Tildie Soames is a fictional 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.

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 inadvertently killed her parents and a police officer after her abilities first activated. Afterwards, she is imprisoned in Benetech Labs and loses her abilities to Kavita Rao's mutant cure. Ord then kidnaps Tildie before the X-Men rescue her and return her to Benetech.

Powers and abilities

Tildie possessed the ability to manifest her nightmares as red energy monsters. This additionally gave her complete immunity to telepathy and limited immunity to other mutants' powers.

In other media