SECURITY CLEARANCE ACTIVATED..

[NAME] Unknown
[FIRST COMIC BOOK APPEARANCE] Uncanny X-Men #148 (1981)
[MUTANT ABILITIES] Mutant detection and tracking, sensing of negative emotions
…ACCESSING…
PERSONAL NOTES OF CHARLES XAVIER
“There are mutants who shape the course of history through battle, through leadership, through revolution. And then there are those whose purpose is quieter, yet no less vital. Caliban is one such mutant – a seeker, a guide, a soul who has spent his life searching for others like himself.
Born with the ability to sense and track mutants, Caliban was cast out from the world above, his pale complexion and haunting eyes marking him as something other than human. He found refuge beneath the streets of New York, among the outcasts who would come to be known as the Morlocks. It was Callisto who first recognized his gift, who saw in him the means to gather the lost and the abandoned, to build a community where those deemed unworthy by society could find sanctuary.
Caliban’s power is not one of destruction, nor of dominance. It is one of connection. He has walked the tunnels of the underground, seeking out those who had nowhere else to go. He has stood beside his fellow Morlocks, defending their home when the world above sought to erase them. And when tragedy struck – when the Mutant Massacre tore through the tunnels, leaving devastation in its wake – he was among those who survived, though the scars of that day would never fully fade.
There was a time when Caliban sought strength beyond his own, when he turned to Apocalypse, accepting his genetic alterations in exchange for power. He became something more, something darker – his body enhanced, his abilities sharpened. But power, as he learned, comes at a cost. And in the end, he was not defined by the force he wielded, but by the heart that remained beneath it.
Caliban is not a warrior in the traditional sense. He does not command armies, nor does he seek conquest. But he is a guardian of the forgotten, a protector of those who have been cast aside. And in a world that so often seeks to erase those who do not fit its mold, that is a power all its own.”
IN OTHER MEDIA
APPEARANCES ON-SCREEN (Television)
APPEARANCES ON-SCREEN (Movies)
X-MEN

FIRST APPEARANCE: Slave Island
VOICED BY: Norm Spencer
Caliban was a founding member of the underground Morlocks, but unlike the others, tended to travel more. He was captured at some point and enslaved on Genosha, where he befriended Jubilee [Slave Island]. They kept in touch after Caliban returned to the Morlocks.
At some point later, Caliban was approached by Fabian Cortez to serve as a Hound of Apocalypse. Given enhanced powers, his mission was to use his tracking abilities to find a young mutant that the displaced essence of Apocalypse could inhabit. After several failures, Cortez sent him after Jubilee. Seeing his friend in danger prompted Caliban to switch sides and, despite Cortez stripping him of his new found power, Caliban helped Jubilee and Beast escape [The Fifth Horseman].
FILM SERIES

FIRST APPEARANCE: X-Men: Apocalypse
OTHER APPEARANCES: Logan
PLAYED BY: Tómas Lemarquis (X-Men: Apocalypse); Stephen Merchant (Logan)
Caliban was an information broker who helped mutants secure new identities and passports so they could escape where they were to where they wanted to go. Psylocke acted as his bodyguard, but she abandoned him to Apocalypse [X-Men: Apocalypse].
At some unspecified point in the future, an older Logan recruited Caliban to watch an elderly and frail Charles Xavier when he was needed. Caliban was loyal to Logan. enduring torture at the hands of the Reavers and ultimately committing suicide – taking some of the Reavers with him [Logan].
X-MEN: EVOLUTION

FIRST APPEARANCE: Day of Recovery
VOICED BY: Michael Dobson
Caliban was seen as a member of the Morlocks in this continuity, only outranked in their leadership by Callisto herself.
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