Marvel Comics Character Profile - Shadowcat (Formerly Sprite / Ariel)
Name Kitty Pride
Shadowcat X- MenKitty Pride Excalibur
Nationality American
Powers Mutant. Kitty has the power to make her body and nearby objects insubstantial so that she can 'Phase' through solid objects.
Affiliations X- Men, Excalibur
1st App. X- Men #129 January 1980
History- Kitty was a normal teenage girl until she started suffering from headaches. This was the beginning of her mutant powers being manifested and Kitty joined the X- Men as their youngest member to help learn to develop her powers. She became a worthy and respected member of the team and forming a special friendship with Storm, who she saw as a mother figure and colossus's little sister Illyana her best friend. For a while Kitty and Colossus where in love until he returned from the secret wars where he had met and fallen in love with another. Kitty was badly injured in an attack by the Marauders and could no longer control her phasing power. She became a wraith and was fading away to nothing but was saved by the combined intellect of Reed Richards and Dr. Doom. Whilst she was recovering the X- Men supposedly died in Dallas and kitty with fellow X- Man Nightcrawler was a founder of the British team Excalibur. When Excalibur disbanded Kitty and Nightcrawler returned to the X- Men