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Black Superhero: Maggott


Maggott's real name is Japeth and he was born in a small village in South Africa during Apartheid. He was the youngest of his five siblings and had the biggest heart, willing to sacrifice himself for the family at a young age. You see as a child he always suffered from constant stomach pains that wouldn't even allow him to sleep. He'd simply pass out from exhaustion. On top of that he was only able to digest a special kind of food. The doctors his parents took him to see all believed that he suffered from some form of stomach cancer.

Feeling as if he would be a burden to his family forever he made a hard choice at the age of 12. Maggott left the village and wandered out to the desert by himself. He had planned to commit suicide out there so that his family wouldn't suffer. While on the brink of death, Magneto appeared to Japeth. Magneto told him he didn't have cancer and wasn't going to die. Magneto used his powers to force the two slugs, Eany and Meany, out of Japeth's body. This was the first time he had ever been pain free, as well as the first time he turned blue. He's supposed to turn blue only when the slugs are out of his body but artists weren't consistent with this depiction so sometimes he's never blue and other times he's always blue. It ain't easy being green, but it's harder being blue.

Magneto returned Japeth to his home only to be greeted with hostility. See, Magneto was a white guy and a group of white men had invaded the village while Japeth was gone. One of the men who died defending the village was his father. Japeth begged Magneto to help him avenge his father. Magneto tracked down the men who did so and murdered them all. Japeth was disgusted and swore he'd never work with Magneto.

But, things change. Around the age of 15 and in the midst of puberty, Japeth needed help with his powers. He never needed to eat because the slugs would eat, climb back in his body and provide him with nourishment and usage of various powers. See the problem was at 16 he needed to eat more than ever before feeding the slugs five to six full meals every day. Additionally he was growing taller and his body was changing, which caused a ton of pain when the slugs would need to burrow back into his body. It was at this time he chose to seek out Magneto for help mastering his powers.

Japeth's slugs allowed him to track people based on the psychic signatures and this was how he planned to track Magneto. His search led him to New York but he didn't find Magneto. Instead he found Archangel and Psylocke. The three engaged in a brawl before they were telaported away to Antarctica. At this time Joseph was on trial for his crimes as Magneto. I feel I should mention Joseph was a clone of Magneto everyone believed to be an amnesiac Magneto but really was a clone with no memories because X-Men comics are weird. Japeth was finally able to thank Magneto and after the trail was taken to Xavier's school.

When they arrived Cyclops was having a bomb in his chest removed. Maggott sent one of his slugs to eat the bomb and nobody was harmed. He was asked to join the X-Men and became the youngest team member ever. But, he didn't tell anyone his age. On top of that the rest of the team became suspicious of him because he would hide away by himself since he didn't want people to know his slugs ate for him then crawled into his body.

Cecillia Reyes was a student at the Xavier Institute that Maggott had a crush on. But, he was afraid if she knew how his powers work she would become sick at the thought of being near him. On top of that he was just afraid to speak to girls in general. Like he couldn't even participate in casual conversation with them so that was weird but he did manage to become friends with Cecillia and Marrow because they thought he was quirky.

Maggott soon was trying to turn himself into the police after a series of gruesome murders began taking place in New York. This is when the X-Men learned how Maggott ate food. He believed he was guilty because the people were murdered the same way his slugs ate. He thought they were sneaking out and murdering people while he was asleep. However it turned out a group of mutated aliens known as the N'Garai were committing the murders.

Shortly after this, Maggott, Marrow and Cecillia were all propositioned by The Shadow King who promised he could make their dreams a reality. All he needed to do was betray the X-Men. However the X-Men were soon there to rescue the three. Eventually Psycloke was able to trap Shadow King in a prison created by her mind although she would never be able to user her powers again. It was during this time Maggot started bonding with Wolverine and revealed his full past to him including the fact that he was just a really tall teenager. When the X-Men broke up Beast suggested he go to Massachusetts and join Generation X.

While on the team he was hunted by a man who wanted to hang his slugs as trophies. The team managed to fight off the hunters but Maggott felt he put them at danger. He decided to leave the team and travel the world alone, hoping to find the hunter and himself. For a while he traveled the world and was happy. Then he was captured by Weapon X and placed in a mutant concentration camp called Neverland.

While there he accepted his fate after being able to look into the future to see his death. He gave one of his slugs to two children so that part of him would last forever. He was then executed while the slug and children were taken by Mr. Sinister. Eventually Maggott would be revived by the Transmode Virus so that he could attack Utopia. Some time during the fight Maggot slipped away because he wasn't about that mutant on mutant violence.

Maggott was next seen some time after M-Day at a party thrown by The Hellfire club, he retained his powers after the event although he only had one slug. Although he would reunite with the other in time to attend Cyclops Million Mutant March.

Powers and Abilities

  • Psychically linked to slugs
  • Slugs can eat and provide nutrients from almost anything 
  • Slugs provide him with energy turning his skin blue but give him super powers
    • Super Strength
    • Enhanced Durability
    • Increased Spead
    • See into the future
    • See the past of any objects around him
    • Track psychic signatures. 
You can hear Darrell on the CP Time and Powerbomb Jutsu podcasts. He also plays classic arcade games on The Cabinet. You can also check out his playthrough of Sleeping Dogs or Skyrim
Darrell S.

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