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| comic_color = background:#ff8080
| character_name = Lifter
| real_name = Ned Lathrop
| species=[[Mutant (Marvel Comics)|Human Mutant]]
| publisher = [[Marvel Comics]]
| debut = ''[[Captain America]] Annual'' Vol.1 #4 (1977)
| creators = [[Jack Kirby]]
| alliance_color = background:#c0c0ff
| alliances = [[Mutant Force]]<br/>[[Resistants (comics)|Resistants]]<br/>[[Brotherhood of Evil Mutants]]
| aliases = Meteorite
| powers = Can manipulate gravity, increasing his density, strength, and endurance, and levitate matter.
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'''Lifter''' ('''Ned Lathrop''') is a [[fictional character|fictional]] [[Mutant (Marvel Comics)|mutant]] [[supervillain]] in the [[Marvel Comics]] [[Marvel universe|universe]]. He was created by [[Jack Kirby]] in ''[[Captain America]] Annual'' #4 (1977).

==Publication history==
The fictional character '''Lifter''' first appeared in ''Captain America Annual'' #4 in 1977, and was created by [[Jack Kirby]]. Lifter subsequently appeared in ''Defenders'' vol. 1 #78-80, 83, 87, 125-126, and 128-130. As '''Meteorite''', he appeared in ''Captain America'' vol. 1 #343, 346, 368, 394, and 426. He appeared once again as Lifter in ''New Warriors'' vol. 2, #6.

Lifter appeared as part of the "Mutant Force" entry in the ''[[Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition]]'' #9.

==Fictional character biography==
'''Lifter''' has been a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants,{{Issue|date=April 2010}} [[Mutant Force]],{{Issue|date=April 2010}} and the [[Resistants (comics)|Resistants]].{{Issue|date=April 2010}}

His name has been included on a list of Mutants who have been depowered by the events of ''[[House of M]]'' and "[[Decimation (comics)|Decimation]]" that was printed by ''[[Wizard Magazine]]''. However the accuracy of the list has been disputed [http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showpost.php?p=1152661&postcount=576] and Lifter has not yet been listed or shown as depowered in any Marvel Comics publications.

==Powers and abilities==
Lifter's mutant power gives him the ability to lift heavy objects by canceling the effect of gravity upon them.

==Other versions==
===Civil War: House of M===
Lifter was seen as a member of [[Magneto (comics)|Magneto]]'s mutant army during his rise to power.<ref>''Civil War: House of M'' #4</ref>

==Other media==
===Television===
* Lifter (alongside the other Mutant Force members) appeared in the ''[[X-Men (TV series)|X-Men]]'' episode "Sanctuary."{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Marvunapp|http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/liftermutantforce.htm|Lifter}}

[[Category:Comics characters introduced in 1977]]
[[Category:Characters created by Jack Kirby]]
[[Category:Fictional activists]]
[[Category:Fictional mercenaries]]
[[Category:Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength]]
[[Category:Marvel Comics mutants]]
[[Category:Marvel Comics supervillains]]


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