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Sway (comics)
Sway peared in X-Men: Deadly Genesis #3 as one of the "Missing
X-Men". She was created by writer Ed Brubaker and artist
Pete Woods.
Fictional character biography
Originally from Hong Kong, David and Emily Chan be-
came naturalized citizens of the United States after living
twenty years in California. They had a daughter named
Suzanne, who, at 17 years old, wanted to attend Barnard
College on the east coast of the United States and planned
a trip to New York City to prove to her parents that she
would be safe on her own after moving. During the trip,
David and Emily were gunned down in a crossfire be-
tween gangs in Chinatown. Although standing a few feet
from her parents, Suzanne was unscathed, which per-
plexed police detectives.
After the shooting, Suzanne entered a state of shock.
She could only dwell on the fact that when the shooting
started, she had somehow stopped the bullets in midair
and was able to get herself out of the path of the bullets.
In actuality she had stopped time around the bullets, ef-
fectively freezing them in place. Unfortunately, she was
unable to do the same for her parents, and could only
watch as the bullets tore into them.
The police placed the traumatized girl in a hospital
for forty-eight hour observation, during which she most-
ly slept and cried. When she was released, she was told
Sway
that the police were looking into things, but they did not
From the cover of Deadly Genesis #4, by Marc Silvestri have any leads. Wandering the streets, she returned to
the spot where her parents were killed. Suddenly, her
Publication information mutant powers activated again and she was able to see
Publisher Marvel Comics past events in the area, namely the phantoms of herself
and her parents. After witnessing the shooting for a sec-
First appearance X-Men: Deadly Genesis #3
ond time, Suzanne followed the phantom car, carrying
Created by Ed Brubaker her parents’ murderers, throughout the city. She then
Pete Woods realized that she somehow had control over the flow of
In-story information time and she was making it replay itself for her.
Suzanne followed the murderers to their front door
Alter ego Suzanne Chan and inside she could see them celebrating. She called the
Species Human Mutant police, and when they arrived, the killers opened fire.
Consciously using her power for the first time, she froze
Team X-Men
the bullets and the killers in time. After giving her state-
affiliations
ment to the police, the detective contacted Dr. Moira
Abilities Time manipulation MacTaggert, who then offered Suzanne a chance to train
Psychometric/Retrocognitive in the use of her mutant abilities. She took the code-
Projection
name Sway and went with MacTaggert. She was in the
first team, along with Kid Vulcan, Darwin, and Petra to
Suzanne Chan)
Sway (Suzanne Chan is a fictional comic book superhero,
attempt to rescue the X-Men from Krakoa, but was sliced
a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. She first ap-
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sway (comics)
in half by the island’s force. With the last of her power, vature or the control of chronitons, much like Tempo,
she and the mortally wounded Petra combined their another time-manipulating mutant. By focusing careful-
powers to save their remaining teammates from certain ly, Suzanne was able to slow down and stop objects en-
death. tirely, enabling her to freeze projectiles in mid-air, im-
mobilize her enemies, and various other effects. Appar-
Powers and abilities ently, Suzanne’s training had honed her abilities to the
point where she could target specific objects in her range
Sway demonstrated the ability to decelerate and proba- or everything within a certain radius.
bly stop or even accelerate time around her body, as well
as a form of retrocognitive projection that allowed her to
replay the recent pasts as short bursts of ghostly images.
External links
It’s highly possible her powers revolve either around the • Sway on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki
manipulation of gravitation as means for spacetime cur-
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