Eleanor Murch was first launched within the comics as a scientist who labored for anti-mutant extremist group the Proper. At first, Murch (a mutant herself) did not know in regards to the Proper’s genocidal agenda, however when she came upon about their overarching objectives, she tried to maintain them from utilizing any of her cyborg tech analysis. Murch was captured earlier than she may take again her work and escape. She was sealed inside an egg-shaped go well with that got here from her analysis, and the Proper sought to make use of her as a pawn.
Murch was in a position to liberate herself from enslavement, however she was completely mentally scarred by the expertise and incapable of residing exterior of her egg-suit. Trapped within the go well with and shedding her thoughts, she rescued a mutant little one named Peter who had been imprisoned by Mister Sinister and gave him his personal cyborg battle-suit. The 2 of them have since carried out one mission after one other as Nanny and the Orphan-Maker. Collectively, they shield mutant kids … from their dad and mom.
Nanny, who has an intensely disturbing, Norman and Norma Bates-esque relationship with Peter, believes that human dad and mom are abusive towards their mutant kids or at the least ill-equipped to boost them. After killing human dad and mom, Nanny and Orphan-Maker gather their mutant little one and Nanny absorbs them into her “Misplaced Boys and Ladies,” a gaggle of youngsters she controls together with her telepathic powers. Nanny, who’s obsessive about kids’s tales and rhymes, believes she is doing good, however in actuality she’s simply traumatizing kids and taking away their free-will.