
Vertigo is an artificially enhanced mutate who is able to project waves of psionic distortion into her environment that affect the nervous systems of other living beings, causing extreme vertigo, nausea, and disorientation. After coming into a confrontation with Bishop and finally getting her hands on the baby, she joins the others in the final fight between the X-Men and X-Factor and the Marauders and the Acolytes, only to be apparently eaten by Predator X, who was teleported to Muir Island by the X-Man Pixie. During Messiah Complex, she aids the Marauders in search of the new mutant baby. Vertigo later reappears as a member of the reformed Marauders. After the conflict, Vertigo departed with other Savage Land Mutates.

Later, Vertigo proved instrumental in the battle, using her power to neutralize the flying beasts used by the Hauk'ka. Vertigo fell under the telepathic control of a Hauk'ka-possessed Rachel Summers, but was quickly defeated by Psylocke, who was immune to her power. Vertigo later appeared with the Savage Land Mutates, briefly teaming with the X-Men to confront the Saurian Hauk'ka, who were attempting to destroy humanity by way of the X-Man Storm. Vertigo used her powers to render them all unconscious and they were all taken captive briefly. Vertigo encountered the Avengers in the Savage Land.

Her alliance with Sinister was short-lived at that time, as she soon rejoined her Savage Land Mutate allies. Soon after this, Sinister sent Vertigo along with the other Marauders to fight the X-Men in New York City just before the extradimensional incursion known as the " Inferno". While the Marauders were accomplishing this, they also clashed with the X-Men, Thor, X-Factor, and Power Pack. The Marauders did succeed in annihilating a large number of the underground mutants. Sinister wanted his assassins to destroy a large community of mutants, known as the Morlocks, who lived under New York City, as he had deemed them genetically useless. Later, she joined the Marauders, a group of mutants working as assassins for the mysterious geneticist known as Mr. When at first a part of the Savage Land Mutate team, she was empowered by Magneto along with the rest of her team mates, and with her new powers she battled against the X-Men and Spider-Man. It appears the Savage land Vertigo never left the Savage Land and doesn't have any ties with the Marauders. It is unclear whether the Vertigo that appears in the Savage Land is another clone or indeed the original Vertigo. As a Marauder, she has been killed and cloned various times. Sinister’s Marauders as well as living in the Savage Land. She was created by Chris Claremont and Michael Golden. Vertigo first appeared in Marvel Fanfare #1. She was initially a member of the Savage Land Mutates, but later a cloned version of herself joined the Marauders.
