Tildie Soames


Tildie Soames is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3 #1 and was created by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.
Tildie is a mutant with the ability to manifest her nightmares as real, monstrous entities. After inadvertently killing her parents and a police officer, she is used as a test subject for a mutant "cure" and later taken hostage by Ord before she is rescued by the X-Men.

Publication history

Tildie Soames first appeared in Astonishing X-Men vol. 3 #1, and was created by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.

Fictional character biography

Tildie is a young mutant girl who possesses the ability to manifest her nightmares as tangible creatures. When her abilities first activated, she inadvertently killed both her parents and a police officer who was called in to investigate. Tildie is apprehended and taken to Benetech Labs, where Kavita Rao uses her to develop a mutant cure. Tildie loses her abilities to the cure and stays at the labs with Rao.
One night, Ord of the Breakworld kidnaps Tildie and uses her as a hostage. The X-Men and S.H.I.E.L.D. confront Ord and rescue Tildie, who is returned to Benetech.

Powers and abilities

Tildie possessed the ability to manifest her nightmares as red energy monsters and release powerful blasts of red energy. This additionally gave her immunity to telepathy and limited immunity to other mutants' powers.

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