Shard (comics)

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caption=Cover to "X-Factor" #147
comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Shard
real_name=Shard Bishop
species=Human Mutant, later Holographic
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Uncanny X-Men" #309 (February, 1994)
creators= Scott Lobdell
John Romita, Jr.
alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0
alliances=Xavier Security Enforcers X-Factor
partners=Chronomancer
aliases=
powers=Energy blasts, intangibility (holographic Shard only)|

Shard (Shard Bishop) is a mutant character in the Marvel Comics universe.

Fictional character biography

Shard was a Lieutenant in Xavier's Security Enforcers, (X.S.E.) with her older brother Bishop in their native timeline in the 2080s. Shard was born in a mutant concentraton camp, in which mutants were branded over their right eyes with the letter "M" for recognition. In Uncanny X-Men Annual #17, Shard is stated as having the mutant ability of "transubbing ambient light into concussive force".

Shard became the youngest X.S.E. graduate a year after Bishop attained that position. She served under Bishop as a member of the Omega Squad (which included Bishop and his officers, Randall and Malcolm), until her promotion.

Together, in the X.S.E. Shard and Bishop were responsible for apprehending criminal mutants. Shard was partially infected on a mission with her brother fighting a group infected with a vampire-like affliction originating from the present day mutant, Emplate.

Although Emplates are considered the "living dead", Bishop took her to the New York Stark/Fujikawa building inhabited by the Witness in order to attempt to save her life by transmitting her essence into a holographic matrix (a technology of Shi'ar origin, akin to that used in the X-Men's Danger Room). The experiment was a success, but Shard, already partially infected with the Emplate affliction, died. Due to the process involved, Bishop considered himself her murderer.

Bishop eventually travelled back in time, to the present, in an effort to track down one of his time's most-wanted criminals, where he became stuck in the present day and became a member of the X-Men, his idols. Shard has also since been recreated in the present, as a computer construct, and became a clandestine member of the government-sponsored X-Factor team. There, she began a romantic relationship with her teammate Wildchild.

After X-Factor disbanded in "#149", Shard was seen in an alternate future. There she died for the second and apparently final time, saving her brother Bishop ("Bishop: the Last X-Man #14").

Trivia

*According to comics writer Chris Claremont, Shard was to have appeared in the Australian Dreamtime of X-Treme X-Men issue #4, as she is ethnically Aborigine like her brother Lucas and ancestor Gateway.

In other media

Television

Shard appears in the "X-Men" animated series in the four part episode,"Beyond Good and Evil" and the two part episode "One Man's Worth" of the fourth season.

Games

In she is a playable character after unlocked in level 4.

External links

* [http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/characters/showquestion.asp?fldAuto=941 Uncannyxmen.net character bio on Shard]