Madame Hydra
| Madame Hydra | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. #3 (Aug 1988) |
| Created by |
Bob Harras Paul Neary |
| In-story information | |
| Team affiliations | Hydra |
Madame Hydra is the name of several different supervillains in Marvel Comics.
The sixth Madame Hydra was created by Bob Harras and Paul Neary, and debuted in Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. #3 (Aug 1988). Madame Hydra received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #4, under the heading "Madame Hydra VI".
This operative of Hydra impressed her superiors enough that, after only a short time in the organization, they promoted her to the level of Madame Hydra VI (The identities of Madames Hydra I through V, who rank above her, are unknown). One of her first missions as Madame Hydra was to capture Nick Fury and deliver him to the Deltites, a group of artificially created duplicates which were taking over S.H.I.E.L.D. After failing in her mission and discovering that the Deltites were manipulating her, she allied with the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents against the takeover. She was later turned over to federal authorities and was found to be criminally insane, and sent to Arnold Sanitarium for psychiatric treatment (the same sanitarium that Bigfoot was later imprisoned in).
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine succeeded Viper as Madame Hydra where she wears an elaborate tentacle headdress and elaborate Hydra robes.
Elisa Sinclair has appeared in Captain America's implanted memories that Red Skull's clone and Kobik placed in him to make Captain America think that he is a Hydra sleeper agent. She is depicted as an ancient being with magical powers that had an extensive reach. Elisa has since been seen in the present day collecting a new Hydra High Council consisting of herself, a new Kraken, Gorgon, Hive, Viper, Arnim Zola, and Doctor Faustus.
In the Heroes Reborn reality, Madame Hydra is a terrorist leader. Not much was known about her other than the fact that she answered to Hydra's leader Mandarin who was actually a robot built by Doctor Doom. She was later killed in battle against Iron Man.
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