Raina (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Raina is a female television character who features in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
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Biography
Raina was born under a long line of humans who had been genetically altered by the alien race known as the Kree, giving them the potential to achieve superpowers. Raina was raised by her grandmother who told her exaggerated stories about the Kree being angels. During her youth, Raina's grandmother died and she became homeless. Calvin Zabo found Raina as a beggar/con artist in the streets of Thailand with a bunch of friends who called themselves 'freaks', holding onto stories that her grandmother told her. Zabo took Raina in and from him Raina learned the truth, or at least to some extent, of the Kree and her origins as an Inhuman. He also told her about the Diviner, and how it would complete Raina's transformation. In exchange for finding his lost daughter, the man promised Raina that he could make those stories a reality. Raina had already learned that she could talk people into doing her bidding. As a beggar, she asked a baker to give her stale bread to eat and a tailor for cotton scraps to make clothes. Ultimately, she was able to get fresh bread and silk from these people with her skills. Meanwhile, Zabo noted her persuasive ability.
Years later, Raina began working for the Centipede Project, the scientific branch of HYDRA behind the Centipede process, mainly as a recruiter due to her persuasion skills. She recruited Michael Peterson to be a test-subject for the Centipede process after he lost his job. Raina would later approach Miles Lydon and pay him a million dollars to hack S.H.I.E.L.D. servers for information about a gifted pyrokinetic from Hong Kong, Chan Ho Yin. Raina approached Chan after seeing one of his street performances in Hong Kong, and after talking her way into his apartment, abducted him for her mysterious employers. Using her manipulative mind, Raina was able to convince Chan to join their organization willingly by comparing his potential to that of Captain America's. Working with Debbie who was attempting to stabilize the Extremis element of the Centipede Serum, Raina assisted in the harvesting of the fireproof platelets in Chan's blood that kept his power from burning him alive. After getting what they needed from Chan, he was scheduled to have all of his blood drained from his body.
Before that happened, the base was attacked by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and Chan was rescued. While Debbie contacted the Clairvoyant to try to explain the situation, Raina mocked her for the fact that her experiments kept exploding. Before they could escape, Scorch appeared, with his skin burned and clearly furious about his treatment, and confronted Raina and Debbie. Raina closed the elevator door that separated her and Debbie and escaped, saving herself, leaving Debbie to be incinerated by Chan. Raina later visited Edison Po at the Havenworth Federal Penitentiary, informing him that with the stabilization of the Centipede Serum, "Stage One" of the project had been completed and that they were moving into "Stage Two". She then asked Po to contact someone known only as the Clairvoyant for their mutual employers for any insights he might have as to "Stage Three". As she was leaving Po told her that he liked her dress, Raina told him that she knew he did.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Some people referred to her as being the Girl in the Flower Dress. (Episode: Girl in the Flower Dress)
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Raina was created by Brent Fletcher and was portrayed by actor Ruth Negga where she featured in the setting of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In other media
Video games
- In Marvel: Future Fight, Raina appeared as a non-playable boss character in the setting of the mobile video game.
Comics
- In Inhuman Annual v1 #1 (2015), Raina appeared in the mainstream Marvel Comics universe on Earth-616. She was shown to be in a coffee shop in her flower dress when she heard a telepathic message from Lineage who was attempting to unite all the Inhumans under his banner.
Appearances
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: "Girl in the Flower Dress" (2013)
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