Arlette Truffaut (Earth-616)

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Real Name

Arlette Truffaut

Current Alias

Murmur

Identity

Secret

Alignment

Good

Affiliation

Alpha Flight, Beta Flight

Relatives

Mother (unnamed), Francois Truffaut (father, deceased)

Universe

Earth-616

Base Of Operations

Department H (Toronto)

Characteristics

Gender

Female

Height

5' 8"

Weight

134 lbs (61 kg)

Hair

Black

Status

Citizenship

Canadian

Marital Status

Single

Occupation

Government operative, student

Education

High School

Origin

Origin

Mutant

Creators

Steven Seagle

First appearance

Alpha Flight 1 (Volume 2, 1997)

History

Arlette's mother told her father was the famous French film director, Francois Truffaut. Arlette's mother went in search of her lost love, leaving Arlette at Hull House, an orphanage in Orloo, Ontario.

When she displayed her superhuman powers, Arlette was drafted by Department H to become a part of their new Alpha Flight. There, she often used her powers to control the wild Sasquatch. Arlette displayed an extreme, irrational, fear and hatred of bugs, most evident when Alpha Flight faced the X-Men and she was forced to battle Maggott.

When the Zodiac attacked Department H, Murmur was seriously injured and forced to take time off from active missions for a time. While in recovery, she realized how much she enjoyed being part of Alpha Flight and became a bit more bold and outgoing.

When the original Alpha Flight returned, Murmur and her fellow novices were demoted to Beta Flight.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Mind Control: Psionic ability that allows her to manipulate others upon physical contact. By touching them they are completely under control, and can give them commands verbally thereafter. (Such as she touched Puck and told him to sleep and he immediately fell asleep. She even has the power to calm the savage Sasquatch II, which is the actual Sasquatch of myth not Walter the original Sasquatch on Alpha Flight. She also has been shown to free people that were under Mesmero's control).

There are two instances that show there is more to Murmur. Such as when Alpha Flight was battling Mesmero, she demonstrated that she could kill a person using her power. This is not typical for a mind-controller to do. Another incident when Radius was under the control of Mesmero and to break his control Murmur must make physical contact with him. However, his forcefield prevents that so it's not known how she broke the hold on him. They later talk about it in the series, but never give a clear answer to how she did it. Another odd incident was when X-Men's Maggott ordered his own maggotts to attack Murmur they ran away without even touching her. When she touched Maggott she had a flashback back in Hull House where she was getting attacked by bugs and monsters, which never was explained.

Teleportation: apparently Murmur has teleportation abilities. Though not fully understood, all she apparently has to do is touch someone and state where to send them.

This comes from in Alpha Flight's battle with the Zodiac, Murmur touched the Zodiac member named Virgo and said "Paris." Immediately she vanished saying "Scorpio I'm fading awayyy", which when someone who is under Murmur's control doesn't have independent thought so this was unique and different. Virgo ended up in Paris, France with a type of amnesia. The Zodiac did have personal teleportation devices, but how Murmur would know that she would have this type of a device is a mystery. Also if she did use the teleportation device, why Virgo would activate it and teleport to Paris is another mystery since Taurus later had to go get her since they stated her teleporter was broken. So the range or her actual ability to teleport people were never stated.

Abilities

None known.

Strength level

Average human

Weaknesses

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

• No special notes.

Trivia

• No trivia.

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Links and References

• Marvel Encyclopedia Vol 2: X-Men