Katherine Pryde

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### Abilities

Ability to phase herself or others through solid matter and disable limited technology.

### Relatives

Carmen Pryde (father)Theresa Pryde (mother)

## Debut

### First Appearance

X-Men: Brotherhood (Phase 2)

**Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde**, known by her teammates under the codename **Shadowcat**, is the newest and youngest member of the X-Men. Despite her age, she's been present for and helped with multiple operations by the X-Men on behalf of humankind, and was involved with the Runaways in their campaign to save the Grid from CLU and Alex Wilder.

## Early Life

Kitty was born to Carmen and Theresa Pryde in the late 1960's as an Ashkenazi Jewish-American growing up in Deerfield, Illinois, and haring stories of her grandfather Samuel Prydeman, a holocaust survivor.

Pryde showed excellent academic prowess and by fifth grade was reading on the level of a high school senior, and became a student of classical literature, poetry, philosophy and science-fiction.

## Origin

When she was 12, Kitty began to suffer terrible headaches doctors couldn't find a remedy for, until finally she fell through the floor of her second floor bed room onto the coffee table in the living room. Her parents thereafter became secretive, and after an attempt to run away from home was thwarted by Deerfield Police Department, she recieved a visit from Professor Charles Xavier and Jean Grey, inviting her to come to the Xavier Institute For The Gifted

## History

### ***X-Men: Brotherhood***

Kitty first chronologically appears as a character in the X-Men: Brotherhood SRP

### ***Civil War***

Kitty joined the X-Men on a mission to Crossmore Prison, which was bombed. Helping evacuate people from the rubble until members of the Avengers showed up, Iron Man covered the X-Men's escape when S.H.I.E.L.D. attempted to arrest them.

Around this time, Kitty also began a romantic involvement with Lorna Dane, who would later leave the X-Mansion and by extension, Kitty, when she joined the Pro-Registration movement.

### ***The Runaways: Enter The Grid***

When the X-Men were left in charge of Molly Hayes-Hernandez by the Runaways, Kitty became acquainted with the young girl. When the mansion is attacked by a sentinel sent by Alex Wilder, Molly runs off to find her friend and Kitty follows, being anointed by Storm officially as an X-Man.

Kitty and Molly met up with Doctor Strange, who had sent the Runaways to Encom Tower to find Wilder, and they joined the others. There, they met Quorra, who led them into the Grid, a world made entirely of technological code that had been hacked by Wilder, turning himself into the God and Emperor and ruling over all. The group tries and fails to overthrow Alex after he depowers them all After many of the group were captured, with Kitty and Karolina Dean being the only ones not in captivity, Karolina made a sacrifice play and gave herself up to authorities so that they would stop looking and Kitty could escape.

Shadowcat heads to the prison where Molly is being head with digitized recreations of her family and convinces Molly to let go of the fantasy and return with her and her family to the real world. Shadowcat and the Runaways then defend Chase Stein as he hacks into the Grid and removes Alex's reprogramming, returning it to peace. After saying goodbye to Quorra, Kitty leaves with the Runaways and returns to New York City via Doctor Strange, going her separate ways from Molly and returning ton the mansion.