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| Mutant Profile |
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Real name: Unrevealed Former aliases: None Identity: Publically known Occupation: (current) Student, Adventurer Legal status: Presumably a citizen of the United States with no criminal record, still a minor Place of birth: Presumably New York City Marital status: Single Known relatives: Annalee (foster mother, deceased) Base of operations: (current) Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York State. (former) X-Factor's "Ship" First appearance: X-MEN # 179
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| Physical description and mutant powers |
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Height: 4 ft. 2in. Weight: 67 lbs. Eyes: Yellow, no visible pupils or irises Hair: None Other distinguishing features: Green Skin Strength: Leech possesses the normal human strength of a boy of his age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise.
 Known superhuman powers: Leech is a living "power dampener" who causes the cessation of power in other living beings with superhuman abilities, mutant or otherwise. The superhuman powers of such beings cease to function within a certain radius of Leech's whereabouts. Leech has made great strides in controlling this ability and may condense his dampener field within inches of his body with great concentration. The furthest Leech has been able to project this field was up to a radius of 30 feet. It is generally assumed, however, that Leech's control over his power will increase with age.
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| History |
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Little is known of the origin of the mutant known as Leech. He was presumably abandoned by human parents and discovered by the mutant known as Caliban. Caliban took the young Leech with him into the network of tunnels known as the "Alley" running beneath Manhattan which housed the mutant outcasts called Morlocks. There he lived a lonely unhappy existence until the empathetic Annalee adopted him after her own children were shot dead by the Marauder assassin called Scalphunter.
 Leech experienced a short-lived happiness as the foster son of Annalee until the enigmatic figure called Mister Sinister sent the Marauders to wipe out the Morlock community. Although various super heroes opposed the Marauders during the so-called “mutant massacre”, Annalee was slain in the melee. Leech, however, was saved by his friends in Power Pack and by the members of X-Factor. X-Factor was searching for their autistic trainee, Artie Maddicks, whose appearance was similar to Leech's own. Maddicks and Leech became fast friends and X-Factor adopted Leech and began to train him in the use of his power. For a while, Leech and Artie were enrolled at the St. Simon Boarding School, but were kidnapped by demons during the Inferno crisis. Leech and Artie Maddicks have been in training at the Xavier Institute for the Gifted.
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