Threnody Melody Jacobs Appreciation

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Real Name: Melody Jacobs
Former Aliases: none

Height: 5’7”
Weight: 131 lbs.

Hair color: Black
Eyes: Brown

First appearance: Stryfe’s Strike File #1 (depicted),
X-Men (2nd series) #27 (full)
Last Appearance: Deadpool Assassin #6
Known Relatives: Judith Jacobs (mother, deceased),
unnamed child
Profession: former agent of Sinister XXX
Group Affiliation: formerly The Forgotten

Powers: proactive empathy attuned to death energy,
able to sense the presence of the dead or
dying in her vicinity, stimulate a death charge
within others to kill people in various stages
of health, reanimate the dead in an incidental
zombie-like state through her presence, and absorb
death energy from her environment to rechannel it as plasmic force discharges
-formerly linked specifically to the death throes of the Legacy Virus victims around the world




Young Melody Jacobs was found living on the streets by the monstrous Abomination, who took her to his subterranean homeless shelter. There, Jacobs was nicknamed Threnody by a kindly old woman after the mournful song she sang. Weeks later, Threnody's mutant power of absorbing the energy released by the dead and dying flared explosively out of control, killing the woman and her husband. Cast out by the Abomination, Threnody returned to living on the streets in Los Angeles where she was found by the local police near the hospital where the mutant Infectia lay dying of the Legacy Virus. Absorbing the ambient neuroplasmic energy. Threnody unwittingly killed two policemen and fled. Seeking shelter in the laboratory of Gordon Lefferts, the first recorded victim of the Legacy Virus, Threnody encountered several X-Men when they arrived to investigate. Fleeing from them, she encountered geneticist Mister Sinister, who offered her control over her abilities in exchange for her servitude. Despite the X-Men's objections, she accepted and left with Sinister.







Appearance
X-Man #20
X-Men vol. 2 #27
X-Men vol. 2 #34
X-Man #13
X-Man #15
X-Man #16–17
X-Man #18–19
X-Man #21–23
X-Man #24
X-Man #25
X-Man #26
X-Man #29
X-Man #32
X-Man #51
X-Man #56–57
X-Man #58
Deadpool Assassin #2
Deadpool Assassin #3
Deadpool Assassin #4
Deadpool Assassin #5
Deadpool Assassin #6




http://marvel-microheroes.wikia.com/...Melody_Jacobs)

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Deadpool and Threnody Mission Deadpool assasing 4


1 Retrieve sample of Super-Soldier Serum variant from Project Gladiator site
2 Interrupt Mojo TV prime time broadcast
3 Acquire bust of Hyppolyta from Amazonian temple
4 Eliminate Hand cell in Las Vegas
5 Acquire Venom symbiote
6 Destroy the Darkhold
7 Assassinate time-lost wizard hiding in Weirdworld
8 Overthrow despotic space barony
9 Steal demon-entity from the Monsters of Evil
10Test viability of new Murderworld installation
11Grand Theft Infernal Hellbike (Ghost Rider’s motorcycle)
12 Assassination (of The Rhino)

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Death Threnody and unborn child? by Madelyne Pryor (or Jean Grey 998) X-Man 25



Dead Zombie Baby?

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In Cbr Nate Grey Child? no deadpool miniserie

https://www.cbr.com/x-man-threnody-unresolved-baby/

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I bet she smells horrible

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Over time, Threnody learned a great deal more about the man she was indentured to and began plotting how to get out from under Sinister's thumb. Her constant monitoring turned up the existence of Nate Grey, fresh from the Age of Apocalypse, and she saw in him a chance to free herself from Sinister. She concealed Nate's arrival from Sinister and eventually fled to Paris to seek him out. Almost immediately, Sinister unleashed the Marauders to track her down and return her to him. Luckily for Threnody, Nate heard her psychic cries for help and was more than willing to stand against Sinister's forces on any world. Grey fought off the Marauders on Threnody's behalf and killed nearly all of them. He implanted a false memory of Threnody's death in the mind of the sole surviving Marauder, Riptide in the hope that Sinister would give up his search for her



Threnody asked if she could tag along in X-Man's search for the mysterious Madelyne Pryor and the two became traveling companions. Their search led them to the area of Switzerland where Nate first crash-materialized in our universe. There they encountered Cable and Exodus and the conflict that followed was chaotic, thanks to the vast psionic energies unleashed by the three. Following the battle, Threnody and Nate were taken to Red Cross emergency center set up to help those displaced and injured by the superhuman battle that had devastated the region. Nate woke to Threnody's kiss and began to question his initial trust in her. He dove into her psyche to find out if Sinister was using her to get at him, consciously or otherwise. While Sinister's presence was indeed quite strong in her mind, Nate did not detect any signs of deceit in Threnody. Nate went too far when he interfered with the neuro-locks on her brow, releasing Threnody's death-charge in a massive explosion that would've destroyed the lodge if he hadn't telekinetically controlled the blast. The two of them were thrown clear by the explosion and when she awoke, Threnody considered abandoning Nate as more trouble than he was worth. After further reflection, Threnody realized she may have found a kindred spirit in X-Man and tended to him as he recovered from exhausting his psionic energies.

Following this, Threnody and Nate traveled to Greece for some rest and recuperation. Their vacation was interrupted by Holocaust who had been drafted into the service of Onslaught and sent after Nate. Holocaust killed and maimed a number of civilians caught in the firefight, setting off Threnody's empathic senses. She tried to get the innocents to safety while Nate engaged Apocalypse's butcher son, but being in such close proximity with the dying for the first time revealed new aspects of Threnody's power. She discovered that when someone was this close to death, she could deliberately prod them the rest of the way and absorb their full death agonies. Worse, she discovered she liked it. The man she killed was already crushed under some rubble and on the brink of death. Threnody rationalized to herself that she was ending his suffering, but still… she liked it.[6]

Together, Nate and Threnody managed to drive off Holocaust and help many of those injured when he attacked. Afterward, Threnody suggested Nate seek help against the threat of Onslaught. Since Nate had bad encounters with the X-Men in the past, she suggested that the Avengers would make a good second choice. Once they arrived in New York, however, Threnody split without even saying good-bye. It is not exactly clear why she did this. Perhaps she was uncomfortable with how her feelings for Nate had grown in such a short time or realized there was some truth to Nate's theory that Sinister was using her to get at him. Whatever the reason, she soon found herself back in hot water, tracked down and captured by Mister Sinister and his Marauders. Sinister also captured Nate having gained access to his mind the moment he psychically hacked into the neuro-locks Sinister designed for Threnody. His time with Sinister was brief though as he was soon snatched away by Onslaught. Meanwhile, Threnody managed to escape from Arclight and Scalphunter who were holding her in the tunnels under Manhattan. They quickly caught up with her but she was saved by the Abomination, who found her again just as he had years earlier.

Threnody's reunion with the Forgotten proved bittersweet. The Abomination blamed Threnody for the deaths she caused when her powers flared up during her prior stay at his lair. Nate tracked her down and battled the Abomination who revealed Threnody's deadly acts

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Threnody returned to life on the streets and her depression led her to feed off the homeless with greater abandon. While searching for answers at her mother's graveside, Threnody was visited by Morbius the Living Vampire. Having just fed off of Nate, Morbius learned of Threnody's cravings. He sensed a kindred spirit and reached out to her. For the first time in her life, Threnody had found someone who understood the hunger and temptation she had to live with every day. Threnody felt an instant attraction to the darkness within Morbius. However, Nate and Spider-Man arrived and tried to drive off the vampire but Threnody helped to defend him. After Morbius fled, Nate finally confronted Threnody about how she preyed on the dying. He condemned her for it, gently but firmly, and told her to return home only when she wanted his help in fighting her addiction.[9]

Threnody didn't get the chance to make up her mind. The unstable Madelyne Pryor arrived at the graveyard in search of Nate Grey. Threnody knew Madelyne from Nate's talk of her but also from Sinister's files and knew she was programmed to breed with the Summers line. Lashed out with jealously and contempt, Threnody reveals to Maddie that despite walking around she was in fact still dead. Enraged, Madelyne attacked Threnody and unleashed the neuro-locks restraining Threnody's power, sucking her dry of her energy.[10]

Threnody was left for dead in St. Raymond's Cemetery and was picked up as a Jane Doe and taken to the morgue.[11] Her power wouldn't let her die and Threnody fed off of her own death charge before consuming the energies within the morgue. This restored her to a semblance of life and she walked away from the morgue. However her power had developed a second mutation, causing the dead to rise and follow her.[12] Threnody's very presence now influenced the death energy in her environment, bringing nearby corpses back as undead "zomboids" who followed her wherever she went. Seeking to feed, Threnody stumbled into the Last Lair after the psychotic Jackknife massacred the entire gang and drank deep off of the lingering death energies there.[13] She remained in the Morlock Tunnels until she discovered the Dark Beast's labs nearby. Threnody wisely chose to relocate before he discovered her presence.

She and her loyal, benign undead entourage haunted the SoHo loft apartment where she and Nate Grey had lived until Nate unexpectedly dropped in again after several months away. Threnody kept to the shadows and was angered to see Nate was travelling with Madelyne Pryor, the woman who killed her.Her powers were not all that had changed since she rose from the dead. Threnody's stomach was now noticeably distended making it appear as if she was several months pregnant. She tracked Nate via his unique death energy for a time, first to Alaska and then to Seattle where he collapsed in an alley after a battle. She took him to her refuge under the Seattle piers. While he lay unconscious for a week, she was sustained by her zomboids who had grown addicted to Threnody. Nate woke to see the zomboids hungrily clawing at Threnody, who seemed to be in a delusional state or intense pain. When Nate pulled her free, she was as svelte and slim as the day they met. All signs of her apparent pregnancy were gone.

Threnody's tolerance for the ever-present zomboids that followed her around had turned to fear and she hoped that reconnecting with Nate would help her rid herself of them. She managed to escape the zomboids for a while with Nate's telekinetic help and the former couple finally had a chance to catch up. Threnody told Nate that she never "abandoned" him all those months ago as he believed and told him how she had been killed by Madelyne. She also confessed to Nate about her feedings at the cancer ward and among the homeless. Both Threnody and Nate finally acknowledged that she was addicted to death.

The zomboids soon located their unwitting mistress and Threnody and Nate fled to an anchored yacht far from the zomboids and anyone near death that Threnody could feed off. Nate hoped that this would allow her to beat her addiction "cold turkey". Her withdrawal was a difficult one, particularly because of Nate's own unique death energy. Because his power was killing him and would cut his life short before he reached 21, Nate Grey was a constant source of ripe death energy for Threnody. She had been feeding on Nate's death energies since they met. In her newly enhanced state, Threnody was actively weakening Nate every minute they were together. He provided an everlasting high for her death addiction. For both their sakes, Threnody insisted on cutting ties with Nate and going her own way. When he told her he loved her and would stay by her regardless, Threnody pushed Nate away by claiming that she never loved him, only the "taste" of his death energies. To save the man she loved, Threnody broke his heart, leaving a shattered Nate Grey behind as she disappeared once more into the night.

After parting ways with Nate this final time, Threnody retrieved a bundle from her refuge which appeared to be a newborn child. The secrets of this child and its parentage along with the true nature of Threnody's pregnancy have not yet been revealed.

Threnody has not been seen following M-Day but rumors have spread that she is still active but has yet to reveal herself as well as the full details of Threnody's post-mortem condition have yet to be fully explained. Threnody along with the Harkspur Brood and Blackout, were later revealed to be promising recruits to the Assassins Guild, and were requested by Belladona Boudreaux, the Leader of the Assassins Guild, to deal with Deadpool, however Deadppol easily kills the Harkspur Brood and Threnody eventually betrays Blackout and prevented him from killing Deadpool, revealing in the process that she had been under Blackout's care for an uncertain time and for that same reason she let him live. Threnody then asked Deadpool if she could tag along in him which she used to feed off all the death that surrounds him. It was soon revealed that Threnody only joined with the Assassins Guild and later with Deadpool so she could collect the death energy she needed to feed her newborn child, and while at first appeared to be working, she would discover that the energy wasn't nearly enough as the child was still hungry

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X-Man 24 Maybe by is Pregnant? Change Powers? new Hungry? Threnody’s powers continued to cause trouble as well. She became more and more addicted to the death charge released by others and began actively feeding off of those near death; her body was changing and she no longer needed food or sustenance, surviving solely on the death energy she craved.

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So we see her as a hero, or a villain??