BIOGRAPHY - Page 2
Months passed and Mojo was forced to be content with watching the X-Men’s adventures through Psylocke’s eyes. Soon enough disaster struck, and the X-Men were killed in a fight with the Adversary. Unbeknown to Mojo, they had been resurrected, with Psylocke receiving her own eyes back again. For Mojo, however, he had lost his greatest revenue stream. In a wave of inspiration 
Mojo (or rather one of his minions), came up with the genius idea of replacing the X-Men. Mojo’s scientists got busy in their labs creating the very best in X-Men replacements, such as gender-swapped X-Men, X-Animals and even X-Transformers. Each and every variation displeased Mojo more than the one before and he took a particular dislike to the X-Babies. However, the pint-size X-Men proved to be trickier to dispose of than the other variations, fighting back against the guards and even freeing the captive Ricochet Rita.
Just as Mojo was about to put them down himself, his assistant, Major Domo, informed him that the test figures for the X-Babies were through the roof. Mojo’s mood turned around immediately and he welcomed the X-Babies with open arms, although they weren’t so enamored with him. Escaping his clutches, they fled to Earth and met up with Shadowcat, who offered to protect them. Mojo dispatched a brainwashed Ricochet Rita to track the X-Babies down and force them to sign contracts that would literally bind their souls to him. Many of the X-Babies were caught, but the few that remained joined forces with Excalibur to defeat Rita and break her mind control. Incensed by how difficult the children were, Mojo vowed to let them go free, but he would keep Rita as his prisoner. Not wanting to see her suffer, the X-Babies heroically traded their freedom for Rita’s, finally giving Mojo a brand-new set of stars for his network. [X-Men (1st series) Annual #12, Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem]
Rita stayed behind to look after the X-Babies, but in time the children fell out of favor with the viewing public and they were cast aside. However, Mojo had other plans for Rita and he handed her over to Arize, who broke her mind and enhanced her body, turning her into the twisted, dancing Spiral. Mojo bound Spiral to himself, and she became his unwilling assistant, able to move across time and space but never truly be free from him. Showing how truly vindictive he was, Mojo sent Spiral back in time to capture Longshot when he first travelled to Earth. This sequence of events ensured Spiral was responsible for Ricochet Rita’s initial capture by Mojo, creating a loop that resulted in Spiral effectively creating herself. [X-Factor (1st series) Annual #7]
[Note: Due to the nature of time travel and Rita’s absence from comics from this point on, it’s hard to determine exactly when these events took place]
Ever the entrepreneur, Mojo didn’t just run a TV station, he also hired out his mystical and technological talents to the highest bidder. Hired by Matsu’o Tsurayaba to “augment” some of his assassins, Mojo was delighted to see it one of them was actually an amnesic Psylocke, who had recently been through the mystical artefact, the Siege Perilous. His job was simple: switch the mind of the assassin Kwannon into Psylocke’s body and vice versa. Along with Spiral, they completed their assignment but also took it one step further by altering the two women’s minds and bodies so much that not one could tell them apart. Mojo’s impromptu revenge on Psylocke would have long-lasting effects for the woman for many years to come, but he cared not as long as he was paid and had fun doing it. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #256]
Not long after, Mojo also sent Spiral to Earth to apprehend Longshot and bring him back to Mojoworld. She would become side-tracked though, joining Mystique’s Freedom Force and generally staying away from the Mojoverse and its ruler’s sadistic clutches. Longshot would eventually return to the Mojoverse on his own accord and restart the rebellion against Mojo. [X-Men (2nd series) Annual #1]
Having a society whose leadership was based on TV ratings meant that Mojo was always having to look for the next hit show and be fearful of the other networks. Recently dethroned by a documentary about a chick, Mojo set out to save his network by relying on his all-time greatest stars…the X-Men. Without Psylocke’s bionic eyes, Mojo had to rely on secretly filming the team in person, but it all went wrong when he ended up holding the camera the wrong way around. It didn’t matter though, as the simple citizens of Mojoworld loved the new artsy program, “The Mojo Face-Show.” [Marvel Comics Presents (1st series) #89]
Mojo’s reach knew no bounds, which was demonstrated when he manipulated events that would stop the “Crunch,” the event that signaled the end of the universe in the same way the Big Bang created it. The crunch was a necessary event in the far future but, by using his power to stop it, Mojo inadvertently caused the whole of space-time to start collapsing. Having enjoyed her freedom from Mojo’s influence, Spiral was compelled to intervene in his latest scheme by teaming with Mystique and Wolverine to thwart him.
Even as unhinged as Mojo was, his plan to end everything was convoluted, despite him claiming he was able to save himself from the collapsing space-time. Fortunately for the rest of the universe, Mojo was stopped with a well-aimed missile and he retreated back to the present day to find new and elaborate schemes to enact. [Wolverine (2nd series) #52-53]
Back on Mojoworld, Longshot’s rebellion against Mojo’s rule was in full swing, with the psychotic ruler delighting in the challenge. Despite the slaves having superior numbers, Mojo’s forces had the firepower to overcome them and, by the end of the onslaught, Mojo had killed over thirteen million of them. Naturally, all this was televised to Mojo’s adoring audiences, giving him some solid ratings and all the power that went with them. Having sowed the seeds of the rebellion in the 
genetic make-up of the slaves, Arize had officially aligned himself with the rebellion and Mojo made it his primary objective to apprehend the scientist. After slaughtering his fellow rebels, Mojo caught up with Arize in his lab and was gleeful at the prospect of forcefully enslaving the man once more. Arize had other plans and managed to teleport himself to Earth, infuriating Mojo as he was quickly becoming tired of the planet and its inhabitants.
Bringing Spiral back to his side, Mojo dispatched a team to Earth to locate Arize and bring him back. All of this was televised live to the population of Mojoworld, with the obvious spin that the heroic Mojo was dealing with the traitorous Arize, for the safety of the planet. The team found Arize, but he had already met up with the X-Men, and Mojo’s forces were soundly beaten. Mojo was furious when they returned, but Major Domo informed Mojo that the mission had given the network its highest ever ratings. Only this time Mojo wasn’t as happy with the outcome as it turned out the citizens of Mojoworld were now laughing at Mojo instead of celebrating him. [X-Men (2nd series) Annual #1]
Despite this downturn in his luck, Mojo still pressed his assault on the rebels, targeting their leader Longshot for extermination. Longshot fled to Earth and teamed up with Dazzler and the teleporter Lila Cheney in a bid to attack Mojo directly. Whilst Mojo’s forces laid waste to Longshot’s dwindling rebels, Mojo himself managed to overpower the trio and capture Longshot and Lila, leaving Dazzler as the only one free. [X-Men (2nd series) #5-7]
It wasn’t just the rebels Mojo had to contend with, as another pirate TV network had sprung up and was beginning to erode Mojo’s monopoly of the airwaves. With some of Mojo’s recent missteps with programming and his humiliation with the rebel uprising, the pirate network posed a serious threat to Mojo’s rule. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) Annual #16]
Meanwhile, Mojo mindwiped Longshot yet again and forced the rebel leader back into slavery once more. Meanwhile, Dazzler had made it back to Earth and recruited the X-Men, teleporting 
them to Mojoworld to help save Longshot. Mojo was delighted when the X-Men literally appeared in front of him, disorientated from the inter-dimensional travel. He easily captured them before they could regain their senses and, after a little brainwashing, cast them as actors in his newest TV show. Seeing the X-Men back on TV gave Mojo’s network a huge ratings boost and helped him fight off the advances of the pirate TV network. Whilst the rest of the X-Men were forced to fight each other on TV for Mojoworld’s viewing pleasure, Xavier was imprisoned in Mojo’s control room.
Mojo delighted in gloating to the X-Men’s leader on how he was torturing the team, but his arrogance made him blind to the fact Xavier was in psychic contact with his students. Xavier managed to free the X-Men from Mojo’s control, allowing them to work together to break into the control room and confront the tyrant. In a twist of fate, the leader of the pirate station also burst in 
at the same time and revealed himself to be Mojo II: The Sequel, a discarded clone of Mojo’s. Surrounded on all sides, Mojo fought hard but he soon saw his rule was over. As Longshot lunged at him with a sword, Mojo embraced the drama and sensation, knowing that his death would be the biggest event to ever hit the Mojoverse airwaves. [X-Men (2nd series) #10-11]