Leech (Earth-616)
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History
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. He made friends with X-Factor's ward Artie Maddicks and had a few brief encounters with the X-Men.
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During the Mutant Massacre story arc, Mr. 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 and Caliban survived, rescued by the Power Pack and the X-Terminators (X-Factor in their role of mutant hunters). Leech joined Artie 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 was composed of second-generation Morlocks, 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 forbears. 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 forced their parents into 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 Richard's 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 was never made clear, Leech may have transferred to another school. What was known is that he was eventually captured by the revived Weapon X program and forced into a machine that was designed to be 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 was one of the estimated 198 mutants who retained their powers. How he was liberated from Neverland and came to be at the Xavier Institute has yet to be explained. In the 198 compound outside the mansion, the woman called Outlaw decided to look after him. Leech was last seen being mind controlled, via a puppet, by the mutant Johnny Dee in his attempt to kill Mr. M. Johnny Dee forced Leech to touch Mr. M thereby negating his powers so that he could then have Magma incinerate him. Instead of dying, Mr. M evolved into hundreds of butterflies.
Leech and Caliban went looking for a place to live in the Morlock Tunnels when suddenly a huge blast seriously hurt Caliban.[1] Bliss came along and bit Leech with her poison. Later, Masque began to steal Leech's powers so he could find Magneto.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Power Negation: Leech has the ability to suppress energy around him, this includes electrical energy and a mutants ability.
Notes
- Leech speaks broken English and acts and speaks in the third-person.
- Leech always looks to be around 12 years old.
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- ↑ Uncanny X-Men #487
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