Shard (comics)

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Shard

Cover to X-Factor #147

Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Uncanny X-Men #309 (February, 1994)
Created by	Scott Lobdell John Romita, Jr.

Characteristics
Alter ego	Shard Bishop
Species	Human Mutant, later Holographic
Affiliations	Xavier Security Enforcers (X.S.E.), X-Factor, Chronomancer
Abilities	Energy blasts, intangibility (holographic Shard only)

Shard (Shard Bishop) is a mutant character in the Marvel Comics universe.

[edit] Fictional character biography

Shard was an officer in Xavier's Security Enforcers (X.S.E.) with her brother Bishop in their native timeline in the 2080s. Together, they were responsible for apprehending criminal mutants. Shard died on a mission with her brother fighting a group infected with a vampire-like affliction originating from the present day mutant, Emplate.

Bishop eventually travelled back in time, to the present, in an effort to track down one of his time's most-wanted criminals, where he became stuck in the present day and became a member of the X-Men, his idols. Shard has also since been recreated in the present, as a computer construct, and became a clandestine member of the government-sponsored X-Factor team. There, she began a romantic relationship with her teammate Wildchild.

After X-Factor disbanded in #149, Shard was seen in an alternate future. There she died for the second and apparently final time, saving her brother Bishop (Bishop: the Last X-Man #14).