Mother Inferior

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Mother Inferior
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Web of Spider-Man #77 (June, 1991)
Created by
Characteristics
Alter ego Unrevealed
Species Human Mutant
Affiliations Morlocks
Abilities can control vermins.

Mother Inferior is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. Her first appearance was in Web of Spider-Man #77 (June, 1991).

[edit] History

Following a trail of mysterious accidents at a fundraiser for the homeless at the Poseidon Hotel, Spider-Man found Mother Inferior, Ent, Pester, Pester’s baby, and Anna in the sub-basement. Thinking that the baby was Anna’s, Spider-Man attacked the Morlocks trying to save him, only to realize he made a big "boo-boo", when Anna handed Pester her baby. Anna explained that the family was just Morlocks who’d fled to the abandoned hotel following the Mutant Massacre, that they’d moved to the sub-basement when it was converted into a homeless shelter, and that they had carefully staged the accidents to scare everyone away and reclaim their new home, without harming anyone. Just then, the villain Fireband attacked, and the sub-basement began to collapse around the little group.

As Spider-Man and Ent struggled to hold up the ceiling and give the others time to escape, they realized Mother Inferior was too big to move on her own. Ent and Spider-Man desperately tried to reach her, but Mother Inferior, realizing that there was no time, ordered her rodent hordes to push them back, just as the ceiling collapsed in on her. Before she died, she was seen amidst the falling debris, tearfully waving goodbye to her family. Anna remarks that she sacrified herself to save her family. Spidey replied, that after all, the Morlocks are only human. The rest of the family survived, and were accepted by the local homeless community, despite their obvious mutations.

[edit] Powers

Mother Inferior had the ability to control vermin, such as rats and possibly cockroaches. Despite what some people have said, this ability is sonic, not psionic; when she had her mouth blocked she was unable to command to her hordes.