Negasonic Teenage Warhead Debuts The Perfect New Superpower That Cements Her Emo Cred Forever

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Negasonic Teenage Warhead #1! Marvel fans are assuredly the most familiar with Negasonic Teenage Warhead from her appearances in the Deadpool film franchise, and while her comic book counterpart is very similar, there are some notable differences - including and especially when it comes to her powers. In the movies, Negasonic Teenage Warhead has the power of ‘self-detonation’, allowing her to channel and concentrate intense heat and pressure into attacks. In the comics, however, she’s capable of so much more - and her new power just cemented her ‘emo cred’ forever.

In a preview for Negasonic Teenage Warhead #1 by Andrew Wheeler, Eleonora Carlini, and Carola Borelli, the titular teenage mutant is teaming up with Deadpool to take down a man-eating pig on a rampage. To do that, Eloise uses an all-new mutant power: portal creation. Negasonic Teenage Warhead summons a portal to a pocket dimension of eternal darkness right as the man-eating pig leaps at her and Deadpool - and the portal is in the shape of a black heart.

Before getting attacked by the pig, Negasonic Teenage Warhead is hanging out on the hood of her car, listening to music, and giving readers insight into her powers through the comic’s narration boxes. She explains that her baseline power is precognition, that she can see possible futures and decide which one to take from her present moment. What Ellie further explains as the preview goes on is that each path she takes doesn’t just set her future on a specific course, it can also change-up Negasonic Teenage Warhead's power set.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead’s Powers Aren’t Just Emo, They’re OP

Negasonic Teenage Warhead summoning a black heart portal to a pocket dimension of eternal darkness is probably the most emo power imaginable. But another major takeaway from this preview isn’t just that, it’s also how unbelievably overpowered Marvel is making Negasonic Teenage Warhead. The reason she had this power at all is that, in a future path that she foresaw and chose to take at that moment, Ellie would gain the power to create portals, which reverberated backwards in time to the present, granting her that power immediately.

Endless possibilities in the future mean limitless potential for Negasonic Teenage Warhead when it comes to developing new mutant powers. And since she can gain her future potential powers immediately due to this ‘backwards echo’ effect, she can trade-out secondary powers right away. Her primary power is precognition, and before getting portal creation, Ellie had the power to alter reality. She effectively traded that power for the new portal creation one. So, what power will she get next?

Negasonic Teenage Warhead’s ‘Black Hole Heart’ Power is Perfect for Her New Series

This is the first time Negasonic Teenage Warhead has had her own main series, meaning this version of the character will be her definitive depiction moving forward. While it’s staying true to her past by keeping precognitive abilities as her main power, the comic already changed her secondary mutation from reality altering to ‘black hole heart’ portal creation - and that’s an utterly brilliant move. Negasonic Teenage Warhead doesn’t need to be a ‘discount Scarlet Witch’, she needs to stand on her own with powers that compliment who she is as an individual, and this new one does just that.

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Seeing potential futures is depressing enough to justify her emo personality, and now, her personality has manifested in her new ‘black hole heart’ portal creation power, and it’s absolutely perfect. While she has limitless possibilities for future powers, this one needs to stick around for as long as possible, as Deadpool’s Negasonic Teenage Warhead debuts a perfect new superpower that cements her emo cred forever.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead #1 by Marvel Comics is available November 6, 2024.

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The merc with the mouth first appeared in an issue of New Mutants in 1990, and since then has gone on to get his own series and a massive cult following. With his incredible powers of healing and regeneration, Deadpool was initially depicted as an X-Men villain but went on to become an anti-hero. After getting his own movie series starting in 2016, the third Deadpool movie finally brings the wisecracking, fourth-wall-breaking character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.