SHADOW CAT BIO

Real Name: Katherine "Kitty" Pryde
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 110 lbs
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Hazel
Group: Excalibur
Identity: Secret
Legal status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Former aliases: Ariel I, Sprite, Cat
Occupation: Student, adventurer
Origin: Deerfield, Illinois, USA
Marital status: Single
First appearance: The Uncanny X-Men #129
Known relatives: Carmen (father, divorced), Theresa ("Terri," mother, divorced), Samuel Prydeman (grandfather, deceased), Chava Rosanoff (great-aunt, deceased)
Theresa “Terri” Pryde (mother)
Samuel Prydeman (grandfather, deceased)
Chava Rosanoff (great-aunt, deceased)


Base of operations: (current) Muir Island off the coast of Scotland, (former) Exalibur's lighthouse off the coast of Britain, Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York; Moira MacTaggert's Mutant Research Center, Muir Island, Scotland
Group affiliation: (current) Excalibur, (formerly) X-Men, S.H.I.E.L.D.
First appearance: X-MEN (first series) #129

Mutant Powers: Shadowcat has the ability to pass through solid objects by moving the atoms of her body through the spaces between the objects atoms. She calls this process "phasing". When she is attacked, she can enter her phased state, allowing projectiles or energy blasts to pass through her harmlessly. Shadowcat is still vulnerable to psionic or mystic attacks while phased.

She cannot breathe while phasing, hence she can only phase for as long as she can hold her breath.
Shadowcat can phase through any material, including people. Phasing through electrical systems causes them to become disrupted. Using her phasing ability, she can walk on air, effectively allowing her the ability of flight.
Shadowcat has always had the ability to phase her clothing with her, but with practice she has learned to phase other objects as well. She has also learned to phase a team-mate with her and can allow them to "air walk" for as long as they remain in contact with her.

First Appearance: X-Men (Vol 1) #129
History: Katherine Pryde lived a normal life in Illinois until she began suffering severe head-aches at age thirteen. Professor Xavier had located her with Cerebro, his mutant detecting computer, and set out with three of his X-Men in order to contact Kitty and possibly recruit her. Unknown to the X-Men, the mercenary Warhawk had attached a device to Cerebro allowing the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club to monitor its activities. The Inner Circle learned of Kitty's existence and sent Emma Frost to contact her.

Xavier and Frost both trained mutants in the use of their powers under the cover of schools. They had both intended to recruit Kitty without alerting her parents to the fact that their daughter was a mutant.
Even Kitty herself did not know that she was a mutant, and did not discover her powers until the night Emma Frost arrived to talk to Kitty's parents. Kitty retired to her upstairs bedroom suffering her worst headache ever. As she lay on her bed wishing her headache would go away, she suddenly found herself lying on the floor on the level below. She had unknowingly used her phasing power for the first time.
As Frost left, the X-Men arrived, and Kitty took them to the local malt shop. Here the X-Men were attacked by members of the Hellfire Club. Surprised, she found herself phasing through the wall, where she subsequently passed out due to unfamiliarity with her powers. Emma Frost overcame the X-Men with her telepathic powers, and had them taken to her hovercraft.

Kitty had awoken, and unwilling to abandon her new friends, she snuck aboard the hovercraft. She used her powers to locate the X-Men within the Frost Industries complex where they had been taken. Kitty called the rest of the X-Men, despite attempts to capture her by Hellfire agents.
She was almost captured after calling for help, but was saved by the rest of the X-Men. Kitty then helped to rescue the captured X-Men.
Kitty's mother was enraged by her daughter's disappearance, although Phoenix used her telepathic powers to calm the woman, who then allowed Kitty to enrol at Xavier's school. Here she joined the X-Men taking on the name Sprite, and later changing to Ariel.
Kitty's friendship with Storm has continued although her best friend was Illyana Rasputin, whose recent death from the Legacy Virus deeply affected Kitty. She has also had a short lived romance with Colossus, with whom she still remains close friends, and is often accompanied by a small dragon-like creature named Lockheed, who she met while on another planet with the X-Men.

A friendship has also developed with the X-Man Wolverine. While in Japan, Kitty was captured and put under the mental control of Ogun, a martial arts master who had once been Wolverine's mentor. Wolverine gave Kitty a crash course in martial arts so she could contend against Ogun. At the end of her training, Kitty took on the name Shadowcat.

During the Morlock Massacre, Shadowcat was injured by one of Harpoon's energy spears. This affected her powers, making her unable to maintain her solidity. She was later cured of this affliction.
Shadowcat became a founding member of Excalibur, a British super team. Here she began a romance with fellow member, Pete Wisdom.
Kitty has also spent a short time as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, where she once again faced Ogun.
After Excalibur was disbanded, Kitty returned to the X-Men along with Colossus and Nightcrawler, where she continued to serve until her recent disappearance in space while battling the Neo.

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BRIEF HISTORY
Kitty lived an ordinary life, except for her being a genius on electronics and computers, until her latent mutant powers were exposed. First, she had strong headaches. Later, she discovered her ability to pass through solid objects like a ghost. Besides, if those objects were electronic, they broke. Emma Frost, who had founded the Hellions as a branch of the Hellfire Club, tried to recruit her for her Massachusset Academy, which was a cover for her illegal activities, but Charles Xavier got her first. Believing it was for the best, he telephatically pushed her parents into choosing Xavier's school rather than most reputed Massachusset Academy. She joined shortly after Phoenix's death.
Being the younger member of the team was not as wonderful as she had imagined, but she finally accepted the X Men as her family, specially after her parents divorced. She soon became close to Nightcrawler. She also adopted Ororo as a mother figure and started to date Colossus. She also became his sister Illyana's best friend. Their bond was so strong that Illyana's dark powers and soulsword went to her when she was powerless.
Her relationship with Peter was complicated. According to the team, she was still too young to become romantically involved. Peter was five years older than her and she was far more intelligent and educated than him. She also had a special friend as young and bright as her: Doug Ramsey. Nevertheless, Kitty was faithful to Peter until he went to the Secret Wars and fell in love with alien healer Zsaji. When he returned, he dropped her.
ITo forget Peter, she visited her father. Unfortunately, she discovered that he was involved with the yakuza and had serious troubles. The girl secretely followed him to Japan. There, she was possessed by ninja demon Ogun and adquired mastery on several ninja abilities. Kitty was rescued by Logan, who shares a very special father-like relationship with her. The experience made her grow.
Years later, Kitty got seriously injured during a confrontation against The Marauders, losing the capacity to turn herself solid. Fortunately, Reed Richards and Victor von Doom worked together to save her and she slowly recovered. While taking some rest at Muir Isle, she watched the X-Men death broadcasted on TV, so she teamed with Nightcrawler, Rachel, Captain Britain and Meggan to create Excalibur in order to keep Xavier's dream alive.
During her years in Excalibur, Kitty had a crush on Alistaire Stuart, who only had eyes for her friend Rachel. Then, Pete Wisdom came into her life and, even though she hated him at first, she finally fell in love with him. However, their age difference and Pete's attitude ruined their relationship, specially after she got attracted to a boy of her age during her stage as SHIELD agent to destroy Ogun's spirit, who had infiltrated in their computers. When Illyana Rasputin fell victim to the legacy virus, her soulsword went to Kitty. That made her the target of warlocks Darkmoor and Gravemoss, who wanted its power for themselves. Daytripper helped Kitty to defeat them and Kitty gave the sword to her. After Captain Britain and Meggan married, Excalibur was dissolved and Kitty returned to the X Men.
After several adventures with them, she turned rebellious and hardened. When the Neo attacked the NASA spatial station where the X Men were staying, Kitty helped them escape but got separated from them. She used a space suit to return to earth, but it took her some time. When she arrived there, she found out that Colossus had sacrificed his life to host the cure for the Legacy Virus. She took it hard. She returned Colossus' ashes to Siberia and abandoned the X Men to return to college. She has asked the X Men to respect her privacy and has removed all electronic trace of her from the X-Men's computer systems. She is currently in Chicago astrophysics department, working with Doctor Simon Benes and other geniouses in the advanced physics tutorial. She has a full scholarship, but she prefers to live outside the campus. To pay for her expenses, she works for his neighbour Dylan Maguire in the "Hell Belles" bar. She has found her old friend Karma living around. Unfortunately, there is a strong antimutant student branch in the place known as Purity which is capable of terrorist attacks and worse.

History: Katherine "Kitty" Pryde was a thirteen-and-a-half year old girl living in Deerfield, Illinois who led a normal life but then began suffering headaches of steadily increasing frequency, duration, and intensity. Unknown to her or her parents, the headaches were a result of her mutant power emerging.

Meanwhile, Professor Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men, a team of mutant adventurers whom he trained in the use of their superhuman powers, located Kitty with his device for finding superhuman mutants, Cerebro. He and three of the X-Men, Colossus, Storm, and Wolverine, set out for Deerfield to contact her and possibly recruit her as a member of the X-Men. Unknown to Xavier, the mercenary Warhawk had planted a device that enabled his employers in the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club to monitor Cerebro's activities. The Inner Circle thus also learned about Kitty Pryde, and one of its leaders, Emma Frost, the White Queen, also went to contact her.

Xavier trained superhuman mutants at his so-called School for Gifted Youngsters, whereas Frost was headmistress of the Massachusetts Academy, where she also secretly trained young superhuman mutants such as the Hellions in the use of their powers. Hence, Xavier and Frost would each approach Pryde and her parents as the heads of private schools seeking to recruit her as a talented student. Neither Xavier nor Frost intended to reveal to Kitty's parents that their daughter was a mutant.

Kitty herself was unaware that she was mutant or that she had a superhuman power until the afternoon that Frost arrived to speak to her parents. While Frost was downstairs, Kitty went to her room upstairs, suffering her worst headache ever. Lying on her bed, she closed her eyes, wishing the headache would stop. It did. Kitty opened her eyes, and, to her surprise, found herself lying on the floor of her living room. Without knowing it, Kitty had used her "phasing" power for the first time, and had passed through her bed and the floor into the room below.

As Frost left, Xavier and his three X-Men arrived. The three X-Men took Kitty to a local malt shop, where Kitty and Storm began what evolved into a close friendship. Suddenly three Hellfire Club mercenaries burst into the shop and attacked the X-Men. Surprised and frightened, Kitty moved out of the way and found herself passing through the wall. Landing outside, she fell unconscious since she was still not used to utilizing her power. The White Queen used her telepathic powers to overcome the three X-Men, whom the Hellfire Club took into their hovercraft.

But the brave Kitty had decided to snoop around the hovercraft before it took off, and discovered the X-Men were aboard as prisoners. Unwilling to desert her new friend Storm or the others, she hid aboard the craft and used her new powers to find the captive X-Men in the Frost Industries complex to which the White Queen had taken them. Storm gave Kitty the X-Men's phone number and asked her to summon help. But one of the Hellfire Club mercenaries spotted Pryde, and the White Queen ordered her capture. Using her powers, Pryde got away long enough to phone the number.

Two Hellfire Club mercenaries in a car were just about to capture Pryde in Chicago when they were halted by the Jean Grey version of Phoenix, who had just arrived with her fellow X-Men Cyclops and Nightcrawler in response to Kitty's message. Phoenix found and comforted the frightened Kitty, who told her story to her and her X-Men colleagues. Pryde then helped the X-Men and their ally, the Dazzler, in rescuing their captive colleagues.

Phoenix used her mental powers to calm Carmen Pryde's rage over his daughter's disappearance. Mr. and Mrs. Pryde allowed Kitty to join Xavier's school, and soon afterwards she became the newest member of the X-Men. She originally took the code name Sprite, but later changed it to Ariel. Kitty quickly became a valuable member of the X-Men, so much so that Xavier retained her in the X-Men even after founding a new team, the New Mutants, most of whose members were closer to Kitty in age than the other X-Men were.

Kitty's friendship with Storm has continued, but her best friend was Illyana Rasputin, the New Mutant called Magik. Kitty was deeply affected by Illyana's recent death from the Legacy Virus. Kitty had a romance with her fellow X-Man Colossus, and although it proved to be short-lived, they remain friends today. Kitty's constant companion is the small, alien, dragon-like creature Lockheed, whom she met when the X-Men were on another planet.

Over time Kitty also grew close to the X-Man Wolverine, who became a mentor to her. While in Japan, Kitty was captured and put under the mental control of Ogun, the martial arts master who had once been Wolverine's teacher but had since become his enemy. Wolverine undertook a crash program to teach Kitty to become skillful enough in the Japanese martial arts to contend against Ogun. At the end of her training Kitty assumed the new code name Shadowcat, which she still uses today.

During the massacre of the mutant Morlocks by the Marauders, the Marauder called Harpoon injured Shadowcat with his energy spear. It also adversely affected her powers so that she could no longer regain her solidity. She was cured by the combined efforts of Doctor Doom and the Fantastic Four's Mister Fantastic.

Subsequently, Shadowcat became a founding member of the new British-based team of adventurers Excalibur. She eventually became romantically involved with her teammate Peter Wisdom.

Later at G. W. Bridge, the acting commander of the international law enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D., recruited Kitty Pryde to become a temporary S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Bridge explained that the computer system of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying headquarters, the helicarrier, was failing to recognize any user but her. Pryde soon learned that this was because the spirit of the late Ogun had taken control of the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier's computer system. Pryde succeeded in defeating Ogun and, with Wolverine's aid, S.H.I.E.L.D. regained control of the helicarrier computers.

Shadowcat has subsequently returned to Excalibur, where she has continued to be a valued member of the team. When Excalibur disbanded, Shadowcat returned to the United States and the X-Men. Following the tragic death of Colossus, and too many loved ones before him, Kitty left the team to find a new way to help realize Xavier's dream of peaceful coexistence between man and mutant. That road led her to a life away from the front lines of genetic conflict at an unnamed university, where she would be free to pursue her own destiny.

Strength level: Shadowcat possesses the normal human strength of a girl of her age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise.

Known superhuman powers: Shadowcat possesses the ability to pass through solid matter by passing her atoms through the spaces between the atoms of the object through which she is moving. In this way she and the object through which she is passing can temporarily merge without interacting, and each is unharmed when Shadowcat has finished passing through the object. This process is called "phasing." When Shadowcat is phasing, she is, for all intents ad purposes, intangible. Hence, when attacked, she can shift into a "phasing" state (even if she is not at the time passing through an object) so as to allow oncoming projectiles or energy blasts to pass through her harmlessly. While phasing Shadowcat is still vulnerable to psionic or mystical attack, however.

Shadowcat passes through objects at the same rate of speed at which she is moving before she "enters" it. Since she is unable to breathe while "inside" an object, she can only continuously phase through solid objects (as when she travels underground) as long as she can hold her breath.

Shadowcat can phase through any material object, even living people. When she phases through an object with an electrical system, the process disrupts the system's workings. She has trained herself to go automatically, by reflex, into a phasing state at any indication of danger, such as a loud noise like a gunshot, in order to protect herself.

Using her phasing ability, Shadowcat can walk on air. In fact, she can use her ability to walk on the air from the ground to the upper stories of a building as if she were climbing a staircase.

From the first use of her phasing power, Shadowcat has been able to phase her clothing along with herself. Through practice she has learned to phase other objects along with herself without harm to them, and can now phase a living person as big as her teammate Colossus along with herself. She can also enable someone as big as Colossus to "walk on air" along with her. However, she must maintain physical contact with the person or object she phases along herself for the effect to work with this other person or object.

Special skills: Shadowcat possesses moderate expertise of the martial arts of the Japanese ninja and samurai. Shadowcat is a genius in computer science. She has continued to take dance training under the tutelage of Stevie Hunter, and is highly agile. Shadowcat demonstrated great knowledge of ninja methods of combat when she was mentally possessed by the Ronon Ogun. With the possession over, Shadowcat has forgotten the knowledge of ninja techniques he gave her, but she has retained the knowledge of Oriental methods of combat taught her by Wolverine.

Kitty began having extreme headaches as an early teen. Her headaches gradually disappeared as her powers began to manifest themselves.

When she was 13, her parents took her to Emma Frost, the White Queen and leader of the Hellfire Club for schooling and control of her powers.

After a bout with The X-Men, The Hellfire Club and it's students were no longer able to maintain anonymity. Professor Xavier stepped in and recruited Kitty to his school.

As the youngest member of The X-men, she took on a mother-daughter relationship with Storm who guided her in womanhood. She took the name of Sprite as she began her journey with the team.

Professor Xavier helped her gain control of her phasing at many levels as well as developing her education. She became a master at computers any many other kinds of technology.

As she entered her late teens, she developed a crush on fellow member Colossus, which eventually turned into a lasting deep love between the two. They never engaged in a relationship due to Colossus' concern for Kitty's age.

Between being the youngest, being left out because of it and her broken heart she withdrew into herself until Wolverine joined the team.

She took on the name, Shadowcat and began to train with Wolverine in the martial arts. Her solitude drew her to Wolverine in a deep friendship which became very deep. Wolverine rarely got close but he could relate to her loneliness and took her under his wing and returned her friendship.

While on an off-planet mission against the Brood, she found a lonely little dragon and adopted him (with Professor Xavier's permission, of course) and named him Lockheed. Lockheed has been her constant companion ever since.

During the Mutant Massacre, Harpoon injured Kitty with a spear of energy and she lost her ability to become tangible again. She remain "ghost-like" until Dr. Doom and Mr. Fantastic cured her.

She became the founding member of Excalibur, but is always faithful and loyal to The X-men and comes to their aide when needed.