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After the battle was won, Colossus remained in the U.S. He agreed to leave the farm community where he was born to go to the United States with Xavier. Peter Rasputin was part of the second generation of X-Men, formed by Charles Xavier to save the original X-Men from the living island Krakoa. He was then contacted by Professor Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men. Peter's superhuman powers manifested during his adolescence while saving his sister from a runaway tractor. The 2006 comic mini-series Colossus: Bloodline established that the family was descended from Grigori Rasputin.

His older brother, Mikhail, had been a Soviet cosmonaut and had apparently died in a rocket accident. He lived there with his mother Alexandra, father Nikolai, and sister Illyana. Piotr 'Peter' Rasputin was born on a Soviet collective farm called the Ust-Ordynsky Collective near Lake Baikal in Siberia. He is part of a team which is led by Storm, and includes his sister Magik, Iceman, a teenaged version of Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, a re-purposed Sentinel named Cerebra, and Old Man Logan.įictional character biography Background Ĭolossus' first appearance from Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975) art by Dave Cockrum He appears in Extraordinary X-Men, written by Jeff Lemire and drawn by Humberto Ramos.

#Avatar colossus series#

Colossus has since returned as a regular in the X-Men series, appearing in various titles such as X-Men: Manifest Destiny, X-Men: Secret Invasion, X-Men, and Astonishing X-Men.Ĭolossus appears in Cable and X-Force, a new series by writer Dennis Hopeless and artist Salvador Larroca which debuted in Dec. He is the feature of a limited series, Colossus: Bloodlines, in which he journeys back to Russia. He was later resurrected and was a regular in the third series of Astonishing X-Men written by Joss Whedon. While a member of the team, he had his own self-titled one-shot that depicted him and his teammate Meggan battling Arcade at his new Murderworld facility.Īfter returning to the X-Men alongside Excalibur teammates Shadowcat and Nightcrawler, Colossus stayed with the title until his death. ( September 2008)Ī mainstay of the X-Men comic book series until the 1990s, Colossus went on to appear regularly in the first series of Excalibur. So we decided that his costume would be blue when he wasn't armored up, and that we'd see his legs when he was armored up, due to the unstable molecules of his costume. But Len Wein didn't like male characters with bare legs. He was accepted pretty much as-is, except that I had given him bare legs because it seemed only logical that if we're going to show him armored up, the legs should be bare like the arms. The character's armor just kind of fell into place. We needed a strong guy for the team, so I drew up a strong guy. I just went home and Colossus was one of the first ones that came to mind. Actor Daniel Cudmore took over the role of Colossus in X2 (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), and Stefan Kapičić provides the voice of a CGI character in Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018).Įditor Roy Thomas, in charge of reviving the X-Men for Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975), told the creative team to go home and create some characters for the new team. In film, Donald MacKinnon portrayed a cameo as Colossus in X-Men. In 2013, ComicsAlliance ranked Colossus as #22 on their list of the '50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics'. In 2006, IGN placed Colossus in the 10th spot of their list of 'The Top 25 X-Men'. Wizard ranked Colossus at 184 on the 'Top 200 Comic Book Characters of All Time'. A talented artist, he only reluctantly agrees to use his powers in combat, feeling it is his responsibility to use his abilities for the betterment of human- and mutant-kind. He has had a fairly consistent presence in X-Men-related comic books since his debut. He is portrayed as quiet, honest, and virtuous.

Even when his powers are not engaged, he is still a physically imposing figure of 6 ft 7 in (200 cm) in height. Colossus is able to transform himself into metallic form, making him the physically strongest of the team.

Created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum, he first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975).Ī Russian mutant, he is a member of the X-Men.

Superhuman strength, stamina, and durabilityĬolossus ( Piotr ' Peter' Nikolayevich Rasputin) ( Russian: Пётр Николаевич Распутин) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Rasputin, The Proletarian, Peter Nicholas, Juggernaut Ust-Ordynsky Collective near Lake Baikal, Russia