Who Is Omerta? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Omerta is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Paul Provenzano, with over 43 comic issue appearances. Paulie Provenzano was a member of the X-Men for a brief time known as Omerta. A mafia-wannabe, he was often joking around and flirting with the female team members and was also very homophobic and prejudice towards team-mate Northstar.

Who is Omerta?

Origin Paulie Provenzano lived in Brooklyn and tried to join the mafia after he was discharged from the U.S. Army. The Mafia rudely rejected and attempted to kill him because of his mutant power of invulnerability. Paulie took out the goons and earned the attention of Jean Grey who recruited him into a new team of X-Men where Paulie adopted the codename Omerta. Creation Omerta was created by Scott Lobdell and Salvador Larroca and first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #392 . Major Story Arcs Eve of Destruction The X-Men would fly to the island nation Genosha to try to stop Magneto and Omerta was very overconfident and apparently didn't realize how dangerous Magneto really was. Omerta stated that he was not scared of "some guy wearing a bucket on his head." This angered Magneto and Magneto attempted to manipulate Omerta using the iron in his blood but Magneto was unable to dos so because of Omerta's powers of invulnerability. Although Magneto could not totally manipulate the iron in Omerta's body, he was still able to levitate him.

Key facts

Omerta is of mutant origin and first appeared in "Eve of Destruction Part 1". The character is published by Marvel. With 43 recorded issue appearances, Omerta ranks among the most featured characters in comics.