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Martha Sullivan
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AstroFacts


Status: Still working, but also enjoying her private moments as she bridges to retirement
Real Name: Martha Sullivan
Origin: Astro City #4
Affiliation: Sideliners


Personal Data


Relationships: She mentions someone named Jen. A daughter? Roommate? Lover?
Aliases: Sully, Mattie. Mind-Over-Mattie
Occupation: Special effects technician
Date of Birth: mid-1950s
Height: 5'7" (estimate)
Weight: 145 lbs (estimate)
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: silver-blue


InfoDump


Appearances (in Publication Order): Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #22

Astro City #4


Event Timeline

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Martha Sullivan

When her telekinesis powers first manifested, Martha "Sully" Sullivan daydreamed playing the role of a new super-hero, Mind-Over-Mattie. She later tempered those goals, choosing instead to use her "powers" for special effects in movies and television shows.

History

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Sully grew up in Astro City. She first discovered her powers when she was fourteen years old. (Their exact source is unclear, though her best theory is her mother's exposure when pregnant to a mento-field during a fight between Professor Borzoi and the Gentleman). Her first thought was to become a superhero, Mind-Over-Mattie, but after a few nights on patrol, she realized she didn't have the mental constitution for such a risk-filled vocation.

In the summer before college, she went to Las Vegas to try her hand at being a supervillain instead. Her plan was to use telekinesis to win at slots, but just one jackpot was enough for her to know she couldn't deal with the guilt. The young girl was torn up inside, possessing superpowers but completely confused as to what to do with them.

After college, she moved to Los Angeles and became a bartender. Her co-worker was an aspiring director, and she ended up using her powers to help him with special effects for his low-budget project. This, in time, grew into a steady career at TK-generated special effects for TV and film.

She moved back to Astro City to work on the soap opera "Tomorrow's Dawn." The show had a superhero character, the Crimson Cougar and it was her job to produce his aerial stunts. One day, she assisted her friend, Cougar actor Mitch Goodman, in preventing a local AstroMart robbery. This incident kicked off a rapid rise in popularity for Mitch and when that proved to be too much for him, even a danger to his life, Sully's powers helped him stage a PR nightmare to rip his new-found glamor to sheds. ("Great Expectations")

Over time, Sully met others like her, super-powered individuals who wished to just lead ordinary civilian lives. She became part of this extended community of "sideliners," making good friends among them.

A new supervillain, the Majordomo, once kidnapped her and various other sideliner super-types. His intent was to bring them under his influences, and then use them as part of an army for his own personal power conquests (just the latest in a list of supervillains who've tried such a thing). Sully and the others were able to escape their bonds and handily defeat him. ("On the Sidelines")

Powers

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telekinesis
Her telekinesis power is strong enough to move objects that are within line-of-sight distances. She can aid a person's gymnastics feats, giving them the illusion of flying, or that they possess superior strength by "lifting" what would otherwise be tremendously heavy objects.

Over the years her skills with telekinesis have sharpened. Due in part to the demands that film directors have placed on her for complex and even dangerous special effects requests. She has also had other encounters that showed off not only her power at mentally moving matter, but also her leadership skills in combat situations.

Observations

  • She seems like a very down-to-earth individual. A good-hearted soul, with simple desires.
  • She owns a boat, the Sweatshop Gal.

Speculations, Theories

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Despite her passive ambitions and reluctant nature, there are times, brief and rare, when she might indeed be wondering "what could have been" if she had follow her young dreams for being a super-hero.


Nah! She is very comfortable in the skin she is wearing.