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Negasonic Teenage Warhead first appeared in New X-Men #115 (2001), and was created by writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely.[9]
Negasonic Teenage Warhead's Infinity Series comics #44 - #49, originally released in 2022,[10] were collected and re-printed as a solo comic in November 2024.[11][12]
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 massacre 16 million of its residents, including Ellie.[13]
Emma Frost survives the massacre due to her secondary mutation activating, giving her the ability to transform into diamond. She is devastated after learning that Ellie has been killed.[14]
Illusion
Negasonic Teenage Warhead is apparently seen alive as a member of the inner circle of the Hellfire Club, alongside Cassandra Nova, Sebastian Shaw, Perfection, and Emma Frost.[15] The Hellfire Club attacks the X-Men at the Xavier Institute. While Shaw, Frost, and Nova dealt with Beast, Wolverine, and Colossus, Ellie claims that she had had a dream of Shadowcat losing control of her intangibility and phasing into Earth's core. This suggestion causes Shadowcat to lose control of her intangibility in reality.[16]
After awakening from a coma, Cyclops begins shooting the members of the Club, including Ellie, with a pistol. Ellie and all the other members of the Hellfire Club disappear, having been projections of Emma Frost's mind.[17]
Necrosha
In Necrosha, Selene and Eli Bard temporarily resurrect Negasonic Teenage Warhead and other mutants using the Transmode Virus. Unlike other resurrected mutants, Ellie does not fall under Selene's control.[18]
Marvel Now!
In Marvel Now!, Ellie resurfaced sometime later, alive and well, having begun a mundane life in Albuquerque. 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.[19][20] After her rescue and the defeat of Presence, Negasonic Teenage Warhead adopts a new punk-inspired look and joins Domino's incarnation of the Mercs for Money alongside Hit-Monkey. It is later revealed that Hit-Monkey was assigned to the team to keep an eye on Ellie, as S.H.I.E.L.D. was wary of her growing abilities.[21][22]
In an alternate future brought about by Negasonic Teenage Warhead's intervention in the Inhumans vs. X-Men storyline, the conflict between the Inhumans and the X-Men never ends. The Inhuman Lash instigates violence against mutants, whom he deems have blasphemed against the Terrigen Mist cloud. Negasonic Teenage Warhead hides deep in the Amazon with an enclave of mutants, only to be attacked by Lash after Deadpool inadvertently leads him to them. Negasonic Teenage Warhead travels back to the past to stop herself from changing the timeline, thus averting the future.[23]
Ellie chooses to leave Krakoa long before the end of the Krakoan Age and returns to working with Wade Wilson. She later receives a vision regarding an improbable pan-dimensional infraction of calamitous proportions revolving around her people skills and mingling issues that will result in the destruction of all reality.[24] She is confronted by the Time Variance Authority in regards to said matter, due to her dating life evidently being a grave danger to the entire space-time continuum. The group is slating her for erasure and existential replacement to avert the devastation.[24] The cross-reality Armageddon is derailed by Emma Frost, Jean Grey, Wanda Maximoff, Tabitha Smith, Susan Storm, and Deadpool, all of whom delay the Time Variance Authority to avert Ellie becoming a Galactus-lite entity whose presence threatens to destroy existence if she passes over meeting Yuki Ohara, a potential love interest and fellow mutant.[25]
Powers and abilities
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.[26] She can read the thoughts of others and project her own with her telepathic abilities.[13] She possesses precognitive abilities.[13][27] 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.[28] 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.[22]
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 Mist 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 energy duplicates of herself at will.[29] It is later elaborated that Ellie's real power enables her to gain the abilities of her potential future selves.[30] This is tied to her precognitive capabilities, and as the futures change, so too do the nature of various powers she can acquire.[31] Essentially, she changes out skills picked up by swapping one possible future iteration for another with each shift.[25]
Reception
Accolades
In 2017, Comic Book Resources (CBR) ranked Negasonic Teenage Warhead 15th in their "15 Most Important Women in Deadpool’s Life" list.[32]
In 2020, Scary Mommy included Negasonic Teenage Warhead in their "Looking For A Role Model? These 195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic" list.[33]
In 2022, The A.V. Club ranked Negasonic Teenage Warhead 99th in their "100 best Marvel characters" list.[34]
In 2022, CBR ranked Negasonic Teenage Warhead 8th in their "Gorr The God-Butcher And 9 Other Over-The-Top Names Comics Fans Love" list.[35]
Negasonic Teenage Warhead appears in Deadpool 2, portrayed again by Brianna Hildebrand.[39] She has become a full member of the X-Men and entered a relationship with Yukio.
Negasonic Teenage Warhead appears in Deadpool & Wolverine, portrayed again by Brianna Hildebrand.[40]
↑Cullen Bunn(w),Iban Coello(p),Iban Coello(i),Guru-eFX(col),VC's Joe Sabino(let),Jordan D. White(ed). Deadpool & the Mercs for Money,vol.2,no.1(20 July 2016).United States:Marvel Comics.
↑Cullen Bunn(w),Iban Coello(p),Iban Coello(i),Guru-eFX(col),VC's Joe Sabino(let),Jordan D. White(ed). Deadpool & the Mercs for Money,vol.2,no.4(5 October 2016).United States:Marvel Comics.
↑Deadpool & the Mercs for Money vol. 2 #5. Marvel Comics.
12Deadpool & the Mercs for Money vol. 2 #6. Marvel Comics.
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