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| image= Sam_Zachary_Guthrie.png
| name= Cannonball
| real name= Samuel Zachary "Sam" Guthrie
| alias= Cannonball
| age= 17-19
| religion= Baptist
| originally from= Cumberland, Kentucky, USA
| relatives=Thomas Guthrie (''Father'', deceased)<br>Lucinda Guthrie ''(Mother)''<br> Unnamed brothers and sisters
| affiliates= [[X-Men]]<br> [[New Mutants]]

| gender= Male
| hair color= Blond
| eye color= Blue-Grey
| height= 6'0
| powers= Generate thermo-chemical energy
| first appearance= [[Growing Pains]]
| portrayed by=[[Bill Switzer]]|species = [[Mutant]]}}

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{{Quote|Get us out, whatever way you came in!|'''Sam''' to '''Scott'''}}

==Must See Episodes==
*[[Joyride]]

==Personality==
Sam is sweet, soft-spoken, gentle and a little geeky. He can be a bit of a klutz often acts slightly embarrassed around his female allies. 

==Powers and abilities==
===Powers===
Cannonball possesses the ability to generate thermo-chemical energy and release it through his skin. Accompanied by smoke and condensation, the equal and opposite reaction to this energy release propels his body through the air like a human rocket. Cannonball can cut off his propulsive power at will, allowing him to achieve a form of flight. As a side-effect of forming the thermo-chemical energies over the surface of his body, Cannonball is rendered virtually invulnerable while in flight, seen crashing through solid, stone walls and denting steel barricades with no harm to himself. Accompanying the release of energy is a half-inch, thick energy field that channels the explosion and protects his body from the direct effects of the blast. It also negates momentum-related effects, thereby cushioning his body from any impact up to a half-minute from the depletion of his energy. Cannonball's "blast field" extends to any person or object he is in physical contact with when using his propulsion powers, rendering them invulnerable as well.

==Early life==
Sam was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky, the eldest of eleven children to his parents, Lucinda and Thomas Guthrie, a coal mine worker. After the death of his father, sixteen-year-old Samuel Guthrie became the man of the house to his large family. To help support his family, Sam decided to work in his father's occupational field as a coal miner. The strenuous nature of the occupation caught up with him one day when Sam found himself trapped in a collapsing mine shaft. While trying to rescue his fellow worker, a friend of his father's; who had introduced him to the job, Sam subconsciously activated his mutant powers to propel himself at superhuman speeds and used it to bring the pair to safety. After the coal incident; [[Charles Xavier]] offered Sam to come and join his school which Sam accepted. At some point, Sam went to the Xavier Mansion as a member of the [[New Mutants]], a younger generation of mutants who were to eventually help and possibly replace the [[X-Men]].

==Season 2==
*'''[[Bada-Bing Bada-Boom|Bada Bing Bada Boom]]'''
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During a training session, Sam and his team had to prepare a stretcher for [[Boom Boom|Tabitha]] who was to rescue Kurt who was "trapped". Due to Tabitha's reckless behaviour, the training session went awry and Sam witnessed Kurt being thrown from the stretcher and watches as his [[Wolverine|teacher]] dove in the rescue him.

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*'''[[Fun and Games]]'''
During a house party, Sam spoke with [[Wolfsbane|Rahne]]. Eventually, Sam left Rahne and went to sit down with [[Iceman|Bobby]] but was pulled into dancing by Amara whose actions caused Bobby to laugh. 

*'''[[Day of Reckoning I]] '''
Sam along with the other members of the New Mutants were locked in during the mansion's lockdown phase but had failed to destroy the shutters when he tried breaking out which caused Sam to hurt himself, an incident which Bobby scoffed at.

*'''[[Day of Reckoning II]] '''
Once [[Cyclops|Scott]] appeared to save the young mutants, Sam and his friends looked to him for ways to get out of the mansion before it came down on them. When unable to leave the [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters|institute]], Sam alongside his team and Scott moved down to the room that held [[Cerebro]]. Once safe, they all left the school and reunited with the others who were still somewhat injured from beating the [[Sentinel]]. Sam then watched in shock as the man he believed to be his [[Charles Xavier|professor]] then turned into the mutant [[Mystique]].

==Season 3==
*'''[[Day of Recovery]]'''
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When surrounded by the authorities, the younger mutants which included Sam were forced to retreat into the sewers upon the discovery of mutantkind. Sam then met an older mutant named [[Caliban|Calliban]] who admitted he already knew the group before him were mutants too where he then offered them safety if they followed him.

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*'''[[Mainstream]]'''
When [[Charles Xavier|Xavier]] used his telepathy to wake up the students, Sam went with the younger mutants to have breakfast

*Once the mansion was rebuilt, Sam helped repairing it by creating holes using his powers so that [[Sunspot|Roberto]] could plant trees however he ends up flying into [[Berzerker|Ray]] on accident

==Season 4==
*'''[[Uprising]]'''
After leaving the library, Sam and [[Magma|Amara]] began walking home but were confronted by [[Duncan Matthews|Duncan]] and his friends who threatened the two after Sam had dropped one of his books, he and Amara were saved once [[Spyke|Evan]] showed up.

*'''[[Ascension II|Ascension, part 2]]'''
Sam used his powers to get Rogue onto the top of [[Apocalypse]]'s pyramid

==Future==
[[File:Future-Xkidss.png|thumb|Future Cannonball]]
When [[Charles Xavier]] was under [[Apocalypse|Apocalypse's]] control, he scanned the mind of Apocalypse. In the [[Future]], Xavier saw adult versions of the X-Men. Sam and appeared with the rest of the [[New Mutants]] alongside a reformed [[Magneto|Erik]]. 

==Note==
*Cannonball and [[Iceman]] appear, even called by name, but have no lines in [[Power Surge]].<ref name=S2Ep2>[[Power Surge]].</ref>
*Though all the [[New Mutants]] appear, only Cannonball and [[Berzerker]] have any lines in [[African Storm]].<ref name=S2Ep02>[[African Storm]].</ref>
*Sam drove Jean, Kitty, and Roberto to the airport.<ref name=S2Ep7>[[On Angel's Wings]].</ref>
*During [[Christmas|Christmas Break]]. Sam drove Jean, Kitty, and Roberto to the airport.<ref name=S2Ep7>[[On Angel's Wings]].</ref>
*Cannonball and [[Sunspot]] are both shown, but have no lines in [[Cruise Control]].<ref name=S3Ep10>[[Cruise Control]].</ref>
*Cannonball, [[Magma]] and [[Jubilee]] all appear, but have no dialog in [[Retreat]].<ref name=S2Ep14>[[Retreat]].</ref>
*[[Sunspot]] and Cannonball appear, but have no lines in [[Target X]].<ref name=S4Ep3>[[Target X]].</ref>
*Cannonball and the [[New Mutants]] make an appearance but have no lines in [[The Stuff of Villains]].<ref name=S4Ep4>[[The Stuff of Villains]].</ref>
*[[Magma]] and Cannonball are in the same class, and both attend [[Bayville High School]].<ref name=S4Ep5>[[Uprising]].</ref>

==In other media==
*This is Cannonball's second appearance in an X-Men animated television series, the first being in ''X-Men: The Animated Series''.
*Cannonball appeared in the 2020 film, ''New Mutants''.
*In The Animated series, one of his sisters is shown to be called Paige, also know as Husk in the comics, it is unknown if she is one of Sam's sisters in Evolution.
*Cannonball has appeared in two video games, including; ''X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse'' and ''Marvel: Avenger's Alliance''.

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