Trance (comics)
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| Trance | |
 A close-up of Trance |
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| Publication information | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | New X-Men: Academy X #12 |
| Created by | Christina Weir Nunzio DeFilippis |
| In story information | |
| Alter ego | Hope Abbott |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations | Xavier Institute The 198 Paragons Training Squad |
| Abilities | Capable of projecting her consciousness into an energy state that can travel over far distances, avoid physical injury, and produce a disruptive energy surge |
Trance (Hope Abbott) is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. A mutant, Hope attends the Xavier Institute and maintained her powers post-House of M.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Prior to M-Day, Hope Abbott was a former member of the Paragons squad. When the events of Decimation transpired, she was one of only 27 students to keep her powers. Greatly weakened by the losses, Emma Frost placed all of the remaining students into an all-out brawl to determine who would become the team of X-Men in-training. Hope did not make the team yet, like all of the other students who retained their powers, still resides as the Institute.
In response to M-Day, the government began gathering all information they had on the remaining mutants. Additionally, the Sentinel Squad O*N*E, a team of human-piloted Sentinels, was sent to "watch over" the X-Men and the handful of refugees symbolically known as The 198. According to said files, Hope was willing to work with other mutants in training sessions but had not yet received any combat experience.
Her interests include old films and classic music, and it appears she is rather culturally sophisticated. Her classmates voted her 'best-dressed' in the yearbook.
[edit] Quest for Magik
Trance is among the students who were captured by Belasco and transported to Limbo. As per X-23's request, Trance uses her astral projection to warn the students who weren't captured of Belasco's return.
It has been revealed that Trance will play a part in Wolverine: Killing Made Simple One-Shot [1]
[edit] Powers and abilities
Hope has an astral projection power, the scope of which has not yet been fully displayed. Her code name suggests that she goes into some kind of altered state of consciousness or somehow otherwise nullifies her body in order to release her astral self. Her astral form is capable of flight and can pass through magic barriers. This observation was further affirmed when she asked Emma Frost if she could leave her body outside the danger room during an exercise. It is unusual in that whilst most fiction depicts astral projection as harmless, Hope's power somehow causes energy damage, though the extent is not known.
[edit] Bibliography
- New X-Men: Academy X / New X-Men: #12, 23, 28, 33, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, and 46
- New X-Men: Academy X: Yearbook Special: by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir
- X-Men: The 198 Files: by Eric J. Moreels, Marc-Oliver Frisch, and Brian E. Wilkinson
