Artie Maddicks
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Arthur "Artie" Maddicks is a fictional character in Marvel Comics universe and first appeared in X-Factor vol. 1 #2 (March 1986).
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[edit] Publication history
Maddicks has appeared as a supporting character in both the first series of X-Factor and in Generation X. He has a more active role in the Daydreamers and X-Terminators.
[edit] Fictional character biography
Artie was raised by his father, Dr. Carl Maddicks, until his eleventh birthday, when Artie gained his powers. His normal appearance also became altered into his current look, damaging the speech center of his brain, 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, while Artie watched this and refused treatment. X-Factor came to save McCoy and ended up saving Artie as well. Brand Corporation security guards (who Dr. Maddicks worried would kill his son) arrived as he fired a gun at them. The guards fired back and 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, a boy with green skin who possesses the ability to negate other mutants' superhuman abilities.
After Leech was rescued from Gene Nation by Generation X, he and Artie came to live at the Massachusetts Academy, the home to the teenage mutant team Generation X, where they soon met Franklin Richards who rounded out the trio of "The Daydreamers." The trio went on some adventures with Man-Thing and Howard the Duck, but when Franklin's family returned from an alternate universe (of his own creation—see Onslaught saga and the Heroes Reborn storylines for more details), Artie and Leech returned to the School, where they started to take a more active role. They were given image inducers to hide their appearances, and frequently used them to wreak playful havoc.
After Generation X suffered the death of Synch due to terrorist activity, it was decided that the younger members of the team—including the M Twins and the vacant but functional form of Penance, and Leech—to go to live in Monaco with M's father.
Recently during a mission the New Avengers[1] viewed a screen of de-powered mutants. Artie was on that screen with other mutants de-powered after the House of M event.
[edit] Powers
He is a young mutant with bright pink skin and a lumpy, misshapen skull who possesses the ability to project telepathic holograms of his thoughts. Usually he uses his power to communicate, because he is mute. However, he can make large-scale holograms as a means of defense. Artie can also tap into and project images of the thoughts of other people, at times on the scale of a city's population. He can also use this limited form of telepathy to mind-lock people and prevent them from acting.
[edit] Appearances in other media
[edit] Film
- A boy named Artie appears in a nonspeaking role in the 2nd X-Men film, X2, played by Bryce Hodgson, however, he has a single line of dialogue in the deleted scenes from X2; this character is never clarly identified as Artie Maddicks. His appearance is normal aside from a blue, forked tongue, and he does not demonstrate any powers in the film. Hodgson reprised the role in X-Men: The Last Stand.
- The name "Maddicks, Artie" also appears in X2 on a list of names Mystique scrolls through on Stryker's computer while looking for Magneto's file.
[edit] Notes
- Although he is usually represented as a small child, Artie was 11 when his mutancy first manifested.
[edit] Bibliography
- Daydreamers #1-3
- Generation X #5-7, 13-14, 18-20, 22-22, 35-39, 44-45, 47, 51-52, 57, 59-60
- Generation X 1995
- Generation X Holiday Special
- Incredible Hulk 1997
- Marvel Fanfare vol. 1 #50
- New Mutants vol. 1 #72-74
- New Mutants Annual vol. 1 #7
- Thor vol. 1 #374
- X-Factor vol. 1 #2-13, 15-18, 20-23, 27-33, 40
- X-Factor Annual #2-3
- X-Force Annual vol. 1 #1
- X-Man 1996
- X-Men Unlimited vol. 1 #14
- X-Terminators #1-4
[edit] References
- ^ New Avengers #18
