Tabitha Tate

Tabitha Tate is a major character in CW's Riverdale. She is the granddaughter of Pop Tate, the new owner of Pop's Chock'lit Shop and the girlfriend of Jughead Jones. She later found out she's chronokinetic, or more simply a time traveller, and becomes the guardian angel of Riverdale. 
She was portrayed by Errin Westbrook.
== History ==
=== Season 5 ===
When Pop Tate decides to retire, he passes on the ownership of Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe to his granddaughter Tabitha. Tabitha meets Yale alumni Jughead Jones and hires him as a busboy at Pop's. She and Jughead investigate the suspicions of an alleged alien citing at Pop's that happened 50 years ago. They question Cheryl's grandmother Rose, who was one of the patrons at Pop's during the event. Rose explains that the aliens rumored to have been at the sky were Mothmen and that she found a Mothman corpse drenched in maple syrup a few weeks after the incident. 
They later attend Cheryl's key party as a couple alongside Jughead's ex-girlfriend Betty Cooper, his best friend Archie Andrews, Veronica Lodge and her husband Chad, Kevin Keller, Fangs Fogarty, Reggie Mantle and Toni Topaz. Tabitha takes a drunk Jughead home and helps him to bed. From that point on, they fall in love and start dating. Tabitha also helps Betty out in investigating the Lonely Highway where her sister went missing. They try to attract the Highway Killer first by posing as hitchhikers and then by hosting a Coyote Ugly-style bar at the White Wyrm to lure truckers. They succeed in capturing a trucker who tried to kill Betty, though he would later commit suicide by swallowing his own tongue when Betty tries to interrogate him. 
When Veronica's father Hiram Lodge hires a Ghoulie to blow up Pop's, Tabitha joins the town in arresting Hiram and eventually exiling him as punishment for his crimes against Riverdale. She and Jughead even torch Hiram's business as revenge and celebrate with a kiss.
=== Season 6 ===
Tabitha helps Jughead out after he became deaf from a bomb Hiram planted under Archie's bed before his exile. Unbeknownst to her, the explosion also gave Jughead the ability to read minds, Betty the ability to see auras and made Archie invulnerable. Additionally, Cheryl is now pyrokinetic and Veronica is venomous. Meanwhile, a newcomer named Percival Pickens shows up in Riverdale and manipulates everyone with his mind-controlling abilities, eventually disbanding the town council and becoming mayor. 
Tabitha later finds out she's chronokinetic (a time traveller who can control time) when she accidentally time-travelled to various historical time periods in Riverdale after nearly getting shot by an assassin at Pop's. She seeks guidance from her guardian angel Rafael, who explains her powers and instructs her how to help the town in each timeline. After returning to the present and finding out her friends have superpowers too, they team up to stop Percival. She also learns from Raphael that she's the guardian angel of Riverdale. 
When Jughead discovered he can open portals through his tepathic abilities, he and Tabitha travel to parallel universe called Rivervale that has alternate versions of everyone in Riverdale. There, they learn that Percival is a powerful sorcerer from Rivervale who sold his soul for immortality and came to their universe through the explosion in Archie's bedroom. With Percival plotting to either rule Riverdale or destroy it, Tabitha sees through various alternate futures of the battle that Jughead will die. Fortunately, she and Jughead trick Percival into going back to Rivervale where the Rivervale gang stab him repeatedly with his own daggers until he is weakened. Tabitha then hands Percival over to the devil he sold his soul to. Before being dragged to hell, Percival redirects Bailey's comet to crash onto Riverdale and casts an invisible barrier around the town to trap everyone inside. Fortunately, Veronica devises a plan that everyone (including Tabitha) transfers their powers to Cheryl so she can melt the comet before it hits. Cheryl succeeds in melting the comet, but in doing so turns back time to 1955. 
== Trivia ==
* Tabitha isn't a character from the comics and was created specifically for the series.
* Tabitha's role and powers in the sixth season are similar to Doctor Strange from Marvel Cinematic Universe, as they are both chronokinetic heroes who protect their respective universes. Additionally, Tabitha seeing alternate futures of the gang's battle against Percival is similar to the 14,000,605 timelines that Doctor Strange saw of the heroes' battle against Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War.
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