Omega Red

Arkady Rossovich was a Russian mutant formerly employed as a "Super-Soldier" by the country formerly known as the Soviet Union.

Little was known about the past of Arkady Rossovich except that he was a serial killer, most likely in conjunction with his "Death Factor."

He was captured by the Interpol agent Banshee and turned over to the KGB, who wanted to create a super soldier similar to Captain America.

Omega Red was the end result.

The Soviet government implanted one retractable carbonadium tentacle within each of Omega Red's arms.

Carbonadium was the Soviets' attempt to recreate the artificial alloy known as adamantium.

It was a more malleable form of adamantium.

He used them as weapons and as grappling appendages.

He was able to a wrap a victim in his coils to literally drain them of their life energy.

This vampiric tendency was once essential to Omega Red's survival; the carbonadium implants, while great offensive weapons, slowly poisoned him and he was required to regularly drain the life energy of a person, or perhaps take small amounts from larger numbers of individuals, in order to temporarily sustain his immune system.

In order to stabilize his condition, Omega Red required the "carbonadium synthesizer," a device that was stolen by Wolverine, Maverick, and Sabretooth during their final mission together as "Team X" sometime during the 1960s when this trio tried to rescue double agent named Janice Hollenbeck and the carbonadium synthesizer.

It was because of his need for the carbonadium synthesizer that Omega Red continuously sought out these three individuals over the years, believing they may know of its whereabouts.

At some time in the past, the Soviet government decided that Omega Red was too unpredictable and treacherous to be relied upon, and placed him in cryogenic suspended animation until a method could be found to control him.

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