![]() ![]() ![]() The Vanisher soon disappeared when Iceman & Beast arrived dressed as mutant hunters. Tired of his lazy attitude she called X-Factor who the public believed to be a human group of mutant hunters. The Vanisher became lazy and reaped the benefits of all their hard work. He recruited her into his gang of teen aged street thieves, the Fallen Angels, where she relished the chance to use her time-bombs as a distraction while the others would pick pockets and steal purses. X-Factorīoom-Boom was still homeless and wandered around the city until she was discovered by the Vanisher. Once again, she was left alone, and the Beyonder had lost his only friend. In a sad parting, Tabitha led him into an ambush. Returning to New York City, Boom-Boom called the Avengers' hotline and warned them about the Beyonder. Once they were back on Earth, Boom-Boom left the Beyonder. However, still scared by his abundant power, Boom-Boom demanded that he return her to normal. ![]() At first he made her more pretty, and then he aged her into a 21 year-old. In an effort to calm her down, the Beyonder manipulated her body and face. Being confronted by gigantic aliens was scary enough, but the Beyonder's flippant attitude to destroy everything terrified Boom-Boom. He casually brushed them aside and returned to the boardwalk with Boom-Boom as if nothing had happened. The Celestials reacted at the last moment, diving to attack the Beyonder. When Boom-Boom casually pointed out that the Celestials didn't move, let alone acknowledge his power, the Beyonder flew up into space and threatened to destroy everything unless the Celestials recognized his presence. To cheer her up, he drove his car through space, where other alien life-forms recognized his power. The bomb detonated, but she wasn't harmed Boom-Boom had been saved by the Beyonder. After her first bluff failed, she made a genuine attempt to commit suicide by creating the largest time-bomb she could muster. When he didn't answer, Boom-Boom threatened to commit suicide. She called for the Beyonder, who, being omniscient, should have been aware that his name was being mentioned. Boom-Boom fled the ensuing chaos, and ended up wandering through the nearby woods alone and depressed. However, when she arrived at the school, the combined forces of the X-Men and New Mutants attacked the Beyonder, who was bored by yet another mutant attack and drove off. He decided to take her to Xavier's School for the Gifted in Westchester, as the X-Men's mansion was the secret mutant school she had heard rumors of. The next day, the Beyonder found Boom-Boom hitchhiking and gave her a ride to New York. Tabitha's unsuccessful attempt to join the X-Men ![]() It detonated after he returned to his empty dimension, but he wasn't angry for long. Their conversation convinced the Beyonder to leave for his own dimension, and as the two hugged Boom-Boom sneaked a time-bomb down the back of his pants. She had devised a game to give yourself 10 points for every bad thing that happens to you. That night he created an instant camp site, and the two swapped life stories Boom-Boom explained how things had been difficult, but that she wasn't ready to give up like her friends who had rotted away slowly on drugs. She joined the Beyonder as he continued his journey, thinking that he was a mutant. Amongst the confusion Boom-Boom spotted a man walking down the railroad tracks and realized that he had caused the train's peaceful destruction. However, as the train passed through Washington DC it suddenly flew apart, safely placing everyone and their belongings on the floor. She used the money to buy a train ticket to New York where she hoped to find a secret mutant school. Major Story Arcs Secret Wars IIīoom-Boom used her power to detonate telephone booths and vending machines to collect small change. Creationīoom-Boom first appeared in Secret Wars II #5 and was created by Jim Shooter and Al Milgrom. The resultant explosion enraged her father, who beat her so severely that she decided to run away from home and tried to adopt the code name “Time Bomb”. She resented him for it and placed a small explosive into the tray of his TV dinner. Boom-Boom's father wasn't a well-educated man, and he tried to beat the mutant power out of her. During a time of high social anxiety, distrust and fear over mutants, her parents were not pleased that their daughter would randomly destroy things with her time-bombs. When her mutant power developed, she discovered she could create balls of explosive combustive energy. Her friends had already given Tabitha the nickname Boom-Boom, due to her 'highly explosive' personality. Her relationship with her parents was tumultuous at best, and further declined after her mutant powers manifested. Her parents divorced while she was still young and her father remarried. Tabitha Smith was raised in Roanoke, Virginia. ![]()
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