Originally posted by Gordonator:
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X-Men 3
Mutant Spotlight 3: Colossus
Real Name: Piotr (Peter) Nikolaievitch
Rasputin
History: 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.
However, Rasputin was contacted by Professor Charles Xavier,
founder of the X-Men, when Xavier was organizing a new team of
mutant X-Men to help him rescue the original X-Men from the
sentient island Krakoa. Rasputin agreed to leave the farm community
in which he was born and raised to go to America with Xavier.
Xavier gave Rasputin the code name "Colossus" and Rasputin aided
Xavier's other new recruits in their battle against Krakoa. After
the battle was won, Rasputin remained in the United States with the
new X-Men while the rest of his family stayed on the farm.
Rasputin's family always remained in his thoughts. Shortly
thereafter a woman known as Miss Locke kidnapped many of the
X-Men's loved ones to use as hostages in order to force the X-Men
to aid her in freeing her employer, Arcade, from captivity by one
of Doctor Doom's robots. Among her
captives was Colossus's younger sister Illyana, whom Locke had
somehow kidnapped from the Siberian collective farm and transported
to the United States.
The X-Men freed Illyana from captivity, and she went to live with
her brother Piotr (known as Peter in America) at Xavier's mansion.
Due to her later captivity in a dimension known as Limbo where she
spent years while only mere moments elapsed on Earth, Illyana
became the adolescent sorceress known as Magik.
After Illyana was returned to her true Earth age, Colossus thought
it would be better for Illyana if she went back to live with their
parents. Sadly, her parents were slain and she was kidnapped by a
mutant known as the Soul Skinner who hoped to genetically evolve
Illyana to the point where she would have the use of her powers
again. Colossus, with the help of the X-Men, saved Illyana and
brought her back to the mansion.
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.
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.
During this time he repaired his friendships with Wolverine and
Storm, that were broken when he had joined the Acolytes. He also
created a deep friendship with Marrow. Piotr again found his long
thought-dead brother Mikhail, but unfortunately lost him again when
Apocalypse collected the Twelve in his quest for power.
Beast, one of his X-Men teammates, claimed to have found the cure
for the Legacy Virus. Not knowing weather or not it worked Colossus
injected himself with the cure. Seemingly killing himself Colossus
used his powers, and cured the Legacy Virus from anyone in the
planet. The body was cremated, and Kitty Pryde spread the ashes in
Russia.
However it was later brought to the attention of the X-Men, that an
alien called Ord from the Breakworld had captured Piotr's body,
left a duplicate and revived it. He had used Colossus in his
program to find a "Cure" for mutants. During their investigation
Shadowcat and the X-Men were united with Colossus. Together they
stopped Ord, and captured the Cure.
Currently Colossus has returned to the X-Men and his long love
Shadowcat.
Strength Level: In his normal human form Peter
Rasputin possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age,
height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise. As
Colossus he can left (press) at least 70 tons under optimal
conditions.
Special Skills: Talented artist in drawing and
painting
Known Superhuman Powers: Colossus is a mutant with
the superhuman ability to convert the tissue of his entire body
into an organic steel-like substance, granting him superhuman
strength and a high degree of resistance to bodily harm. This
substance, resembling organic 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 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 his armored state, Colossus
possesses the same degree of mobility that he does in his normal
form.
The process by which Colossus transforms himself to armored form
and back (including his gain of 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. Even his eyes become steel-like; his
eyeballs can withstand and deflect the impact of a .45 caliber
bullet.
In his armored form Colossus is highly resistant to most forms of
bodily harm. His armor is capable of withstanding ballistic
penetration, including that of a 110 millimeter Howitzer shell. 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
survive extremes of temperature from 70 degrees above absolute zero
(-390 degrees Fahrenheit) to approximately 9000 Fahrenheit.
However, it is theorized that above the latter temperature, his
armored form would begin to melt. Colossus's armored form cannot
rust under normal Earth conditions.
Colossus is in unusually fine physical health, permitting the
transition back and forth from his normal organic flesh state to
his armored form to occur with minimal stress on his system. His
normal lungs are capable of holding his breath for 3.6 minutes. In
the past he has exhibited a minimal or nonexistent need to breathe
while in his armored state. However, it is believed that he could
not survive for long in a vacuum. His endurance and speed are
somewhat greater in his armored form.[/b]
he look powerful!!!
Doc doom??
U mean do doom from fanstic 4?? are they in X-men too?
