History
Early Years
Visually impaired from birth, Irene Adler's precognitive powers activated when she was 13; to cope with the nearly overwhelming visions, she transcribed what she saw into a series of diaries over the next 13 months. By the time she was finished, she was completely physically blind. A few years later she hired a consulting detective, Raven Darkholme, to help her make sense of her diaries, and the two became lovers. [2] Background details suggest that this meeting took place around the turn of the century. Together, the two raised adopted daughter Rogue in their home in Caldecott County, Mississippi. They remained together until Destiny's death.
Brother of Mutants and Freedom Force
Raven, as Mystique, and Destiny formed the second Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, a group of ideologically-motivated terrorists, and eventually went to work for the United States government as Freedom Force in exchange for a pardon and protection from anti-mutant sentiment.
While on a mission with Freedom Force, Destiny was killed by Legion, who was being influenced at the time by the Shadow King. Destiny's consciousness survived within Legion's mind, and after Legion was also slain, both his and Destiny's spirits ended up assisting Margali in Otherplace for a time, though slain subsequently turned up alive again.
Influence Beyond the Grave
Shortly before her death, she predicted that Mystique would become romantically involved with Forge, and although the pair loathed each other at the time, they did develop a brief relationship while both were members of X-Factor.
Later, the team of X-Treme X-Men spent some time searching for her diaries of future predictions, but these became useless when a prediction in them was prevented from taking place.
After Destiny's death, Mystique protected a young mutant named Trevor Chase who addressed her as "Auntie Raven," strongly implying that Chase was Destiny's grandson.X-Factor #135
Destiny was ressurected by Selene and was kept in a prison cell. She somehow projected her astral spirt to Blindfolds room, leaving her a message for Rogue.Attributes
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Powers
Precognition: Psionic power of precognition, the ability to perceive in her mind's eye the events of possible futures. Although she was blind, Destiny could mentally scan the probability spectrum of alternate futures and mentally perceive sounds and sights of events that distinguish them. By concentrating she could focus on only the most probable alternate futures. The accuracy of Destiny’s ability to foresee future events decreased in direct proportion to the number of alternate futures to scan. She could comfortably scan the alternate futures that exist from one second away up until those that exist fifteen minutes away. Hence, she could be 97% accurate in her predictions of the future ten seconds away or less. Despite the limited extent to her certainty, her long-range scanning could be of great use in the early detection of possible random factors that could disrupt her to her partners’ plans. The more likely that a particular alternate future would manifest itself in her reality, the clearer and more distinct her mental impression of it would be. Less likely alternate futures would appear hazy and indistinct. If she left her precognitive perceptions fully open, she would "see" an overlapping succession of images drift in and out of focus as probabilities shifted and further elements transpired. By active participation in the events around her, she could help shift the probabilities toward desired ends. Her personal phenomenal field, that area with which she could not scan the future for events that might take place on the other side of the world or even a mile away.
Astral Projection: In Necrosha she projects her astral spirit to blindfolds room, it is unclear if this is a power she always had or a side effect of her resurrection.
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Notes
Trivia
- Destiny's name, "Irene Adler", is shared by another fictional character from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story A Scandal in Bohemia (1888). This is probably an intended reference.
- In Destiny's earliest named appearances, including Uncanny X-Men #170, her given name is Irené (with an accent on the final e).
- A different fictional character from Arturo Pérez Reverte's book El Club Dumas (1993) says that her name is Irene Adler, but she is trying to make a reference to Conan Doyle's story and at the same time hiding her true identity.
See Also
- 128 appearance(s) of Irene Adler (Earth-616)
- 14 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Irene Adler (Earth-616)
- 22 minor appearance(s) of Irene Adler (Earth-616)
- 45 mention(s) of Irene Adler (Earth-616)
- 8 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Irene Adler (Earth-616)
- 100 image(s) of Irene Adler (Earth-616)
- 11 quotation(s) by or about Irene Adler (Earth-616)
- 1 item(s) used/owned by Irene Adler (Earth-616)