Tempo (comics)

Tempo
Tempo
	Acolytes
Notable aliases	Harriet Solomon
Abilities	Flight; Time manipulation

Tempo is a

Mutant Liberation Front in New Mutants

#86 (February 1990).

Publication history

Tempo first appeared in New Mutants #86.

Fictional character biography

Tempo (alter ego Heather Tucker) is a founding member of the

terrorist organization known as the Mutant Liberation Front (MLF). Tempo is a mainstay in the team's adventures, including fighting Wolverine, Sunfire, X-Factor and others in the name of mutant rights, using her time-bending powers.^{[volume & issue needed}

]

The MLF destroy the Tucker Clinic, an institute for pregnant mothers to undergo

prenatal DNA testing to determine whether or not their babies would be mutants, resulting in the death of Dr. Tucker. The story hints that Tempo may have been his daughter.^[1]

Soon after, a tyrannical despot named Reignfire reforms the MLF and tasks them with killing Henry Peter Gyrich. Tempo intervenes to save Gyrich and is exiled from the MLF.^{[volume & issue needed]}

After leaving the MLF,

Cable invites Tempo to join X-Force but she declines, choosing instead to go to college and put aside the super-powered lifestyle.^{[volume & issue needed]} She is again briefly affiliated with the MLF during Operation: Zero Tolerance.^{[volume & issue needed]} ^[2]

After

Acolytes.^{[volume & issue needed]} When they disband, she joins Utopia and works alongside the X-Men.^{[volume & issue needed}

]

In

Legacy absorbs her memories.^[4]

Before being recruited into the Marauders, Tempo was in a relationship with another mutant, Bouncer (Renata Da Lima), but they broke up.^[5]

Powers and abilities

Tempo can manipulate time. She is able to slow or stop her opponents and speed up either herself or her teammates. She has prevented grenades from exploding by keeping them in suspended motion, and was also able to successfully attack

Rogue

by amplifying Rogue's speed, causing her to crash into a wall while flying.

Strain limits how long Tempo can maintain a major time manipulation. While it was never established how long that limit is, she was able to completely freeze the X-Men for several minutes while she and the Acolytes conducted a thorough search of the X-Men mansion.^[6] Tempo can also levitate herself and fly at subsonic speeds.^{[volume & issue needed]}

Besides offering her physical protection, Tempo's helmet also contains electronic equipment that provides her with resistance to

Cable's telepathic probes.^[7]

References

^ X-Factor #78 (May 1992)
^ X-Force #67 (June 1997)
^ George A. Tramountanas (2011-06-21). "X-POSITION: Mike Carey on the "Age of X" Aftermath". CBR. Retrieved 2016-12-12.
^ X-Men Legacy #245
^ Marauders Annual #1
^ X-Men (vol. 2) #202 (October 2007)
^ X-Factor #78 (May 1992)

External links

UncannyXmen.net Character Profile on Tempo

[1] X-Factor #78 (May 1992)

[2] X-Force #67 (June 1997)

[3] George A. Tramountanas (2011-06-21). "X-POSITION: Mike Carey on the "Age of X" Aftermath". CBR. Retrieved 2016-12-12.

[4] X-Men Legacy #245

[5] Marauders Annual #1

[6] X-Men (vol. 2) #202 (October 2007)

[7] X-Factor #78 (May 1992)

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