Empath (comics)

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Empath


Cover to New Mutants #62 featuring Magma and Empath, April 1988. Art by Jon J. Muth.
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance New Mutants #16 (Jun 1984)
Created by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema
Characteristics
Alter ego Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha
Species Human Mutant
Team
affiliations		 The 198, X-Corporation, Hellions
Abilities Ability to sense and control emotions of others

Empath (Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha), is a fictional mutant in the Marvel Universe. He was created by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema and first appeared in New Mutants #16 (1984) as a member of Emma Frost's original Hellions.


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Empath possesses the ability to sense and manipulate the emotions of other sentient life forms. He can affect a large group of individuals at one time, and can exert varying levels of empathic control over them, ranging from subtle manipulations that others are generally unaware of to a complete negation of emotion that reduces others to a zombie-like state in which he can command them with little effort. His power operates by means of Empath's own brainwaves overriding the parts of the brain that govern emotion in others.

In the Age of Apocalypse reality, Empath was held hostage by Mikhail Rasputin, who attached the young mutant to a computer system in order to amplify his empathic abilities to control the human population of Eurasia. This caused Empath incredible agony, and when his handler, Keeper Murdock (the Age of Apocalypse's version of Daredevil), accidentally touched him, Murdock realized the horrific pain the young man was in and ended his life.

Empath appears in the X-Men episode "Captive Hearts".

  • The X-Men: 198 Files by Eric J. Moreels, Marc-Oliver Frisch, and Brian E. Wilkinson
  • X-Universe #1 by Scott Lobdell and Terry Kavanaugh
  • X-Universe #2 by Scott Lobdell and Terry Kavanaugh

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