Blink

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Real Name

Clarice Ferguson

Current Alias

Blink

Relatives
Apocalypse (ancestor, deceased); Margaret Slade (ancestor, deceased); Hamilton Slade (distant relative, deceased); Frederick Slade (great-great-grandfather); Ms. Ferguson (great-great-grandmother, deceased); Chamber (distant cousin); Clan Akkaba (distant relatives);

Affiliation

X-Men (Team Wolverine); formerly New Mutants's ally; Selene's Inner Circle

Base Of Operations

Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York; formerly Black Rome, Necrosha

Status

Alignment

Neutral

Identity

Secret Identity

Citizenship

Bahamian, American

Marital Status

Single

Occupation

Adventurer

Characteristics

Gender

Female

Height

5' 5"

Weight

125 lbs (57 kg)

Eyes

Green

Hair

Magenta

Skin

Pink

Unusual Features

No visible pupils, light magenta skin, pointed ears, purple tattoo on left eye and pink diamond on forehead

Origin

Origin

Mutant

Universe

Earth-616

Place of Birth

Bahamas

Created by

Scott Lobdell, Joe Madureira

First appearance

Uncanny X-Men #317
(October, 1994)

HistoryEdit

Phalanx Covenant

Blink was one of the many young mutants captured by the Phalanx to assimilate their powers. Blink was tense and panicky and frightened of her powers (having "woken up in a pool of blood" after her first use of them). Clarice could not properly control her powers, and apparently was unable to teleport anything in an intact form. Instead, any object or person caught in Blink's teleportation field, also known as a "blink wave", would be shredded. She eventually used her abilities to "cut-up" Harvest, a Phalanx entity guarding her and her peers, but apparently was caught in her own teleportation field and died in the process. Because of her sacrifice, the remaining captives were set free and became the X-Men junior team Generation X.

Necrosha

Recently, Blink was seen in the company of Selene. Her apparent death seems to have been retconned. Instead of accidentally killing herself she transported herself to a different location and her mutant power allowed her to arrive intact. Harvester seems to have been unaffected by this and did not survive.

Blink joined the Inner Circle and with them she fought against the X-Men, because she thought that they betrayed her.

After Selene was killed, Blink escaped from the Necrosha. She traveled to Eastern Europe where Selene was born and trying to resurrect her, but she failed. The X-Men found her there and Dr. Strange used his magic to free Blink from Selene's spell. Freed from the spell Clarice realized that she was a killer and remembered all her victims. Emma invited her to join the X-Men, but Blink refused and escaped.^[1]

Regenesis

Blink has been witness saving people from many disasters which causes Cyclops to send the New Mutants to find her and bring her home. The team discovers that Blink is after a band who were being controlled by an extraterrestrial sentient ship that had been using them to generate chaos energy so it can call for help. The team stopped the band and threw the ship in to space. Dani Moonstar then offers Blink a choice to come and join Cyclops' X-Men in Utopia or Wolverine's team in Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Blink chose Wolverine's side and went to Westchester.^[2]

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

Teleportation: Blink possessed the ability to generate teleportation warps, allowing her to displace people and objects. Her effective range was to the moon and back. Also, Blink could manifest the energy for her portals in the form of short javelins, which caused their targets to teleport. She used this power offensively and defensively.

Strength level

Blink possesses the normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise.

TriviaEdit

• Blink was so popular that she was later given a major role in the Age of Apocalypse storyline. This new Blink (now leader of the Exiles) was written as a confident strong and determined mutant, the opposite of her 616-counterpart.

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• Character Gallery: Clarice Ferguson (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Clarice Ferguson (Earth-616) 
• Clarice Ferguson (Earth-616) at UncannyXmen.net

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