Born in a collective farm in Siberia, Piotr Rasputin grew up a
strong and healthy boy who made his parents proud. When he became a
teenager, he discovered he had the strange ability to form an indestructable
metallic skin over his normal flesh. While in this armored form, he also
possessed great strength, and he often used this ability secretly to aid his
family on the farm. His secret became public, however, when he was forced
to switch to armored form to save his sister from a runaway tractor. He was
exiled from the farm, both for being a mutant and for destroying government
property. He found a home with the X-Men, where he learned that there were
other mutants like him. Since the time he first set foot in the Xavier
Institute for Higher Learning, he has had many ups and downs and even left
the team once. However, there is no doubt that Colossus remains one of the
most loyal members of the mutant band, prepared to sacrifice himself for
any one of his teammates.
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