Little is know about Martha's past. As a teenage mutant runaway, Martha was captured by the human supremacist group, the U-Men.^[1] Their founder John Sublime had her brain removed from her body, keeping the disembodied brain alive in a capsule. Sublime controlled her through drugs and syringes, and used her to subdue his opponents.^[2] He used this method against the two X-Men, Cyclops and Emma Frost. The pair eventually broke free of her control, and liberated Martha. After gaining her freedom, Martha took her revenge on Sublime by causing him to fall to his apparent death.^[3]

Xavier Institute

After Martha was freed, Cyclops and Emma enrolled her in the Xavier Institute where she became a member of Xorn's Special Class. Fellow student, Quentin Quire invented a special hovering case to hold Martha's brain. Martha seems to have developed a friendship with Ernst, super-strong mutant appearing like an old woman, who often pulled Martha's case by chain and repeated Martha's telepathic communications.

When Xorn impersonated Magneto and formed his new Brotherhood of Mutants, Martha, along most of the Special Class, joined. However, Martha's loyalty to Xorn seem tenuous as she predicted Xorn's plans would fail miserably.^[4]

After Xorn's death, Martha returned to the newly rebuilt Xavier Institute. In the wake of M-Day, only 27 students (including Martha) retained their mutant powers.^[5]^[6] Although Martha remained at the school, she was excluded from trying out for the New X-Men.^[7]

Manifest Destiny & Nation X

Following the destruction of X-Mansion by Sentinels^[8], Beast returned to the school grounds to retrieve to his research and Martha to bring both to Graymalkin Industries in San Francisco.^[9]

Following the movement of the majority of the mutant populace to the floating island of Utopia, Martha was instrumental in stopping a plot to take over Utopia by fellow disembodied mutant Kid Omega, almost sacrificing herself in the process.^[10]

Curse of the Mutants

During Xarus' vampire invasion of San Francisco, Martha possessed a sleeping Rogue to experience further heroics. Ernst assisted in watch after Martha's brain and following between in case of trouble. While inhabiting Rogue's body, Martha met Damen, a charming vampire claiming she was the reincarnated of his lover, Rue. At first Martha was enamored with Damen and the idea running away with him, but after sharing a kiss she realized he was soulless. Heartbroken, Damen allowed Martha to end his existence.^[11]

Schism & Regenesis

Following the schism between Wolverine and Cyclops, Martha chose to stay on Utopia^[12]^[13] and join Hope Summers' Lights at the request of Zero.^[14]

During her first mission with Hope's team, Martha's glass tank was broken by a suicide bomber, none other than a recently mindwiped Sebastian Shaw. Without Pixie available to teleport her to back to Utopia, Zero used his own mutant powers to create a body for her.^[15]

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

Martha is a mutant with psychically based powers, including:

Telepathy: Martha is a telepath, and her powers in this area are shown as being quite advanced. At one time she was capable of overpowering Emma Frost's subconscious defenses; however, this was while Emma's telepathy was inoperative due to her diamond form.
- Psycho-Chaff: Martha can broadcast disruptive psionic signals in her immediate vicinity. These signals cloud the minds of her victims, inhibiting their concentration and autonomic nervous functions to the point of stupor.^[3]
- Mind Possession: The ability project a psionic energy surge that overwhelms her victims' consciousness while placing her mind in command, allowing her full control of their physical body.^[3]^[10]^[11] The range and upper limits of this ability are undetermined.
- Power Negation: Martha is able to negate or block the use of others' mutant's powers. This power is much the Morlock Leech, but unlike Leech, Martha has conscious control of her powers. The range and upper limits of this ability are undetermined.

Bioluminescent Blood: Martha's blood has luminescent properties. After running away from home, she wrote her parents using her own blood.^[2]

Power Grid ^[16]

Weaknesses

Martha lives as a disembodied brain, and requires regular injections of medical fluids to live.

ParaphernaliaEdit

Transportation

Pixie's teleportation. Previously Martha lived in a glass tank, which was created by John Sublime and improved by Quentin Quire.

NotesEdit

"No-Girl" was originally claimed to be a student in Xavier's Special Class. However, there has been some confusion over No-Girl's true identity. Since No-Girl was never seen, and Martha was specifically called No-Girl in the future^[17], it is believed that the existence of a separate being named No-Girl is not true, but rather a fabrication made up by Martha. Not until recently, was it confirmed that Martha is in fact No-Girl.^[10]^[14]
Prior to Zero creating a body for her,^[15] Martha lived in a glass tank, which was created by John Sublime. The device had been improved by Quentin Quire, who has attached antigravity floats to it, which allowed Martha to move.^[18]

TriviaEdit

Martha's archnemesis is Kid Omega^[10], which can seem a tad strange, as he has improved her brain tank before.^[18]
Martha's original body has never been seen on panel.

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