Respect Colossus (Marvel, 616)

"You... enjoy causing pain... death. Before I met you, I never understood evil....But you have made a fatal mistake. You toyed with me when you should have slain me. Allowing me time to change from Peter Rasputin... to Colossus! That mistake will be your last! "

     - Piotr Rasputin, Colossus

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Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. Strength

III. Durability

IV. Speed

V. Fighting Ability

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I. Introduction

 

[Biography]

• Piotr Rasputin was born on a farm collective in Soviet Russia. Although he enjoyed his simple life, his mutant powers soon brought the attention of the outside world. When Charles Xavier became aware of Piotr, he and recruited him to a second squad of X-Men, and he took the codename Colossus. These new X-Men helped rescue the original squad from the mutant island Krakoa, and carried on Xavier's goals of protecting human and mutant relations after most of the first squad went on to pursue their lives.

  Colossus has had many adventures with the X-Men in their various iterations. His innocence, courage, and strength were defining his characteristics, and he was a valuable member of the team. However, his naive innocence and faith in Xavier wavered in the face of the violent and evil forces he faced. He was particularly distraught by the apparent deaths of his brother and sister. He became more brooding and violent, and even left the X-Men at various points. Even when his sister returned, Colossus continued to carry a deep concern for her, and often sought to protect her by any means, including taking on the demonic powers of Cyttorak to become the Juggernaut. Cyttorak's violent influence further affected Colossus until he took on the power of the Phoenix, and became truly unhinged. Eventually however, Colossus returned to his mind and the X-Men fold.

 

[TL;DR]

• Colossus is a mutant and long-time member of the X-Men.

• Powers

  • Organic Steel Form: Colossus transforms into organic steel which grants him super strength and durability; he does not need to eat or breath in his organic steel form.

 

[Note on Organization]

• The bolded feats represent Colossus' top feats.

• Special thanks to u/ChocolateRage for making the first Colossus Respect Thread and allowing me to update.

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II. Strength

Colossus has moderate to high super strength. However, he is not in the same category as the top powerhouses like the Hulk, Thor, or Hercules.

 

[Lifting, Pushing, and Pulling]

• Holds a stomping sentinel's foot

• Faces a giant sentinel, Mastermold, and tears off its anchored leg

• Helps catch a crashing space shuttle even though he was injured

• Helps Hulk and others tip over a huge building

• Carries the Blackbird from the bottom of the ocean

• Ragdolls a sentinel

• Stops and holds very large mechanical press in the danger room

• Throws Wolverine a huge distance at a ship preparing to leave orbit

• Throws the Hulk a huge distance through a large building

• Supports the weight of a damaged sentinel

• Casually holds a 35-ton piece of equipment

• Tears open huge mystical gates

• Tears free a huge piece of equipment and blocks an entrance

• Tears out the undercarriage of a speeding semi-truck

• Tries to stop a huge spinning machine, then tears an arm off and throws it

• Easily holds rubble from a collapse mountain side

• Picks up a large piece of machinery and destroys it

• Throws a the head of sentinel high into the air to explode

• Throws an alien through the hull of its ship

• BFRs Wendigo Wolverine

• Throws a car at a sentinel's head

 

[Striking and Grappling]

• Faces a huge monster and smashes its nose

• Dive-bombs another large monster and takes the beast down

• Sends Arkon flying and in these same fight takes him out of the fight with a massive tree (Note: Arkon is super strong and has traded blows with Hercules in the past)

• Cracks an amped Juggernaut's helmet

• Smashes mystical ice that Dr. Strange, Storm, and Wolverine could not get through

• Knocks back the Juggernaut

• KOs a Wendigo, which has enough strength to fight the Hulk

• Smashes Blob KOing him out for the rest of the fight

• Smashes a huge tank into the air

• Leaps and destroys an attack helicopter

• Smashes back a huge robot that was hitting Namor around, and together, they destroy it

• With Dazzler and Cylops, he destroys a huge ice structure

• Easily catches She-Hulks punch and throws her

• Destroys a huge section of wall, blocking a subway tunnel

• Catches and tears off a large robot's arm and then impales the robot with its arm

• Tears up a portion of the street and destroys a tank

• Fights a panicked Rockslide and puts him down

• Sends Omega Red flying into a wall, cracking the concrete

• Pulverizes falling glass, masonry, and steel

• Smashes though Nimrod sentinel

• Placed in extra-dimensional cave surrounded by billions of tons of solid rock and refusing to give up, he begins to smash through in an attempt to escape

• Takes down super-strong Javits and then withstands Unuscione's psionic grip and overpowers it

• Restrains a Brood alien and snaps it's neck (Note: Brood are super strong, another one was able to easily tear free an airplane engine)

• Crushes the head of a Sinister clone with one hand

 

[Limits]

• Plays WWH in a game of mercy and loses

• Can't break a vault door made of Vibranium

• Overpowered by several Nimrod sentinels

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II. Durability

Colossus is extremely durable. While he may sent flying by strong attacks, he often shows very little, if any pain. However, he can be stunned, incapacitated, or even KOd by sufficiently strong attacks.

 

[Blunt/Impact]

• Takes several punches from Gladiator, and gives Gladiator a good fight, until he is eventually overcome

• Ultimately loses to the Juggernaut, but gives him a good fight. He seems okay afterwards.

• No-sells a punch from Rockslide. (Note: Rockslide is super-strong and can send other powerhouses flying)

• [Album]- Because of Colossus' durability and mass, he can cause extreme damage when thrown or after falling. So, his teammates (and sometimes enemies) often use him as a cannonball.

• Hit by an amped Juggernaut and sent flying, but he continues to fight

• Hit by War World Hulk multiple times, but he continues to fight

• Crushed by Arclight and has tunnel toppled on him, but he is fine.

• Takes several punches from Sasquatch and continues to fight. (Note: Sasquatch is strong enough to easily throw a 250 ton plane)

• Withstands War Machine's punch and sends War Machine flying

• While falling, gets smashed by a very fast moving proto-mutant, but the impact seems to have little effect

• Punched hard enough to topple a plane, but Colossus seems unfazed

• Smashed through a building by Blob, but seems fine

• While blinded, gets thrown through a structure, and repeatedly pounded on by super-strong Barbarus, but Colossus seems unharmed and one-hit KOs him

• Punched a huge distance but beats his opponents a short while later

 

[Energy and Other]

• Tanks a blast from the Terminus scepter (Note: Terminus is capable of massive destruction with the scepter)

• Tanks a blast from a sentinel, shielding Wolverine

• Tanks an energy blast that vaporizes robot versions of the X-Men

• Presses through Warmachine's attacks and punches him

• No-sells an energy blast from a Sidrian Hunter

• No-sells Black Tom's energy blast that could "wreck a tank"

• Seems mostly immune to lightning even lightning strong enough to KO Rogue

• Hit with a strong energy beam but is fine

• A high-powered blast from Cyclops only "shakes him up"

• Blocks another blast from Cyclops

• No sells a large explosion

• Sent flying by Dazzler's photon beam, but otherwise seems fine

• No sells a energy attack from Dr. Doom

• Tanks Pyro's flames and knocks Pyro out

• Doesn't need food in his armored form, so he's immune to the Horsemen Famine's powers

 

[Piercing]

• Gets stabbed through by Wendigo Wolverine, but he manages to continue fighting

• While still young, Riptide's super-speed shuriken pierce Colossus, but as he got older, he got more durable

• Bullets have no effect

 

[Limits]

• Apocalypse's strong energy blast KOs Colossus

• Hit hard by an alien and stunned. He does return to the fight however. (Note: that alien race was very strong, her companion effortlessly tossed a helicarrier)

• He was injured after an attack by Riptide and required healing

• Superheated by Pyro and then exposed to liquid nitrogen almost killed him

• Impaled by Pete Wisdom's thermal knives and KOd by a combined hit from Captain Britain and Namorita (Note: Pete Wisdom's knives are said to be "hotter than the heart of the sun")

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IV. Speed

Colossus' metal form does not limit his speed. He's often described as being surprisingly fast and agile for his size and mass.

 

[General]

• Avoids an amped Juggernaut's blows

• Energy cannon fires and Colossus moves to intercept it

• Man fires a gun at Colossus, but Colossus manages to avoid a direct hit

• Reacts to two fired missiles and he catches one and destroys the other

• Illyana swings her sword at Colossus while his back is turned, but he turns and catches it before he gets hit

• Dodges a sentinel's blast and then blitzes it with a plasma torch

• Avoids heavy automatic fire

• Sunfire shoots a fireball at Logan, but Colossus intercepts

• Saves his teammate from getting crushed by a rock

• Flips to kick Juggernaut

• Surprises Psylocke with his speed

• After crashing through a building, Colossus takes down guards before they react

• Tags Nightcrawler with a dodgeball and Nightcrawler remarks on Colossus' speed

 

[Limits]

• Thor thinks he's slow as an elderly mountain troll

• Fast, but slower than Bishop

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V. Fighting Ability

Colossus trained excessively with the X-Men and has learned fighting techniques from Cyclops and Wolverine.

 

[General]

• While unarmored, he takes down several thugs

• While unarmored, takes on a T-Rex and drives it away

• Trains the New X-Men and easily dismantles them

• Uses agility and skill to combat a larger, stronger opponent

• Faces three super-powered individuals and takes them down on his own

• Fighting against the stronger Hulk, Colossus uses his skills to stun the Hulk

• Colossus uses judo to throw the stronger Sansquatch

• Colossus out-thinks an amped Juggernaut and BFRs him

• Trains Sunspot to aware of his surroundings in a fight

• While controlled by the Shadow King he overcomes Xavier's best efforts to contain him, and Xavier remarks on his high training and skill