Kitty Pryde

Kitty Pryde is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Origin

Katherine Pryde

One account claimed that she was actually one of the Neo who replaced the real Katherine Pryde. (X-Men: Declassified v1 #1)

Nearing 14 years old, she was returning to her home in the suburb of Deerfield following dance class where she fought her parents meeting with Emma Frost. Later on, their home was visited by Professor Charles Xavier who was looking to enrol in the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #129)

X-Men

A short time later, Kitty joined the X-Men. By that time, Phoenix had died, prompting Cyclops to leave the team. In the wake of these events, the X-Men were glad to have a fresh new face in the house. Taking the codename Sprite, Kitty quickly befriended Storm and developed a crush on the shy Colossus. Initially, Kitty was rather frightened of the gruff Wolverine and the demonic-looking Nightcrawler. Professor Xavier had arranged a surprise for Kitty on the day of her arrival. He had made an appointment for Kitty with a local dance teacher, Stevie Hunter and Kitty promptly started to take regular classes at her studio. Kitty loved dancing and was happy to continue her ballet training in Westchester, as it gave her the opportunity to be with kids her own age. (X-Men v1 #139) After several weeks of preparation, Kitty had her first Danger Room session. Despite the Professor's efforts to create a challenge for his newest X-Man, Sprite excelled at her test, moving through each obstacle untouched. Moments after completing this trial, Kitty suddenly fainted, as her psyche was exchanged with that of her grown-up self, Kate Pryde-Rasputin. Kate came from a future timeline referred to as the Days of Future Past, where mutants were hunted and killed by Sentinels and the world was on the brink of nuclear war. Kate and her fellow X-Men hoped that their future could be avoided if the X-Men of the present prevented the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly at the hands of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, a key event of their timeline. With the help of the X-Men, Kate succeeded in saving Kelly’s life. However, her world did not benefit from this. Upon returning to the future, Kate discovered that it was the past of another timeline that she had altered and not her own. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #142) Back in her own body, young Kitty experienced a true trial by fire on Christmas Eve. The X-Men had left her alone on Christmas and gone to Deerfield to fetch Kitty’s parents for a surprise visit. While they were away, the mansion was attacked by a N’Garai demon. To make matters worse, Kitty’s phasing power didn’t work against the supernatural creature. Although she was frightened out of her mind, Kitty didn’t panic but instead used her brains to outwit the monster. She finally managed to kill it using the Blackbird’s afterburners. There was a high cost to this triumph - Kitty's battle with the demon had laid waste to half the mansion in the process. Nevertheless, the X-Men were proud of her. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #143)

Illyana Rasputin, Colossus' six-year-old sister, was kidnapped by Belasco and the X-Men followed to Limbo. While there, Kitty was harassed by an alternate version of Nightcrawler, and they rescued her. While returning to their dimension, Belasco grabbed Illyana and Kitty held her arm. Kitty lost her grip for a few seconds and reached back into the portal until she felt an arm and pulled out Illyana. Due to her captivity in Limbo, where she spent years while only mere moments elapsed on Earth, Illyana returned to them as a thirteen-year-old. Kitty and Illyana became very close and seemed to share a link, with Illyana even joining Kitty in Stevie's dance studio and becoming roommates. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #160)

Excalibur

While recovering on Muir Island, Kitty witnessed what seemed to be the X-Men sacrificing themselves on television, in Dallas, Texas. Kitty was later visited by Illyana, who was hysterically blaming Forge for her brother and the X-Men's death and asking Kitty to aid her in killing him. Illyana left furious after Kitty declined to help her. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #227)

After having the same continuous dream, Kitty and Nightcrawler summarized that Rachel might have been trying to telepathically reach them. After being attacked by Gatecrasher and the Technet, who were hired by Saturnyne to eliminate Phoenix, Kitty and Meggan Puceanu were captured. After arriving in London and being reunited with Rachel, the combined efforts of Kitty, Nightcrawler, Phoenix, Meggan, and Captain Britain battled Technet and the Warwolves, during which Kitty was briefly defeated by Joyboy, who used his powers to make her corporal, but, due to a twist, Kitty also became huge and fat. Despite this brief setback, the five pulled free and this resulted in the defeat of both Technet and the Warwolves, who were sent by Mojo to bring Rachel back. At the urging of Rachel to continue Professor Xavier's dream, Shadowcat and Nightcrawler became founding members of the British-based team Excalibur. (Excalibur Special Edition #1

Afterwards, a helicopter arrived on Muir Island where S.H.I.E.L.D. acting Commander G.W. Bridge wanted to recruit her aid to help repair the computer system of the Helicarrier. Pryde came to accept the offer where she looked to broaden her horizons. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. v1 #1)

Astonishing X-Men

Shortly thereafter, Scott Summers and Emma Frost took over the Xavier Institute. Kitty accepted a spot-on Cyclops' squad, while also teaching at the school. She was reluctant, as her dealings with Ms. Frost in the past were anything but friendly. Yet, in their investigation of a claimed cure for mutants, Shadowcat discovered the very much alive Colossus being used as a test subject. After a bit of initial awkwardness, Kitty and Piotr resumed dating and finally consummated their relationship. (Astonishing X-Men v3 #14)

S.W.O.R.D. managed to keep track of the giant bullet using a satellite which fell into the bullet's orbit. Because the bullet's design was to harden as time went on, it became increasingly difficult to break the bullet open. When some asteroid travelers wandered into the bullet's path it looked like the bullet was going to destroy the thousands of lifeforms on the asteroids, but the bullet phased through them - revealing Kitty to be alive. (S.W.O.R.D. v1 #1)

Schism

After the Schism, Kitty came to side with Logan and joined him in restoring the school for Mutants. (X-Men: Regenesis v1 #1) She then accepted a position as headmistress of the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 #1)

Kitty left Wolverine's X-Men team and the Jean Grey School after the Battle of the Atom, citing her companions lack of trust in her decisions during the event despite everything she'd given up for them. She took the time displaced X-Men with her, and together they joined Cyclops and his X-Men, at the New Charles Xavier School for Mutants. (X-Men: Battle of the Atom v1 #2)

One day, after taking down a Chitauri spaceship, the Guardians recovered a strange artifact. Since they didn't trust Earth to deal with unknown tech, Kitty suggested taking it to Spartax where Peter could help them identify what it was. After they arrived, they were attacked by a rogue Kree accuser called Hala who accused them of destroying the Kree empire and wanted revenge. (Guardians of the Galaxy v4 #1)

Upon returning to Earth, she looked to resume a normal life as she settled back in Chicago. It was in this time that Storm approached Kitty about re-joining the X-Men as she was stepping down. By this point, Mutants were suffering from the recent conflict against the Inhumans with them moving the X-Mansion into Limbo. Leading the team, she decided to move the X-Mansion back to Earth where it now came to be situated in Central Park in New York City. (X-Men Prime v2 #1)

In the aftermath, Kitty came to head the X-Men as they came to face a new wave of anti-Mutant sentiment. Leading the team, they came to deal with Terrax but by this point the mayor's office looked to charge the X-Men for their habitation of the Xavier Outreach in Central Park. (X-Men: Gold v2 #1)

Dawn of X

The Red Queen Kate Pryde in Marauders v1 #22.

After the establishment of the Mutant nation of Krakoa, Homo Superior from around the world flocked to the island through its portals. However, Kitty was unable to pass and instead broke her nose during an attempt. She was then convinced by Emma Frost to lead a pirate crew that looked to deliver Krakoa medicines to sites around the world whilst smuggling captive Mutants out of countries. Thus, she formed a team of X-Men who operated with the support of the Hellfire Trading Company in helping Mutants around the world. Their first mission involved going to Russia to rescue captive Mutants held by the government. (Marauders v1 #1) Afterwards, Pryde was asked by Emma Frost to shut down Sebastian Shaw's rogue Hellfire operation that was diverting Krakoan pharmaceuticals for a profit. She was then given a new ship that they called the Marauder as well as a position within the Hellfire Trading Company as its Red Queen. (Marauders v1 #2)

Seeing Pryde as an obstacle to his complete control of the Hellfire Corporation, Shaw began plotting against Kate and her crew. After taking notice how Emma became overprotective of the newly crowned Red Queen, Shaw realized that for the same reason she can't travel through Krakoa's gates nor read or understand the Krakoan language until Emma implanted it in her brain, the X-Men's Resurrection Protocols also won't apply to her, which means Kate cannot be resurrected if she died. He orchestrated a distraction by paying off human supremacists Homines Verendi to stage an attack on his own son. Once Kate was defenseless, Shaw emerged from below deck and ensnared Lockheed with a net gun, making him a helpless hostage. He then released Krakoan seeds at her feet, which wrapped around her and prevented her from using her powers. He then dropped her and Lockheed into the sea. While Lockheed was able to survive, Kate sank helplessly, and once her head dropped under the surface, she had no air left and drowned instantly. (Marauders v1 #7)

Following the funeral, one final attempt was made to resurrect Kitty Pryde with the Five conducting the protocol but it was seemingly a failure once again. However, Emma Frost came to realise that the husk inside was viable but that it never broke out of its cocoon but rather needed help to phase out of it. Thus, all the previous attempts had failed because the husks did not phase out and simply drowned in their incubators. Upon emerging, Xavier uploaded her consciousness into the new body with Kate Pryde being reborn once more. (Marauders v1 #11)

In Madripoor, Pryde thanked the people who had taken care of Lockheed while she was gone, when she learned that the Verendi were trying to raze Lowtown in order to gentrify it. To prevent them from doing so, the Hellfire Trading Company outbid them in buying multiple properties to ensure the safety of the people, including the creation of a free hospital for the local community. Revolted with this affront, the Verendi unleashed the new Reavers, composed of people who had been maimed by mutants. In their attack, the Reavers successfully caused an international incident that led the Marauders to be banned from Madripoor.[126] With their protectors gone, the people of Lowtown were pillaged and had their houses destroyed by the Reavers. Captain Pryde swam through the sewers of Madripoor to plant a secret Krakoan Gateway and allow a small team of Morlocks to sneak into the city, fight the Reavers and free Madripoor. (Marauders v1 #19)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Kitty with Lockheed in X-Men: Gold v2 #30.

Her parents and loved ones tended to affectionately refer to her by the nickname of Kitten. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #129) After joining the X-Men, Charles Xavier initially considered giving her the code name Ariel but Kitty did not like the name. Storm suggested the code name of Sprite instead with Pryde loving the name and taking it for her own to protect her secret identity in the field. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #139) The time-displaced original X-Men came to refer to her as Professor K after she started to oversee their training. (All-New X-Men v1 #5) She started preferring people calling her Kate instead of Kitty. (Marauders v1 #1) When working for the Hellfire Trading Company, she was given the position of Red Queen in its hierarchy. (Marauders v1 #2)

Logan had said that he did not teach her martial arts so that she could kill people but rather to keep her alive. (Excalibur v1 #85)

Her father was Carmen Pryde and her mother was Terri Pryde. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #129)

It was revealed that her childhood hamster was called Peter. (Guardians of the Galaxy & X-Men: Black Vortex Alpha v1 #1)

Powers and abilities

As a Mutant, Kitty Pryde had the ability to phase through solid objects at will allowing her to pass through them. Initially, her powers only activated by instinct where she suffered headaches when they first awoke and the strain of their use caused her to fall unconscious for brief periods. Through concentration, she was able to actively use her ability allowing her to phase through walls and other objects at will without any adverse side effects. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #129)

Logan had trained her in several fighting styles such as Budo and a Jewish martial art used by Mossad who were the Israeli secret service. (Excalibur v1 #85)

The Silver Samurai came to be impressed at her swordfighting skills where he remarked that she may have been better than Wolverine. (X-Men: Kitty Pryde - Shadow & Flame v1 #4)

Notes

• Kitty Pryde was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne where she made her first appearance in Uncanny X-Men v1 #129 (January, 1980).
• During an interview on X-Plain the X-Men, Claremeont revealed that he had always intended for the revelation that Kitty Pryde was bisexual with him considering Rachel Summers as a possible love interest but was not allowed to show this at the time due to censorship.

In other media

Television

• In Pryde of the X-Men, Kitty Pryde appeared in the setting of the animated one-shot pilot where she was voiced by actress Kath Soucie.
• In X-Men: Evolution, Kitty Pryde appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Maggie Blue O'Hara.
• In Wolverine and the X-Men, Kitty Pryde appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Danielle Judovits.

Films

• In X-Men: The Last Stand, Kitty Pryde appeared in the setting of the live-action film where she was portrayed by actor Elliot Page.

Video games

• In X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, Kitty Pryde appeared as an NPC in the setting of the video game where she was voiced by actress Kim Mai Guest.

Appearances

• Uncanny X-Men v1: (1980)
• Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. v1:
• X-Men: Regenesis v1:
• Wolverine and the X-Men v1:
• All-New X-Men v1:
• Guardians of the Galaxy:
• Marauders v1:
• Marauders v2:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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