{"id":14057,"count":1,"description":"Artie (real name Arthur Maddicks) is a minor character in Marvel Comics' X-Men superhero mythos. \n\nArtie was raised by his father, Dr. Carl Maddicks, until his eleventh birthday, when Artie gained his powers. His normal appearance also became altered into his current look, damaging the speech center of his brain, rendering him mute. Desperate, Dr. Maddicks forced Dr. Hank McCoy to help him make a cure. McCoy was used as Dr. Maddick's guinea pig, while Artie watched this and refused treatment. X-Factor came to save McCoy and ended up saving Artie as well. Security guards (who Dr. Maddicks worried would kill his son) arrived as he fired a gun at them. The guards fired back and killed him. \n\nAfterwards, Artie became the ward of X-Factor. As a part of X-Factor's group of youthful pupils, the \"X-Terminators\", he first met his friend Leech, a boy with green skin who possesses the ability to negate other mutants' superhuman abilities. \n\nAfter Leech was rescued from Gene Nation by...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/artie\/","name":"Artie","slug":"artie","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/14057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=14057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}