Tildie Soames

Tildie Soames is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3 #1 and was created by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.

Tildie Soames
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #1 (July 2004)
Created by	Joss Whedon John Cassaday
In-story information
Alter ego	Tildie Soames
Species	Human mutant
Team affiliations	Benetech
Abilities	Nightmare manifestation

Tildie has the ability to manifest her nightmares as real, monstrous entities. After inadvertently killing her parents and a police officer, she was used as a test subject for a mutant "cure" and later taken hostage by Ord before she is rescued by the X-Men.

Publication history

Tildie Soames first appeared in Astonishing X-Men vol. 3 #1 (July 2004), and was created by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.

Fictional character biography

Tildie is a young mutant girl who inadvertently killed her parents, and then one of two police officers, on the night her abilities first activated. Afterwards, she is imprisoned in Benetech Labs and loses her abilities to Kavita Rao's mutant cure. Ord then kidnaps Tildie before the X-Men rescue her and return her to Kavita and Benetech.^[1][2]

Powers and abilities

Tildie possessed the ability to manifest her nightmares as red energy monsters. This additionally gave her immunity to telepathy and limited immunity to other mutants' powers.

In other media

• Tildie Soames appears in Wolverine and the X-Men, voiced by Danielle Judovits.^[3] This version is initially a prisoner of the Mutant Response Division until being freed by Magneto and Juggernaut and taken in by the X-Men so she can master her powers.
• Tildie Soames appears in the Astonishing X-Men motion comic, voiced by Michel Friedman.^[3]