Carina Tivan

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Carina Tivan is a female comic character who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Carina Tivan was the daughter of Taneleer Tivan and Matani Tivan who were among the Elders of the Universe. (Silver Surfer v3 #3)

Carina left home to explore the universe while Matani gave up her immortality causing Taneleer to lose his sanity and become The Collector.

The Collector came to sense that the 'enemy' he could foresee in the future was the man known as Korvac. Thus, he decided to send his own daughter Carina as a spy on him where she took on the guise of a mortal named Carina Walters and even had aken a form that would be pleasing to him. (Avengers v1 #175)

She arrived on Earth taking on the name Carina Walters and, under her father's orders, planned to get close to Michael Korvac as Taneleer saw him as a threat to the Elders of the Universe. However, Carina found herself falling in love with Korvac for real, causing Taneleer to come and kidnap the Avengers in a misdirected attempt to "save" them.

Carina and Korvac married and moved to a small neighborhood in Forest Hills. The Avengers and The Guardians of the Galaxy arrived and confront the couple causing Korvac to reveal his true self and fight, but when he realizes that Carina was afraid of him, he commits suicide. Carina, enraged, fights the two teams herself before Thor kills her.

However, she was not dead but rather reduced to an energy form where she hid in Underspace and left her consciousness to drift. Thus, she remained there until she was found by Dr. Hank Pym who mistook her for being the remaining trace of Janet van Dyne who was believed to had died. He salvaged the energy which was fed memories of Janet making Carina take her form whilst Pym sought a means of bringing her back. The Avengers Infinite Mansion was created using Carina's presence within Underspace as an anchor. Despite this, Pym was not ready to activate the machines he had made to bring 'Janet' back with Veil forcing the matter by activating the device. Upon taking form again, Carina resumed her normal form and begged the Avengers to activate a cloak to hide her but they were too late as Korvac manifested in the Infinite Mansion to take back his wife. She rejected him with the Avengers battling Korvac to stop her from taking her away. (Avengers Academy v1 #11)

Overview

Personality and attributes

She was once sent by her father to spy on Michael Korvac and assumed a mortal form where she took the name of Carina Walters. (Avengers v1 #174)

Though sent as a spy, she came to love Korvac and even betrayed her father to save him. When he killed her father, she claimed that she should have hated him but was still in love with Korvac. (Avengers v1 #175)

After being fed Janet's memories, Carina came to reject her husband Korvac as an evil being and she wanted to be a hero. (Avengers Academy v1 #11)

Powers and abilities

Carina can fire bursts of powerful energy, alter matter on a molecular level, sense alternate universes and possible futures and summon matter from these realities. She can place the consciousness of individuals into other bodies and restore them at will. They can however, be hampered by their desires. When she was revived by Hank Pym, she possessed power that was even greater than Korvac's.

She could see an endless array of futures some of which could not be conceived by mortal beings. (Avengers Academy v1 #11)

Notes

• Carina Tivan was created by Jim Shooter and George Pérez where she made her first appearance in Avengers v1 #167 (January, 1978).

Alternate Versions

In other media

Television

• In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, a version of the character named Corrina Walters who appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actor Jennifer Hale.

Films

Appearances

• Avengers v1: (1978)
• Avengers Academy v1:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry

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