Carmilla is a genetically engineered human, created by Advanced Idea Mechanics. Though AIM Scientist Supreme Monica Rappaccini considers her a daughter, she grew up with adoptive parents (also agents of AIM), never knowing of her or their involvement with the organization.

Carmilla considered herself a normal teen until her powers kicked in the night of her prom. Her mutated arm--which she has taken to calling her "stinger" -- discharged a highly concentrated dosage of toxins, killing her boyfriend. Scared of the social and legal backlash she would suffer, she fled her small home town. She lived on the streets, surviving however she could, living a nomadic life. When she learned her adoptive parents had been murdered, she returned home once more.

At this point, she comes to believe that S.H.I.E.L.D. may have killed her parents, and finds a birth certificate suggesting she is a princess of the Madripoor Royal Family. After she was captured by S.H.I.E.L.D., she learns that her parents were actually AIM agents, and she herself becomes an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Following information leading to her birth mother, Carmilla learned her mother is 'Scientist Supreme' of AIM, Monica Rappaccini. Carmilla infiltrated the organization, learning that she was engineered to survive disease and nuclear fallout, and that there were others like her.

These teens were designed to survive any situation they may encounter, from a global plague intended to collapse industrial society to nuclear fallout. While the other teens are chemically-induced to be completely loyal to AIM, Carmilla discovers the mutation which gave her her "stinger" also makes her immune. Carmilla lost her cover in the organization when she stopped an assassination attempt on the Vice President involving a biological weapon.

Scorpion was next seen assigned to a mission to thwart AIM's attempt to harness the Uni-power, a vast but damaged cosmic energy. Finding it had merged with X-23 she and Laura tracked down the AIM base that held their files on the Uni-power and, upon overhearing that S.H.I.E.L.D. wanted the files intact for it's own use from Carmilla's radio link, X-23 destroyed the base. Knowing her bosses wouldn't be happy about that, Carmilla reported X-23 lost in the destruction of the base after they escaped together.

Following House of M, Monica Rappaccini was sighted in Australia with the Hulk and Scorpion was dispatched to attempt capture of her mother. Carmilla using her stinger to knock Bruce Banner and keep him out of the way, but succeeded only in temporarily incapacitating him. Hulking out when he recovered, the brief ensuring fight lead to the outbreak of a large fire allowing Monica to escape, after which Carmilla and Banner parted ways after a short conversation.

Civil War

During the events of Civil War, Carmilla Black engaged in visible superhero activities as part of a S.H.I.E.L.D. operation to get her recruited by anti-registration heroes. Instead she attracted the attention of Mac Gargan the former Scorpion, who had recently acquired the venom symbiont but was still protective of his old name and outraged she was using it. Though physically outmatched, her stinger created a neo-symbiont from Venom's webs and proved very harmful to the venom symbiont itself, allowing her to quickly turn the tide and send him fleeing. The neo-symbiont rapidly died as her body was too toxic to sustain it for more than a few minutes.

World War Hulk

In World War Hulk, Scorpion was assigned a mission to first retrieve deadly thallium poison from an ultra-secure facility that was, when combined with her stinger, believed to be enough to take down the rampaging Hulk due to it getting stronger the more he fought it, then find Hulk and use it. In the first part of her mission she was confronted by Paladin and believed she killed him after a fight in the facility full of deadly gear from many supervillains, though this was merely a ruse by Paladin and her superiors to ensure she wouldn't hesitate in the real operation. In the second part of the operation Scorpion did successfully use her stinger with the poison to introduce it to the Hulk and briefly it appeared to succeed, but Amadeus Cho managed to enrage Hulk enough that his immune system managed to throw even the thallium poison off. Black and her handler Khanata also assisted in the evacuation of civilians.

Dark Reign

Carmilla became the lover of Hardball and co-leader of a HYDRA training camp in Madripoor. The Shadow Initiative was sent to bring in the latter but Komodo was disabled by HYDRA's upgraded S.P.I.N. Tech darts. However, Carmilla could tell that Hardball held no true loyalty to HYDRA and only wanted Komodo to be safe. She also revealed herself as a double agent for an unknown group, giving Hardball one last kiss, while stealing his S.P.I.N. Tech dart, which he noticed after he destroyed the rest.

The Gauntlet

Following the incident in Madripoor, Carmilla seems to have taken up work as a superhuman mercenary, as she is sent to New York to retrieve the armour of the original Scorpion, now in the possession of the Hood. Now dressed in her own version of the classic costume, Carmilla tangles with the friendly neighbour-hood Spider-Man when he stumbles onto a gladiatorial contest between many of New York's common criminals for the honour of becoming the new Scorpion and getting a seat in the Hood's gang. Seeking to remove all interference, she temporarily disables his powers with SPIN Tech before going for the costume, but is caught by the Hood and badly beaten. Only saved by Spider-Man, having shaken off the effects of the nanites, Carmilla aids him in bringing down the assembly of criminals, before escaping with her prize. That night, she gives the costume to the Kravenoff family, who hired her to obtain it based on her totemic connection to the costume.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

Carmilla's body is designed to filter out all manner of poisons, toxins, and even nuclear waste. A mutation causes these toxins to become concentrated in her left arm -- her "Stinger" -- allowing Carmilla to transmit them on contact. Carmilla can control the concentration of toxins, killing her target outright or simply making them ill. Carmilla's stinger takes effort to control, and even when she is subduing its affects to the best of her ability, prolonged exposure can sicken most people. The constant filtering of toxins from her body also help keep her in superior physical condition.

After Madripoor, she had absorbed samples of S.P.I.N. Tech, allowing her to use her stinger to temporarily disable the powers of supers hit with it for 30 minutes.

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Abilities

Carmilla has developed a formidable set of fighting and acrobatic skills in her life as a runaway. The extent of any additional S.H.I.E.L.D. training remains unclear.

ParaphernaliaEdit

Equipment

Carmilla wears a S.H.I.E.L.D. issued gauntlet on her left arm, which can be retracted to appears as a small, innocuous bracelet, or expand to armor her arm. The gauntlet allows her to better control her stinger, and a member of S.H.I.E.L.D. R&D had suggested a future version may even allow her to convert her stinger into a formidable ranged attack, though later events make this upgrade unlikely.

Her second costume includes a tail which is designed to channel the effects of her stinger to give her additional reach.

NotesEdit

Most of the time she works with L-5 S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Derek Khanata who provides her with intel on her operations.

TriviaEdit

The last name of Rappaccini is probably a reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Rappaccini's Daughter. The title character of that story is a beautiful young woman whose breath and touch have been rendered poisonous by the experiments of her father.

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Footnotes

↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z hardcover Vol. 10

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