Sunset Bain
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Machine Man #17 (October, 1980) |
| Created by | Tom DeFalco (writer), Steve Ditko (artist) |
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| Alter ego | Sunset Bain |
| Team affiliations | New Enforcers |
| Notable aliases | Madame Menace |
| Abilities | Genius intellect, Skilled inventor |
Sunset Bain is a fictional villainess in the Marvel Comics universe. She is a shady business-woman who occasionally masquerades as Madame Menace. Although very technologically adept, she personally does not have any super-powers. Publicly she is the CEO of Baintronics. Privately she maintains her wealth through black market weaponry deals and other shady practices. She primarily is an adversary of Machine Man and Iron Man.
Sunset Bain is an underworld armorer who supplies sophisticated weaponry to an elite clientele of master criminals, terrorists, and revolutionaries.
Sunset Bain first appeared in Machine Man #17-18 (October-December 1980), and was created by Tom DeFalco (writer), and Steve Ditko (artist).
The character subsequently appears in Ghost Rider #63 (December 1981), Solo Avengers #17 (April 1989), Iron Man Annual #11 (1990), Spider-Man #26 (September 1992), Web of Spider-Man #99-100 (April–May 1993), Iron Man #1 (February 1998), #4 (May 1998), #11-12 (November–December 1998), #18-20 (July–September 1999), Taskmaster #1-4 (April–July 2002), Punisher War Journal #17 (May 2008), and Marvel Comics Presents #10-12 (August–October 2008).
Sunset Bain received an entry in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #1 (2006).
Sunset Bain got her start by seducing fellow MIT undergraduate Tony Stark into revealing the security codes for Stark Industries. Shortly thereafter a force of masked men invaded and stole several prototypes. Within a year, Baintronics was founded and Sunset broke it off with Stark. While Baintronic maintained a spotless reputation, Sunset assumed the Madame Menace persona and sold high-tech weaponry to criminals via "a tremendously profitable underground seasonal "Sharper Villain" catalog of armaments."
When Machine Man lost an arm while fighting Baron Brimstone and the Satan Squad, Madame Menace bought it, obtaining a low price by threatening the seller "with one of her flesh-eating roaches." Her plans for reverse engineering the limb were interrupted when Machine Man came to claim it. Despite her electromagnets and sonic disrupter cannon, Machine Man prevailed, and Sunset had to blow up her yacht to escape. An accidental run-in with Alpha Flight members Aurora, Northstar and Sasquatch eventually persuaded her to set aside her Machine Man machinations for a while. Madame Menace then made a few minor appearances supplying weapons to Ghost Rider villain, Orb, and then Doctor Octopus.
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