Strong Guy

Strong Guy is a male comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Guido Carosella was a male human Mutant born to a family that watched every penny they had spent. They lived a very strict life, saving as much as they could, and they tried to teach Guido to appreciate this way of life, but he didn't pay attention, preferring to goof around. (X-Factor v1 #72)

He was very successful academically when he was younger, but he did not fit in with the other kids, so he tried to be the class clown to win their approval, namely of a young girl named Sheila McCann. One day, Sheila winked at him, and Guido tried to start a conversation with her, but her boyfriend and his friends beat Guido up. As he fell to the floor, his mutant genes became active and his arm grew to enormous proportions due to his new energy absorption powers. In pain and confusion, he then stumbled in front of the school bus. The impact caused his body to distort permanently. Before long, he realized that the energy he absorbed had to be released immediately to avoid deformities. (X-Factor v1 #89)

One day after school, Guido awkwardly tried to flirt with his 'big crush', Sheila McCann, and ended up lying flat on the sidewalk thanks to her boyfriend. All the abuse up to this point finally made Carosella snap, and he lunged at his tormenter. This only led to a mob of the tougher boys ganging up on him, and at this exact moment his mutant power decided to kick in. All the kinetic energy from the beating was processed into sheer power to increase his musculature, expanding his right arm into a grotesquely large shape. In a panic, Guido stumbled out in front of a school bus, absorbing even greater amounts of energy, which warped his body even further. Even worse, Charlie witnessed these events and realized Guido was a mutant, just like the man who killed his parents a few years earlier. Charlie snapped and began beating Guido with a rock, screaming about how all his kind was 'evil'. Half-blind with pain, Guido lashed out without realizing it and left Charlie with a limp for the rest of his life. All this kinetic activity flowing through his system overloaded Carosella's mutant ability -- his power was designed to only hold on to kinetic energy for brief periods before releasing it, and the fact that he had not done so left Guido horribly disfigured. He would be in constant pain for the rest of his life, and his upper body muscle structure was abnormally and permanently 'supersized'. (X-Factor Annual v1 #8)

Notes

• Strong Guy was created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz where he made his first appearance in New Mutants v1 #29 (July, 1985).

Appearances

• New Mutants:
• X-Factor v1:
• Uncanny X-Men:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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