Mondo (Earth-2299)

Mondo Mondo is the name of three fictional characters of comics that appeared in the Marvel Comics series Generation X. The first Mondo was a young mutant superhero later revealed  as a clone of "true" Mondo that was a mutant super-villain who appeared years later. Finally it was revealed that this super-villain Mondo was also another clone created by the original Mondo that was a mutant who wanted to keep out of trouble and crises of the mutant race and was forced to create a super-villain clone of himself by  John Sublime and the Weapon Plus Program as an undercover agent placed strategically next to Black Tom Cassidy. The first appearance of the first Mondo was in Generation X # 3.

Biography of the fictional character

Not much is known about the Samoan mutant called Mondo. He was protected from Cordelia Frost, the younger sister of Emma Frost. In an attempt to plead for the post of White Queen of the Hellfire Club, Cordelia who had trapped with Mondo delivered him to the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club. The Cordelia scheme failed however: for the Hellfire Club got Mondo but denied membership in Cordelia. Cordelia then turned to Emma, ​​the director of the Massachusetts Academy for help and, soon after, was rescued by Mondo, Generation X, and later accepted an invitation to join the team.

However, Generation X later learned that the Mondo who had rescued was not the real Mondo but a clone, a plant-based simulation created by Black Tom Cassidy, who had infiltrated the Hellfire Club and rescued Mondo. After taking Mondo under his tutelage, Black Tom created a clone of the young mutant to infiltrate the Massachusetts Academy for Black Tom could get revenge on his cousin, Banshee, who was the director of the Academy.

While Banshee and Emma Frost fought Black Tom, clone Mondo began to hunt members of Generation X. However, when the Mondo clone was about to attack Jubilee, was shot dead by anti-mutant activist, operative Bastion Chief Operation: Zero Tolerance.

Later, the real Mondo appeared alongside Black Tom and Juggernaut. Totally loyal to Black Tom, the real Mondo fought members of Generation X. Generation X Mondo tried to persuade not to fight, but Mondo laughed at them, reminding them that he never really knew them before. Generation X and their teachers were able to defeat their opponents, but the trio still managed to escape.

Years later during the phase of the X-Men by Grant Morrison on a mission against John Sublime and the Weapon Plus Program, it was revealed that second mutant super-villain Mondo also was not the real Mondo. This does not even come to actually be "captured" by the Hellfire Club and "rescued" by Black Tom Cassidy. The Mondo true actually was being all this time held prisoner by the Weapon Plus Program and forced to create clones of himself to be infiltrated strategically between the villains of the mutant community and thus create sources of information about what was happening in the changing underworld that could It is used by the Weapon Plus Program.

Once unmasked the second clone mondo turned against Black Tom Cassidy, The Juggernaut, and the X-Men fighting alongside Ultimaton. However Wolverine managed to free the real Mondo who confronted his evil clone and destroyed reabsorbing it and follow helping the X-Men to win Ultimaton.

But both John Sublime and Ultimaton as Black Tom Cassidy and the Juggernaut once again escaped. The real Mondo proved to be very grateful to have been released from that for him were years of forced servitude in principle however declined the offer made by Wolverine to join the new version of Generation X that was being created under the tutelage of Lady Xorn by state which actually never wanted to be neither "hero" or "villain" or anything just take his quiet life in his corner without getting involved with the crises of the mutant race.

However he was forced to go back on this decision during the events of X-Men Battle of the Atom and eventually accepted to join the Spark group.

Powers

Mondo has mutant powers which are exactly identical to those of the enemy of the Avengers villain known as The Absorbing Man, he can alter the molecular structure of his body, his uniform of the new Generation X, to mimic the properties of any material he touches is this material compound of organic or inorganic matter. This process also gives he super strength, toughness, and in most cases invulnerable to damage. If the object has played some form of energy, like a battery or a fusion reactor, Mondo absorbs these properties as well. He also has change to a limited extent skills to absorb certain objects, such as transmute his fists into giant hammers to play as a hammer or enlarge their size to enormous proportions when copying items or huge power force. He proved to be able to "grow back" an arm when cut off (in your rocky form) simply reattaching the molecules of this, then changing back to human form. Some of the substances he proved able to absorb are; Uru metal of the Stormbringer hammer of Beta Ray Bill, the cosmic power of Silver Surfer, the force of the Skaar Son of Hulk, the indestructible metal alloy of the Captain America shield, the skin of Rockslide, steel, titanium, adamantiun, nuclear plasma, volcanic magma, nanometal, the powers and the animal form of the Beast, bronze, light, iron, diamond, helium, water, earth, granite, wood, enriched uranium, iridium ,a brick wall, the laser blasts of Dazzler, the metallic armor of Ultron, the power of the Nova Force and the Worldmind of the Nova / Richard Rider, The Quantum–Bands of Quasar among others. If your body is broken into pieces, while in a non-human state he can self mentally restore just reconnecting the molecules of your body as he are in and revert to human form normally without any harm to he. Mondo also has the power to create "clones" of himself from vegetal matter and transmuting it into organic tissues identical to himself that retain the exact same powers of this and may even develop awareness and own personalities (sometimes completely distinct from the original equal the Mondo super-villain clone) that he may decide to undo, mind control against opponents or reabsorb although in the latter case the clone and the individual conscience that he had as a separate entity Mondo cease to exist.