Last seen, Calisto was one of the main characters in the new Excalibur title, where she was helping Professor Xavier and Magneto rebuild Genosha. However, when Storm was pressed into Arena performance, Callisto joined Storm and her allies to topple Masque. The Morlocks' Healer treated her wounds, but accidentally restored Callisto's scars and her original physical deformities. They were founded by Callisto, who discovered the tunnels and moved into them decades ago, shortly after they were abandoned. The team's leader, Storm, challenged Callisto to trial by combat, almost killing her and winning the mantle of Morlock leader. However, when Storm was pressed into Arena performance, Callisto joined Storm and her allies to topple Masque. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. How do you reassemble the Avengers? Callisto orders the Morlocks to the sewers, herself being the last in. The process was repeated several times before Callisto and Colossus were finally rescued by Forge, Banshee and Jean Grey. [20], Callisto eventually returned to America and joined the terrorist group X-Cell, formed by other depowered mutants who believed that the government was responsible for the M-Day. Immortal Hulk: The Threshing Place (2020) #1, Giant-Size X-Men: Tribute To Wein & Cockrum (2020) #1, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [12] Mikhail Rasputin, Colossus's brother, convinced Callisto to join him in destroying the Morlock Tunnels and killing themselves and the remaining Morlocks. Callisto helped defeat Kulan Gath, and as a result Callisto and her allies found themselves on a new time-line where Kulan Gath never transformed New York. Her right eye is always covered by an eyepatch. Callisto is the leader of the Morlocks, a group of mutants who avoid the public and take shelter in the sewers. A majority of the Morlocks are slaughtered by Mister Sinister's Marauders in the "Mutant Massacre". In the Mutant X reality, Callisto was a member of the Morlocks and the lover of the Mole Man. Storm subsequently leaves the group in Callisto's care as her representative, and the two eventually form an uneasy alliance. As the new group, they attacked the human oppressors of the past Morlocks under the leadership of Marrow. Callisto refused, alledging she was perfect the way she was, apparently coming to terms with her looks. Complete your Marvel Studios’ Avengers collection On Digital now! 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. There are numerous tunnels stretching out of sight, many unexplored. The Morlocks were largely a peaceful group that refused to follow Apocalypse's regime and for that decision they were all captured and imprisoned in the Breeding Pens for gruesome experiments by Sinister and the Beast. She is next seen under a trench coat, knocking a Pow-R8 bottle out of Evan Daniels' hand and whispering "poison". [21], Callisto relocated to the tunnels below Manhattan and minded her own business until teenage runaways started showing up in the subways. To taunt her, Masque restored Callisto's long-lost beauty, altered her memories, then freed her in New York to be hunted down. EGOT-winning songwriter Robert Lopez takes Joe behind the creative process of “Let It Go” in Times Square before the two join together to improvise a song. [22] Callisto and Angie later saw the global aurora Storm made as a tribute to the recently deceased Wolverine while getting groceries. The main tunnel is 50 feet high and runs the length of Manhattan. Storm helped them clean the mess she made, charged their back-up batteries and told her that Nightcrawler would deliver a water purification unit. But catastrophe struck her, as she learned that living as a mutant would not be easy. [11] Shortly after, Callisto and Colossus parted ways when the Shadow King psychically manipulated Colossus into becoming one of his slaves. She quickly made a huge abandoned military tunnel called "the Alley" built underneath Manhattan in the 1950s her home. In the 10th anniversary of the "Age of Apocalypse" event, which takes place after the nuclear attack in X-Men: Omega, several characters who were not in the original storyline are introduced, among them are the Morlocks which includes Feral, Leech, Marrow, Skids and Thornn among many other unnamed mutants. Morlock society has no actual class system, except for the leader who all Morlocks obey, somewhat like a huge street gang.

During this time, she asked Marrow to join the X-Men in order to protect her and not to let her be alone.

She was a companion of the goddess.

Marvel Database is a FANDOM Movies Community. Callisto is a natural-born leader, huntress, and fighter skilled in virtually every form of hand-to-hand combat. Leech instead becomes a ward of Generation X. X-Men #169 . Instead of Angel, whom the Morlocks abducted in the comic books, Callisto leads a group of Morlocks to abduct Cyclops and Jean Grey. Infiltrated the X-Men for a time posing as the original Beast. However, she was captured by Masque, who had, via the young telepath Brain Cell, enslaved the remaining Morlocks. The Morlocks were composed of mutant misfits, especially those mutants who, because of physical mutations or other conspicuous manifestations of their mutant genetics, were unable to pass as human in normal society. [38] He is stopped by a newly "upgraded" Caliban. [2], The X-Men were alerted to the existence of the Morlocks when their leader Callisto kidnapped Angel and intended to make him her mate. Ironically, this alliance briefly reunited her with Archangel. Take a deep dive into the sewers to look at the mutants who inspired ‘The Gifted’ faction. [9], At the time when the Terrigen Cloud was loose on Earth infecting mutants with M-Pox since the "Infinity" storyline, the number of mutants that are living underground had increased.
Robert Lopez & The Art of Songwriting | Marvel's Storyboards, An Inside Look At Marvel's Avengers | Part 1, Every Confirmed Thanos Sighting in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Celebrate 350 Issues of Wolverine's Solo Adventures This December with 'Wolverine' #8. The team's leader, Storm, challenged Callisto to trial by combat, almost killing her and winning the mantle of Morlock leader. She was electrocuted by Storm during their climactic battle on Alcatraz. Callisto received a white suit designed by Jumbo Carnation as she accepted her new position and gave him one of her knives in exchange. $11.99 0 bids. Uncanny X-Men #169, FN/VF 7.0, 1st Appearance Morlocks (Callisto… Before leaving, Storm confessed to Callisto that despite their history she knew the kids were safe with her. Until recently, the leader was Callisto. Comic Vine users. As part of the Genoshan group, she has fought Trolls, the Weaponeers, and other threats. Even without her powers, Callisto is an excellent tactician, huntress and tracker, and a very formidable and capable leader. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other She later returned when anti-mutant thugs were using laser technology to attack the X-Men, Spyke, and Leech.
Bronze Age Marvel Comic. Callisto's powers in the film are a combination of her own and two other characters. Both Callisto and Moira and their counterparts then returned to their native Earths. They clashed with Storm and Cable some time later. Callisto is the former leader of the Morlocks. Uncanny . Severely wounded, Callisto was cared for by Marrow, who had become an X-Men.