Madripoor
Madripoor is a country that features in Marvel Comics.
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History
It was claimed that the Madripoorian Royal Family were descended from Malay Pirates and that Prince Baran's personal museum held five centuries worth of plunder from pacific shipping. (Amazing Fantasy v2 #8)
Agents of the Red Right Hand named the Mongrels came to Madripoor to track Wolverine where they burnt a room of Logan's memorabilia at the Princess Bar. (Wolverine v4 #4)
Tyger Tiger attempted to end the drug and weapon trade in Madripoor to make the island nation more legitimate. Around this time, the mercenary Kimura was operating and wanted to establish her own criminal empire in the country but was opposed by its leader. This led to her attempting to brainwash X-23 and use her to assassinate Tyger Tiger. (All-New Wolverine v1 #16)
Overview
Locations in Madripoor included:
- Princess Bar :
- Prince Baran Hospice for Motherless Waifs : founded by French nuns long ago in Lowtown. (Amazing Fantasy v2 #8)
- Royal Palace & Museum : (Amazing Fantasy v2 #7)
- Sovereign : a hotel. (Amazing Fantasy v2 #8)
The country was divided in half with one side being the financial development centre that the locals called Hightown and the other being the historic district that was called Lowtown. (Amazing Fantasy v2 #8)
Madripoorians were strict on proper dress inside their temples with tourists in shorts or skirts being required to cover their bare legs with sarongs. (Amazing Fantasy v2 #9) It was claimed that the Madripoorian Royal Family were descended from Malay Pirates. When anyone of royalty died, a funeral procession was held where they marched the floats down to the main temple in Lowtown after which they set them all on fire. The deceased's body was consumed by the flames and it was held that their soul departed for heaven. Such events were seen as an excuse to have a large party as a celebration. (Amazing Fantasy v2 #8) The elaborate funeral pyres favoured in Madripoor drew their practices from certain Hindu sects in the Indonesian archipelago namely that a body following death returned to Pancamahabhuta before it met the supreme being. (Amazing Fantasy v2 #9)
Madripoor was held as the golden gateway between two worlds which were the free market and the black market. (All-New Wolverine v1 #16) The country was said to hold notoriously porous laws on adoption. (Amazing Fantasy v2 #11)
Inhabitants
- Tyger Tiger :
Notes
- Madripoor was created by Chris Claremont and Steve Leialoha where it made its first appearance in New Mutants v1 #32 (October 1985).
In other media
Television
- In Marvel Anime, the island of Madripoor was shown in the Blade segment where he mentioned it as a lawless area where the police or government did not tread. Locations included Lowtown, Hightown and the prestigious Dragon Palace. It was said to be one of the few spots where Humans had no fear of Vampires with people regularly killing others on the streets. Mother Mantis as a gang that operated from Lowtown that attacked both Blade and Wolverine before driven off.
Film
- In Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher, Madripoor was the site of the Leviathan weapon sale of their Bio-Soldiers to various parties to incite world conflict with the event headed by Orion. Both Black Widow and the Punisher tracked the sale to the site with the Avengers arriving to help stop Leviathan.
Video games
- In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Madripoor appeared in the setting of the Facebook video game. In "Chapter 10 - Strength of Fear", Count Nefaria led the Maggia into forming an alliance with the Hand at Madripoor to use the country as a base for the conquest of K'un-Lun.
- In Marvel Heroes, Madripoor was a setting in the MMORPG with it being referred to as the underbelly of the world. It was under the control of the Hand until Madame Hydra and her HYDRA forces fought the Hand to claim it.
Appearances
- New Mutants v1:
- Amazing Fantasy v2:
- Avengers World v1:
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