Talia Wagner
Talia Wagner is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Talia Josephine Wagner was a female human Mutant born in the reality of Earth-2182 as the daughter of that world's Nightcrawler and Scarlet Witch. (Exiles v1 #4)
By her teenage years, Nightcrawler and the Scarlet Witch seemed to be living apart at their separate team headquarters, but were still very much in love. T.J. also attended public school, going to the local Kennedy High School, where she apparently did not use an image inducer to hide her appearance or identity. Presumably, it was also at Kennedy High where she met some musically-inclined fellow students, and they decided to form a band called the Butt Monkeys, dedicated to 'neo-techno thrash' music. As Talia developed her own mutant abilities in addition to the physical skills she inherited from her father, she adopted the codename Nocturne and quickly rose through the New Mutants training program to become one of the youngest active X-Men of her time. Everything wasn't perfect in Nocturne’s reality, however. At one point, Wolverine was taken over by the Shadow King in an attempt to murder Professor X. He was tragically successful and, worse, the professor's last defensive act was a psychic assault that left Logan nearly paralyzed from the neck down. Cyclops could not forgive Wolverine for this act, even after he was freed from Farouk's control, and after Jean Grey died in an unrelated incident some time afterwards, the first X-Man went completely around the bend and abandoned his mentor's cause out of grief and rage. Active as an X-Man sometime following all this madness, Nocturne was part of a small roster led by her father and consisting only of the Phoenix Force, Shadowcat and Thunderbird. The team was now coordinated by Wolverine at a distance from the mansion, using TK-chips implanted in their heads so that Logan could mentally transmit commands and strategy to the field, backing up Nightcrawler's on-site tactics. In one critical mission, the X-Men were pitted against Apocalypse and the dual threats of his chronal disrupter device and his newly-minted son, Armageddon. Fortunately enough for the heroes, Armageddon chose to reject his father's teachings and aided the X-Men against the immortal mutant. In the aftermath of the chronal disrupter's destruction, however, Kate Pryde was mysteriously gone and Kitty Pryde sat in her place, only a few weeks into her training as an X-Man. Nocturne thus found herself in the unlikely position of being a tour guide and "big sister" to the young woman she once knew as "Aunt Kate." The very next day, as Armageddon and Sprite adjusted to their new places in the X-Men, a vengeful Cyclops returned with his own Brotherhood, determined to cleanse his mentor's home of the man's murderer... and anyone else who stood by his side. Cyclops' team tore through the X-Men, with casualties and injured on both sides, until a barely conscious Nocturne was all that stood between Cyclops and the crippled and helpless Wolverine. Unable to reach them in time to stop Scott from killing Logan, she possessed the unconscious Armageddon and used his telekinetic powers to animate Logan and pop his claws into Cyclops’ chest, ending the fight. In the months that followed, Nocturne would continue to act as a mentor to young Kitty, and a growing attraction between her and James Proudstar, Thunderbird, developed into a full-swing romance. (Exiles v1 #42)
Sabretooth had registered an incident in the Multiverse leading to T.J. and Morph being dispatched to a world that resembled the Wild West. Once there, they fell under the mental domination of Pastor Xavier who used his telepathy to make them join others forced to serve him such as the world's Magnus Gang. This led to a conflict with Blink and her team of Exiles that were captured after the were seemingly betrayed by T.J. and Morph. This was until Valkyrie attacked Xavier after he killed her steed Elendil with him forced to use the greater sum of his abilities on her. This freed Morph and T.J. who helped Blink in killing the mad telepath but in his last moments he sent a mental bolt that killed Morph. T.J. and Blink mourned the death of their comrade with this being interrupted by the arrival of the Watchers who had come to arrest the Exiles for crimes against reality. (Exiles v3 #7)
Overview
Personality and attributes
The fact that her possession powers worked on a lunar cycle led to her inspiration to taking the name Nocturne. (Exiles v1 #4)
One of her hobbies as being a singer in a band called Butt Monkey that played neo-techno thrash. It was fast, loud and served as an excuse to vent serious baggage. They were not very good and were more a garage band who never had a gig. (Exiles v1 #42)
Her parents were Nightcrawler and the Scarlet Witch who fell in love due to their shared heritage. (Exiles v1 #4) Her father would often reprimand her and tell her to follow his instructions when operating as an X-Man. This eventually led to an argument with him as she said that she could not be like him. Nightcrawler had never seen her so angry until that point and lamented how he simply wanted to prepare her with the necessary skills to survive in the world. However, this came across as being too demanding and harsh with his daughter. (Exiles v1 #41)
She looked up to her Aunt Kate Pryde who always knew what to say. (Exiles v1 #41)
Among the X-Men, she came to develop one of the biggest crushes on James Proudstar. She thought him to be scary as he was quick to anger but the danger was one of the attractions she had to him. Talia ad said that she acted like such a girl around him. (Exiles v1 #41)
Powers and abilities
Her ability to possess others was the first power she ever came to manifest. Generally, Talia could only stay within a person's for around 12 hours or lunar cycle. Anytime she took over bodies, the brains of the host were rendered inert and left comatose for nearly 24 hours. (Exiles v1 #4) A counter to her body possession was wearing a personal disruptor field generators that repelled such an attempt. (Exiles v1 #42)
The hex-bolts though in reality was opening a portal to a side dimension and releasing a burst of energy. This was the dimension her father transported to when he teleported to locations. The reason she called them hex-bolts was to be a nod to her mother's powers. (Exiles v1 #4)
Afterwards, she came to learn a way to combine her hex abilities with her telepathy allowing her to create a psychic shield. (Exiles v3 #7)
Notes
- The Nocturne Talia Wagner was created by Jim Calafiore where she made her first appearance in X-Men: Millennial Visions v1 #2000 (August, 2000).
Alternate Versions
Appearances
- X-Men: Millennial Visions v1 #2000: (2000)
- Exiles v1:
- Exiles v3:
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