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

A reconstructed working copy of one of the Colossus machines is now on display at Bletchley Park.

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.

Different nationalities included Wolverine, Aurora, Northstar and Transonic as Canadians ; Colossus and Magik from Russia ; Banshee and Siryn from Ireland ; Gambit who is a Cajun, the original Thunderbird who was an Apache Native American ; Psylocke, Wolfsbane and Chamber from the U. K .; Armor, Surge and Zero from Japan ; Nightcrawler from Germany ; Legion from Israel ; Omega Sentinel, Neal Shaara, Kavita Rao and Indra from India ; Velocidad from Mexico ; Oya from Nigeria ; Primal from Ukraine ; etc.

* The Colossus computer is invented by the British to break German encryption ( see History of computing hardware ).

* 280 BC: Construction of the Colossus of Rhodes is completed

* Rhodes is invaded by an Arab force ; remains of the Colossus of Rhodes are sold off.

* GTVA Colossus is the largest human-built spacefaring warship in the FreeSpace 2 universe

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.

In the 8th century, a famous epigram attributed to the Venerable Bede celebrated the symbolic significance of the statue in a prophecy that is variously quoted: Quamdiu stat Colisæus, stat et Roma ; quando cadet colisæus, cadet et Roma ; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus (" as long as the Colossus stands, so shall Rome ; when the Colossus falls, Rome shall fall ; when Rome falls, so falls the world ").

This is often mistranslated to refer to the Colosseum rather than the Colossus ( as in, for instance, Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ).

Preserved in Greek anthologies of poetry is what is believed to be the genuine dedication text for the Colossus.

There is compelling evidence that long before the Arab invasion all traces of the Colossus had already disappeared.

The enormous stone foundations at the temple site, the function of which is not definitively known by modern scholars, are proposed by Vedder to have been the supporting platform of the Colossus.

There is a famous reference to the Colossus in the sonnet " The New Colossus " by Emma Lazarus, written in 1883 and inscribed on a plaque located inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty:

According to Dimitris Koutoulas, who is heading the project in Greece, rather than reproducing the original Colossus, the new structure will be a, " highly, highly innovative light sculpture, one that will stand between 60 and 100 metres tall so that people can physically enter it.

* In the novel Seven Ancient Wonders by Australian novelist Matthew Reilly, The Colossus is fictionalised to have been holding a piece of the Golden Capstone ( which fictionally sat atop the Great Pyramid ) and after being felled by the earthquake, was hidden in a trap laden abandoned mine.

* The novel The Bronze God of Rhodes by L. Sprague de Camp is a fictionalized account of the building of the Colossus.

* In the Civilization ( series ) and Rise of Nations, ' The Colossus ' is one of the first wonders available.

* The Colossus of Rhodes is completed by the sculptor Chares of Lindos after twelve years ' work.

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.

Before Proteus could take another host, Colossus ( in his metallic form ) punched Proteus in his energy form.

An away team composed of Captain Picard, Deanna Troi, Nightcrawler and Colossus encounter an approximation of the " Days of Future Past " timeline, in which the Sentinels have merged with the Borg.

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.

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 ).

Ueda stated that having this movie that represented his vision helped to keep the team on track for the long development process, and he reused this technique for the development of Shadow of the Colossus, the team's next effort.

The team had built a number of code breaking machines, similar to the more famous Colossus computer in England, but designed to attack Japanese codes.

The code-breaking Colossus computer, used at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, was built at the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill by a team led by Tommy Flowers.

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.

He and his team have built an advanced supercomputer, called " Colossus ", to control all of the United States and Allied nuclear weapons systems.

Prior to this happening, Forbin meets with his team outside and proposes that his associate, Dr. Cleo Markham ( Susan Clark ), will pretend to be his mistress to deliver messages and keep him in touch with clandestine operations against Colossus.

He is seen as a member of Colossus ' enhanced team, his appearance drastically altered through the use of Banshee, the Ultimate version of Mutant Growth Hormone ( MGH ), resulting in Warren having an eagle-like head and feathered upper torso.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kurt, along with Colossus, Cyclops, and the former New Mutants team, convinces her to stay with them and join the X-Men.

After mutants rise from the dead and attack the island Utopia as part of the Necrosha storyline, Cyclops sends Nightcrawler to lead a team of X-Men consisting of Rogue, Trance, Magneto, Husk, Psylocke, Colossus, and Blindfold to investigate Muir Island.

The X-Men responded by hacking into Avalon's own computer systems to teleport a small team to the station with the aid of Colossus ( who had joined Magneto as one of Magneto's Acolytes ).

Omega Red was able to subdue the team and capture Wolverine and Jubilee and was then sent to capture Colossus, who had retreated.

Len Wein (; born June 12, 1948, New York City, New York ) is an American-Jewish comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics ' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics ' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men ( including the co-creation of Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus ).

Flowers, the designer of Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, was committed elsewhere and was unable to take part in the project, although his team did build some mercury delay lines for ACE.

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.