Origin

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Arkady Rossovich was a serial killer born in Russia. He was captured by the Interpol agent Banshee and turned over to the KGB, which wanted to create a super soldier similar to Captain America. Omega Red is the end result. Arkady was a Soviet soldier stationed in a small Siberian town. He was also a child rapist and murderer, crimes easily discoverable due to the town's small size and limited number of potential victims. He was caught by his fellow soldiers and executed without trial via a gunshot to the back of the head. His superiors are astonished when Arkady survives the execution, and recommend him for the aforementioned Soviet super soldier project, a brutal process which it is suggested that Arkady survives solely due to the evil and meanness of his nature.

He becomes an operative for Soviet intelligence and a KGB operative. The Soviet government implanted one retractable carbonadium tentacle within each of Omega Red's arms. Carbonadium was the Soviets' attempt to recreate the artificial alloy known as adamantium. It is a more malleable form of adamantium. He uses them as weapons and as grappling appendages. He is able to a wrap a victim in his coils to literally drain them of their "life" energy. This vampiric tendency is essential to Omega Red's survival; the carbonadium implants, while great offensive weapons, slowly poisoned him and he was required to regularly drain the life energy of a person, or perhaps take small amounts from larger numbers of individuals, in order to temporarily sustain his immune system. In order to stabilize his condition, Omega Red requires the "Carbonadium Synthesizer," a device that was stolen by Wolverine, Maverick, and Sabretooth during their final mission together as "Team X" and attempted rescue of double agent Janice Hollenbeck sometime during the 1960s. It is because of his need for the Carbonadium Synthesizer that Omega Red has continuously sought out these three individuals over the years, believing they may know of its whereabouts. Omega Red also battled John Wraith in Berlin at that time.

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While working for the drug lord known as the General, Omega Red was recruited by Sabretooth to attack Wolverine's friends and family alongside Lady Deathstrike. Sabretooth had promised both Omega Red and Deathstrike information on almost every mutant on Earth, but betrayed his new henchmen by teleporting away with Wolverine, his ward Amiko, and the information.

Omega Red is currently a crime lord who poses as a legitimate business man, much like Wilson Fisk does in the U.S. At present, Omega Red has resumed his search for the Carbonadium Synthesizer. In Wolverine: Origins #6 and #7, Omega Red locates former Team X member, and now one of the numerous depowered mutants, Agent Zero. who is the only person that knows the location of the Carbonadium Synthesizer. This brings him into direct confrontation with Wolverine, who has also sought out Maverick in hopes of locating the Carbonadium Synthesizer. The result of this encounter is that Wolverine outsmarts Omega Red, landing him in the custody of S.H.I.E.L.D..

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Powers

• Pheromones-

• Tentacles-

Unusual Features:Pale Skin, Cybernetics showing, retractable whips protruding from his wrist, and Red Eyes. 

Alternate Version

Ultimate Universe (Earth-1610)

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Omega Red appeared in as a villain of Spider-Man. His tentacles seems to be organic, rather than made in carbonium and it sprout above his hand, rather than below his wrist. It is unknown if he has the "Death Factor", but Wrecker noted that Omega Red might have spread toxins in a vicinity. After his fight with Spider-Man at Roxxon industries he was captured by SHIELD but escaped when the Green Goblin escaped. Omega Red works as a hitman and when Spider-Man defeated him his clients stopped going to him. He blamed the Daily Bugle because of the article that was written by J. Jonah Jameson of how he was humiliated. Omega Red went to the Daily Bugle disguised as a janitor and trashed the place up until Spider-Man arrived and defeated him.

Age of Apocalypse (Earth-295)

Omega Red is similar to his mainstream counterpart, but the difference is that he is weaker, wear a blue uniform and is more business-minded because he is in league with the black market business. He is killed by Domino.