members, particularly Lockheed, who was jealous of his relationship with Kitty. His relationship with Pryde eventually ended, and Wisdom left the team in issue 120.
After Excalibur dissolved, he was briefly affiliated with X-Force. His first appearance in this comic occurred in X-Force volume 1, issues 94 and 95, where he requested X-force's aid in recovering a cybernetic brain from Genosha, fighting Magneto in the process. Soon after, Warren Ellis became the writer of X-Force, and Wisdom appeared as the new leader of the team beginning in issue 102. He acted as a mentor and showed the team members how to use their mutant powers in new ways. At the end of the first major story arc in issue 105, in which Romany Wisdom returned as a villain, Wisdom was apparently murdered. Wisdom appeared in flashbacks in the next arc, these flashbacks taking place between issues 101 and 102. In issue 115 the remainder of X-Force with the exception of Domino were apparently killed, while Wisdom was revealed to still be alive. Later, the rest of the X-Force team were revealed to have survived as well. Wisdom's survival is apparantly not known to any members of X-Force or Excalibur, and possibly the only person to know that he is alive is Alistaire Stuart, head of the British Intelligence organization The Department.