Profile: Ursa Major

Additional Information

Animal Transformation: Ursa Major is capable of transforming into a humanoid brown bear. This process grants him an additional 14 inches in height and 700 lbs to his frame (Height: 7'5"; Weight: 955 lbs.). While in his bear form, he retains his full level of intelligence, personality, and ability to speak. While in this form he possesses the following:

Powers

• Body Resistance: Good rank.
• Claws: Excellent Edged damage.
• Bite: Good Edged damage.
• Running: Good land speed

Military: Ursa Major has had training in the Russian military and knows its rules, regulations and protocol at Good Reason, should he need to fire a weapon or use heavy artillery (including tanks) he does so at Remarkable Agility.

Bi-Lingual: Ursa Major speaks both Russian and English fluently.

In his transformed state, Ursus is an anthropomorphic brown bear, with fur, claws and fangs.

He dresses in stero-typical pseudo Russian military garb, which by the way, is not made from Unstable Molecules.

Ursa Major has the temperament of a bear: gruff, ornery, and always ready to fight. He seems to enjoy life in either form, often wandering huge underdeveloped tracts of Russian wilderness and living off the land.

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Winter Guard, Soviet Super-Soldiers, Exiles / Siberforce as well as some street-level contacts in Russia.

In his transformed state, Ursus is an anthropomorphic brown bear, with fur, claws and fangs.

Russian mutants were deemed as a threat and were to be killed as soon as their mutation was discovered. However, Professor Pieter Phobos was able to convince the Soviet government to allow him to train them as potential agents. His real motive, however, was to use them to gain power for himself. Ursa Major was one of the first trainees along with Darkstar and Vanguard. As part of the Soviet Super Soldiers, they investigated a radioactive area along with the Hulk. They discovered Phobos was attempting to irradiate the USSR to provide more mutants for him to feed off of. Phobos was defeated, and the three mutants vowed they would not serve the government without question.

Mikhail was part of the Soviet Super-Soldiers, along with Darkstar, Vanguard and Gremlin for several years. While hunting for Magneto they faced both the Avengers and X-Men in south-east Asia. After discovering Crimson Dynamo was spying on them, the three left the Soviet Super-Soldiers. They joined Siberforce, a group of exiled mutants. Ursus and Vanguard were later tricked by General Tsakarov into attacking American businesses while searching for the missing Darkstar. Black Widow and Daredevil exposed Tsakarov's plan, revealing that he had kidnapped Darkstar to manipulate the two.

Mikhail is one of the mutants who retained his powers after M-Day. He later returned to Russia, joining the new Winter Guard, investing the death of Abomination, repulsing the efforts of the Lady Liberators when they attempted to interfere in international business, joining with War Machine to repel the Skrull Invasion of Russia, and then facing the Remont 6 and mentoring new Darkstar, Sasha Roerich. When he and the Winter Guard tried to capture the Intelligencia, the group used the Zero Cannon on them, sending the team to space, but they still survived.