Marie D'Ancanto (Earth-616)

Marie D'Ancanto
Name	Marie Jennifer D'Ancanto
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Aid to Evangeline Whedon & Mutant Rights League, formerly Xavier Institute student body, Purity
Relatives	Unnamed parents (deceased); Unnamed brother (deceased)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Female
Hair	Red
Unusual Features	Missing right eye
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Evangeline Whedon's assistant, former cheerleader
Base of Operations	X-Mansion
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Chris Claremont, Igor Kordey
First	X-Treme X-Men #31 (September, 2003)
First	X-Treme X-Men #31 (September, 2003)

History

Marie D'Ancanto was an enthusiastic cheerleader in high school. Her father was a gardener and her mother was a teacher. Marie also used to babysit the children of "Paint" and Jack Freestone. Her family was killed in a horrific car accident by partying teenage mutants. Badly injured in the accident, Marie was further devastated when the local police refused to bring the mutants responsible to justice. Her uncle kept pestering the local police and the media about bringing the mutants to justice, until X-Corporation lawyers claimed it was species harassment. The lawyer, Jarod Molloy, was actually a pawn of Elias Bogan, and started buying the homes of humans in Marie's hometown of Valle Soleada. Revenant, also employed by Bogan, caused Marie's uncle to have horrible nightmares until he sold Marie's home.

Enraged, Marie intended suicide bomb a concert performed by mutant rock star Lila Cheney. Her target was Sunspot, the head of the Los Angeles branch of X-Corporation, who was supposed to be there. Unknown to D'Ancanto, the X-Men were in the concert’s attendance, and able to stop the attempted bombing.

Before facing trial, Marie D'Ancanto was forced to stay with former X-Man Rogue, who eventually showed the young woman the error of her terrorist ways. The mutants involved in her family's death later walked free from court and Marie herself was accused of attempted murder and anti-mutant terrorism, facing the death penalty. Fortunately a plea bargain reached by the mutant lawyer Evangeline Whedon placed Marie on probation. Whedon needed an assistant and Marie needed to live and work under court-approved supervision, so Whedon offered Marie a job as her assistant. Seeing the right thing to do, Marie accepted the offer.

Notes

Her name is presumably a reference to Rogue's full name as stated in the X-Men films.

See Also

• 11 appearance(s) of Marie D'Ancanto (Earth-616)
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Marie D'Ancanto (Earth-616)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Marie D'Ancanto (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Marie D'Ancanto (Earth-616)
• 2 image(s) of Marie D'Ancanto (Earth-616)