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Arthur Maddicks (Earth-616)

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Real Name
Arthur "Artie" Maddicks
Current Alias

Identity

Alignment


Relatives
Dr. Maddicks (father, deceased)

Universe

Base Of Operations
Formerly Massachusetts Academy, USA; Morlock sewers, New York, USA

Characteristics
Gender

Height


Eyes

Hair

Skin

Unusual Features
Unusually-shaped skull

Status
Citizenship

Marital Status

Occupation
Student

Education
Middle school

Origin
Origin


First appearance

Contents

History

Arthur "Artie" Maddicks i\wass the son of a dedicated scientist who was working to cure mutations and thus his disfigured and mute son. Believing he found success, Dr. Maddicks kidnapped the mutant known as the Beast in order to test the process, but only managed to revert the Beast's enhanced, blue-furred mutation to an earlier state. The Beast escaped, and Dr. Maddicks was later killed. Lost and alone, Artie was brought to live in the Morlock tunnels underneath Manhattan, and found Annalee, who became a mother figure for him and Leech. The young mutant known only as Leech was abandoned by his Morlock parents, and wandered the tunnels until being adopted by Annalee.

Annalee was killed by the mutant-murdering Marauders during the so-called Mutant Massacre, but Artie and Leech were saved by the Beast and his superhero team, X-Factor. The two were brought to X-Factor headquarters, since the team was then posing as mutant hunters in order to bring mutants to their training facility to better learn control over their powers. During this time with X-Factor, Artie and Leech met and shared several adventures with other young mutants, who at one point called themselves the X-Terminators when they saved Artie and Leech from child-stealing demons.

When the original X-Factor disbanded, Artie and Leech went to a private boarding school. There, they met another young mutant, Taki, a.k.a. Wiz Kid. The three shared several adventures together.

After they were captured by the mutant Marrow, who was leading a violent anti-human Morlock army, Artie and Leech were brought to the X-Men, and then to the Massachusetts Academy, which is where the other mutants known as Generation X were learning schoolwork and control over their powers.

During the brief time that Franklin Richards was at the Massachusetts Academy, Artie, Leech, and Franklin joined Howard the Duck and the being called Man-Thing on a dimension-hopping adventure to save the multiverse. Artie and Leech remained at the Massachusetts Academy for several months until the school was destroyed by Emma Frost's evil sister Adrienne Frost.

Leech was captured by mutants working on behalf of the latest Weapon X program. Unbeknownst to his captors, Leech was ultimately imprisoned in the mutant internment camp dubbed Neverland. Here, Leech was strapped to a giant high-tech device that broadcasted his nullifying mutant power over the entire camp, rendering all mutants within powerless.

He was at first believed to have died, but after M-Day he was confirmed depowered.[1]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Psionic Pictograms : Artie projects holograms of his thoughts. Usually he uses his power to communicate, because he is mute. However, he can make large-scale holograms as a means of defense. Artie has pink skin, and can also tap into and project the thoughts of other people, at times on the scale of a city's population.

Artie's appearance became pink when his mutant powers manifested.

Mind Lock: ability to paralyze others mentally and physically, although his control was very limited and easily disrupted.

Notes

  • A picture of a pink-skinned, smiling youth and listing of the name "Artie" during the New Avengers debut shows that Artie was depowered as a result of M-Day.

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  1. ↑ New Avengers #18
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