For my whole life, I've felt ashamed of my body, my power and what it represents. Zebediah Killgrave, the Purple Man, was my father. His evil deeds haunt me every single day. Looking like this, I couldn't hide that legacy, so I decided if I couldn't get away from it, I needed to redirect it toward something better. If I'm always the center of attention, it should be for something good. 
- —Kara Killgrave[src]
History
Origin[]
The Purple Man was known to use his powers on unsuspecting women so he could engage in various sick games and fantasies. One woman named Melanie was forced into marrying Killgrave (or believing she did) and the two had a daughter named Kara.[2]
Alpha Flight[]
At puberty, Kara's skin turned purple and she began producing pheromones. Melanie explained to her who her father was, causing Kara to leave, thinking she was a 'freak'. After accidentally taking control of Northstar, she ordered him to bring her to Alpha Flight. When she got scared they were going to punish her, Kara attempted to run away again with Madison Jeffries under her control. Both were captured by the Auctioneer and rescued by Alpha Flight. Kara became the first recruit of a new Beta Flight squad.[7]
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Northstar mad at Kara
Kara started a brief romance with the second member to be recruited, Whitman Knapp,[8] and trained with Alpha Flight extensively, often taking part in their missions. When the team decided to go separate ways, she was quite distraught, having made a new home with the team. After Knapp said he was leaving to focus on medicine, Kara considered forcing him to stay with her, but decided to let him choose his own path and instead moved home to Etobicoke with Laura Dean and Goblyn accompanying her.[9]
The team soon re-formed and Kara was quick to join.[10] However, when she was left behind by her teammates, she began to doubt her role in the team and left of her own choosing.[11]
Kara (along with Goblyn, Laura Dean, and Aurora) were later recruited by Talisman to find Northstar in Asgard. By this time, she had taken the name of Persuasion over her former codename of Purple Girl.[12]
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With Beta Flight
She stayed on after Alpha Flight once again became funded by the government, becoming a founding member of the latest incarnation of Beta Flight.[13] She remained with the team until it was suspended indefinitely.[14]
Kara was one of the few remaining mutants to possess their powers following M-Day.[15]
Unity[]
Kara, having allied herself with the anti-government Citadel, broke into the AmCan Mainframe Room to steal a server, claiming that it held data that would reveal the truth of about Unity, a political party led by Gary Cody. As she was escaping, however, she was stopped by Snowbird. Later that day, the Unity Party won the Canadian elections in a landslide victory.[16]
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Part of Alpha Strike
Taken to a Department H facility,[17] she and Citadel were brainwashed by the Master of the World's Unity program and drafted into Alpha Strike, a government-sanctioned team dedicated to defeating Alpha Flight and led by the brainwashed Vindicator, Alpha Flight's former leader.[18]
Calling herself Purple Woman,[3] Kara fought against Alpha Flight a few times, but, in the end, she was the key to freeing everyone, after being tied to a machine created by Walter Langkowski and James Hudson to harness her powers.[19]
Life After Alpha Strike[]
Kara somehow ended up in the Pace Federal Penitentiary, where she was briefly visited by Hope Summers, who absorbed her manipulation powers (and those of her fellow prisoner Lady Mastermind) to use them on the Avengers.[6]
At some point, she got out of prison and moved to New York City. One night, while walking on the street, Kara was attacked from behind by Jessica Jones, one of her father's victims. Jessica almost drowned her, wanting to know where Kara's father was, but Kara had no idea. As Jessica calmed down, she apologized and the two women reconciled.[5] Later, Kara and her siblings, the Purple Children, helped Jessica by keeping their father unconscious.[20]
In time, Kara adopted the name Persuasion once more and got a new chance at super heroics, when she was invited to join the new Thunderbolts, after Wilson Fisk's time as mayor of New York City.[1] With the help from the team's publicist, Helen Astrantia, she also launched a perfume brand.[21]Attributes
Powers
- Mutant Physiology: Kara is a mutant with similar abilities to her father's. Her mutation gives a purple skin that can secrete will-sapping psychoactive pheromones from her pores.[2][22]
- Mind Control via Pheromones: Kara can control a person through the use of pheromones, placing them in an extremely suggestible state wherein they will follow her every command. As a side-effect, and unlike her father, those under her control have their skin turn the same shade of purple as her - an effect that ends when they are released.[2][4] Her powers have proved strong enough to override Mesmero's control over a group of people.[23]
- Foreign Chemicals Resistance: As a side effect of her physiology Persuasion is highly resistant to psychotropic drugs and when exposed to them she can quickly, although not instantly, develop immunity to their effects.[24]
- Mind Merging: Kara can also merge her mind with the minds of others to experience their memories and emotions.[25][26]
Abilities
- Bilingual: In addition to English, Kara also speaks Russian.[27]
Weaknesses
Trivia
- Kara is a New York Yankees fan.[1]
See Also
- 76 appearance(s) of Kara Killgrave (Earth-616)
- 5 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Kara Killgrave (Earth-616)
- 6 minor appearance(s) of Kara Killgrave (Earth-616)
- 3 mention(s) of Kara Killgrave (Earth-616)
- 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Kara Killgrave (Earth-616)
- 44 image(s) of Kara Killgrave (Earth-616)
- 3 quotation(s) by or about Kara Killgrave (Earth-616)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Thunderbolts (Vol. 4) #1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Alpha Flight #41
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Alpha Flight (Vol. 4) #5
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #5
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Jessica Jones: Purple Daughter - Marvel Digital Original #1
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Cable and X-Force #9
- ↑ Alpha Flight #41–42
- ↑ Alpha Flight #52
- ↑ Alpha Flight #61–62
- ↑ Alpha Flight #67
- ↑ Alpha Flight #70
- ↑ Alpha Flight #81–82
- ↑ Alpha Flight #95
- ↑ Alpha Flight #130
- ↑ X-Men: The 198 Files #1
- ↑ Alpha Flight (Vol. 4) #0.1
- ↑ Alpha Flight (Vol. 4) #2
- ↑ Alpha Flight (Vol. 4) #3–4
- ↑ Alpha Flight (Vol. 4) #7–8
- ↑ Jessica Jones: Purple Daughter - Marvel Digital Original #3
- ↑ Thunderbolts (Vol. 4) #3–4
- ↑ Marvel Encyclopedia #1
- ↑ Alpha Flight #43
- ↑ Alpha Flight #42
- ↑ Alpha Flight #56
- ↑ Alpha Flight #57
- ↑ Thunderbolts (Vol. 4) #3
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #5