Who Is Copycat? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Copycat is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Vanessa Geraldine Carlysle, with over 303 comic issue appearances. Copycat was a mutant who possessed the ability to shape-shift as well as to copy any power from another individual after a period of physical contact.

Who is Copycat?

Origin Born of Dorothy and Burt Carlysle, Vanessa Carlysle was a young mutant metamorph from New Jersey who ended up in a life of prostitution in Boston, Massachusetts. It was there that she met and fell in love with the mercenary Wade Wilson (later Deadpool) after he saved her from a time-traveling agent of Landau, Luckman & Lake (although who they had actually been targeting was Wilson himself). Creation Due to the shady nature of Copycat, it is difficult to determine who actually created her. Copycat first appeared, in her disguise as Domino, in The New Mutants issue 98 (1991). Her first appearance as Vanessa, her true form, was in X-Force Volume 1 issue 11 (1992). When the Domino persona was introduced in New Mutants Vol.1 issue 98 it is unknown if it was planned all along for the person to be a fake or if the character of Copycat was invented further along the way to add a twist to the X-Force drama. The reason the creation credit is sketchy is because Fabian Nicieza was the writer from the start while Rob Liefeld was plotter and artist from the start of the Domino persona, but Liefeld's position at Marvel was ending (as he and other writers began the publisher Image ), so.

Key facts

Copycat is of mutant origin and first appeared in "The Beginning of the End Part One". The character is published by Marvel. With 303 recorded issue appearances, Copycat ranks among the most featured characters in comics.