Nanny and Orphan-Maker

Nanny and Orphan-Maker are supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Their first appearances were in X-Factor #30 (Nanny) and #31 (Orphan-Maker). The duo see themselves as "protectors" of mutant children, whom they abduct after murdering their parents. While intelligent, Nanny is highly irrational. Orphan-Maker, who is a young child encased in an adult-sized armor, behaves with the immaturity of his actual age.

Nanny and Orphan-Maker first appeared as opponents of X-Factor, a super-team made up of the five original X-Men. Nanny first appeared in X-Factor #30 (August 1988), while Orphan-Maker was introduced in X-Factor #31 (September 1988). They were created by Louise Simonson and Walt Simonson.

They eventually became regular supporting characters in books featuring X-Men-related characters. Their appearances include X-Factor #35 (December 1988), #40 (May 1989), The Uncanny X-Men #247-248 (August–September 1989), #265-267 (August–September 1990), Generation X #2-4 (December 1994-February 1995), Generation X Holiday Special #1 (February 1998), Slingers #9 (August 1999), and Wolverine: Killing Made Simple #1 (October 2008).

They received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #5.

Eleanor Murch, the woman who would become known as Nanny, was a mutant with low-level telepathy and mind control powers. She was employed as a scientist by the organization known as the Right. When Murch discovered the Right's anti-mutant agenda, she tried to thwart their plans only to end up captured. To punish and enslave Murch, the Right turned her into a cyborg by sealing her body into an egg-shaped armored suit that she had designed. She managed to escape, driven insane by her experience.

Now calling herself Nanny, Murch vowed to save mutant children, believing that their families were evil. She discovered the existence of a child called Peter, who was being held captive in Mister Sinister's "orphanage". Sinister had placed Peter in his orphanage as a small child in order to use him as a weapon once his X-Gene was activated but, upon realizing Peter's powers were too dangerous, decided that the child should be executed. Nanny rescued Peter, who became the first of her "Lost Boys (and Girls)". Nanny fitted him with a suit of armor that would suppress his uncontrollable powers and give him the appearance of a large Man, christening him Orphan-Maker. Nanny and Orphan-Maker embarked on a crusade to "save" young mutant children by killing their parents of young mutants (and thus "orphaning" them) and abducting them.

They would confront the X-Men operating out of a small, faux-town in the Australian outback. Dazzler and Havok are ambushed and stunned in a ship designed to look like a crash-landed artifact. The captured are physically converted into children. They are given battlesuits themselves and convinced to attack the other X-Men. Some assistance is given by Jubilee, whom the X-Men did not know of at the time.

Orphan-Maker and Nanny are temporarily defeated after Colossus rescues Havok from his battlesuit. Confused and disoriented from his experience, Havok blasts Nanny's ship, causing much destruction and seemingly causing the apparent death of Storm. However, Orphan-Maker and Nanny had left behind a dead body that looked like Storm, while de-aging and kidnapping her.