| Phantom Girl | |
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.png) Tinya Wazzo as Apparition, as depicted inLegionnaires #20 (December 1994). Art by Jeff Moy. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Action Comics #276 (May 1961) |
| Created by | Jerry Siegel Jim Mooney |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Tinya Wazzo Linnya Wazzo |
| Species | Bgztlian Bgztlian-Carggite hybrid (post-Zero Hour continuity only) |
| Place of origin | Bgztl (4th dimension parallel withEarth) |
| Team affiliations | Legion of Super-Heroes L.E.G.I.O.N. Justice League Terrifics |
| Notable aliases | Phase, Apparition |
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Phantom Girl (Tinya Wazzo) is asuperhero appearing in books published byDC Comics, and is a member of theLegion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries. In post-Zero Hour continuity, she is known asApparition. She has the power to turn intangible, as do all other natives of her home planet, Bgztl. Her mother isWinema Wazzo, the president of theUnited Planets.[1] Tinya’s ancestorLinnya Wazzo appears in DC'sNew Age of Heroes as a member of the Terrifics.
Phantom Girl has appeared in various media outside comics, primarily those featuring the Legion of Super-Heroes. She is voiced by Heather Hogan inLegion of Super Heroes (2006) andKari Wahlgren inYoung Justice, and portrayed byMika Abdalla inThe Flash.
Phantom Girl first appeared inAction Comics #276, and was created byJerry Siegel andJim Mooney.[2]
In the original pre-Crisis continuity, Phantom Girl is the fifth member to join the Legion and is a native ofBgztl, a planet in the fourth dimension. Like other Bgztlians, Phantom Girl can phase out of reality and become intangible. She is a member of the Legion's Espionage Squad, and is involved romantically with fellow LegionnaireUltra Boy for many years.
Following the Magic Wars, Earth falls under the control of theDominators and withdraws from the United Planets. Sometime thereafter, Phantom Girl is thought to have been killed in a shuttle accident. In reality, the time sorceress Glorith sends her to the 20th century, where she forgets her true identity, assumes the name Phase, and joins the interstellar law enforcement agencyL.E.G.I.O.N.
A few years later, the members of the Dominators' "Batch SW6" escape captivity. They are initially believed to be clones of the Legionnaires, but are later revealed to be temporal duplicates. The SW6 version of Tinya Wazzo eventually assumes the codename Apparition.
In post-Zero Hour continuity, Tinya is the daughter of Winema Wazzo, the Bgztlian ambassador to the United Planets, and regularly chafes under her mother's overbearing nature. While helping her at a conference, which includes the official unveiling of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Tinya andSaturn Girl uncover a plot byR. J. Brande's former assistant Roderick Doyle to attack the establishment. After helping to stop him, Tinya andTriad are inducted into the team.[3]
When Tinya and Ultra Boy meet, the two are instantly smitten with each other. Their romance is rocky, initially complicated by Winema's interference. Tinya is then apparently killed byDaxamite White Triangle terrorists, who incinerate her with their heat vision. However, shortly afterward, she is revealed to have survived, albeit in a permanently intangible and invisible state, only being visible to Ultra Boy and Winema. Afterwards, she helps freeShrinking Violet and the Legion from the Emerald Eye's control until Violet panics and causes the Eye to send many of the Legionnaires, including Saturn Girl, Ultra Boy, and Apparition, back in time to the late 20th century.
While stranded in the past, Apparition meets a psychic using a Bgztlian touchstone - a red stone that assists in Bgztlians' phasing. This encounter ends with her becoming visible to all and gaining the power to disrupt machinery and electronics by phasing through them. Shortly thereafter, Phase of L.E.G.I.O.N. arrives to retrieve her touchstone. She and Apparition are sucked into the realm within the touchstone and discover that they both identify as Tinya Wazzo. When the two make physical contact, they involuntarily merge and Apparition becomes the dominant personality in the resulting body. Throughhypnotic regression, Apparition learns that her father was aCarggite and that she inherited his ability to triplicate. Winema was only aware that she had given birth to a single child; Tinya's father stole her other two bodies and sold them to the Luck Lords to pay off his gambling debts. The fate of Tinya's third self remains unknown.[1][4][5] After being displaced in time, Apparition and Ultra Boy eventually reunite, marry, and have a son named Cub.[6]
In the "Threeboot", Tinya Wazzo is again called Phantom Girl. In this continuity, Bgztl exists in the same location as Earth, but is out of phase with it: the whole planet is in the "Buffer Zone" that the pre-Zero Hour Phantom Girl would phase into. Phantom Girl is the only Bgztlian who can shift between her home reality and Earth. When she phases, she is visible in both universes and often engages in conversations or activities in the two realities simultaneously.
Phantom Girl develops a strong bond withPrincess Projectra, helping her cope with the recent death of her parents. Despite this, Projectra beats Phantom Girl after suspecting her of treason.Timber Wolf rescues Phantom Girl, after which she is placed in reconstructive machinery to heal.
The events ofInfinite Crisis restore an analogue of the pre-Crisis Legion to continuity. Phantom Girl is included in their number, voted leader of the Legion as theFatal Five reassembles to attack the group.[7]
InThe Terrifics series, the titular group (consisting ofMister Terrific,Metamorpho, andPlastic Man) travel into theDark Multiverse and encounterLinnya Wazzo, the ancestor of the 31st-century Phantom Girl, who has been trapped inside it in an intangible state. They reach the source of the distress signal, and discover a message fromTom Strong.[8]
InBrian Michael Bendis'Legion of Super-Heroes reboot, Phantom Girl is reimagined to have a more alien appearance with purple skin, blue hair, and additional teleportation abilities.[9]
InThe New Golden Age, Phantom Girl is among the Legion of Super-Heroes members who arrive in the present and confront the Justice Society of America over their decision to recruit Legionnaire, a young, heroic incarnation ofMordru.[10]
Like all natives of the planet Bgztl, Phantom Girl has the ability to turn intangible (phase). Bgztl, depending on the incarnation, either exists in or is connected to thePhantom Zone. While intangible, she is immune to physical harm, can maneuver through solid objects and fly under her own power. Additionally, she can disrupt the workings of electronic devices by moving through them while phased.[11]
The Linnya Wazzo incarnation of Phantom Girl possesses a "dark matter touch" that enables her to generate combustive blasts and detonate objects on contact. She gained these abilities after being caught in the explosion of a machine in the Dark Multiverse.[12]
As a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Phantom Girl is provided a Legion Flight Ring, which allows her to fly and protects her from the vacuum of space and other dangerous environments.
Phantom Girl appears inLegion of Super-Heroes (2023), voiced byGideon Adlon.[17][13] This version is a student atthe Legion Academy.
Phantom Girl appears as a character summon inScribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.[18]
