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Name: Kevin MacTaggert
Group: The Five
First Appearance: X-Men #119
(December, 1978)

"Everything is out there. Everything is real-- But nothing is, either. I think of it like this. I don't think of "real" the way you do, Errol. To me, the distinction is between what I've brought forward and what I haven't" - Proteus

Kevin MacTaggert is the son of mutant expert Moira MacTaggert, and politician Joe MacTaggert. Like his mother, Kevin is a mutant with the ability to warp reality. Kevin's birth came about after Moira and her partner Charles Xavier identified the need for a reality-warping mutant in order to gain the ability to cheat death. Moira identified potential matches for herself and Xavier that might result in such a mutant, leading eventually to Kevin's birth.

Kevni's powers burn out his body, leaving him in need of new host bodies to sustain himself. Kevin's only known weaknesses are metal and his need for fresh host bodies. Due to the unstable nature of his powers, Moira confined Kevin to a maximum security cell inside her mutant research facility located on Muir Island.

Sometime later, a woman by the name of Erika Benson (also known as Harness) was hired by A.I.M. to use her son, Gilbert Benson whom she called Piecemeal, to collect the energies of Proteus for their own use. Gilbert had the ability to absorb the energies that were once Proteus, and his mother intended to collect it all. Her mission was almost thwarted by X-Force, the New Warriors as well as Moira MacTaggert and a number of her mutants from Muir Island. Their intervention failed, and Gilbert's body exploded, resulting in a fusion entity that was both Gilbert Benson and Kevin MacTaggert.

This new Proteus used his powers to reshape Edinburgh, Scotland to his own liking. The arrival of X-Factor brought a philosophical tone to the battle, as the heroes questioned the ethics of killing "Proteus" or trying to help them. In the end, Proteus realized that reality was not compatible with him and "killed" himself.

Description
Name: Kevin MacTaggert
Group: The Five
First Appearance: X-Men #119
(December, 1978)

"Everything is out there. Everything is real-- But nothing is, either. I think of it like this. I don't think of "real" the way you do, Errol. To me, the distinction is between what I've brought forward and what I haven't" - Proteus

Kevin MacTaggert is the son of mutant expert Moira MacTaggert, and politician Joe MacTaggert. Like his mother, Kevin is a mutant with the ability to warp reality. Kevin's birth came about after Moira and her partner Charles Xavier identified the need for a reality-warping mutant in order to gain the ability to cheat death. Moira identified potential matches for herself and Xavier that might result in such a mutant, leading eventually to Kevin's birth.

Kevni's powers burn out his body, leaving him in need of new host bodies to sustain himself. Kevin's only known weaknesses are metal and his need for fresh host bodies. Due to the unstable nature of his powers, Moira confined Kevin to a maximum security cell inside her mutant research facility located on Muir Island.

Sometime later, a woman by the name of Erika Benson (also known as Harness) was hired by A.I.M. to use her son, Gilbert Benson whom she called Piecemeal, to collect the energies of Proteus for their own use. Gilbert had the ability to absorb the energies that were once Proteus, and his mother intended to collect it all. Her mission was almost thwarted by X-Force, the New Warriors as well as Moira MacTaggert and a number of her mutants from Muir Island. Their intervention failed, and Gilbert's body exploded, resulting in a fusion entity that was both Gilbert Benson and Kevin MacTaggert.

This new Proteus used his powers to reshape Edinburgh, Scotland to his own liking. The arrival of X-Factor brought a philosophical tone to the battle, as the heroes questioned the ethics of killing "Proteus" or trying to help them. In the end, Proteus realized that reality was not compatible with him and "killed" himself.