Category:Skin

Angelo Espinosa was a gangbanger from Los Angeles whose life of violence forced him to fake his own death during a gang fight in which his girlfriend seemingly killed several people. He still had a gun he had found on him after waking up from unconsciousness which he plugged so that it could never be fired, keeping it as a reminder of the painful night that had changed his life. He first came to X-Men's attention when he, among other young mutants, were kidnapped by technorganic Phalanx. After escaping the Phalanx, Espinosa was offered a place at the new branch school Xavier was creating at Emma Frost's Massachusetts Academy. Espinosa reluctantly accepted after being convinced by Beast into becoming part of Generation X and took on the codename Skin. Unlike the other members of Generation X, Skin didn't want to become an X-Man, he only wanted to learn how to control his powers. (1)