Cerebra's Files

Southern, Candy


Full Name: Candace Southern
Affiliation: Phalanx
Status: Deceased (Hodge)
Powers: None (human). However, Candy fell in love with Warren Worthington (Angel) in her late teens, which brought her into contact with the X-Men, and unfortunately, their foes. Soon after Candy learned of Warren's powers (and by extension, the fact that the rest of his classmates were mutants), she stormed into the X-Mansion and demanded (to a robot sentry) to see Professor X. She needed to find Warren to warn him that his uncle Burt (the villainous Dazzler I and Warren's father's murderer) was about to marry Warren's mother. Unfortunately, Warren was missing after an adventure in the Savage Land, so Candy insisted that she go with Cyclops and Marvel Girl to find him. The rescue squad was itself captured when they tracked Warren's signature to a boat, and then turned over to Blob, Mastermind and Unus. When the X-Men and their captors were subdued by mutants that had been cheated by the ex-Factor Three members, Candy managed to help out by knocking out the evil Kreuger, allowing her and the X-Men to escape. Candy was Warren's girlfriend for a number of years, and weathered some stormy times, including times when she though he was cheating on her with Jean, the loss of Warren's wings and his transformation into Death I. Tragically, shortly after Warren broke his brainwashing, Candy was captured by Cameron Hodge, leader of The Right, an anti-mutant militia. Hodge hated Warren, and set up a trap with Candy as the bait. Archangel sped to her rescue, but he was too late, and Hodge pull the plug on the machine tied to Candy's life support and she died. However, the fanatic humans who developed and then became the Phalanx got a hold of her body and first scanned her memories of the X-Men and then used her to test one of their first Transmode Viruses. Months later, Candy broke free, confused and with a large memory gap. She made her way to the Colorado house she had shared with Warren, just as he and Jean were arriving there on a break for superheroing. Warren was shocked to see her, and Candy forgave him for not being able to save her. Unfortunately, her early-stage Phalanx body was unstable, and when Hodge, also a Phalanx now, came to get her, Candy began to change as well. Realizing that she and Hodge were linked, Candy opted to destroy herself to keep Hodge from assimilating her friends.
395