Who Is Widget? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Widget is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Katherine Anne Pryde, with over 217 comic issue appearances. Widget was a small, floating robot that became attached to Excalibur and took them on a journey through multiple parallel universes. Then later evolved into the Psycho-Cybernetic Temporal humanoid version of Widget.

Who is Widget?

Origin Widget was revealed to be the time displaced consciousness of Shadowcat (Katherine "Kitty" Pryde) from the Days of Future Past time-line. Kitty Pryde was sent back to the body of her younger self by Phoenix (Rachel Summers) to try and avert the Days of Future Past time-line. Instead of changing her own past and averting DOFP, she created an entirely new future where Senator Kelly was saved from an assassination attempt. When she finally returned to her own body she found out that all of her friends, except for Rachel, were dead. They were then cornered by the Phoenix Force and Kitty convinced it to transport Rachel to the time-line Kitty had just visited and to keep her from remembering the horrible events she went through in the DOFP time-line. When Rachel was sent back, Kitty was captured by the Sentinels and while Kitty was trying to phase out of her inhibitor collar Kitty was pulled into a time warp that the Sentinel was opening and they became merged together, resulting in Widget. Days of Future Yet to Come Whilst on the shores of Loch Daemon on a dark night in late October, the Crazy Gang member, Tweedle-Dope is tinkering and creates the bodiless form of Widget, bored,.

Key facts

Widget is of cyborg origin and first appeared in "Wolverine; The Mystery of Crooked Face!; The Sales Pitch; ". The character is published by Marvel. With 217 recorded issue appearances, Widget ranks among the most featured characters in comics.