U-Go Girl

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comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=U-Go Girl
real_name=Edith Constance Sawyer
species=Human Mutant
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="X-Force" vol. 1 #116
creators=Peter Milligan
Mike Allred

alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0
alliances=X Force
aliases=Tele-Girl
powers=Teleportation|

U-Go Girl (Edie Sawyer) was a fictional character from the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of the superhero team X-Force, as well as X-Statix. She first appeared in "X-Force" vol. 1 #116 and was created by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred.

Fictional character biography

Born and raised in a small midwestern town, Edie often felt like a stranger in the presence of her own father. Restless and eager for bigger, better things, she became pregnant by a young drifter when she was fifteen. Edie confessed to her parents when she could no longer hide the signs, and soon discovered the truth about her own parentage: she herself was the daughter of an anonymous drifter whom her mother slept with, and the man who raised her as her father was unable to have children. Instead of disowning Edie, her parents formed an elaborate lie to protect her. She was pulled out of school under the ruse of an illness, and her mother began putting a pillow under her dress to pretend that she was pregnant. Thus, when the child was born she would be raised as Edie's sister rather than her daughter. Edie's power of teleportation fully manifested when she first looked at her daughter's face and felt a powerful urge to "get away." She appeared atop the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles. "X-Force" (Vol. 1) #124, 2002]

A few years later, Edie returns to Los Angeles to make her fortune. She struggles as a waitress and an actress until she became smitten with X-Force leader Zeitgeist and decides to try out for the team. She perfected her "aim" with her teleportation and came up with the codename "Tele-Girl"; she became U-Go Girl after she accidentally flashed a crowd during her team tryout and someone screams, "You go, girl!" ["X-Statix" #10, 2003]

Deaths Around Her

Coach briefs the team on a mission to New York City to rescue a band called 'Boyz R Us' that had been taken hostage. In the ensuing fight most everyone, including the band, the hostage takers and X-Force, dies. The only survivors are her, Anarchist, and Doop. Edie is heavily traumatized by holding Zeitgeist's upper torso as he dies. ["X-Force" (Vol. 1) #116, 2001]

Following the deaths of most of her original teammates, U-Go Girl was hoping to be named leader, as she had seniority. She comes into conflict with Anarchist, both accusing the other of masterminding the massacre. Newcomer Orphan is appointed instead. ["X-Force" (Vol. 1) #117, 2001] Edie learns that the veto powers given to X-Force members have been taken away by the team's new owner, Spike Freeman. Edie suspects the owner to be part of a shadowy, criminal organization that is answerable to nobody. She is reassured this is not true but it is all lies.

Orphan rebels against the orders of Coach. In one instance, he sends a valuable mutant into hiding instead of turning him over to American big business forces. This soon snowballs into Coach bringing in two new mutants to bring Orphan into line. The confrontation sucks in U-Go Girl and Wolverine, a friend of Doop. The two men are distracted by the fight with the mutants, while Coach attempts to rape a temporarily disoriented Edie. She recovers just enough to kill him in self-defense.

Her Daughter Again

After a period of destabilizing powers, Orphan convinces U-Go Girl to face the ghosts of her pasts and reunite with her young daughter, Katie. Katie still believed that Edie was merely her faraway big sister, and Edie's mother discouraged Edie's intentions of revealing the truth. Noting the dangerousness of X-Force's missions, Mrs. Sawyer believed that it would be wrong for Edie to disrupt Katie's life, especially if she were ever to be killed during a mission. Edie reluctantly agrees and maintains the fiction of simply being a much older sister. She takes her daughter, and Orphan, on several jaunts around the world, granting her many happy memories. These jaunts are precise, leading Orphan to believe that it was simply the emotional reunion that stabilized her powers. Edie reveals it was a new 'pick-me-up' drug given to her by Spike Freeman. The two consummate their love in an out of the way hotel.

Ending

Due to Orphan having hidden the powerful mutant before, the pharmaceutical companies want to destroy X-Force. The Central Intelligence Agency broker a deal. In order to salvage their reputation. X-Force will travel to an America space station as part of a publicity stunt. They will fight and lose against death-row convicts, called Bush Rangers, that had been granted super-powers. Some of them involve shape-changing and impersonation of other's powers.

During the incident, U-Go Girl, Orphan and Anarchist are trapped on a small spacecraft with only a two person lifeboat available. They roll dice to see who would die, but the Anarchist uses his powers to 'cheat', leaving him behind. U-Go Girl and the Orphan arrived back at X-Force's ship and overrode the controls, allowing them to save the Anarchist. Unfortunately, it was all a set-up. The head agent wanted to destroy X-Force himself, as his child had died of an incurable disease, one the mutant Orphan had hidden might have cured. The agent himself is killed. One of the surviving Bush Rangers impersonates the rookie X-Force member "The Spike" and attacks. Spike and his double both die and Edie takes a spike through the stomach.

Mortally wounded, Edie whispered to Guy a suggestion for a new team name: X-Statix. After she dies the remainder of the team wrapped her body in a shroud and sent it into space. ["X-Force" (Vol. 1) #128, 2002]

Following Edie's death, X-Force was renamed X-Statix in her honor. At first, Spike Freeman does not agree but then changes his mind when the public accepts the name. ["X-Force" (Vol. 1) #129, 2002]

Afterlife

U-Go Girl was seen in the afterlife. She was shown to have gone to heaven after her death, and she was eventually reunited with Guy. However, she found herself unable to commit to one man for all eternity and pushed him away. Eventually, she accepted him after he came into his own again, and led the team of deceased heroes ["X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl"] .

Powers and abilities

U-Go Girl could teleport herself and others (in a radius of five feet) across the globe, although, this process was physically draining, and she was dependent on a stimulant to keep her energy high enough to continually teleport the team. Unfortunately, overuse of the stimulant throws off her power's ability to "aim" her jumps. She often fell asleep after multiple teleports. The longer the jump the more she must rest.Edie also has light blue skin, which she appeared to have in childhood, well before her initial power manifestation.

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