Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A teenage boy injected himself with lethal mercury in a bid to be like his favourite X-Men superhero.The 15-year-old boy reportedly wanted to emulate the superhero Mercury from the Marvel world, but instead just ended up with painful ulcers that refused to heal.In a different barmy scheme he allowed spiders to bite him in a bid to become like the iconic Spider-Man.In the comics Mercury's body is composed of a non-toxic metal resembling mercury, which she can reshape or solidify at will.The unusual case was written up in a report in the National Centre for Biotechnology Information, which revealed the injuries suffered by the unnamed child after he deliberately injected mercury into his.
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