Karma

Comics and Fox films

Modern, Comics: The New Mutants trace Karma, possessed by the Shadow King, to Madripoor and Cairo, and she wins a psychic battle against him.

Comics

Xuân Cao Mạnh is a Vietnamese mutant who takes over the minds of others. She fled Vietnam, absorbed her evil twin Tran, and led the first New Mutants at Xavier's school. Over the years she was possessed by the Shadow King, searched for her siblings in Madripoor, lost a leg in the Second Coming, ran into Hatchi Corporation business and joined the mutant nation of Krakoa, where she died and was resurrected.

Fox films

A mutant whose name appeared on the Department of Domestic Security and Defense's computer in X2: X-Men United. Her status is unknown.

Timeline 14 events

  1. Bronze · Comics: As a child refugee she takes control of Spider-Man's mind to rescue her siblings from her uncle, then kills her brother Tran by absorbing his life essence.
  2. Bronze · Comics: She enrolls at Xavier's school and becomes the first leader of the New Mutants.
  3. Bronze · Comics: She promises a year of service to her uncle in exchange for the location of the kidnapped Xavier and Dani Moonstar, and vanishes in an explosion.
  4. Modern · Comics: The New Mutants trace Karma, possessed by the Shadow King, to Madripoor and Cairo, and she wins a psychic battle against him.
  5. Modern · Comics: The Enchantress sends the New Mutants to Asgard and scatters them; Karma is stranded for months in a desert in the past.
  6. Modern · Comics: She leaves a note for Dani and quits the New Mutants to work for her uncle and search for her missing siblings.
  7. Modern · Comics: In Madripoor she helps Wolverine, in disguise as Patch, topple her uncle's empire.
  8. Modern · Comics: After studying and working in Chicago she returns to the Xavier Institute as librarian and teacher.
  9. Modern · Comics: During the Second Coming battles she loses her left leg and receives a bionic replacement from Madison Jeffries.
  10. Modern · Comics: After Schism she goes back to Westchester with Wolverine and becomes a junior staff member at the school.
  11. Secret Wars · Comics: She joins the Utopians in the ruins of Utopia and accepts a place at the New Charles Xavier School.
  12. Fresh Start · Comics: During the War of the Realms she and Dani Moonstar cast illusions that fool Sabretooth in a Nine Realms incursion.
  13. Fresh Start · Comics: The New Mutants reform on Krakoa and travel to Shi'ar space to bring Cannonball home.
  14. Fresh Start · Comics: Karma enters the Crucible so that her brother might be resurrected, dies at Dani Moonstar's hands and is resurrected.

allied with

Mirage, Professor X, Magik, Wolverine (Logan)

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Last checked 22 Oct 2026