Eric Gitter (Earth-616)

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Ink

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Real Name

Eric Gitter

Current Alias

Ink

Identity

Secret

Alignment

Good

Affiliation

Young X-men

Universe

Earth-616

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Eyes

Blue

Hair

Blond

Unusual Features

Body covered with tattoos

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

First appearance

Young X-Men #1
(May, 2008)

History

Eric getting a tattoo

Ink is one of the members of the Young X-Men. He is a loud-mouthed and rude teenager not caring what others think about him, standing up to two police officers who wish to arrest him in a tattoo parlor. He fights back using his tattoo of a bio-hazard symbol on his hand and his powers along with it to use a biochemical weapon on the police officer making him sick. Unfortunately, he is arrested anyway.

Sitting in jail, moping and waiting to rot, a prison guard walks up to his cell. Eric sasses the guard with his cold and rude gestures but the guard frees him wishing to take him away from here, only to turn off an image inducer on his belt to be revealed as a costumed Cyclops.

Later, Cyclops, gathers Eric along with the other founding members of the team into the New X-Men's former training simulator, the Danger Cave, built by the former New X-Man, David Alleyne, and lectures them on their goal as a new team of X-Men and their first mission which is to take down the latest incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, now consisting of the former New Mutants.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Eric using his bio-hazard tattoo

Ink is a mutant with the power to adapt to and gain powers of any tattoo on his body. For example, after he gets a tattoo on his palm with in the shape of a bio-hazard symbol, and uses the power gained to essentially use a biochemical weapon on a police officer making him extremely ill.

According to writer Marc Guggenheim, “When Ink gets a new tattoo, he gets a new power. What’s cool about him, from a visual standpoint, is he’s constantly evolving as we give him more and more tattoos. But as a result, his powers are also constantly evolving."

Abilities

None known.

Strength level

Unknown.

Weaknesses

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

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Trivia

On the cover of Young X-Men #1, Ink is shown as being bald, even though he has hair inside the book.

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