Joanna Cargill
Joanna Cargill is a female comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Joanna Cargill was a female Mutant born in the modern age who was born the daughter of a soldier and a church going woman. She was the second child of the family with her having an older brother named Gareth who her father proud of to carry on the legacy. Joanna's father was noted to had been a soldier and it as known that he never wanted another child especially a daughter. Thus, she was considered an accident who was born premature and was too sickly and weak to help around in the house. During her childhood, her father would always hit her and be abusive to her with Joanna's mother never stopping him. Her brother joined the military but died in service with this causing Joanna's father to lash out at his daughter in a drunken rage where he blamed her for his son's death. In one such incident, he nearly beat her to death where in fear she begged him to stop which was when her powers first manifested causing her to punch back where the strength of her blow killed him. Accidentally murdering her father, she decided to flee from the family home rather than be caught in the act. (X-Men Legacy v1 #268) During an assignment early in her career, she crossed paths with the mutant thief called Gambit. The two fought and though details of this run-in have not been revealed, like many Joanna developed a love-hate relationship with the charming Remy LeBeau who she encountered professionally on several occasions. (Gambit v3 #20)
After Cargill witnessed Magneto chained and put on trial by humans, she became outraged and joined Apocalypse in the hopes of getting even with humanity. (X-Men: Legacy v1 #252) Frenzy joined Apocalypse's other lackeys as the field leader of the Alliance of Evil. When one of her teammates, Tower, failed to capture the young pyrokinetic mutant Rusty Collins under Apocalypse's orders, Frenzy decided to do the assignment herself. By contacting and trying to recruit Collins, Frenzy attracted the attention of his protectors X-Factor, who in turn forced her to flee after being overwhelmed in a heated battle. In order to keep the Alliance under his ruthless command, Apocalypse made them dependant of an external source of power. (X-Factor v1 #4) This came to be a mutant with boosting abilities called Michael Nowlan. The Alliance kept track of Nowlan's whereabouts, and Frenzy decided to kidnap his ex-wife in order to blackmail him into enhancing their powers. X-Factor, as a result of their misleading activities as mutant hunters, got involved in Nowlan's situation and attempted to rescue him, but were defeated by Frenzy and the Alliance of Evil. (X-Factor v1 #5) As Nowlan's powers were not able to disrupt Frenzy's physical abilities in the way her teammates' energy-based abilities were, she was able to subdue him easily and hand him to Apocalypse. However, after X-Factor recovered, they led the battle to Apocalypse and the Alliance of Evil were defeated and sent to prison as their employer escaped. (X-Factor v1 #6)
Frenzy and the Alliance remained in jail for several months, during which time they all had to deal with painful withdrawals. When the United States government enacted the Mutant Registration Act, Frenzy and the Alliance escaped from jail and took to the streets of New York, creating mayhem to send a message to the authorities that mutants couldn’t be contained much less forced to register against their will. Their attack was captured by the media and Frenzy spoke on the group’s behalf. She boldly added a public challenge to X-Factor to try and stop them. X-Factor and their students rose to the occasion and confronted the Alliance. Frenzy used the opportunity to once more try to recruit young Rusty Collins. Collins turned her down once again and helped X-Factor defeat the Alliance. Frenzy and her colleagues were taken into custody by Freedom Force. (X-Factor v1 #33)
Acolyte
X-Men
House of X
After the establishment of the nation of Krakoa, all Mutants were given a home on the living island that was to be the home of their people. During this time, they were responsible for heading a reconstituted S.W.O.R.D. program that was funded by them and staffed by Mutants. Among them included Frenzy who was to serve as an ambassador in dealing with various alien races. Those she dealt with included the Skrull Paibok with the two regularly sparring with one another. (S.W.O.R.D. v2 #1)
Though enveloped by Symbiotes, she was able to fight their attempt to control her and broke free from them. This came at a critical time as a Symbiote-infected Cable was under the control of Knull where he was using his powers against Eden Fesi. Frenzy freeing herself allowed her to catch Cable by surprise where she ripped off his cybernetic arm thus preventing him from using his bodyslide ability. This allowed Manifold to perform a powerful attack involving a small piece of the sun against his opponent thus freeing Cable from Knull's control after destroying the Symbiote that was corrupting him. (S.W.O.R.D. v2 #4)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Joanna claimed that nothing could hurt her and that if anything tried then she would hurt it back hard. (S.W.O.R.D. v2 #4)
Frenzy came to follow the teachings of Magnus and sought to purge the world of the genetically impure. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #298)
Her mother was said to had been religious and went to church though never stopped Joanna's father from hitting their daughter. Instead, her mother said that the meek would inherit the Earth though Joanna believed this to be a lie. (X-Men Legacy v1 #268)
She had an older brother named Gareth where she wanted to be like him. (X-Men Legacy v1 #268)
Frenzy had hinted that Cyclops was the only man that she had ever truly loved and that in another world that she might have become Cable's step-mother. (S.W.O.R.D. v2 #4)
Powers and abilities
Her strength was shown to be able to match the likes of Rogue and She-Hulk. (Magneto: Dark Seduction v1 #3)
Notes
- The Joanna Cargill Frenzy was created by Bob Layton and Keith Pollard where she made her first appearance in X-Factor v1 #4 (May, 1986).
Alternate Versions
- In Age of X: Alpha v1 #1 (2011), an alternate version of Joanna Cargill appeared in the Age of X reality designated as Earth-11326 in the Multiverse. She used to part of the Mutant Liberation Front, along with Tempo. She also knew Logan before he got depowered. Frenzy committed numerous terrorist attacks before she was apprehended and imprisoned at Ryker's Island. While there she was interrogated by Henry Gyrich, who considered her a potential psychopath, without being able to confirm his diagnosis. She escaped when she derailed the train carrying her to Alcatraz Island, killing nineteen people during her escape from custody. Frenzy was later able to find refuge in Magneto's stronghold, Fortress X, and fell in love with Basilisk, whom she later married. There, she fought the troops of the Human Coalition day after day, protecting Fortress X from the human siege. She was seen trying to have Logan pop his claws again, unaware of his disability and thinking him a coward, having once known him as a great warrior.
In other media
Television
- In X-Men, Frenzy appeared in a non-speaking role in the setting of the 1990s animated television series in the two-part episode "Sanctuary". Additionally, an alternate timeline incarnation of Cargill appears in the episode "One Man's Worth" [Pt. 1] as a member of a mutant resistance movement.
Novels
Appearances
- X-Factor v1': (1986)
- Uncanny X-Men v1:
- X-Men: Legacy v1:
- S.W.O.R.D. v2: (2020)
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