During the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, Professor X and his son Legion are sensing the Phoenix Force was emergencing by transforming Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus and Magik into the Phoenix Five.

During the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, Spider-Man fights against a Juggernaut-empowered Colossus here.

During the second world war Colossus was instrumental in breaking German codes.

During the final confrontation with Bastion, Hope turns into what appears to be the Phoenix and blasts Bastion as Wolverine, Colossus, and Emma watch shocked.

During the course of their time together, Longshot spends time charming Colossus.

During the destruction, Colossus placed Magneto in an escape pod sending him back to Earth.

During the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, Mister Sinister has created a group of four Madelyne Pryor clones in order to take away the Phoenix Force energies from the Phoenix Five ( consisting of the Phoenix Force-empowered Cyclops, Colossus, Emma Frost, Magik, and Namor ).

During the Second World War he had worked as a cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park, and had led the team which in 1943 produced the first of the Colossus code-breaking computers.

During World War II, Flowers designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.

During a visit Magik accepted the blame for her incarceration when Colossus tried to comfort her.

During one of their first training sessions, the New X-Men spar with Colossus.

During the flashbacks in the Transformers Animated episode " Autoboot Camp ", Ironhide earned his name from his ability to transmutate his body into a nearly-impenetrable metal ( similar to the Marvel Comics character Colossus ), and was good friends with Wasp.

During Shadow of the Colossus, the player receives little information concerning the backstories of the characters and their relationships with one another.

During Messiah Complex, Frenzy joined in the battle against the X-Teams, most often battling Colossus.

During this period Claremont unveiled a new X-Men line-up consisting of Storm, Rogue, Wolverine, Colossus, Havok and several new and pre-existing characters:

Also, during the game's third Special Operation ( inspired in the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline ), the Phoenix Force is hosted by Colossus, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik and Jean Grey herself ( as the Dark Phoenix ); the game's Phoenix Five ( which has Jean as their fifth member, while the original storyline has Namor as the fifth host ) can either be the player's allies or enemies depending on which side s / he chooses in the conflict.

The heroes include the Avengers ( Captain America, Captain Marvel II, Hawkeye, Iron Man, She-Hulk, Thor, the Wasp ); three members of the Fantastic Four ( Human Torch, Mister Fantastic and Thing ); solo heroes Spider-Man, Spider-Woman and the Hulk ; and the mutant team X-Men ( Colossus, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Professor X, Rogue, Storm, Wolverine and Lockheed the Dragon ).

* Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste / Maciste vs the Headhunters ( Colossus and the Headhunters, 1960 ) starring Kirk Morris

Near the end of the Hippodrome I came upon the Built Column, a truncated obelisk of blocks, all that remains of a monument that once rivalled the Colossus of Rhodes.

BBS which had early roots from the Colossus BBS started by the author of the popular shareware communications program Qmodem.

Even though the goal has been the same, the methods and techniques of cryptanalysis have changed drastically through the history of cryptography, adapting to increasing cryptographic complexity, ranging from the pen-and-paper methods of the past, through machines like Bombes and Colossus computers at Bletchley Park in World War II, to the mathematically advanced computerized schemes of the present.

* Albert W. Small, The Special Fish Report ( December, 1944 ) describe the operation of Colossus to break Tunny messages

* Cragon, Harvey G. From Fish to Colossus: How the German Lorenz Cipher was Broken at Bletchley Park ( Cragon Books, Dallas, 2003 ; ISBN 0-9743045-0-6 ) – A detailed description of the cryptanalysis of Tunny, and some details of Colossus ( contains some minor errors )

– Comparison of the first computers, with a chapter about Colossus and its reconstruction by Tony Sale.

* Sale, Tony, The Colossus Computer 1943 – 1996: How It Helped to Break the German Lorenz Cipher in WWII ( M .& M.

There was a fictional computer named Colossus in the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project.

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* In The Colossus of New York ( 1958 ), a father transplants the brain of his recently-deceased son into a large robotic body.

Danger flees, but not before revealing to Colossus that Xavier has known it to be sentient ever since he upgraded it.

Colossus is especially offended by this because he had been held captive and experimented upon by Danger's ally, Ord of the Breakworld.

Other X-Men who face their Xavier Protocols are Colossus, Rogue, Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, Storm, and Gambit.

In 1943 Tommy Flowers designed and built the Colossus, the world's first fully functional, electronic, digital and programmable computer.

A viral marketing campaign ran prior to the release of Shadow of the Colossus, stating the Colossi were actual real statues found by explorers and tourists.

The Colossus of Rhodes described in a 1620 book by Alenio.

Machines such as the Z3, the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, the Colossus computers, and the ENIAC were built by hand using circuits containing relays or valves ( vacuum tubes ), and often used punched cards or punched paper tape for input and as the main ( non-volatile ) storage medium.

The second was the secret development of the Colossus computers in the UK.

Colossus was used to break German ciphers during World War II.

As part of an attack on Tunny, Max Newman and his colleagues helped specify the Colossus.

The Mk I Colossus was built between March and December 1943 by Tommy Flowers and his colleagues at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in London and then shipped to Bletchley Park in January 1944.

Iceman rescues Colossus from Venom and is later made a part of a team to battle Emma Frost's Dark X-Men.

* It has been revealed that X-Men member Colossus, who can turn into a metal version of his human form, is vulnerable to vibranium when he is using his powers, although his body will return instinctively to human form when confronted with a vibranium weapon.

The X-Men universe also includes such notable heroes as Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Rogue, and Shadowcat.

The " all-new, all-different X-Men " were led by Cyclops from the original team and consisted of the newly created Colossus ( from the Soviet Union ), Nightcrawler ( from West Germany ), Storm ( from Kenya ), and Thunderbird ( a Native American from the Apache nation ), along with three previously introduced characters, Banshee ( from Ireland ), Sunfire ( from Japan ), and Wolverine ( from Canada ), who eventually became the breakout character on the team and, in terms of comic sales and appearances, the most popular X-Men character.

This period included the resurrections of Colossus and Psylocke, a new death for Jean Grey, who later returned temporarily in the X-Men: Phoenix-Endsong miniseries, as well as Emma Frost becoming the new headmistress of the Institute, a position that was formerly Jean Grey's before her death.

* Colossus ( comics ), a superhero in the X-Men comic book series

* Piotr Rasputin, aka Colossus ( comics ), a character in Marvel Comics series, X-Men

Though they were not part of the team as featured in the animated series, the following X-Men have all guest-starred in at least one episode: Colossus, Nightcrawler, Emma Frost, Forge, Havok, Polaris, Cannonball, Banshee, Northstar, Iceman, Archangel, Longshot, Dazzler, Sunfire, Quicksilver, Psylocke, Cable, and Bishop.

After the mission at Krakoa, Banshee remains with Xavier and, along with Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Thunderbird, becomes a part of the first core team of " New X-Men.

Proteus's escape and eventual destruction at the hands of Colossus and the X-Men left Moira in a position of ethical compromise again: though Banshee stopped her from cloning her son, she saved his genetic structure on disk to allow herself the future option of bringing him back.

When Krakoa captured the original X-Men, it was Moira's students whom Charles went to first — not the second team of Wolverine, Storm, Banshee, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird and Sunfire as it was originally believed — putting them through the psionic equivalent of boot camp and allowing them to believe they were being trained over months as X-Men.

He quickly fled after he saw Cyclops ' memories, but the X-Men become aware of the fact that he was able to get DNA samples from Shadowcat, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Wolverine.

Magneto, meanwhile, recruits Sabretooth, Gambit, Pyro, and Colossus as his Acolytes to fight the X-Men / Brotherhood team.

* The future X-Men team consists of adult versions of Cyclops, Nightcrawler, X-23, Iceman, Beast, Shadowcat, Colossus, Rogue ( able to fly and not wearing gloves ), and Storm.

* The last scene shows the entire cast of Xavier's school, which now includes the X-Men, the New Mutants, Gambit and Colossus ( former Acolytes ), Boom Boom, Havok, Angel and X-23 ; along with Jubilee, Spyke, and Wolfsbane.

Also in " Dark Horizons Part 2 ", Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Shadowcat are grouped together when the X-Men and the Acolytes are separated, a reference to the Europe-based superhero team Excalibur which included all three mutants in its roster.

Following the wedding of Captain Britain and Meggan, Excalibur disbands and Nightcrawler returns to the X-Men with Shadowcat and Colossus.