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Featuring the following heroine!
Blink
Real name: Clarice Ferguson
First appearance: The Uncanny X-men 317.
Died in: X-men 37 and again in X-Men Omega when that timeline ceased to exist.
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Favorite quote: "My name is Blink. Who do you think is faster?" (Astonishing X-men 4)
Team affiliation: During the Age of Apocalypse, Blink was with the Astonishing X-Men. Her sacrifice led to the formation of Generation X in the regular X-timeline.
Powers: Blink had the potential to form gateways through dimensions, an ability exploited by
the Astonishing X-Men during the AOA series. In this timeline, she was untrained and couldn't do
much more than fracture reality.
Favorite Story line: The mentor/apprentice relationship between Blink and the AOA's
somewhat-less-homicidal-than-usual Victor Creed was very interesting. That being said, however;
Least favorite story line: I didn't like the Phalanx story and I wasn't crazy about most of the
Age of Apocalypse (although I've always been in favor of pairing up Rogue with Magneto).
But Blink I like just fine. :-)
So, what is Blink up to these days? As those of us who are long-time comic book readers
know (and sometimes it irritates the heck out of us), death is not as bad a career move as it
might seem for a comic book character. There was a Bring Back Blink campaign. Never one
to let something as trivial as a dissolved time-line stop them, Marvel has done at least one
AOA Blink story.
