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Callisto (Marvel)
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Powers: Callisto had heightened strength, agility and reflexes, augmented by her tentacles, which can adhere to any surface. Her five senses were superhumanly augmented. She had particularly good night vision. She also had an accelerated healing factor.
Bio: When Callisto was young and beautiful, her life seemed so perfect, so enviable. But catastrophe struck, blinding her in the right eye and leaving her horribly disfigured. Forced to hold up a mirror to her new reality, Callisto realized that society had little use for a beautiful women who was beautiful no more.
Scared and alone, she rebelled against society and decided to go underground where it was safe, and where she could escape prying, peering eyes. She quickly made a huge abandoned military tunnel called "the Alley" built underneath Manhattan in the 1950s her home.
With help from the mutant-detecting Caliban, the devoted Sunder and the treacherous Masque, she organized a community of mutant outcasts called the Morlocks. (Unknown to Callisto, the Morlocks were being manipulated by the extradimensional sadist called the Dark Beast, a twisted alternate version of Hank McCoy.)
In recent years, Callisto, apparently driven to irrationality by her responsibilities, abducted the winged Angel (Warren Worthington III) as a consort. Angel's X-Men teammates invaded the Alley but were captured as well. The team's leader, Storm, challenged Callisto to trial by combat, almost killing her and winning the mantle of Morlock leader. Initially hating Storm, Callisto, de facto leader in Storm's absence, grew to respect the X-Men and their founder, Professor X, whose life she saved after a beating by anti-mutant protestors.
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Callisto and her growing band of outcasts became the victims of a massacre, orchestrated by Mister Sinister and implemented by his team of Marauders. The few survivors, including Callisto, were treated by Moira MacTaggert on Muir Island, Scotland; in gratitude, Callisto appointed herself MacTaggert's bodyguard and assisted Cyclops against the mutant-hating Master Mold. However, she was captured by Masque, who had, via the young telepath Brain Cell, enslaved the remaining Morlocks. To taunt her, Masque restored Callisto's long-lost beauty, altered her memories, then freed her in New York to be hunted down. However, the X-Man Colossus protected Callisto, and Masque returned Callisto's scarred appearance before escaping.
When Masque was believed dead, the remaining Morlocks went mad and attacked Callisto, who sought the X-Men's aid. However, Mikhail Rasputin, Colossus's brother, convinced Callisto to join him in leading the Morlocks to the Hill, a dimension of rapid time passage. There the survivors built a new society, but the younger generation escaped to Earth as the terrorist unit Gene Nation. Callisto again recruited the X-Men to stop her wayward charges, whom she later tried to rehabilitate in the Alley.
When the government anti-mutant persecution increased, Callisto and her protégé Marrow attacked official Henry Gyrich but were held off by Spider-Man, who in turn helped battle Prime Sentinels. Severely wounded, Callisto was cared for by Marrow, but the Dark Beast manipulated her into departing. She resurfaced as a mutant gladiator in the mysterious Arena, her body given tentacles by a surviving Masque. However, when Storm was pressed into Arena performance, Callisto joined Storm and her allies to topple Masque. At Storm's request, Callisto joined Professor X's efforts to rebuild the decimated nation Genosha; as a member of his informal inner circle, the Genoshan Excalibur, she has fought Trolls, the Weaponeers and other threats.
In the aftermath of the House of M, Callisto lost her mutant powers, and her tentacled arms reverted to normal.
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First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men (1963) #169 Favorite Characters:
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Issue Appearances: Age of X: Alpha (2011)
Age of X: Universe (2011)
#2 - 'Age of X Universe Chapter 2' All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z (2006)
#2 - 'Benny Beckley to Crazy Eight' Cable (1993)
Die Neuen X-Men Comic-Magazin (1989)
#12 - 'Der Anfang vom Ende?' Essential X-Men (1995)
Excalibur (1988)
#4 - 'Still Crazy After All These Years' #6 - 'Goblin Night' Excalibur (2004)
#2 - 'Forging the Sword, Part 2: With a Little Help From My Friends' #3 - 'Forging the Sword, Part 3: Wild Things' #4 - 'Forging the Sword, Part 4: Hard Rain' #5 - 'Food Fight, Part 1' #6 - 'Food Fight, Part 2: Who's Better,Who's Best' #7 - 'Food Fight, Part 3: Bad Moon Rising' #8 - 'Saturday Night Fever, Part 1' #9 - 'Saturday Night Fever, Part 2: What is the Life that Late I Led…?' #10 - 'Saturday Night Fever, Part 3: Casting Fate' #11 - 'The Devil's Own, Part 1: Save the Life of My Child' #12 - 'The Devil's Own, Part 2: Gonna Have a Revolution' #13 - 'The Devil's Own, Part 3: The World is Mine!' Marvel Comics Presents (1988)
Marvel Masters (2007)
Marvel Universe vs. The Avengers (2012)
Mystique (2003)
#20 - 'Quiet: Part One' #23 - 'Quiet: Part Four' Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z (2008)
Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999)
Power Pack (1984)
Pro Action Magazine (vol. 1) (1994)
Ryhmä-X / X-Men (1984)
Ryhmä-X / X-Men -erikoisjulkaisu (1985)
Son of M (2006)
#4 - 'The Gathering Storm' #5 - 'Everything Falls Apart' Storm (1996)
#2 - 'The Ghost Has No Home' #3 - 'The Tinderbox of a Heart' #4 - 'She Will Destroy You' The Marvel Encyclopedia (2006)
HC - 'The Marvel Encyclopedia' The New Mutants (1983)
The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (1983)
#7 - 'M: From Mandarin to Mystique' The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition (1985)
The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Master Edition (1990)
The Very Best of the X-Men (1994)
HC - 'The Very Best of the X-Men' Uncanny X-Men (1963)
#169 - 'Catacombs' #170 - 'Dancin' in the Dark' #171 - 'Rogue' #176 - 'Decisions' #178 - 'Hell Hath No Fury...' #179 - 'What Happened to Kitty?' #190 - 'An Age Undreamed Of' #191 - 'Raiders of the Lost Temple!' #193 - 'Warhunt 2' #195 - 'It Was A Dark and Stormy Night...!' #207 - 'Ghosts' #208 - 'Retribution' #209 - 'Salvation' #211 - 'Massacre' #212 - 'The Last Run' #213 - 'Psylocke' #214 - 'With Malice Toward All!' #215 - 'Old Soldiers' #216 - 'Crucible' #217 - 'Folly's Gambit' #219 - 'Where Duty Lies' #253 - 'Storm Warnings!' #254 - 'All-New, All-Different -- Here We Go Again!' #259 - 'Dream a Little Dream' #260 - 'Star 90' #262 - 'Scary Monsters' #263 - 'The Lower Depths' #264 - 'Hot Pursuit' #291 - 'Underbelly' #292 - '...The Morlocks Take Manhattan!' #293 - 'The Last Morlock Story!' #325 - 'Generation of Evil' #346 - 'The Story of the Year!' #347 - 'Big Night' #374 - 'You Can't Go Home Again' #463 - 'Season of the Witch, Part 2 of 4: We're Not in Kansas Anymore' #464 - 'Season of the Witch, Part 3 of 4: To Die For' #465 - 'Season of the Witch, Part 4 of 4: Chaos Rules' Weapon X (2002)
#10 - 'The Underground, Part 4' Wolverine (1988)
#146 - 'Through a Dark Tunnel' Wolverine Encyclopedia (1996)
X-Factor (2006)
#18 - 'X-Cell: Part 2' #19 - 'X-Cell: Part 3' #20 - 'X-Cell: Part 4' X-Men (1991)
#44 - 'Lost and Found' #72 - 'Life Lessons' #74 - 'Rituals' #79 - 'Little Morlock Lost' X-Men (Portuguese) (1988)
X-Men Forever 2 (2010)
#5 - 'Dead Reckoning!' #6 - 'Scream a Little Scream!' X-Men Legends (2000)
X-Men Special (1998)
X-Men Unlimited (1993)
X-Men: Lifedeath (2011)
X-Men: The End: Book 2: Heroes & Martyrs (2005)
X-Men: The Ultra Collection (1994)
X-Treme X-Men (2001)
#37 - 'Champion' #38 - 'Slave' #39 - 'Gladiator' #45 - 'Hunting Bogan!' #46 - 'One For My Lady... One More For the Road' Movie Appearances: X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Group Affiliation(s): Marauders (Marvel)(House of M) Morlocks (Marvel) Famous Quotes: - Add a Famous Quote None.
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