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Neena Thurman, better known as Domino, is a Marvel Comics character created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld, first appearing in

#8 (dated March 1992), more than a whole year later.

Bred to be the ultimate weapon by a top-secret government facility, Domino\'s mutant ability —probability manipulation— was actually seen as a flaw. Fearing they\'d kill her as a result, Domino\'s birth mother whisked her away to a church in Chicago, where she\'d continue to live until becoming a mercenary in her adult years.

Now working for the NSA, Domino fell in love with (and married) Dr. Milo Thurman, a scientist she was assigned to protect. Their union didn\'t last long; they were separated by a raid that led Milo to assume his wife had been killed.

Domino then met time-traveling mutant Cable when she was recruited to his strike team Six Pack, and the two quickly became an item. As with her estranged husband, however, Domino found herself pulled away from her lover yet again during a mission. They\'ve since reconnected many times, sharing an on-off relationship over the years.

Sometime after Six Pack, Domino was was kidnapped and replaced by an imposter: the shapeshifting mutant Copycat, real name Vanessa Carlysle. She was actually the first iteration of Domino that readers were introduced to; Vanessa\'s Domino first appeared in

Domino— didn\'t show up for more than a year later, in

In the following years, Domino would serve as a frequent member of X-Force, and even joined the X-Men for a brief stint. She\'s also a common ally to both Cable and Deadpool, often showing up in their respective titles. Most recently, she joined Deadpool\'s Mercs for Money, and is set to join the team of RessurXion\'s

Outside of comics, Domino has appeared in various cartoons and video games based on Marvel characters. In 2018, she\'ll make her cinematic debut in the yet-to-be-titled

(1992 — 1997), voiced by Jennifer Dale

Action Girl: She is a superb markswoman with various firearms, highly skilled athlete, excellent swimmer, and adept in use of explosives. She has extensive training in various armed combat techniques and the martial arts, with Olympic-gold level athletic and acrobatic ability.

Beware the Nice Ones: She\'s absolutely horrifying when threatened. You do NOT want to get on her bad side.

Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: Domino has the power to alter probability, and prefers to use that ability in conjunction with firearms. She can thus perform outstandingly improbable trick-shots, including multiple-ricochet bulls-eyes against moving targets.

Born Lucky: She has the ability to subliminally and psionically initiate random kinetic phenomena that affect probability in her favor by making improbable (but not impossible) things to occur within her line of sight, thus causing her to have "good luck" and her opponents to have "bad luck." For example, there was a time when somebody put a revolver to her head and pulled the trigger. Six times. All six bullets failed to fire. The odds of this actually happening are, needless to say, astronomically low.

Charles Atlas Superpower: Domino has probability altering powers, but she mainly relies on her marksmanship and hand-to-hand abilities.

Cloning Blues: A rare case of this being an Averted Trope. She\'s surprisingly well-adjusted (by X-Men Standards, which isn\'t saying much)

Dark and Troubled Past: Bred as a weapon, failed as a bodyguard to her eventual husband and was then captured and tortured by Bastion\'s sentinels. She handles it better than somebody like Iron Man or Ms. Marvel would.

Deadpan Snarker: Has some overlap with Sad Clown and You Fight Like a Cow.

Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She has dark hair and literally white skin, which combined with a cheap Halloween costume made it fairly easy for her to safely navigate a monster-invaded Manhattan with the rest of the Mercs for Money.

Domino: Well, apparently a vinyl cape is all that separates me from vampiredom, so...

Friendly Sniper: Despite being designed as a \'90s Anti-Hero, she\'s Fun Personified to her teammates after her original 90s Grim Dark incarnation. This is a Justified Trope as the original Domino was an impostor.

Gun Fu: Domino, though her "luck" power also had a lot to do with it.

Hair-Trigger Temper: As stated above, do NOT get on her bad side. While she\'s normally a reasonable mother figure, deciding to annoy her is a very, very bad idea. Deadpool manages to get under her skin more than anyone else.

Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She\'s able to hold her liquor better than anyone without a healing factor.

Likes Older Men: Has dated Wolverine and Cable.

Most Common Superpower: Acknowledged both in and out of universe. She is never portrayed with anything less than D-cups, and, Depending on the Artist can far exceed even those generous features. Doesn\'t hurt that she rarely zips up her Spy Catsuit.

In one Deadpool story, Deadpool, who is narrating, claims that this is why she shows up in his books so much.

Older Than They Look: Going by her backstory alone, she\'d have to be at least 40. She doesn\'t look it. Even possibly aging backwards thanks to Comic-Book Time and Retcons.

Pragmatic Hero: Just because she\'s normally nice doesn\'t mean she won\'t shoot you in the face if you\'re a villain without any questions asked.

Progressively Prettier: Started out looking worn out and emaciated, eventually became a candidate for Ms. Fanservice. It doesn\'t hurt that the original version with a man\'s hairline was really Copycat in disguise.

Really Gets Around: Often combined with Romancing the Widow. So far she\'s managed to conquer Cable, Wolverine and Colossus. And Deadpool but he doesn\'t really count as a, "conquest" since he\'ll openly try to score with anyone or anything.

Super Reflexes: As a byproduct of her probability abilities, Domino\'s cerebral cortex emits a current of bio-electric pulses down her spine to instinctively guide her movements during such situations, which has the added effect of augmenting her natural reflexes and agility to near-superhuman levels.

Tykebomb: She was bred as a product of Weapon X. She later grew up to be a member of the X-Men.

Winds of Destiny, Change: Domino is often cited as well, but her powers are more Born Lucky than this trope, since she doesn\'t directly control what happens.

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