Emma Frost Lost a Psychic Battle to the X-Men's Weirdest Member Ever
Warning: Spoilers for X-Men Infinity Comic #36 ahead!
One of the X-Men's strongest and most formidable leaders, the psychic mutant Emma Frost, was just brutally beaten by the psychic power of a mutant slug in the pages of X-MenUnlimited Infinity Comic #36. The slug-creature, named Eany, is actually one of two slugs that live inside of the cult-favorite X-Men member Maggott, who is currently starring in the X-Men Infinity Comic arc.
Japheth is a South African mutant who debuted in 1997’s Uncanny X-Men #345 — created by Scott Lobdell and Joe Madureira — and was originally meant to be the coolest new 90s X-Men before he was relegated to backstories most likely due to his unique and quite frankly, gross, mutant ability. Maggott's powers transformed his digestive tract into two sentient techno-organic slug-like creatures that Japheth names Eany and Meany, who use their enzymes to devour anything, which is then converted to energy inside of Maggott, giving him greatly enhanced stamina, endurance, and strength, while also turning his skin blue and his eyes red.
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The current arc of the X-Men Infinity Comic — written by Alex Paknadel with art by Julian Shaw and Dono Sanchez-Almara — has followed Maggott as he is asked to support the core X-Men team led by Cyclops and Jean Grey. Maggott ends up getting eaten and killed by the monster, and seemingly Eany and Meany are as well, before being resurrected by The Five. Maggott immediately notices that something is wrong with Eany, he won't eat and he viciously bites off Laura Kinney's finger, so in X-Men Infinity Comic #36 he requests psychic «therapy» from Emma Frost. Emma tells Japheth that she will not be
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