Artie Maddicks

Arthur "Artie" Maddicks is a minor character in Marvel Comics' X-Men superhero mythos. He is a young mutant with purple skin who possesses the abilty to to project illusions. He can also read people's minds and paralyze them while doing so. He was raised by father, Dr. Carl Maddicks but after his eleventh birthday, Artie would gain his powers. His normal appearance would be also become altered into his current look, rendering him mute. Desperate, Dr. Maddicks forced Dr. Hank McCoy to help him make a cure. McCoy was used as Dr. Maddick's guinea pig, Artie watched this and refused treatment. X-Factor came to save McCoy and ended up saving Artie as well. Security guards (who Dr. Maddicks worried would kill his son) arrived as he fired a gun at them. The guards fired back an killed him. Afterwards, Artie 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 Leech (comics), a boy with green skin who possesses the abilty to negate other mutants' superhuman abilities. Artie and Leech later went on to become students at Emma Frost's Massachusetts Academy, the home to the teenage mutant team Generation X. Artie is currently in Monaco with M's father.

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