Famine

Famine is one of Apocalypse's Four Horsemen, a mutant transformed and empowered through Apocalypse's genetic enhancement to serve as the embodiment of starvation. She first clashed with X-Factor in the late 1980s as part of Apocalypse's war on humanity and mutantkind alike.

Born from the darkest corners of the Copper Age, Famine first stalked into Marvel's X-Factor #15 in 1987 under the guiding hands of Louise Simonson and Walter Simonson — two architects of some of the era's most memorable mutant storytelling. With team ties spanning X-Factor, X-Force, and the X-Men, this is a character woven deep into the fabric of Marvel's mutant universe, sharing pages across the decades with luminaries like Warren Worthington III, Hank McCoy, and Scott Summers. Two of Famine's appearances carry key-issue weight for collectors, and a publishing presence stretching all the way to 2021 speaks to a staying power that casual readers might not expect from a name this chilling. If you're tracing the grand, sprawling saga of Marvel's mutant mythology from its Copper Age peak onward, Famine is a thread worth pulling.