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Originally posted by MagiK:
<font color="#f683ad"> Just wanted to share the one most awesome...moment in X-Men comics that has stuck in my mind for a very very long time....
In one book, Magneto and the Brotherhood are fighting the X-Men which at this point included Collosus.....and Pyro started flaming him up,(Collosus that is) getting him to the point where he was white hot, but apparently surviving it ok....when Magneto pulled two tankers of Liquid Oxygen in and slammed them on him....he didn't shatter the way glass would have but he was frozen in solid shape and had cracks and gouges taken out of him all over...that scene was really awesomely done....and it took quite a while for them to find a way to heal him...Im not sure any more but I think Illyana his sister (also later known as MagiK) used Magic to heal him.</font>
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<font color=deepskyblue>My favorite scene with Colossus occurred several years later. The X-Men were in the Morlock tunnels when a new group of "nasty" mutants called the Marauders attacked them. One of them was called Harpoon, because he was an Eskimo that could create and throw harpoon-shaped energy bolts. He nails Shadowcat with an energy harpoon just as she is "Phasing" - causing her to shriek in agony. Bad Move. Colossus starts towards Harpoon, only to be confronted by a guy named Riptide that can spin at incredible velocity. Riptide also throws out small projectiles as he spins, which become deadly missiles (think of tornado driving a straw through a tree). Riptide lets loose with a huge volley of projectiles, cutting some of the Morlocks to ribbons. He starts laughing when he hears their cries of agony. That is
too much for the gentle Russian. He wades through all the projectiles thrown at him. Riptide is bragging about how he can penetrate even Colossus' steel skin, but the Russian keeps coming. He walks right up to him and grabs him by the neck. There is a brief pause, and you see all of these projectiles sticking into Colossus from his chest down. Riptide stares in disbelief - then Colossus SNAPS his neck. As he is holding the lifeless Riptide in his hands, he turns to Harpoon and says "Pray to whatever gods you worship little man.....
YOU'RE NEXT!"
That was
very cool. Colossus doesn't lose his control like that often. After the fight (the rest of the Maruaders turned tail and ran), Magneto is examining the wounds caused by Riptides projectiles (Magneto was leading the X-Men at this time). As they remove the objects, a visible stream of energy comes pouring out of Colossus' body. He will obviously bleed to death in a matter of moments if he returns to his human form - so Magneto tries to repair the damage while Peter is still transformed into his steel alloy form. It works, but Colossus is left paralyzed. He leaves the comics for a while to heal and recover. His return is the second best scene I've ever read.
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