Know Kitty Pryde

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Katherine "Kitty" Pryde was born in Deerfield, Illinois, United States to Carmen and Theresa Pryde.

Her paternal grandfather Samuel Prydeman was a European Jew, known to have been held in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. His married sister Chava Rosanoff is reported to have died during the Holocaust. Samuel was rescued by the United States Army at the end of World War II in Europe in 1945. He soon immigrated to the United States.


Shadowcat as member of Excalibur with Lockheed and Widget.
Alan Davis, ArtAs a thirteen year old adolescent, Kitty started suffering from recurring headaches. Unknown to her these headaches resulted from her body trying to cope with her new emerging powers. Kitty was a mutant with the ability to become intangible and walk through solid matter, an ability called "phasing."

Shortly thereafter, Pryde was approached by both Professor Charles Francis Xavier and the Hellfire Club's White Queen, Emma Frost. Taking an instant dislike to the White Queen, she chose to go with Xavier. When Emma kidnapped Xavier and the X-Men, Kitty helped fight to free them. Proving herself in this battle, she joined the X-Men soon after becoming one of the youngest members at the time ever. Initially wearing an old-style X-Men uniform, Kitty took the codename "Sprite" and later dressing in more brightly-colored outfits calling herself "Ariel." From the time of their first meeting, she developed a crush on her teammate Colossus.

One of her earliest adventures with the X-Men involved their kidnapping by the non-humanoid alien race known as the Brood. During this adventure in outer space, Kitty's life was saved by a small alien dragon whom she named Lockheed, who has been her frequent companion since. Kitty and Colossus began a romantic relationship upon their return to Earth. Professor X, in the X-Men's absence, had created a sister team of younger mutants called the New Mutants whom he did not intend to combat other mutants. He intended to place Kitty in that group when she returned to Earth but Kitty, calling the New Mutants (some of whom were older than she was) "the X-Babies", convinced him to allow her to remain in the X-Men. Later, Colossus's seven-year old sister Illyana was kidnapped by the demonic sorcerer Belasco and held in the extradimensional realm known as Limbo, where he trained Illyana as his demonic apprentice. Since time passed more quickly in Limbo than on the Earthly plane, Belasco used magic to artificially age Illyana several years. She eventually escaped him and returned to Earth seconds after she had been kidnapped; she was now a teenager and became Kitty's best friend and roommate. Because of their strong rapport, Kitty would inherit Illyana's Soul Sword, the ultimate expression of Illyana's mystical abilities, if Illyana died or otherwise ceased to exist.

During the 1985 Kitty Pryde and Wolverine miniseries, Kitty became possessed by the demon ninja, Ogun. While in Japan assisting her father, who was caught up in a bit of organized crime, Kitty was brainwashed by Ogun into thinking she was his assassin. Ogun bestowed upon Kitty a virtual lifetime of martial arts training and sent her to kill fellow X-Man, Wolverine, himself a former pupil of Ogun. Now calling herself Shadowcat, Kitty was able to resist Ogun's influence with Wolverine's help and a bit of tough love. Kitty and Wolverine defeated Ogun and in the process formed a strong teacher/student bond with each other which remains to this day. Nevertheless, Kitty returned to the X-Men a changed girl, no longer the innocent Sprite they knew.

Kitty's romance with Colossus came to an end following the Secret Wars miniseries, during which Colossus developed feelings for an alien female that he had met on another planet.

During the Mutant Massacre, she was injured by Harpoon's energy spear and lost control of her phasing abilities and was left in a permanently-phased state. Unable to speak, her body slowly discorporating; a condition that if not stopped would eventually lead to her death. She was eventually cured in the Fantastic Four Versus the X-Men miniseries with the help of both Doctor Doom and Mr. Fantastic. During Kitty's absence from the team, the X-Men had apparently died fighting the Adversary in Texas. Unaware that the extradimensional sorceress Roma had returned the X-Men to life, Kitty and her fellow former X-Men Nightcrawler and Rachel Summers joined the British superheroes Captain Britain and Meggan to form the Britain-based team Excalibur.

It was during her time with Excalibur that Kitty inherited the Soul Sword following the events of the "Inferno" storyline, during which Illyana's time in Limbo had been erased from existence, her demonic form ceased to exist and she was returned to the age she was prior to her kidnapping by Belasco. With the Soul Sword came dominion over Limbo. Kitty eventually lost the Soul Sword and Limbo when Doctor Doom attempted to steal it from her, but his plans were thwarted and the sword and Limbo ended up in the possession of the being known as Darkoth. It was also during her tenure with Excalibur that Kitty became romantically involved with scruffy British bad-boy Peter Wisdom.

Eventually Excalibur disbanded and Kitty ended her relationship with Wisdom. She returned to the X-Men, but left again after the apparent death of Colossus. She went on to attend the University of Chicago trying to give herself a normal life. It was during this time, her father was killed when Cassandra Nova's wild Sentinels destroyed Genosha.

Recently, she once again rejoined the X-Men at the urging of Cyclops and Emma Frost (Astonishing X-Men #1). On one of the new team's first missions, Kitty discovered Colossus alive and imprisoned in a research facility. The full repercussions of this discovery have yet to be seen. She is back to dating him, but was originally worried that she was crowding him, and he needed to work out issues. In fact, Colossus wanted her to come on stronger!


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