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Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. The character first appeared in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #129 (January 1980) and was co-created by writer-artist John Byrne and Chris Claremont. A mutant, Pryde possesses a "phasing" ability that allows her and objects or people with which she is in contact to become intangible.〔 The author, James Kakalios, is a physics professor. Pages 254-255: "With our improved understanding of physics, we can now more accurately describe Kitty Pryde's mutant power as being able to alter her macroscopic quantum wave function, increasing her tunneling probability to near 100 percent at will." Page 255: "How, when she's is 'phasing' and immaterial, can she walk?"〕 This power also disrupts any electrical field she passes through, and lets her simulate levitation. Storm christened Kitty with her first code name, Sprite. Professor X had also suggested the codename Ariel, which Kitty adopted for a short time prior to adopting the codename Shadowcat. After joining the Guardians of the Galaxy she replaced her fiancée and became part of the legend of the Star-Lord. Pryde was the youngest person invited to join the team of mutant superheroes the X-Men. During her early years, she was portrayed as a "kid sister" to many older members of the X-Men, filling the role of literary foil to the more established characters. In the years since her introduction, she has aged and matured, and has become a main character on her own. In the ''X-Men'' film series, Kitty Pryde was portrayed by young actresses in cameos in the first two films, Sumela Kay in ''X-Men'' (2000) and Katie Stuart in ''X2'' (2003), and is portrayed by Ellen Page in ''X-Men: The Last Stand'' (2006) and ''X-Men: Days of Future Past'' (2014). She is ranked #47 in IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes. ==Publication history== Kitty Pryde was introduced into the ''X-Men'' title as the result of an editorial dictate that the book was supposed to depict a school for mutants.〔Grant, Steven. ("Permanent Damage - The 20 Most Significant Comics" ) Comic Book Resources, October 22, 2008〕 ''Uncanny X-Men'' artist John Byrne named Kitty Pryde after a classmate he met in art school, Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary in 1973. He had told Pryde that he liked her name and asked for permission to use it, promising to name his first original comics character after her. Byrne had drawn the character to slightly resemble an adolescent Sigourney Weaver.〔''The X-Men Companion, Volume II''. 1982. Fantagraphics Books, Inc.〕 The fictional Kitty Pryde first appeared in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #129 (January 1980), by writer Chris Claremont and artist Byrne, as a highly intelligent 13-year-old girl. Claremont said several elements of the character's personality were derived from those of ''X-Men'' editor Louise Simonson's daughter, Julie. Claremont and Byrne made the new character a full-fledged X-Man in issue #139, where she was codenamed "Sprite". She was the main character in the issues #141-142, the "Days of Future Past" storyline, where she is possessed by her older self, whose consciousness time travels into the past to prevent the mass extermination of mutants. The six-issue miniseries ''Kitty Pryde and Wolverine'' (1984–1985), written by Claremont, was a coming-of-age storyline in which she matures from a girl to a young woman and adopts the new name "Shadowcat". In the late 80s she joined the British-based super team Excalibur where she would remain for roughly ten years before coming back to the X-Men. In the early 2000s she disappeared from the spotlight as she semi-retired from Superhero work. She came back to the main X-Men books in 2004 under the pen of Joss Whedon in Astonishing X-Men. She remained a part of the X-Men books until 2008 when she left again for roughly 2 years. After coming back she was featured in Jason Aaron's Wolverine in the X-Men and Brian Michael Bendis' All-New X-Men books. In early 2015 she joined the Guardians of the Galaxy. After the Secret Wars event she adopted her new alias, Star-Lord (first believed to be Star-Lady). Shadowcat's popularity had a profound effect on the real-life Kitty Pryde: the latter became so overwhelmed by attention from Shadowcat fans after the publication of the X-Men comics that she abbreviated her name to K.D. Pryde to avoid association with her fictional counterpart. She has since stated that she has mixed feelings about her fame, saying that she values Byrne's comics for their entertainment and artistic value, but wishes that more people would appreciate her as more than just Shadowcat's namesake.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kitty Pryde」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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