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A mutant, Callisto possesses enhanced senses, and possibly moderate degrees of enhanced strength and agility. She was the leader of New York City’s subterranean mutant settlement the Morlocks. However, after a run-in with the X-Men, Callisto lost a duel with Storm for leadership of the Morlocks. Storm left the group in Callisto’s care and the two have had an uneasy alliance ever since. In Marvel comic books, particularly those of the X-Men mythos, a mutant is a human being who is born with genetic modifications that allow for abilities not possessed by regular humans. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... The Morlocks were a group of Marvel Comics mutants associated with the X-Men. ... Storm (real name Ororo Munroe) is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. ...

Played by Dania Ramirez, Callisto appears in the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand. Dania Ramirez (Born November 8, 1980) is a film and television actress from the Dominican Republic. ...

Fictional character biography

Callisto's origins are unknown, although she has claimed that the scars she bears are proof of "how dumb a mistake" it was for her to try to live among normal humans; in one of her earlier appearances, her greatest psychological fear is the image of the beautiful woman that she once was, although she may have overcome that as of the present. When Callisto first appeared she was leader of the Morlocks, a group of mutants who lived in the sewers (named after H.G. Wells's characters in The Time Machine), though she soon lost her role as leader to Storm in a duel. The Morlocks were first formed well over twenty years ago by Callisto, Sunder, Caliban, and Masque. The Morlocks were a group of Marvel Comics mutants associated with the X-Men. ... H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895, later made into two films of the same title. ... Storm (real name Ororo Munroe) is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. ... Sunder is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe. ... Caliban (August Hoffer) is a mutant character in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Masque is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ...

Callisto kidnapped Archangel (then still calling himself Angel) and stripped him of most of his clothing, intending to make him her mate. Callisto also attempted to cripple Archangel by cutting away his primary feathers. To rescue Angel, Storm challenged and beat Callisto in a duel for the leadership of the Morlocks. As the new leader of the Morlocks, Storm decreed that they would no longer kidnap and terrorize surface-dwellers, and in return they would have peace. Archangel (Warren Worthington III), originally and still occasionally known as Angel, is a Marvel Comics superhero, best known as one of the founding members of the mutant super-team known as the X-Men. ...

Cover of Uncanny X-Men #170. Art by Paul Smith.

Callisto regards Storm with both resentment and respect due to Storm defeating her in hand-to-hand combat, but she sneers at what she considers Storm's "weakness," namely her conviction not to take a life, or to take revenge on baseline humans that despise mutants. The two women fought again while the city of New York was enslaved and ensorcelled by the wizard Kulan Gath. Download high resolution version (670x1024, 326 KB)Cover to Uncanny X-Men #170. ... Download high resolution version (670x1024, 326 KB)Cover to Uncanny X-Men #170. ... NY redirects here. ... Kulan Gath is a fictional character, a villainous magician who was created at Marvel Comics as a foe of Conan the Barbarian and who was later fully integrated into the Marvel Universe and in 2006 was used in Dynamite Entertainments revamped Red Sonja series. ...

Callisto was later romantically involved with Colossus (Piotr Rasputin) when he assumed the identity of the artist Peter Nicholas. This followed Peter's journey through the Siege Perilous, which had caused him to suffer amnesia. Rasputin remembered nothing of his former life, including how he'd previously met Callisto and even that he possessed mutant powers. The two became attracted to each other after Masque reshaped Callisto's flesh, restoring her beauty to greater than what it was before she was scarred. Rather than an act of kindness, Masque restored Callisto's beauty only to take it away later as a means of tormenting her (Masque had taken control of the Morlocks in Callisto's absence and saw fit to capture and psychologically torture her when she reappeared in their tunnels). The process was repeated several times before Callisto and Colossus were finally rescued by Forge, Banshee and Jean Grey. Colossus (Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero in the X-Men. ... Dazzler and Havok try to stop Rogue from being sucked into the Siege Perilous by Nimrod / Master Mold. ... Amnesia or amnæsia (from Greek ) (see spelling differences) is a condition in which memory is disturbed. ... Masque is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Forge is a Marvel Comics superhero, associated with the X-Men. ... Banshee (Sean Cassidy) was a Marvel Comics superhero, a member of the X-Men. ... This article or section on a comics-related subject may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ...

After Callisto began a career as a fashion model and moved above ground, the Morlocks attacked her, still under the influence of Masque. Masque had grossly transformed the Morlocks, leaving them with grotesque physical mutations. They subsequently renamed themselves Gene Nation and nearly beat Callisto to death. The Morlocks' Healer treated her wounds, but accidentally restored Callisto's scars and her original physical deformities. The Healer's powers were overloaded by the severity of her injuries, killing him in the process. Healer is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. ...

Callisto vowed revenge on her former followers for stealing away her looks, and then allied herself with Mikhail Rasputin, Colossus' older brother. Mikhail and Callisto appeared to have perished when he used his powers over matter to flood the Morlock tunnels. They both later reappeared alive. Mikhail Nikolaievitch Rasputin is a fictional supervillain from Marvel Comics Uncanny X-Men. ...

More recently, Callisto was once again transformed by Masque, having her arms reformed into tentacles. Callisto was also under Masque's control in "The Arena," an elite fight club in Japan. Callisto and Storm battled each other in the Arena, but later both escaped with help from Storm's friend, Yukio.

Last seen, she was one of the main characters in the new Excalibur title, where she was helping Professor Xavier and Magneto rebuild Genosha. Ironically, this alliance briefly (and perhaps uncomfortably) reunited her with Archangel. Excalibur is a Marvel Comics superhero group, an offshoot of the X-Men, usually based in the United Kingdom. ... Professor Charles Francis Xavier, also known as Professor X, is a fictional comic book superhero and founder of the X-Men in the Marvel Universe. ... Magneto is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Flag of Genosha under Magnetos reign. ...

Callisto also has a maternal relationship with Marrow, acting as a mother-figure towards the young mutant (though the two are not biologically related), making her the only person Marrow would follow nearly blindly. It seems, however, that Callisto and Marrow don't share this relationship anymore, as Callisto hasn't made any effort to learn Marrow's current whereabouts. Mother with her child (Sculpture) A mother is typically the biological or social female parent of a child or offspring while the male parent is the father. ... Newsarama, Marrow (Sarah), also known as Sarah Rushman, is a Marvel Comics character associated with the X-Men. ...

In the aftermath of House of M, Callisto is among the many mutants to have lost her powers. Quicksilver offered to her the Terrigen Mists, stolen from the Inhumans, as a way to restore her powers. Callisto willingly accepted the offer and the Mist effectively restored all her previous abilities (minus her disfigurements and arm-tentacles), but without any control over them. Her new senses are so acute that even a drop of rain causes her tremendous pain; unable to handle it, she fell into a coma. She was later taken to a hospital, where the effects of the Mists wore off. House of M was an eight-part comic book crossover storyline published by Marvel Comics in 2005. ... For Quicksilver (DC Comics), see Max Mercury. ... The Terrigen Mist is a fictional substance from the Marvel Comics Universe, a natural mutagen able to alter Inhuman biology. ... The Inhumans are a fictional race of superhumans in the Marvel Comics Universe, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. ...

She is set to be a member of the X-Cell, a group of mutants who hold the government responsible for their powerloss, in an upcoming storyline in X-Factor.

Appearances in other media

Film

Dania Ramirez as Callisto in The Last Stand

Dania Ramirez portrays Callisto in X-Men: The Last Stand. She was the leader of the Omegas and then joins Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants. In place of an eye-patch and scars, this version of Callisto is beautiful and heavily tattooed, and she seems to harbor a dislike towards Storm. She was electrocuted by Storm after their climactic battle on Alcatraz. Download high resolution version (740x753, 71 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (740x753, 71 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Dania Ramirez (Born November 8, 1980) is a film and television actress from the Dominican Republic. ... The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, also known as The Brotherhood and Brotherhood of Mutants, is a Marvel Comics supervillain team devoted to mutant superiority over normal humans. ... Alcatraz Island (aka The Rock) is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California, United States that served as a lighthouse, then a military fortification, and then a federal prison for the area until 1963, when it became a national recreation area. ...

In the film version, Callisto possessed superhuman speed and the ability to sense the powers and locations of other mutants.

Television

• She appeared in the X-Men: The Animated Series when she and the other Morlocks captured Cyclops rather than Angel. She was voiced by Susan Roman. In the Spanish-dubbed version of the show, Callisto is portrayed as a male character in the two-part episode Out of the Past.
• Callisto also appears in X-Men: Evolution animated series as a less-violent, more even-tempered leader of the Morlocks. She first appeared to sabotage a beverage company where its beverage, leaking into the sewers, is revealed to be poisonous to the mutants. She later returned when anti-mutant thugs were using laser technology to attack the X-Men, Spyke, and Leech. In contrast to her original personality, this Callisto is a voice of reason, with Spyke being the more violent-minded vigilante. Callisto is voiced by Saffron Henderson.

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Bibliography

• Cable vol. 2 #42
• Excalibur vol. 1 #4, 11
• Excalibur vol. 3 #2-4, 5-7
• Marvel Comics Presents #20-24
• Mystique #23
• New Mutants vol. 1 #46
• Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #2
• Peter Parker: Spider-Man #4
• Power Pack vol. 1 #12
• Son of M #4-6
• Storm vol. 1 2-4
• Uncanny X-Men #169-171, 176, 179-181, 190-193, 195, 207-209, 211-214, 216-217, 219, 253-254, 259-260, 262-264, 291-293, 325, 341, 346-347, 373-374, 463-465
• X-Men Unlimited vol. 1 #18
• X-Men vol. 2 #44, 72, 74, 79
• X-Treme X-Men#37-39, 45-46

External links

• MDP: Callisto - Marvel Database Project
• Callisto's origin on the Marvel Directory
• Callisto at the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki