Tomorrow Woman is a fictional character, an android in stories published in DC Comics. She debuted in JLA #5 (May 1997), and was created by Grant Morrison and Howard Porter.[1] Within the DC Comics canon, she is created by the mad scientist super-villains Professor Ivo and T.O. Morrow. Given human-like physical characteristics and false memories of a human life, Tomorrow Woman believes herself to be a new superhero born with psionic abilities due to a "four-lobed brain". Her true purpose is to infiltrate and then kill the Justice League. In her first appearance, she says she exclusively has telekinetic abilities, but a later flashback issue of JLA: Tomorrow Woman (1998) reveals that she also has telepathic abilities.
| Tomorrow Woman | |
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 Tomorrow Woman, as she appeared in her debut on JLA #5 (May 1997) by Howard Porter | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | JLA #5 (May 1997) |
| Created by | Grant Morrison (writer) Howard Porter |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Clara Kendall |
| Team affiliations | Justice League |
| Abilities | Telekinesis Telepathy Lethal EMP weapon |
In the weekly comic book series Trinity, a different version of Tomorrow Woman appeared, a woman named Clara Kendall from a parallel Earth.
Fictional character biography
editTomorrow Woman is a psychic android who is created by Professor Ivo and T. O. Morrow to infiltrate and destroy the Justice League and made to believe that she is a mutant human. After joining the League, Tomorrow Woman's programming activates, but she resists it and sacrifices herself to destroy the futuristic weapon IF with an electromagnetic pulse.
Tomorrow Woman subsequently appears in the 1998 one-shot JLA: Tomorrow Woman, which expands on her time with the League, and Hourman #2, where the third Hourman temporarily resurrects her.
Trinity
editIn Trinity, time and space are disrupted, creating unstable alternate timelines. An alternate universe variant of Tomorrow Woman appears as a member of the Justice Society International with the civilian identity of Clara Kendall. Clara later helps to restore reality, altering her timeline and transforming her into a human.
Powers and abilities
editTomorrow Woman is an artificial life-form, an android with artificial skin and organs who possesses telepathic and telekinetic powers. She is programmed with false memories of a cover identity and so seems to initially believe that her powers are due to her being a mutant.
Her telepathy allows her to read minds and project her thoughts. Her telepathy is focused enough to be able to forcibly free people from being mind-controlled by others without harming them in the process. She sometimes has trouble filtering out heightened emotions of people around her or even people she can perceive on television. Her telepathic defenses were strong and subtle enough that even when she became aware of her lethal programming, she was able to hide her true purpose from Martian Manhunter and Aquaman during a telepathic link. Her telekinetic blasts can stun a person without damaging them or increase in power so as to shatter steel and concrete. She can fly through telekinetic manipulation. The android Tomorrow Woman's secret weapon was an electromagnetic pulse device that could disrupt human brain activity, killing anyone within its blast radius.
References
edit- ^ Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Korte, Steve; Manning, Matt; Wiacek, Win; Wilson, Sven (2016). The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe. DK Publishing. p. 356. ISBN 978-1-4654-5357-0.