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History
What's wrong сударыня? Were you lookin' for someone else?
- — Chameleon
- — Chameleon
Early Years
Born between the late 37th and early 38th century as a Russian citizen, but later raised in the United States of America due to the Dark Ages of the Heroic Era, Anatoly Smerdyakov is a distant descendant of the infamous Dmitri Smerdyakov, the former Heroic Age villain known as the Chameleon. Finding out his status as a mutant early in his toddler years, Anatoly had a power-dampening chip artificially implanted on his nape by his own parents, fearing that the rest of the strict and extreme Smerdyakovs would consider him a deviant, an abomination to the family tree, and possibly even go to great lengths to have the innocent toddler "legally" killed by his own anti-mutant relatives. Although Anatoly's older sister Aleksandra was an utmost caring and morally-accepting individual, she could only support her brother by reluctantly keeping his mutant status from him, for his own safety, until they fully grew up, and then tell him once it was time for him to know the truth.
Military Years
A young Anatoly in his original appearance, during his early days in the Russian military
As a result, Anatoly was forced to be raised by his loved ones not immediately knowing that he could eventually harness limitless possibilities. In his late adolescent to early adulthood years, Anatoly was continuously trained to be a highly-skilled combatant and was later sent back to the warzone areas of Russia, where he became an intelligence spy and achieved the rank of captain as he willingly joined the Russian Armed Forces at some point by the end of the 39th century. Anatoly spent most of his military career in Saint Petersburg, Russia, for half a decade, fighting against the notorious extremists known as the Soviet Sons of the Motherland in the Century War for the Federation of Russia. This was also the time Anatoly's eyes opened to his true nature during a near-death experience.
In one of his most important missions, the one that would eventually be his last, he was shot in the nape by an enemy sniper, destroying the implanted chip which had been suppressing his mutant powers, finally igniting his mutation for the first time in years. By that moment, Anatoly thought it was his last stand, although it was only the start of his newfound journey as a mutant in one of the darkest timelines for discrimination and threatened numbers for mutantkind. Following his near-death experience, Anatoly became even more traumatized as he witnessed more of his troops get slaughtered by a back-up unit called upon by the extremists.
As fear came into Anatoly's senses, his own body unknowingly responded to his impulses and stimuli, finally triggering his main mutant power. In consequence, Anatoly suddenly took the form of one of the already fallen extremists, who was a high-ranking officer, much to his surprise. Hesitant on what to do at first, he pulled himself together afterwards and knew that he had to use this ability to survive the ensuing ordeal, which he did after the deceased general's comrades mistook him for their commander and rescued him back to their secret headquarters within Saint Petersburg. Acting as the fallen general, Anatoly secretly contacted his allies, giving away the coordinates to the secret main headquarters and even gave them instructions on how to infiltrate it without losing too much manpower and equipment.
Because of his heroic and fearless actions, Anatoly led the Russian Armed Forces to win the war against the Soviet Sons of the Motherland within the next seven days, marking a fair and worthy victory for the Russian Republic, as the leaders would later sign a peace treaty to end the Century War for the Federation of Russia, once and for all. After the peaceful victory of the Russian Republic, Anatoly remained in Russia for the next two months, right until another, far greater threat came to his family back in the United States. Anatoly immediately flew back to his former residence in America to try and rescue his family from the impending war of Kang the Conqueror against those who he deemed could ruin his quest of conquest and cleansing the world. As Anatoly arrived in the country, now in ruins, he couldn't care less what consequences may occur once his family knew that he found out about his true mutant nature, signifying how much he really cared for them.
Battling Kang's Empire
To maintain control over the countries he had conquered, Kang and his minions of death sought out almost every rogue superhuman (e.g. mutates, mutants, even Inhumans) in those countries and forced them to serve as his enforcers, and killed the ones who refused to do so. Reading the whole list of individuals who were slain by Ravonna and the lieutenants under Kang's extreme principle would go on for ages, although it included the famous mutate gunslinger Bret Colby and slaughtered his team, which were allegedly the future counterpart of the prime Ultimates, with the exception of Spider-Man of 3099, who allegedly escaped back into hiding in a secret resistance base, despite being critically wounded by Ravonna Renslayer.
Due to the 40th century Spider-Man's survival from the resistance purge, he gave a new spark of hope to the rest of the resistance's future, which allowed them to plan a new strategy with new destinations to attack and reclaim in their long-time war against the Empire of Kang. As one of the greatest strategists and tacticians in his prime, Anatoly was eventually inspired by the sacrifice of other individuals who died for the cause, including the great sacrifice of his teenage nephew, who died at the hands of a brutal and merciless Kang droid, after heroically helping a group of stray depowered mutant children to hide in the safety of a secured resistance base. Days later, Anatoly finally accepted the resistance's offer to join them in their war against the Empire of Kang. In the days thereafter they found out that Kang disappeared and handed his reign and power to his right-hand woman Renslayer, the more infamous Terminatrix.
Ambush on Manhattan
Chameleon, masquerading as the Spider-Man of 3099 during the tactical ambush on the ghost borough Manhattan
Once Ravonna was informed by the city watchers of the empire that one of their hidden headquarters in Manhattan would be taken over by the heroic mutiny, she and her commanding forces made it to the ghost borough to prevent the resurgence's attempt. As they arrived to the dead borough, Ravonna and her allies were ambushed by the resurgence, led by the Spider-Man of 3099, although it was later revealed to be Anatoly, as he volunteered to be the leading commander of the ambush, taking O'Hara's place by taking on his appearance and suit while he recovered from his injuries. In the ensuing attack, the resurgence was able to take out most of Ravonna's soldiers due to their strength in numbers and Anatoly's tactics, apparently signaling the first significant victory for the mutiny against the powerful Kang Empire.
Unfortunately for them, Ravonna injected herself with a concentration serum at a moment of desperation, bringing her to peak concentration before she took on the enemy forces alone, while her remaining allies tried to cover her. With her enhanced concentration and superhuman skills combined, she outsmarted every single rebel who fought her, giving her the advantage to slay each and every one of them in the process. Due to Ravonna's last resort, the mutiny faction was forced to retreat, with the exception of Anatoly, who decided to stay and take down Ravonna and avenge his fallen comrades.
Last Stand
The two battled alone in the final moments of the seemingly-failing ambush, although it still ended with Ravonna as the victor, who used her last stand to trap the aggressive web-slinger as they entered a demolished building. The defeated hero was then revealed to be Anatoly himself, in the form of O'Hara (she noticed the difference through a mutant-scanning device). Sarcastically questioning whether Renslayer was looking for someone else, she could only look at him in disappointment. Feeling a little bit of disappointment since she didn't defeat whom she actually expected, she decided to spare his life, though Chameleon still died shortly afterwards when most of the structure above him collapsed, burying him alive. In his last moments, Anatoly could only think of the great relief that his surviving family would still be safe and sound at the hands of the Resistance against Kang, and realize that he would finally be with his parents as he closed his eyes, and exhaled his final breath.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Homo Superior Physiology: Chameleon's superhuman powers were genetically innate, officially classifying him as a mutant. He also wore fabric made of memory material that responded to nerve impulses and could appear to be whatever costume he wished it to be.
- Enhanced Strength
- Enhanced Speed
- Enhanced Stamina
- Enhanced Agility
- Enhanced Durability
- Partial Transformation
- Malleable Anatomy
- Appearance Mimicry
- Enhanced Healing Factor
- Advanced Longevity
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Abilities
- Gifted Intelligence
- Escapology
- Expert Tactician
- Military Knowledge
- Master of Stealth
- Master Inventor
- Expert Combatant
- Multilingual
Strength level
- Class 10+
Weaknesses
- Power-Dampening Chip (formerly)
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Spider-Man 3099 Suit Replica (formerly; destroyed)
Transportation: None known.
Weapons:
- Various technologically-advanced firearms (formerly)
- Plasma pistols and rifles (formerly)
- Plasma pistols and rifles (formerly)
Notes
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- ↑ Age of Kang: The Fallen Ones
Trivia
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See Also
- Appearances of Anatoly Smerdyakov (Earth-6164)
- Character Gallery: Anatoly Smerdyakov (Earth-6164)
- Quotations by Anatoly Smerdyakov (Earth-6164)
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