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
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