The first appearance of (Earth-616) Blink was in Uncanny X-Men #317. The first appearance of Exiles Blink was in X-Men Alpha.

Blink and Sabretooth

Origin

Blink with the Tallus

For some time Clarice had to work in the Core, an enormous power plant, but when her mutant powers manifested she was brought to Sinister's twisted genetic researcher, the Dark Beast. He refined her powers, but was unable to experiment further as Sabretooth led a strike force in a raid on Dark Beast's labs, resulting in the freedom of the captives. Sabretooth adopted Clarice as his own daughter, and trained her to serve as a member of the X-Men. As she grew older, she began to act more on on instinct than direct orders (infuriating team leader Magneto), but her heart and skill proved herself as an valued X-Man. During her time as an X-Man she became very close friends with another X-Man, Morph.

Exiles

The first Exiles lineup

Blink found herself being pulled from her reality just moments before the Human High Council sent nukes over Northern America (at the end of the Age of Apocalypse storyline). She ended up in a desert landscape, and the first person she met here would be Nocturne, who she would be close friends with. There was also Morph, and Blink immediately ran up and hugged him, but Morph didn't even recognize her. Three other people were also present in the desert: Mimic, Thunderbird and Magnus and they soon began to realize that they all were from different realities. What are the odds?

A being calling itself the Timebroker appeared. He claimed to be made up of their collective subconscious. (It was later revealed that he was a holographic interface used by the alien race called the Timebreakers.) The Timebroker informed them all that they had become unhinged in time and would now have to work for him in repairing broken realities, or face horrible consequences. In Blink’s case she would never have existed.

Blink was given a device called the Tallus, and thus became team leader of the group that eventually became known as the Exiles. So the Exiles got sent to a new world and their first mission was to find their greatest leader, which they interpreted to be Charles Xavier. That however was very wrong as they became aware of after rescuing him from a prison. This worlds Xavier was evil and wanted to kill all humans. The mission ended with team-mate Magnus sacrificing himself to contain a bomb, and Blink became painfully aware that this new job was serious business.

Blink soon developed a romantic relationship with team-mate Mimic.

After many missions Blink was informed by the Timebroker that her task was completed and that she could go home and she was replaced on the team by Illyana Rasputin. She wasn't actually sent home, but to a reality where they had been on a mission before. After Sunfire died she was put back on the team just in time for a fun little mission where the Exiles was set against rivalling Weapon X team and told that only six of the twelve would move on. While fighting the invulnerable and infinitely more powerful Hyperion she managed to beat him by teleporting his own heat vision blast back at himself, effectively crippling him and exposing his spine. Weapon X member Gambit finished Hyperion off by charging up Magik's Soul Sword and thrusting it into Hyperions exposed spine, killing them both.

Bye, bye. See you later!

Currently

Blink along with Nocturne and T-Bird have taken a break from the Exiles and are on vacation in Heather Hudson's home reality - Earth-3470.

Blink blinking

Powers

Blink is a mutant with the ability to create teleportation portals that can move objects or groups of people short or vast distances. Her limit is not known, but she has teleported as far as from Earth to the moon. She uses her powers offensively by focusing her teleportation ability creating spears which she can throw with high accuracy. The spears will expand into portals at her will, teleporting all or a portion of an enemy or object, or merely stunning them and she usually keeps a quiver of spears on her back.

She is very skilled with her teleportation powers, and has on several occasions defeated much more powerful opponents by redirecting their own powers back at them. Her teleporting makes a characteristic 'blink' sound, hence her name.

Throwing teleportation spears

She has proven to be a very skilled hand to hand fighter, and she is also very agile, though it's unknown whether this is a part of her mutant powers.

She also has purple skin, pink hair, green eyes without visible pupils and purple markings on her face.

She formerly wore the Tallus.

Status

Sabretooth - foster father

Apocalypse - ancestor

Frederick Slade - great great grandfather

Miss Ferguson - great-great-grandmother

Chamber - distant cousin.

Earth-616 Blink

Alternate realities

Earth-616

Blink did exist in the main timeline but she was very inexperienced, and couldn't use her teleportation abilities properly. Instead of teleporting she cut anything caught in her teleportation field to pieces. She seemingly died in a battle with the Phalanx Harvest when she tried to teleport them both.

Earth-33629

There is also a Blink on Earth-33629 that are with an alternate team of Exiles.

Earth-957

Another Blink exists in Earth-957 where she is an apprentice of the In-Betweener.

Earth-1610

Blink has so far only made cameo appearances in the Ultimate universe.

Video Games

Blink appears as a non-playable character in X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse. She teleports the player between missions.

Creators

Blink was created by Scott Lobdell and Joe Madureira