Omega Red
| Arkady Russovich | |
|---|---|
 Portrayed by Dean Haglund | |
| Known Aliases: | Omega Red |
| Affiliations: | Independent |
| Socked By: | Redhawk |
| Introduction: | Maverick (plot) |
Product of Russia's own version of Weapon X, Omega Red has a 'death touch' - poisonous spores which cause cellular breakdown. Following his attempt to kill Maverick, his whereabouts are unknown.
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Name: Arkady Russovich
Aliases: Omega Red
Affiliation: Spetzgruppe Voychan (former)
First appearance: August 31, 2005
Distinctive Features: Arkady is an albino, with chalk-white skin, pinkish-red eyes, and pale blond hair.
Biography
Aside from his career with Spetzgruppe Voychan, the KGB's domestic enforcement squad, not much is known about the early life of Arkady Russovich. In 1989, the Russian government decided to attempt to enhance his mutant "death touch" with the help of Doctor Cornelius, an American defector. The intent was to develop a mutant soldier to help turn the tide of the battle in Afghanistan with the mujihadeen.
A NATO-assigned team consisting of Logan, Maverick and an unnamed American operative broke into the experimental facility in the USSR with the intent of sabotaging the project. The team failed to retrieve Cornelius, and the mission was considered a failure, despite the apparent failure of the Omega Red project.
Somehow, Arkady survived the assault, although his activities between 1989 and 2005 are unknown. In August of 2005, he appeared in White Plains, New York, stalking David "Maverick" North, who was under deep post-hypnotic cover. When Maverick's cover broke, he turned to the X-Men for asylum. Arkady followed to the safehouse where he encountered an X-Man team, engaging both Colossus and Jetstream in combat, with devastating success. When fighting Maverick himself, however, the two men appeared to die in an explosion that destroyed the safehouse.
Since the explosion, Maverick has since been proven to have survived. Arkady's whereabouts are unknown.
Powers/Abilities
Arkady Russovich secretes a "death spore", an airborne biological agent that has a limited viability outside of a host, but once introduced to a host via inhalation or contact, a number of effects occur, including cellular breakdown, hemmorhaging, and hyperthermia.
If Arkady remains in contact with a victim of his spore, he can reabsorb some of the spore. As a result, he can exhibit massively increased strength and durability, enough to hold his own in battle with Colossus and tear one of Jetstream's cybernetic legs completely off.
A vaccination to Arkady's spore has been concocted. Maverick had been given the vaccine, and was thusly immune to the spore. It can be assumed that Logan's ability to heal resists the spore naturally and was augmented by the vaccine before the ill-fated mission to recover Cornelius.
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Meta
Socked by: Redhawk
PB: Dean Haglund
