Teresa Vasquez (Earth-616)

Fer-de-Lance
Name	Teresa Vasquez
Current Alias	Fer-de-Lance
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Serpent Solutions, Army of Evil Formerly Serpent Squad
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Female
Height	5′7″ (1.7 m)
Weight	130 lbs (58.97 kg)
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Black
Origin and Living Status
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	San Juan, Puerto Rico
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Professional criminal and mercenary
Education	High school graduate
Base of Operations	Serpent Society headquarters, Sandhaven, Arizona
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Mark Gruenwald, Tom Morgan
First	Captain America #337 (September, 1987)
First	Captain America #337 (September, 1987)

 Hostages, move to the front of the car! If there's any shooting, you will collect the bullets for us, ¿ si? 

—Fer-de-Lance

History

Little is known of Fer-de-Lance's background before she became a professional criminal. She first appeared alongside a group of fellow snake-themed costumed criminals, Copperhead, Puff Adder, and Black Racer, who were robbing a Las Vegas casino in the hopes of being recruited by the criminal gang the Serpent Society. However, they were soon opposed by Captain America (at that time known as The Captain) and his allies Falcon, Nomad and Demolition-Man, who apprehended them. As the criminals had hoped, however, the Serpent Society's leader Sidewinder teleported into their police cells and offered them membership, which they accepted.

One of the original serpents, Diamondback attempted to befriend Fer-de-Lance on her arrival at the Serpent Citadel. Fer-de-Lance expressed a romantic interest in Sidewinder, but after informing her that Sidewinder was involved with her teammate Black Mamba, Diamondback offered to set Fer-de-Lance up with another teammate, Rattler.

It transpired that the Society's new recruits were actually working for the terrorist Viper, who wanted to take over the group herself. As part of the coup, Fer-de-Lance attacked Diamondback, but Diamondback knocked Fer-de-Lance into an equipment bank, causing her to electrocute herself, and escaped.

Fer-de-Lance remained with the Society after King Cobra took over as leader, and clashed with Captain America again, among other heroes.

Corrupted by Mephisto

Fer-de-Lance was among the members of the Serpent Society who were, under unknown circumstances, corrupted by the demon Mephisto. After going on a bloodthirsty rampage throughout the Serpent Solutions headquarters, Fer-de-Lance and her teammates were defeated by Nighthawk. The Serpent Society later escaped custody and resumed their murderous activity on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Attributes

Powers

• Chemically Enhanced Musculature: Teresa's musculature was chemically enhanced granting her increased strength and durability.
  • Superhuman Strength: Teresa's strength has been enhanced to superhuman levels.
  • Superhuman Durability: Teresa's body has become more resistance to certain forms of damage like kinetic impacts.

Abilities

• Hand-to-Hand Combat: Fer-de-Lance is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and the use of sharp weapons, including her talons.
• Multilingualism: Teresa can speak English and Spanish.

Paraphernalia

Weapons

Fer-de-Lance wears a foot-long talon attached to each of her wrists. Each talon is apparently coated with poison.

Trivia

• Vasquez is a worshipper of Mephisto.

See Also

• 24 appearance(s) of Teresa Vasquez (Earth-616)
• 2 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Teresa Vasquez (Earth-616)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Teresa Vasquez (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Teresa Vasquez (Earth-616)
• 13 image(s) of Teresa Vasquez (Earth-616)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Teresa Vasquez (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Teresa Vasquez on Marvel.com
• Fer-de-Lance at the Marvel Appendix