Leper Queen
The Leper Queen is a female comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
At some point, she became pregnant but five months into the pregnancy she had a chance encounter with a mutant. At that particular moment, the baby inside her moved and according to the Leper Queen, she felt a fire in her belly. She gave birth to a girl named Lucia but five months after the birth, Lucia began to create small sparks. Soon her powers had grown enough that she could create small fires. When Lucia was 2 years old, she created a fire that burned down their house. Her mother ran into the fire to save her and suffered serious burns all over her body as well as smoke damage to her lungs. Lucia ultimately perished in the fire and this tragic event left her mother scarred, both physically and mentally for the rest of her life. (X-Men v2 #181)
Members of her Sapien League had tracked Havok and Polaris to Costa Rica, where the two had gone to help Polaris convalesce after her recent de-powerment. After a quick stop off at her daughter’s grave, she traveled there to deal with them personally. While tracking the two through the jungle, she told her story to one of her group members, explaining that she needed to tell it sometimes. After she showed the man her scarred face, she killed him to keep her life and trail uncluttered. She eventually caught up with Havok and Polaris. The two had just witnessed the alien Daap crash land on Earth and were in the process of investigating the creature. When the alien blasted Havok away, the Leper Queen took the opportunity to attack Polaris. As the two struggled, Havok used his powers and blasted Daap, causing the small green alien to explode. The Leper Queen and Polaris were covered in green goo that wrapped around them. Before they could react, the goo carried the two women up into the air. In the struggle, the Leper Queen dropped her wig, mask and a locket containing a photo of her daughter. (X-Men v2 #181)
In an effort to eliminate the Mutant threat, the restored Bastion gathered various humans that had been involved in anti-Mutant activities whether they were living or dead. This included the capture of the Leper Queen who was brought against her will where she was infected with the Techno-Organic Virus that Bastion had recovered from a Technarchy offspring. (X-Force v3 #3)
Overview
Personality and attributes
She once had a daughter named Lucia who was born a Mutant with the power to manipulate fire. However, the child's uncontrolled abilities resulted in her killing herself when she was only 2 years old with the incident also burning her mother. Page as a result suffered deep psychological scars from the incident and had a deep hatred of Mutants as a result of it. (X-Men v2 #181)
Powers and abilities
The Leper Queen was born an ordinary human being with no natural inherent traits. (X-Men v2 #181)
She came to be the leader of an anti-Mutant hate group called the Sapien League. (X-Men v2 #181)
Notes
- Leper Queen was created by Peter Milligan and Salvador Larroca where she made her first appearance in House of M: The Day After v1 #1 (January, 2006).
Alternate Versions
Appearances
- House of M: The Day After v1: (2006)
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