Chromatic Mutant
Predator is a Chromobot with delusions of godhood. It is not enough for him to wipe out all life on Earth; that is merely the first step, wiping the slate clean and allowing him to populate the planet with Mutants.
These hybrid creatures are part human and part Chromobot, and wholly loyal to their creator and master. Like their extraterrestrial ancestors, the Mutants vary in size and appearance, and each has their own set of superpowers.
Predator's Mutants include:
Fiction
After he kidnapped nuclear arms designer Tessa Stone, The Chromobots issue 19 Predator used his time modulator to travel into the future, where he used her knowledge to successfully create a weapon from nuclear and Chromobot technologies. He used it to destroy Chromos Five and the surrounding planets as well as ravage Earth. By the year 2535, Predator had wiped out all human life to clear the slate and allow him to start anew. Issue 25 He did so by creating the Mutants, human/Chromobot halfbreeds that were loyal to his commands. Issue 24 Looking to show the heroic Chromobots the real extent of his power, he returned the injured and unconscious body of Tessa back to 1985 Issue 25 to act as bait. Issue 23
The Mutants travelled to the location of the time shift, following Predator's prediction that the Chromobots would be there. Issue 24 The Brute was the first one to make contact, starting a fight with Mikros. Issue 23 Rage and Menace joined soon afterwards. Issue 24
Predator himself arrived on the scene, and ordered the Mutants to stand down with a simple vocal command. The Mutants listened as the Chromatic criminal explained what he'd accomplished with the time modulator. Issue 25 The Chromobots' human ally, Dudley, leapfrogged over Rage and snatched the modulator from Predator, who ordered the Mutants to stop the boy. Transmute, Shield, and Mikros held the Mutants off for long enough for Dudley to make it back through the time shift to 1985. After Shield destroyed the time modulator with his force weapon, the time shifts were closed and time in the 26th Century was destabilised, trapping Predator and the Mutants in a folding in timeline. All of Predator's accomplishments would be replaced with the future as it was intended to happen, meaning the Mutants would never be created. Issue 26
Notes
- In the wider Marvel universe, Mutants are mutated humans
born with the X-Gene, typically featured in comics about the X-Men. - The terminology for the Mutants varies:
- The "Next Ish" teaser in issue 23 refers to them as "Predator's mutants".
- In issue 24, Rage identifies the Brute as a "mutant", "like us". Dudley also refers to Menace as a mutant without a qualifier.
- A narrative box in issue 25 calls them "Chromatic mutants".
- Dialogue in issue 26 again calls them "Predator's mutants".
- We've chosen to call them "Chromatic Mutants" to most clearly signify how they differ from regular (Marvel) Mutants.
