Issue 62 – Colossus (Live at Rogue Comics)

SHOW NOTES:

• Intro

  • Thanks to everyone for coming to Rogue Comics!

  • New patron – Stephanie!

  • Plug for Play Comics – Chris and a guest play games based on comics, and determine how accurately the game depicts what happens in the comics (3:41)

• Background (4:45)

  • Colossus (Piotr Nikolayevich Rasputin) created by Len Wein & Dave Cockrum in Giant Size X-Men #1 (May 1975)

  • Piotr was born on a Soviet collective farm with his family, including his sister Ilyana (Magik)

  • As a teen, he saved Ilyana from a runaway tractor, and discovered he had the ability to turn his body into organic steel

  • Joined the X-Men when Professor Xavier put together a team of mutants to rescue the original X-Men on Krakoa, and stayed as a member of the team

  • At one point, he helped save the Fall People in the Savage Land, and started a brief romantic relationship with a woman named Nereel, that resulted in a child named Peter, although Colossus doesn’t know he’s the father

  • Later started a relationship with Kitty Pryde, but ended things shortly thereafter

  • Temporarily paralyzed during battle with Riptide, and was unable to return to human form for a time

  • After Ilyana dies from the Legacy Virus, Colossus joins Magneto’s Acolytes for a while

  • Rejoined the X-Men

  • Sacrificed himself to spread cure to Legacy Virus – later revealed that his body was stolen by an alien to experiment on him – rescued by X-Men and restarts relationship with Kitty until she sacrifices herself to save the Earth from Breakworld

  • World War Hulk – battles Hulk, who breaks his arms while in metal form

  • Gains the powers of the Juggernaut for a while after Cyttorak takes them back from Cain Marko – Magik offers herself, but Piotr intercepts

  • Then gains the power of the Phoenix Force during Avengers vs. X-Men, only to lose it when he and Ilyana battle each other – Ilyana reveals that was part of her plan all along, because she wanted him to feel pain & regret – she frees him of Cyttorak’s influence while in Limbo, and he told her the next time they met, he would kill her

• Issues (16:45)

  • Relationship with Ilyana – dangerous

  • Relationship with Kitty (25:30)

  • Duality of nature (33:33)

• Break
  • Plugs for Varmints! and AnxZenity

• Treatment (44:30)

  • In-universe

  • Out of universe

• Q&A with Colossus (NOTE: This was originally going to just be for the attendees, but Anthony & Doc couldn’t find time to schedule a recording of a regular skit, so you lucked out!)
• Ending
  • Next episode – history of psychiatry in comics
  • Robbie Reyes – Episode 66

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