Monica Rappaccini
| Monica Rappaccini | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Amazing Fantasy #7 (2005) |
| Created by |
Fred Van Lente Leonard Kirk |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Monica Rappacini |
| Team affiliations | A.I.M. |
Monica Rappaccini is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. She first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #7 (2005), created by Fred Van Lente and Leonard Kirk. The character is depicted as the "Supreme Scientist" of the supervillain organization A.I.M..
Monica's first invention was an electric knife to help her mother slice ham; she never got over losing the science fair to a tomato sauce-spouting volcano model.
While enrolled as a biochemistry student at the University of Padua, Monica Rappaccini went to New Mexico's Desert State University to study and shared a brief relationship with Bruce Banner, a physics student who would later become the Hulk. The ruthless Monica used their relationship to exploit Banner's radiation expertise for her own research. Upon attaining her doctorate, Monica quickly became a world-renowned innovator of anti-toxins and antidotes for various environmental poisons and nearly won the Nobel Prize.
Recognizing the many environmental and political failings of Western Civilization, Monica decided it was too corrupt to exist. She joined a series of terrorist organizations - first the pan-European leftist group Black Orchestra, then Advanced Idea Mechanics (or A.I.M. for short), where she had a brief relationship with fellow agent George Tarleton (later MODOK). Making poisons instead of curing them, Monica's expertise with toxins allowed her to rise quickly through A.I.M.'s ranks. She implanted her own daughter and several other newborn children of A.I.M. members with memetic antibodies and released them into the world as A.I.M. waker agents with no knowledge of their heritage, programmed to travel instinctively to the nearest A.I.M. biohaven when their antibodies activated at age sixteen. Monica's daughter was raised in Vermont as Carmilla Black by undercover A.I.M. agents.
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