Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara)

Yellowjacket
Rita DeMara models her second Yellowjacket costume. Art by Kevin West.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	The Avengers # 264 (February 1986)
Created by	Roger Stern John Buscema
In-story information
Alter ego	Rita DeMara
Team affiliations	Guardians of the Galaxy Masters of Evil Femizons Avengers
Abilities	Cybernetics expert Suit grants: High-speed flight Size manipulation Electrical bolt projection via stinger blasts

Rita DeMara is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The second Yellowjacket, she is initially a reluctant supervillainess and later superheroine.

Yellowjacket first appeared in The Avengers #264 (February 1986), and was created by Roger Stern and John Buscema.

Years later, she was featured as a regular character in the Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers titles.

Yellowjacket was one of the feature characters in the 2011 three-issue limited series Chaos War: Dead Avengers.

When first seen, Rita DeMara was a reluctant supervillainess who had stolen one of Hank Pym's Yellowjacket costumes, and modified it, making it more feminine (and removing the insect emblem). However, when she clashed with the Wasp, she became terrified upon shrinking, and was captured.

Yellowjacket participates in a takeover of the Avengers Mansion, assisting one of the more powerful versions of the Masters of Evil as a professional criminal. Defeated, Yellowjacket is sent to prison but is freed by the Fixer with amorous intentions. She flees and tries to gain revenge on the Wasp, by way of the Black Knight. Furious at being rejected, the Fixer tries to kill her. Black Knight helps Yellowjacket defeat him and the two part on possibly romantic terms.

During a time when no Avengers were active, her costume receives a call for help from an automated system at an old Avengers base. She finds herself teaming up with the Beast, The Captain, Falcon, Hercules, the Hulk and Jocasta. They battle the High Evolutionary wishing to jumpstart humanity's evolution through worldwide catastrophe. Yellowjacket helps battle through the Evolutionary's underground submarine base, fighting against dozens of his soldiers. Eventually the Evolutionary is defeated by Hercules, the two evolving out of reality. She later briefly serves as a member of Superia's Femizons.