Xi'an Coy Manh

A Vietnamese refugee who discovered she could psionically possess the minds and bodies of others, Xi'an Coy Manh used her mutant power to protect her younger siblings after fleeing war-torn Vietnam. She later came to Professor Xavier's attention and became a founding member of the New Mutants.

Few characters can claim a debut as striking as Xi'an Coy Manh's — introduced in 1980's Marvel Team-Up #100 by the legendary creative team of Chris Claremont, Frank Miller, and Bob Wiacek, she arrived at the tail end of the Bronze Age with an immediate sense of weight and purpose. Over the decades she has become a fixture of the Marvel Universe, racking up 206 catalog appearances across titles like New Mutants and Astonishing X-Men and spanning an extraordinary 46 years of publication. She shares her adventures with some of Marvel's most beloved young heroes — Dani Moonstar, Cannonball, Sam Guthrie, Roberto Da Costa, and Sunspot among them — a roster that speaks to the rich, character-driven corner of the Marvel universe she calls home. With 14 key-issue appearances to her name and a publishing history that stretches from the Carter administration all the way to 2026, Xi'an Coy Manh is living proof that the most compelling characters only deepen with time.