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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Uncanny X-Men #236 |
| Created by | Chris Claremont Marc Silvestri |
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| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations | Press Gang |
| Abilities | remove powers from mutants or other superhumans. |
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Wipeout is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in Uncanny X-Men #235.
Fictional character biography
Wipeout was an elderly member of the Press Gang, otherwise known as Magistrates, super-powered enforcers of the law on the island-nation of Genosha. Being elderly, he usually stays behind in Genosha to neutralize the prisoners brought to him by Pipeline. In one of his rare, few field missions, he managed to disrupt the living, sentient vehicle called Ship that X-Factor used for their headquarters.
When an amnesiac Havok was brainwashed into serving as a Genoshan magistrate, the insane Cameron Hodge killed Wipeout to frame Havok, who was slowly remembering his true loyalties to the X-Men.
Powers and abilities
Wipeout was capable of removing a mutant's superhuman powers by creating a self-perpetuating energy "block" in their system that prevented bio-genetic power from properly traveling from their "x-factor" gene to the rest of their system. This power block lasted indefinitely and required no concentration to maintain -- "wiped" mutants stayed powerless even after Wipeout fell asleep and after he was killed. He could mentally remove these blocks at will if he chose to.
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