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Caliban

The tracker

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A pale mutant who can feel where other mutants are, which makes him useful to people he would rather not be useful to.

Caliban is a mutant with chalk-white skin and the ability to locate other mutants, and two films use him for opposite things. Tómas Lemarquis plays him in X-Men: Apocalypse, set in 1983, as an underground broker who tracks mutants for money. Psylocke is his bodyguard until Apocalypse recruits her. The reader who sent this list wondered what he was doing in the eighties; the answer is that this is his first appearance, and the second is nearly fifty years later in the story.

In Logan, set in 2029, Stephen Merchant plays him as a friend of Logan and Professor X, living with them in the future with a severe sensitivity to sunlight. Logan drives a limousine; somebody has to stay home with the old man, and that is him.

Minor spoiler

He is abducted by the Reavers to track Wolverine for them, and he does it, under duress, until he kills himself with grenades rather than go on.

Played by
Tómas Lemarquis, Stephen Merchant
Role
Mutant broker, later Logan's housemate
Affiliation
Himself, then Logan and Xavier
What they can do
Locating other mutants. Chalk-white skin that the sun burns.

The journey

What happens to this person, title by title.

  1. X-Men: Apocalypse2016

    An underground broker in 1983 who tracks mutants for money, with Psylocke as his bodyguard until Apocalypse hires her away.

  2. Logan2017

    The third person in the hideout at the border, and the one the Reavers take to hunt Wolverine with.

Appears in

  1. X-Men: Apocalypse2016
  2. Logan2017

Sources

Facts last checked on Sep 17, 2026