Senator Robert Kelly is an anti-mutant politician that supports the Mutant Registration Act and wishes to ban mutant children from schools. He is kidnapped by Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants, who expose him to a mutation machine. This causes his body to stretch and eventually turn into a liquid-like substance. After escaping Magneto’s imprisonment, he arrives to Xavier’s school for help. While receiving treatment, he loses control of his body and turns into a puddle of water. Storm proclaims Kelly dead to her teammates, though it’s possible he survived somehow in his new form.