Marvel Universe

Omega Red

Universe
Marvel Universe

Real Name
Arkady Gregorivich

Aliases
Arkady Rossovich, Vasyliev Arkady

Identity
Secret

Occupation
Crimelord; former mercenary, KGB agent

Citizenship
Russia (legally deceased)

Place of Birth
Unrevealed location in Russia

Known Relatives
None

Group Affiliation
Red Mafia (kingpin); former employee of Sabretooth, The General, Ivan Pushkin, and Matsu'o Tsurayaba; formerly KGB, Upstarts

Education
Unrevealed

Height
6'11"

Weight
425 lbs.

Eyes
Red

Hair
Blond

Powers
Omega Red is a mutant with the ability to secrete bodily pheromones deadly to anyone in his immediate vicinity. This power greatly drains his energy, requiring him to absorb the life force of others. Omega Red was also granted superhuman strength from the KGB enhancement.

Abilities
Omega Red is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant with extensive KGB training, and is fluent in Russian and English.

Weapons
Omega Red's arms were implanted with long Carbonadium coils that he can extend and retract through openings in the undersides of his wrists. The coils serve as both conduit and stabilizing factor for his mutant pheromones.

Paraphernalia
None

First Appearance
X-Men #4 (1992)

Origin
X-Men #6 (1992), Wolverine #61 (1992), Generation X #7-8 (1995)

Significant Issues
Revived from suspended animation, vs X-Men & Maverick, defeated, escaped (X-Men #4-7, 1992); possessed by Soul Skinner, vs X-Men, escaped (X-Men #18-19, 1993); hunted M.O.D.A.M., vs Iron Man (Iron Man #295-296, 1993); vs Chamber (Generation X #10-11, 1995); vs Sabretooth (X-Factor #138, 1997); vs Daredevil & Black Widow (Daredevil #368, 1997); employed by Pushkin, vs Maverick (Maverick #10-12, 1998); recruited & betrayed by Sabretooth (Wolverine #173-175, 2002); became kingpin of Red Mafia (Weapon X #3, 2003)

Little is known of the past of Russian mutant Arkady Gregorivich before he became a serial killer. Eventually captured, Arkady was turned over to the KGB who set about transforming him into the super-soldier code-named Omega Red. The procedure was interrupted by Team X, an elite covert operations unit consisting of mutant operatives Wolverine, Sabretooth, Maverick, and Wraith. Team X stole the Carbonadium Synthesizer, a device that was used to control Omega Red’s mutant power, and as a result the KGB placed Omega Red in suspended animation.

Decades later, Omega Red was mystically revived by the ninja clan the Hand, and he allied himself with their leader, Matsu’o Tsurayaba, in exchange for the whereabouts of Wolverine and the C-Synthesizer. Omega Red clashed with both Maverick and Wolverine, but was defeated by Wolverine’s teammates in the mutant super-team the X-Men. Omega Red later fell under the psionic control of the mutant Soul Skinner who forced him to battle against Wolverine and the X-Men until the telepath’s death.

Omega Red then sought to kill the cyborg M.O.D.A.M., whom he believed was a former KGB operative that had betrayed him, but was opposed by the armored Avenger Iron Man. Omega Red subsequently clashed with the team of mutant trainees Generation X as well as the costumed crimefighter Daredevil and the Russian super-spy the Black Widow.

Omega Red was later hired by Russian crimelord Ivan Pushkin to help incite war between the terrorist groups Hydra and A.I.M., an effort opposed by Maverick. He was subsequently employed as an enforcer for the drug lord The General, only to be recruited by Sabretooth alongside the cyborg Lady Deathstrike to attack the friends of their common enemy Wolverine. Ultimately betrayed by Sabretooth, Omega Red grew tired of being a lackey and became kingpin of New York’s Red Mafia. In this capacity, he provided Maverick, now called Agent Zero, with information on Sabretooth’s whereabouts, thus exacting a measure of revenge on his betrayer.

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