Blindfold (Marvel)
Blindfold is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Ruth Aldine was a female Mutant born without eyes in the modern age in North Carolina. Her father left a week after her birth after being disgusted at his Mutant child. This left her mother as a lone parent who cared for Ruth and her older brother Luca. He came to despise his sister and secretly beat her for her Mutant nature for years. In time, he began to listen to priests calling Mutants abomination and Luca by the time he was an adult began to act more aggressively. This culminated in him taking a chainsaw and intending to kill Ruth with her other intervening but she was killed in the process. This resulted in Luca going on the run whilst Ruth was cared for by her aunt. The time with her aunt was said to had been the happiest moments in her life where she came to learn to control her power. Around this time, her brother was apprehended and sentence to be executed with Ruth deciding to attend it. Whilst there, he manifested his power of astral projection where he attacked his sister leaving her briefly unconscious. The encounter had resulted in Luca stealing half of Ruth's powers and left her mind incomplete as well as in a broken state. Afterwards, she received a call from the Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters that had people with abilities similar to her and she was sent to live there. (X-Men: Legacy v2 #5)
Unknown to her, she was the great grand-daughter and relation to the precognitive Destiny. (X-Men: Legacy v1 #233)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Typically, she was seen wearing her blindfold that hid the fact that she had no eyes. (Astonishing X-Men v3 #7) For a moment, she was noted to had taken the name of Destiny. (X-Men: Legacy v2 #22)
She had a tendency of revealing the hidden thoughts of others making her kind of a gossip but Hisako reasoned that in reality she was actually quite lonely. (Astonishing X-Men v3 #4)
One of her ancestors was Irene Adler who was the Mutant known as Destiny and was her possible great-grandmother. (X-Men: Legacy v1 #233)
Powers and abilities
It was said that she was born without eyes or sockets where she was said to had been a special rare Mutant from the outset. (X-Men: Legacy v2 #5) She was said to be a mind-reader and able to sense of thoughts of others. (Astonishing X-Men v3 #4)
As a precognitive, it meant that when in close proximity to another person with a similar ability then they cancelled each others powers thus preventing her from seeing the future. She stated that during such moments, she experienced what it was truly like to be blind. (X-Men: Legacy v1 #233)
After destroying the remnant of Luca, the stolen pieces of Ruth's power and mind were returned to her. (X-Men: Legacy v2 #22)
Notes
- Blindfold was created by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday where she was mentioned in Astonishing X-Men v3 #4 (October, 2004) before making her fist appearance in Astonishing X-Men v3 #7 (January, 2005).
Alternate Versions
- In Old Man Hawkeye v1 #4 (2018), an alternate world setting that was home to Old Man Logan was shown that existed in the Multiverse and designated as Earth-807128. On this Earth, the Red Skull led a supervillain uprising that massacred the superheroes of the planet. Around 50 years in this future, Blindfold was shown as an older fortune teller that lived at Arcade's Murderworld. She witnessed the coming future of Old Man Hawkeye and warned him of his future. Blindfold had also been taking poison as she saw her own death and wanted to prevent the Venom infected Madrox Gang from using her knowledge to get their revenge on Clint Barton.
Appearances
- Astonishing X-Men v3: (2004)
- X-Men: Legacy v1:
- Old Man Hawkeye v1:
- Uncanny X-Men:
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