Poison (comics)

Poison (616)
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Web of Spider-Man Annual #4 (October, 1988)
Created by	Steve Gerber and Cynthia Martin
In-story information
Alter ego	Cecilia Cardinale
Species	Human
Team affiliations	The Hand
Abilities	superhuman strength, endurance, agility, and reflexes flight limited matter manipulation over skin mass teleportation

Poison (Cecilia Cardinale) is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe, created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Cynthia Martin. Poison first appeared in Web of Spider-Man Annual #4 (1988).

Poison first appeared in the lead feature of Web of Spider-Man Annual #4 (1988), by writer Steve Gerber and artist Cynthia Martin. The annual also included a 7-page origin story for the character. Poison returned in an eight-part serial in Marvel Comics Presents #60-67 (October–December 1990), also by Gerber and Martin. Since then the character has fallen into disuse, and did not appear again under six years later, in Spider-Man #64.

While a first year student at the University of Havana, Cecilia Cardinale becomes romantically involved with Vassily, a member of the military staff at the Soviet embassy. Soviet embassy personnel are forbidden from fraternizing with locals, and when Cecilia becomes pregnant with Vassily's child, he signs a statement saying that she is a prostitute in order to escape full punishment for his violation. She is held in a Cuban prison for several months, and becomes ill from the unsanitary conditions. She is later deported to America, where she lives in a Florida refugee camp. A mysterious entity named Ylandris emerges from the Nexus of All Realities in the Florida Everglades and comes to Cecilia as she lays dying from her illness; Ylandris needs a physical form to survive in Earth's dimension, and proposes merging her essence with Cecilia to keep both beings alive. She later gives birth to her son, Carlos. Once trained in the use of her new power by Ylandris, she takes the name Poison, and becomes a vigilante, working as a motel housekeeper in her civilian identity.

Poison kills three of the High Evolutionary's Purifiers, who were sent to kill her because there was a possibility that her powers could be passed on to her offspring. She then journeys to the Nexus of All Realities, where Ylandris splits herself off from Cecilia and uses the Nexus to return to her home dimension. Because Ylandris had modified her genetic structure, Poison retains her superhuman powers even after her departure. Before departing, Ylandris informs her that because she was still pregnant at the time of their merging, Carlos might retain some form of her power as well.

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