James Arthur Jamie Madrox, called the Multiple Man, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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41 Facts About Jamie Madrox
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Mutant with the ability to create instant duplicates of himself, Jamie Madrox was mainly a minor or supporting character until his appearance in the 1987 miniseries Fallen Angels.
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When Jamie Madrox is born, the doctor's slap causes him to multiply into two identical babies.
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Professor Charles Xavier, a friend of the Jamie Madrox family, suggests that they move to Kansas to raise the boy in privacy.
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Later, Damian Tryp of Singularity Investigations makes his own offer to look after Jamie Madrox, claiming that Jamie Madrox is not just a normal mutant, but actually a "changeling", a predecessor to mutants who develops its powers at birth.
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When Jamie Madrox is fifteen years old, his parents are killed by a tornado alleged to have been caused by Tryp, and Jamie Madrox begins to run the farm by himself along with his duplicates, or "dupes", until his suit is damaged.
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Jamie Madrox goes to New York City for help where he meets Mister Fantastic of the Fantastic Four.
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Jamie Madrox is then one of the residents of Muir Island who comes under the mental control of the Shadow King.
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Jamie Madrox's health continues to deteriorate due to the Legacy Virus.
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Jamie Madrox is the motivation for the Government-sponsored version of X-Factor to break ties with the government and go underground when the team is tricked into thinking Jamie Madrox and his duplicates are actually a squad of super-powered terrorists.
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Unfortunately, this makes Strong Guy even weaker, but Jamie Madrox's mistake is fixed by the genius of new team leader Forge.
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Jamie Madrox bought the building using money from a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-type show, using a room full of dupes as lifelines.
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Still suffering from uncontrollable duplicate personalities, Jamie Madrox sends one to talk a de-powered Rictor out of jumping off a building who instead pushes him off.
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Jamie Madrox declares that the empty Mutant Town will be a sanctuary for superheroes being pursued by the government.
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Agent Jamie Madrox recently met "his" end when he was surprised and re-absorbed by the original Jamie Madrox during an investigation of a HYDRA cell.
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Jamie Madrox continues the task of hunting down his stray duplicates and reabsorbing them, but he leaves one, John Maddox, who has carved out a life for himself as an Episcopal priest, husband and father, and Jamie Madrox decided not to reabsorb him.
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Jamie Madrox sends two dupes to find information on two timelines that showed "spikes", after the birth of the Mutant baby, due to two different timelines: one in which the newborn becomes the planet's savior and another where it becomes its dominator.
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Layla and one Jamie Madrox duplicate arrive eighty years in the negative future to discover that the mutant race has been severely decimated.
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Jamie Madrox realizes that the baby must have been fathered by a dupe rather than by him, and that "the offspring of a dupe isn't really anything more than a dupe".
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Jamie Madrox realizes that if the child of a dupe is merely an "infant dupe", then John's son should have been absorbed either by John himself, or when Jamie Madrox ruffled the boys hair; therefore John's son must not be his.
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Jamie Madrox reveals that he plans to kill himself over the grief caused by Sean, but is prevented by a holographic projection of an adult Layla Miller who takes him into the future.
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Jamie Madrox is transported to the future in the midst of the Summers Rebellion, where mutants rise up against Sentinel and human oppressors, which is led by Ruby Summers, the daughter of Cyclops and Emma Frost, with Cyclops's optic blasts and Emma's organic mineral body, Layla Miller, and a cyborg Cyclops whose predicament is Jamie's fault.
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Jamie Madrox's felt she was being followed, but every time she looked, it was a different person doing it.
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Jamie Madrox's then manipulated the group into moving Lenore out of her apartment and hiding her in a penthouse suite in an expensive hotel.
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Jamie Madrox's said that she would then have to kill Darwin, even though he wasn't on Cortex's list.
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Jamie Madrox was then sent back in time from Earth-1191 to Earth-616 to kill a list of specific individuals, including Multiple Man, for fear how they might affect the future.
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The dupes from the Resistance are sent into the timestream to find help from a heroic-time traveling Jamie Madrox, who is revealed to be the Emperor from the further in the future who had a change of heart.
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Jamie Madrox survives the Emperor's death, as he was in a different time period at the time, and only returns to the present-day after that time period took a turn for the worst, as evident by the "X" tattoo over his right eye.
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Jamie Madrox takes the serum Beast made for him and sets out to find the wife and child of the original Madrox.
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Jamie Madrox's powers have, at least once, been shown to affect the actual design of the shirt he was wearing.
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Jamie Madrox currently wears a stylized shirt with only six large green shock-absorbent pads on the front of the torso.
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Jamie Madrox has used this method to threaten people before, as well.
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Jamie Madrox uses merging with his duplicates as a form of healing.
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In X-Factor, Damian Tryp declares Jamie Madrox is not a mutant, but a "killcrop" like him, so named because they were believed to cause bad harvests in olden times.
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Jamie Madrox's powers are overextended beyond their limits, leaving him nearly mindless, and his duplicates become the Madri — a fanatical cult worshipping Apocalypse and serving as his inquisitors and secret police.
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The original Jamie Madrox is reduced to a diapered, drooling lunatic who plays with children's toys such as rattles and building blocks while being kept in seclusion at the Church of the Madri in Quebec.
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Jamie Madrox appeared alongside Mastermind, Blob, and Toad when they gate-crashed the Academy of Tomorrow's Homecoming dance, though this was later shown to be an illusion.
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Jamie Madrox believes himself to be thirteen years old and Lorelei to be his mother.
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Jamie Madrox believes that the year he lives in is 1994 and the actions being carried out by his dupes are stories he is drawing.
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