Asp (Marvel)

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Black Mamba on the right in Avengers: The Initiative v1 #31.

Asp is a female comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Cleopatra Nefertiti

While rifling through Sidewinder's belongings, Black Mamba found and showed the other two a series of files on them on several other snake themed criminals, including Princess Python, Asp, Cobra, and Constrictor. (Captain America v1 #308)

At a posh midtown Manhattan hotel, Sidewinder had invited several serpent-themed mercenaries to attend the organizational meeting for the Serpent Society. Those present were Sidewinder, Black Mamba, Death Adder, Princess Python, Cottonmouth, Diamondback, Constrictor, Bushmaster, Cobra, Asp, Rattler, and Anaconda. Sidewinder's pitch was to mimic the heroes and to band together as a united group. He had spent the previous nine months laying the groundwork for his new group, and promised a guaranteed pay scale, insurance, medical plans, pensions, greater access to tools and data, and, thanks to Sidewinder's teleportational abilities, no fear of long-term imprisonment. All but one attendee agreed to join; Constrictor refused and left. To test their ability to be team players, Sidewinder split the group into three sections, and set each group out in a van to retrieve objects that he felt would be of use to the Society. While Anaconda, Cobra, and Rattler went to retrieve mutagenics equipment from Brand, it is not known what the other groups were not what they retrieved. (Captain America v1 #310) Following the successful completion of all three tasks, the group reconvened in their new headquarters, the Serpent Citadel. Seeking to advertise the group, Sidewinder broke them into teams of two and sent them to contact all the major criminal and subversive organizations in America. Among the potential contactees were the Maggia, Zodiac, Secret Empire, Kingpin, AIM, and Hydra. Asp and Cottonmouth made contact with the Kingpin in a Manhattan skyscraper, knocking out many of his guards in the process, while another team convinced AIM to hire the Society to kill MODOK with a venom blast. (Captain America v1 #311)

Asp and Cottonmouth were investigating an abandoned AIM facility when Sidewinder ordered them to New Jersey, where another team had found MODOK. Locating him in a mall, Diamondback took charge of the Society members and they headed in, though Anaconda took offense and Diamondback's take-charge attitude before Asp defended her. After a "gas leak" announcement (arranged by Captain America) emptied the mall, the team cornered MODOK but Captain America intervened; Cottonmouth ordered Asp, Diamondback, and Black Mamba to take out Cap while the rest attacked MODOK. Black Mamba engulfed Captain America in her phantom 'skin' but Asp, unaware that it was part of Mamba, blasted Cap and the skin, knocking Mamba out. Diamondback leapt onto Cap's back but hesitated at the though of stabbing him with her poison darts; this hesitation allowed Cap to throw Diamondback into Asp, disabling both. (Captain America v1 #313)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Powers and abilities

Notes

• Asp was created by Mark Gruenwald and Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary where she made her first appearance in Captain America v1 #310 (October, 1985)

Alternate Versions

In other media

Television

• In Marvel Future Avengers, Asp appeared in the setting of the anime television series in the episode "Mission Black Market Auction" where she was voiced by Japanese actress Yūko Kaida and by English actress Laura Bailey in the dub. This version was a member of B.A.D. Girls, Inc. where she was hired alongside Black Mamba and Diamondback to guard a cruise ship where an illegal auction for an Infinity Stone that was to take place. However, they were defeated by Wasp, Black Widow, and Charade.

Appearances

• Captain America v1: (1985)

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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