POOD
Real Name: Pood
Identity/Class: Biologically grown
construct/creature
Occupation: Member of the X-Cellent
Group Membership: Formerly the X-Cellent (Dox the Digital Man, Fluff, Hurt John, Joe Bomb, Mirror Girl/Jenny Spiegel, Stripe, Toodle Pip/Artemis Boleyn, Uno, Whoosh/Billy McMullen, Zeitgeist/Axel Cluney)
Affiliations: X-Statix
(The A/Mike Alicar, Dead
Girl/Moonbeam,
Doop, Gone Gal/Katie
Sawyer,
Rosa Lemper, Mister
Sensitive/Guy Smith, Phatty, Venus
Dee
Milo/Dee Milo);
formerly the
X-Cellent
Enemies: Girl Joe, Vivisector
(Myles Alfred);
formerly X-Statix
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: The Zeit House, Mojave Desert, California, USA
First Appearance: (seen on a cover)
X-Cellent I#1 (April, 2022);
(fully seen in-story) X-Cellent I#2 (May, 2022)
Powers/Abilities: Pood has the ability to levitate under his own power.
He is both brilliant and devious,
capable of designing complex devices to prevent other beings from using
their superhuman powers and he has been shown to not only understand
complex mystic incantations but transcribe them perfectly into an exact
copy of a spellbook from a single photograph. Pood speaks in numerical
symbols and enjoys inflicting pain.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 3'0")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 30 lbs.)
Eyes: Red
Hair: None
History:
(X-Cellent I#2 (fb) - BTS) - During a period in which the mortally
wounded X-Force member Zeitgeist was convalescing following the murder
of almost his entire team, X-Force cameraman Doop grew the twisted Pood
to keep Zeitgeist company and Pood began to enjoy inflicting pain on
others. Years later, when the recovered Zeitgeist formed the X-Cellent
group, Pood remained by Zeitgeist's side within the X-Cellent's Zeit
House headquarters in the Mojave Desert.
(X-Cellent I#2 (fb)) - After Zeitgeist returned from
a mission with the X-Cellent, Zeitgeist ordered Pood to keep the dying
Joe Bomb alive long enough for his teammate Uno to upload a slow video
of Joe Bomb's death "scene" before leaving the room to go watch
television.
(X-Cellent I#4) - Following Zeitgeist's theft of several pages of
spells from Doctor Strange's Book of the Vishanti, he showed the pages
to Pood and asked if Pood would be able to decipher the spells. When
Pood remarked that it would take time and that certain conditions had
to be met first, Zeitgeist replied that he was aware of that and that
his online followers should skyrocket after the X-Cellent's mission to
a baseball game.
(X-Cellent I#5 (fb) - BTS) -
Using a single photograph of the Book of the Vishanti, Pood created an
exact replica of the Book to place the spells Zeitgeist had stolen in.
(X-Cellent I#5) - When the teleporting Toodle Pip appeared and
attempted to stop Zeitgeist from attacking X-Cellent member Mirror Girl
in anger, Zeitgeist telepathically stopped Toodle Pip from using her
powers and had her brought to a room and hooked up to a device of
Pood's design that prevented Toodle Pip from using her powers.
Revealing to Toodle Pip that Pood enjoyed inflicting pain, Zeitgeist
had Pood show Toodle Pip his copy of the Book of the Vishanti and
explained the Rule of Apotheosis spell that would make him a god upon
achieving 500 million followers.
(X-Cellent II#1 (fb) - BTS) - In an effort to allow the X-Cellent's Uno, a mutant resembling a large floating eyeball, to experience parts of life that he otherwise could not, Pood periodically injected Uno with a nutrient that mimicked the sensations of sex and fine wine.
(X-Cellent II#4) - Following an angry confrontation with an engineer
operating the Matter Machine that was reassembling the molecules of the
former X-Statix member Venus Dee Milo, Zeitgeist asked Pood to remind
him that the engineer needed to be thoroughly taken care of once Venus
was fully reassembled. When Zeitgeist mentioned another, more pressing
problem that needed addressing, Pood asked about Zeitgeist's
hemorrhoids but Zeitgeist assured Pood that his last treatment worked
like a dream. Zeitgeist then revealed that the problem was with the
recently-recruited X-Cellent member Dox the Digital Man, whom Zeitgeist
had ordered to erase anything bad about him off the internet. Admitting
that he did not trust Dox but needed him to find dirt on the rival
X-Statix group, Zeitgeist grinned when Pood made a suggestion, noting
that Pood's suggestion was a simple yet brilliant way to finally be rid
of X-Statix. Pood and Zeitgeist later gathered the rest of the
X-Cellent together and they attempted to make up damaging falsehoods
about X-Statix that could be spread online. As they all brainstormed,
Pood documented their suggestions and Zeitgeist eventually sought to
summon Dox and Mirror Girl, only to realize they were plotting against
him. After attacking and irreparably damaging Dox, Zeitgeist gloated
about how Pood had come up with the idea of creating his own damaging
falsehoods about X-Statix rather than utilizing Dox to find it online.
(X-Cellent II#5) - After Zeitgeist was transformed into a godlike
form by the Rule of Apotheosis spell, Pood and the rest of the
X-Cellent bowed down and prayed to him. Later, Zeitgeist monologued to
Pood, questioning whether the X-Cellent truly deserved him, and when
Pood suggested Zeitgeist could simply kill them, Zeitgeist admitted
that Pood made a good point. Zeitgeist then suggested that perhaps he
could simply take over X-Statix but Pood noted that X-Statix would
never willingly join Zeitgeist. Pood was later present when X-Statix
stormed the Zeit House, mostly avoiding the battle. When a
mostly-reconstituted Venus Dee Milo teleported Zeitgeist away, Pood,
Uno and Stripe lost their will to continue the fight and Pood
accompanied X-Statix back to their headquarters in Bel Air.
Comments: Created by Peter Milligan and
Michael "Doc" Allred.
While Pood's eyes were always seen
as red, they initially appeared with red sclera and two white irises
within each eye but in X-Cellent II#5, his eyes appeared reversed with
white sclera and red irises. Perhaps his eyes appeared with red sclera
and dual white irises whenever he was under the mental influence of
Zeitgeist?
This profile was completed on
04/18/2026 but its publication was delayed, as it was intended for the
Appendix's 25th anniversary celebratory event.
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Pood should be distinguished from:
Appearances:
X-Cellent I#2 (May, 2022) - Peter Milligan (writer), Michael "Doc"
Allred (art), Darren Shan (editor)
X-Cellent I#4 (July, 2022) - Peter Milligan (writer), Michael "Doc"
Allred (art), Darren Shan (editor)
X-Cellent I#5 (September, 2022) - Peter Milligan (writer), Michael
"Doc" Allred (art), Darren Shan (editor)
X-Cellent II#1 (May, 2023) - Peter Milligan (writer), Michael "Doc"
Allred (art), Darren Shan (editor)
X-Cellent II#4 (August, 2023) - Peter Milligan (writer), Michael "Doc"
Allred (art), Darren Shan (editor)
X-Cellent II#5 (September, 2023) - Peter Milligan (writer), Michael
"Doc" Allred (art), Darren Shan (editor)
First posted: 09/24/2026
Last updated: 04/18/2026
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