Post by Kitty Pryde// Shadowcat on Sept 10, 2007 22:12:32 GMT -5
Real Name:Katherine Anne Pryde
Codename:Shadowcat
Age:
Appearance: Katie Stuart
Personality:
Powers:Phasing: 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. Shadowcat passes through objects at the same rate of speed at which she is moving before she "enters" it. 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.
Air Walking: 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.
Phasing Extension: 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 at one point phased an entire X-Men team. She can also enable someone as big as Colossus to "walk on air" along with her. However, she must maintain physical contact with the people or objects she phases along herself for the effect to work with this other person or object.
Electrical Disruption: can phase through any material object, even living people. When she phases through an object with an electrical system, the process disrupts the systems workings.
Telepathic Resistance: her thoughts are highly erratic when phased as if there was no mind to telepathically effect
Brief History: Katherine "Kitty" Pryde, also commonly known by the codename Shadowcat, is a Marvel Comics mutant superhero and a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, she first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (Jan. 1980). Pryde also used the names Sprite and Ariel briefly.
Shadowcat possesses a "phasing" ability that essentially allows her and those she is in contact with to become "ghosts". This mutant power also disrupts any electrical fields she passes through, and lets her simulate levitation, literally letting her "walk on air." She possesses a genius level IQ, is an expert with computers, and has a significant proficiency in martial arts, such as Kung Fu, Karate, Judo, and many other kinds.
At the time of her membership, Kitty was the youngest person ever to be invited to join the X-Men. During her early years, she is portrayed as a "kid sister" to many older members of the X-Men, filling the role of literary foil to the more established characters. However in the many years since her introduction, she has aged and matured, and has become a main character on her own in various ongoing comic books, miniseries, and cartoons.
Fictional character biography
[edit] Early life
Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde was born in Deerfield, Illinois to Carmen and Theresa Pryde. Of Jewish descent, her paternal grandfather, Samuel Prydeman, was held in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
[edit] Meeting The X-Men
Kitty started to have headaches at age thirteen, headaches which signaled the emergence of her mutant powers. She was approached by both the X-Men's Charles Xavier and the Hellfire Club's White Queen, Emma Frost, both of whom hoped to recruit her for their respective causes. Kitty was unnerved by Frost, observing that the White Queen had looked at her as if she were "something good to eat." She got along better with Xavier and the three X-men who escorted him to his meeting with her and her parents, becoming fast friends with Ororo Munroe. Ororo told Kitty who she really was and about the X-Men, which made the teenager even more enthusiastic about attending Xavier's school.
Their conversation was cut short, however, when they (along with Wolverine and Colossus) were attacked by armored mercenaries in the employ of Frost and the Hellfire Club. The X-Men defeated their assailants but were subdued by the White Queen's telepathic powers immediately after. In the confusion, Kitty had become separated from the X-Men and therefore was not captured along with them. She managed to contact Cyclops, Phoenix, and Nightcrawler. With the help of Dazzler and Pryde, those X-Men rescued their teammates and Xavier (who had also been captured).
The White Queen appeared to perish in the battle, which meant she was no longer competing with Xavier for the approval of Kitty's parents. Unfortunately, Kitty's parents hadn't heard from her in more than a day, because during that time she was first being pursued by the Hellfire Club's men and then working with the X-Men to save their friends. All they knew was that Kitty had left with Xavier's "students" to get a soda, there had been reports that the soda shop had been blown up, and that Kitty had been missing since. Understandably, they were angry at Xavier when he finally returned with Kitty in tow. At first it seemed like there was no chance of Kitty being allowed to attend the school and join the X-Men. Then Phoenix decided to use her considerable telepathic power to erase the memories of Kitty's parents and plant false ones, resulting in a complete shift in their attitude towards Xavier. Questions concerning the morality of tampering with minds in such a fashion aside, Kitty was then allowed to enroll at Xavier's school with her parents' blessing. She was the youngest person to join the X-Men up to that point.
[edit] Joining The X-Men
During her teen years, Kitty fostered a number of close relationships with others at the school and in the X-Men. She developed a crush on Colossus and became close friends with his little sister Illyana Rasputin. Initially uneasy around Nightcrawler and other mutants with physical deformities, Kitty finally overcame her fears and became close friends with him. Kitty also befriended Lockheed, a highly intelligent alien resembling a dragon, who followed her home after a mission in outer space. Lockheed is extremely loyal to Kitty, and the two of them share a psychic bond. Wolverine became something of a mentor to Kitty despite his usually gruff personality.
Kitty was later assigned to the New Mutants, a team of younger mutants established in the absence of the X-Men while they were in outer space. Kitty convinced Professor Xavier to allow her to remain a full member of the X-Men on the basis of her high intelligence, maturity, and the fact that she was already a fully-trained member of the team. During this time, Kitty began to date Colossus, but this did not last long as Colossus developed feelings for an alien woman named Zsaji whom he met on the Beyonder's planet in the first Secret Wars. Colossus' feelings toward Zsaji were primarily a side effect of her own unique healing abilities, which she had used on him after he became injured. Regardless, Colossus' feelings were real and he returned to Earth consumed with grief after Zsaji's death. He admitted to Kitty that he had cheated on her, which hurt her deeply and ended their relationship. Kitty had made good friends with a with local boy from Salem Central named Doug Ramsey around this time, but her feelings for him never went as deep as his for her, and they never actually dated, though they remained close, even moreso after Doug's status as a mutant was revealed and he joined the New Mutants under the codename Cypher. They remained friends until his death some time later.
[edit] Ogun
During the 1985 Kitty Pryde and Wolverine miniseries, Kitty is possessed by a demon, the ninja Ogun. Ogun psychically bestows upon Kitty a virtual lifetime of martial arts training. Kitty is able to resist Ogun's influence with Wolverine's help and the two form a strong teacher/student bond. Kitty returns to the X-Men, no longer the innocent they once knew, and officially adopts the codename Shadowcat.
[edit] Morlock Massacre
Kitty was badly injured by Harpoon during the Mutant Massacre story arc, with the result that she became permanently intangible. She was rushed to Muir Island along with other surviving casualties of the Massacre to be tended to by Moira MacTaggert. MacTaggert was able to keep Kitty's condition from deteriorating to the point where she completely lost physical substance and ceased to exist, but wasn't able to do any more to help her. At this time Kitty's natural state was to be intangible. Where she once had to make a conscious effort to phase, she now had to make a conscious effort to solidify and stay solid. She was saved by Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four, but not without trouble. The X-Men had gone to Richards for aid, but he had initially refused because he was not sure he would be able to help. (Reed was in a struggle with the rest of the Fantastic Four about their origins. They thought that Reed deliberately caused their accident which turned them into the Fantastic Four, thus making him very uncertain about his personal motives and abilities.) Having no where else to go, the X-Men turned to Richards' enemy Dr. Doom. This created a moral dilemma for both the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Both teams fought each other because the FF were trying to stop the treatment while the X-Men were determined to save Kitty's life. In the end, both the personal crisis of the Fantastic Four and the life of Shadowcat were saved. It was Franklin Richards, with the help of Lockheed, who brought both teams to their senses.
[edit] Excalibur
Among the others injured and brought to Muir Isle were Colossus and Nightcrawler, although Colossus left the United Kingdom shortly after being released from MacTaggert's care to join the rest of the X-Men on their mission to battle the Adversary. The X-Men sacrificed their lives to defeat the Adversary, and the battle was televised and broadcast across the world. The X-Men were resurrected later, unknown to the world at large, but chose to keep a low profile and perpetuate the belief that they were still dead. This strategy was enforced to more effectively fight their enemies. This meant avoiding contact with friends and family, including Kitty. Thinking the X-Men were dead, Kitty and Nightcrawler joined Rachel Summers, Captain Britain, and Meggan to form the Britain-based team Excalibur. During her time with Excalibur, Kitty developed a crush on Professor Alistaire Stuart which went unreciprocated since Alistaire was attracted to Rachel. Later, she had an affair with former Black Air agent Pete Wisdom, but they ended their relationship a short time before Excalibur disbanded.
After Excalibur's dissolution, Shadowcat, Nightcrawler and Colossus returned to the X-Men. But as soon as they returned, they faced a group of imposters following Cerebro, in the guise of Professor X. During the six-month gap, Kitty visited Genosha. Whatever she experienced there is unknown (although presumably connected to her father, living on Genosha at the time) but it had a profound effect on her. She cut her hair and began to act rebelliously, also using one of Wolverine's bone claws broken off during battle as a weapon. Kitty remained with the X-Men for a while before leaving after the apparent death of Colossus. Trying to give herself a normal life, she attended the University of Chicago. During this time, her father was killed when Cassandra Nova’s sentinels destroyed Genosha. She was also kidnapped by William Stryker, but the X-Treme X-Men team helped her escape and she assisted them on several missions.
[edit] Back To The X-Men
In the Astonishing X-Men, written by Joss Whedon, at the insistence of Cyclops and Emma Frost, Kitty once again rejoined the X-Men, despite having extreme reservations about working with the former White Queen, given their history. However, this was the primary reason why Frost herself wanted Kitty on the team, as a sort of "safety" should Frost ever revert to type. Frost reasoned that the person who trusted her the least would be most likely to spot such behavior.
On one of the new Astonishing team's first missions, Shadowcat discovered Colossus was alive. After some initial awkwardness, Kitty and Peter resumed dating. In the next arc, the mansion came under attack by an old damaged Sentinel. Cyclops ordered her to take all the students down to the Danger Room. There, they found a dead student called Wing. It was revealed that the Danger Room was alive and Wing came back to life but was possessed by the Danger Room. Eventually, The X-Men got into the Danger Room and Kitty and the students were released, but then the Danger Room took form as a robot which attacked the X-Men but easily defeated them after having fought them a million times in The Danger Room. Kitty was seriously injured during the fight when Danger threw Colossus at Kitty. He turned back to human from, but then Danger threw a spike towards the two and Kitty could not phase, so it impaled the couple. Fortunately, a student called Elixir healed them both and saved them from death.
Cyclops's team then went to Genosha to defend Professor X from Danger. Danger raised the Wild Sentinel that exterminated Genosha from the depths of the sea but Colossus threw Kitty towards the Sentinel and Kitty phased through it and destroyed the Sentinel. After learning that Professor X knew that the Danger Room was alive all along, Kitty, along with the other X-Men, were disappointed in their former mentor and left Genosha.
In the next arc, just as Kitty and Colossus finally consummated their relationship, the latest incarnation of the Hellfire Club begin an assault on Xavier's School. Kitty fulfilled the role that Emma Frost envisioned, personally taking down Frost and imprisoning her, only to fall under a telepathic delusion created by Hellfire member Perfection, who claimed to be the true, unreformed Emma Frost. Under this delusion, Kitty was made to believe that she and Colossus had conceived a child, which was later taken away by the X-Men because its potential mutant abilities were supposedly dangerous. Kitty reacts in the delusion by attempting to rescue the child from a near-inescapable "box" in the depths of the school, unaware that in reality she is freeing an alien entity, "Stuff," who contains the trapped consciousness of Cassandra Nova, the apparent ringleader of this new Hellfire Club. Kitty collapses immediately afterward, driven to unconsciousness by either Perfection or Nova, as Nova's stated intention was to transfer her mind into Kitty's body. A newly awakened Cyclops revealed that the new Hellfire Club, including Perfection and Nova, are actually mental projections created by a piece of Cassandra Nova's consciousness, which became lodged in Emma's mind during the X-Men's last confrontation with her. As Cyclops killed the mental projections, Emma tried to force Kitty to kill her to get rid of Nova. Undeterred, Cassandra Nova switched her focus to attempt to transfer her mind to Hisako Ichiki.
It appears that Nova did not succeeded, as the team was transported to S.W.O.R.D.'s air station en route to Ord's Breakworld - a world that considers Colossus to be the person responsible for its future destruction and wish to kill him by destroying the Earth. S.W.O.R.D. with the help of Cyclops's team wants to strike preemptively against the Breakworld so that they do not get that chance. Enroute, however, S.W.O.R.D.'s spaceship is surrounded by the Breakworld Armada and the team initially splits up as the spaceship crashes to Breakworld. Shadowcat and Colossus, after having to fight their way from a populated area of Breakworld (with the entire populace well aware of who Colossus is) eventually are approached by a Breakworld woman who wants to help them (representing a faction of Breakworld that seeks a departure from Breakworld's gladiator type lifestyle). She takes them to her hideout and gives them a room to stay in as they wait to be contacted by the rest of the team. While Kitty and Colossus wait, Kitty takes the opportunity to pick up their romantic relationship were they left of and to discuss with a somewhat surprised Colossus (who has never seen this side of Kitty) the change in her - namely that she no longer wishes to wait for things to calm down to be happy because she realizes that this will never happen with the X-Men.
It is important to note that Astonishing X-Men arcs are, at present, a bit out of continuity with the rest of X-Men books and Kitty and the rest of the X-Men are written by other writers to be currently on Earth being involved in the Marauders attacks on the X-Men and the Hulk's return arcs. Kitty, with the help of Colossus, is seen protecting the students of X-mansion from one such attack by Marauders, although unsuccessfully.
[edit] World War Hulk
When the Hulk attacks the X-Mansion, Kitty helps the X-Men in trying to stop him, but is defeated.
Affiliation: X-Men
Codename:Shadowcat
Age:
Appearance: Katie Stuart
Personality:
Powers:Phasing: 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. Shadowcat passes through objects at the same rate of speed at which she is moving before she "enters" it. 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.
Air Walking: 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.
Phasing Extension: 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 at one point phased an entire X-Men team. She can also enable someone as big as Colossus to "walk on air" along with her. However, she must maintain physical contact with the people or objects she phases along herself for the effect to work with this other person or object.
Electrical Disruption: can phase through any material object, even living people. When she phases through an object with an electrical system, the process disrupts the systems workings.
Telepathic Resistance: her thoughts are highly erratic when phased as if there was no mind to telepathically effect
Brief History: Katherine "Kitty" Pryde, also commonly known by the codename Shadowcat, is a Marvel Comics mutant superhero and a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, she first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (Jan. 1980). Pryde also used the names Sprite and Ariel briefly.
Shadowcat possesses a "phasing" ability that essentially allows her and those she is in contact with to become "ghosts". This mutant power also disrupts any electrical fields she passes through, and lets her simulate levitation, literally letting her "walk on air." She possesses a genius level IQ, is an expert with computers, and has a significant proficiency in martial arts, such as Kung Fu, Karate, Judo, and many other kinds.
At the time of her membership, Kitty was the youngest person ever to be invited to join the X-Men. During her early years, she is portrayed as a "kid sister" to many older members of the X-Men, filling the role of literary foil to the more established characters. However in the many years since her introduction, she has aged and matured, and has become a main character on her own in various ongoing comic books, miniseries, and cartoons.
Fictional character biography
[edit] Early life
Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde was born in Deerfield, Illinois to Carmen and Theresa Pryde. Of Jewish descent, her paternal grandfather, Samuel Prydeman, was held in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
[edit] Meeting The X-Men
Kitty started to have headaches at age thirteen, headaches which signaled the emergence of her mutant powers. She was approached by both the X-Men's Charles Xavier and the Hellfire Club's White Queen, Emma Frost, both of whom hoped to recruit her for their respective causes. Kitty was unnerved by Frost, observing that the White Queen had looked at her as if she were "something good to eat." She got along better with Xavier and the three X-men who escorted him to his meeting with her and her parents, becoming fast friends with Ororo Munroe. Ororo told Kitty who she really was and about the X-Men, which made the teenager even more enthusiastic about attending Xavier's school.
Their conversation was cut short, however, when they (along with Wolverine and Colossus) were attacked by armored mercenaries in the employ of Frost and the Hellfire Club. The X-Men defeated their assailants but were subdued by the White Queen's telepathic powers immediately after. In the confusion, Kitty had become separated from the X-Men and therefore was not captured along with them. She managed to contact Cyclops, Phoenix, and Nightcrawler. With the help of Dazzler and Pryde, those X-Men rescued their teammates and Xavier (who had also been captured).
The White Queen appeared to perish in the battle, which meant she was no longer competing with Xavier for the approval of Kitty's parents. Unfortunately, Kitty's parents hadn't heard from her in more than a day, because during that time she was first being pursued by the Hellfire Club's men and then working with the X-Men to save their friends. All they knew was that Kitty had left with Xavier's "students" to get a soda, there had been reports that the soda shop had been blown up, and that Kitty had been missing since. Understandably, they were angry at Xavier when he finally returned with Kitty in tow. At first it seemed like there was no chance of Kitty being allowed to attend the school and join the X-Men. Then Phoenix decided to use her considerable telepathic power to erase the memories of Kitty's parents and plant false ones, resulting in a complete shift in their attitude towards Xavier. Questions concerning the morality of tampering with minds in such a fashion aside, Kitty was then allowed to enroll at Xavier's school with her parents' blessing. She was the youngest person to join the X-Men up to that point.
[edit] Joining The X-Men
During her teen years, Kitty fostered a number of close relationships with others at the school and in the X-Men. She developed a crush on Colossus and became close friends with his little sister Illyana Rasputin. Initially uneasy around Nightcrawler and other mutants with physical deformities, Kitty finally overcame her fears and became close friends with him. Kitty also befriended Lockheed, a highly intelligent alien resembling a dragon, who followed her home after a mission in outer space. Lockheed is extremely loyal to Kitty, and the two of them share a psychic bond. Wolverine became something of a mentor to Kitty despite his usually gruff personality.
Kitty was later assigned to the New Mutants, a team of younger mutants established in the absence of the X-Men while they were in outer space. Kitty convinced Professor Xavier to allow her to remain a full member of the X-Men on the basis of her high intelligence, maturity, and the fact that she was already a fully-trained member of the team. During this time, Kitty began to date Colossus, but this did not last long as Colossus developed feelings for an alien woman named Zsaji whom he met on the Beyonder's planet in the first Secret Wars. Colossus' feelings toward Zsaji were primarily a side effect of her own unique healing abilities, which she had used on him after he became injured. Regardless, Colossus' feelings were real and he returned to Earth consumed with grief after Zsaji's death. He admitted to Kitty that he had cheated on her, which hurt her deeply and ended their relationship. Kitty had made good friends with a with local boy from Salem Central named Doug Ramsey around this time, but her feelings for him never went as deep as his for her, and they never actually dated, though they remained close, even moreso after Doug's status as a mutant was revealed and he joined the New Mutants under the codename Cypher. They remained friends until his death some time later.
[edit] Ogun
During the 1985 Kitty Pryde and Wolverine miniseries, Kitty is possessed by a demon, the ninja Ogun. Ogun psychically bestows upon Kitty a virtual lifetime of martial arts training. Kitty is able to resist Ogun's influence with Wolverine's help and the two form a strong teacher/student bond. Kitty returns to the X-Men, no longer the innocent they once knew, and officially adopts the codename Shadowcat.
[edit] Morlock Massacre
Kitty was badly injured by Harpoon during the Mutant Massacre story arc, with the result that she became permanently intangible. She was rushed to Muir Island along with other surviving casualties of the Massacre to be tended to by Moira MacTaggert. MacTaggert was able to keep Kitty's condition from deteriorating to the point where she completely lost physical substance and ceased to exist, but wasn't able to do any more to help her. At this time Kitty's natural state was to be intangible. Where she once had to make a conscious effort to phase, she now had to make a conscious effort to solidify and stay solid. She was saved by Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four, but not without trouble. The X-Men had gone to Richards for aid, but he had initially refused because he was not sure he would be able to help. (Reed was in a struggle with the rest of the Fantastic Four about their origins. They thought that Reed deliberately caused their accident which turned them into the Fantastic Four, thus making him very uncertain about his personal motives and abilities.) Having no where else to go, the X-Men turned to Richards' enemy Dr. Doom. This created a moral dilemma for both the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Both teams fought each other because the FF were trying to stop the treatment while the X-Men were determined to save Kitty's life. In the end, both the personal crisis of the Fantastic Four and the life of Shadowcat were saved. It was Franklin Richards, with the help of Lockheed, who brought both teams to their senses.
[edit] Excalibur
Among the others injured and brought to Muir Isle were Colossus and Nightcrawler, although Colossus left the United Kingdom shortly after being released from MacTaggert's care to join the rest of the X-Men on their mission to battle the Adversary. The X-Men sacrificed their lives to defeat the Adversary, and the battle was televised and broadcast across the world. The X-Men were resurrected later, unknown to the world at large, but chose to keep a low profile and perpetuate the belief that they were still dead. This strategy was enforced to more effectively fight their enemies. This meant avoiding contact with friends and family, including Kitty. Thinking the X-Men were dead, Kitty and Nightcrawler joined Rachel Summers, Captain Britain, and Meggan to form the Britain-based team Excalibur. During her time with Excalibur, Kitty developed a crush on Professor Alistaire Stuart which went unreciprocated since Alistaire was attracted to Rachel. Later, she had an affair with former Black Air agent Pete Wisdom, but they ended their relationship a short time before Excalibur disbanded.
After Excalibur's dissolution, Shadowcat, Nightcrawler and Colossus returned to the X-Men. But as soon as they returned, they faced a group of imposters following Cerebro, in the guise of Professor X. During the six-month gap, Kitty visited Genosha. Whatever she experienced there is unknown (although presumably connected to her father, living on Genosha at the time) but it had a profound effect on her. She cut her hair and began to act rebelliously, also using one of Wolverine's bone claws broken off during battle as a weapon. Kitty remained with the X-Men for a while before leaving after the apparent death of Colossus. Trying to give herself a normal life, she attended the University of Chicago. During this time, her father was killed when Cassandra Nova’s sentinels destroyed Genosha. She was also kidnapped by William Stryker, but the X-Treme X-Men team helped her escape and she assisted them on several missions.
[edit] Back To The X-Men
In the Astonishing X-Men, written by Joss Whedon, at the insistence of Cyclops and Emma Frost, Kitty once again rejoined the X-Men, despite having extreme reservations about working with the former White Queen, given their history. However, this was the primary reason why Frost herself wanted Kitty on the team, as a sort of "safety" should Frost ever revert to type. Frost reasoned that the person who trusted her the least would be most likely to spot such behavior.
On one of the new Astonishing team's first missions, Shadowcat discovered Colossus was alive. After some initial awkwardness, Kitty and Peter resumed dating. In the next arc, the mansion came under attack by an old damaged Sentinel. Cyclops ordered her to take all the students down to the Danger Room. There, they found a dead student called Wing. It was revealed that the Danger Room was alive and Wing came back to life but was possessed by the Danger Room. Eventually, The X-Men got into the Danger Room and Kitty and the students were released, but then the Danger Room took form as a robot which attacked the X-Men but easily defeated them after having fought them a million times in The Danger Room. Kitty was seriously injured during the fight when Danger threw Colossus at Kitty. He turned back to human from, but then Danger threw a spike towards the two and Kitty could not phase, so it impaled the couple. Fortunately, a student called Elixir healed them both and saved them from death.
Cyclops's team then went to Genosha to defend Professor X from Danger. Danger raised the Wild Sentinel that exterminated Genosha from the depths of the sea but Colossus threw Kitty towards the Sentinel and Kitty phased through it and destroyed the Sentinel. After learning that Professor X knew that the Danger Room was alive all along, Kitty, along with the other X-Men, were disappointed in their former mentor and left Genosha.
In the next arc, just as Kitty and Colossus finally consummated their relationship, the latest incarnation of the Hellfire Club begin an assault on Xavier's School. Kitty fulfilled the role that Emma Frost envisioned, personally taking down Frost and imprisoning her, only to fall under a telepathic delusion created by Hellfire member Perfection, who claimed to be the true, unreformed Emma Frost. Under this delusion, Kitty was made to believe that she and Colossus had conceived a child, which was later taken away by the X-Men because its potential mutant abilities were supposedly dangerous. Kitty reacts in the delusion by attempting to rescue the child from a near-inescapable "box" in the depths of the school, unaware that in reality she is freeing an alien entity, "Stuff," who contains the trapped consciousness of Cassandra Nova, the apparent ringleader of this new Hellfire Club. Kitty collapses immediately afterward, driven to unconsciousness by either Perfection or Nova, as Nova's stated intention was to transfer her mind into Kitty's body. A newly awakened Cyclops revealed that the new Hellfire Club, including Perfection and Nova, are actually mental projections created by a piece of Cassandra Nova's consciousness, which became lodged in Emma's mind during the X-Men's last confrontation with her. As Cyclops killed the mental projections, Emma tried to force Kitty to kill her to get rid of Nova. Undeterred, Cassandra Nova switched her focus to attempt to transfer her mind to Hisako Ichiki.
It appears that Nova did not succeeded, as the team was transported to S.W.O.R.D.'s air station en route to Ord's Breakworld - a world that considers Colossus to be the person responsible for its future destruction and wish to kill him by destroying the Earth. S.W.O.R.D. with the help of Cyclops's team wants to strike preemptively against the Breakworld so that they do not get that chance. Enroute, however, S.W.O.R.D.'s spaceship is surrounded by the Breakworld Armada and the team initially splits up as the spaceship crashes to Breakworld. Shadowcat and Colossus, after having to fight their way from a populated area of Breakworld (with the entire populace well aware of who Colossus is) eventually are approached by a Breakworld woman who wants to help them (representing a faction of Breakworld that seeks a departure from Breakworld's gladiator type lifestyle). She takes them to her hideout and gives them a room to stay in as they wait to be contacted by the rest of the team. While Kitty and Colossus wait, Kitty takes the opportunity to pick up their romantic relationship were they left of and to discuss with a somewhat surprised Colossus (who has never seen this side of Kitty) the change in her - namely that she no longer wishes to wait for things to calm down to be happy because she realizes that this will never happen with the X-Men.
It is important to note that Astonishing X-Men arcs are, at present, a bit out of continuity with the rest of X-Men books and Kitty and the rest of the X-Men are written by other writers to be currently on Earth being involved in the Marauders attacks on the X-Men and the Hulk's return arcs. Kitty, with the help of Colossus, is seen protecting the students of X-mansion from one such attack by Marauders, although unsuccessfully.
[edit] World War Hulk
When the Hulk attacks the X-Mansion, Kitty helps the X-Men in trying to stop him, but is defeated.
Affiliation: X-Men
