Tomorrow Woman
Tomorrow Woman is a female comic robotic superhero who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Tomorrow Woman was a robotic creation of the villainous scientific masterminds T. O. Morrow and Professor Ivo as part of their scheme against the Justice League. To achieve that, she was programmed to operate as a superhot and tasked with gaining their trust in order to join their ranks. (JLA: Tomorrow Woman v1 #1) Around this time, the Justice League were looking to expand their ranks with Tomorrow Woman attending the event for her audition to join them. During her interview, she claimed she was a mutation with telekinetic powers that was the first of her species born ahead of her time. (JLA v1 #5)
Unaware of her true nature, Tomorrow Woman came to attend an audition of various heroes looking to join the Justice League. Arriving at the Justice League Watchtower, she arrived when the ceiling broke where she used her powers to halt the falling debris in the air. She took part in the initial tests where she passed and was congratulated by Superman. Thus, she came to be the first new member of the Justice League and worked with them in the course of a week. In that time, she came to gain the heroes trust with both her and them unaware that Tomorrow Woman’s actions were being monitored by her creators. She was with them as they responded to the threat posed by a creature called ‘IF’ that was attempting to devastate the Earth. After helping deal with it, she seemingly returned to her civilian life when her programming forced her to meet her creators. (JLA v1 #5)
Morrow and Ivo then decided to enact their plan where they deployed the Implicate Field known as ‘IF’ once again. The intention was for Tomorrow Woman to suggest deploying an EMP against the entity to stop it. With the Justice League present, the heroes would have been caught in the resultant blast and killed in the process. However, Tomorrow Woman’s nature developed the freedom of thought where she opposed her programming. She came to override her programming and developed ethics with her looking to save the Justice League. Thus, she refused to detonate the EMP and instead plunged herself into IF. It was then that she activated her EMP thus shutting down IF and sparing the Justice League from its effects. Her true robotic nature was then exposed where the superheroes wondered why Tomorrow Woman sacrificed herself. The dying robot though was unable to give a response as she expired. The heroes then proceeded to arrest her creators after tracking down their location. Upon her death, the Justice League had a formal funeral and burial in honour of Tomorrow Woman with a statue commemorating her as a hero. (JLA v1 #5)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Tomorrow Woman was an artificial female android developed by Professor Ivo who was sent to infiltrate and kill the Justice League. However, she turned against her programming and sacrificed herself to stop her makers. Thus, she came to die a hero and was remembered as such. Afterwards though, her remains were recovered by Professor Ivo who came to save her though she remained in a heavily damaged state. He promised to restore her fully and allow her to resume her place within the Justice League. This saw her being worked on in one of his old underground laboratories in Death Valley. (Green Arrow v7 #14)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Unknown to her, Tomorrow Woman was programmed to want to be a superhero. It was considered to be her life and she had liked being a member of the Justice League. This saw her wanting to make things right with them. (JLA v1 #5)
She felt that human minds were a miracle as they were capable of being set and not enslaved. (JLA: Tomorrow Woman v1 #1) It was said that the word 'freedom' was not present in her vocabulary as it was not placed in there by her creators. (JLA v1 #5)
In time, she came to struggle with her role as a mole within the Justice League. Her activities as a hero brought her praise from the superheroes but this made her feel guilt. On one occasion, she begged her creators to allow her to turn on them as she could not stand the praising from the Justice League members. (JLA: Tomorrow Woman v1 #1) She believed that deep down, she was a bad person despite her public reputation but she came to genuinely strive to be a hero. This ultimately led to her turning against her creators and not following their orders to eliminate the Justice League. It was this that led to her sacrificing her life in order to protect her comrades. (JLA v1 #5)
Powers and abilities
Her brain was the creation of T.O. Morrow where she was set to follow an advanced series of programming. (JLA: Tomorrow Woman v1 #1) This included false memories and even the capacity to experience dreams. It was so advanced that the neural plexus could spontaneously generate rudimentary ethical code. (JLA v1 #5) Meanwhile, her body was crafted by Professor Ivo who fashioned a skeleton along with functioning lungs and a musculature to make her convincingly human. She was so life-like that even superhumans with advanced senses were unable to tell that she was an artificial being. (JLA: Tomorrow Woman v1 #1) This was because Ivo had given her skin temperature, a pulse and perspiration. Tomorrow Woman's visual senses were capable of being remotely transmitted to her creators allowing them to see and hear everything she experienced in her daily activities. Her cover story claimed that she was a mutant born with a four-lobed brain that gave her powers that were completely telekinetic in nature. (JLA v1 #5)
She was reported to possess telepathy greater than the Martian Manhunter allowing her to sense agony among people on Earth. Tomorrow Woman was able to scan the mind of another being and delve into another persons memories. She could also touch the minds of multiple people in a vicinity at a given moment. It was said that the best of the Justice League could not duplicate her ability of mind-scanning another person. She was capable of linking her minds with other telepaths with them coordinated and augmenting each others power. (JLA: Tomorrow Woman v1 #1) Her powers allowed her to seemingly use telekinesis to halt objects in the air and keep them in place. (JLA v1 #5)
Tomorrow Woman was programmed to initiate a lethal electromagnetic pulse designed to kill scores of superhumans around her at a set trigger moment. (JLA: Tomorrow Woman v1 #1) This was embedded in her heart where upon detonation it triggered a telekinetic wave that could cause all electrical activity within neighbouring brains to cease functioning effectively killing those individuals. (JLA v1 #5)
Notes
- Tomorrow Woman was created by Grant Morrison and Howard Porter where she made her first appearance in JLA v1 #5 (May, 1997).
Alternate Versions
Appearances
- JLA v1: (1997)
- JLA: Tomorrow Woman v1: (1998)
- Hourman v1:
- Trinity v1:
- Green Arrow v7: (2024)
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