Trance (comics)

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caption=A close-up of Trance
comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Trance
real_name=Hope Abbott
species=Human Mutant
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="New X-Men: Academy X" #12
creators=Christina Weir
Nunzio DeFilippis
alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0
alliances =Xavier Institute Paragons Training Squad
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powers=Capable of projecting her consciousness into an energy state that can travel over far distances, avoid physical injury, and produce a disruptive energy surge |

Trance (Hope Abbott) is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. A mutant, Hope attends the Xavier Institute and retained her powers post-House of M.

Fictional character biography

Hope was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. When Hope's powers manifested, it appeared as if a ghost had came out of her body, giving her father a heart attack. She was then sent to the Xavier Institute by her parents believing that she would be "cured". [ [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=774&disp=table Comic Book Resources Wolverine: Killing Made Simple Preview ] ]

While at the Institute, Hope was put in the Paragons Squad under the watch of Wolfsbane. Hope then took on the codename Trance. When it was outted that Wolfsbane and a student (Elixir) had been in a relationship, Wolfsbane decided to leave. Magma then took over as the squad's advisor.

When the events of Decimation transpired, she was one of only 27 students to keep her powers. Greatly weakened by the losses, Emma Frost placed all of the remaining students into an all-out brawl to determine who would become the team of X-Men in-training. Hope did not make the team yet, like all of the other students who retained their powers, still resides as the Institute.

In response to M-Day, the government began gathering all information they had on the remaining mutants. Additionally, the Sentinel Squad O*N*E, a team of human-piloted Sentinels, was sent to "watch over" the X-Men and the handful of refugees symbolically known as . According to said files, Hope was willing to work with other mutants in training sessions but had not yet received any combat experience.

Quest for Magik

Trance is among the students who were captured by Belasco and transported to Limbo. As per X-23's request, Trance uses her astral projection to warn the students who weren't captured of Belasco's return. Thanks to Trance, the students were successfully saved and brought back by the X-Men.

Messiah Complex

Trance was present at the Institute when Predator X attacked the school. Trance barely got out of the way in time. Unfortunately the school was shut down and all the students were sent home.

Killing Made Simple

Blindfold had a vision and informed the X-Men that Trance was going to be in trouble. While having dinner with her family, Trance's home was attacked by Orphan-Maker on Nanny's orders, but Trance wasn't his target, her parents were. Luckily Wolverine had been sent by the X-Men to watch over her. Springing to action, Wolverine tries to fight off Orphan Maker but is overpowered. With a change of plans, Trance and Wolverine are kidnapped. Trance is later seen tied to a chair with Wolverine chained to the ground. Trance, believing that Wolverine will save them, refuses to use her powers. After realizing that Wolverine cannot help her, she astral projects outside her body and begins blasting Nanny and Orphan Maker. Nanny and Orphan Maker eventually eject in an escape pod, leaving the ship to crash. Using her energy blasts, Trance disables the self-destruct timer. The ship crashes in a lake, but Trance and Wolverine are safe.

Manifest Destiny

Trance is briefly seen in X-Men: Manifest Destiny #2, having relocated to San Francisco along with all the other X-Men.

Powers and abilities

Hope has an astral projection power, the scope of which has not yet been fully displayed. Her code name suggests that she goes into some kind of altered state of consciousness or somehow otherwise nullifies her body in order to release her astral self. Her astral form is capable of flight and can pass through magic barriers. This observation was further affirmed when she asked Emma Frost if she could leave her body outside the danger room during an exercise. It is unusual in that whilst most fiction depicts astral projection as harmless, Hope's power somehow causes energy damage, though the extent is not known.

Trivia

* Hope's interests include old films and classic music, and it appears she is rather culturally sophisticated. Her classmates voted her 'best-dressed' in the yearbook.

Bibliography

*"New X-Men: Academy X / New X-Men": #12, 23, 28, 33, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, and 46
*"New X-Men: Academy X: Yearbook Special": by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir
*"X-Men: The 198 Files": by Eric J. Moreels, Marc-Oliver Frisch, and Brian E. Wilkinson

References

External links

* [http://uncannyxmen.net/db/article/showquestion.asp?faq=4&fldAuto=229&page=7UncannyX-Men.net-Yearbook Entry on the Paragons]