Real Name: Katherine "Kitty" Pryde
Affiliation: X-Men
Origin: Deerfield, Illinois
Powers: Able to phase through solid material, can walk on air while doing so
Background: During her early teens, Kitty began having terrible headaches, which culminated one night during a dream where she felt like she was falling, only to awake having fallen straight through her bed and bedroom floor into the basement. The next day, her parents had told her not to go to school, while they attempted to help her through this. She snuck out anyway, only to meet another mutant, Lance Alvers, who had the ability to cause earthquakes in a limited area. After a minor incident with him, she was recruited by Jean Grey and Professor Xavier to join the X-Men.

Since her induction, she has fought alongside the X-Men against the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, led by Alvers. During her stay at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, she has become close friends with Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, and has possibly even considered a closer relationship with him, as well as the same feelings for Lance Alvers, now calling himself Avalanche, against the advice of some of her friends. Time will tell which one she chooses, but her heart is clearly with Xavier's cause of human-mutant coexistence rather than the Brotherhood's philosophy of mutant superiority.

Kitty was one of the mutants that Beast chose to take along with him on his retreat to the Great Redwood Forest of California, along with Iceman, Spyke, Wolfsbane, and Sunspot, all of whom were students with less-than-exceptional grades in their nature sciences class. When Beast was captured by Bigfoot trackers, the students helped to free him.

At one point, she banded together with Rogue, Boom-Boom, Magma, and Jean Grey to form the crime-fighting Bayville Sirens, the ultimate expression of "girl-power." The five dressed in what could only be described as punk-gothic, and used their abilities to bring down a chop-shop/car theft ring. Immediately afterwards, the group disbanded under threat of arrest for vigilantism (a threat actually made by Mystique in disguise), but the incident has shown that mutants can use their powers for the good of humanity, rather than the destruction that Magneto dreams of.

On the "Day of Reckoning," while in the battle with Magneto's new team of mutants, Shadowcat was instrumental in the defeat of Colossus, by phasing him through an abandoned building, and then having Avalanche collapse the building.
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