History
The history of Zarda Shelton largely mirrors that of her Earth-712 counterpart.
Zarda was a member of the Squadron Supreme and the lover of its leader Hyperion. For a time, Hyperion was replaced with a copy created by the Grandmaster, an Elder of the Universe from another Earth-9997 reality. Unaware of what had happened, Zarda carried on her relationship with the copy until the original Hyperion returned and killed it.[1]
After the Squadron revealed their secret identities to the public and tried to use their powers to solve society's ills, their lives began to unravel. After a conflict with the Redeemers, the Squadron was targeted by the governments of the world, who created a bomb to destroy them. The bomb killed Zarda and the rest of the Squadron, leaving Hyperion as the only survivor.[1]
Upon her death, Zarda's soul ended up in the Realm of the Dead where she was reunited with the Hyperion copy that the original Hyperion had killed. Zarda and the copy became lovers, with the copy renouncing its allegiance to the Elders of the Universe. She was eventually transported to the Paradise built for the dead by Kree hero Mar-Vell. Zarda and the Hyperion copy were separated for a time, as both were made to ingest a piece of the Cosmic Cube, granting them their own dream worlds.[2]
Upon being freed and helping to fend off an invasion of Paradise by the Kree, she was reunited with both the Hyperion copy and the original, who had desperately sought for a way to die in order to be reunited with her. When the two Hyperions began to fight, Zarda stopped them, telling the original that she had fallen in love with the copy, and leaving him heartbroken.[2]