Tarot (comics)

Tarot
Tarot. X-Force issue #87.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	New Mutants #16 (Jun 1984)
Created by	Chris Claremont Sal Buscema
In-story information
Alter ego	Marie-Ange Colbert
Species	Human Mutant
Team affiliations	Hellions
Abilities	Materialize tangible representations of 2D images into 3D objects; Psychometric precognition.

Tarot (Marie-Ange Colbert) is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe.

Tarot first appeared in New Mutants #16-17 (June–July 1984), and was created by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema.

The character subsequently appears in The Uncanny X-Men #193 (May 1985), Firestar #2-4 (April–June 1986), The New Mutants #39 (May 1986), #43 (September 1986), #53-54 (July–August 1987), #56 (October 1987), #62 (April 1988), The New Warriors #9-10 (March–April 1991), and apparently died in The Uncanny X-Men #281-282 (October–November 1991). The character made posthumous appearances in The New Warriors Annual #1 (1991) and #2 (1992). Tarot mysteriously appeared alive again in X-Force #87-90 (February–May 1999).

Tarot appeared as part of the "Hellions" entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #5.

Marie-Ange Colbert was born in Lyon, France. As Tarot, she joins the original Hellions. Tarot is generally of a kind and sympathetic nature. Mirage's psychic abilities reveal that Tarot is in love with one of the New Mutants. It is later strongly hinted that the New Mutant in question was Cypher, but nothing ever comes of her supposed infatuation with him, and she instead falls in love with one of her teammates, Empath. He does not return her feelings, and leaves the Hellions in order to pursue his seduction of Magma, leaving Tarot heartbroken. Tarot's flying constructs sometimes serve as transportation for the Hellions.

Tarot and her team battle the New Warriors inside their penthouse headquarters over the fate of ex-Hellion Firestar.

She is ostensibly killed by Trevor Fitzroy and his Sentinels, who uses her life force to fuel one of his temporal displacement portals. She reappears years later as a member of the second Hellions team. Tarot's life force is now somehow bound to King Bedlam, who was apparently the key to her resurrection, though this has never been fully explained. After her resurrection, Tarot displays greater control over her powers, being able to assume the likeness of specific tarot cards herself. During the Hellions' conflict with X-Force, in which she confronts her former teammate James Proudstar, Tarot aids them, incurring Bedlam's wrath. In the end, however, she leaves with him and her new teammates for whereabouts unknown.