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Smith, Tabitha

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Universe
Marvel Universe

Real Name
Tabitha Smith

Aliases
Boom-Boom, Boomer, Meltdown, Mutate #35, Time Bomb, Nancy Forrester

Identity
Secret

Occupation
Adventurer, former student, thief

Citizenship
U.S.A.

Place of Birth
Roanoke, Virginia

Known Relatives
Martin Louis Smith (father), Mandy Smith (step-mother), Wanda Jo Bialowsky-Smith (step-mother)

Group Affiliation
Formerly Nextwave, X-Force, Genoshan Mutates, New Mutants, X-Terminators, X-Factor (trainee), Fallen Angels

Education
High School dropout

Height
5'5"

Weight
120 lbs.

Eyes
Blue

Hair
Blonde

Powers
Can psionically generate, release and reabsorb plasma; can time detonation of same

First Appearance
(As Time Bomb/Boom-Boom) Secret Wars II #5 (1985); (as Boomer) X-Factor #84 (1992); (as Meltdown) X-Force #51 (1996)

When Tabitha Smith's mutant nature manifested at age 13, she ran away from her abusive home. After an encounter with the otherdimensional Beyonder, Smith was recruited into the Vanisher's band of thieves the Fallen Angels. Briefly taken in by the X-Factor group as a trainee, Smith soon returned to the Fallen Angels only to rejoin her former fellow trainees as the X-Terminators. Subsequently joining the New Mutants, Smith stayed with the team after they were restructured by Cable into X-Force. She began a relationship with Cannonball that would last until he graduated and joined the X-Men.

Following her father's near-death experience with Sebastian Shaw and Holocaust, Tabitha underwent a drastic change in looks and personality. She renamed herself Meltdown and became something of a loose cannon. When ex-spy Pete Wisdom assumed leadership of X-Force, he introduced them to the shadowy world of covert operations. After a mission, the team was considered deceased (including Tabitha).

When Cable reformed X-Force, Tabitha rejoined the team.

After falling off the radar for several years, she recently resurfaced as a member of Nextwave.

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