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| Leper Queen | |
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 Cover art forX-Force vol. 4 #13. Art byClayton Crain. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | House of M: The Day After #1 (January 2006) |
| Created by | Peter Milligan Salvador Larroca |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Page (first name unknown) |
| Team affiliations | Sapien League Purifiers |
| Abilities | Competent ability with weapons and skilled fighter. Infected with theTransmode Virus. |
The Leper Queen is asupervillain appearing in American comic books published byMarvel Comics. She is the masked leader of the Sapien League, an extremist anti-mutant organization that is similar toFriends of Humanity.[citation needed]
The Leper Queen was originally a normal woman whose unborn child was "infected" by a passingmutant. At the age of two, the child manifests pyrokinetic mutant abilities and burns down her house, killing herself and scarring her mother. The latter swears revenge against all mutants, calling herself the Leper Queen.[1][2][3]
The day afterM-Day, the Leper Queen attacks theXavier Institute with the Sapien League. She is first seen to be attackingMammomax,Erg, andPeepers, who are attempting to gain sanctuary in Xavier's mansion. The Sapien League ties the three to X-shaped crosses and attempts to burn them to death. They are stopped byWolverine andColossus, who had seen the smoke from this attack.[4] After this failure, she also leads an attack on the mansion. It is only by the combined efforts of theX-Men and theSentinel Squad O*N*E that the Sapien League is stopped. During this fight,Iceman is captured. When the Leper Queen tries to execute him, he suddenly regains his powers and freezes her arm, making her flee and encounter bothOutlaw and Peepers as she escapes.[5]
After trackingPolaris andHavok (who had left the institute in search of Lorna's powers) toPuerto Rico, members of the Sapien League are attacked by Havok, who stops their attack on an old man.[6] Then, they call upon the Leper Queen, who is visiting her daughter's grave. She arrives to kill Havok and Polaris, but is stopped by Havok.[1] The alien Daap, who had been killed by Havok, reforms its body and brings Polaris and the Leper Queen to a nearby temple ofApocalypse. Apocalypse finds the Leper Queen's bloodlust and thirst for vengeance too much to handle and denies her the chance to become one of his Horsemen,Pestilence. He gives that "honor" to Polaris instead and chains the Leper Queen in a dungeon.[7]
The Leper Queen, alongside other prominent anti-mutant leaders, is forcibly recruited into the ranks of thePurifiers. She is later intended to be executed in theelectric chair for the murder of two girls inGuatemala, but is rescued byBastion and infected with theTransmode Virus.[8]
At an anti-mutant rally held in Iowa by the Friends of Humanity, the Leper Queen infectsBeautiful Dreamer with a modified version of theLegacy Virus that causes her to kill herself and all the people attending the rally. However, the Leper Queen feels guilt over killing humans for Bastion's cause.[9]
After a similar incident whereFever Pitch is infected and used to kill thousands of innocent people, the Leper Queen later capturesSurge,Hellion, andBoom Boom. She injects Surge and Hellion with the Legacy Virus and sends them both to the United Nations to face the same fate as Beautiful Dreamer. The Leper Queen keeps Boom Boom alive as a precaution, knowing that an X-team member will otherwise halt her in her path. While in the middle of giving X-Force an ultimatum—to choose between saving the teens or Boom Boom—Cyclops calls the team away by forcing them to travel through time. Boom Boom, left in the hands of the Leper Queen, is told that she had been used to lure X-Force to her location. Since Bastion would not allow the Leper Queen to kill herself, she had planned for X-Force to kill her to save Boom Boom. Leper Queen shoots Boom Boom between the eyes at point-blank range, killing her, before stating that X-Force "failed us both."[10] However,X-23 comes back to a point three seconds after the jump, shooting the Leper Queen and saving Boom Boom. The Leper Queen thanks X-23 for killing her, thus freeing her from Bastion.[11]
The Leper Queen has an affinity with weapons. She is a highly skilled fighter and is also infected with theTransmode Virus byBastion.[8]
During the Sapien League's attack on the mansion, it is said that Leper Queen hates mutants and has been on many mutant hunts.[12] Her sole purpose in life is to kill all mutants as revenge for her daughter's death.[1] She also hides her burnt face with a mask that lifts just when she's about to suppress her opponents.
