Leech (Marvel)
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Powers: Leech puts out a field that suppresses and negates the superhuman powers of those around him.
Bio: The green-skinned Leech was orphaned as a toddler. His parents left him to die when his mutations became apparent. He was found by the Morlock Caliban and taken to a woman named Annalee who raised him and several other young mutant orphans as her children. During his life in the Morlock tunnels, he made friends with a mutant his age named Artie Maddicks and had a few brief encounters with the X-Men.
During the "Mutant Massacre," Mister Sinister rallied his henchmen, the Marauders, to infiltrate the sewers and massacre all the Morlocks living there in an effort to rid the world of "genetically impure" mutants. While many Morlocks were killed, Leech, Artie and Caliban survived, rescued by the Power Pack and the X-Terminators (the X-Factor in their mutant roles). Leech and Artie were placed in the care of X-Factor until they could be enrolled in private school.
Soon after they began attending this school, Leech and Artie were captured by mutant-hunting demons. They were again rescued by X-Factor, this time with the help of the New Mutants. The two went back to attending school for several months before they were kidnapped a third time, this time by Gene Nation.
This group, composed of second-generation Morlocks were the descendants of those who survived the massacre in the tunnels. They were born and raised in an alternate dimension with a faster flow of time than this one called The Hill. They sought revenge for those who wronged their for-bearers. The Gene Nation led a campaign to hunt down and kill as many humans as possible, since it was the humans' unwillingness to accept them that led their parents to the tunnels in which they were massacred. Leech and Artie wanted no part of this, but were trapped until they were rescued by Generation X. They were thereafter made junior members and remained with the team until it disbanded.
Leech and Artie continued to live in the Massachusetts Academy under the care of Emma Frost. When they met Franklin Richards, they were inducted into his own short-lived team, the Daydreamers. When Richards' family, who had previously been exiled to an alternate universe, returned, the group was disbanded. Leech and Artie returned to the academy to take on more active roles.
For a time, the academy was shut down and, although it is never made clear, Leech may have transferred to another school. What is known is that he was eventually captured by the revived Weapon X program and forced into a machine that was designed to attached to a mutant, take their powers, and then project them to any other mutant in the world. Sabretooth, then a part of Weapon X, used the machine, at one point, to strip Wolverine of his healing abilities in order to finish him once and for all.
Leech survived, but continued to be used by the Weapon X program to keep imprisoned mutants under control.
After the events of "M-Day", Leech reappeared unharmed from Neverland on the grounds of the Xavier Institute. He is one of the estimated 198 mutants who have retained their powers.
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First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men (1963) #179 Favorite Characters:
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Issue Appearances: Amazing X-Men (1996)
Avengers Academy (2010)
Civil War: X-Men (2006)
#1 - 'Part One' #4 - 'Part Four' Daydreamers (1997)
#1 - 'Once Upon a Time...' #2 - 'Across the Universe' #3 - 'Dark Eyes' Essential X-Men (1995)
Fantastic Four (1961)
#574 - 'Days of Future Franklin!' #579 - 'The Future Foundation' #580 - 'The Frank-tastic Four' #583 - 'In Latveria, the Flowers Bloom in Winter' #584 - 'Congratulations, Mister Grimm. You're Handsome Again!' #585 - 'The Kings of Atlantis!' #586 - 'World-Eater!' #587 - 'The Last Stand!' #588 - 'Epilogue: Month of Mourning/Uncles' #600#604 - 'Forever, Part 5' Fantastic Four (2013)
Fantastic Four Adventures (2010)
FF (2011)
#1 - 'The Club' #2 - 'Doom Nation' #3 - 'Whatever Happened to All Those Reeds?' #4 - 'The Beating of Drums...' #5 - '...The Sound of War' #11 - 'Intelligence' #12 - 'Too Many Kids' #13 - 'The Bridge' #14 - '27 Minutes' #15 - 'The One Where Power Pack Shows Up' #16 - 'One Step Beyond' #18 - 'What Do You Call the Opposite of a Field Trip?' #19 - 'Safari' #20 - 'Deus Ex Inhuman' #21 - 'Ronance' #23 - 'Run' FF (2013)
#1 - 'Parts Of A Hole' #1 (Blank Variant) - 'Parts of a Hole' #2 - 'The Big Goodbye' #3 - 'Old John Storm' #3 (Allred Variant) - 'Old John Storm' #4 - 'Escalation' #5 - 'Spooky Kids Or, Merrily Into The Eight Arms Of Durga the Invincible We Go' #6 - 'Save The Tiger' #7 - 'That Was the Worst Field Trip Ever!' Gen13/Generation X (1997)
Generation X (1994)
Annual 1995#6 - 'Notes From the Underground' #7 - 'Nights and Bolts' #13 - 'It's All Relative' #18 - 'For the Sake of the Children' #20 - 'Bodies In Motion' #21 - 'To Live and Die and Molt in L.A.' #22 - 'All Hallows Eve' #23 - 'For All This... We Give Thanks' #25#27 - 'The Last X-Man' #36 - 'Strange Doings' #37 - 'In Dark Woods, the Night Road Lost' #38 - 'Mystery Train' #39 - 'Return From Forever' #44 - 'Comings & Goings' #45 - 'Lost & Found' #47 - 'She Got Game' #51 - 'The Rescuers' #52 - 'Secret Identities' #57 - 'A Night to Remember' #59 - 'Artie & Leech's Day Off!' #60 - 'Christmas Fear' #68 - 'Come On Die Young, 2 of 4' Generation X Holiday Special (1998)
#1 - 'Yes, Jubilee, There Is a Santa Claus' Heroic Age: X-Men (2011)
Hot Shots: X-Men (1996)
Marvel Encyclopedia (2002)
New Mutants (2009)
#14 - 'Second Coming: Chapter 11' Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A To Z Update (2010)
#5 - 'Beetles to Witness' Power Pack (1984)
#12 - 'Underground' #19 - 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' #27 - 'Whose Power--?' Ryhmä-X / X-Men (1984)
The Amazing Spider-Man (1963)
The Incredible Hulk (1968)
The Marvel Encyclopedia (2006)
HC - 'The Marvel Encyclopedia' The New Mutants (1983)
Annual 07 - 'Pawns of Senescence' #72 - 'Demon Reign' #73 - 'The Gift' #74 - 'The Right Stuff' The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition (1985)
#9 - 'Molecule Man to Owl' The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Update '89 (1989)
#4 - 'Human Torch to Mannikin' Uncanny X-Men (1963)
#179 - 'What Happened to Kitty?' #195 - 'It Was A Dark and Stormy Night...!' #469 - 'Wand'ring Star, Part 1 of 3' #472 - 'The First Foursaken, Part 1 of 3: Pulling Strings' #487 - 'The Extremists, One of Five' #488 - 'The Extremists, Part 2' #490 - 'The Extremists, Part 4' #491 - 'The Extremists, Part 5' Weapon X (2002)
Weapon X: Days of Future Now (2005)
Wolverine (1988)
Wolverine and Power Pack (2009)
#2 - 'Kickin' It Old School' X-Factor (1986)
Annual 02 - 'The Man in the Moon' Annual 03 - 'Unnatural Selection' #9 - 'Spots!' #10 - 'Falling Angel!' #11 - 'Redemption!' #12 - 'Boom Boom Boom!' #13 - 'Ghosts!' #15 - 'Whose Death Is It, Anyway?' #17 - 'Die, Mutants, Die!' #18 - 'The Enemy Within' #19 - 'All Together Now' #20 - 'Children's Crusade' #21 - 'For Every Action' #22 - 'If I Should Die...' #23 - 'You Say You Want Some Evolution?' #27 - 'Gifts!' #28 - 'Countdown!' #30 - 'Kiss of Death!' #31 - 'Kiss Off!' #32 - 'The Carbon Copy Avengers' #33 - 'For All the World to See' #40 - 'Dust to Dust' X-Force (1991)
X-Men (1991)
X-Men (1992)
X-Men (2010)
#16 - 'Betrayal in the Bermuda Triangle Part 1' X-Men (Portuguese) (1988)
X-Men Unlimited (1993)
X-Men: Millennial Visions (2000)
#2 - 'Millennial Visions 2001' X-Men: Mutations (1996)
X-Men: The 198 (2006)
X-Men: The 198 Files (2006)
X-Terminators (1988)
#1 - 'Invasion of the Baby-Snatchers' #2 - 'Speed Demon' #3 - 'Guess, who's coming to dinner' #4 - 'Finale!' Xavier Institute Alumni Yearbook (1996)
Movie Appearances: X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Group Affiliation(s): First Family (Marvel) Future Foundation Gene Nation (Marvel)(Days of Future Now) Generation X Morlocks (Marvel) The 198 X-Factor X-Terminators Famous Quotes: - Add a Famous Quote None.
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