Who Is Hollow? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Hollow is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Unknown, with over 397 comic issue appearances. Hollow (previously known as Penance) is a woman with red skin, long hair, and sharp, fearsome claws. While now having her own consciousness, her body once contained different people's bodies & minds.

Who is Hollow?

Character Evolution Previous look Part of what makes Penance/Hollow so confusing to some is the fact that virtually her entire back story has, at some point, been retconned. This shouldn't stop readers from being interested in what is still an interesting character, however. This section describes the huge retcon in Hollow's past, hopefully to the enlightenment of those unfamiliar with the character. Originally, Penance was a fourteen (according to the earliest Generation X previews, later said by Scott Lobdell to be sixteen) year old Yugoslavian mutant girl, traumatized by the events in her war-torn country (which doesn't even exist anymore...) and her several years of imprisonment by the mutagenic vampire known as Emplate. In Scott Lobdell's original conception of her, she was deaf since birth and, thus, unable to properly communicate with others. It also explained her childlike naivete. Her only known name was Yvette, which is what Emplate called her when she betrayed him in the pages of the '90s comic known as Generation X. In an interview with Nate Raymond, Scott Lobdell revealed that this was going to be her real name and that she was supposed to be the first deaf mutant.

Key facts

Hollow is of mutant origin and first appeared in "Opening Volley". The character is published by Marvel. With 397 recorded issue appearances, Hollow ranks among the most featured characters in comics.