Woman known as Callisto

Callisto is the founding leader of the outcast mutants known as the Morlocks.

### Occupation

Adventurer; former terrorist, operative of Professor X, arena fighter, bodyguard, Morlock leader, fashion model

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Missouri, United States of America, Earth, Sol system, Space Sector 2814

## History

### Morlocks

When Callisto was young and beautiful, her life seemed so perfect, so enviable. But catastrophe struck her, as she learned that living as a mutant would not be easy. She was blinded in the right eye and was left horribly disfigured. Forced to hold up a mirror to her new reality, Callisto realized that society had little use for a mutant, especially one who was beautiful no more. Scared and alone, she rebelled against society and decided to go underground where it was safe and where she could escape prying, peering eyes. She quickly made a huge abandoned military tunnel called "the Alley" built underneath Manhattan in the 1950s her home.

With help from the mutant-detecting Caliban, the devoted Sunder, and the treacherous Masque, she organized a community of mutant outcasts called the Morlocks who lived in the Alley. Unknown to Callisto, the Morlocks' existence was orchestrated by the extradimensional sadist called the Dark Beast, a twisted alternate version of Hank McCoy.

In recent years, Callisto, apparently driven to irrationality by her responsibilities, abducted the winged Angel as a consort. Angel's X-Men teammates invaded the Alley but were captured as well. The team's leader, Storm (Ororo Munroe), challenged Callisto to trial by combat, almost killing her and winning the mantle of Morlock leader.

Over time, the ties between the X-Men and the Morlocks grew closer, the two teams constantly confronted and helped each other. Callisto's rivalry with Storm was changed as they teamed up to fight against Kulan Gath. Initially hating Storm, Callisto, the de facto leader in Storm's absence, grew to respect Ororo and the X-Men. The Morlocks and the X-Men worked out an even higher sense of mutual respect when the X-Men founder, Professor X, had his life saved by Callisto after a beating by anti-mutant protesters.

### Mutant Massacre

Callisto and her growing band of outcasts became the victims of a massacre, orchestrated by Mister Sinister and implemented by his team of Marauders. The few survivors, including Callisto, were treated by Moira MacTaggart on Muir Island, Scotland; in gratitude, Callisto appointed herself MacTaggart's bodyguard and assisted Cyclops against the mutant-hating Master Mold.

However, she was captured by Masque, who had, via the young telepath Brain Cell, enslaved the remaining Morlocks. To taunt her, Masque restored Callisto's long-lost beauty, controlled her through Bliss's powers, then freed her in New York City, forging a super-model career for her to torment her. However, the former X-Man Colossus, without his memories, helped Callisto to get free from Masque. Shortly after, Callisto and Colossus parted ways when the Shadow King psychically manipulated Colossus into becoming one of his slaves.

When Masque was believed dead, the remaining Morlocks went mad and attacked Callisto, demanding her to come back as their leader. Callisto and her fellow Morlock, Healer, escaped alive, though severely injured, and sought the X-Men's aid. At the X-Mansion, the Healer used his last forces to heal Callisto, sacrificing himself, the process was successful, but returned Callisto to her scarred appearance. Mikhail Rasputin, Colossus' brother, convinced Callisto to join him in destroying the Morlock Tunnels and killing themselves and the remaining Morlocks. However, Mikhail managed to transport himself, Callisto and the Morlocks to the Hill, a dimension of rapid time passage. There the survivors, including Callisto, built a new society based on survival of the strongest. The younger generation escaped to Earth as the terrorist unit Gene Nation. Callisto followed the Gene Nation back to Earth and again recruited the X-Men to stop her wayward charges, whom she later tried to rehabilitate in the Alley.

## Attributes

### Powers

* **Superhuman Senses**: Callisto has superhuman senses of smell, taste, touch, balance, and hearing.
	+ **Enhanced Sight:** Callisto possesses superhumanly keen eye sight (including night vision).
	+ **Enhanced Hearing**
	+ **Enhanced Sense of Smell**
	+ **Enhanced Sense of Taste**
	+ **Enhanced Sense of Touch**
* **Enhanced Strength**
* **Enhanced Agility**
* **Enhanced Reflexes**
* **Regenerative Healing:** Callisto possesses the ability to heal herself to an amazing degree.
* **Intuitive Tactical Ability:** She later developed a mutant tactical ability and was able to immediately intuit the best way to engage in any tactical problem, be it a particular circumstance or an opponent.
* **Tentacles & Tendrils**: Callisto's traitorous former second Masque had once transformed her arms into a mass of writhing coils which she had perfect control over the motions of.

### Abilities

Callisto is a natural-born leader, huntress, and fighter skilled in virtually every form of hand-to-hand combat and weapons usage.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

**Bo-Staff**: Callisto took to employing a fighting pole with a mounted blaster installation as a personal armament. She would later modify it to absorb and rechannel electrical discharges in the event of encountering Ororo again.

**Body Armor**: In her time on The Hill, an extradimensional expense ruled by Mikhail Rasputin, Callisto took to adorning protective guarding.

**Holographic Pictograms**: Special computerized spheres that act as recorders/projectors which streamline detailed information about subjects from the Hill dimension.

### Weapons

She frequently employs throwing knives.

**Rifle**: Upon her return trip from *The Hill* the Morlock Leader took to employing high powered offensive batteries in her fighting style, until one blew up in her face due to Storms caste lightning.