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<td valign="top">[[Image:Rictoreffectwiki.jpg |left|100px]]'''The Rictor Effect:''' The [[The Rictor Effect| Great San Diego earthquake]] on July 5th, 2006, at 1:10 p.m. was a result of the kidnap and torture of [[Julio Richter]] by [[Magneto]] after the boy manifested his seismic abilities in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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<td valign="top">[[Image:Mondo Card.jpeg|left]]'''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 Youngsters - Phase 1|Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]]for powers training, Mondo had trouble fitting in, seeming at times to be too jovial and easy-going.  
  
Almost the entire roster of [[X-Men]] scrambled to help the boy and stop Magneto from using him, but Julio did not have a level of fine control over his abilites yet and ruptured a previously unknown fault line off the California coast, causing an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale to nearly level the city. The X-Men were finally able to rescue the boy, but at the cost of letting Magneto escape.
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This changed as the pressures of crushing homesickness combined with the field trip curse. Forced to use his powers aggressively, first against [[This Savage Land| dinosaurs]] and [[Voodoo Child| 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.
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Mondo is a mimetic shapeshifter. He can synch his body's properties to the properties of any piece of matter in direct contact with his skin. He will ONLY be able to synch to solids - not liquids, not gasses, not plasmas or any of the more exotic states of matter. His limitation to solids is a psychological defense mechanism - his power permits synching to any state of matter, but the chance of not being able to return to "normal" is too high to risk. And in the case of non-solid states of matter, there's always a chance of a section of his body not being in contact with the main mass when the synch is dissolved. If that were to happen, Mondo would suffer immediate, potentially fatal injury as his body reformed without the missing material. With solids, there is no danger of that happening.
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Mondo's mutation cannot and never will be able to synch to an energy field of any type.
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He alters the properties of his own flesh to match the properties of the matter being synched to. If he synchs to steel, his flesh becomes as solid as steel and as flexible as steel. If he synchs to concrete he'll take on the density and solidity of concrete.
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Short-term, he is limited to the most simple forms of matter - he finds non-complicated elements the easiest to synch up to. The more complicated the molecule, the more difficult to synch his body to its structure. He has practice synching to stone and wood, as those materials were in easy supply in Samoa and in Japan. Synching to rice-paper disagreed with him - he intensely disliked feeling that flimsy. He also needs practice in not using his hands and feet only to synch to materials - he's developed a bad habit of having to fondle the material in question with his hands or walking on it with bare feet in order to synch with it.
  
However, when the team reached the beach they discovered that an underwater landslide had caused a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami mega tsunami]. By tearing off the psychic limiters on his telekinesis [[Legion]], [[Cable]], and [[Phoenix]] were able to halt the first wave while the team of [[Iceman]], [[Storm]], and [[Sunfire]] stopped the remaining secondaries. As a result of this exertion Legion suffered a psychotic break.
 
 
[[Red X]] and the remaining X-Men reported to San Diego to help begin cleanup, which has lasted months.  In August Magneto claimed responsibility for the city's destruction, causing the already volatile political climate towards mutants to become even moreso.
 
 
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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.

Mondo is a mimetic shapeshifter. He can synch his body's properties to the properties of any piece of matter in direct contact with his skin. He will ONLY be able to synch to solids - not liquids, not gasses, not plasmas or any of the more exotic states of matter. His limitation to solids is a psychological defense mechanism - his power permits synching to any state of matter, but the chance of not being able to return to "normal" is too high to risk. And in the case of non-solid states of matter, there's always a chance of a section of his body not being in contact with the main mass when the synch is dissolved. If that were to happen, Mondo would suffer immediate, potentially fatal injury as his body reformed without the missing material. With solids, there is no danger of that happening.

Mondo's mutation cannot and never will be able to synch to an energy field of any type.

He alters the properties of his own flesh to match the properties of the matter being synched to. If he synchs to steel, his flesh becomes as solid as steel and as flexible as steel. If he synchs to concrete he'll take on the density and solidity of concrete.

Short-term, he is limited to the most simple forms of matter - he finds non-complicated elements the easiest to synch up to. The more complicated the molecule, the more difficult to synch his body to its structure. He has practice synching to stone and wood, as those materials were in easy supply in Samoa and in Japan. Synching to rice-paper disagreed with him - he intensely disliked feeling that flimsy. He also needs practice in not using his hands and feet only to synch to materials - he's developed a bad habit of having to fondle the material in question with his hands or walking on it with bare feet in order to synch with it.