NANNY & THE ORPHAN-MAKER

 

NANNY & THE ORPHAN-MAKER

Real Names: Eleanor Murch (Nanny); Peter (Orphan Maker)

First Appearance: X-Factor (Vol. 1) #30, July 1988

Powers: Nanny was a cyborg telepath. As a mutant, she possessed very limited telepathic abilities. On their own, she seemed capable of using her powers for little more than defense from other psionic attacks or detection. She carried a supply of will-sapping chemical "pixie-dust" which made people more pliant to her mental commands. After a burst of pixie-dust, she could place people in an easily-controlled trance, cause them to perceive her as a comforting parent or caregiver, and warp their emotions to make them dependent on her. When used against adults, she often reduced them mentally to childhood before manipulating them.

Nanny's cyborg body was designed by her when she was a scientist for the anti-mutant organization known as the Right, and they forcibly grafted her into it after she uncovered their true anti-mutant purpose and revealed her mutant nature. However, being trapped in the suit made her insane. The egg-shaped suit gave her enhanced strength and durability, a rocket-propulsion backpack for flight (with a peak velocity below 760 miles per hour), a repulsor field to repel attackers, and integrated weapons like hunter-seeker missiles. It also houses energy blasters, teleportation technology, mutant detection scanners, and holographic image projectors. She may have some knowledge of biology, having designed technology to physically de-age others. She sometimes carries blaster weapons and a small lance capable of electric shock. Nanny’s various flight ships, controlled via her armor’s cybernetics, have included extendable landing legs and grappling arms, advanced computer and tracking systems, a drop-down ladder, holographic projectors, de-aging technology, S.H.I.E.L.D. surplus Life Model Decoys, a smaller decoy ship, self-destruct systems, an armory, and suspended animation chambers.

The Orphan-Maker is either a child or a grown man reduced to childhood mentally like Nanny's other charges. Although he is allegedly a very powerful mutant, he has never demonstrated any mutant abilities, and is always wrapped inside his fully-covering body armor. The suit gives him superhuman strength and resistance to physical injury. It is specially ray-shielded to refract Cyclops's optic blasts and other energy attacks. He often uses jet boots and a variety of hand-held firearms. His second armor was larger and contained bio-mechanical components, allowing him to "grow" weapons out of the armor and onto his forearms.

CAMERON HODGE

 

CAMERON HODGE

Real Name: Cameron Hodge

First Appearance: X-Factor (Vol. 1) #1, February 1986

Powers: Cameron Hodge was originally a normal human with no superhuman powers. He holds a Juris Doctorate and was a well-trained lawyer with gifted-level intelligence. He was a good public relations director and advertising executive with some mechanical engineering experience. He was the founder of The Right, an organization dedicated to eliminating superhuman mutants.

The Right employed all-encompassing body armor, which provided their soldiers with exoskeletal-augmented strength, a resistance to physical injury, boot rockets for flight, and offensive capabilities. Primarily, they used submachine guns on shoulder mounts, but micro-rockets and concussive blasters also rotated into use. Cameron Hodge made use of these standard armor or his personal Right Commander armor, which was presumably augmented further. He also wore a special armor for fighting Cyclops, a ruby quartz crystal suit immune to Scott's optic blasts that refracted his blast harmlessly away.

Hodge made a pact for immortality with the demon N’astirh prior to the events of Inferno, which has remained active since. He was later decapitated by Archangel, but that head remained alive and animated. He grafted it onto a cyborg scorpion exo-frame during this time in the mutant slave-island nation of Genosha.

This body was enormous, possessing great strength and a series of tentacles to grab, manipulate, or restrain targets. A phasing circuit allowed his bulk to become intangible, passing through walls and floors or untouchable to physical attack. It employed different weapon systems deployed from the tail stinger or elsewhere on the cybernetics, including bolt casters, force beams, and electrical attacks.

For a time, Hodge was exposed to the Transmode Virus and assimilated by the techno-organic Phalanx into their collective consciousness. He possessed all the traditional powers of the Phalanx during this period (techno-organic strength, speed, endurance, and reflexes, restructuring his body into different shapes, absorb matter into himself to increase his mass, manifest offensive weaponry, infect matter with the Transmode Virus), along with a level of independence greater than the average drone.

Bastion and Eli Bard revived him with a new variant of the techno-organic virus, restoring his original human body. However, he later severed his own head in order to attach it to a reconstructed version of his cyborg scorpion body.