Merge:Typhoid Mary

Typhoid Mary (real name Mary Walker) is the name of a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe, most commonly associated with Daredevil. She first appeared in Daredevil Vol. 1, #254, and was created by Ann Nocenti and John Romita, Jr.

Character biography
Typhoid Mary is an enemy and former lover of Daredevil with psionic powers, including telekinesis. She has been employed by organized crime syndicates as an assassin in the past. She is also truly gravely mentally ill, and not entirely responsible for her actions as a result.

Her condition was revealed to have been accidentally caused by a pre-Daredevil Matt Murdock. He had tracked a villain down to the brothel where Mary worked. He attacked the man, but to his surprise, the girls working there came at him. Panicking, he lashed out, knocking Mary out the window. It was at this moment Mary became Typhoid Mary, vowing no man would ever hurt her again.

Suffering from dissociative identity disorder, Mary Walker has two other abnormal personalities in addition to her seemingly healthy one. Her "Mary" personality is a timid, quiet, pacifist; her "Typhoid" personality is adventurous, lustful, and violent; and her "Bloody Mary" persona is brutal, sadistic, and hates all men. Aside from highly developed martial arts skills, Walker also possesses telekinetic powers and, more dangerously, pyrokinesis, the ability to set people or objects in her immediate vicinity aflame.

A favorite pawn of the Kingpin, Typhoid did frequent battle (and had a love-hate relationship) with Daredevil before disappearing. Through hypnosis, the abnormal and psychotic personalities (Mary: the pathological victim, Typhoid: the adventurous sociopath, and Bloody Mary: the homicidal psychopath) were suppressed from Mary Walker's consciousness, and she began to lead a normal life, even becoming a soap opera star.



However, this was not to last. The Kingpin fell from power in a violent coup and was left in a coma near death. When he recovered he started rising back to power, taking out his enemies. To distract Daredevil while he retook his criminal empire, the Kingpin paid a visit to Walker while she was doing her show, and with a blunt slap released the abnormal personalities. After confronting Daredevil in his secret identity (Matt Murdock) and setting him on fire, his bodyguards Luke Cage and Jessica Jones managed to take her down. Mary was imprisoned on the 'Raft', a maximum security prison for superpowered criminals.

Electro later led an attack on the Raft, helping the prisoners break out. While the Avengers came on the scene and managed to stop some of the prisoners, Mary was one of the ones that managed to escape.

Powers and abilities
Telekinesis - She can levitate objects and peoples and can project a telekinetic shield or Force Field. She can also release devastating force blasts. With this power she can fly at great speed

Pyrokinesis- she has the power to create, control, and absorb fire.

Psionic Seduction - she has the power to seduce and make others fall in love with her using her mind.

In other media
A villain named Typhoid (portrayed by Natassia Malthe) appeared in the Elektra film, but the only real similarity she had to the comicbook character was the name. In the movie, she was an assassin whose breath or touch could kill whatever they came into contact with.

Typhoid is reported to factor largely in the rumored Marvel Knights film. Centering around Marvel's grittier characters, the potential franchise is said to begin with Daredevil and Elektra and include Bullseye, Black Widow and Dazzler as well.