Emplate

Emplate is a mutant vampire-like predator who feeds on the bone marrow of other mutants to survive, granting him access to their powers. He serves as a recurring antagonist to Generation X, the young mutant team led by Banshee and Emma Frost.

Born from the fertile imagination of Scott Lobdell and Pascual Ferry in 1996's Generation X #14, Emplate is one of Marvel's more unsettling creations to emerge from the Copper/Modern Age — a villain who has haunted the X-Men corner of the Marvel Universe for nearly three decades. His stomping grounds are the pages of Generation X and Dark X-Men, where he keeps genuinely dangerous company alongside the likes of Gambit, Warren Worthington III, and Alex Summers. With 28 years of publication history and a presence that has persisted well into 2024, Emplate is no throwaway antagonist — he's the kind of enduring, creepy presence that rewards readers who dig deep into the Generation X era and its legacy.