| 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 has the ability to manifest her nightmares as real, monstrous entities. After inadvertently killing her parents and a police officer, she was used as a test subject for a mutant "cure" and later taken hostage by Ord before she is rescued by the X-Men.
Tildie Soames first appeared in Astonishing X-Men vol. 3 #1 (July 2004), and was created by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.
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 her parents, then a police officer who attempted 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]
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.
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.
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.