Widget (comics)

Widget (Katherine "Kate" Pryde of the Days of Future Past timeline) is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. She is an older, alternate version of Shadowcat.

Character Biography

Kate Pryde was sent back into the body of her younger self by Rachel Summers to try and avert their dystopian future. Because it is impossible to change your own past, only create an alternate timeline, she effectively failed. When she arrived back in her own body, she found all but Rachel dead. Running for their lives, they were cornered when the Phoenix Force appeared, having followed her out of curiousity, and Kate persuaded it to take Rachel back, physically, to the timeline she'd just been to, and to keep her from remembering the horrors she'd been through. After Rachel was gone, she was captured, and the Sentinels attempted to use the residual effects of the time warp on her to retrieve Rachel. Just as the warp was being created, her inhibitor collar failed and she phased, merging with the warp.

She came to rest in a small metal, off-spherical body in the timeline Rachel resided in. Her mind scambled by the "interference" from other timelines she felt, she was amnesiac and went about everything with a child-like glee, and inadvertantely took Excalibur (including Rachel) through a number of alternate timelines in a so-called "Cross-Time Caper". After this, Roma had her locked to the Marvel Universe timeline, preventing her from moving far from it. This began to clear her mind, and she reconstructed her body (see left). After this, Rachel (who had recovered her full memory), Widget and Excalibur returned to Rachel's original timeline and successfully reprogrammed the ruling Sentinels to protect all life, ending their tyranny.