History

He was one of the immortals known as the Externals, and he was one of the meanest and maddest of the team, often seen as being a barbarian. His purple skin and apparent strength are the only known manifestations of his mutancy.

Even though his exact age, race and name are unknown it is known that he has been revealed as having been an ancient berserker as well as remembering Mithras (a religion from around the 1st to 4th centuries AD).

He was also used by the other male Externals, who called themselves the High Lords. He was their personal enforcer and assassin in their power game. Gideon has also said that during World War II he worked in a Nazi death camp, operating a gas chamber purely for his own enjoyment.

Modern Times

Crule was sent by Gideon to attack the X-Force after they rescued Sunspot. He fought the team but was blasted of the ship by Rictor and fell a thousand feet putting him in a body cast. When the Externals kidnapped some of the X-force for ransom, the rest of the X-force sneaked into his hospital room and abducted him, although he was happy to help them because it would mean he could "humble" his fellow teammates and gave the teams location to X-force. He was killed along the rest of the Externals by Selene when she drained his life force.

Powers

augmented strength, speed, agility, endurance, and reflexes

Hair coiled into whip-like strands, had clawed gauntlets.