History Characters / XMen70sMembers

* StrongAndSkilled: Unlike the original team, since every member of this iteration was an adult (with Piotr being the youngest one) they were already rather experienced with thier respective powers already. It was the "working as cohesive team" that they needed work on and even that they managed to pull rather quickly and impressively (Or at least Logan, Kurt, Ororo and Piotr did.)

As a longtime X-Man, Colossus has appeared frequently in other media. Most notably, he's appeared throughout the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' since its inception -- primarily portrayed by Daniel Cudmore in the original trilogy, while Andre Tricoteux & Stefan Kapičić share the role [[note]](through motion capture and voice acting, respectively)[[/note]] in 2016's ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' and its 2018 sequel, ''Film/Deadpool2''.

* AffectionateNickname: Colossus often calls [[ComicBook/KittyPryde Katherine "Kitty" Pryde]] "[[UsefulNotes/RussianNamingConvention Katya]]". When he broke off their teen romance after the ComicBook/{{Secret Wars|1984}}, he made a point of calling her "Kitty". Later when they resumed their romance during Creator/JossWhedon's run on ''Astonishing X-Men'', he resumed calling her "Katya". His sister, Illyana also calls Kitty "Katya"... [[LesYay make of that what you will]].

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: In the mini-series ''Colossus: Bloodlines'', Rasputin was an ally of Mr. Sinister, as well as an ancestor of Piotr "Colossus" Rasputin. Piotr is not proud of that fact.

* DisposableWoman: Peter Rasputin broke up with ComicBook/KittyPryde because of Zsaji, a Disposable Woman he met during ''ComicBook/{{Secret Wars|1984}}'' and fell hopelessly in love with despite not even speaking her language. After spending hours together, she ends up sacrificing her life to save the heroes from ComicBook/DoctorDoom's attack after he absorbed the Beyonder's power. Karma then came and kicked his ass in the form of the Juggernaut. Afterwards, Wolverine lectured him on not letting Kitty down gently.

* FamousAncestor: His is the infamous Mad Monk Rasputin.

* FirstKiss: Colossus and ComicBook/KittyPryde's first kiss was Kitty kissing him [[https://www.blastoffcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Kitty-Mistletoe.jpg on the cheek at Christmas with a sneaky use of mistletoe]]. Kitty gave him the full lip lock later, but Colossus broke it off reminding Kitty of the age difference between them. It wasn't till ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' where Colossus and an older Kitty made out as two consenting adults.

* HeroicRussianEmigre: Piotr Nikolaievich Rasputin aka Colossus was introduced as part of the new team in ''Uncanny X-Men'''s 1975 relaunch. He was only a farmboy in rural Russia until Xavier recruited him. He became one of the most recognizable mutant heroes, and is generally one of the [[GentleGiant kindest]] and most honorable people on the team.
** Colossus is something of a subversion, though. While he is heroic, and is a Russian emigre, he is shown to be a bit of a Soviet patriot initially, and a few Claremont/Byrne stories, including the first X-Men fight with Arcade, explore his unease with joining an American-based superteam.

* HuskyRusskie: He's Russian, and ''very'' big and muscular even when he's not transformed.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: As mentioned above, Colossus is one of the nicest, gentlest, and most decent-hearted of all the X-Men. His "purity of spirit" has been shown to be harmful to the various incarnations of TheLegionsOfHell, whenever the X-Men have gone up against them -- in a crossover with ComicBook/DoctorStrange, he was able to literally open the gates of Hell, he was so pure. Though this turned out to be the first hint something wasn't right about "Hell", as Strange noted that good-hearted as he is, only [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} one guy]] was supposed to be able to do ''that''. Though he has killed (most famously when he snapped Riptide's neck during ''ComicBook/MutantMassacre''), he has to be pushed '''very''' far to do it, and it usually involves righteous rage, which [[GoodIsNotNice doesn't detract from his "purity" in any way]].

* KnightTemplarBigBrother: He will go through hell and back for his siblings and in Illyana's case has ''literally'' gone through hell for her sake.
** In ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', Colossus is this toward his sister ComicBook/{{Magik}}, to the point where he allowed himself to be possessed by the demon Cytorrak and became the new Juggernaut to protect her, losing his humanity and the love of Kitty Pryde in the bargain. Subverted in ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' when Illyana reveals she had manipulated him into becoming the new Juggernaut to make him see that she wasn't his sweet little sister anymore but a monster he shouldn't care for. Right off the bat Colossus vows that he would kill Illyana if they ever met again, but later they make up.

* MayDecemberRomance: His and Kitty's relationship dates back to roughly when she was thirteen or fourteen[[note]]She turned 15 in an issue of ''ComicBook/ExcaliburMarvelComics'', some time after their break-up.[[/note]] and he was ''at least'' eighteen (but certainly not more than twenty). This caused him a lot of angst at the time. When a [[PreClimaxClimax depressed Kitty wants to consummate their relationship before a battle]], he refuses due to her age. Things like this [[{{Squick}} disturbed]] then-Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter to no end, finally leading him to not only demand in no uncertain terms an end to the relationship arc, but to personally write a story arc in ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'' in which Colossus falls in love out of nowhere with alien healer Zsaji (for whom [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Human Torch]] also had the hots -- no pun intended) to force a "breakup" story in ''Uncanny X-Men''. They finally consummated their relationship in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen''.

* MistakenForAfterlife: In ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' Colossus emerges from his prison in the Benetech compound and takes out several guards before ComicBook/KittyPryde stops him. When Colossus recognizes Kitty's voice, he falls to his knees and sobs "Am I...God please...am I finally dead?"

* MrFanservice: He's frequently noted in-universe to be very good looking. It helps that, in order to show off his armored form, his costumes tend to leave a fair amount of him uncovered. His good looks are best summarized in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' when Emma Frost praises how attractive he was.

* NighInvulnerability: His armored form is extremely hard to damage, even compared to a lot of the other heavyweights in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Invoked in his focus issue of ComicBook/ImmortalXMen. By this time he has come to be almost completely under the control of the Chronicler, a mutant who can make anything he writes come true. And he'd been writing Poitr's actions for a while with increasing control, which had only been worsened by Piotr being voted into the Quite Council, Krakoa's deciding government. Under the Chroniclers control Poitr started making decisions against Krakoa's favor including colluding with Shaw, voting Selene onto the Quiet Council and voting to reveal the events of ComicBook/SinsOfSinister to humanity. Beneath all of this however was a small piece of Poitr fighting back at the Chronicler's writing. This Colossus wanted his close friends to pick up on how O.O.C this was with his inner dialogue begging them to figure out that something is wrong. Unfortunate for him, Kate and Storm, while shocked at his behavior express disappointment.

* RussianGuySuffersMost: None of the ComicBook/XMen have it easy, but Colossus seems to get the shaft even more often than most. He lost multiple family members (one of which returned later as a demonic child that screwed over him multiple times in order to show him she was a "monster" now), lost multiple [[Characters/{{MarvelComicsKittyPryde}} girlfriends]] (sometimes getting them back, only for them to break up with him) and also died and was [[ComicBook/{{AstonishingXMen}} brought back]] as a pawn for multiple alien overlords... It's a wonder the "Gentle" part stays with this GentleGiant at all.
* SameSurnameMeansRelated: Colossus from ''ComicBook/XMen'', real name Piotr Rasputin. Originally it was just a [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous stereotypical Russian surname]], but later it was revealed that the most well-known [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]] was actually his ancestor.[[note]]In real life, the only (known) surviving descendants of Grigori Rasputin as of 1975 (when Colossus was introduced) lived not in the Soviet Union but in the United States. Those who stayed in Russia had been killed in the wake of the October Revolution. Any ''unknown'' descendants who might have survived would be unlikely to use the Rasputin surname.[[/note]]

* SiblingYinYang: Piotr Rasputin aka Colossus and Illyana Rasputin aka ComicBook/{{Magik}}. Piotr is a textbook GentleGiant and soft spoken artist with has organic metal skin while Illyana is brash, outspoken and can teleport through dimensions. Piotr is also a pacifist whilst Illyana will readily kill with her CoolSword.

* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Colossus in ''ComicBook/XMen'' always wears a red and yellow costume to represent his Soviet roots.

* SuperiorSuccessor: Though they had initial struggles living up to the original teams, Scott eventually an admits that they are a much more efficient team.

* CoolOldGuy: Being a middle-aged former secret agent when he joined the X-Men, he was older and more experienced than the rest (save Wolverine, but nobody knew that at the time). He took to mentoring Cyclops and the new recruits, being a better influence on them than the Professor.

-> See Characters/WolverineJamesLoganHowlett

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: As with most long-running comics, it varies, but at several points, it's shown that smoking does not go well with voice-based powers. (When the team clashes with Alpha Flight, he accidentally gives himself a coughing fit so bad Ororo thinks he's being attacked.)

* TrueCompanions: The four mainstays of the team (Logan, Kurt, Ororo and Piotr) grew to become this, to the point that thier friendship easily eclipses the bond the original team had with each other and becoming one of the closest group of friends among any X-Teams. Kurt and Logan are one of the most iconic HeterosexualLifePartners in X Men history, Ororo's friendship with both Logan and Kurt is just as strong as the friendship between the boy's (if tinged with several strong ShipTease moments from time to time) and all three treat Piotr was a treasured comrade.

* StrongAndSkilled: Unlike the original team, sense every member of this iteration was an adult (with Piotr) being the youngest one) they were already rather experienced with thier respective powers already. It was the "working as cohesive team" that needed work and even that they managed to pull rather quickly (Or at least Logan, Kurt, Ororo and Piotr did.)

* JerkJustifications: An issue of ''Classic X-Men'' suggested Thunderbird was initially genuinely interested in becoming an X-Men, and on his first night Iceman attacked him in a fit of childishness, bringing John back to square one.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Invoked in his focus issue of ComicBook/ImmortalXMen. By this time he has come to be almost completely under the control of the Chronicler, a mutant who can make anything he writes come true. And he’d been writing Poitr’s actions for a while with increasing control, which had only been worsened by Poitr being voted into the Quite Council, Krakoa’s deciding government. Under the Chroniclers control Poitr started making decisions against Krakoa’s favor including colluding with Shaw, voting Selene onto the Quiet Council and voting to reveal the events of ComicBook/SinsOfSinister to humanity. Beneath all of this however was a small piece of Poitr fighting back at the Chronicler’s writing. This Colossus wanted his close friends to pick up on how O.O.C this was with his inner dialogue begging them to figure out that something is wrong. Unfortunate for him, Kate and Storm, while shocked at his behavior express disappointment.

* AmicableExes: With [[Characters/MarvekComicsKittyPryde Kate]] to a degree but even more so with [[Characters/DominoMarvelComics Domino]]. He’s much more honest with Dom when he’s not BrainwashedAndCrazy.

When the X-men were captured by [[Characters/XMenKrakoans Krakoa]], only Cyclops managed to escape. Making it to the mansion he informed Charles Xavier of the encounter, after a [[ComicBook/XMenDeadlyGenesis botched rescue attempted, Xavier traveled around the world recruiting a new team to rescue the old one. Once assembled the team set out to Krakoa to rescue the old team and were successful. Once they returned to the mansion most of the original X-men left, while most of the new team stayed. Cyclops, feeling he had no other place to go, decided to remain to lead the new team.

The All New All Different X-men

MultinationalTeam: Shiro is Japanese, John is Apache, Piotr is Russian, Kurt is German, Logan is Canadian, Ororo is New York born & African raised, and Sean is Irish.

** He has for a while now, been brainwashed by A Russian mutant known as the Chronicler who is under his brother’s orders. Under this thrall he has murdered his girlfriend, infiltrated the Quiet Council, voted members of Orchis into the Council and sabotaged them by voting they reveal the events of [[ComicBook/SinsOfSinister the Sinister timeline to the world.]]

** He has for a while now, been brainwashed by A Russian mutant known as the Chronicler under his brother’s orders. Unfree this thrall he has murdered his girlfriend, infiltrated the Quiet Council, voted members of Orchis into the Council and sabotaged them by voting they reveal the events of [[ComicBook/SinsOfSinister the Sinister timeline to the world.]]

*** According to the ''ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse'', he has minor PsychicPowers to redirect the kinetic energy of his screaming so that it propels him through the air. Okay.