Multiple Man is a mutant with the power to multiply himself. He is also part of the Marauders.
History[]
James Madrox is one of many mutants who work into Mister Sinister's Marauders. When Cyclops encounters Mister Sinister, Cyclops ends up fighting Multiple Man. When Mister Sinister states that Jean Grey isn't here, Multiple Man duplicates himself to fight Cyclops. Cyclops puts up a good fight but the duplicates overwhelm Cyclops. When the other X-Men arrive, Iceman froze Multiple Man and all of his dupes.
Powers[]
Madrox is a Changeling, the genetic predecessors of mutants whose powers manifest at birth instead of during puberty. Madrox's powers include:
- Kinetic Duplication: Jamie Madrox creates identical physical duplicates of himself upon physical impact. This process is spontaneous and cannot be prevented by Madrox. Although he can create multiple duplicates, and the duplicates themselves can also replicate, each is only able to create one duplicate at a time; he used to have an upper limit of 40 dupes, but that is no longer the case. The duplicates think, feel, and act independently, and each tends to manifest one aspect of Madrox's personality.
- Duplication Experience Transference: When Madrox merges back, he retains memories, knowledge, and experiences of the dupe. At first, his absorbed memories would feel like "watching TV", however, at some point Jamie's powers became defective and he could no longer distinguish his memories from that of his dupes. In addition to that, whenever one of his new dupes died, he would immediately inherit his memories without having to absorb them. After coming back to life, it appears he's lost this ability.
- Duplication Healing: Absorbing an injured dupe formerly resulted in the prime Madrox suffering an injury half as severe, but he currently suffers no injury whatsoever.
Notable Duplicates[]
- Proteus possessed dupe - Proteus once possessed a Madrox duplicate in order to escape confinement on Muir Island, killing him at the instant he possessed him. It was the first dupe to die, causing a trauma to Jamie.
- Fallen Angels & Nasty Boys dupe - one of Madrox's evil dupes joined the Nasty Boys. The first to show real independence, drugging Jamie to go to USA with Moira and join the Fallen Angels. Later came back and impersonated the original, absorbing him for a short time, unknowing it was on the real Madrox authorization.
- Independent Mutated Madroxes - During his trip to the U.S., the Fallen Angels dupe created a duplicate who wanted to live for himself. His source paradoxically stated it was the first dupe who denied to re-merge. His difference was shown by incomplete independence on his source duplicate (or it was the fact that this was not the original source) and a Mini-Cerebro analysis who designed him as different from his source.
- Chicago dupe - This dupe lived in Chicago and married Shelia DeSoto, crime boss Edward Vance's fiancée. He was later assassinated by Clay.
- Shaolin Monk dupe - This dupe was sent by Madrox Prime to the Shaolin Monastery to study meditation. He later returned for absorption.
- Homosexual dupe(s) - Several dupes have demonstrated or discussed some homosexual feelings and/or tendencies.
- EMT dupe - One of Madrox's many dupes was trained as a paramedic.
- Anatomy class dupe - One of Madrox's many dupes audited an anatomy class for six months.
- Russian dupe - One of Madrox's many dupes was sent to live in Moscow for a year and a half to learn Russian. He complained a lot that he wasn't in Hawaii.
- The X-Factor dupe - This dupe once tried to kill Rictor and later reemerged in time to blow up Singularity Investigations. He alone seemed to remember his first encounter with Damian Tryp.
- James Madrox Esq. - One of Madrox's many dupes went to law school and passed the New York Bar exam.
- Agent Madrox - Agent Madrox was a "co-original" of Madrox sent out to study espionage. He made contact with Val Cooper, who set him up with her connections at S.H.I.E.L.D..
- "Heff" dupe - After celebrating and heavy drinking, Madrox bumped into a wall and created a dupe that later sleeps with Siryn and Monet (or both). Jamie described this dupes as his "libido unleashed". The result of the union was the conception of Sean Madrox.
- Father John Maddox - John was originally created to learn from the world, and went to study religion. While studying he changed his name to John Maddox, married, started a family, and became an Episcopal pastor. Jamie decided not to absorb him because of his family and life.
- "World's Greatest Detective" dupe - After going to Detroit and Chicago to study investigation, criminal justice, and police work, this dupe became disillusioned with society and the justice system. When Madrox came to reabsorb him, he claimed to have become the World's Greatest Detective. He also claimed to know why Madrox's dupes were becoming more unpredictable, the source of Madrox's powers, "what's coming" and "uber". This knowledge caused him to turn to drinking. Finally, before Madrox could reabsorb this dupe, he shot a dirty cop and was gunned down by the police in order to spare Madrox Prime the burden of knowledge.
- Cortex - One of two dupes sent into the only remaining two futures with mutants. Cortex encountered Damian Tryp and was altered to served Tryps purposes.
- Scoutmaster dupe - One of Jamie's dupes worked as a scoutmaster for a year.
- Vengeful dupe - Similar to the X-Factor dupe, this dupe is Jamie's darker side and tried to kill Hector Muñoz.
- Sean Madrox - Sean was actually a child conceived by Siryn and a dupe. However, as a child of a dupe, Sean possessed the same attributes of a dupe and was inadvertently absorbed by Madrox Prime.
- R.S.C. dupe - One of Madrox's dupes spent eighteen months with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
- Chaos War resurrected dupes - When the Chaos King put the living asleep and opened the underworld, three Madrox dupes were among the resurrected. They were all later killed in battle against the Carrion Crow.
- Gofer dupe - One of Madrox's dupes worked as a gofer on the set of Supernatural for six months, and learned some things about warding off demons.
- Bloodbath dupe - Dupe created at Imperial Studios while the X-Factor crew was searching for Bloodbath. Later killed by Terry Roland, and possessed by Bloodbath to murder Madrox Prime.
- Matt Rocks, Esq. - One of the dupes sent to study law. He moved to Los Angeles and became an entertainment lawyer. Madrox Prime chose not to reabsorb Matt in exchange for Matt sending him half of his earnings. Unlike Madrox Prime, Matt has jet black hair, tanned skin, and constantly wears sunglasses. Also, he is portrayed in a more comical fashion than many of the other dupes.
- Bunker Dupe - After the death of Jamie Prime, one dupe managed to survive -- it is unconfirmed if Matt Rocks or Father John Maddox survived the death of Jamie Prime, but seems unlikely based off of the nature of Jamie's powers established in Multiple Man -- by having sealed himself in an airtight bunker on Muir Island sometime before the events of Madrox and the following X-Factor (Vol. 3), which delayed the adverse health effects of Jamie Prime's death. In an effort to put off his inevitable death, the dupe stole a Temporal Beacon from Bishop and traveled into the future, creating dupes along the way that resulted in a future which was ruled and policed by Madri. This dupe was revealed to have personified a treacherous, megalomaniacal aspect of Jamie Prime's personality and had originally locked himself in the bunker in order to find a way to become the Prime Jamie. Dubbing himself "Emperor Prime," he was the leader of a totalitarian regime in the future he had conquered, though he was opposed by a Resistance also made up of Madri, led by that reality's Jamie Prime's orphaned son, Davey Miller. The Emperor Prime had killed off most of the world's superheroes, starting with Beast after he had created a serum that would make the Emperor Prime the Prime Jamie. The Emperor Prime ended up undergoing a change of heart after killing a heroic version of himself who had traveled to the past to stop him, thus becoming said heroic version himself. This Madrox ultimately managed to fix the timeline by committing assisted suicide that created a chain reaction, killing all of the army of duplicates, good and bad, except for one that was in a different reality at the time. Other notable Dupes from this time travel adventure include:
- Lieutenant Madrox - Emperor Prime's second-in-command who, after the Emperor Prime's change of heart, took over control of the empire and used its army to invade the past, defeating the combined forces of the heroic Emperor, the X-Men, and the New Mutants. Lieutenant Madrox managed to steal and take the serum that turned the Emperor Prime into the Prime Jamie, briefly managing to become "Co-Prime," but was then reabsorbed by the Emperor.
- Cloak - One of a group of dupes from the Resistance against Emperor Prime who were sent into the timestream to find help, this dupe was specifically sent to find Doctor Strange. He instead found himself in Earth-TRN591 and met the Sorcerer Supreme of that world, Doctor Stark. Stark refused to assist Jamie's time but did take him on as a student. After sixty years of study, Jamie, taking the name and Cloak of that world's deceased Cloak, collected the other dupes that had been sent into the timestream and traveled back to assist Jamie Prime in saving their world. Cloak ultimately died when Jamie Prime was killed, saving the Past.
- Hulk - One of a group of dupes from the Resistance against Emperor Prime who were sent into the timestream to find help. This dupe ended up on Earth-807128 and became a Hulk after drinking Gamma-irradiated water. He joined the Hulk Gang for a while before Cloak returned to collect him. Hulk assisted Jamie Prime in killing himself in order to stop the invading evil Multiple Men, and died himself as a result.
- Deadpool - One of a group of dupes from the Resistance against Emperor Prime who were sent into the timestream to find help. This dupe ended up on Earth-928 and was semi-involuntarily turned into a "the Greatest Warrior of All Time" by the Freakshow using old Weapon Plus plans. He was collected by Cloak to travel back to save their time.. Deadpool ultimately died when Jamie Prime was killed, saving the Past.
- Cable - One of a group of dupes from the Resistance against Emperor Prime who were sent into the timestream to find help, this dupe was specifically sent to find the X-Men. This dupe ended up Earth-4935 and joined Clan Askani. The dupe ended up committing to the Clan's cause and spent years helping to fight back against Apocalypse, becoming bonded with the Technarchy at some point. He was collected, unwillingly, by Cloak to travel back to save their time.. Cable ultimately died when Jamie Prime was killed, saving the Past.
- Bartender Dupe - One of a group of dupes from the Resistance against Emperor Prime who were sent into the timestream to find help, this dupe was specifically sent to find Tony Stark. This dupe ended up on an Earth where everyone hangs out on a beach wearing swimsuits and got a job as a bartender at Bobbie's Beach Bar. The dupe was forgotten and ended up not being collected by Cloak with the rest. He returned to the past after the death of Jamie Prime, somehow having survived (Likely due to not being on Earth-616 at the time), leaving his new world after it "took a turn for the worst" and wearing an M tattoo over his eye identical to that which the original Jamie had received on Earth-1191. This dupe then took the serum Beast had created, making him the new and only Jamie Prime, and set out to meet the original Madrox's widowed wife and child.
Abilities[]
Madrox has acquired extensive knowledge and skills via his duplicates' experiences, such as human anatomy, speaking Russian, and Shaolin monk stealth techniques. Madrox is also a certified lawyer.
Paraphernalia[]
Equipment[]
Kinetic Dampening Suit: Madrox once wore a suit that damped kinetic impacts so that he wouldn't duplicate from accidental impacts.
Trivia[]
- The plural form of Madrox has been given as both "Madri"[citation needed] and "Madroxes".
- The Madri apparently can have different food allergies from each other.
