As they squared off, Kevin rejected the Mutant X label and started calling himself Proteus after the changing Greek god of myth and the room Moira used to control him as a child. Wolverine deduced Mutant X's identity and a confrontation began between the mutants. He had just jumped bodies again from Fergie into a passing policeman when the X-Men Wolverine and Nightcrawler caught up with him. On the Scottish mainland, he transferred his essence into the body of Fergie Duncan, rejuvenating himself in the process and leaving the X-Men none the wiser about his current identity. To avoid further conflict, Mutant X cut his losses and fled Muir Island aboard Angus MacWhirter's boat before the X-Men arrived in force to confront him. He went after Polaris next, but ultimately ended up taking the body of her protector, one of Madrox's duplicates. The only solution he could find was to possess human host bodies, one after another. Without the isosteric energy fields of his cell to sustain him, Kevin began to burn his body out. Significantly weakened by the time his opportunity came, Mutant X was unable to overcome the Phoenix, and was driven off by her psychic assault. He stalked Jean Grey for several days in Angus MacWhirter's body, looking for the opportunity to grab her while she was alone. Reasoning that a more powerful host might sustain him for longer, Kevin decided to possess another resident of Muir Island, the powerful mutant known as Phoenix.
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Mutant X realized that this stolen body was less effective than his original skin at housing his energy form.
įor years, Kevin remained inside his cell, sustained by esoteric energy fields that kept his body from burning itself out, until one day, after a battle between Magneto and the X-Men, his cell was damaged and Kevin was able to escape when he took over the body of Angus MacWhirter. To keep the truth about her son secret, she began to describe him to others only as Mutant X. To protect herself and others, Moira was forced to confine Kevin. His abilities gave him an uncontrollable hunger for energy. Kevin eventually began manifesting his mutant abilities and became a danger to everyone around him. Moira and Kevin lived at her Mutant Research Centre on Muir Island, off the coast of Scotland. She did not notify him that she was pregnant with his child. After this traumatic experience, Moira left Joseph. Moira conceived Kevin after Joseph severely beat and raped her. He was the son of Moira MacTaggert and her sinister husband, Joseph MacTaggert, who forced Moira into an unhappy marriage. Even his conception was under unpleasant circumstances. Despite this, Proteus was not fortunate enough to have a happy life. Proteus is written as one of the strongest and deadliest mutants ever to appear in Marvel Comics. His voice is then revealed in Uncanny X-Men #119, as he took over the body of his first victim off-panel. First, he appears off-panel in Uncanny X-Men #104. Ĭreated by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, Proteus first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #125 (September 1979), though hints to his character appeared in earlier issues. In 2009, Proteus was ranked as IGN's 77th-greatest villain of all time.
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His attempt to break free and find his father made up a classic 1979–80 Uncanny X-Men storyline that was adapted in the 1990s X-Men animated series. Kevin had reality-warping and possession powers and lived most of his life in forced seclusion at his mother's Muir Island research facility. Kevin was the mutant son of Scottish genetic researcher Moira MacTaggert and politician Joseph MacTaggert. The character is commonly associated with the X-Men. Kevin MacTaggert, best known as Proteus and also called Mutant X, is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Artwork for the cover of X-Men Legacy #233 (February, 2010 Marvel Comics).
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