First trailer for X-Men 3 is here

[Raelynn]

Yeah, Colossus was badass.  My most memorable bit with him in the comics was back in the late 80's or so.  It was one of the story arcs that covered all of the mutant-themed comics.  There was a gang of bad mercenary mutants called the "Marauders" that were hunting down and killing the "Morlocks" (refuge mutants that lived in sewers).  It was merciless killing, often of the elderly and very young.

Anyways, one of the Marauders could spin at superhuman speed.  He would enter a room full of Morlocks and spin around while chucking razors and other sharp peices of metal.  They would fly around in all directions and completely decimate anyone in the vicinity.

Colossus met with this guy and shielded innocent Morlocks with his body.  The spinny guy got pissed and spun even faster and focused his destruction on Colossus.  He was shooting all manner of sharp pointy things at Colossus at supersonic speed while Colossus crept ever closer.  Most of them bounced off his metal skin, but a small percentage actually penetrated.  With the sheer number of junk this guy was throwing, it soon added up to a lot of sharpnel embedded in Colossus.

Colossus got more and more pissed about all of the death the twisty guy caused.  He got close, grabbed this guy's neck, and snapped it like a twig.  It was the only time I recall seeing Colossus kill anyone out of anger.

Unfortunately Colossus suffered some pretty severe injuries.  Magneto was a "good guy" at the time and tried to magnetically fix him up.  He stopped him from dying, but  at the cost of fusing his metal body into a solid state.  Poor Colossus couldn't even shift back to flesh  :(

I stopped reading comics shortly after this, and never really knew the outcome.
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I haven't read many stories as I got out of comics many ears back, but I still kept up on some of the ideas. Another kind of surprising almost death for Colossus was actually a person that hit him with acid before throwing their sear at him.

Speaking of Morlocks, they're apparently playing a role in X-Men 3. Leech is credited (he a Morlock) as is Callisto (who I believe was the leader of the Morlocks at one point).