Tomorrow Woman
| Tomorrow Woman | |
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| File:TomorrowWoman.jpg Tomorrow Woman as portrayed by Howard Porter | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | JLA #5 (May 1997) |
| Created by | Grant Morrison Howard Porter |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Clara Kendall |
| Team affiliations | Justice League |
| Notable aliases | Tommie |
| Abilities | Telepathy Telekinesis |
Tomorrow Woman is a fictional character, an artificial lifeform and superhero from DC Comics. She originally appeared in JLA #5 written by Grant Morrison and with art by Howard Porter.
History
The Justice League
She was created jointly by Professor Ivo and Professor T. O. Morrow to destroy the newly formed JLA. She became a member based on her telekinetic abilities which she claimed were the result of a "mutant 4 lobed brain." Actually, she was a living bomb designed to go off at a specified moment and kill the entire JLA. Eventually though, she denied her purpose, discovering the concept of freedom that her creators had deliberately left out of her programming. She sacrificed herself in order to stop a futuristic war machine by triggering an EMP bomb located in her body, which was originally intended to wipe the brains of the League. It was revealed that Morrow had seen this coming and was thrilled by it. He and Ivo had frequently argued about who had done the better work on her. Ivo thought that the body he had made, which was realistic enough to fool even Superman's heightened senses and x-ray vision, was the true work of genius. Morrow proved him wrong however, as the brain he himself had created was sophisticated and "human" enough to discover free will, even though the concept had not been included in her original programming.
With Hourman
Tomorrow Woman proved to be a popular character, and as such, made one more appearance in the Hourman series. The third Hourman revived her in hopes of quelling moral dilemmas he had pertaining to his android status, and for the last fifty minutes of his Hour of Power, she continued that existence, cementing her status as a hero as she saved lives and lived her life to the fullest. She taught Hourman what consequences his actions can have. In that short time, the two formed a connection that ultimately, when Tomorrow Woman disappeared at the end of the hour, left Hourman with a hole in his non-existent heart.
In Trinity
Upcoming solicitations of the cover for Trinity #22-24 shows Tomorrow Woman acting as the "Superman" of a new Trinity consisting of herself , Black Adam and Green Arrow, possibly due to the main Trinity being affected by a timeline alteration. She is a member of an alternate reality version of the Justice Society called the JSI, and goes by the nickname Tommie. As a member of the JSI she wears a black-and-silver version of her original costume. However when she sees a TV broadcast of what appears to be the original timeline's Tommorow Woman fighting robots in Metropolis, she immediateley vanishes in a puff of smoke. In Trinity 23, it is revealed that Tomorrow Woman is really a GBS TV news reporter named Clara Kendall.
Powers
Tomorrow Woman is an artificial lifeform with a four-lobed brain, which gives her amazing telepathic and telekinetic powers. Her telepathy allows her to read minds and project her thoughts into the minds of others. She can free people from psionic possession, and in the JLA: Tomorrow Woman one-shot, she displayed the ability to telepathically purify corrupted minds when a virus caused children around the world to become homicidal. Her telekinesis alows her move objects with her thoughts, and her power level is high enough that she can psionically lift objects as big as cars into the air with minimal effort. She can fire bolts of telekinetic energy that at their lowest level can stun a person, and at their highest shatter steel. She can fly by telekinetically lifting herself into the air. She can also generate electromagnetic pulses by metally manipulating the Earth's geomagnetic field.