Who Is Caliban? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Caliban is a Marvel comic book character, with over 949 comic issue appearances. Caliban is a mutant that can sense other mutants within a 25 mile radius of himself. He was a Morlock, a member of X-Factor and X-Force as well as Apocalypse's faithful hellhound.

Who is Caliban?

Origin With a physical mutation that gave him white skin, no hair and bulging large yellow eyes, Caliban was unable to live among the rest of society. His name comes from a character in William Shakespeare's "The Tempest." During the height of anti-mutant sentiment in America, Caliban was one of many outcast mutants who resorted to living in the deserted underground tunnels of New York. As a Morlock , Caliban was an essential asset and was often used by their leader, Callisto , because of his tracking abilities to help locate more mutants to join their underground community. His personality was almost child-like, and Caliban would always talk in the third-person, referring to himself as 'Caliban' instead of 'me' or 'I'. Creation Caliban was created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum and first appeared in Uncanny X-Men issue 148 (1981). Character Evolution He began as a weak and submissive mutant. After being bullied by various factions, Caliban gave himself over to Apocalypse to be genetically altered to be a stronger, more dominant version of himself. He moved in and out of the control of Apocalypse and eventually regressed to a more animalistic nature before finally regaining hi.

Key facts

Caliban is of mutant origin and first appeared in "Cry Mutant". The character is published by Marvel. With 949 recorded issue appearances, Caliban ranks among the most featured characters in comics.