Powers and Abilities
Leech can dampen or completely suppress, neutralize, and negate for an undetermined amount of time the powers and abilities of any mutants in close proximity to him. His dampening ability in the beginning was involuntary and uncontrollable, but now his ability appears to be under his conscious control. Leech explained to Johnny Dee he could consciously bring his dampening field in close, so that persons are not dampened unless they touch him.
Although Leech has at times not dampened non-mutants like the Fantastic Four, Leech has also been shown to dampen abilities that are non-mutant in origin. Leech dampened Hazmat of the Avengers Academy. and during Marvel's Mutant Massacre crossover event, Leech negated the powers of the superhero team Power Pack whose abilities were bestowed on them by an extraterrestrial.
When his ability has been targeted at mutants with super strength, at times his victims have become temporarily thin and frail.
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