Martha Johansson
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Martha Johansson, also known as No-Girl, is a fictional mutant "brain in a vat" character from the New X-Men comic book series of the Marvel Universe.
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[edit] Biography
Martha was a mutant runaway who was captured by the human supremacist group, the U-Men. Their founder John Sublime had her brain removed from her body, keeping the disembodied brain alive in a capsule. She has the power to negate any mutant's powers, like Leech. Sublime controlled her through drugs and syringes and used her to subdue his opponents--X-Men; Cyclops and Emma Frost. The two X-Men eventually broke free of her control, after which Martha took her revenge on Sublime by causing him to fall to his death.
She later became a student in the Xavier Institute's Special Class. Quentin Quire invented a special hovering case to hold her brain, usually linked to a chain held by Ernst, a mysterious, super-strong mutant appearing like an old woman, who often repeated Martha's telepathic communications.
[edit] Planet X
In the Planet X storyline, it was revealed that Martha was one of the students that had joined Xorn's new Brotherhood of Mutants, alongside Ernst.
However, Martha's loyalty would not last as she predicted that Xorn's scheme to murder every human in Manhattan as well as turn the planet earth upside down would fail miserably. Following Xorn's death, Martha has not been seen again. However No-Girl was mentioned again, by Anole in New X-Men (2nd serie) #30.
[edit] Here Comes Tomorrow
In the Here Comes Tomorrow future timeline, Martha is still alive 150 years from now. She is still close friends with Ernst, who was revealed to be a benevolent reincarnation of Cassandra Nova. Along with Nova, she stood alongside Wolverine, E.V.A., the Three-In-One, and Beak's Grandson Tito Bohusk against a possessed future version of the X-Man Beast.
During a conversation with Cassandra Nova, it was confirmed that Martha was No-Girl all along as well as the fact that Martha knew Nova was Ernst all along as well. As having no body limited her range of actions, No-Girl was Cassandra's pilot of the X-Plane and the two died after reviving Jean Grey's true personality after being resurrected as the avatar of the Phoenix Force. Dying, Martha's last telepathic words are to a dying Wolverine, telling him that they were going to the "White Hot Room", the base of operations for all those touched by the power of the Phoenix Force.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Martha is a telepath, and her powers in this area are shown as being quite advanced, to the degree that she is capable of overpowering Emma Frosts's subconscious defenses (it should however be mentioned that Emma's telepathy was inoperative at the time, as she was in her "diamond" form and thus had solely the scope of her willpower to rely on) and manipulating entire teams of individuals.
Without a body, Martha is limited in all other areas. She, as a brain, travels in a fluid-filled jar with technology (invented by fellow Xavier Institute student Quentin Quire) that lets it float, and is anchored via a metal chain.
It was also implied that when she was alive, that Martha's blood possessed glow-in-the-dark capabilities and that Martha wrote a note to her parents using her own blood when she ran away from them.
