Make My Marvel! – Titanium Man

Really the best a man can get?

Last article’s poll re-cap: With 38%, you chose Siryn in her X-Force ver.1 costume. Second place went to Theresa in her modern X-Factor outfit with 28%.

Make My Marvel! – Titanium Man

Soviet soldier Boris Bullski was determined to prove the U.S.S.R.’s superiority over the likes of heroes such as Iron Man. To that end, he directed some of Russia’s best scientists in planning and designing the Titanium Man.

The end product was bulkier and slower than Tony Stark’s effort due to Bulski’s limited microtechnological resources. He challenged Iron Man on several occassions and was defeated in each instance.

Bullski’s superiors soon became displeased with his performance, exiling him from Russia to house arrest in Vietnam. There he underwent numerous experimental and dangerous procedures to quickly increase his physique to inhuman proportions.

Next, Bullski located and blackmailed a Soviet defector into designing armor that could be compressed into a device the size of a credit card. He used this technology to both improve the Titanium Man armor and outfit several Soviet soldiers as his Green Liberation Front. Bullski’s GLF attacked numerous financial institutions in order to sabotage the U.S. government’s money supply.

The group was eventually stopped by Beta Ray Bill and when Bullski attempted to escape he was trapped inside his armor’s compressed card form. While the technology involved usually made that non-harmful, the scientist Boris had been blackmailing then tore the card into pieces. Bullski was presumed dead. Soon, the Gremlin worked with the Soviet super soldier program, building his own version of the Titanium man armor. His run as the second Titanium Man was, however, brief when in battle with Iron Man, his armor caught fire and plunged into a frozen lake.

Some time later, the original Titanium Man was pieced back together and restored. Due to damage while being compressed and torn apart, Bullski suffered physical deformity and some mental instabillity. He became obsessed with restoring the Soviet Union to it’s former glory. When Stark Enterprises opened a branch in Moscow, Titanium Man struck. Tony Stark battled Bullski using the Crimson Dynamo armor. Though he piloted the suit, the weapons systems were remote controlled by the suit’s injured pilot who at one point used it’s fusion cannon to knock the Titanium Man into several rockets which then exploded, killing Bullski.

A third Titanium Man was later unveiled, though his identity has yet to be revealed. He was last seen working as a mercenary, attacking congress to prove the necessity of the Superhuman Registration Act and may or may not have been hired by Stark himself.