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95. Omega Red
The character first appeared in X-Men #4 (vol. 2, January 1992), and was created by Jim Lee.
Little is known about the past of Arkady Rossovich except that he was a serial killer born in Russia. He was captured by the Interpol agent Sean Cassidy and turned over to the KGB, which wanted to experiment and attempt to create a super soldier similar to Captain America. Omega Red is the end result.
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“It depends on who you ask, but Omega Red, aka Arkady Rossovich, was just your average Russian soldier/serial killer/child rapist. One story says he was captured by Interpol agent and X-Man Banshee. Another tells that his fellow soldiers executed him for his child-related transgressions and he somehow survived. Either way, the KGB gets Rossovich and tries to make a super soldier out of him. Think Captain America but the opposite.Scientists had the bright idea of giving Rossovich retractable carbonadium (a more malleable form of adamantium) tentacles instead of his less useful arms. Although quite practical for killing and probably not shaking hands, the carbonadium ended up being poisonous and he had to drain the life out of people just to survive. Besides that great quality which surely ma” read more
