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Stephen Colbert was a candidate for President of the United States who ran as a third party candidate. After departing from a campaign event with a poor turnout, he saw Spider-Man battling Grizzly. He tried to help Spider-Man in his duel, but Spider-Man insisted that it was not Colbert's fight to be had, and took him to a nearby building. As Spider-Man continued his fight, Stephen Colbert pushed a statue off of the building and it hit Grizzly on the head. Spider-Man thanked him for his help, and gave him a ride home. In the end, Colbert won the popular vote, but lost to Barack Obama in Electoral votes.[1]

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Powers

Immortality- On the final episode of the Colbert report, Stephen was doing a commentary on the Prescott Company on his segment " Cheating death with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert DFA". At the beginning of the segment Stephen was shown playing a game of chess with "Death". All of a sudden Stephen decided to cheat on his game by switching two of the chess pieces in order to get a checkmate. Death saw that he was cheating and began to strangle him. In shock Stephen pulled out a handgun and shot Death in the chest thus killing him. The effect of Stephen action rendered him immortal and unstoppable. Thus he can live for eternity.

Abilities

Journalism.

Weaknesses

Fear of Bears.

Trivia

This character is based off the real-life "Colbert Report" host, Stephen Colbert.

On the real life Comedy Central's late-night show The Colbert Report, Colbert has interviewed Joe Quesada on numerous occasions. On one of them he received the original Captain America Shield, which has been hanging on the wall since then.

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