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The Living Monolith
Real Name: Ahmet Abdol
Affiliation: None
Aliases: The Living Pharaoh, The Living Planet
Relatives: Filene (wife, deceased), Salome (daughter, deceased)
Alternate-X Versions: None
Codename Etymology: Pronounced Pronounced lĭv'ĭng mŏn'ə-lĭth'
[From Old English, libban] [From Greek, monolithos: "a single stone"].
Powers & History: At first, power blasts. Abdol, a professor of archaeology, then
met Alex Summers, a student in his class as another mutant.
Abdol sensed that Alex drew his power from the same cosmic rays as he did, but
Summers's absorption was stronger and kept Abdol from being reaching his full
potential. Abdol realized that if Summers were cut off from those rays, he could
be incredibly powerful. Abdol captured Alex and brought him to his lair in Egypt,
where his cult of followers believed him to be the Living Pharaoh, direct descendant
of the great Egyptian dynasties. However, the X-Men followed
Alex's trail and fought Abdol and his goons. Unfortunately, Abdol convinced a
passing cop that he, a well-respected Egyptologist, was the victom of mutant aggression,
a diversion that allowed him to escape to his cave. Inside, Abdol placed Alex
into a chamber that blocked the cosmic rays from reaching his body. Now receiving
the full force of the cosmic rays, Abdol underwent a transformation into a giant
gray man of stone, whereupon he rechristened himself the Living Monolith. During
the fight, Alex managed to break his chamber, and the cosmic rays returned to
him, returning the Monolith to human form. Unable to control his power, Alex unleashed
a blast that destroyed Abdol's lair. Abdol never pursued Havok again, but instead
sought out other heroes powered by cosmic energy like the Fantastic
Four and attempted to use their energy to power himself up. During one of
these attempts, Abdol's wife was murdered by an anti-mutant mob, further exacerbating
his mania, which culminated in his murdering his own daughter when he feared she
would betray him to his enemies. Mad with grief over his actions, Abdol increased
to Monolith size and rampaged through New York City. When he finally calmed down,
subdued by the FF and the Avengers, Abdol
asked Thor to send him into space, where he could do no more harm. Once there
he reached enormous size and became the Living Planet, complete with grass and
other shrubbery. He massed so much that he had his own gravitational field, which
kept an atmosphere around his inert body. Recently, Bishop
and Deathbird found the Living Planet and landed
in him. There they found a group of travelers (possibly Skrulls)
whom Deathbird had apparently been in contact with. She betrayed Bishop and brought
the group on the Living Planet, and the LP himself back to Earth. Apocalypse
then revealed himself to Abdol, and reminded him that it was he (along with Sinister)
who mutated Abdol originally to match his energy signature with Havok's. Apocalypse
had complete control over Abdol's body, and used him as the center piece of the
machine needed to drain the energies of The Twelve
(Abdol was one of them). However, when Magneto short-circuited
the machine, The Living Monolith broke free. After Apocalypse merged with Cyclops
and took the Twelve through some alternate realities, hoping to use the ruses
to get them to finish the power transfer, he was exhausted, and he escaped, taking
the Living Monolith with him. Abdol's current whereabouts are unknown.
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