Kitty Pryde
Kitty Pryde is a comic book character that first appeared in X-Men #129
Kitty Pryde is a mutant who havethe ability to phase through solid materials. She also becam the poster child of the X-Men through the years.
Origin
The X-Men were abruptly attacked by mercenaries sent by Emma Frost. The X-Men battled them and defeated them easily, but Emma used her telepathy to freeze everyone. Kitty was able to slip away during the confusion and was able to contact Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Nightcrawler. They arrived soon after and Kitty helped them rescue the captured X-Men.
When Kitty's parents got worried about their daughter who had been missing for a day, Xavier brought her back and to her furious parents. Kitty's parents would not allow their daughter to join Xavier's school and hated him for the danger they felt he represented to their daughter. Jean then erased their memories and replaced them with false ones, thus changing their perception of Professor Xavier. Kitty was then allowed to join the team and became the youngest X-Man ever.
Early X-Men Years
While being an X-Man Kitty Pryde developed feelings for Colossus. She also became close friends with his sister Illyana Rasputin. Kitty was also uncomfortable around mutants with irregular physical features such as Nightcrawler. Eventually she overcame this problem as she got to know him, and the two became close friends. During a mission in space, Kitty befriended an alien dragon named Lockheed. They gained a psychic bond with each other and Lockheed became extremely loyal to Kitty. As a result, the two are nearly inseparable.
Kitty began dating Colossus but their relationship wouldn't last long. Colossus developed feelings for an alien named Zsaji who he met during the Secret Wars. At first he thought the feelings were due to the side-effects of her healing powers but when he returned to Earth, he realized that his feelings were true and he started to grieve since she had died. He confessed to Kitty that he had not been faithful and cheated on her with Zsaji, this ultimately ended their relationship.
When Kitty's father, Carmen Pryde, runs into trouble with the Yakuza, Kitty went to Japan to investigate. She was kidnapped and brainwashed by a mob boss and a ninja named Ogun. They made her into an assassin and she single-handily killed entire groups of ninja. Ogun then ordered her to kill Wolverine. Kitty nearly did kill Wolverine before his friend, Yukio, knocked her senses back. She realized that she had been turned into a killing machine and wanted to run away. Wolverine stoped her and forced her to face her problem. Kitty, Wolverine, and Yukio then battled Ogun and defeated him. Kitty decided not to kill him which revealed to Wolverine that she was herself again. Ogun tried to kill her but was impaled on Wolverine's claws as he passed through the phased Kitty. Together, Wolverine and Kitty helped her father and then returned to New York City. The two of them have since developed a big brother/little sister relationship. Kitty also adopted the code name Shadowcat after this event.
Maturing Years
During the Mutant Massacre Kitty was badly injured by Harpoon. Her injury made her become intangible and she was rushed to Muir Island to be treated by Dr. Moira MacTaggert. Moria was able to stop her from losing physical substance which would have made her cease to exist, but was not able to do more. Kitty was still intangible and had to make an extreme effort of concentration to become solid. At first they went to Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) for help but he declined claiming that he did not know what he could do for her. The X-Men turned to Doctor Doom and it angered the Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four then tried to stop Dr. Doom from treating Kitty and they battled the X-Men. Franklin Richards stopped the 2 teams from fighting and made everyone come to their senses. Reed Richards saw the error of his ways and decided to help Kitty, saving her life.
During a fight with Adversary (Kitty was not present), the X-Men made a sacrificing move to defeat the Adversary. This was televised live and it showed the X-Men being killed while defeating Adversary. They were later resurrected and decided to keep a low profile so they could have the advantage on their enemies. This meant they could not contact friends, family, or even Kitty. She left and helped form the team Excalibur. Later, Colossus regained his feelings for her and went to England to get her back. Unfortunately, Kitty was with someone else at that time, namely Pete Wisdom. It took a while, but he accepted it and joined Excalibur. The team eventually disbanded and Kitty returned to America to rejoin the X-Men.
Kitty remained an X-Man for some time, but when Colossus sacrificed his life to host the cure for the Legacy Virus, Kitty was distraught and left the team. She took his ashes back to Russia where he was born and raised and spread them across his family farm. Afterwards she retired from her career as a superhero and attended college in Chicago, working part-time in order to pay for her tuition. It was at this time that she also began to search for her father who she discovered had been in Genosha during the Sentinel attack that completely decimated the island nation's mutant population. Despite her reservations toward acting like a superhero, the rising anti-mutant sentiment and the threat it posed to her friends and family began to convince Kitty of her responsibility to once again use her powers and knowledge for the greater good. She also found a clip of her father in her messages sent before his death, telling her to make him proud. She then teamed with her friends, including Karma and Shola Inkosi, and fought back against attacks by Wild Sentinels and the Purity anti-mutant faction.
Kitty was then captured by Reverend William Stryker and his goons who injected her with psychotropic drugs in an attempt to convert her to their cause. She managed to resist them and nearly killed Stryker, but instead allowed him to merge with an A.I. in an attempt to teach him about humanity. Afterwards, Kitty was freed by the X-Men and was influential in helping Storm's team recover Destiny's Diaries.
Return to the X-Men
Even with Cyclops and Emma now being co-headmasters of the school, Kitty decided to rejoin the X-Men. She still hated Emma for what happened in the past, but Emma claimed that this was the reason she chose Kitty to be on the Astonishing team. Because if Emma decided to return to her evil roots, the person that trusts her the least would be the one to notice first. On a mission, Kitty discovers that Colossus is still alive. There was a brief moment of awkwardness, but everything turned out fine and they resumed their relationship. They also finally made love for the first time.
During the crisis with the Hellfire Club, Kitty did exactly what Emma thought she would do. Kitty beat Emma and trapped her deep underground. Then Kitty was caught under a telepathic spell by Emma's evil version called Perfection. It gave Kitty the illusion that she and Colossus had a baby and the X-Men were taking it away to kill it because it was too dangerous. She was eventually lead to a box somewhere inside the school, she phased through it an took it out thinking it was her baby. Still not knowing anything, she actually freed an alien entity that contained Cassandra Nova's consciousness. Nova jumped over into Emma's mind and Emma manipulated Kitty into trying to shoot her to kill Nova. Kitty refuses to kill her and Nova then tries to leap into one of the students. Everything was then interrupted by SWORD and teleported to Breakworld.
While traveling to Breakworld, where as Agent Brand informs them is a missile pointed to earth which she needs the X-men to disable, Kitty is still feeling the after effects of Emma's mind game and as such rejects Peter. After their act in Brands ship and subsequently eject in one of the escape pods that comes a part in the air she holds on to Peter and phases. However as she phases thru the first building she is affected by the strange Breakworld metal that is used and Peter then takes the brunt of their fall to the surface.
Not much later Kitty and Peter after fighting of many of the Breakworld inhabitants and soldiers, who are certain Peter is there to bring about the destruction of their world as was foretold. They are led to Aghanne, a former warrior of Breakworld who has compassion for her worlds sick and/or weak which is considered as close to sin for their race of warriors, by one of her men and are offer shelter for the night before they are to rendezvous with the others.
It is there that they make love again after Kitty explains to a now confused Peter that they should live in the now.
Meeting up with the team their first attempt of reaching the missile is halted. Agent Brand also informs Kitty that Lockheed is in fact an intelligent alien species that was in fact their mole within the X-men in return for SWORD help with pressing issue back on his homeworld. Scott devises a plan B which includes him dying and being brought back to live by their enemy.
With the bullet quickly approaching and Earth's Mightiest Heroes being unable to stop it Kitty summoned all her power and bonded with the bullet and phased the entire bullet straight-through the planet and continues to drift though space. Speculation between Dr. Strange, Reed Richards and other intellects believe that she has fused with the bullet.
Powers
Kitty Pryde has the ability to pass through solid matter by allowing the molecules of her body to travel through the space between the molecules of whatever solid she is traveling through.However, she still has to breathe while phasing, so she must hold her breath while passing through solid matter. She can also render other people and objects intangible by touching them. When phasing through extremely dense materials, such as adamantium, Kitty experiences pain and disorientation as well as those with dense metals in their bodies (Wolverine, X-23, etc) should she phase through them. For some unknown reason, when Kitty phased through Garokk, it caused him intense pain. The reason for this is unclear.
She can disrupt electronic devices by passing through them in this manner without harm to herself. When she uses this ability in the opposite direction she can levitate herself by walking on air, as if she were walking up a flight of stairs. In her intangible state she is weak against certain energies, psionic and mystical attacks. While in phase form Kitty has demonstrated a remarkable resistance to psychic probing and psionic attacks, but she can be hurt by The Soul Sword, and remains vulnerable to magic-based attacks.
According to the book The Science of the X-Men, one theory that could potentially explain Kitty Pryde's power of intangibility is that of "spintronics". This theory is based on electrostatic repulsion which is the force that keeps subatomic objects from passing through one another. Electrons naturally repel each other and instead of positive or negative charge, electrons have what is called "spin", which is based on a random pattern of up and down. If Kitty can rearrange her molecules into an organized manner so that they are "polarized" with the objects she is trying to pass through then she can pull her molecules through objects (like a molecular magnet) by controlling the spin on all of the particles in her body. By reversing the polarity on air, she can then airwalk by making the air around her much harder. This also explains why she disrupts electronic systems since she basically polarizes the spin of electrons in objects she passes through and drastically changes the conducting forces in circuitry.
Skills
Kitty is also an extremely adept fighter who has mastered several martial arts, including karate, aikido, ninjutsu, and Krav Maga. She is also a genius with applied technology and computer science, being skilled with computer hardware design and use. She speaks fluent English, Japanese, Russian, and the alien language of Shi'ar.
Kitty is also an accomplished pilot of jet and piston engine aircraft and is adept with interstellar vehicles.
Alternate Universes
Ultimate Kitty Pryde with Ultimate Spider-mAnEarth-1610 - The Ultimate Universe
Kitty Pryde is a 14 year old girl and her powers only recently manifested. Her mother seeks Professor Xavier and allows her to go to his school as long as she does not do any Danger Room training, or go on missions. Kitty joins the X-Men anyway, which makes her the youngest X-Men ever. She begins dating Iceman but when Iceman starts a fixation with Rogue, Kitty dumps him. She eventually begins a relationship with Spider-Man and decides to hang out with him and help him fight crime.
Peter is captured by Shocker so MJ asks Kitty for help. Kitty tries to call the FF´s Torch but no one´s home. She runs to the police with some footage of what had happened and asked for help. She made a deal and together they found Spider-Man. Kitty gives props to MJ for trying to find Peter calling her an awesome girlfriend. Peter answered "So were you" .
A power enhancing drug named banshee started circulating around mutans so Shadowcat and Spider-Man started taking care of the Screamers. Wolverine arrived and went to Peter for help on finding out why he was positive for taking the drug. While Pater worked on sorting it out Kitty thanked Wolverine for the note he gave her and told him she didn´t know he felt that way. Peter told Logan that he wasthe source of the drug and then the X-Men took Wolverine after denying access to go with them to Kitty.
20 years in the future Kitty rejoins the X-Men and gains Spider-Man's powers. After the events of Ultimatum she and the rest of the X-Men go back in time to ttry and stop it and arrive at the Baxter Building 20 years back.
Age of Apocalypse ShadowcatEarth-295 - The Age of Apocalypse
In the Age of Apocalypse universe, Kitty Pryde's parents were killed in Chicago and she was forced to grow up alone. Eventually, Kitty would be forced to join Apocalypse's army and serve him. However, Kitty would be rescued from Apocalypse's control by Colossus. She would be introduced to Magneto and the X-Men, where Magneto would appoint Wolverine as her mentor. Kitty would develop into an incredibly great fighter, and also made retractable claws in order to be more like Wolverine who trained her. Kitty and Colossus would also eventually marry. In this universe Kitty was accidentally but tragically killed by Colossus himself due to his obsession with the protection of his sister.
House of M Kitty PrydeEarth-58163 House of M
Kitty is a young thirteen year old girl who have taken college at a young age due to her unparalleled genius level intellect. At the age of fourteen, Kitty have experienced migraines because of her manifesting mutation. She then have to stop attending classes because she became intangible. After a mutant counselling and having total control of her mutant ability, she returned to class and graduated as a Valedictorian. During her eighteenth birthday, Sebastian Shaw approached her to join SHIELD but declined. She then found a career in Clinton Elementary School in Ohio as a Sixth Grade Teacher.
Kitty Pryde: The EndX-Men: The End
Kitty Pryde was candidate for being Chicago's mayor along with Rachel Summers that served as her campaign manager during the mayoral election. Despite being a mutant, many humans supported her. For this reason, she was left in Earth with other X-Men while others are sent to Shi'ar to fight Cassandra Nova who was the host of the Phoenix during that time. . Unlike the other X-Men who was put into jeopardy and some have died, Kitty was among those mutants who survived. The remaining X-Men was then shown after 20 years. Kitty Pryde became the President of the United States of America and the mother of Meredith, Doug and Sara, though, their father was not revealed. Her already grown up pet dragon Lockheed also remains as her friend. Her political rival Alice have arrived to apologize to her and accept the fact that Pryde have been a good leader despite her mutantcy. She then made a speech in front of all the remaining X-Men and their families. Katherine Pryde then disbanded the X-Men saying that their worst enemies are themselves. The new lives of the X-Men have started for raising families and living a life that they wanted since the days before they joined the X-Men. Also in the speech, she recognized Professor X's advocacy of a peaceful co-exixtence between mutants and humans, their memories during their X-Men years. She also said that it was not their end but their beginning.
Exiles: CatExiles
A version of Kitty Pryde codenamed Cat has joined the team in Exiles. She is a younger version there than her Earth-616 counterpart and wears a different uniform, but she essentially has the same powers, skills and genius level I.Q. In her first appearance, Cat helped Psylocke defeat Dr. Doom's soldiers, and later helped to rescue Blink, Morph, and Sabretooth from being lost in the multiverse. She has now become the teams computer systems expert. An earlier alternate version of Kitty also appeared in Exiles, but this version was killed with Colossus when they were blasted into space by Hyperion.
Magik: CatMagik
Fairy Tale: ColleenKitty Pryde's Fairy Tale
Kitty Pryde told Illyana a fairy tale that was actually an alternate timeline. She casts herself as Pirate Kitty a.k.a. Colleen as others call her. Unlike her othe versions, she is only a regular human without any mutant abilities. She operates the Abdul Alhazred and landed to Nhu Yorkh. During her arrival with Colossus, they have been chased but Colossus' powers were enough for them to escape. Soon after, they have met a wizard named Xavier and his ally, a prince who was named Cyclops. Kitty and Colossus were approached for their travel acommodations. They also said that they are seeking for an evil entity named Dark Phoenix who was once a princess named Lady Jean Grey. Knowing that they will never have a chance on bringing Xavier back, they climbed to Lockheed and landed on a peaceful place where they have met lots of X-Men counterparts of that reality. The Dark Phoenix then appeared and threatened their safety. With their joined efforts, they were able to defeat him and has Xavier use his magic, her soul was retrieved by her rightful body. After the events, they have met Nightcrawler who discovered that the story was not just made-up by Kitty Pryde but actually an alternate reality. Kitty Pryde along with Colossus and Lockheed have continued their careers as pirates.
MultiverseEarth-597 Multiverse
Kitty Pryde's hair was shaved and her forehead was tattooed by the Star of David. Moira Mctaggert said that she worked for the Lightning star that became the only reason for her to live since she is more of a dead ghost than a living person. It was revealed that she is only a ghost ressurected by both science and magic. Her demonic facial expression is also apparent while using her powers which also gives her the ability to knock down human life causing them to be unconsciouss.
X-Babies
Kitty Pryde was converted into an X-Baby. Unlike her other versions, she is not very close to Lockheed. She is the youngest X-Baby and was called Shadowkitty.
Earth-209 What if The X-Men Stayed in Asgard?
The X-Men together with the New Mutants have visited Asgard. Wolfsbane then offered them to stay. The X-men voted whether they will stay or not. However, some X-Men including Shadowcat have left Asgard, though, leading them into a new era.
Earth-9112Earth-9112 What if Phoenix Had Not Died and Rose Again?
For a long time, Kitty Pryde have become an X-Man who was based in Xavier's School. When the team found out about the Sentinels which were created to have a mutant genocide, the X-Men planned of their attack against Master Mold. Colossu hurled her inside Master Mold and phased through. Kitty then solidified and exploded with Master Mold.
Earth-89112 What if X-men Lost Inferno?
During a battle against Sy'm, magic blasts started to attack causing Shadowcat ang other superhumans to be set free. Dr. Strange then opened a portal for them to escape. Only a few heroes were left to defendEarth as they follow orders from the mystics. Spider-Man, She-Hulk, Shadowcat and Human Torch were among those few remaining heroes. Following the murder of Human Torch from Sy'm, Wolverine attempted to slay Dr. Strange while a battle is occuring. Shadowcat attempted to save him by phasing through, though, it led to her death from the hands of Wolverine. Following her death, it caused Wolverine's sanity to come back.
Earth-523004 Professor X and Magneto Formed the X-Men Together
Earth-99476 Dino-World
Kitty Pryde in this reality is a dinosaur like humanoid known as Shadowcompsognathus. She was sent to Savage Land along with other Exiles to look for the lost humans and the missing Fantastic Five. She was then imprisoned by Invisiguanodon's force fields in a high evolutionary citadel. With her powers, she easily phased through and knocked her foe out. She then defeated Arachnysaur after making her web shooters function unwell. She also crossovered to Earth-616 to return the Griswalds.
Earth-95120 Marvel Riot, Age of Apocalypse
Shadowcat is a member of the Generation Next that was led by Colossus in order to save her sister Illyana Rasputin. Following some events, they encountered Sugar Man.
Earth-811 Days of Future Past
A gadget called Widget which was fed with Trash have appeared in this reality and was later revealed to be Kate Pryde- Rasputin. Rachel Summers attempted to bring her to her own body but have failed since it will have to create a new past or an alternate reality for the two. Though, Kate Pryde have returned to her younger body and found out that Rachel was already dead. The Phoenix Force have then arrived. Kate ran for her life. She then persuaded the entity to bring Rachel to a reality which recaps the bad experiences that she wants to escape. Rachel have disappeared leaving Kate with the Sentinels who have attempted to use the warp to have rachel back. Though, Kate have phased and merged with the warp. Kate have rest in a spherical and metallic body created by Tweedledope. After Rachel have retrieved her memories, she along with Kate as Widget have returned to Rachel's home reality as the Excaliburs.
Earth-2182 Nocturne's Home Reality
Kitty Pryde is a member of Professor W's X-men and was assigned as a mentor to Nightcrawler's daughter Nocturne. The X-Men then have to fight Apocalypse who is operating a Chronal Disruptor that would probably cause danger to humans and mutants. With her powers, the X-Men assigned Kitty to phase through the machine and short circuit it. Unfortunately, the machine have exploded together with Kitty who attempted to phase through. The X-Men then looked for her expecting that she was already dead. Instead, they found Kitty a lot younger. They said that she looks as young as she was before enrolling at Xavier's.
Earth-9997 Earth X
In the Earth X reality Kitty ironically dies taking a bullet for Colossus.
Earth-2149 Zombiverse
The X-Men have been attacked by a zombifies Alpha Flight. After the event, she was later seen infected by the plague and was converted into a zombie.
Earth-1298 Mutant X
Kitty was a former member of the X-Men. During a mission to rescue Storm from Dracula, Storm became a vamprie turning her into Bloodstorm. Kitty was forced to kill her but have failed. Instead, she was turned into Bloodstrom's servant and became a vampire. After Bloodstorm's defeat from the Green Goblin, Forge who also became Bloodstorm's servant have fled away and was approached by Sebastian Shaw. Kitty then became the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club.
Earth-1003 Professor X's Secret Service
Kitty Pryde along with Magneto and Quicksilver were massacred in the peace summit.
Kitty Pryde is already an adult. She then led a team of X-Men composed of her pet dragon Lockheed and the children of her former X-Men team mates.
Kate Pryde is a friend and team mate of Mimic in his home reality.
As Galactus started a threat to humanity, superhumans including the X-Men have joined forces to stop him. Kitty is a member of the X-Men with her pet dragon Lockheed during that time.
Kitty Pryde is the only survivor from the destruction of the Institute by the United States government. Hyperion have saw her hiding in a locker. She was then protected by Hyperion from Vision who attempte on killing her. She fell in love to Colossus who was a member of the Weapon X. For the Weapon X to move to another reality, Hyperion haveto send them to space. Due to loss of oxygen, the two of them have died.
Earth-9591 Ruins
Kitty was imprisoned along with other mutants. To be free, she attempted to phase through but was stuckedhalf-way through the door. she then lost three feet of intestines during her attempt.
Television/Movie
Spider-man and his Amazing FriendsSpider-Man and his Amazing Friends
Pryde of The X-Men
Kitty was a 14 year old girl who have arrived to Xavier Institute with Professor X's invitation to come. First, she was afraid as she en
Pryde of the X-Men
ters the Institute. She thought that no one is in the place when a projection of Professor X came to guide her to Danger Room. Kitty saw the X-Men and classified them as mutants. She wondered how he detected her since no one knows her powers, not even her parents. He then revealed that he have found Kitty through the Cerebra which detected her unique brain waves as a mutant. Kitty's mutability was then confirmed.The Professor introduced her to the X-Men. At first, Kitty was so afraid to Nightcrawler because of his inhuman appearance. Wolverine is the member who would refuse to let Kitty join the team. The brotherhood then attacked the Mansion. Kitty was then assigned to guard the power circuit by phasing away from the Brotherhood. However, Kitty have failed when the Brotherhood came to steal the power circuit. When the X-Men arrived , the power circuit was stolen. She apologized and they understood except Wolverine who blamed her. To retrieve the machine, the X-Men have to go to space. Because she is just a newbie and was not trained well, Professor recommended that she should be left in safety. Kitty then sneaked and went to their base of operation uninvited. Professor X then detected her mind and let Kitty out of the closet where she is hiding. Together with the other X-Men, they have faced the Brotherhood and only her and Nightcrawler have been left vacant to face Magneto. She have the disrupted the machine with her powers yet not stopping another side effect of what she have done. Nightcrawler used his own body to recharge the machine and save earth from doom. Nightcrawler teleported out of the space ship, yet, Earth's atmosphere will get him burned. Presuming he was dead, Kitty cried and apologized not knowing that he was alive as he teleported inside their base. Storm then confronted what can Wolverine say as Kitty saved the entire humanity. Wolverine refused to state his response directly, but it is obvious that he realized how wrong he is about Kitty.
X-men EvolutionX-Men Evolution
X-men FilmsX-Men Films
Wolverine and the X-Men: Kitty PrydeWolverine and the X-Men
Kitty Pride is about 19 years old in this series, for she was shown leaving for the island of Genosha alone without any adult supervision and states at a much mature level than most of her previous incarnations in animated and or live action films. She was first seen in a Danger Room mission with Colossus and Nightcrawler. When the X Men get Bobby on the team he tells then that Kitty is heading to Genosha, they find her enroute and she goes with them on sight. She's stated her desire rejoining the X-Men many times throughout the season, and has proved to be a most valuable member. She often speaks the truth fairly well, and even stumped Wolverine on several occasions.
Kitty Pryde is also the current love interest of fellow mutant, Bobby Drake. He has attempted on occasions to ask Pryde out, but has so far, failed miserably at doing so. For example, in one of the episodes, Iceman asked Kitty out, and Pryde in return, answered with pure snark, basically turning the guy down. Also, through the instructions of Wolverine, Pryde was stuck taking care of mutant, Tildie Soams, in which the end result was her becoming the big sister to the poor mutant. Pryde also participated in the final fight against the Hellfire Club, Magneto's Sentinels, and the Phoenix in the firstseason's finale, falling alongside her comrade Kurt Wagner. Overall, the characters of Wolverine, Kurt Wanger, and Bobby Drake have been seen the closest to Pryde, besides Piotr, who was only shon in one episode.
Games
X-Men Legends 2
Kitty in a non playable character. Kitty was shown staying near the Morlock Tunnels after Apocalypse have attacked the Institute. In this game, she is also the girlfriend of Colossus and is jealous to Scarlet Witch.
| Super Name: | Kitty Pryde |
| Real Name: | Katherine Anne Pryde |
| Aliases: |
Shadowcat Sprite Ariel Cat Kate Pryde Katya Suburbia Half-Pint Kätzchen Pryde Widget Black Queen Katherine Anne Pryde-Rasputin |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| Gender: | Female |
| Character Type: | Mutant |
| 1st Appearance: | X-Men #129 |
| Appears in: | 808 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
