Gorgon

There are at least four comic book characters named Gorgon – a Marvel Inhuman, a DC villain based on Doctor Octopus, a DC villain with snakes for hair and a Marvel mutant. It is the mutant we’re referring to here.

His name is Tomi Shishido and he’s primarily a foe of Wolverine. Given that Wolverine has already encountered a Japanese villain – the Silver Samurai – in his movies, it seems unlikely that he’ll get another, but it would be cool to see this guy.

Like Wolverine, he has a regenerative healing factor – but there’s a hell of a lot more to him than that. In addition to being a world class martial artist and master swordsman, he also turns people to stone through eye contact, has superhuman physical attributes (strength, durability etc), can teleport using a device on his person and is a genius to boot.

The stone-gaze power in particular would represent a huge and genuine threat to Wolverine – something only Magneto has truly offered to date, given Wolverine’s incredible healing factor – so that would make a refreshing change.

Gorgon is a cool character and he’s very different to anything seen in the X-Men movies so far and he’d be welcomed to the big screen by fans.