Widget (Marvel)
Widget is a female comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Days of Future's Past
Katherine "Kate" Anne Pryde-Rasputin was a female Mutant who was a version of Kitty Pryde that was native of an alternate future timeline of Days of Future Past that was designated as Earth-815 in the Multiverse. In this alternative reality, anti-Mutant sentiment in the United States had increased following the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly. This caused intense widespread public paranoia against mutants, and, in the next presidential election, an anti-mutant candidate won. The anti-mutant outrage led to a genetic purity act, rendering the X-Men fugitives. In retaliation of fear, the anti-mutant president's administration unleashed giant mutant-hunting robot Sentinels to eliminate mutant-kind but then the giant machines decided that the best way to do so was to take over the United States. During these years, Kate was noted to had eventually married her teammate, Piotr Rasputin where the two came to have children together. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #142)
One day, the Sentinels were responsible for both capturing and killing her children. Over the subsequent years, the Sentinels killed or imprisoned virtually all known superhuman beings within North America, including Kate's husband. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #142) Kate was placed in the South Bronx Mutant Containment Facility, where she re-joined the surviving members of the X-Men including Wolverine, Magneto, Rachel Summers, and Franklin Richards, the son of Fantastic Four members, Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman. This group embarked on a desperate plan to end the Sentinels' reign by changing history. (X-Men v1 #141) Rachel used her psionic powers to exchange the consciousness and spirit of the adult X-Man Kate with that of Pryde's teenage self, as she existed at a time just before the attempt on Kelly's life. It was hoped that the adult Kate, in her younger self's body at that earlier time, could warn the X-Men about the assassination attempt, so they could stop it, thereby preventing the chain of events from occurring that led to the Sentinels' rule. However, history could not be changed in this manner and Rachel, as it turned out, actually caused Kate to exchange psyches not with her younger self in the past of her own reality, but in the mainstream reality. While Kate was sent back to take over her teenaged self's body, the other X-Men escaped the camp, taking Kate's unconscious body with them. Kate succeeded in preventing Kelly's assassination in the mainstream reality, after which the Pryde’s psyches returned to their proper times and realities. On her return, Kate found that other X-Men, except for Rachel, had all died in an attack on the Sentinels' Manhattan headquarters. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #142)
The next day, Kate and Rachel invaded the production facility of Project Nimrod, which would create the most powerful Sentinel yet. When Kate's attempt to blow up the facility failed, she and Rachel found themselves trapped in a room which her phasing power could not penetrate. Anxious to change the future, Kate used the key words for a post-hypnotic command which activated the Phoenix Force in Rachel and warped her back in time. After Rachel was gone, Kate was captured and scanned using Sentinel technology in an attempt to reopen the time warp and retrieve Rachel. The time warp appeared at the same second that Kate phased out of her inhibitor collar. As a result, both Kate and the Sentinel scanning her fell into the time warp and merged. (Excalibur v1 #66)
Widget
Kitty reappeared in the timeline Rachel resided in and was rebuilt in a small, metal, off-spherical body built by Tweedledope of the Crazy Gang. Her mind scrambled by the "interference" from other timelines she felt, she was amnesiac and went about everything with a childlike glee. Her desire to eat metallic objects over-rode any sense of politeness. She was responsible for shunting Kylun into an alternate dimension,[5] where he would grow, mature and have adventures of his own. Another incident led to the switching of Moira MacTaggert, Callisto and the train they were on with a Nazi version of the two women and the train.[6] Widget's interactions with the Phoenix power led her to inadvertently take the superhero team Excalibur (including Rachel) through a number of alternate timelines in a so-called "Cross-Time Caper". They soon learned a jolt of Phoenix power into Widget would send them into another dimension at random. After this was brought under control, Roma had her locked to the main Marvel Universe, Earth-616, preventing her from moving far from it. This began to clear her mind, and she reconstructed her body, using materials from the train the group had adventured so far in.
After this, Rachel who had recovered her memories, Widget and Excalibur returned to Rachel's original timeline and successfully reprogrammed the ruling Sentinels to protect all life, ending their tyranny. (Excalibur v1 #67)
Widget was later seen with Kang the Conqueror, observing events from space.
Overview
Personality and attributes
During early appearances, Widget was known for the catchphrase, learned from an excited, young Kylun: "Oh gosh, oh golly, oh wow!".
From her marriage to Colossus, Pryde was noted to had a son and a daughter. Her daughter was named Jean Rasputin who went by the code name Goliath where she inherited her fathers ability to turn into an organic steel-based form. Meanwhile, their son was named Charles Rasputin who went by the code name Sprite who instead gained his mothers ability to phase through objects. Both were killed during the years of the Sentinel takeover of the United States. (X-Men: Days of Future Past - Doomsday v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Kate Pryde was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne where she made her first appearance in X-Men v1 #141 (January, 1981).
- She later appeared as the character of Widget in Excalibur v1 #1 (October, 1988).
Appearances
- X-Men v1: (1981)
- Excalibur v1: (1988)
- X-Men: Days of Future Past - Doomsday v1:
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