[8] Since her original introduction in comics, the character has been featured in various other Marvel-licensed products, including films and animated television series.
[13][14] Callisto's origins remain mysterious, though she asserts that the scars she bears serve as a testament to the folly of her attempt to live among ordinary humans.
Kitty Pryde is struck with a deadly illness in an attempt to rescue him, and Callisto refuses to allow her companions to take her to the surface for medical treatment.
[32] Callisto began a career as a fashion model and moved above ground, embarking on a new life with Peter Nicholas as her lover.
Callisto willingly accepted the offer and the Mist effectively restored all her previous abilities (minus her disfigurements and arm-tentacles), but without any control over them.
[40] Callisto was later reunited with Marrow as members of X-Cell, a group of mutants who hold the government responsible for their power loss.
When Quicksilver offered to repower its members, she warned Marrow about what happens to non-Inhumans who gain power from the Terrigen Mist.
[42] But her little community soon came under assault when morlocks infected by a type of psi-vampirism attacked them while Monet and a morally inverted Creed stayed down in their territory to suss out the source of a new mutant sickness.
[43] As it happens the perpetrator of the underlife abductions was none other than M's brother Emplate, whom was suffering as much from the M-Pox epidemic as everyone else since it was killing off his only food supply.
[45] At first attempting to become top dog while jailed at the mutant's only penitentiary, she was soon reminded of her place when a burlier convict had lain her out for thirty days.
Now she sends a warning towards new inmates Kitty, Storm and Rachel Grey-Summers that said jailbird who runs the block is zeroing in on the X-Men in order to solidify her status as #1.
As it turns out, it was all staged by the depowered outlaw; the win-win situation being that she could establish herself as the new alpha if a trio of hated enemies succeeded and would still garner personal satisfaction at their defeat in the case that they failed.
Recounting the time when she and Piotr were an item, the morlock leader warns Kathrine to treat him right lest Callisto do her in before disappearing back into solitude.
[47] After the calamitous events which befell the X-Men and left the mutant populous in dire straits as the Morlocks in her care are once more facing genocide due to the tumult caused by their departure.
[48] Even after Chamber came down to care for them, Callisto's people still faced more bloodshed than ever due to the chaos caused by the Office of National Emergency which was blamed on the resurgent Marauders.
Going so far as to incapacitate Wolverine just so he would not rob her of the kill for their crimes when the X-Men came searching for clues as to a couple of items to scratch off their to do list.
[50] She was also presided over the dead Xavier after he was fatally shot by one amongst a crew of Reaver like homunculi who somehow infiltrated Krakoa's defenses.
A couple days before the nation leaders death & resurrection,[51] Callisto was called to the personal island quarters of Ms.
The White Queen petitioning her to be Emma's white knight in the Hellfire Trading Company both to foster trust amongst the mutant and human communities due to her own overly persuasive nature, and the fact that high seas transport can be incredibly dangerous and her branch of the industry needs enforcers to manage the national interests of Krakoa.
After half a year working as Emma's paladin, she would meet up with members of the Red Queen's; Catherine Pryde's, crew on the Marauders at Island M to take and catalog their contraband while exchanging some swift and deadly albeit friendly parley with her old rival Ororo Munroe after they dock.
[47] She excels in stealth operations when required and is typically armed with knives, demonstrating precise accuracy both in close combat and as throwing weapons.
[52] Furthermore, Callisto possesses natural abilities as a huntress, fighter, leader, and tactician,[57] adept at devising intricate plans and strategies even without relying on her superhuman tactical perception.
The conflict significantly contributed to Storm's transformation, marked by a shift from pacifism and a dramatic change in appearance often called her "punk" look.
Century concluded that this period of struggle and eventual forgiveness of Callisto were crucial in helping Storm regain her inner stability and evolve into the hero she is today.
[59] Michael Johnson of Bam Smack Pow expressed interest in a television series that would explore Callisto's origin story and her leadership of the Morlocks.
[volume & issue needed] An alternate universe variant of Callisto from Earth-58163 appears in House of M. This version is the leader of the Marauders.
According to a novelty card game, she is said to have been born in the Dominican Republic and emigrated to Washington Heights as an infant where she honed her skills as a fighter and tracker.