Cerebra's Files

Nina


Affiliation: None
Aliases: M-5
Alternate-X Versions: None
Codename Etymology: Pronounced nē'nŭ [From Spanish niņa "little girl"].
Powers & History: Probably anything she can think of. To date, Nina has expressed control of mechanical devices, teleportation, and telepathy with humans and with machines. She, like the other Mannites, is a product of some bizarre government experiment to create a being who could mentally interface with computers. As Nina has shown, they succeeded. Nina was a prisoner in Bastion's Hulkbuster base when she met Charles Xavier. "Charley," as she called him, realized Nina's enormous potential and risked his life to get her out of the prison. With the help of a manhunter assigned to the base, Nina faked her own death, and teleported to the surface once her "remains" were loaded onto a chopper for disposal. She was picked up by Dr. Renee Majcomb, a member of Xavier's network whom Nina had somehow called, and taken to safety. Soon after, however, Nina and Renee were attacked by Cerebro, who was after his creator, Professor X. Since Nina had imprinted "Charley's" brain pattern onto her own, like a baby bird imprints its mother's face into its memory, Cerebro thought she was Xavier and attempted to abduct. Renee got Nina to another safehouse in Siberia, but Cerebro was relentless, killing all the monks there to get to his target. Even the intervention of the X-Men couldn't stop Cerebro from finally achieving his goal, and Nina was taken to the mad computer's stronghold. There she rejoined Xavier, and restored his powers, which had been lost since Onslaught. Then, she and Xavier telepathically showed Cerebro the uniqueness of humanity, forcing his nanites back to their source and overloading his circuit. Nina went back to living with Renee, but was soon frightened by another unknown entity. She was teleported by the Mannites to their hideout, and together they hid from the being known as Death III. In desperation, Nina sent a telepathic call to Xavier, which was intercepted by Phoenix. Though the X-Men had apparently disbanded, Jean quickly gathered a team to help Nina and the Mannites. The interim X-Men found Nina and her friends, and helped protect them from Death III. After Darco, another Mannite underwent a metamorphosis into a powerful being, Nina and the Mannites disappeared.
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