Black Swan (comics)

Black Swan is the name of two supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Publication history

Black swan (mutant)

The first Black Swan appeared in Deadpool #65 and was created by Gail Simone and the artists of Udon Studios.

Yabbat Ummon Tarru

The second Black Swan first appeared in New Avengers (vol. 3) #1 and was created by Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting.^[1]

Fictional character biographies

Black Swan (mutant)

Black Swan
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Deadpool (vol. 3) #65 (May 2002)
Created by	Gail Simone Udon Studios
In-story information
Species	Human mutant
Abilities	Ability to implant a telepathic virus in the minds of others which disrupts the natural functions of their brains to cut off access to and override motor coordination, disorient their concentration, etc.

Black Swan is a German mutant raised in a Bavarian circus and trained in combat and gunmanship. He utilizes his ability to infect the minds of others with disruptive "telepathic viruses" to become a mercenary.^[2]

Black Swan battles Deadpool and is wounded after Deadpool inadvertently detonates a bomb and destroys his castle. He absorbs traits from Deadpool and Agent X to survive, resulting in the three sharing aspects of each other's powers, knowledge, and personalities.^[3] Black Swan later fully absorbs Deadpool and Agent X's abilities, but is killed by them, Taskmaster, and Outlaw.^[4]

Black Swan is later revealed to have survived and is hired by the mutant Black Box to kill Deadpool.^[5]

Black Swan (Yabbat Ummon Tarru)

Black Swan
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	New Avengers (vol. 3) #1 (January 2013)
Created by	Jonathan Hickman Steve Epting
In-story information
Alter ego	Yabbat Ummon Tarru
Team affiliations	Cabal Black Order
Abilities	Superhuman strength Flight Energy projection Telepathy Multilinguism Hologram generation

Yabbat Ummon Tarru is a princess from Earth-1365, born in the Hidden City. When she is four years old, her universe is involved in an incursion event with another universe, with her version of Earth being destroyed to stop the incursion. Yabbat flees into the Library of Worlds, a waystation of the multiverse, and is taken in by the Black Swans.^[6]

Black Swan comes to Earth-616 when it experiences its first incursion event. She attempts to destroy Earth-616 to prevent the incursion, but accidentally destroys her home universe instead. Black Swan is captured by Black Panther and imprisoned in Wakanda, where she assists the Illuminati in stopping incursions.^[6][7][8]

After Namor is forced to leave the Illuminati, he frees Black Swan, Thanos, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive, and Terrax from prison to form the Cabal and stop further incursions.^[9] Following the destruction and recreation of the multiverse, Thanos recruits Black Swan into the Black Order.^[10]

Powers and abilities

Black Swan (mutant)

The first Black Swan has the ability to implant a telepathic virus in the minds of others which disrupts the natural functions of their brains to cut off access to and override motor coordination, disorient their concentration, etc.

Yabbat Ummon Tarru

The second Black Swan has the ability to speak in multiple languages, which she gained while traveling the multiverse. She has access to advanced technology, including antimatter devices and ocular implants that can predict incursions. Black Swan's innate abilities include flight, energy projection, superhuman strength, telepathy, and the ability to generate holograms.