party. He became part of Krakoa's security force the "Great Captains of Krakoa" and served as a bodyguard for Xavier, Magneto and Apocalypse at political events. He took part in Saturnyne's X of Swords contest against Arakko, where he singlehandedly turned the tide of the tournament in Krakoa's favor in the penultimate round by defeating 13 of White Sword of the Ivory Spire's One Hundred champions, before dying at the hand of White Sword himself. White Sword offered to resurrect him as one of his champions as a reward for his bravery, but he declined and was praised as a hero upon his death. Gorgon was resurrected on Krakoa by The Five, but due to dying in Otherworld he was brought back broken. Fabian Cortez tried to take advantage of his brain damage by taking him to Central Park and strengthening his telepathy so he could hear all the hateful things people were thinking about him. Fabian hoped to use Gorgon to kill all these people so he could bypass Krakoa's first law "Murder No Man" without punishment, however Nightcrawler intervened and teleported into an ice cream stand, making everybody laugh. This allowed the confused Gorgon to calm down and he began serving humans ice cream, much to Fabian's dismay. He later helped Nightcrawler defeat Onslaught, and joined his team of Krakoan peacekeepers "The Legionaries". He also unsuccessfully applied to be both a member of the X-Men, and a member of the Quiet Council. Powers and abilities The Gorgon possesses a variety of superhuman abilities as a result of genetic mutation and mystical enhancement from the Hand. The Gorgon's primary mutant ability is the ability to transform an individual into stone by making eye contact with them. Gorgon's eyes have no visible features, glowing with a bright green energy. The Gorgon often wears a mask or pair of dark sunglasses in order to see without affecting those around him. Whether said face wear possess any sort of special properties or are composed of some special material designed to block his power was never revealed. He was also born with, or soon achieved, an extraordinary level of intelligence, possibly at a superhuman level, and psionic abilities. He possesses advanced knowledge in multiple academic and artistic fields. This intellect makes him extremely arrogant. For some reason he equates intelligence with being a mutant. For example, Gorgon dismisses Reed Richards as simply the