Real name: Tinya Wazzo Nah
Occupation: Legionnaire
Homeworld: Bgztl
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 120
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
First Appearance: (historical, as Phantom Girl)
ACTION COMICS #276 (current) LEGIONNAIRES #0
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Profile:
Tinya Wazzo was the daughter of Winema Wazzo, the Btzgllian Ambassador to the United Planets,
and regularly chafed under her mother's obsession with running her life for her.
One day, she was helping her mother at a conference, which included the official
unveiling of the Legion of Super-Heroes (at that point composed of just the three founders),
when, in a rush, she phased through the decorative UP globe rather than go around it and spotted
something wrong. Thus, when Saturn Girl scanned the room, she picked up on this, giving time for
Cosmic Boy and Live Wire to get rid of it before the blast went off. She then tagged along while
they searched for the culprits and saved Saturn Girl's life and, along with Triad, was immediately
inducted onto the team.
When she met Ultra Boy, the two were instantly mutually smitten, but their romance was tumultuous,
with Tinya's mother - already angered by her entry into the Legion - dead set against it, until
Tinya was apparently killed by Daxamite White Triangle terrorists, who burned her to death with
their heat vision in the invulnerable Ultra Boy's arms.
However, that was not the end for Tinya. Shortly afterward, Jo (Ultra Boy) began having painful
seizures, and, eventually, Apparition emerged from his body - although now permanently phased
and with only Jo and her mother able to see her. Nonetheless, she played a small but critical
part in freeing the Legion from the Emerald Eye's control, after it had corrupted Shrinking Violet.
As she phased through Imra (Saturn Girl), she accidently freed her
(with the side-benefit that Imra could now see her), and Imra managed to influence the
others enough until Violet panicked, causing the Eye to send half the Legionnaires (including Imra,
Tinya and Jo) back in time to the late 20th Century, and take Violet far away through space.
Stranded in the past, she encounted a psychic using a Bgztllian touchstone -
a red stone that aided the Bgztllians' phasing, which encounter ended with her now visible to all,
and able to disrupt machinery and electronics when phasing through them. Then, when Phase of the
L.E.G.I.O.N. came to find the touchstone - hers - it was discovered that Phase was also Tinya Wazzo!
The two involuntarily merged, and Tinya became the dominant personality in the resulting body,
gaining a physical form once more. Through hypnotic regression, it was found that Tinya was
half-Carggite, and that she should have had the Carggite ability to triplicate, but, unbeknowst
to Tinya's mother, who hadn't known that Tinya's father was a Carggite and was only expecting one
child, Tinya's father had stolen her other two bodies as newborns and sold them to the Luck Lords
to pay off his gambling debts. Phase, lost in time, was one of these. The fate of her third body
remains unknown.
Soon after, Apparition and Ultra Boy married and had a son, Cub, who grew abnormally fast, a situation
which hadn't been resolved when the two were lost in the timestream.
Like all Bgztillians, Apparition has the natural ability to shift her body into a phantom state,
enabling her to walk through objects. Some time ago, Tinya learned she was also part
carggite (see TRAID) her other selves separated from her at birth.
Apparition is married to fellow Legionnaire Ultra Boy, who until recently she believed was dead.
She is currently en route to Earth with their baby and traveling companion, Timber Wolf.
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