[11] Rachel Van Helsing appears in Tomb of Dracula, voiced by Mami Koyama in the original Japanese version and Melanie McQueen in the English dub.
Michael Van Patrick's origins trace back to scientist Josef Reinstein, later retroactively changed to an alias of Abraham Erskine.
[17][18][19] On his death, Erskine left papers, which covered years of research and findings that the government had not seen fit to classify to his grandson Brian Van Patrick.
The first clone is sent to his family's organic vegetable farm in Liberty, Kentucky, with a false story that he had failed the Initiative program because of his lack of powers.
[24] During the Killed In Action storyline, it is revealed that the clone has an imbedded tracking device and that the Van Patrick family had moved to Bulls Gap, Tennessee.
Three more clones, developed the same time as the first but with added genetic material donated from Baron Von Blitzschlage,[25] were programmed via input from Taskmaster with MVP's skills and abilities along with those of Spider-Man.
During the next issue, in the battle's aftermath, the last surviving Scarlet Spider Patrick publicly unmasks himself, revealing to the media that the Initiative had secretly cloned MVP.
[31] He continues to defy Osborn with the Avengers Resistance,[volume & issue needed] and even participates in the attack on Camp HAMMER during the siege of Asgard.
[29] In the Avengers: The Initiative first multi-part story; Killed in Action (starting issue #8), a new clone is fitted with the Tactigon, Armory's former alien weapon and sets forth on a murderous rampage through Camp Hammond in an attempt to seek revenge for MVP's death.
[volume & issue needed] In the second part First Casualties, set before the events of the first, the clone, who is distinguished by his whited out eyes, is said to have had Armory's moves programmed into him in preparation to use the Omega-Level weapon that killed the original MVP.
[volume & issue needed] At the end of the third part, the clone attempts to find the comatose Gauntlet, the drill instructor who had sent MVP to the ill-fated combat training session.
After arriving at the location, KIA is met by the collective Initiative force of the Mighty Avengers, the remaining Scarlet Spiders, a rogue New Warriors group and the trainees.
[volume & issue needed] Many trainees and staff members were injured during KIA's rampage, but only Dragon Lord,[34] Trauma,[34] Van[20] (one of the Scarlet Spiders[34]) and 8 S.H.I.E.L.D.
[36] Yellowjacket (actually the Skrull agent Criti Noll), one of the chief administrators at Camp Hammond, ironically referred to MVP as "Captain America, Jr."[37] in the first issue of Avengers: The Initiative.
However, unlike Captain America's enhanced condition, MVP's abilities were revealed in the Avengers: The Initiative Annual to have come as a result of the "revolutionary" diet and an "ultimate" isometric exercise regime he completed, rather than Dr. Erskine's super-soldier serum.
In Avengers: The Initiative #7, the suits display mechanical web-shooters while retaining the ability to change appearance to other versions of the Spider-Man costume or street clothes.
It is a multi-dimensional alien device that, once attached to a body, is able to shift into an infinite number of weapons and tools with a built-in safety designed to only enable the wearer to wield the specific weapons/tools needed to get the job at hand done.
[38] Despite concerns that writer Dan Slott had cavalierly killed MVP, IGN reviewer stated that "having seen the emotional fallout of that incident, I can see why it was so important to do that.
Initially Vargas had the upper hand, but Rogue gradually absorbed his abilities each time he struck her until she was his equal, his superior considering her other powers.
Poised to slay Vargas, she is seen preparing to stab him with his own sword when the video camera that was the sole witness to the event lost power at the critical moment, so the people that viewed the footage of the live invasion were under the belief that Rogue did in fact, kill him.
Berry learns that her powers are causing her molecules to drift apart, so that she will eventually die or fade from existence, and decides to enjoy the limited time she has left, quitting the academy and joining Jeremy Briggs' corporation.
[74] Vertigo is an artificially enhanced mutate possessing the ability to project waves of psionic energy into her environment which affect the nervous systems of other living beings, distorting their physical perceptions and sense of balance.
[77] Working as a seismologist and engineer, he fell into the San Andreas Fault during the testing of an experimental nuclear-powered apparatus, giving him superpowers and leaving him mentally unstable.
In return for her actions, Doom bestowed Zora with a portion of the Power Cosmic so that she could become Latveria's new champion, a symbol of inspiration named Victorious.
While Captain American and Shang-Chi go after the Serpent Society, the Avengers Emergency Response Squad members Hercules, Living Lightning, Photon, She-Hulk, and Wonder Man deal with Victorious.
[84] Victorius later makes himself the death-worshiping Cult of Entropy's leader who stole the Cosmic Cube to use to create Jude the Entropic Man as a means of spreading destruction.
[volume & issue needed] Later escaping prison with his brother and the help of the Cobra, the trio formed the original Serpent Squad and attacked Captain America at his girlfriend's home in Virginia.
[90] Viper appears in the 2017 "Secret Empire" storyline where he and the rest of the Serpent Society are among the villains recruited by Baron Helmut Zemo to join the Army of Evil.
director Nick Fury subsequently gathered a group of superheroes consisting of the Black Widow, Captain America, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Spider-Man, and Wolverine, as well as superpowered S.H.I.E.L.D.
[114][115] Lucia von Bardas later became the leader of the Heat's Chicago branch where they received Stark Industries technology from a private security group established by Kara Palamas.