Gabrielle Haller

Gabrielle Haller is a female comic character that features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Gabrielle Haller was a catatonic Holocaust survivor who awoke from the disorder after Charles Xavier used his powers to make her aware again. Gabby and Charles fell in love while he saw to her recovery for weeks, with the help of hospital volunteer and their mutual friend, Magnus (the future Magneto). When she is kidnapped by terrorist organization, Hydra led by the Nazi Baron Strucker, Charles and Magnus used their mutant powers to save her and defeat HYDRA. Immediately afterwards, Magnus left Gabby and Charles feeling that her and Charles' view on mutants and humans contrasted his own. Magnus left with Nazi gold HYDRA wanted to claim.

Over some time, the two amicably ended their relationship. Soon after, Charles leaves Israel unaware that Gabrielle was pregnant. Years later, Gabrielle became the Israeli ambassador to Great Britain living in Paris with her young son, David. During a terrorist attack at her home claiming the life of David's godfather, Daniel Shomron, David's mutant powers activated, ending with him killing the terrorists and putting himself in a catatonic state.

Later, David (who is now in his late teens) developed a disease the comic inaccurately describes as autism, which concerns his mother, who thinks it’s a symptom of something more serious. Gabrielle did everything she could, but she turned to Dr. Moira MacTaggert for help. She tells Moira that Xavier is David’s father and that she doesn’t want him involved. Unfortunately, David's powers began to manifest uncontrollably, absorbing the psyches of two of MacTaggert's friends, Tom Corsi and Sharon Friedlander. Moira had no choice but to call Xavier to help who is assisted by some of the New Mutants. When David absorbs Moira's and Wolfsbane's psyches into his mind, Xavier and Dani used their powers to enter it as well. It is here that Xavier discovers he's David's father.

Gabrielle and Cypher are also absorbed and they all meet David's various personalities, including that of the absorbed psyche of the terrorist leader who raided his home. Eventually, Dani and David's personalities returned everybody to their bodies, fixing most of David's mind and ridding him of his Autism. Despite her secrecy, Xavier does his best to help raise David.

Later, Gabrielle becomes Magneto's attorney, who is on trial for crimes against humanity. The trial was halted when Baron Strucker's mutant twin children, collectively named Fenris, attacked the proceedings seeking revenge against her, Xavier and Magneto for their father's death. After Xavier and Magneto defeated them, Magneto did not return to the courtroom.

Gabrielle loses David because of Bishop from an alternate timeline known as the Age of Apocalypse after he created said timeline when he accidentally kills his father. Bishop in the AoA timeline prevents this from happening by killing David.

Deeply saddened by the loss of her son, Gabrielle eventually moved on with her life. She continued work as the Israeli ambassador. She, along with the Mutant hero Sabra, attempted to find out Magneto's true identity, but failed after he killed the forger who gave him the "Erik Magnus Lehnsherr" name. She was also part of the United Nations decision to give the island nation of Genosha to Magneto, after he demanded an entire mutants-only nation.

At the United Nation's, she served as the Israeli representative during an assembly to discuss the response to Mutants. This was brought before the delegates by the seemingly returned Stephen Lang and Bolivar Trask. Gabrielle believed this was a push for a new Sentinel Program but they instead unveiled the formation of the Mutant Response Division. (X-Force v3 #17)

Notes

• Gabrielle Haller was created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum where she made her first appearance in Uncanny X-Men v1 #161 (September, 1982).

Alternate Versions

• In What If Magneto Had Formed the X-Men With Professor X? v1 #1 (2005), an alternate version of events was presented in the "What If Magneto and Professor X formed the X-Men together?" that was set on Earth-523004. On this world, it was shown that Gabrielle prevented Magneto from killing Baron Strucker. Afterwards, Magneto decided to join Xavier's idea of helping the Mutant race with Magnus later marrying Gabrielle.

In other media

Television

• In X-Men: Evolution, Gabrielle Haller appeared in the animated television series in the episode "Sins of the Son" where she was voiced by actor Patricia Drake. This version of Haller is shown as too young to be a Holocaust survivor (though her comic appearances are also sometimes inconsistent on this matter). Gabrielle is the mother to David who hid the truth of his existence from his father, Professor Xavier. Though in this version they were married briefly when they were young, divorcing when Xavier's work with Mutants kept them apart with Gabrielle later telling David that Xavier abandoned them.
• In Legion, Gabrielle Haller appeared in the live-action television series third season where she was portrayed by actor Stephanie Corneliussen. She was shown to had been a Jewish gypsy where she was taken into the Nazi's camps during World War II. Gabrielle managed to survive but was traumatised by the event with her having no family to support her. She was taken to the U.S. where she was unresponsive and cared for at a mental hospital. This was until a young Charles Xavier met her and he came to aid in her recovery where he revealed his powers to her. The pair fell in love and came to leave the institute to begin their lives together with Gabrielle becoming pregnant with Charles son who was named David. Around this time, Xavier came to sense the presence of another Mutant and sought to make contact with them leading to him going to Morocco. Thus, he left Gabrielle alone to care for their son where she began to struggle with her mental health.

Appearances

• Uncanny X-Men v1: (1982)
• X-Force v3:

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