Trance (Marvel)
Trance is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Hope Abbott
After the events of M-Day transpired, she was one of only 27 students to keep her powers. Greatly weakened by the losses, Emma Frost placed all of the remaining students into a battle royale to determine who would become the team of X-Men in-training. Hope did not make the team, but like all of the other students who retained their powers, she continued to reside at the Institute. (New X-Men v2 #23)
In response to M-Day, the government began gathering all of the information they had on the remaining mutants. Additionally, the Sentinel Squad O*N*E, a team of human-piloted Sentinels, was sent to 'watch over' the X-Men and the handful of refugees symbolically know as The 198. According to said files, Hope was willing to work with other mutants in training sessions but had not yet received any combat experience. She had not shown any violent tendencies. However, she was loyal, and as such she would be expected to follow any mutant rebellions if led by Match or another Paragon, but would be reluctant to resort to violence. However, this was merely speculation by the O*N*E as she had not had enough exposure for her actions in such a situation to be decided. (X-Men: The 198 Files v1 #1)
Trance was among the students who were captured by Belasco and transported to Limbo. Under X-23's direction, Trance used her powers to get a message to the students still on earth. She told them that they were taken to hell and then she said 'Belasco' and disappeared. (New X-Men v2 #39)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Hope Abbott was a short, slender female humanoid of the human race who possessed a highly youthful and delicate physical build. She had fair skin, expressive dark eyes, and a neat head of short, straight dark hair styled into a chin-length bob with clean, straight-cut bangs that framed her forehead. Her facial features were gentle and typically carried a quiet, reserved expression during large assemblies. She wore the standard-issue training uniform designated for the Xavier Institute's new recruits, which consisted of a vibrant yellow and dark blue form-fitting bodysuit designed to handle high physical stress. The uniform featured a prominent dark collar enclosing her neck, reinforced panels running along the outer sides of her limbs, and matching flexible athletic combat boots tailored for high-speed maneuvering within the school grounds. (New X-Men: Academy X v1 #12)
Powers and abilities
Hope Abbott was born a member of the human race where she was a member of the Mutant species, granting her an inherently altered genetic structure that manifested as the supernatural capability to project her consciousness externally. She operated as an active trainee within the Paragons squad under the direct guidance of Wolfsbane, demonstrating that her baseline psionic tracking and situational spatial awareness were advanced enough to be integrated into official X-Men team development tracks. She possessed the extraordinary power of Astral Projection, which allowed her voluntarily to detach her life force from her physical anatomy to manifest a mobile, luminescent energetic duplicate of herself. While operating in this detached state, Hope Abbott possessed the versatile skill to fly independently, pass cleanly through solid environmental structures, and perceive spiritual wavelengths, enabling her mind to monitor distant coordinates safely without requiring external firearms, high-tech suits, or mechanical gear. (New X-Men: Academy X v1 #12)
Notes
- Trance was created by Christina Weir and Nunzio DeFilippis where she made her first appearance in New X-Men: Academy X v1 #12 (June, 2005).
In other media
Television
Appearances
- New X-Men: Academy X v1: (2005)
- New X-Men v2:
- X-Men: The 198 Files v1:
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