Colossus
From X-Men Wiki, the X-Men encyclopedia
| |
| Piotr Rasputin | |
|---|---|
| Family | Nikolai Rasputin (father, deceased), Alexandra Rasputina (mother, deceased), Magik (Illyana Rasputin) (sister, deceased), Mikhail Rasputin (brother) |
| Powers and Abilities | Organic steel tranformation, superhuman strength |
| Played By | Daniel Cudmore |
| Status | Alive |
Contents |
[edit] Characteristics
- Height-6' 6" (normal), 7'5" (armor)
- Weight-250 (normal), 500 (armor)
- Eyes- Blue
- Hair- Black
- 7 inch penis (normal), 14 inch penis (armor)
[edit] History
[edit] Early Childhood
Piotr Rasputin was born on the Soviet collective farm called the Ust-Ordynski Collective near Lake Baikal in Siberia. His superhuman powers emerged in adolescence. At first, Rasputin was content simply to use these powers to aid the other people of the Collective.
[edit] X-Men
- Professor Xavier met him in Seberia then Piotr became a X-man. He fell in love with Kitty Pride. Then he joined the Acolytes. But eventualy rejoined the X-men.
[edit] Acolytes
Later, Illyana became the first tragic victim to be infected with the Legacy Virus and die from it. The deaths of his immediate family caused Colossus to rethink his position with the X-Men and join Magneto and his Acolytes, who had offered him an alternative to the X-Men's way of fighting and living.
His stay with Magneto was not long once he realized that Avalon was not the place for him, either. He left in search of the only person he felt truly cared for him, his former love and teammate Kitty Pryde , now a member of Excalibur. Colossus traveled to England, where he found Kitty in the arms of her new love, Pete Wisdom. Colossus, enraged, attacked Wisdom, and although the battle was short-lived, they both sustained minor injuries
[edit] Legacy Cure
Colossus accepted Kitty's new life and chose to become a member of Excalibur. Once the team dissolved, Kitty, Colossus and Nightcrawler returned to the States and became active members of the X-Men.
Beast, one of his X-Men teammates, claimed to have found the cure for the Legacy Virus after consulting the late Moira MacTaggart's notes. However, it required a mutant to activate their powers, and the process would be fatal. Colossus agreed to use it despite Beast's warnings that it might not work. Colossus was successful, and the cure was spread worldwide, claiming his life in the process. Colossus' body was supposedly cremated, and Kitty scattered the ashes over his Russian farmland home; however, his body had secretly been stolen by Ord, an alien who had learned that an Earthly mutant would be responsible for destroying his world. Ord had come to Earth to declare war, but the spy agency S.W.O.R.D., a sub-division of S.H.I.E.L.D. handling extraterrestrial matters, was able to settle diplomatically with him. Ord had Colossus restored to life and imprisoned him for years while experimenting on him.
Ultimately, Ord discovered the Legacy Virus cure still in Colossus' system and presented his findings to Benetech geneticist Doctor Kavita Rao, who modified it to create a "cure" for the "mutant condition." Learning of the cure, the X-Men went to Benetech to investigate. There, Kitty found Colossus alive and, after overcoming her initial shock, took him to aid the X-Men against Ord. Defeated, Ord was taken into custody, and Colossus returned home with the X-Men to adjust to his new lease on life.
[edit] New Life
Currently Colossus has returned to the X-Men and his long love Shadowcat. Despite his impressive physical power and stature, Colossus is actually one of the gentlest and least-aggressive X-Men characters. He would prefer to be a soft-spoken artist, but realizes his responsibility to use his powers for the betterment of humanity.
Soon after, Colossus became involved in a mystery involving the deaths of several of his cousins, all of whom (like himself) were descended from the "doom of Old Russia", Grigori Rasputin. It was eventually revealed that Grigori was attempting to return through his descendants, and that his old ally Mister Sinister had teamed with Colossus' brother Mikhail to hasten the process. Ultimately, Mikhail sought to protect Colossus by exiling himself to ensure Grigori could never return.
During the attack on the institute Colossus engages Sebastian Shaw. Colossus at first appears to have the upper hand, beating Shaw severely. In reality, however Shaw is using his mutant abilities to absorb the kinetic energy to grow stronger, and eventually incapacitates Colossus with a devastating blow to the head, leaving him unconscious in human form in the lab. This is later revealed to be a psychic attack by non other than Emma Frost, her mind fractured by survivors guilt over Genosha that had been manipulated by Cassandra Nova. Also, it has been revealed that Colossus is the mutant destined to destroy the Breakworld, by Ord. A design on wall on Breakworld that looks thousands of years old show this.
[edit] Powers and Abilities
Colossus is an Beta-Level Mutant
[edit] Powers
[edit] Organic Steel Transformation
Powers to convert the tissue of his entire body into an organic steel-like substance. This substance resembling steel is of unknown composition but appears to be analogous to osmium and to carbon steel. He is able to transform into this armor-like state at will (the process is virtually instantaneous) and remain in that form for an as yet undetermined amount of time. (The longest time he has remained in armored form by choice so far has been five days). Once in his armored form he remains so until he consciously wills himself back to normal. If he is rendered unconscious, however, he spontaneously reverts to his normal form. While in the armored state, Colossus possesses the same degree of mobility that he does in his normal form. The conversion from flesh and bone to organic steel is accomplished by a psionic whole-brain interface with an ionic form of osmium, an extremely dense metal, located in another dimension. In willing the act of transformation, Colossus actually exchanges osmium atoms for his carbon atoms. The psionic interface with the other dimension re-creates all of Colossus's body in functionally similar organic ionic-osmium materials. The process by which Colossus gains additional mass from an unknown, perhaps extra-dimensional, force remains unknown. Colossus cannot become partially or selectively armored; his body is either entirely converted or not.
While armored he has the following abilities:
Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Stamina powers to produce considerably less fatigue toxins than the musculature of a normal human. At his peak, he can physically exert himself at peak capacity for several days before the build up of fatigue toxins in his blood begins to impair him.
Superhuman Durability powers of withstanding ballistic penetration, including that of a 110 millimeter Howitzer shell. He can survive extremes of temperature from 70 degrees above absolute zero (-390 degrees Fahrenheit) to approximately 9000 degrees Fahrenheit. He could survive a collision with a loaded, one-ton flatbed truck at 100 miles per hour or an explosion of 450 pounds of TNT. He can go without food, water, or air for many days while transformed, though he would eventually require sustenance.
[edit] Abilities
Skilled Painter,Expert Combatant
[edit] Strength Level
Normal Human (Normal), Class 100 (Armor) Piotr had previously been at Class 70 strength, Marvel explains this by saying he increased in power when he reached adulthood. He was only class 70 while as a teenager. This increase in power puts Piotr in league with the heavy hitters in Marvel, including Hercules, Thor, and even the Hulk.
[edit] Weaknesses
None known.
