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Leech


Real Name: Unknown
Affiliation: Weapon X Program
Previous Affiliations: Generation X (ward), X-Factor (ward), Morlocks
Relatives: Annalee (foster mother, deceased)
Alternate-X Versions: (AOA), (Days of Future Past), (Exiles: Vi-Lock World), Dorian (Evolution), Jimmy (Movieverse)
Codename Etymology: Pronounced lēch [From Middle English, leche: "physician, leech"]; An aquatic bloodsucking worm.
Powers & History: Leech projects a field which cancels any other mutant powers in its radius. He also has green skin. Orphaned as a toddler, Leech was adopted by the Morlock Annalee, and lived with her until the Marauders killed Annalee and her other children. Leech met his best friend Artie in the Morlock tunnels shortly before the Massacre and was trying to get the wounded Caliban to safety when he was saved by Power Pack. Power Pack was helped by the X-Terminators (X-Factor in their mutant roles), and Leech was taken in by them along with other surviving Morlocks. Before Inferno Leech and Artie were transferred to a private school, from which they were soon captured by mutant-hunting demons. The New Mutants and the so-called X-Terminators saved them, and Leech and his friend went back to private school.

Months later, Leech was captured by Gene Nation, but was then rescued by Generation X, and he and Artie came to live at the Massachussetts Academy. There they met Franklin Richards who rounded out the trio of "The Daydreamers." The trio went on some adventures with Man-Thing and Howard the Duck, but when Franklin's family returned from an alternate universe (of his own creation), Leech and Artie returned to the School, where they were starting to take a more active role.

Following the Academy's dissolution, Leech may have been transferred to a new school, but this is unclear. Regardless, he was soon captured by the revived Weapon X Program, and used to test a prototype machine that projects mutant powers from the subject installed inside it to another person anywhere in the world. Sabretooth hijacked the commands for the machine, and Leech's ability was sent to hit Wolverine, robbing him of his healing abilities, which was part of Sabretooth's plan. Whether Leech survived the process is unknown.
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