Cain Marko (Earth-5171)

"Memories are only good when they're shared with people. People who understand what makes those memories special. After all...what good is there in bein' labeled an icon, an hero, a legend and a marvel, if there's no one there to brag about it to?"

- - Colossus Cain Marko was a renewed astronaut and Scott Richards' best friend, who since his teenhood aided his friend in gaining recognition for his researchs while leaving with his girlfriend and then wife, Sarah. When Marko decided to travel with Scott to the X-Zone alongside Jean and Bobby Grey as well as Erik Veidt, he was attempting to fix their ship in space when the crew was hit by a cosmic storm, giving all of them cosmic powers and abilities. Being the one more exposed, Cain gained a eternal new phisiology, that of a metallic man with super strenght. Generally disgusting others during his early career as the relutanct hero Colossus, Cain found love when he met Vanessa Thurman, a stripper who changed her ways after she started dating him.