Tildie Soames
| Tildie Soames | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #1 (July 2004) |
| Created by | Joss Whedon John Cassaday |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Tildie Soames |
| Species | Human mutant |
| Team affiliations | Benetech |
| Abilities | Nightmare manifestation |
Tildie Soames is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3 #1 and was created by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.
Tildie is a mutant with the ability to manifest her nightmares as real, monstrous entities. After inadvertently killing her parents and a police officer, she is used as a test subject for a mutant "cure" and later taken hostage by Ord before she is rescued by the X-Men.
Publication history
Tildie Soames first appeared in Astonishing X-Men vol. 3 #1 (July 2004), and was created by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.
Fictional character biography
Tildie is a young mutant girl who possesses the ability to manifest her nightmares as tangible creatures. When her abilities first activated, she inadvertently killed both her parents and a police officer who was called in to investigate.[1][2] Tildie is apprehended and taken to Benetech Labs, where Kavita Rao uses her to develop a mutant cure. Tildie loses her abilities to the cure and stays at the labs with Rao.[2][3]
One night, Ord of the Breakworld kidnaps Tildie and uses her as a hostage. The X-Men and S.H.I.E.L.D. confront Ord and rescue Tildie, who is returned to Benetech.[4]
Powers and abilities
Tildie possessed the ability to manifest her nightmares as red energy monsters and release powerful blasts of red energy. This additionally gave her immunity to telepathy and limited immunity to other mutants' powers.
In other media
- Tildie Soames appears in Wolverine and the X-Men, voiced by Danielle Judovits.[5] This version is initially a prisoner of the Mutant Response Division before she is freed by Magneto and Juggernaut and taken in by the X-Men so she can master her powers.
- Tildie Soames appears in the Astonishing X-Men motion comic, voiced by Michel Friedman.[5]
References
- ^ Moodley, Reveshni (March 28, 2017). "#TechTuesday - POLL: Useless powers you can't even call super". Northern Natal News. Retrieved October 25, 2025.
When the average person has nightmares, they end with waking. Not Tildie Soames – her nightmares manifest as real monsters, an 'ability' which left her parents and a police officer dead.
- ^ a b Capitanio, Adam (August 13, 2014). Darowski, Joseph J. (ed.). The Ages of the X-Men: Essays on the Children of the Atom in Changing Times. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 215. ISBN 9780786472192.
The dream and the voice belong to a young girl named Tildie Soames - a mutant whose horrifying power manifested when she was just a child. Tildie's mutant power is that her nightmares come to life. She sat inside the monster her own imagination created as she killed first her sleeping mother, then her father, and finally a police officer who had been called to the scene. The nightmare images in the opening pages of the story are merely a memory. Dr. Kavita Rao has cured the child with her newly developed Hope Serum.
- ^ Whedon, Joss (w), Cassaday, John (p), Cassaday, John (i), Martin, Laura (col), Eliopoulos, Chris (let), Marts, Mike (ed). "Gifted (Part 1)" Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3, no. 1 (July 2004). Marvel Comics.
- ^ Whedon, Joss (w), Cassaday, John (p), Cassaday, John (i), Martin, Laura (col), Eliopoulos, Chris (let), Marts, Mike (ed). "Gifted (Part 6)" Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3, no. 6 (December 2004). Marvel Comics.
- ^ a b "Tildie Soames Voices (X-Men)". Behind The Voice Actors (A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.).
External links
- Tildie Soames at Marvel Wiki