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Jacqueline Falsworth (Earth-616)

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Lady Jacqueline Falsworth Crichton
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MI-13; Former member of the Invaders, New Invaders, V-Battalion

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Lord William Falsworth (Grandfather; Deceased), Lord Montgomery Falsworth (Father; Deceased), Lady Falsworth (Mother; Deceased), John Falsworth (Uncle; Deceased), Lord Crichton (Husband; Deceased), Kenneth Crichton (Son; Deceased), John Crichton (grandson), Katherine Ainsley-Jones (distant cousin, deceased)

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Adventurer, aristocrat

Origin
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Blood transfusion from original Human Torch

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Maidstone, England


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Jacqueline Falsworth was the daughter of the British aristocrat, Lord Montgomery Falsworth, who had been known during World War I as the costumed champion Union Jack. In early 1942, Jacqueline was serving in Britain's Home Guard, a civil defense group, when she was attacked by the vampire Baron Blood, an agent of Nazi Germany. Unknown to Jacqueline at this time, Baron Blood was actually her own uncle, Lord John Falsworth. Baron Blood was forced to flee by the original Human Torch, who took Jacqueline to her home, Falsworth Manor, where the Torch met her father. Lord Falsworth and Jacqueline befriended the Torch and his fellow members of the Invaders, a team of costumed adventurers who battled the Axis powers on behalf of the Allies during World War II.

Subsequently, Baron Blood abducted Jacqueline but was defeated by Union Jack and the Invader Captain America. Suffering from a great loss of blood from being bitten by Baron Blood, Jacqueline was rushed to a hospital by the Invaders. There she received an emergency transfusion of blood from the Human Torch. While she was recovering, the Nazi agent called the Blue Bullet attacked the hospital in search of the Invaders. To her surprise, the still-recuperating Jacqueline discovered that she now had the ability to move at superhuman speed. She courageously used her new power to save the Human's Torch's life from the Blue Bullet's attack. The Blue Bullet was then defeated by another Invader, the Sub-Mariner.

Jacqueline discovered that as a result of the combination of a foreign element introduced into her bloodstream by Baron Blood's bites and the artificial blood given her by the android Human Torch, she had developed the ability to move at superhuman speed and exceptional metabolic vitality. (Possibly the android blood and the element introduced into her bloodstream by Baron Blood had actually jointly activated latent mutations in Jacqueline, thus giving her these superhuman capabilities.) Following her complete recovery from her injuries, Jacqueline made herself a costume, took the name Spitfire (after the British war planes of the period), and volunteered for Invaders membership. She was accepted into the team. Spitfire fought alongside the Invaders, including her brother, the second Union Jack, while the group was in the European Theater of Operations. At the war's end she retired as a costumed adventurer.

Jacqueline's superhuman capabilities gradually faded as her body slowly eliminated the foreign elements that had given them to her. Her superhuman abilities had entirely vanished by 1950. In 1956 she married the British nobleman Lord Crichton. They subsequently had a son, Kenneth. Lady Crichton, as she is now known, moved back to Falsworth Manor to care for her aged father, who died a year after her return there. Lady Crichton continued to live in retirement at Falsworth Manor.

Later, Jacqueline helped assemble Namorita, Captain America and Union Jack to aid the former Invaders, the original Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner, who were captured by the latest incarnation of the Nazi villain, the Master Man. In attempting to rescue their ally, Jacqueline was mortally wounded. After yet another emergency blood transfusion from the android Human Torch, Jacqueline's metabolism returned to super human levels and her Spitfire powers have reactivated. A side effect of her returning powers caused her to become young again, as she reverted to the body of a 16 year-old. Nevertheless, Jacqueline returned to her home at Crichton Manor.

She later joined the New Invaders, but resigned with most of the other members after the Torch's death. She also had a brief relationship with the third Union Jack Joey Chapman, but they broke up due to the large age difference.

She joined MI-13 as part of Britain's response to the Skrull Invasion by the Skrull Empire. In battle with two Super-Skrulls, Spitfire ripped out their throats with her teeth, displaying vampire traits from her Baron Blood bite that had been previously unseen. In recent years she has realized that she had actually started to use certain vampiric abilities, and that the fangs appeared when she got angry. But she felt no blood lust, and had no need to drink blood, it was all completely under her control. When new MI:13 recruit and vampire hunter Blade first met Spitfire, he staked her. She survived only thanks to the powers of fellow MI:13 member Faiza Hussain but later began a romantic relationship with Blade. During Dracula's attack on Britain, Jacqueline's vampire son Kenneth visited her.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

  • Hyper-Speed: Spitfire possesses the ability to move at superhuman speeds. She can run at her top speed of 50 miles per hour for up to a half hour before fatigue impairs her performance. At lesser levels of exertion, she can function optimally for hours.
  • Adapted Physiology: Spitfire's entire body is oriented toward the rigors of high-speed running. Her cardiovascular and respiratory systems are more efficient than a normal woman’s. She metabolizes an estimated 50% of the caloric energy content of foodstuffs. The chemical processes of Spitfire's body are so highly enhanced that her body does not generate fatigue-poisons, the normal by-products of locomotion which force the body to rest, as quickly as a normal human being does. Her tendons and bones have somehow became stronger in order to withstand the stresses of high speed motion, and her joints are smoother and lubricate more efficiently than a normal woman's. Spitfire's heightened metabolism afforded her great resilience to impact related injuries. Her reaction time was about twice as fast as that of a normal woman.
  • Vampire Abilities: Spitfire has been shown to possess some Vampire abilities including fangs that appear when she is angry. However, she feels no blood lust and has no need to drink it. Recently she has shown superhuman strength sufficient enough to break a sword made out of titanium and also displayed a healing factor as she was able to heal a broken back and ribs in a few panels. Whether or not she has any more vampiric abilities has yet to be revealed.

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Sptifire is an exceptional natural athlete and fighter and has been trained by Captain America in several forms of hand-to-hand combat. She is also a trained pilot.

Strength level

Spitfire possesses superhuman strength primarily in her lower body as part of her body's adaptations for running at superhuman speed. She can leg press approximately 550 lbs. under optimal conditions. With her upper body she can lift (press) slightly more than an ordinary human woman of her age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise can.

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