Tildie Soames is a fictional character appearing in

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. She first appeared in ''

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. Tildie has the ability to manifest her nightmares as real, monstrous entities. After inadvertently killing her parents and a police officer, she was 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 ''

'' vol. 3 #1 (July 2004), and was created by

and

Fictional character biography

Tildie is a young mutant girl who inadvertently killed her parents, and then one of two police officers, on the night her abilities first activated. Afterwards, she is imprisoned in Benetech Labs and loses her abilities to

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's mutant cure. Ord then kidnaps Tildie before the

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rescue her and return her to Kavita and Benetech.''Astonishing X-Men'' Vol. 3 #1. Marvel Comics.

Powers and abilities

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

In other media

* Tildie Soames appears in '' Wolverine and the X-Men'', voiced by Danielle Judovits. This version is initially a prisoner of the Mutant Response Division until being freed by

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and taken in by the X-Men so she can master her powers. * Tildie Soames appears in the ''Astonishing X-Men'' motion comic, voiced by Michel Friedman.

References

External links

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