Marrow
Real Name: Sarah
Height:
6'
Weight: Unrevealed
Hair: Purple
Eyes: Pale
Blue
Mutant Powers:
Sarah's physiology is radically different from the norm.
At one stage she had two hearts, the second of which continued to function
after the first was removed.
Many of her bones
grow to an abnormal size, protruding from her skin without causing her
any real damage. These bones are often blade shaped, and Marrow can
use them as throwing or hand to hand weapons. Once the bones are
removed, new bones grow in their place. Marrow has demonstrated that
with extreme concentration, she can control the growth of these bones.
Her entire skeleton has enhanced durability, granting her some degree of
protection against physical impact.
First Appearance:
Uncanny X-Men #325
History:
Marrow's physical appearance forced her to hide in the sewers
with the Morlocks as a
child.
Marrow survived
the Morlock Massacre due to being rescued by Gambit. She was later
taken to another dimension by Mikhail Rasputin along with a number of other
Morlock children.
Time passed faster
in this other dimension, and she returned a few years later as an adult
leading Gene Nation, the grown up Morlock children keen for revenge for
the massacre of their people. Gene Nation kidnapped a subway car
full of humans on the anniversary of the Morlock Massacre, intending to
murder one human for every Morlock that had died that night. The
humans were rescued, and Marrow faced off against Storm. Marrow had
attached a trigering device for explosives to her heart, telling Storm
the only way to stop the bomb was to stop her heart. Storm tore Marrow's
heart from her chest in order to end the battle.
It was later
discovered that Marrow's mutant body had granted her a second heart.
Marrow later resurfaced during Operation: Zero Tolerance, meeting
up with Iceman and Dr Cecilia Reyes, subsequently joining the X-Men.
In a recent sojourn
into another dimension, Marrow was injured by a wayard explosion from one
of Gambit's cards. Gambit took her to a hospital on the Skrull homeworld,
although unable to completely understand the technology, Gambit did his
best and Marrow emerged with her bone extrusions under control. She
has recently discovered that with extreme concentration, she can pass herself
off as "normal". There also seemed to be a certain chemistry
developing between Marrow and Colossus.
Marrow has recently
left the X-Men for reasons so far unexplained.