For the song, see Negasonic Teenage Warhead (song). Negasonic Teenage Warhead (real name Ellie Phimister) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, and named after the song "Negasonic Teenage Warhead" by Monster Magnet.[1] The character is a mutant who displays telepathic and precognitive powers, and is a student of Emma Frost. The character appears in the 2016 feature film Deadpool, albeit with a different look and a change in the character's comic book superpowers. This was done through a deal with head of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige.[2] In the movie, Negasonic Teenage Warhead is a member of the X-Men portrayed by actress Brianna Hildebrand. Negasonic Teenage Warhead first appeared in New X-Men #115 (2001), written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Frank Quitely. Ellie Phimister was a Genoshan teenager and a student of Emma Frost's telepathy class. During a tutoring session, Ellie reported having a recurring nightmare fifty times the previous night wherein all people in Genosha were exterminated.
She then pointed out that she had experienced the same vision during the class. Almost simultaneously, Cassandra Nova's Wild Sentinels appear on Genosha and wipe out half the world's mutant population: sixteen million people. Carrying what appeared to be Ellie's corpse, Emma Frost, who had survived the Genoshan genocide thanks to the manifestation of her secondary mutation, turning her into diamond, was found by the X-Men's Beast and Jean Grey. Emma proclaimed the teenager, who had named herself Negasonic Teenage Warhead, to be a credit to her family and the mutant race and then suffered a mental breakdown when she found out Ellie was dead. Much later, Negasonic Teenage Warhead was apparently seen to be alive as a member of the latest incarnation of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club, alongside Cassandra Nova, Sebastian Shaw, Perfection, and Emma Frost.[5] The new Inner Circle attacked the X-Men at the Xavier Institute. While Shaw, Frost and Nova dealt with Beast, Wolverine and Colossus, Ellie claimed she had a dream of Shadowcat phasing down into the Earth's core and was unable to stop;
the suggestion caused Shadowcat to lose control of her phasing powers. Later, a comatose Cyclops wakes up and begins shooting the members of the club, including Ellie, with a pistol. It is revealed, however, that Ellie and all the other members of the Hellfire Club were projections of Emma Frost's mind; these projections disappeared after they were revealed to be illusions. After hearing Negasonic Teenage Warhead's codename, Kitty Pryde remarks, "Wow, we really have run out of names." During the Necrosha event, Negasonic Teenage Warhead is revealed to be amongst the deceased mutant population of Genosha that is resurrected by the Transmode Virus by Selene and Eli Bard. However unlike the other resurrected mutants, Ellie isn't under Selene's control as seen when she refused to tell the Black Queen her real name.[9] Ellie apparently perished once again when the Black Queen absorbed the souls of the entire deceased mutant populace of Genosha. Ellie returns, unexplained, and uses her telepathic abilities to establish a new, mundane life for herself in an Albuquerque suburb.
Deadpool and the Mercs for Money capture her at the behest of an organization called Umbral Dynamics, unaware that the group intends to siphon her power into the Presence.[12] After her rescue and the defeat of Presence, Negasonic Teenage Warhead joins up with Domino's incarnation of the Mercs for Money alongside Hit-Monkey. In New X-Men #115, Ellie was in Emma Frost's Telepathy Class, presumably making her a telepath. In X-Force #24, Ellie is the only person aware that Proteus has possessed Destiny and she shows her precognitive abilities announcing to Selene the imminent return of her victorious inner circle. During the Deadpool & the Mercs for Money Vol. 2 series, Ellie showcased a host of new abilities she previously lacked before, creating a house and home for herself out of thin air with her thoughts. She is able to overpower a host of skilled, military or uniquely trained mercenaries in hand-to-hand combat, as well as showcasing superhuman physical prowess beyond the norm, battling the likes of Scorpia and Titania.
Over the series, Ellie shows even greater amounts of power and capabilities within her. She has the ability to harness, generate and absorb radioactive energy into herself, allowing herself to achieve feats such as fabricating objects out of thin air like clothes or shelter and levitate people or objects with her mind. Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead in Deadpool. Negasonic Teenage Warhead appears in the film Deadpool, portrayed by Brianna Hildebrand.[17] Although she was obscure as a comic character, the writers selected her because they liked her name. They also thought that a goth girl with Cannonball's powers would be a better choice for the film than using Cannonball himself.[18] Cannonball has similar explosive powers, though as a different mutation. In the film, her powers are slightly altered, adding the ability of telekinetic detonation within a certain radius of herself, visualized in the movie as an expanding energy bubble evoking plasma and atomic blasts.
She is portrayed as a young X-Men trainee who is paired with Colossus where they try to get Deadpool to join the X-Men. Negasonic Teenage Warhead is described by Deadpool as a stereotypical teenager who's "all about long sullen silences, followed by mean comments and then more silences", and lives up to that description by occasionally ignoring his mockery with her cell phone. Deadpool is also astounded by her name which he claims is "the coolest name ever". She and Colossus later aid Deadpool in his fight against Ajax by helping Colossus defeat Angel Dust after the two villains had abducted Vanessa Carlysle. In an extended scene on the film's Blu-ray release, Negasonic Teenage Warhead says she can tell the future, and predicts Deadpool will say something stupid. He tries to prove her wrong, only to begin stammering. In January of 2017 it was confirmed that the character will return for the sequel. ^ Deadpool & the Mercs for MoneyDeadpool Movie Director Explains Negasonic Teenage Warhead's Powers
20th Century Fox released not one but two Deadpool trailers for Christmas. Both were loaded with new footage, such as our first look at Negasonic Teenage Warhead (played by Brianna Hildebrand) using her mutant powers. In the comics, Negasonic Teenage Warhead's power set was purely psychic, but for her feature film debut filmmaker Tim Miller gave her new abilities that are more fitting of her unusual name. "Her power, I mean, we chose her because we wanted a trainee for Colossus in the film and the writers and I just fell in love with her name," Miller told Empire. "It’s just so out there and so Deadpool and it was Grant Morrison who named her, so we knew we had to get her in there. And then we thought, well, we’re going to need to make her powers fit with who she feels like she is in the movie and so to me it’s just like other characters in the Marvel universe, like Nitro, for instance, whose power is to just explode parts of their body. But we did try to do it so that it wasn’t just a simple, ‘oh, I can explode’, she can transfer the force of the explosion down so she can move upwards - she can put it into a punch if she wanted to.
So it was really just her fist exploding as she hit somebody. we tried to mix it up, even though we didn’t use that particular thing in the movie, but it was the idea. Actually, we did use it in the movie, it’s just not in the movie now!" Miller then describes Negasonic Teenage Warhead's personality and her relationship with the Merc with a Mouth. "I think Deadpool wishes she’d keep her mouth shut more than she does in the film! Because she’s quite snarky," he explained. "But, you know, her whole attitude is this disaffected teen who thinks Deadpool’s just a douchebag. And so that’s her whole attitude. She’s really not that silent in the film or at least she’s silently surly because she just can’t be bothered to engage with this a**hole. That’s the basics of her personality: silently shaming, judgemental personality." Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool.