Character from Marvel Comics
Comics character
Negasonic Teenage Warhead
(
Eloise
"
Ellie
"
Phimister
) is a
superheroine
appearing in
American comic books
published by
Marvel Comics
. Created by
Grant Morrison
and
Frank Quitely
, the character first appeared in
New X-Men
#115 (2001).
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She is named after the song "
Negasonic Teenage Warhead
" by
Monster Magnet
.
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She belongs to a subspecies of humans called
mutants
, who are born with superhuman abilities. Negasonic Teenage Warhead's appearance and powers were eventually altered in the comics to match her appearance in the
Deadpool
films, in which she is portrayed by
Brianna Hildebrand
.
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Publication history
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead first appeared in
New X-Men
#115 (2001), written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Frank Quitely.
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Fictional character biography
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Ellie Phimister was a
Genoshan
teenager, with pale skin and dark hair, who dressed as a
goth
and was a student of Emma Frost's telepathy class. During a tutoring session, Ellie reported having a recurring nightmare 50 times the previous night where all people in Genosha were exterminated. She then pointed out that she had experienced the same vision during the class. Almost simultaneously,
Cassandra Nova
's
Wild Sentinels
appear on Genosha and wipe out half the world's mutant population: 16 million people.
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Carrying what appeared to be Ellie's corpse, Emma Frost, who had survived the Genoshan
genocide
thanks to the manifestation of her secondary mutation turning her into diamond, was found by the
X-Men
's
Beast
and
Jean Grey
. Emma proclaimed the teenager, who had named herself Negasonic Teenage Warhead, to be a credit to her family and the mutant race and then suffered a mental breakdown when she found out Ellie was dead.
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Illusion
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Much later, Negasonic Teenage Warhead was apparently seen alive as a member of the latest incarnation of the Inner Circle of the
Hellfire Club
, alongside
Cassandra Nova
,
Sebastian Shaw
, Perfection, and
Emma Frost
.
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The new Inner Circle attacked the X-Men at the Xavier Institute. While Shaw, Frost, and Nova dealt with
Beast
,
Wolverine
, and
Colossus
, Ellie claimed she had a dream of
Shadowcat
phasing down into the Earth's core and was unable to stop; the suggestion caused Shadowcat to lose control of her phasing powers.
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Later, a comatose Cyclops wakes up and begins shooting the members of the Club, including Ellie, with a pistol. It is soon revealed that Ellie and all the other members of the Hellfire Club were projections of Emma Frost's mind; projections disappearing when confronted for illusions.
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After hearing Negasonic Teenage Warhead's codename, Shadowcat remarks, "Wow, we really have run out of names."
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Necrosha
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During the
Necrosha
event, Negasonic Teenage Warhead is revealed to be among the deceased mutant population of Genosha that is resurrected by the
Transmode Virus
by
Selene
and
Eli Bard
. Unlike the other resurrected mutants, Ellie isn't under Selene's control as seen when she refuses to tell the Black Queen her real name.
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Ellie apparently perishes once again when the Black Queen absorbs the souls of the entire deceased mutant populace of Genosha.
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Ellie remained alive after the events of the 2009?2010 "
Necrosha
", storyline, and at some point dropped her Gothic wardrobe and appearance. She uses her telepathic and precognitive abilities to establish a new, mundane life for herself in an
Albuquerque
suburb.
Deadpool
and the
Mercs for Money
capture her at the behest of an organization called Umbral Dynamics, unaware that the group intends to siphon her power into the
Presence
.
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After her rescue and the defeat of Presence, Negasonic Teenage Warhead adopts a new
punk
-inspired look and joins up with
Domino
's incarnation of the Mercs for Money alongside
Hit-Monkey
.
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While Deadpool was sulking that Domino had stolen his team from him, she chose to cheer him up while out on an operation for
S.H.I.E.L.D
, using her powers to make Deadpool-themed costumes for everybody. It is later revealed after the Mercs probe their employers while getting their pay, that Hit-Monkey was assigned to them as a liaison to monitor their progress. In truth, he was sent to keep an eye on Ellie because S.H.I.E.L.D was wary of her growing abilities.
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During a fight in an alternate future brought about by Negasonic's intervention in the
Inhumans vs. X-Men
storyline, the conflict between the two superpowered races never died down. Instead, they were further inflamed by the Inhuman fanatic
Lash
, who instigated a witch hunt against the Mutants, whom he deems have blasphemed against the T-Mist cloud and, in response to mutant deaths caused by them,
Magneto
launched a counter-assault which ended up decimating the world. She chose to hide out deep in the Amazon with an enclave of mutants who were tired from all the fighting with the Inhumans, but Lash and his tribe soon caught up with them when Deadpool's Mercs inadvertently led them there. As Deadpool lay dying due to the former absorbing her energies, the future Negasonic travels back to the past in order to fix her mistake of tampering with the T-Cloud, thus averting another dystopian parallel.
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Negasonic is the only one of the Mercs to remain in Deadpool's employ after his defection to
Hydra
during
Secret Empire
and subsequent memory wipe at the conclusion of
The Despicable Deadpool
, helping him run a new business called "Deadpool, Gun/Swords for Hire."
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Powers and abilities
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Ellie possesses superhuman strength, speed, durability and reflexes. She is able to overpower a host of skilled, military, or uniquely trained mercenaries in hand-to-hand combat, as well as showcasing superhuman physical prowess beyond the norm, battling the likes of Scorpia and Titania.
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She can read the thoughts of others and project her own with her telepathic abilities.
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She possesses
precognitive
abilities.
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She is the only person aware that Proteus has possessed Destiny and she shows her precognitive abilities, announcing to Selene the imminent return of her victorious inner circle.
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Ellie showcased a host of new abilities, creating a house and home for herself out of thin air with her thoughts. She has the ability to harness, generate, and absorb radioactive energy into herself, allowing her to achieve feats such as fabricating objects out of thin air like clothes or shelter and levitating people or objects with her mind.
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It is later revealed that Ellie's newfound power stems from an ability to manipulate reality at a quantum level. In an alternate dystopian future, Negasonic used her powers to alter the
Terrigen
cloud to make it harmless to mutants. Further exhibitions of her power include rearranging matter and energy into different shapes and forms at will, such as morphing Jack Chain's
Darkforce
binds into butterflies, changing Inferno's fire into flaming monkeys,
mentally disassembling
Domino's and Gorilla-Man's guns, and creating energized duplicates of herself at will.
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Reception
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Accolades
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- In 2017,
CBR.com
ranked Negasonic Teenage Warhead 15th in their "15 Most Important Women in Deadpool’s Life" list.
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- In 2020,
Scary Mommy
included Negasonic Teenage Warhead in their "Looking For A Role Model? These 195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic" list.
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- In 2022,
The A.V. Club
ranked Negasonic Teenage Warhead 99th in their "100 best Marvel characters" list.
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- In 2022,
CBR.com
ranked Negasonic Teenage Warhead 8th in their "Gorr The God-Butcher And 9 Other Over-The-Top Names Comics Fans Love" list.
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In other media
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