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- For the article about the Hellions member named Murmur, see Murmur (Hellions)
Murmur (real name Arlette Truffaut) is a mutant character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. She is a former member of the superhero team Alpha Flight, currently in Beta Flight.
[edit] Powers and abilities
She has been depowered by Decimation
Mind Manipulation: Psionic ability that allows her to manipulate others upon physical contact. By touching them they are completely under control, and gives them commands verbally. Such as she touched Puck and told him to sleep and he immediately fell asleep. She even has the power to calm the savage Sasquatch II, which is the actual Sasquatch of myth not Walter the original Sasquatch on Alpha Flight. She also has been shown to free people that were under Mesmero's control. There are two instances that show there is more to Murmur. Such as when Alpha Flight was battling Mesmero, she demonstrated that she could kill a person using her power. This is not typical for a mind-controller to do. Another incident when Radius was under the control of Mesmero and to break his control Murmur must make physical contact with him. However, his forcefield prevents that so it's not known how she broke the hold on him. They later talk about it in the series, but never give a clear answer to how she did it. Another odd incident was when X-Men's Maggott ordered his own maggotts to attack Murmur they ran away without even touching her. When she touched Maggott she had a flashback back in Hull House where she was getting attacked by bugs and monsters, which never was explained
Teleportation: In Marvel X-Men Encyclopedia [Vol.2] they state Murmur has teleportation abilities. However, this was never fully explained. This comes from in Alpha Flight's battle with the Zodiac, Murmur touched the Zodiac member named Virgo and said "Paris." Immediately she vanished saying "Scorpio I'm fading awayyy", which when someone who is under Murmur's control doesn't have independent thought so this was unique and different. Virgo ended up in Paris, France with a type of amnesia. The Zodiac did have personal teleportation devices, but how Murmur would know that she would have this type of a device is a mystery. Also if she did use the teleportation device, why Virgo would activate it and teleport to Paris is another mystery since Taurus later had to go get her since they stated her teleporter was broken. So the range or her actual ability to teleport people were never stated.
- There is a member of Hellbent known as Murmur. He had a completely black appearance and was very pliable. He first appeared and was killed in the same issue, Moon Knight vol. 3 #50, after failing to capture bloodline for Seth the Immortal.
- In the early issues of the second series of Alpha Flight it was stated she was one of the non-mutants, the only mutants on the team being Flex and Radius, however this has obviously been changed.
[edit] Bibliography
- Alpha Flight vol. 2 #1-20
- Uncanny X-Men #355
- Alpha Flight/Inhumans Annual 1998
- Wolverine vol. 2 #142
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