Kiden Nixon
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Kiden Nixon is a fictional character
, a mutant
in the limited Marvel Comics
series NYX.
Her mutant power first manifested itself at school when she got into an altercation with gang leader Hector. As her friend was being attacked by Hector's friends Kiden screamed "Stop it!", which suddenly caused time to seemingly freeze around her as she found herself in an accelerated personal timestream. She was free to move around at normal speeds as everything around her slowed to a virtual standstill. However, as soon as she poked Hector on the arm, everything around her snapped back to normal speed and she had also accidentally broken Hector's arm due to the relative velocity with which her finger hit him.
The next day Kiden met with the principal who wanted to suspend her, but Ms. Cameron Palmer, her 20-something teacher, sympathized with Kiden and convinced him to reconsider. Later, Hector smuggles a gun onto campus and fired it at Kiden, but Kiden used her power once again to slow time step out of the bullets path. However, she accidentally touched Hector and when time resumed around her, the bullet continued on its path and hit Ms. Palmer instead.
Shocked by being responsible for what looks like the death of her teacher, Kiden immediately ran from the scene of the crime. Instead of going to her friends and family she becomes a runaway. For the next six months she traveled the country, living on the streets while exploring her powers and meeting other runaways. At one point she spent four months in the accelerated state she called "no-time", during which only three days passed in the real world.
When she returns home, she meets her older brother who, tells her that their mother had remarried and, angry with her for disappearing, that life got better for everyone when she was gone, causing her to get upset and hit the streets once again. She resurfaces some time later at the apartment of a heavily medicated Ms. Palmer, who survived the shooting six months ago, but had been severely traumatized ever since. Kiden shows up at Palmer's apartment unannounced, but up just in time to find a passed out Ms. Palmer in her bathtub, her wrists cut open after trying to commit suicide. Kiden manages to call an ambulance in time and saves her life. Later Kiden tells Ms. Palmer about her mutation, the fact that she was responsible for her getting shot, and that the reason she showed up at Palmer's apartment when she did was that an apparition of her deceased father told her to. Cameron finds it all hard to swallow and tells Kiden to stop lying.
While spending the night at Palmer's place, Kiden is once again visited by the apparition of her dead father, who gives her the address to a nearby Hotel and a room number, and orders her to go as soon as possible. Kiden leaves with Ms. Palmer and when they arrive at the hotel room they find a dead body and the mutant X-23
sitting on a bloodied bed with her adamantium claws out.
X-23 tells them that she had been working as a prostitute and that the man had actually killed himself. Kiden and Palmer leave, taking X-23 with them. Kiden later explains that the apparition of her father had only told her when and where to find them, and that they will all need each other later on. Back at Palmer's apartment, Kiden's father appeared once again to warn her that X-23's pimp, Zebra Daddy, wants her back, and he has already sent gunmen to Palmer's place to retrieve her and kill the rest of them.
The three manage to escape the apartment just before it is raided and windup spending the night on the streets as they try to figure out what to do next while Zebra Daddy has his thugs combing the city looking for them. The next day they run into another teenage mutant named Tatiana
who was being chased by a mob after her mutant ability to transform into animals manifested for the first time. Later, an angry and frustrated Ms. Palmer tells Kiden that she did indeed ruin her life and that she should feel guilty for everything that has happened but then apologizes. The three then decide to head back to Palmer's apartment later that night to get some cash and credit cards.
Unfortunately the thugs have staked out the apartment and Ms. Palmer's is captured inside. X-23, Kiden, and Tatiana who are waiting outside are found by another teenage mutant named Bobby Soul aka Felon, who has the ability to possess the body of others. Felon had been hired by the Pimp to look for them, but for some reason Kiden's father had also appeared to him earlier, and has asked him to help the girls out, promising that this in turn will help his younger brother who is comatose. The newly formed group of four is then confronted by the pimp and his thugs. Upon meeting him for the first time Kiden recognizes Zebra Daddy as the man who murdered her father all those years ago. The four mutants use their powers to take down the thugs, and as the pimp holds Kiden, Felon, and Tatiana at gunpoint, X-23 swiftly kills him and the rest of his gang. Kiden also uses her power to save Ms. Palmer from being thrown from a window.
The four of them agree that there must be a purpose for them being brought together and decide to figure it out. In the epilogue of the final issue, Kiden's family, plus her mother's new husband and his son, are seen packing the last of their possessions into a car as they are moving somewhere else. Her mother seems slightly hesitant to leave as Kiden's brother never told her about her daughter's return, but eventually tells her new husband that she's ready to leave. Just as they begin to drive down away from their old home, a mailman runs after them, yelling for them to stop. They don't notice him however and drive off as the mailman gives up, holding a letter from Kiden addressed to her mother.
, Kiden appears for a brief mention in the 2006 one-off/ tie-in X-Men: The 198 Files
, which listed her as one of the remaining 198 mutants to retain their powers post M-Day
.
The series does not directly continue where the original NYX ended, instead we see a 16 year old Kiden still living with Tatjana, Bobby and his little brother. Whereas Mrs. Palmer seems to slowly get a grip on her life again and Kiden got a job as a dishwasher even though she still tends to dumpster dive. Furthermore it is noteworthy that the letter Kiden had sent to her mother (who had moved with the rest of the family) in the end of NYX was returned to her in the first issue of NYX: No Way Home. During a run-in with some local criminals that leaves the group hunted by police as well as the underworld, they find temporary shelter by the former X-Man
Cecilia Reyes
and it is revealed that the latest hunting on them is largely orchestrated by what appears to be Kiden's dead father who believes it was the only way capable of keeping her alive.
s so that events occurring in real time appear to be moving in slow motion and allowing her to move with relatively much greater velocity and force. She doesn't tire or require sustenance
in this state and can spend months in what she terms "no time", while only a few days or more have passed in real time.
The power is usually verbally activated, when Kiden says "stop". However, she is capable of exerting this power by sheer will alone. Sometimes, under stress, it happens without her control.
Originally, the only way Kiden knows how to return to the normal timestream was to make skin
-to-skin contact with another person. However, it was apparent that she had to be careful when she was doing this as the person she touches would be affected by the relative velocity and inertia
that she could exerts on them. For example, when she first exits her timestream, she pokes a bystander on the arm with her finger, only to break that person's arm. This has changed some time between the original series and the second one, she is now able to exit at will.
It was later revealed (much to her own surprise) that Kiden is able to take other people together with her into "no time" as long as she keeps physical contact with them.
Kiden appears for the first time outside the NYX-Series. She appears inside the alternate future-timeline where Cable and X-Force confront Stryfe and Bishop. She appears to be ripped from around the present and hooked up to a machine to amplify her power and is used by Stryfe to keep his fortress out of the normal timestream. X-23
recognizes her friend, causing the other X-force members to hesitate killing her. Kiden pleads for Laura to kill her, but remains hesitant in killing her old friend. Unable to wait any longer because of the strain that was being put on their bodies, Domino kills Kiden, deactivating her powers.
Kiden demonstrated an ability to block time travelers from traveling through time as well as preventing teleporters to use their ability, if this is a natural evolution of her abilities or if they were enhanced artificially remains unknown.
Fictional character
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, a mutant
Mutant (Marvel Comics)
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in the limited Marvel Comics
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series NYX.
NYX
Living with her loving parents and three brothers in the fictional X-District of New York City, Kiden's life changed forever as a young girl when her police officer father was gunned down in front of her. The traumatized Nixon grew up to be a troubled teenager.Her mutant power first manifested itself at school when she got into an altercation with gang leader Hector. As her friend was being attacked by Hector's friends Kiden screamed "Stop it!", which suddenly caused time to seemingly freeze around her as she found herself in an accelerated personal timestream. She was free to move around at normal speeds as everything around her slowed to a virtual standstill. However, as soon as she poked Hector on the arm, everything around her snapped back to normal speed and she had also accidentally broken Hector's arm due to the relative velocity with which her finger hit him.
The next day Kiden met with the principal who wanted to suspend her, but Ms. Cameron Palmer, her 20-something teacher, sympathized with Kiden and convinced him to reconsider. Later, Hector smuggles a gun onto campus and fired it at Kiden, but Kiden used her power once again to slow time step out of the bullets path. However, she accidentally touched Hector and when time resumed around her, the bullet continued on its path and hit Ms. Palmer instead.
Shocked by being responsible for what looks like the death of her teacher, Kiden immediately ran from the scene of the crime. Instead of going to her friends and family she becomes a runaway. For the next six months she traveled the country, living on the streets while exploring her powers and meeting other runaways. At one point she spent four months in the accelerated state she called "no-time", during which only three days passed in the real world.
When she returns home, she meets her older brother who, tells her that their mother had remarried and, angry with her for disappearing, that life got better for everyone when she was gone, causing her to get upset and hit the streets once again. She resurfaces some time later at the apartment of a heavily medicated Ms. Palmer, who survived the shooting six months ago, but had been severely traumatized ever since. Kiden shows up at Palmer's apartment unannounced, but up just in time to find a passed out Ms. Palmer in her bathtub, her wrists cut open after trying to commit suicide. Kiden manages to call an ambulance in time and saves her life. Later Kiden tells Ms. Palmer about her mutation, the fact that she was responsible for her getting shot, and that the reason she showed up at Palmer's apartment when she did was that an apparition of her deceased father told her to. Cameron finds it all hard to swallow and tells Kiden to stop lying.
While spending the night at Palmer's place, Kiden is once again visited by the apparition of her dead father, who gives her the address to a nearby Hotel and a room number, and orders her to go as soon as possible. Kiden leaves with Ms. Palmer and when they arrive at the hotel room they find a dead body and the mutant X-23
X-23
X-23 is a fictional comic book superheroine appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, in particular those featuring the X-Men. X-23 is a female clone of Wolverine.-Publication history:...
sitting on a bloodied bed with her adamantium claws out.
X-23 tells them that she had been working as a prostitute and that the man had actually killed himself. Kiden and Palmer leave, taking X-23 with them. Kiden later explains that the apparition of her father had only told her when and where to find them, and that they will all need each other later on. Back at Palmer's apartment, Kiden's father appeared once again to warn her that X-23's pimp, Zebra Daddy, wants her back, and he has already sent gunmen to Palmer's place to retrieve her and kill the rest of them.
The three manage to escape the apartment just before it is raided and windup spending the night on the streets as they try to figure out what to do next while Zebra Daddy has his thugs combing the city looking for them. The next day they run into another teenage mutant named Tatiana
Tatiana
Tatiana is a Slavic female name. The short form of the name is Tanya .The name honors Orthodox Saint Tatiana who was tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Emperor Alexander Severus c.230 in Rome. Saint Tatiana is also considered a patron saint of students...
who was being chased by a mob after her mutant ability to transform into animals manifested for the first time. Later, an angry and frustrated Ms. Palmer tells Kiden that she did indeed ruin her life and that she should feel guilty for everything that has happened but then apologizes. The three then decide to head back to Palmer's apartment later that night to get some cash and credit cards.
Unfortunately the thugs have staked out the apartment and Ms. Palmer's is captured inside. X-23, Kiden, and Tatiana who are waiting outside are found by another teenage mutant named Bobby Soul aka Felon, who has the ability to possess the body of others. Felon had been hired by the Pimp to look for them, but for some reason Kiden's father had also appeared to him earlier, and has asked him to help the girls out, promising that this in turn will help his younger brother who is comatose. The newly formed group of four is then confronted by the pimp and his thugs. Upon meeting him for the first time Kiden recognizes Zebra Daddy as the man who murdered her father all those years ago. The four mutants use their powers to take down the thugs, and as the pimp holds Kiden, Felon, and Tatiana at gunpoint, X-23 swiftly kills him and the rest of his gang. Kiden also uses her power to save Ms. Palmer from being thrown from a window.
The four of them agree that there must be a purpose for them being brought together and decide to figure it out. In the epilogue of the final issue, Kiden's family, plus her mother's new husband and his son, are seen packing the last of their possessions into a car as they are moving somewhere else. Her mother seems slightly hesitant to leave as Kiden's brother never told her about her daughter's return, but eventually tells her new husband that she's ready to leave. Just as they begin to drive down away from their old home, a mailman runs after them, yelling for them to stop. They don't notice him however and drive off as the mailman gives up, holding a letter from Kiden addressed to her mother.
M-Day
After the events of House of MHouse of M
House of M is an eight-issue comic book limited series and crossover storyline published by Marvel Comics in 2005. Written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Olivier Coipel, its first issue debuted in June 2005 as a follow-up to the events of the Planet X and Avengers Disassembled...
, Kiden appears for a brief mention in the 2006 one-off/ tie-in X-Men: The 198 Files
X-Men: The 198
X-Men: The 198 is a comic book limited series that was published by Marvel Comics and set in the Marvel Universe shortly after the House of M and Decimation events...
, which listed her as one of the remaining 198 mutants to retain their powers post M-Day
Decimation (comics)
Decimation is the late 2005 Marvel Comics storyline spinning off from the House of M limited series. It focuses on the ramifications of the Scarlet Witch stripping nearly all of the mutant population of their powers, thereby reducing a society of millions to one of scant hundreds.This event, which...
.
NYX: No Way Home
August 2008 Marvel continued the original NYX with NYX: No Way Home under the work of Marjorie Liu, Kalman Andrasofszky and John Rauch.The series does not directly continue where the original NYX ended, instead we see a 16 year old Kiden still living with Tatjana, Bobby and his little brother. Whereas Mrs. Palmer seems to slowly get a grip on her life again and Kiden got a job as a dishwasher even though she still tends to dumpster dive. Furthermore it is noteworthy that the letter Kiden had sent to her mother (who had moved with the rest of the family) in the end of NYX was returned to her in the first issue of NYX: No Way Home. During a run-in with some local criminals that leaves the group hunted by police as well as the underworld, they find temporary shelter by the former X-Man
X-man
X-Man is a fictional character and superhero in the Marvel Universe.X-Man may also refer to:*X-Man , a South Korean game show*Xavier Carter, nicknamed X-Man, American track and field athlete...
Cecilia Reyes
Cecilia Reyes
Cecilia Reyes is a Marvel Comics character who was briefly a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Carlos Pacheco, she first appeared in X-Men vol. 2 #65 ....
and it is revealed that the latest hunting on them is largely orchestrated by what appears to be Kiden's dead father who believes it was the only way capable of keeping her alive.
Powers and abilities
Kiden is a mutant who can realign herself into a faster timestream, altering her perceptionPerception
Perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of the environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs...
s so that events occurring in real time appear to be moving in slow motion and allowing her to move with relatively much greater velocity and force. She doesn't tire or require sustenance
Sustenance
Sustenance can refer to any means of subsistence or livelihood within a region or a country;*food*any subsistence economy: see list of subsistence techniques**hunting-gathering**animal husbandry**subsistence agriculture...
in this state and can spend months in what she terms "no time", while only a few days or more have passed in real time.
The power is usually verbally activated, when Kiden says "stop". However, she is capable of exerting this power by sheer will alone. Sometimes, under stress, it happens without her control.
Originally, the only way Kiden knows how to return to the normal timestream was to make skin
Skin
-Dermis:The dermis is the layer of skin beneath the epidermis that consists of connective tissue and cushions the body from stress and strain. The dermis is tightly connected to the epidermis by a basement membrane. It also harbors many Mechanoreceptors that provide the sense of touch and heat...
-to-skin contact with another person. However, it was apparent that she had to be careful when she was doing this as the person she touches would be affected by the relative velocity and inertia
Inertia
Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion. It is proportional to an object's mass. The principle of inertia is one of the fundamental principles of classical physics which are used to...
that she could exerts on them. For example, when she first exits her timestream, she pokes a bystander on the arm with her finger, only to break that person's arm. This has changed some time between the original series and the second one, she is now able to exit at will.
It was later revealed (much to her own surprise) that Kiden is able to take other people together with her into "no time" as long as she keeps physical contact with them.
Messiah War
During the Messiah WarMessiah War
"Messiah War" is a crossover storyline running through the issues of Cable and X-Force with cover dates of May through July 2009 as well as a one-shot titled X-Force/Cable: Messiah War published by Marvel Comics...
Kiden appears for the first time outside the NYX-Series. She appears inside the alternate future-timeline where Cable and X-Force confront Stryfe and Bishop. She appears to be ripped from around the present and hooked up to a machine to amplify her power and is used by Stryfe to keep his fortress out of the normal timestream. X-23
X-23
X-23 is a fictional comic book superheroine appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, in particular those featuring the X-Men. X-23 is a female clone of Wolverine.-Publication history:...
recognizes her friend, causing the other X-force members to hesitate killing her. Kiden pleads for Laura to kill her, but remains hesitant in killing her old friend. Unable to wait any longer because of the strain that was being put on their bodies, Domino kills Kiden, deactivating her powers.
Kiden demonstrated an ability to block time travelers from traveling through time as well as preventing teleporters to use their ability, if this is a natural evolution of her abilities or if they were enhanced artificially remains unknown.