| Character Name: | Trinary |
| Publisher: | Marvel Comics |
| Debut: | X-Men Red #1 (February 2018) |
| Real Name: | Shilpa Khatri |
| Species: | Mutant |
| Homeworld: | India |
| Powers: | Technopathy |
Trinary (Shilpa Khatri) is a fictional character and mutant superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Tom Taylor and Mahmud Asrar, she first appeared in X-Men Red #1 (February 2018).
The character of Trinary was announced to be part of X-Men Red comic series at X-Men panel of SDCC on 22 July, 2018 by Tom Taylor.[1] She debuted in X-Men Red #1 (February 2018), created by writer Tom Taylor and artist Mahmud Asrar. Trinary headlined the series as X-Men and was fully introduced in X-Men Red #2.[2]
In 2020, Trinary was set to appear in X of Swords storyline as teased in Free Comic Book Day 2020: X-Men #1, but she was removed entirely. Regarding this, then X-Men line's editor Jordan White revealed that Free Comic Book Day comics are done early and stories could change when revised, so they had meant to change the story and not the characters.[3]
In 2021, Trinary appeared as part of X-Corporation team in the "Reign of X" phase of Krakoan Age.[4]
Trinary was a young mutant from India, who used her technopathic abilities to hack the bank accounts of the top earning CEOs in her country, redistributing the money to the accounts of many Indian women. This led her father to report her, and she was eventually imprisoned by the IMDF (Indian Mutant Defense Force). Before her capture, Trinary recorded a message asking Jean Grey in Wakanda for help. She was eventually liberated from the IMDF by Jean Grey and other X-Men.[2] She joined X-Men when they were attacked by an IMDF deployed Sentinel, which Trinary was able to control and used it to escape X-Men to Wakanda.[5]
Trinary went on many X-Men missions including to defeat Cassandra Nova. She was also offered by Iron Man to become his protege, which she declined.[6]
Trinary became citizen of sovereign nation-state of Krakoa and was in charge of the secondary and external systems. When X-Men was on the mission of destroying the Mother Mold in space and preventing the creation of Nimrod, she was part of scientific team coordinating the communication between X-Men and the base in Krakoa.[7] [8]
Trinary had gone back to stealing funds from rich people when M invited her to join X-Corporation. She accepted and joined its Board of Directors of X-Corporation and became the team's technician. She connected the interface at their floating headquarters with all the technological upgrades from Krakoa.
Trinary is a technopath and can control all forms of technology, such as electronic devices, digital signals, computers, etc with her mind. She can only control technology that are at certain range.
In August 2020, Matthew Sandage from Screen Rant commented that the story of would have changed if Trinary was included in the film, and it would have ended quickly and disappointing considering the fact that Trinary can reprogram the Sentinels with her mind.