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Real Name: Piotr (Peter) Nikolaievitch Rasputin
Occupation: Adventurer, Art Student
Legal Status: Citizen of the USSR
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Ust-Ordynski Collective, Siberia, USSR
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Nikolai (father), Alexandra (mother), Illyana (a.k.a. Magik, sister), Mikhail (brother, deceased)
Base of Operations: Xavier’s School (X-Men Mansion), Westchester County, NY
Past Group Affiliations: X-Men
Known Powers:
Alter Ego: 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 com position but appears to be analogous to both osmium and 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. Once in his armored form, he remains in it 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 again (including his gain of additional mass from an unknown, perhaps extradimensional source) 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.
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.
Body Armor: In his armored form Colossus is highly resistant to
most forms of bodily harm. His armor is capable of withstanding Amazing
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 Monstrous extremes of temperature ranging from 70 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero (—390 degrees F) to approximately 9,000 degrees F. 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 and it
has Excellent resistance to any type of corrosive substance (like acid). In
addition, Colossus has Remarkable resistance to electrical damage or attacks
while in his armored form.
Self Sustenance: Colossus has exhibited a minimal or nonexistent
need to breathe while in his armored state. However, it is believed that he
could not survive for tong in a vacuum.
Talents:
Pilot, Artist
Contacts:
X-Men, X-Factor, New Mutants, X-Calibre
Role-Playing Notes:
Colossus is a quiet and stalwart hero. He is intensely loyal to his friends and teammates and a relent less foe of anyone who would harm them. His Russian heritage is a source of great pride for him and he occasionally feels guilt over having left the Soviet Union. However, he feels that he is needed in the X-Men and as a protector for his sister.
History:
Piotr Rasputin was born at the Soviet collective farm called Ust-Ordynski Collective near Lake Baikal in Siberia. His superhuman powers emerged in adolescence. At first, Rasputin was content simply to use his powers to aid the other members of the Collective.
However, Rasputin was contacted by Professor Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men, who was in the course of organizing a new team of mutant X-Men to help him rescue the original group 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 with Krakoa. After the battle was over, Rasputin remained in the United States with the new X-Men, and he has served with them ever since.
In order to force the X-Men to free her employer Arcade from captivity by one of Doctor Doom’s robots, the woman known as Miss Locke kidnapped many of the X-Men’s loved ones to use as hostages. Among her captives was Colossus’s younger sister, Illyana, whom Locke 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. Peter and Illyana continue to live at Xavier’s mansion today.