Pre-Zero Hour

Tinya Wazzo was born on the extra-dimensional world of Bgztl. While people there were able to pass through walls at will, she was the only one who was able to pass into our world. Upon doing so, she promptly joined the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Through her training in the Legion, Phantom Girl became a formidable hand-to-hand fighter, able to phase out vulnerable parts of her body while others - such as her fists - could remain solid. She was also able to move in and out of the Phantom Zone, a prison dimension of Kryptonian design.

She and Ultra Boy formed one of the most enduring couples of the Legion. They were only broken up when she apparently died in a shuttle explosion. In reality, she had been hurled back in time where, with serious amnesia, she joined Vril Dox's L.E.G.I.O.N. under the code-name Phase. She was returned to Ultra Boy by the Time Trapper just before the Zero Hour effect erased their universe.

Post-Zero Hour

Tinya was again early to join the Legion, though this time she took the name Apparition. She joined after she helped the Legion foil an assassination plot at a UP conference. Her mother, the Bgztlian ambassador to the UP, was never happy with her daughter's choice, and even less happy that she would fall in love with Ultra Boy, a hero from the slums of Rimbor.

As before, their romance was cut short by Tinya's apparent death - she was killed by the Daxamites in their attack on Earth. Her spirit survived, however, inside the body of her lover. Once she was released, only Jo could see her. This was partially remedied when they were thrown back to the 20th century after a battle with the Emerald Eye of Ekron. Through the use of a Bgztllian touchstone, Tinya gained visibility - and the knowledge that there was another person just like her: Phase of the L.E.G.I.O.N. It was revealed that Tinya and Phase's father had been a Carggite, and that his ability to triplicate himself had passed to her. When she was an infant, however, he took her other two bodies to pay gambling debts. Because she was only half-Carggite, she survived, and never knew the truth. Phase had somehow been thrown into the past, with no knowledge of who she was or where she was from.

Upon being re-assimilated with Phase, Tinya gained physicality once more, though the fate of her third body is unknown. Jo and Tinya were married while in the 20th Century.

When they returned to the 30th century, Tinya and Jo resumed their relationship, which still angered Tinya's mother to no end. They were so close that one was rarely seen without the other, and to prove that she could survive without Jo, Tinya took a long mission in deep space. When she returned, she found that the rest of the Legion, including her husband, had been possessed by the Blight.

She was instrumental in helping Jo throw off the Blight's influence, but soon lost him again when he and other Legionnaires vanished into a space-time rift. Prior to Ultra Boy's disappearance, she became pregnant. She delivered the baby on Rimbor, with the assistance and protection of Timber Wolf, a leader of one of Rimbor's gangs. When the lost Legionnaires returned to Earth, so did she, bringing their son, named Cub, with her.

Her relationship with Jo was strained when she discovered that he'd developed romantic feelings for Saturn Girl while they were away (due in no small part to Saturn Girl's use of her telepathy to make Jo believe that Tinya had been lost with them), and the fact the she and Cub were guarded by Timber Wolf almost constantly. Timber Wolf's being from a gang that was rival to Jo's didn't help.

Current Continuity

Tinya Wazzo is once again using the Phantom Girl name, but her history is slightly different. Bgtzl is a world that is slightly out of phase with this one. She is able to pass back and forth between these worlds at will, but can often be seen in both, regardless of what she might be doing in one. This can lead to strange situations and misunderstandings with her teammates.

Phantom Girl and the Legion of Super-Heroes

DCAU

In the DC Animated Universe she made her first appearance in Superman: The Animated Series through a cameo appearance in the episode entitled "New Kids in Town". She later appears as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Far From Home".

She also appears as a main member of the Legion of Super-Heroes on the television series that bears the name, Legion of Super-Heroes. Her role in the show differs slightly from her comic book persona. For example, in the cartoon version, Phantom Girl is the youngest of the group and is desperate to prove herself to the rest of the team.