Leper Queen
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Salvador Larroca
| Leper Queen | |
|---|---|
 Cover art for X-Force vol. 4 #13. Art by Clayton 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 the Transmode Virus. |
The Leper Queen is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is the masked leader of the Sapien League, an extremist anti-mutant organization.[citation needed]
The Mutant Daughter
The Leper Queen was originally a normal woman whose unborn child was "infected" by a passing mutant. At the age of two, the child manifests pyrokinetic mutant abilities and burns down her house, killing herself and scarring her mother. The woman swears revenge against all mutants, calling herself the Leper Queen.[1][2][3]
Decimation
The day after M-Day, the Leper Queen attacks the Xavier Institute with the Sapien League. The Sapien League ties Mammomax, Erg, and Peepers to X-shaped crosses and attempts to burn them to death until they are thwarted by Wolverine and Colossus.[4]
The alien Daap brings Polaris and the Leper Queen to a nearby temple of Apocalypse. 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 this "honor" to Polaris instead and chains the Leper Queen up.[5]
Purifiers
The Leper Queen, alongside other prominent anti-mutant leaders, is forcibly recruited into the Purifiers and infected with the Transmode Virus.[6] She uses a modified version of the Legacy Virus to infect Beautiful Dreamer and Fever Pitch, causing them to lose control of their powers and kill thousands of civilians before killing themselves. However, she feels guilt over killing humans for Bastion's cause.[7]
Leper Queen injects Surge and Hellion with the Legacy Virus and sends them both to the United Nations to face the same fate as Beautiful Dreamer. Since Bastion will not allow the Leper Queen to kill herself, she plans for X-Force to kill her to save her captive, Boom Boom. Boom Boom is killed by Leper Queen, but is saved by a time-traveling X-23, who kills Leper Queen. The Leper Queen thanks X-23 for killing her, thus freeing her from Bastion.[8][9]