Real name: Unknown Other known aliases: None Occupation: Student. Current group affiliation: Generation X. Past group affiliations: Morlocks, X-Terminators II. Major enemies: Marauders First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #179. Origin: Description: Leech is a young boy with green skin, no hair and solid yellow eyes. He is 4'2'' and weighs 67 lbs.
Characteristics
4 STR -6
16 DEX 18
14 CON 8
10 BODY 0
8 INT -2
14 EGO 8
13 PRE 3
6 COM -2
8 PD 7
8 ED 5
4 SPD 14
4 REC 0
28 END 0
19 STUN 0
Characteristics Cost: 53
Powers, Skills and Equipment
4 4/4 Damage Resistance
120 6D6 Drain,vs SFX (all powers),Always On(-1/2),Powers return
immediately when out of field.(-3/4),Reduced Penetration
(-1/4),No Range(-1/2),Area Effect(+1),any area,Continuous
(+1),0 END Persistent(+1) 0
5 8 Mental Defense
15 15 Power Defense
13 1 LVLS Shrinking(1m,12.5kg,+2 DCV,+3 KB),Always On(-1/2),0
END Persistent(+1) 0
3 Concealment 11-
2 KS: Morlocks 11-
4 Martial Dodge
4 Martial Escape
3 Stealth 12-
1 Streetwise 8-
23 Shape Shift,"Image Inducer",limited group of shapes,IAF
(-3/4),fragile,0 END Persistent(+1) 0
Powers Cost: 197
Disadvantages
Base Points: 100
10 Distinctive,"Mutant",easily concealable,major
10 Distinctive,"Talks in pigeon english.",concealable,minor
15 Distinctive,"Green skin, no hair, big yellow eyes.",
concealable,major
20 Hunted,"Various mutant hating groups.",more powerful,
non-combat influence,harsh,appear 8-
15 Physical Lim,"Minor",frequently,greatly
15 Physical Lim,"Small",frequently,greatly
15 Psych Lim,"Shy",common,strong
15 Psych Lim,"Best of friends with Artie.",common,strong
10 Rep,"Powerful mutant negator.",occur 8-,extreme reputation
10 Unluck,2D6
15 Watched,"by White Queen and Banshee.",more powerful,
non-combat influence,harsh,appear 14-
Disadvantages Total: 150
Experience Spent: 0
Total Points: 250
Explanation of the conversion: Since Leech's power is cumlative, and few Marvel heroes have Power Defense, I reasoned he didn't need a lot of drain to negate most super powers. A few phases near Leech and most powers start to fail. I didn't include the telekinesis power he displayed in the X-Men television series, that made no sense at all.
History: 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 the Marauders were opposed during the
so-called "mutant massacre" by various super heroes, 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. During a day of play in the park
with Power Pack, Artie and Franklin Richards the kids were attacked
by Quicksilver and Lockjaw, who were trying to kidnap Franklin while
under mind control from Maximus the Mad. Leech managed to help delay them
by dampening their powers until X-Factor arrived (X-Factor Annual #2).
For a while, Leech and Artie were enrolled at the St. Simon Boarding School,
during which time they worked with six other mutants trained by X-Factor
calling themselves the X-Terminators II, but were kidnapped by demons during
the Inferno crisis. He eventually left them to go back to school, but was
kidnapped by Gene Nation and rescued from them by Generation X. He has been
with them ever since.
Powers: Leech is a mutant with the ability to completely negate
super abilities in the area around him. This includes mutant powers,
as well as any other unusual abilities, for instance he once negated
Lockjaw's ability to teleport. He cannot turn off his power,
but can control the area he effects to some degree.
Links to other Leech pages:
Character created by Marvel Comics.
Page setup by Mathew R. Ignash - mathewignash@comcast.net.
Last Updated - September, 2000
