Marvel Comics/Gorgon (Mutant)

**Gorgon** (Tomi Shishido) is a mutant who demonstrated highly advanced intellectual skills from a young age. When he was two weeks old, he spoke his first sentence, and when he was able to read and write by the age of three. At the age of thirteen, he became aware of his mutant status and devised a mathematical equation that proved the existence of God. With this, he came to believe that humans were nothing but a slave to god, leading him to develop a hatred towards God.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Petrification:** Gorgon's primary mutant ability is the power to transform anyone who makes direct eye contact with him into stone, similar to Medusa from ancient Greek mythology. He is not immune to this power, as seeing himself in a reflection will turn himself to stone.

**Telepathy:** Gorgon possesses a moderate form of telepathy, the limits of which are unknown. He is able to mentally communicate with others, as he did with Elektra. Gorgon uses his telepathy to "see" everything around him, even while blindfolded. He typically uses this power during combat situations, enabling him to predict an opponent's offense and strategy.

* **Telepathic Communication**

**Empathy:** He has the ability to sense other people's emotions psionically.

**Enhanced Cognition:** Gorgon is a polymath super-genius, demonstrating extreme levels of advancement and expertise in a variety of fields throughout his life. He can process and analyze multiple information streams quickly, possesses an eidetic memory, can speed read, and has high deductive/reasoning skills.

* **Enhanced Intellect**
* **Enhanced Memory**

**Enhanced Strength:** Following his resurrection by the Hand, Gorgon's physical strength was enhnaced to low superhuman levels. At his peak, he is able to lift roughly one ton. He was stated to possess "Class-2 Superhuman Strength".

**Enhanced Speed:** Gorgon is capable of running and moving at speeds superior to that of the finest human athlete, possibly within the range of 111-115 miles per hour. He demonstrated bursts of speed that, at least over short distances, made him too fast for Wolverine to see, even with his heightened senses of sight and hearing.

**Enhanced Stamina:** Gorgon's advanced musculature produces less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human. The full limits of his stamina are not known, but he can physically exert himself for at least 24 hours before the build-up of fatigue toxins in his blood before fatigue begins to impair him.

**Enhanced Durability:** Gorgon's skin, bone, and muscle tissues are augmented to levels that are considerably stronger and harder than human and the tissues of his body are impervious to injury to an extraordinary extent.

**Enhanced Regeneration:** Gorgon possesses an accelerated healing factor that allows him to rapidly regenerate damaged or destroyed bodily tissues. The full extent of his healing powers are unknown. He has shown the ability to regenerate damaged/missing organs.

* **Enhanced Immunity/Toxin Resistance:** He may be immune to all diseases, infections, poisons, and neurotoxins of any kind and completely resistant to diseases such as anthrax, smallpox, and HIV.

**Enhanced Agility:** Gorgon's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete.

**Enhanced Reflexes:** Gorgon's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete. Gorgon demonstrated sufficient reflexes to enable him to deflect oncoming bullets with his sword with surprising ease and casualness.

### Abilities

* **Intellect:** Gorgon is a certified genius, possessing superhuman intellect in multiple artistic and scientific areas. His great intellect enables him to quickly learn and master multiple forms of martial arts.
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** He is a formidable combatant, a master of multiple martial arts techniques.
* **Swordsmanship:** He is also a master swordsman.

## Equipment

**Sunglasses:** Gorgon always wore a pair of dark sunglasses that completely obscured his eyes, enabling people to look at him without being turned to stone. Whether the sunglasses were composed of some special material or were simply a pair of ordinary sunglasses is unknown.

**Oriental Mask:** Since his resurrection, Gorgon has taken to wearing a ceremonial mask that enables him better control over his petrifying gaze. It is currently unknown what special properties allow this effect. He seems capable of viewing his opponents without turning them to stone.

**Swords:** Gorgon almost always carries and uses a Japanese katana in combat situations.