Frenzy first appeared in X-Factor #4 (May 1986) as a member of the Alliance of Evil, and was created by Bob Layton and Keith Pollard.

[2] The woman who would one day become the super-powered mutant, Frenzy, began her life as a battered child in an abusive household.

Her mother, meanwhile, was thoroughly cowed by her husband's abuse, and did nothing to stop the beatings he would constantly inflict on his daughter for even seemingly minor infractions.

Either her rage or her fear awakened her mutant powers as he beat her savagely, and she unintentionally punched straight through his body with a single blow, killing him instantly.

[3] Originally a freelance mercenary, Frenzy joins with three other mutants — Tower, Stinger, and Timeshadow — under the employ of Apocalypse, calling themselves the Alliance of Evil.

After Tower's failed attempt to kidnap the mutant Rusty Collins, Frenzy is sent and put in direct conflict with X-Factor.

Frenzy is unable to convince Rusty to join the Alliance, and fled after suffering defeat from X-Factor.

She joins in the en masse attack on Captain America and Paladin, and traveled to Superia's Island to be one of her new Femizons.

Their first mission was to capture a child with latent mutant powers from Our Mother of the Sacred Heart, a school.

During the mission, Cargill killed Sharon Friedlander, and with her teammates Unuscione and the Kleinstocks, battled the gold X-Men team.

[13] While on a mission to recruit mutants to their cause, Cargill, along with Milan and Unuscione, found the young, meek boy Neophyte.

[14] During the Fall of Avalon, Cargill allied herself with long-time enemy Cyclops in order to survive, and she and her fellow Acolytes were able to escape the destroyed space station in time.

[16] Exodus eventually took over leadership of the Acolytes, and Cargill participated in the attack on Mount Wundagore, the High Evolutionary's base of operations.

[17] After the Acolytes disbanded, Cargill became the ambassador of Genosha to the United Nations and served as Magneto's right-hand woman.

[21] She regrouped with Exodus as he pledged his allegiance to Mister Sinister, and attacked the X-Mansion with her teammates in search of the Destiny Diaries.

[23] After the events of Messiah Complex, she escaped with the other Acolytes and Professor X's body, taking him to an unknown part of the world.

[28] Following the end of Age of X, an alternate timeline in which she was married to Cyclops, Joanna had trouble adjusting back to normal life, as her experiences as a more heroic figure have had a profound effect on her.

She confronted Cyclops about the time they shared together in the fictitious universe, but he rejected her; despite this, she refused to have her memory wiped of the experience unlike many other citizens of Utopia.

Her reasons for leaving were based on her love for Cyclops,[33] not wanting to fall back into old habits and to make a positive change in her life.

Choosing to stay with the Students of the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, Frenzy was soon drawn into the conflict when a team Avengers consisting of She-Hulk, Falcon and Moon Knight were sent to watch over the Mutants.

[37] Following the release of the Terrigen Mist clouds on Earth and their threat to Mutants, Frenzy chose to ally herself with Crystal and her team of Inhumans.

[38] Working as a covert agent of the Inhumans she helped to save countless Mutants in danger of the Terrigen Clouds.

[41] Frenzy is a mutant who possesses steel-hard skin that makes her resistant to most forms of conventional physical injury, as well as temperature extremes.