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Kevin MacTaggert (Earth-616)

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Real Name
Current Alias

Aliases
name sometimes misspelled "MacTaggart"

Identity

Alignment

Relatives
Moira MacTaggert (mother, deceased), Joseph MacTaggert (father, deceased)

Universe

Characteristics
Gender

Height
Variable

Weight
Variable

Eyes

Hair
No Hair, (formerly blond)

Status
Citizenship

Marital Status

Occupation
Mass-Murderer

Origin
Origin
Mutant by birth.

Place of Birth
Somewhere in Scotland

First appearance

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History

Kevin MacTaggert was the son of mutant expert Moira MacTaggert, and politician Joe MacTaggert. The boy was a mutant, who was cursed with the ability to warp realities. These powers would eventually burn out his body leaving him as an energy creature that would require human bodies to sustain itself. Kevin's only known weakness was metal. Due to the unstable nature of his powers, Moira confined Kevin to a maximum security cell inside her mutant research facility located on Muir Island.

During a battle between Magneto and the X-Men, the facility's security was compromised and Kevin's cell was damaged. This caused what remained of his body to burn out and required him to look for a new host. Kevin soon began a quest to find, and possess his father's body.

Even with the timely intervention of the X-Men, Kevin still managed to possess the body of his father, Joe. During the battle, however, Joe's body also burned out leaving Kevin (now calling himself Proteus) vulnerable in his energy form. The X-Man Colossus used his metal form to slay the boy. His energies were disrupted and scattered all over Scotland. All thought Kevin to be dead.

Sometime later, a woman by the name of Erika Benson (also known as Harness) was hired by AIM to use her son, Gilbert Benson, to collect the energies of Proteus for their own use. Gilbert had the ability to absorb the energies that were once Proteus, and his mother intended to collect it all. Her mission was almost thwarted by the New Mutants, New Warriors as well as Moira MacTaggert and a number of her mutants from Muir Island. Their intervention failed, and Gilbert's body exploded, resulting in a fusion entity that was both Gilbert Benson and Kevin MacTaggert.

This new Proteus used his powers to reshape Edinburgh, Scotland to his own whim. The inclusion of X-Factor to the battle soon took on a philosophical tone, as the group of heroes questioned the ethics of killing Proteus or trying to help them. In the end, Proteus realized that reality was not compatible with him and "killed" himself. It is unknown if Proteus was truly dead or if he went off to another plane of existence.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

- Reality warp - Reality jump

- Posessing others

Strength level

Proteus has no physical strength save for that which he gets from his host bodies.

Notes

  • Proteus has no physical characteristics as he is a being comprised of energy that has a vaguely human form. Any human characteristics he may obtain are that of the bodies he possesses. These bodies eventually "burn out" and become nothing more than animated corpses before he disposes of them.

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