Calypso (Marvel)

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Calypso in Amazing Spider-Man v5 #20.

Calypso is a female supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

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Biography

Conducting a ritual in Daredevil Annual v1 #9.

Calypso Ezili was a female human who lived on a small Caribbean island where magic was said to had ruled the land. As she was growing up, she became envious of the power held by the tribal elders and wanted it for herself. She then gave herself fully and embracing the ways of evil where she took part in many rituals as she looked to become master of darkness. This culminated in the sacred ceremonial baptism where she made her first kill. Years later, she came to meet Kraven the Hunter where he pleased her and he came to love her. (Spider-Man v1 #4) For a number of years, she came to be Kraven's lover and admired his hunt of the hero Spider-Man. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #209)

Calypso next emerged on the streets of Hell's Kitchen, kidnapping Haitian refugees and turning them into zombies, as practice for her plan to resurrect Kraven. When Daredevil confronted her, she managed to temporarily enslave him until Brother Voodoo advised him on how to defeat her. As Daredevil freed the enslaved souls she had accumulated, she deliberately crashed the building down upon herself. (Daredevil v1 #311)

In New Orleans, Calypso killed a voodoo priest and stole one of the Amulets of Damballah which allowed her to resurrect and control Simon Garth, though she soon abandoned him to his own fate. (Daredevil Annual v1 #9)

She next appeared in Colorado where she seducing a guard at the Vault and then using her magic to break the Lizard out of jail so that she could control him again. However, the enraged Lizard instead came to slash her throat open and escaped. (Web of Spider-Man v1 #109)

Despite her seeming death, Calypso managed by survive as she was able to transfer her spirit into the magical, voodoo-empowered Amulet of Damballah in the last few seconds of her. Now, with her spirit able to control the actions of anyone possessing the amulet, Calypso began a long process of reuniting her soul with her body. First, she commanded some 'mindless servants' to steal her body from the Vault's morgue and bury it in the supernaturally infused Cypress Hill cemetery outside New York. While buried, her body slowly healed and regenerated, awaiting her spirit's return. Then, housed inside the amulet which had been sent to her homeland in Haiti, Calypso's spirit first possessed an old Haitian refugee, then moved to Gloria Grant, a New Yorker working for the Daily Bugle who was on a Caribbean cruise. Once she was back in New York, Glory Grant began dressing as Calypso and enslaved Grant’s cousin Ramon to dig up her own body. She was set to perform the voodoo ceremony when Simon Garth, who was also mystically bound to the amulet, attacked her and stole it. But Spider-Man retrieved it and returned it to her, knowing that the only way to save Glory Grant was to allow Calypso to perform the ceremony that would reunite her with her own body. After Grant's spirit returned to her body, Spider-Man returned the talisman to the rampaging Zombie, finally placating him. Calypso, now reunited with her body, escaped. (Spider-Man Annual v1 #1997)

Overview

Personality and attributes

She was noted to have had a younger sister but little familial feelings for her sibling who she sacrificed in a ritual to gain greater power. (Spider-Man v1 #4)

Powers and abilities

Calypso was originally an ordinary human until she began to learn the ways of dark magic from the tribal elders of her island home. (Spider-Man v1 #4)

She was able to channel evil spirits to serve her. (Spider-Man v1 #4)

To gain greater power, she was known to sacrifice the life of victims in order for their souls to empower her. (Spider-Man v1 #4)

Notes

  • Calypso was created by Denny O'Neil and Alan Weiss where she made her first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #209 (October, 1980).

Alternate Versions

In other media

Television

  • In Spider-Man, the character appeared as Dr. Mariah Crawford in the setting of the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Susan Beaubian. She was shown as being a research scientist who was engaged to Sergei Kravinoff who affectionately called her 'Calypso'.
  • In Spectacular Spider-Man, Calypso appeared in the setting of the animated television series in the episode "Destructive Testing" where he was voiced by actress Angela Bryant.

Video games

  • In Spider-Man v2, Calypso appeared as a secret boss in the setting of the 2004 video game tie-in where she was voiced by actress Angela V. Shelton.

Appearances

  • Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1980)
  • Spider-Man v1:

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