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Caliban

Cabe, Bethany

FIRST APPEARANCE Iron Man «117 (December 1978)

REAL NAME Bethany Cab©

OCCUPATION Bodyguard BASE MoW©

HEIGHT 5ft7m WEIGHT 125 Ibs EYES Green HAIR Red SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Bethany Cabe is a trained mvestigator. an expert markswoman, and extensively trained m sełl-defenso techniqu©*.

After thc apparenc death of hcr ex-husband, a West German diplomat whosc life was ruincd by drugs. Bethany Cabe sworc she would ncvcr be dependent on anyone again. She trained extensively, and bccame a highly respected bodyguard. Bethany s path soon crossed that of Anthony Stark, the inillionaire industrialist who is also Iron Man, and they becamc romantically involved.When Stark s alcoholism threatened to destroy him,

Bethany convinced him to get help. The romance ended, however. when Cabe s e.\-husband turned out to be still alive, though in a comatose State. Bethany felt honor-bound to nursc him back to health. TB

FIRST APPEARANCE Fantastic Four 3 #9 (September 1998)

REAL NAME Alysande Stuart

OCCUPATION Champion BASE New York City

HEIGHT 5 tt 6 In WEIGHT 130 Ibs EYES Blue HAIR Btonde

SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Wore a wamor s armor and a long

rod cloafc wtetdod an ©normous sword with the skill and coorage of

a great wamor of okf; accomplished athlete.

In another world. Alysande Stuart was desccnded from a long linę of ancient Scottish warrior champions. Her warrior name was Caledonia. and she also scrved as Captain Britain. Freed from capdvity in her world, Caledonia arrived in New York City. She worked as a nanny to Franklin Ku hards. son of Reed Kichards and Sue Storni (Mu Fantam ic. and Invisible Woman), and thus came under the protection of the Fan iastic Four.

Caledonia was evcntually killed by the insane, murderous Jamie 13kai)ikx:k. mt

FIRST APPEARANCE Uncanny X-Men #148 (August 1981)

REAL NAME Unrevealed OCCUPATION Adyenturer: Apocaiypse'* Horseman Pestilence; X-Foroe‘s aliy. BASE Mobil© HEIGHT 6 ft 8 in WEIGHT 275 Ibs EYES Black HAIR Nonę SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Psionc abrlity to detect presonce of other mutants; psicnłcally intensiftes others' foar. creates a psychoactńre v*us that attacks the mlnd: superhuman strength

Namcd after the charactcr in Shakespeare s The Tcmpest, Caliban uscd his mental powers to detect mutants to help Cai lisio asscmble the underground society of mutant outeasts called thc MoRl.OCKS.The X-Factor team saved Caliban from death when the Maraudbrs massacrcd most of thc Morlocks.The childlike Caliban agreed to serve Apocai.ypse in exehange for enhanced powers to take his rcvengc. PS

Cage’3 skin can wrthstand a cSrect hit by smail arms liro and he can punch through brick. concrete. and steol płotes.

v The man who would someday cali himself Luko U Cage grew up on thc streets of I Iarlem. Whilc he ' often committed petty crimes as a youth. Lukę realized thc error of his ways as he grew older. A rivalry over a woman turned bitter and the other man, a criminal named Willis Strykcr. framed him for After heing sent to prison. he

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REAL NAME

Carl Lucas OCCUPATION

Bodyguard; mvestigator BASE

Stark Tower. New York

Lukę Cage

possessmg volunteered to be a test subjcct for an experimental Chemical in order to obtain an / early parole. An angry guard tried to kill him by giving him an overdose. Instead of killing him, the ) drug reacted with his uniquc body chemistry and gavc him superhuman strength. He escaped prison,

thc name Lukę Cage. He madę a name for himself as a solo hero IwtW V __jf Hr for hire sometimes using the    ;-J| . J

name Power Man. He then

cd the New Avcngers and began    1

HEIGHT 6 ft 6 in WEIGHT 425 Ibs EYES Brown HAIR Black

COMfcs

streogth. very deoso musefe and bono ifssue and stoeł-hard skin. He recovors three times fastor from Infury than a normal person and ts an expenoncod and skiled Street fightor.

Afler provonting a robbery at a dinor. the ownor gavo Cage a reward and tho idea «o go mło business as a hero for hire.