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Colossus: Piotr grew up on a farm in Russia with his two parents, brother and sister, Illyana. They were a very close-knit family. They survived the fall of the communist government, but politics led them to stay unwealthy. A young Piotr, newly manifested and wanting to help his family, inadvertently started working for the Russian Mafia, providing protection and security. When he realised exactly who he was working for, he quit. However, Mafia ties are not so easily broken, and fearing for the safety of his family and under investigation by the police, he left his home to journey to the US. During his travels there he discovered Charles Xavier and his school, and enrolled. His parents later sent the seven year old Illyana to join him, desiring her to get the benefit of a Western education. With the ability to turn himself into super-strong organic steel, Piotr was the powerhouse of the X-Men for some time. He came to the school as a directionless young man and worked hard to better himself. With his strong belief in family, his little sister Illyana was the centre of his world, until her abduction into the demonic realm of Limbo aged her eight years and completely changed the relationship between them. Unable to reconcile the suspicious, secretive teenager to his "Little Snowflake", Piotr eventually disowned her. The move was an unpopular one, and even Piotr's relationship with Warren Worthington wasn't enough to keep him at the school, the pair moving to the West Coast Annex in 2006. Time, however, changes all things, including what we had currently held onto as above all else, and with Illyana's new job with X-Force, it's possible lines of communication could be re-established. Piotr can transform his human figure into an organic steel colossus (thus the name). He has master this transitions perfectly, but has not expanded beyond that. He increases in size, weight and strength during the transformation.