| Negasonic Teenage Warhead | |
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 Negasonic Teenage Warhead as depicted inDeadpool & the Mercs for Money #7 (January 2017) Art by Iban Coello and Nolan Woodard. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | New X-Men #115 (August 2001) |
| Created by | Grant Morrison Frank Quitely |
| In-story information | |
| Full name | Eloise "Ellie" Olivia Phimister[1] |
| Species | Human mutant |
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| Notable aliases | Warhead, Megasonic Endless Godhead[2] |
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Eloise Olivia "Ellie"Phimister) is asuperheroine appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. Created byGrant Morrison andFrank Quitely, the character first appeared inNew X-Men #115 (2001).[3][4] She is named after the song "Negasonic Teenage Warhead" byMonster Magnet.[5][6] She belongs to a subspecies of humans calledmutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. Negasonic Teenage Warhead's appearance and powers were eventually altered in the comics to match her appearance in theDeadpool films with the third one set in theMarvel Cinematic Universe, in which she was portrayed byBrianna Hildebrand.[7][8]
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead first appeared inNew X-Men #115 (2001), and was created by writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely.[9]
Negasonic Teenage Warhead's Infinity Series comics #44 - #49, originally released in 2022,[10] were collected and re-printed as a solo comic in November 2024.[11][12]
Ellie Phimister was aGenoshan teenager and a student ofEmma Frost's telepathy class. She experiences a vision of a massacre on Genosha shortly beforeCassandra Nova'sWild Sentinels appear and kill her and 16 million people.[13] Frost survives due to her secondary mutation activating and transforming her into diamond, and retrieves Ellie's corpse.[14]
An illusionary version of Negasonic Teenage Warhead created by Frost later appears as a member of theHellfire Club.[15][16][17][18]
InNecrosha,Selene andEli Bard temporarily resurrect Negasonic Teenage Warhead and other mutants using theTransmode Virus. Unlike other resurrected mutants, Ellie does not fall under Selene's control.[19] She was presumed killed along with the other dead mutants when the Black Queen absorbed their souls or died again after Selene was slain.[20]
InMarvel Now!, Ellie resurfaced sometime later, alive and well, having begun a mundane life inAlbuquerque.Deadpool and theMercs for Money capture her at the behest of an organization called Umbral Dynamics, unaware that the group intends to siphon her power into thePresence.[21][22] After her rescue and the defeat of Presence, Negasonic Teenage Warhead adopts a newpunk-inspired look and joinsDomino's incarnation of the Mercs for Money alongsideHit-Monkey.[23][24]
Negasonic Teenage Warhead later inadvertently creates an alternate timeline where the conflict between theInhumans and X-Men never ended. After Deadpool is mortally wounded, Negasonic travels back in time to avert the timeline.[25]
Negasonic is the only one of the Mercs to remain in Deadpool's employ after his defection toHydra duringSecret Empire and subsequent memory wipe afterThe Despicable Deadpool, helping him run a new business called "Deadpool, Gun/Swords for Hire".[26]
After theKrakoan Age ended and Ellie left the island community long before its dissolution. She went back to partnering up with the now amnesiac Wade Wilson with his merc service while contemplating the harrowing nature of relationships due to her future sight powers. Until she receives a vision regarding an improbable pan-dimensional infraction of calamitous proportions revolving around her people skills and mingling issues that'll result in the destruction of all reality.[27] She is soon confronted by theTime Variance Authority in regards to said matter, due to her dating life evidently being a grave danger to the entire space-time continuum, as they are slating her for erasure and existential replacement to avert said same devastation.[27] The cross-reality Armageddon is derailed thanks to associates Eloise could rely on; that being Emma Frost,Jean Grey,Wanda Maximoff,Tabitha Smith,Susan Storm, and Deadpool himself, all of whom acted to delay the time police to avert Ellie's becoming a Galactus-lite entity whose presence threatens to destroy existence if she passes over meeting a potential love interest and fellow mutant by the name of Yuki Ohara to avert such a crisis.[28]
Ellie possesses superhuman strength, speed, durability and reflexes. She is able to overpower a host of skilled, military, or uniquely trained mercenaries in hand-to-hand combat, as well as showcasing superhuman physical prowess beyond the norm, battling the likes ofScorpia andTitania.[29] She can read the thoughts of others and project her own with her telepathic abilities.[13] She possessesprecognitive abilities.[13][30] She is the only person aware thatProteus has possessedDestiny and she shows her precognitive abilities, announcing to Selene the imminent return of her victorious inner circle.[31] Ellie showcased a host of new abilities, creating a house and home for herself out of thin air with her thoughts. She has the ability to harness, generate, and absorb radioactive energy into herself, allowing her to achieve feats such as fabricating objects out of thin air like clothes or shelter and levitating people or objects with her mind.[24]
It is later revealed that Ellie's newfound power stems from an ability to manipulate reality at a quantum level. In an alternate dystopian future, Negasonic used her powers to alter the Terrigen Mist to make it harmless to mutants. Further exhibitions of her power include rearranging matter and energy into different shapes and forms at will, such as morphing Jack Chain'sDarkforce binds into butterflies, changing Inferno's fire into flaming monkeys,mentally disassembling Domino's andGorilla-Man's guns, and creating energy duplicates of herself at will.[32] More on how this nuanced ability works is further elaborated upon after the end of Krakoa.[27] Wherein it is shown that Eloise's real power enables the acquisition and integration of predestined variant's of her future selves powers and abilities.[33] This is tied to her precognitive capabilities, and as the futures change, so too do the nature of various powers she can acquire.[34] Essentially, she changes out skills picked up by swapping one possible future iteration for another with each shift.[28]
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