Proteus/Mutant X Reviews

Kevin MacTaggert, son of Dr. Moira MacTaggert and her politician husband Joseph, is better known as Proteus or even Mutant X. Kevin was born out of some rather dire circumstances. His father raped his mother and then forced her to marry him. This led to Kevin's birth and Moira ran away before John could get to him.

Forced to live in seclusion in his mother's Muir Island research facility, due to his uncontrollable hunger for energy, she locked him in a cell sustained by isoteric energy fields to keep herself and others safe. This also kept his body from burning itself out as well. At one point he escaped the cell after the X-Men and Magneto had a battle damaging the facility. He took over the body of Angus MacWhirther to disappear unnoticed.

Speaking of taking over bodies, Kevin once took over his father's just so he could kill him. After Proteus came into contact with Colossus in a battle, due to his weakness to metal, his energy was dispersed all over the world thusly killing him. Years later a mutant by the name of Piecemeal tried to absorb all of Proteus' dispersed energy. Piecemeal was so unhappy in this state that he decided to commit suicide.

Proteus, who named himself after a Greek god, can alter reality, has telepathic abilities and can bend the laws of physics. He can also change the weather, take mutant's powers, turn anything into liquid and possess other humans. Only creatures with metal in their bodies are immune.