33 Facts About Tabitha Smith

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Tabitha Smith is a fictional character, a mutant superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with The X-Men and related titles.

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Tabitha Smith then appeared as a member of X-Force and later as a member of Nextwave.

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Tabitha Smith is mentally able to create variably-sized yellow orbs of pure energy that explode with concussive and destructive force.

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Since her first appearance, Tabitha has used a number of different codenames, including Time Bomb, Boom-Boom, Boomer, and Meltdown.

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Tabitha Smith is one of the mutants to have kept their powers after the 2005 "House of M" storyline.

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Tabitha Smith next appears as a main character in the 1987 limited series Fallen Angels.

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Tabitha Smith is depicted as a rebellious but normal teenager and the daughter of divorced parents in her first appearance.

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Tabitha Smith brings her to Charles Xavier, headmaster of the School for Gifted Youngsters, who ignores her to combat the Beyonder.

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When X-Factor wards Artie Maddicks and Leech are kidnapped by N'astirh's demons, Tabitha Smith joins her fellow X-Factor trainees in a mission to rescue them.

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Tabitha Smith is captured by Stryfe and the Mutant Liberation Front but is rescued.

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11.

The incident receives international coverage, and Tabitha Smith's father is interviewed, still voicing his disgust for his daughter.

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12.

Tabitha Smith got back in touch with Pete Wisdom, and together they devised a plan for reactivating X-Force as a covert strike team.

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In particular, Tabitha Smith learned how to direct the explosive force of her power into streams of guided energy, and was heavily trained in computer hacking and manipulating digital information.

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Tabitha Smith dubs the organization the Underground and invites Meltdown to join his elite group.

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Tabitha Smith is one of the few mutants who retain her powers after the events of M-Day.

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Shortly afterward, after an initial period of wild arrogance, Tabitha Smith seems to mellow out and settle back into her earlier, more bubbly personality.

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17.

Tabitha Smith grows her hair long and eschewed her codename and re-appears as a founding member of Nextwave, a new off-beat and more than slightly satirical super-hero team featured in an eponymous comic book series created by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen.

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18.

Tabitha Smith manages to subdue Mac Mangel, a corrupt police officer who had been taken as a host by the Ultra Samurai Seed.

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19.

Forbush Man attempted to use his mind control powers on Tabitha Smith, but was shocked to find they didn't work on her as she apparently has no mind.

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20.

Tabitha Smith is later kidnapped along with Surge and Hellion by the Leper Queen and her Sapien League.

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21.

Tabitha Smith is saved from death yet again by Warpath, who kills the agents before they are able to defile her and takes her to the X-Force safehouse to see if she remembers anything else about her kidnapping.

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22.

Tabitha Smith is among the first group of mutants teleported by Pixie to the new base.

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23.

Tabitha Smith later appears as a member of the Utopians alongside Elixir, Karma, Madison Jeffries, Masque, and Random.

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24.

Tabitha Smith is a mutant who originally had the unusually strong ability to create variably-sized yellow orbs and spheres of pure plasma, fiery-like energy, which she calls her "time bombs".

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25.

Tabitha Smith can produce marble-sized energized "bombs" which have little concussive impact and which she uses for playing pranks.

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26.

Tabitha Smith has produced "time bombs" ranging up to the size of beach balls, which are able to destroy durable objects including a Predator X, and a futuristic Nimrod.

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Tabitha Smith is a fair hand-to-hand combatant, coached in unarmed combat by Cable.

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28.

Tabitha Smith loves video games and is an accomplished thief, having been trained by the Vanisher.

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29.

Tabitha Smith has access to technological support, such as jetpacks.

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30.

Tabitha Smith was apparently immune to Forbush Man's mind-warping abilities, because she supposedly had no mind to warp.

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31.

Tabitha Smith appears as a member of the NYPD strikeforce known as the Brotherhood.

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32.

Tabitha Smith seems to have developed telepathic powers in this timeline.

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33.

Tabitha Smith was included in the new Giant Size X-Men Heroclix set in her Nextwave costume and in 2017 another version was included in the Deadpool and X-Force heroclix boxset, she have been released as an Minimate figure along with Rictor in their 1990s X-Force costume.

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