37 Facts About Mikhail Rasputin

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Mikhail Nikolaievitch Rasputin is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Mikhail Rasputin was a Cosmonaut and the Russian Federal Space Agency tried to test his powers by sending him on a suicide mission.

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Mikhail Rasputin was the only surviving member of his crew and returned to Earth mentally unbalanced, harboring a dangerous messiah complex.

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Older brother of Colossus, Mikhail was a Soviet Cosmonaut and was believed dead after a faulty mission where his space shuttle exploded.

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5.

Mikhail Rasputin was sent by his superiors into an inter-dimensional void, counting on his powers to keep him and his comrades safe, to see what was on the other side.

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6.

Mikhail Rasputin found a world, although he was the only survivor of his crew.

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7.

Mikhail Rasputin married Tra-Mai-A-Zath, daughter of the world's ruler, the Worldly Avatar, and soon became a messiah-like figure and found himself embroiled in a civil war.

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Mikhail Rasputin did so, but the backlash killed hundreds of his people, including his wife.

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9.

Once back Mikhail Rasputin found it hard to adjust, and eventually went crazy, hearing and seeing his dead companions and loved ones in his mind, torturing him.

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10.

Mikhail Rasputin escaped the X-Mansion and fled into the near tunnels, where he met and set himself up as leader of the Morlocks, the tunnel-dwelling mutants beneath New York City.

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11.

Mikhail Rasputin did survive, along with Callisto the former leader of the band of outcasts and a group of Morlocks who later descended to form Gene Nation.

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12.

Mikhail Rasputin was forced to transport Storm and the Gene Nationals back to Earth, but he escaped once more ranting about his benefactor being displeased with him.

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13.

Mikhail Rasputin goes back and exposes his sister to the virus when she is in her aged form, thinking that with her magical abilities it would shield her from harm and help her to build an immunity.

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14.

Mikhail Rasputin was one of the Twelve, and one of the Horsemen breached the mansion's security to kidnap him.

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15.

Mikhail Rasputin has made his reappearance and this time had allied himself with Sinister.

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16.

Mikhail Rasputin teleported himself and his brother to another dimension that was a series of rocky caves.

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17.

Colossus tried to persuade him to save himself, but Mikhail Rasputin determined that it would be best for the possible problem and for his own insanity.

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18.

Mikhail Rasputin has since returned to Earth following the destruction and rebuilt of the entire Multiverse.

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19.

However, Mikhail Rasputin was among the few that refused this call and instead remained in Russia where he considered Krakoa to be a threat to the world.

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20.

Mikhail Rasputin was aware that Quire would not die as his consciousness would be uploaded into a new body via the Resurrection Protocols.

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21.

However, Mikhail Rasputin decided to use his corpse as a source of genetic material that XENO could use in its arsenal of genetically engineered soldiers.

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22.

Mikhail Rasputin then presented the sword to The Man with the Peacock Tattoo and XENO.

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23.

Furthermore, Mikhail Rasputin began using a powerful reality-altering mutant known as the Chronicler to seize control of the country, effectively building up a mutant shadow government to run alongside that of Vladimir Putin.

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Mikhail Rasputin forced the Chronicler to take control of Colossus from afar.

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25.

Mikhail Rasputin made Piotr snap Kayla's neck, a water-bending mutant who had begun a relationship with him, and cover up the evidence, thus gaining a mole inside X-Force, Krakoa's own CIA - and eventually in the Quiet Council itself when Colossus was later elected to a vacant seat.

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26.

Mikhail Rasputin's powers have always been rather ambiguous and have never fully been explained, but have been described as 'energy warping'.

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27.

On his return to Earth, the traumatised Mikhail Rasputin was shown to possess warping powers that could affect more than just energy, lashing out at a man delivering pizza and turning him into a tree, apparently killing him.

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28.

Mikhail Rasputin was able to extract from within his own body the Legacy Virus and transfer it to his sister, Illyana.

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29.

Mikhail Rasputin caught Apocalypse's attention after he was able to kill War, one of the Horsemen of Apocalypse.

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30.

Mikhail Rasputin became a Prelate and one of Apocalypse's Horsemen and was placed in charge of the central United States.

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31.

Mikhail Rasputin later led a group of Infinite Soldiers back to Moscow where he discovered his brother Colossus was the new leader of the Soviet Super Soldiers.

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32.

Months of experimental procedures and brainwashing he endured eventually made him lose his sanity, Mikhail Rasputin went into seclusion and turned his powers into himself, significantly altering his physiology and appearance.

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33.

When Mikhail Rasputin returned, Apocalypse gave him the added responsibility of being in charge of his Eurasian lands.

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34.

Mikhail Rasputin employed the Stryfe Force as his personal army, human servants that survived his Upscale Program, a program which turned ordinary humans into cyborgs under his control.

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35.

Mikhail Rasputin abandoned North America and approached the Human High Council with an offering of peace, which he didn't intend to fulfill.

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36.

Mikhail Rasputin's plan was to assume control of all Europe using the amplified powers of the captured Empath to manipulate the emotions of all humans.

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37.

Mikhail Rasputin was stopped from murdering the Council leaders by Donald Blake, who apparently killed the Horseman by stabbing him through the heart with his cane and pushing him out of the Big Ben, at the cost of his own life.

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