Leech (comics)
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Leech is a minor character in Marvel Comics' X-Men superhero mythos. He is a young mutant with green skin who possesses the abilty to negate other mutants' superhuman abilities. He was raised by Callisto's Morlocks, but after the Morlocks were slaughtered by Mister Sinister's Marauders in the "Mutant Massacre" crossover, he became the ward of X-Factor. As a part of X-Factor's group of youthful pupils, the "X-Terminators", he first met his friend Artie Maddicks, a mute boy with the mutant ability to project illusions. Artie and Leech later went on to become students at Emma Frost's Massachusetts Academy, the home to the teenage mutant team Generation X. Leech was recently seen as a captive of Weapon X.