In her attempt to colonize the planet Earth, Tana Nile takes a human form as Jane Foster's roommate.

[6][7][8] Tana Nile later encounters Sif, Hildegarde, and sailor Silas Grant on Blackworld as she is battling Ego-Prime, a fragment of Ego the Living Planet.

During an adventure in an alternate dimension created by Franklin Richards, she falls in love with Howard the Duck.

After a spontaneous kiss, Howard tells her of his attachment to Beverly Switzler, and she accepts that romance with him is inappropriate.

She wields armor that enables her to disguise herself as a human, a "stasis gun" that can project concussive energy or intense heat, and a wrist-mounted communicator.