Atom Eve
| Atom Eve | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Image Comics |
| First appearance | Invincible #2 (January 2003) |
| Created by |
Robert Kirkman Cory Walker |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Samantha Eve Wilkins |
| Team affiliations | Teen Team |
| Abilities | Control over sub-atomic particles |
Atom Eve (real name: Samantha Eve Wilkins) is a fictional character, a superhero in the Image Comics Universe who appears primarily in the comic book Invincible. Her first appearance was in Invincible #2 (January 2003) and was created by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker.
Atom Eve was created by the government to be a weapon. At birth, she was switched with a stillborn, and sent home with her birth-parents so as to avoid the government's seizing of her. She was a prodigy in science and received a scholarship to a prestigious school. Her scientific ability turned out to be an early manifestation of her powers. A man approached her one day, warning Eve that her powers may be her downfall and encouraged her to never to use them again.
Prior to the first issue of Invincible, Atom Eve joins the Teen Team as an after-school superhero. She soon starts a friendship with Invincible after the two meet saving a shipment of video game consoles from a Mauler twin. Eve and Mark are thought by many to be in a romantic relationship, despite their protests that they are "just friends". After discovering that Rex Splode, her boyfriend, is cheating on her with Dupli-Kate, she resigns from the Teen Team.
Although she does not join the new Guardians of the Globe along with her former Teen Team teammates, she continues as an active superhero for some time. She eventually decides that her talents are being wasted on superheroics and that she could do more good elsewhere. Subsequently she quits superhero work and moves to Africa to engage in aid work. She has come out of "retirement" in response to large threats, like the cosmic villain Omnipotus and a Martian invasion.
In Invincible #34, Invincible meets a version of Atom Eve from 15 years in the future who confesses her undying love for him. She instructs him to either tell her that he loves her or that he hates or doesn't want anything to do with her romantically, so that she could get on with her life. While Invincible is recovering from the incident with the Reanimen, he flies to meet Eve, whom he had not talked to since the fight with Angstrom Levy. After sharing a friendly hug and an awkward pause afterwards, they share a passionate kiss. Immediately afterward, however, Mark apologizes and voices his guilt at going behind his girlfriend's back, and is relieved to be called to fight off an alien invasion.
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