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Colossus (Piotr "Peter" Nikolaievitch Rasputin) is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of the X-Men. Created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum, he first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975).

Colossus was born in the Ust-Ordynski Collective farm, near Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union to Nikolai Rasputin and his wife Alexandra Natalya Rasputina. He had an older brother, Mikhail Nikolaievitch Rasputin, and would later have a younger sister, Illyana Nikolaievna Rasputina. Piotr nick-named her "Snowflake" and grew very protective of her.

Rasputin was raised on a collective farm. A gentle young man surrounded by good people, even the revelation that he was a mutant did not ostracize him from his friends and family. So he was reluctant to go when Professor Charles Xavier recruited him for his second group of X-Men. He went nonetheless, taking the code name Colossus, reflecting the ability to transform his entire body into nearly indestructable "organic steel," in which he possesses unimaginable strength (lift-press 100 tons), near limitless stamina and the ability to survive without oxygen, food, or water.


Colossus injects himself with the cure.Colossus found friendship with the X-Men, and even love in an ongoing romance with Kitty Pryde, Shadowcat. They had a steady relationship for several years. Then, during the Secret Wars, Colossus had an affair with a healer who later was killed. Feeling guilty, Colossus broke up with Kitty when he returned home. The two made up later and are now friends, even though their relationship is currently platonic.

Colossus also felt great guilt when his sister Illyana proved to be a mutant as well, and was trapped in the dimension Limbo for several years of her life, emerging to become the heroine Magik.

Worse, when Illyana later died by the Legacy virus, and when his parents were killed crossing the border, his grief drove him to join their enemy, Magneto. Later, he realised his mistake and returned to the team, but he retained deep bitterness about the loss he had suffered throughout his life. He later joined Excalibur.

Death and resurrection

Colossus returns.When Beast finally developed a cure for the Legacy virus there was one problem; a mutant would have to give his life to activate the cure. Against the wishes of his fellow X-Men, Colossus injected himself with the cure so that no more mutants would have to die as his sister had. The X-Men found what appeared to be his lifeless corpse, and believed him dead.

In fact, an alien known as Ord abducted Colossus as he lay dying and resuscitated him. Ord kept Colossus imprisoned in a laboratory, using him as a guinea pig for tests to develop a 'cure' for the mutant gene. When the X-Men recently raided the lab, Kitty Pryde found and freed Colossus. Colossus then proceded to pummel Ord mercilessly.


Ultimate X-Men

Ultimate X-men #32.In the alternate history of the Ultimate X-Men series, Colossus was an arms dealer, sending the money back to his family in Russia. He joined the X-Men after he turned to steel in a barrage of gunfire, revealing that he was a mutant. In the Ultimate War crossover with The Ultimates, Colossus fought Thor and had the upper hand against the thunder god.


Superhuman Abilities
Colossus possesses the ability to transform his skin into a form of organic steel.

In this transformed state, Colossus' body gains 12 inches in additional height and his body mass is doubled to at least 500 pounds. The source of Colossus' gain in height and muscle mass is unknown, but possibly extradimensional.

While in his armored form, Colossus possesses vast superhuman strength. Upon first joining the X-Men, he was in his late teens and possessed sufficient strength to lift around 70 tons. As a fully grown man, Colossus' strength has probably reached it's peak and is sufficient to lift at least 100 tons.

Aside from having great strength, Colossus' armored form gives him a high degree of invulnerability to external physical attack. His armored form can withstand extreme temperatures of several thousand degrees in farenheit and anti-tank weaponry without sustaining damage. Colossus has demonstrated very little need, if any, to breathe while he is in his armored state and there's no known limit as to how long he can remain in this form.

Colossus cannot transform a single portion of his body into this armored state, he must either be completely transformed or remain within his normal state. If Colossus is rendered unconscious, he will automatically revert to his normal state. His armored state provides his muscles with a level of physical stamina much higher than that of ordinary human beings. Colossus' muscles produce such little fatigue poisons, he can potentially exert himself at maximum capacity for several days.

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