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Mondo: Hailing from Samoa, the son of a large, sprawling family, Mondo showed aptitude for sumo wrestling and went to train in Japan. A knee injury curtailed his competitive ambitions, and treatment of the injury was further complicated by the discovery he was a mutant. Sent to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngstersfor powers training, Mondo had trouble fitting in, seeming at times to be too jovial and easy-going. This changed as the pressures of crushing homesickness combined with the field trip curse. Forced to use his powers aggressively, first against dinosaurs and then in Murderworld, an obscene parody of the circus he loved, Mondo's calm cracked. It was decided that he return home for the duration, to potentially pick up his powers training later.