Eric Gitter (Earth-616)
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Ink is one of the members of the Young X-Men. He is a loud-mouthed and rude teenager not caring what others think about him, standing up to two police officers who wish to arrest him in a tattoo parlor. He fights back using his tattoo of a bio-hazard symbol on his hand and his powers along with it to use a biochemical weapon on the police officer making him sick. Unfortunately, he is arrested anyway.
Sitting in jail, moping and waiting to rot, a prison guard walks up to his cell. Eric sasses the guard with his cold and rude gestures but the guard frees him wishing to take him away from here, only to turn off an image inducer on his belt to be revealed as a costumed Cyclops.
Later, Cyclops, gathers Eric along with the other founding members of the team into the New X-Men's former training simulator, the Danger Cave, built by the former New X-Man, David Alleyne, and lectures them on their goal as a new team of X-Men and their first mission which is to take down the latest incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, now consisting of the former New Mutants.Powers and Abilities
Powers
Ink has no powers of his own. Instead, he had access to a mutant tattoo artist, Leon Nunez, with the power of granting superpowers to other beings by tattooing iconic power symbols on them, evocative of the power he wants to bestow. The downside to this is that it takes away a little bit of his will every time he does it. Nunez made Ink believe that his powers were his own, purposely misleading him into believing he was a mutant. Since granting Ink his last tattoo--the omnipotent Phoenix Force symbol around his eye--Leon Nunez has been in a catatonic state.
So far Ink has the following tattoos and powers:
- The tattoo on his right palm in the shape of a biohazard symbol which cause his victims to become extremely ill.
- The tattoo on his left hand gives him super strength. The lines look similar to the banding on Colossus' flesh when he transforms, indicating a toughening of Ink's flesh also.
- The two lightning bolt tattoos on his head give him the ability to telepathy, but can be blocked by psi-shields, taken from a comic book depiction of psychic abilities (actually an early Marvel Comics publication image of Professor Xavier).
- The tattoos of wings on his back grant him flight.
- The "explosive" symbol tattooed on his right bicep allows him to blow up objects and punch through walls.
- The Caduceus symbol on his left hand allows him the ability of healing others.
- The Phoenix symbol over his eye allows him to use the Phoenix Force.
- The circular tattoo with a serrated interior on Ink's left shoulder. It has not been revealed if this tattoo has a corresponding power or if it was even made by Leon Nunez.
Trivia
On the cover of Young X-Men #1, Ink is shown as being bald, even though he has hair inside the book.
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