Multiple Man

Jamie Madrox's mutant ability was apparent as early as his birth. He created his first duplicate when the doctor smacked him on the bottom. Two weeks later, Jamie's father, Daniel, resigned from the Los Alamos Nuclear Research Center and moved his family to an intentionally isolated farm in Lawrenceville, Kansas, at the suggestion of Professor Charles Xavier. Later, Damian Tryp, of Singularity Investigations, made his own offer to look after Jamie, claiming that Jamie was not in fact a mutant, but a "changeling," a predecessor to mutants, who manifest their powers at birth. Jamie's parents, however, refused to give Jamie to Tryp. From a young age, Madrox was given a special suit to wear that would neutralize his mutant power, but, before this could be explained to him, a freak tornado killed his parents when he was 15, later revealed to have been caused by Tryp, who had also manipulated Jamie's memories to make him forget his part in the accident.