D is for December 2008! The Super Duper D-List Month thread!

[Home made ectoplasm]

LOL. So sorry! I think the answer is no. It needs to be an inorganic surface.

That is a shame, because it would have been hott.

[Jack Flash]

#36 Neurotap
Real Name: Michelle Balters
First appearance: X-Force Annual #2
Most recent appearance: Civil War Battle Damage Report
Powers: Neurotap has the ability via eye contact to scramble an opponents neurons and possibly fry their brains. Her powers have been shown to range from knocking a foe down to putting them into a coma!
Status: Probably in the Initiative! *HAY!*
Creator: Fabian Nicieza



Bio:
Michelle Balters worked for Strong Industries, a corrupt Scientific research company, hunting down mutants for research studies. She worked for Henry Strong because he promised to help her find a cure for her X-Gene. She HATED her powers because of what they did to her parents. When her mutant powers manifested themselves, she put both parents into comas. Henry Strong had helped her pay for her parents medical bills as well, which were astronomical.



When X-Force tangled with StrongHOLD, Strong Industries was taken down hard. She declined an invitation to join X-Force. After the take down, she continued to work for Henry in order to take care of her parents. She became romantically involved with Adam X: The X-Treme! She dug backwards baseball caps and spiky shoulder pads, what's a girl to do!? She ended up betraying Adam when Henry threatened her parents. And so ended one of Marvel's great love affairs.



Eventually, Michelle felt like Henry was again going to far and called in Rictor and Shatterstar to help take down Strong Industries once and for all.

Did you know?: Michelle Balters was listed in Civil War Damage Report as a possible recruit for the Initiative! Maybe we'll get to see her on Nebraska's Corn Husker Team!?!

[Nevets F]

#36 Neurotap
Real Name: Michelle Balters
First appearance: X-Force Annual #2
Most recent appearance: Civil War Battle Damage Report
Powers: Neurotap has the ability via eye contact to scramble an opponents neurons and possibly fry their brains. Her powers have been shown to range from knocking a foe down to putting them into a coma!
Status: Probably in the Initiative! *HAY!*
Creator: Fabian Nicieza



Bio:
Michelle Balters worked for Strong Industries, a corrupt Scientific research company, hunting down mutants for research studies. She worked for Henry Strong because he promised to help her find a cure for her X-Gene. She HATED her powers because of what they did to her parents. When her mutant powers manifested themselves, she put both parents into comas. Henry Strong had helped her pay for her parents medical bills as well, which were astronomical.



When X-Force tangled with StrongHOLD, Strong Industries was taken down hard. She declined an invitation to join X-Force. After the take down, she continued to work for Henry in order to take care of her parents. She became romantically involved with Adam X: The X-Treme! She dug backwards baseball caps and spiky shoulder pads, what's a girl to do!? She ended up betraying Adam when Henry threatened her parents. And so ended one of Marvel's great love affairs.



Eventually, Michelle felt like Henry was again going to far and called in Rictor and Shatterstar to help take down Strong Industries once and for all.

Did you know?: Michelle Balters was listed in Civil War Damage Report as a possible recruit for the Initiative! Maybe we'll get to see her on Nebraska's Corn Husker Team!?!

OMG...I didn't know anyone remembered Michelle! I always loved her.

She was supposed to be in a team with Shatterstar and Rictor, called Triple X. Never happened though. :(

[Home made ectoplasm]

OMG...I didn't know anyone remembered Michelle! I always loved her.

She was supposed to be in a team with Shatterstar and Rictor, called Triple X. Never happened though. :(

LOL at the idea of a Shatterstar / Rictor team up called "XXX"

[Nevets F]

#2 Bling!
Real Name: Roxanne “Roxy” Washington
First appearance: X-Men #171
Last appearance: Arguably Weapon X #5
Powers: Bling! has diamond skin which grants her increased durability. She also has the ability to expel diamond shards at a high velocity. She also is a great dancer!
Status: Highly Fashionable.
Creator: Peter Milligan



Bio:
Roxy is the daughter of highly prominent hip hop artists Roy "Daddy Libido" Washington and Angel "Sexy Mutha" Depres. Being part of hip hop royalty, Roxy was in rap videos at a young age, imagine her as a young Beyonce in waiting. Instead, she turned the tables on destiny and signed up with Xavier’s school for the Gifted and Talented. She was a member of Gambit’s squad alongside Onyxx, Rainboy, and Flubber. She excelled both in training and in her studies and all was well for the Hip Hop Princess, until a new student showed up and turned her world upside down. She was intrigued by this new attractive femme fatale named Foxx. She found herself in lust with this new squad member and disturbed by the brewing relationship between her mentor, Gambit, and her secret crush. Roxy was never able to put the moves on Foxx, as she turned out to be Mystique in disguise. It’s unknown if Roxy is a lesbian or if she is simply, following in the path of all the great X-Women, a bisexual.



After M-Day, which saw most of her squad depowered, Bling! retained her mutation. She pitched in to help out the X-men against the sentinels and against Apocalypse. Using her powers and her fantastic persona to aid the school she loved, she was successful as a mutant under the X-Umbrella, but did mention to her pal Surge, that she was not comfortable going on missions. She suffered from anxiety and even considered leaving the X-school along with her teammate Onyxx. It’s not known how much of an impact Gambit’s betrayal of the squad had to do with her doubts.



She’s not been seen since the X-Men moved to San Francisco, but I am sure it’s only a matter of time before the X-men’s R&B princess makes her debut in the Queer Capitol.

Did you know?: Roxy being the daughter of two mega-stars was constantly threatened with kidnappings and assassination attempts growing up. No wonder she left the Emminem and 50 cent’s behind for Wolverines and Cyclops.

Sorry I'm late!

Once the Marvel Holiday Issue finally gets published on Marvel.com, you can update her most recent appearance. :O

Love Bling!.

[Nevets F]

#15 Ghost Girl
Real Name: Lilli Stevens
First appearance: Alpha Flight Vol. 2 #2
Most recent appearance: Alpha Flight Vol. 2 #20
Powers: She can become intangible like Shadowcat
Status: Unknown...YAY?!?!!!!
Creator: Steve Seagle, and Scott Clark



Bio: Lilli spent much of her time cow tipping on her grand-father's cattle ranch, until he died. Then she got shipped off to the state orphange, called Hull House. Spoooky. While in the orphanage, she tried playing frisbee, but it just went through her, which caught the eye of over-weight and nosey Mrs. De La Salle. She contacted Dept. H about a legacy child was ripe for the picking.

Being tricked into being adopted, the orphanage threw her a going-away party, but it soon turned into smoke. They were gov't. agents who were there to recruit her to Dept. H.



Lilli, upset and scared, escaped her cell within the Beta Flight wing at Department H and found Diamond Lil in the reception area before begging her for help because she no wanted to go home. Two red Epsilons found her and quickly escorted her back to her room and Diamond Lil thought that the girl looked kinda familiar.

She bumps into Puck, and talks to him a bit. A little while later, she's caught throwing a fit, and ends up having her memories wiped by Director Clarke to keep her more complacent.



She got to hang out with other awesome recruits, Ouija, and Flinch, but she's the only one who gets bumped up to Alpha trainee status after Director Clarke bites it fighting the Zodiac.

While moving her stuff to the Alpha wing, she meets Murmur and bumps into Flex who wants to slide his metal member into her ghost box. lol Shortly afterwards, she helps new Alpha Flight and old Alpha Flight beat the new Weapon X, who was trying to set off a nuclear bomb in Canada. Can you imagine all the garbage they'd be sending to us THEN??? She, as well as Flex and Murmur were never heard from again.

Did you know?: She can also use her intangible body to create gateways through solid objects for others to use. She has created pathways for Puck and Flex to pass through her, and doing so tickles her.

Awww...you even included characters like Ghost Girl! You truly are a D-List fan! yay!

[Swashbuckler]

LOL. So sorry! I think the answer is no. It needs to be an inorganic surface.

Ok, so what if Mondo touced a stone wall and turned into stone. Would Neophyte then be able to phase through his stone "skin"?

[Home made ectoplasm]

Sorry I'm late!

Once the Marvel Holiday Issue finally gets published on Marvel.com, you can update her most recent appearance. :O

Love Bling!.

I haven't read any bling, but the profile makes her sound good, so I'm glad she will be back.

[Prodigy55]

LOL at the idea of a Shatterstar / Rictor team up called "XXX"

Hahahahaha! Shatterstar and Rictor were such a cute couple. Triple X should have happened

[The M.E.]

Hahahahaha! Shatterstar and Rictor were such a cute couple. Triple X should have happened

I agree, I'd buy that book in a second. I loved me some neurotap. I loved X-Force in general around that period. So bright and colorful...

[Justin K.]

Whatever happened to those two mutants who were supposed to join Mystique's brotherhood, before Dream's end? One of them was a blonde guy and an african-american (being politically correct here ) woman. Are they d-list or z-list?

[worstblogever]

Neophyte's like a dude version of someone like Kitty Pryde or Loa, more than Mondo. Except that he can't phase into a ghost like Kitty... he can only move through solid matter, and he doesn't destroy what he moves through, like Alani.


Would have been interesting to see Generation X try to undo a lot of his Acolyte brainwashing, it that's where he was headed.


Meanwhile... Neurotap? She didn't do it for me. Having the mutant power to "fry yo brains" gets real old, real fast. How many people have that one? She's like somebody from the flick scanners, and her power isn't anything that the average telepath couldn't do, anyway.

Factor in her bizarre taste in men, and yeah... weird, weird character.

[jarrod]

Once the Marvel Holiday Issue finally gets published on Marvel.com, you can update her most recent appearance. :O

[Jack Flash]

#37 No-Girl
Real Name: Martha Johansson
First appearance: New X-men #118
Most recent appearance: X-men: Divided We Stand #2
Powers: No-Girl.
Status: She’s going back to Cali…
Creator: Grant Morrison



Bio:
Martha was a young mutant runaway that fell into the clutches of John Sublime and his body-part stealing operation, the U-Men. He removed Martha’s brain and stored it in a capsule. He then pumped her brain full of drugs that he used to control her and force her to do his bidding. She mentally overwhelmed both Cyclops and Emma Frost and managed to subdue them. Eventually she was able to break free of Sublime’s conditioning and forced him to fall to his “Death.” REVENGE BABY! Cyke and Ems took her brain with them back to the school. There, the coolest student in the history of students, Quentin Quire invented a device that allowed her brain to float (without floating away) and gave her mobility. What a nice kid.



While at school she became best friends with Ernst, a super strong kid who’s body had aged into her 80s. Ernst was able to relay Martha’s psychic commentary. Eventually, Martha and the rest of the “Special Class” became members of Xorn’s Brotherhood, but she predicted his plans to kill all the Humans in NYC would fail, and she was right!



She retained her mutant powers after the M-Day crisis and was seen to join the rest of the kiddos when Belasco transported them to Limbo. While in Limbo, Belasco took her and the Stepford Cukoos out of the mix by placing psychic blocking helmets on them. All of the kids managed to get free and escape Limbo and Martha returned with the rest of them.

After the Institute was recently destroyed, Beast came back to the ruins of the school to shred some documents and found Martha in a briefcase. He took her back to San Francisco, the current base of the X-men.



Did you know?: In the Here Comes Tomorrow future timeline, Martha is still alive 150 years from now. She is still close friends with Ernst, who was revealed to be a benevolent reincarnation of Cassie Nova. In this future timeline, a conversation with Cassandra Nova, confirmed that Martha was No-Girl all along as well as the fact that Martha knew Nova was Ernst all along as well. It was also implied that when she was alive, that Martha's blood possessed glow-in-the-dark capabilities and that Martha wrote a note to her parents using her own blood when she ran away from them.

[Come To Deathstrike]

Neophyte's like a dude version of someone like Kitty Pryde or Loa, more than Mondo. Except that he can't phase into a ghost like Kitty... he can only move through solid matter, and he doesn't destroy what he moves through, like Alani.

INCORRECT.
He has phased himself into rain.

He is an underused gem.