Shard (comics)

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Shard
Cover to X-Factor #147
Publisher Marvel Comics First appearance Uncanny X-Men #309 (February, 1994) Created by Scott Lobdell John Romita, Jr.
Characteristics Alter ego Shard Bishop Species Human Mutant, later Holographic Affiliations Xavier Security Enforcers (X.S.E.), X-Factor, Chronomancer Abilities Energy blasts, intangibility (holographic Shard only)

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

[edit] Fictional character biography

Shard was an officer in Xavier's Security Enforcers (X.S.E.) with her brother Bishop in their native timeline in the 2080s. Together, they were responsible for apprehending criminal mutants. Shard died on a mission with her brother fighting a group infected with a vampire-like affliction originating from the present day mutant, Emplate.

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).

Shard also appears in the X-Men Animated Series in the two part episode, "One Man's Worth" of the fourth season.

[edit] External links

• Uncannyxmen.net character bio on Shard