Monica Rappaccini
Monica Rappaccini is a female comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Monica Rappaccini
She came to be placed on Project: Adaptoid where she met the timid George Tarleton where she was drunk and hooked up with him for the day. He came to believe that the pair were in a relationship but she grew disgusted with him and told him to stop approaching her. This led to him volunteering for a new project that would transform a volunteer into M.O.D.O.C. (Super-Villain Team-Up MODOK's 11 v1 #1)
Monica later came to learn the location of Tyrannus's Subterranea kingdom beneath Las Vegas containing the Fountain of Youth and struck at the location. She managed to overpower the people at the site and attempted to turn the Fountain into a Wishing Well but her plans were interrupted by Tyrannus's consort the Red She-Hulk. Rappaccini barely managed to escape but the effects of the well caused her to age into her elderly years whilst monsters began to appear in Las Vegas. In desperation, Monica went to her old lover Bruce Banner in order to enlist the aid of the Hulk to stop the Red She-Hulk from creating a catastrophe with the Wishing Well. (Incredible Hulks v1 #630)
Rappaccini led A.I.M. in an alliance with H.A.M.M.E.R. after the rogue organization freed their leader Norman Osborn. He intended to ally the various criminal organizations together under his leadership to take down the Avengers. She came to offer aid and revealed that A.I.M. had acquired the clone of Thor that was known as Ragnarok to be used for Osborn's superhero team of Dark Avengers. (New Avengers v2 #18) This led to them ambushing the superhero team where Monica looked to try to remove Tony Stark from his Iron Man Armor. (Avengers v4 #23)
Monica was later brought in to help the Avengers in treating the Hulk after he was exposed to an experimental fusion reactor on Kiber Island. After absorbing the energy, the Hulk' body was overwhelmed and threatened to explode thus killing millions around him. (Totally Awesome Hulk v1 #2) Ultimately, the group could not find a solution to stopping Hulk from exploding and thought to teleport him into the Negative Zone to detonate harmlessly over there. When Amadeus Cho learnt of their plans, Monica used a sedative to render him unconscious but he managed to trick the group where he absorbed the Hulk's energy into himself thus turning him into Bruce Banner permanently whilst the gamma radiation transformed Cho into a new Hulk. (Totally Awesome Hulk v1 #3)
Rappaccini hijacked a portal used at the G.I.R.L. Expo allowing her and her A.I.M. forces to arrive at the site in order to steal all the achievements developed there. (Unstoppable Wasp v2 #8)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Her inventions include the enhanced lymphatic system of the A.I.M. Waker agents that granted them total immunity to all biological, chemical and radiological weapons, memetic antibodies, synthetic microbes that attack the human psyche and trigger pre-coded memories and impulses, hallucinogenic drugs that deliver programmed hallucinations before being absorbed into the system; and many innovative weapons of mass destruction, from gas attacks to nanobacterial bombs.
Notes
- Monica Rappaccini was created by Fred Van Lente and Leonard Kirk where she made her first appearance in Amazing Fantasy v1 #7 (June, 2005).
Alternate Versions
- In Incredible Hulk v2 #83 (2005), an alternate version of Monica Rappaccini inhabited the House of M reality situated in the world designated as Earth-58163 in the Multiverse. She worked alongside the Scorpion II and the Hulk to overthrow Governor Exodus' fascist mutant government in Australia when Scarlet Witch reality-warped Earth into a mutant-dominated society,. When the Hulk became Australia's new leader, she secret plan to create a cybernetic army to overthrow Earth's mutant rulers was exposed. Denying any knowledge of the army, she promised to restore the cyborgs' humanity. When this warped reality was undone, the disoriented Rappaccini found herself stranded in Australia alongside Bruce Banner. Evading the Scorpion II's attempt to arrest her, Rappaccini returned to A.I.M.
In other media
Television
- In Spider-Man, Monica Rappaccini appeared in the setting of the 2017 animated television series starting in the second season episode "School of Hard Knocks" where she was voiced by actor Grey DeLisle. She was the Scientist Supreme of A.I.M. where she secretly operated as the headmistress of the elite boarding school of Bilderberg Academy that she used as a front for her criminal experiments and operations.
- In M.O.D.O.K., Monica Rappaccini as the Scientist Supreme appeared in the setting of the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Wendi McLendon-Covey. This version was an A.I.M. scientist and work rival of M.O.D.O.K. who had teenage daughter named Carmilla, who was the result of Monica creating a male clone named Manica and having him inseminate her. Introduced in the episode "If Bureaucracy Be Thy Death!," it was revealed that she once greatly admired MODOK and applied for A.I.M. to work alongside him. However, after MODOK took credit for her killing a major yet unnamed Avenger, she developed a hatred towards him. Complicating this however, she later realizes that he does support her endeavours and put her in a higher position so she can continue her work. After A.I.M. goes bankrupt and gets bought out by GRUMBL, the latter promotes Monica Rappaccini to Scientist Supreme, but limits her work. By the end of the series, MODOK convinced her to leave A.I.M., though she decided to continue working for him at his new company, A-I-M-2.
Video games
- In Marvel's Avengers, Monica Rappaccini appeared in the setting of the video game where she was voiced by actress Jolene Andersen. This version served as a senior executive of A.I.M. assisting Dr. George Tarleton in his efforts to control the growing Inhuman population while also acting as his personal caretaker after he was mutated due to exposure to a Terrigen crystal. However, he eventually discovers the injections Rappaccini administered were derived from Captain America's blood and accelerated his mutation instead. Enraged, he injects Rappaccini with it and left her for dead. In a mid-credits scene however, Rappaccini survived after transplanting an Inhuman's duplication ability to herself off-screen. Following Tarleton's defeat at the hands of the Avengers, she takes over A.I.M. as Scientist Supreme and meets with the organization's board of directors, vowing to renew A.I.M.'s experiments and develop new technology.
- In the DLC expansions "Taking A.I.M.," "Future Imperfect," "Cosmic Cube," "War for Wakanda", and "No Rest for the Wicked," she leads A.I.M. in building a time gate to work with Nick Fury, Hawkeye, and her future self to avert a Kree invasion. However, while developing the Cosmic Cube to stop the aliens, it froze the future Rappaccini and everyone around her in time while the rest of the world fell into chaos. Meanwhile, a clone of the present Rappaccini continues working on her Cosmic Cube until the Avengers and Hawkeye's future self intervene to stop her from destroying reality, with the latter sacrificing himself and killing Rappaccini to do so. Despite this, another Rappaccini clone hires Ulysses Klaue and Crossbones to help her invade Wakanda for its Vibranium and leading scientists. However, Klaue kills most of the scientists in pursuit of his own goals, leading to Rappaccini cutting ties with him and leading A.I.M. in a separate attack on Wakanda. Due to the Avengers' work in dismantling A.I.M., a desperate Rappaccini revives Tarleton to preserve the organization, but he kidnapped her instead.
- In Marvel Future Revolution, Monica Rappaccini appeared in the setting of the mobile video game. Working alongside with M.O.D.O.K., the Scientist Supreme developed an interdimensional gate for travel between realities. In another reality, Captain Marvel was fighting a horde of Outriders on a planet in space when aportal appeared behind Carol and swallowed her. She woke up in the Interdimensional Teleportation Hangar of an A.I.M. base and discovered that she was standing on the Earth of a different dimension than her own. Inside the testing facility, Carol found a dimensional gateway, and as she investigated it, the Scientist Supreme approached Carol, explaining that her abduction tested the way she has found to lock onto cosmic energy sources and bring them into her dimension. Captain Marvel defeated Rappaccini and prepared to destroy A.I.M.'s dimensional gateway, stranding herself in this alternate reality, when Captain Marvel of New Stark City emerged out of another portal and stopped her. The two Captains Marvel headed into the portal to Primary Earth. A.I.M. continued to experiment with the Interdimensional gateway, seeking a solution to the problem that led to countless dimensions vanishing without a trace. Monica questioned M.O.D.O.K. whether A.I.M. was playing with forces beyon their control, but M.O.D.O.K. brushed her concerns aside and ordered the gateway to be opened again, claiming the universe to be their for the taking. This resulted in bringing in a version of Thanos from another reality.
Appearances
- Amazing Fantasy v1: (2005)
- New Avengers v2:
- Avengers World v1:
- Totally Awesome Hulk v1:
- Unstoppable Wasp v2:
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