Typhoid Mary (comics)

Typhoid Mary (Mary Walker), also known as Typhoid, Walker, Bloody Mary and Mutant Zero, is a
ctional character, a supervillain and enemy of Daredevil
and Deadpool in the Marvel Comics Universe.

ality is a timid, quiet, pacist; her Typhoid personality is adventurous, lustful, and violent; and her Bloody
Mary persona is brutal, sadistic, and misandrous. Mary
once claimed that there was a fourth personality, who is
'lost,' but it has not since been mentioned. 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 aame.

Publication history

Typhoid Mary rst appeared in Daredevil #254, and was

created by Ann Nocenti and John Romita, Jr.. Her name In her rst appearance, she met Matt Murdock, and
comes from early 20th-century Irish-American cook and was hired as an assassin by the Kingpin.[5] She then
rst battled Daredevil, while beginning a romance with
typhoid fever carrier Typhoid Mary Mallon.[1]
Matt Murdock.[6] She temporarily reverted to her Mary
In the pages of Avengers: The Initiative a mysterious charpersonality,[7] but then reverted to her Typhoid peracter named Mutant Zero was shown. Writer Dan Slott
sonality, and began a romance with the Kingpin.[8] She
stated that she was secretly a well-known character in
hired Bullet, Bushwacker, Ammo, and the Wild Boys to
disguise.[2]
attack Daredevil,[9] and then personally led these criminals against him.[10]
Shes a mutant chick whos been coverA favorite pawn of the Kingpin, Typhoid frequently batworthy many times... When that mask comes
tled and had a love-hate relationship with Daredevil beo, there will be a 'whoa' among those reading
fore disappearing. Through hypnosis, the abnormal and
it. People who don't even follow comics regupsychotic personalities were suppressed from Walkers
larly will know who it is.
consciousness, and she began to lead a normal life, beShe rst appeared in Avengers: The Initiative #4 as a coming an actress on a soap opera. She was sent by
member of Henry Peter Gyrich's black ops team but it Doctor Doom to learn the secrets of Kymellian technol[11]
wasn't until issue #20 that she was nally revealed to be ogy from Power Pack during the Acts of Vengeance.
She was subsequently in the Kingpins employ once again,
Typhoid Mary.
and met Bullseye.[12] She helped thwart an attempt on
the Kingpins life by Crossbones.[13] At one point, as
she struggled to keep her multiple personalities under
2 Fictional character biography
control, she befriended Mary Jane Watson and battled
Spider-Man when Bloody Mary resurfaced and she beTyphoid Mary is an enemy and former lover of Daredevil gan killing men who committed domestic abuse. With
with low level psionic powers, including telekinesis. She the web-slingers help, Mary regained control and volunhas been a professional criminal employed by organized tarily turned herself in to the police for treatment.[14]
crime syndicates as an assassin in the past. She is also
At one point, Mary was conned to a mental institution
truly and gravely mentally ill.
where each personality hired a mercenary. Mary hired
Her condition was accidentally caused by a pre-Daredevil Deadpool to kill her, Typhoid hired him to break her
Matt Murdock. He had tracked a villain down to the out, and Bloody Mary hired The Vamp/Animus to break
brothel where Mary worked. He attacked the man, but her out to resume a killing spree. Deadpool defeated the
to his surprise, the girls working there came at him. Pan- Vamp/Animus but refused to kill Mary, allowing the Tyicking, he lashed out, knocking Mary out the window. It phoid personality to become dominant.[15] Typhoid and
was at this moment that Mary somehow became Typhoid Deadpool had a few adventures together, including travMary, vowing no man would ever hurt her again.[3] In eling to New York City to confront Daredevil for accilater appearances, however, she would imply that she was dentally kicking her out of the brothel some years ago
a victim of child abuse. [4]
(Typhoid regained the memories of this incident when
Suering from dissociative identity disorder, Mary Deadpool pushed her out of a window), before Deadpool
Walker has three other abnormal personalities in addi- attempted to reform Typhoid. This did not go well and
tion to her seemingly healthy one. Her Mary person- the two eventually separated after she seduced him while
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disguised as Siryn.[16]
However, following the Kingpins fall from power and
subsequent near-death coma, he recovered and 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 at her show and, with
a blunt slap, released the abnormal personalities. Murdocks bodyguards Luke Cage and Jessica Jones managed
to take her down after she confronted Daredevil in his
secret identity and set him on re. Mary was imprisoned on The Raft, a maximum security prison for superpowered criminals.[17]

2 FICTIONAL CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY

which left her too unstable to be left to her own devices
or whether she sought out treatment and joined of her
own free will. Gyrich reveals that 'Mutant Zero' is a mutant that not only remained empowered following M-Day,
but one that is not included in the ocial record of the
remaining mutants. Technically not existing in any ocial capacity (according to Gyrich), Marys true identity
is made classied and she is given the codename of Mutant Zero. According to Dr. Leonard Samson, Mutant
Zero is still mentally unstable and that referencing any
of her other identities could lead to a period of instability. Mutant Zero is inducted into the Initiatives black ops
team, the Shadow Initiative, but due to her mental instability she can only be activated once per mission or risk
her becoming mentally unstable.[19]

Electro later led an attack on the Raft, breaking out the

prisoners. While the Avengers arrived and managed to
stop some of the prisoners, Mary managed to escape and
was briey mentioned[18] as once more working for the When Taskmaster is appointed as eld leader of the
Shadow Initiative, he senses something familiar about
Kingpin.
Mutant Zeros body language (thanks to his superhuman
ability), and initiates an impromptu sparring match with
her to satisfy his curiosity. After witnessing her ght2.1 The Initiative
ing style and provoking her into using her pyrokinesis,
Taskmaster shatters her helmets faceplate and reveals her
as Typhoid Mary.[20]
As the Shadow Initiative prepares to capture Hardball in
Madripoor, Mary reveals that the reason why she joined
the Initiative is because she couldn't merge or block out
her four personalities, so she oered to join in exchange
for a pardon and to help integrate her fractured mind,
which is still a work in progress.[21] During the Shadow
Initiatives ght against HYDRA, Mary loses control of
her personalities, having spent too much time from the
Zero Room, and ees into the wilds of Madripoor.[22]

2.2 Shadowland
Main article: Shadowland (comics)
Mary answers Daredevils call for superheroes to join him
and The Hand in providing martial law for an ever increasing area of New York City. She claims that her time
in the Initiative was successful in integrating her fractured
mind, but Daredevil does not believe her. Following the
war, Kingpin - using secret code words to activate her
fourth personality - reveals that she was an inside agent
who was ignorant of her 'true' goal all along.[23]

2.3 Sisterhood
Mutant Zero, art by Stefano Caselli

At some point after the events of the superhuman Civil

War, Mary is found by Henry Peter Gyrich and recruited
into the Initiative program. It is currently unknown
whether she suered some sort of psychotic episode

Typhoid Mary joins the Sisterhood, as Lady Deathstrike

promises to use Arkea to reintegrate Marys personalities,
which Arkea then does.[24] The sisterhood, specically
Arkea and Amora, resurrect Selene and Madelyne Pryor.
But before the Sisterhood can recruit additional members
and go on an oensive, the X-Men attack. Typhoid Mary
is defeated by Psylocke. Arkea is killed, while Madelyne

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swears to maintain the Sisterhood and continue the war In the Mutant X reality, Typhoid Mary is a member of
against the X-Men.[25]
the Avengers.[27]

Powers and abilities

Typhoid Mary is a mutant and possesses a number of limited psionic powers. She can use telekinesis to levitate
small objects over short distances (such as weapons of
under 10 pounds; knives, razors, etc., which her Bloody
Mary persona often gathered and assembled into improvised battle-armor). She is a powerful pyrokinetic, meaning she can cause spontaneous combustion within line of
sight to set objects in her immediate vicinity aame. She
can implant mental suggestions in the minds of others.
She can use her psionic hypnosis ability to induce sleep
in weak-minded individuals and most animals; certain individuals are mentally resistant to her hypnotic powers.
However, she has three separate personalities as a result
of her mental illness. The timid, pacist Mary personality has no psionic abilities. The Typhoid and Bloody
Mary personalities have the full range of these psionic
powers and they are strongest in Bloody Mary. Her
original Mary Walker personality is supposed to be a
balanced amalgam of all of these, but is seldom dominant. Because of the dierent heart rates and voice patterns of her dierent personas, not to mention the different ways of dress, even Daredevils super-senses were
long unable to tell the dierent personas all belonged to
the same woman, and Typhoid Mary took advantage of
this situation to hide from Daredevil/Matt Murdock even
within earshot.
As Mutant Zero, Mary appears to possess the same
psionic powers utilized by both Typhoid and Bloody
Mary. It is unknown whether the powers she possesses
as Mutant Zero are equal to or stronger than those of the
Bloody Mary personality. Recent battles suggest they
are more powerful, but take their toll on Mary when used
as a result of this strength. Mutant Zero is also equipped
with a suit of full body armor that appears to enhance her
physical strength and an arsenal of weapons, including
guns and various blades.
Typhoid Mary is in excellent physical condition. She has
sucient reexes to block and redirect a bullet back at
its shooter. She has peak human agility, and is highly
athletic. She is also trained in the martial arts, particularly
Judo and Kendo. She has exceptional skill in wielding
and throwing bladed weapons, and is usually armed with
a variety of machetes and smaller knives.

5 In other media
Typhoid Mary makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the X-Men cartoon series episode Beyond
Good and Evil pt. 3. She appears as one the psychics captured by Apocalypse (including Psylocke,
Oracle, Moondragon, Emma Frost, Stryfe, Jason
Wyndgarde and Rachel Summers).
A villain named Typhoid (portrayed by Natassia
Malthe) appears in the Elektra lm, but the only
real similarity she had to the comic book character is the name. In the lm she is an assassin for
the Hand whose breath or touch kills whatever they
come into contact with. Her poison touch spreads
vastly throughout an area at will, killing life, and
she can poison her weapons by breathing on them.
The precise limitations to the poison that leaves her
body is unknown, nor to how quickly and wide she
can spread it. She was once a skilled ninja called
the Treasure, and is jealous of Abby who is the new
Treasure. Typhoid gives Elektra a poisonous kiss,
which almost kills her. She succeeds in killing Abby
with her breath-poisoned weapons, although Elektra
later resurrects Abby with the same method that her
master, Stick, had used to revive her after she was
killed by Bullseye in the Daredevil movie. After
Elektra kills Kirigi in a nal battle, Elektra throws
a sai through the hedges of a maze and straight
into Typhoids face. Typhoid falls back onto the
ground and disintegrates. The character is specifically called Typhoid Mary rather than just Typhoid by both the producers and Jennifer Garner
during the Making of Elektra feature on the DVD.
Typhoid Mary appears in the Sega CD video game
The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin as one
of Kingpins personal bodyguards (Bullseye is the
other). Both of them must be defeated before
Spider-Man can reach Kingpin.

6 References
[1] Typhoid Mary. http://www.comicvine.com. Retrieved
2014-04-29.
[2] Dan Slott: Taking The Initiative - Newsarama. Forum.newsarama.com. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
[3] Deadpool/Daredevil Annual 1997

Other versions

In House of M, Typhoid Mary appears as an assassin of

Wilson Fisk.[26]

[4] Typhoid Feb. 1996

[5] Daredevil #254
[6] Daredevil #255

[7] Daredevil #256

[8] Daredevil #257
[9] Daredevil #258
[10] Daredevil #260
[11] Power Pack #53
[12] Captain America #373
[13] Captain America #376
[14] The Spectacular Spider-Man #214
[15] Deadpool Vol. 1 #6-7
[16] Deadpool #13
[17] New Avengers vol. 1 #01
[18] Civil War: War Crimes
[19] Avengers: The Initiative #5
[20] Avengers: The Initiative #20
[21] Avengers: The Initiative #21
[22] Avengers: The Initiative #24
[23] Shadowland #5
[24] X-Men volume 4 #9
[25] X-Men volume 4 #12
[26] House of M: Avengers #3
[27] Mutant X #1

External links
Prole at marvel.com
Typhoid Mary at the Appendix to the Handbook of
the Marvel Universe
Fanpages
Twisted Love - Typhoid Mary
Typhoid Marys Dojo

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