Gorgon is a fictional character, a

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, part of the evil gang called the

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. He is based on the

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, and like him has several super-strong tentacles, though they are organic rather than mechanical.

Gorgon

The first Gorgon was a supervillain on the world of Angor, an otherdimensional duplicate of Earth. The Extremists wiped out Angor in a nuclear explosion, leaving only themselves and a few heroes who fled to Earth. The Extremists pursued them and it was revealed that all but one of them had died and the surviving one,

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, used androids of his comrades, including Gorgon, to replace them. They were deactivated and stored in the

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Gorgon Robot

The second Gorgon was a robotic duplicate of the first Gorgon, one of many robots created by the inventor Mitch Wacky on the other dimensional world of Angor, as part of a theme park attraction. After the death of virtually all heroes and villains on the planet, the evil Dreamslayer used the robot duplicates to re-create his villain team, the Extremists. After traveling to Earth, the Extremists almost took over the world before being defeated by

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. The Extremists robots were then exhibited in Madame Clouseau's

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. They were later used by Dreamslayer a second time on the island of

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. A statue of Gorgon was kept in the Villains Gallery on the

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's moon base.

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and the Extremists'' series (2007), a new version of Gorgon is featured, a denizen of Earth-8. In #2 his origin is revealed; Dr. Mortimer was working on genetic alteration to give a person the ability to deal with threats by changing into a monster form and creating an entirely different personality. When he was caught in an explosion at his lab, Mortimer was changed, becoming the Gorgon creature, with a different personality for every tentacle on his head. When one of his personalities killed his girlfriend, a distraught Mortimer was recruited by Lord Havok.

Powers and abilities

Gorgon has a set of mechanical tentacles on his head that can grapple with superhuman strength. Each of the tentacles' ends has a mouth of sharp teeth.

In other media

* Gorgon appears in ''

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References

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