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CHARACTER NAME: Madelyne Jennifer "Maddie" Pryor, the Goblin Queen
FANDOM: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: Inferno - 'ported right before she dies in X-Factor (series 1) #38.
CLASS: Villain
SUPERHERO NAME: Goblin Queen
ALTER EGO: Madelyne Pryor, she'll probably get work as a pilot or surveillance technician
BACKGROUND:
Madelyne thought she had a normal life. She grew up normal, went to school like normal, and got a job like normal. Heck, she even had a job she loved, flying planes. The company she worked for was family-owned and operated and everyone was family. Life was good.
Life changed.
The owners, who had long believed their son and grandchildren had perished, found out they were alive and elated, they invited them to come up to their Alaskan home for a vacation. So Madelyne was asked to pick them up at the airport. Chris Summers and his two sons, Scott and Alex. She couldn't understand their reactions at the time, the way they looked at her, but they were nice enough and she warmed to them quickly. Especially Scott, who seemed the most wary around her. But she liked a challenge and eventually Scott warmed to her. They became friends, even going on a date.
And that's when things began to slip. Maddie learned a lot about Scott on that date. That he was a mutant with a uncontrollable power. That he was the kinda guy a girl could fall in love with. She also found out why he'd reacted the way he did when they first met. In his wallet was a picture of the first woman he'd ever loved, the only woman he thought he'd ever love, who'd died tragically. Jean Grey. Madelyne looked exactly like her. They could be twins. It was daunting, but she thought Scott was worth it so she pushed her unease aside and moved forward. So did Scott, for a time.
They fell in love fast and eventually Madelyne was introduced to the X-Men, mutants that were fighting to save a world that hated and feared them. The X-Men, too, saw the resemblance, but like everyone else the shock faded and they began to appreciate Maddie for what she was, a talented pilot, a good and loyal friend, and someone that Scott loved. She became their friend in her own right, even though what they did and the dangers they faced scared her a little. Piloting through a vicious storm with fried instruments had nothing on the sorts of things they faced.
But Scott and the life they were building together was worth it, even if she was still uneasy about Scott's feelings for her, and even if they were for her, or for the memory of his beloved Jean. The question he asked her the night they became engaged only fueled her uncertainty. "Are you the Phoenix?" The question was prompted by some fancy manipulation by Mastermind, but it's sting was no less. She decked her husband-to-be and nearly died in the ensuing fight with the evil Mastermind. But like all couples, they worked past their problems, and were married, retiring to Alaska to work for his grandparents and be happy.
During a flight transporting some scientists and their equipment, their plane was brought down. Through plot contrivance and magic, Madelyne was given the ability to heal and was able to heal the damage that made Scott's powers so uncontrollable. She also discovered something about herself that she tried to keep secret until they were alone, but then the X-Men arrived and Charles Xavier blurted it out. She was pregnant, she and Scott were going to have a son.
They were elated, but the same time, Scott was becoming increasingly drawn back to the X-Men and Madelyne knew it. Knew it and didn't like it and wasn't exactly shy about telling him. In fact, he was away with the X-Men, fighting some foe, when she went into labor in the X-Men's kitchen. Everyone called to check on her... everyone but Scott, who waited until the X-Men came back to meet his son. Madelyne knew that he had a hard time expressing himself, but that was taking it too far. Sensing the impending disaster, Storm stepped in, challenging Scott for the right to lead the X-Men. She defeated him, both because of her skill and Madelyne's nascent powers kicking in subconsciously. Defeated, Scott goes back to Alaska with his wife and son.
But damage had been done and the relationship was tense. Maddie felt that the only reason Scott was with her and their son was because he'd lost. She loved him, but she was no longer sure that love was returned.
One fateful day, the phone rang. It was Warren Worthington, Soctt's friend and a former X-Man. Scott wouldn't tell her what the conversation was about, only that he had to leave. They argued, she told him that if he left, he should never come back. He left. While he was gone, Maddie was attacked and her son was taken. With no where to turn and her son missing, she called the X-Men for help. They came. X-Men... but Scott wasn't with them. Not knowing where he was, or where her son had been taken, she stayed with the X-Men as she had no other place to go, even choosing to stand and be killed with them to stop the Adversary. A recorded message for Scott, a plea to find and save their son, was her only legacy.
Of course with the X-Men things are never that simple - instead, Madelyne and the X-Men were spun off through the Siege Perilous by Roma and survived. Choosing to let the world believe they were dead so they could work in secret, the X-Men settled in an abandoned base in Australia. To help keep their secret, Madelyne had to remain dead as well - not wanting to be useless, she became their tech support - running the advanced world-wide surveillance equipment that had been left behind. With it, she could see events all over the world... including footage of her husband standing next to his lost love, Jean. Furious and feeling betrayed, she struck out at the equipment, causing a power surge that knocked her out. While unconscious, demons from Limbo appeared to her. They offered her power, specifically the power to hurt Scott as she'd been hurt. The power for revenge.
Hurting, angry and alone, she accepted. She also hid the evidence of Jean's resurrection from the other X-Men.
Not long after, she was kidnapped to the island nation of Genosha, where scientists tried to strip her personality and make her a slave. Her dormant power awoke and she lashed out, killing the men who we trying to enslave her, but not before she'd been altered. Her emotional instincts, specifically her maternal instincts had been erased. Her persona as the Goblin Queen was cemented, and she reached out, making an additional deal with another demon. Find her son.
During this time, she became closer to Scott's brother, Alex. Alex felt guilty that his brother had abandoned his wife and he was feeling to loss of his own love, Lorna. friendship quickly became more and the two started an ill-fated affair.
At this point, Marvel rewrote Madelyne's history entirely. The demon N'astirh led her to a hidden laboratory, owned and operated by Mr. Sinister, whose Marauders had taken her son. Bound and chained while the demon retrieved her son, Maddie discovered the awful truth. Her life was an illusion, her childhood, her teenage years, were all a sham. The echoes of memories that belonged to another woman. She was nothing more than a clone of Jean Grey, cleverly placed to meet Scott, fall in love, and have a child. Her awakening came when the Phoenix died, its essence trying to return to Jean, but targeting Madelyne instead. Maddie? Was not amused. What was left of her sanity crumbled and she stood with the demon and his plan to sacrifice her son to open Limbo to the world forever.
The X-Men, following Madelyne and the evidence that Jean may actually be alive - and X-Factor, the team Scott had helped create with Jean, all congregated in New York. Maddie, having transformed Jean's parents into demons, set them on her, offering Scott a final choice. Save her, and their life together, or save Jean. He tried to do both, but went for Jean first. Alex, on the other hand, went after Maddie and ended up standing with her for a time, under the sway of her power.
The X-Men and X-Factor eventually stopped the demons and in a last-ditch effort to get revenge, Maddie entwined her mind with Jean's, committing psychic suicide and trying to take Jean with her. The remainder of the Phoenix force intervened and Jean was saved, absorbing the memories of both the Phoenix and the now-deceased Madelyne.
But Maddie doesn't know that, she was 'ported to the City just before she started her suicidal rush.
PERSONALITY:
Madelyne (pre-Goblin Queen) was a strong-willed woman. She had opinions and wasn't afraid to share them. She was justifiably proud of her skills as a pilot, and courageous. At one point she makes mention that she's helped rescue fellow pilots and passengers following a dangerous crash. She can be cool under pressure, even when faced with things that are way outside her realm of experience... like the X-Men. She's passionate and very loyal to those she cares about, and expects that that loyalty will be reciprocated.
The only thing that really shakes her is Scott. She loves him, but the knowledge that she resembles Jean so closely undermines her confidence in their relationship. She gets irritated, worried and a bit jealous. As a result, she lashes out with flares of temper. But she loves her son deeply and is wounded when he's taken.
The Goblin Queen is that anger and jealousy rampant. Any positive emotions are suppressed. She can be irrational, focused only revenge and willing to make deals to that end, even with demons. Which isn't to say she's not capable of expressing other emotions because she can and does in order to manipulate and tempt people to her cause. She feels her pain and abandonment, but not remorse for her actions. To destroy as she's been destroyed is a goal and her own survival is optional if she can take everyone with her.
Somewhere in between was the woman that had her affair with Alex and worked with the X-Men. Hurt and angry, but still not wholly evil. She was grateful for what she still had, shambles though it was, and she genuinely wanted to help her friends. She was looking for someone to love her again, love her for herself, someone who wouldn't betray her and Alex fit that bill. He was protective and supportive... and gullible. To an extent she knew he would be useful as leverage. It was the best of many worlds.
There is the idea that Maddie still exists within the Goblin Queen, but she's buried deep. Very deep.
POWER:
For the most part, all of the following were powers the Goblin Queen possessed in the comics, just adapted or altered to fit better within the mechanics of the game.
General Magic/Spell-casting
Madelyne can wield magic, thanks to the powers the demons granted her. She can cast spells that, among other things, can create fire, create unbreakable bindings, teleport from one prepared location to another, and "encourage" people to follow their darker/baser instincts. Certain powers will, of course, be subject to other player approval because of the info/god-modding implications. The effectiveness of these powers will be relatively small in scale.
Transfiguration
Maddie can change parts her environment to become her own subset of Limbo/Hell, up to one City block. This includes people, but I'll get to that in a minute. Transfigured locations respond to her as if they were alive, upon command, elevators will eat people, mailboxes will chase and eat people, white picket fences will impale... and eat people. There are three limiting factors to this ability. Firstly, she (or one of her created minions) must actually be ON the property in order to hold it, so going block by block, transforming the city is not really an option unless there's something that artificially boosts her power. Secondly, regardless of who's holding it, she has to recast the spell weekly for it to stick or the location will revert. Finally, the more she does it, the weaker she becomes, ditto the longer. She can manage one property indefinitely (a home base as it were) but anything more than that starts to get tiring very quickly.
Corollary for human transfiguration: Like she did with Jean's parents, Maddie can turn a person into a demon and make him/her a slave. The person retains some memory of who they really are, but it's passive and they are wholly her servant while they're transformed. But it's not a point and shoot kinda process like it was in the comics. Here, it takes twenty-four hours to make a servant initially and she's limited to two at a time. They have the ability to hold her locations for her, they have super-strength, big teeth and sharp claws and are very difficult to kill/maim. However, aside from being able to hold her lands, they have no magic of their own. They remain hers until they die or she releases them. Like the locations, she has to refresh the spell every seven days, but once cast, refreshing only takes a few minutes.
So at MOST, she could hold three city blocks with two minions, but it's doubtful she'd be able to hold it for more than a few days before she became so exhausted that she'd loose control - at which point the locations and the minions would revert and she'd be powerless for a time.
Exceptions for iron-clad characters (aka - Marvel's logic FAIL): For whatever reason, Marvel used Colossus' steel form as an excuse to not have him affected by Maddie's power. As such, characters with iron or steel armor can resist her magic (in all forms) so long as they have the armor on. (Why this didn't extend to buildings with steel frames or cars is anyone's guess - but that's how it worked, so that's what I'm sticking with.) I will go so far as to add that iron or steel weapons CAN be used to disrupt her spells, but only at the spell's point of origin, for example: cutting through magical bindings, undoing a transfiguration by piercing the point where the spell was cast, or running through the person transfigured (ouch).
CHARACTER NAME: Madelyne Jennifer "Maddie" Pryor, the Goblin Queen
FANDOM: Marvel 616
CHRONOLOGY: Inferno - 'ported right before she dies in X-Factor (series 1) #38.
CLASS: Villain
SUPERHERO NAME: Goblin Queen
ALTER EGO: Madelyne Pryor, she'll probably get work as a pilot or surveillance technician
BACKGROUND:
Madelyne thought she had a normal life. She grew up normal, went to school like normal, and got a job like normal. Heck, she even had a job she loved, flying planes. The company she worked for was family-owned and operated and everyone was family. Life was good.
Life changed.
The owners, who had long believed their son and grandchildren had perished, found out they were alive and elated, they invited them to come up to their Alaskan home for a vacation. So Madelyne was asked to pick them up at the airport. Chris Summers and his two sons, Scott and Alex. She couldn't understand their reactions at the time, the way they looked at her, but they were nice enough and she warmed to them quickly. Especially Scott, who seemed the most wary around her. But she liked a challenge and eventually Scott warmed to her. They became friends, even going on a date.
And that's when things began to slip. Maddie learned a lot about Scott on that date. That he was a mutant with a uncontrollable power. That he was the kinda guy a girl could fall in love with. She also found out why he'd reacted the way he did when they first met. In his wallet was a picture of the first woman he'd ever loved, the only woman he thought he'd ever love, who'd died tragically. Jean Grey. Madelyne looked exactly like her. They could be twins. It was daunting, but she thought Scott was worth it so she pushed her unease aside and moved forward. So did Scott, for a time.
They fell in love fast and eventually Madelyne was introduced to the X-Men, mutants that were fighting to save a world that hated and feared them. The X-Men, too, saw the resemblance, but like everyone else the shock faded and they began to appreciate Maddie for what she was, a talented pilot, a good and loyal friend, and someone that Scott loved. She became their friend in her own right, even though what they did and the dangers they faced scared her a little. Piloting through a vicious storm with fried instruments had nothing on the sorts of things they faced.
But Scott and the life they were building together was worth it, even if she was still uneasy about Scott's feelings for her, and even if they were for her, or for the memory of his beloved Jean. The question he asked her the night they became engaged only fueled her uncertainty. "Are you the Phoenix?" The question was prompted by some fancy manipulation by Mastermind, but it's sting was no less. She decked her husband-to-be and nearly died in the ensuing fight with the evil Mastermind. But like all couples, they worked past their problems, and were married, retiring to Alaska to work for his grandparents and be happy.
During a flight transporting some scientists and their equipment, their plane was brought down. Through plot contrivance and magic, Madelyne was given the ability to heal and was able to heal the damage that made Scott's powers so uncontrollable. She also discovered something about herself that she tried to keep secret until they were alone, but then the X-Men arrived and Charles Xavier blurted it out. She was pregnant, she and Scott were going to have a son.
They were elated, but the same time, Scott was becoming increasingly drawn back to the X-Men and Madelyne knew it. Knew it and didn't like it and wasn't exactly shy about telling him. In fact, he was away with the X-Men, fighting some foe, when she went into labor in the X-Men's kitchen. Everyone called to check on her... everyone but Scott, who waited until the X-Men came back to meet his son. Madelyne knew that he had a hard time expressing himself, but that was taking it too far. Sensing the impending disaster, Storm stepped in, challenging Scott for the right to lead the X-Men. She defeated him, both because of her skill and Madelyne's nascent powers kicking in subconsciously. Defeated, Scott goes back to Alaska with his wife and son.
But damage had been done and the relationship was tense. Maddie felt that the only reason Scott was with her and their son was because he'd lost. She loved him, but she was no longer sure that love was returned.
One fateful day, the phone rang. It was Warren Worthington, Soctt's friend and a former X-Man. Scott wouldn't tell her what the conversation was about, only that he had to leave. They argued, she told him that if he left, he should never come back. He left. While he was gone, Maddie was attacked and her son was taken. With no where to turn and her son missing, she called the X-Men for help. They came. X-Men... but Scott wasn't with them. Not knowing where he was, or where her son had been taken, she stayed with the X-Men as she had no other place to go, even choosing to stand and be killed with them to stop the Adversary. A recorded message for Scott, a plea to find and save their son, was her only legacy.
Of course with the X-Men things are never that simple - instead, Madelyne and the X-Men were spun off through the Siege Perilous by Roma and survived. Choosing to let the world believe they were dead so they could work in secret, the X-Men settled in an abandoned base in Australia. To help keep their secret, Madelyne had to remain dead as well - not wanting to be useless, she became their tech support - running the advanced world-wide surveillance equipment that had been left behind. With it, she could see events all over the world... including footage of her husband standing next to his lost love, Jean. Furious and feeling betrayed, she struck out at the equipment, causing a power surge that knocked her out. While unconscious, demons from Limbo appeared to her. They offered her power, specifically the power to hurt Scott as she'd been hurt. The power for revenge.
Hurting, angry and alone, she accepted. She also hid the evidence of Jean's resurrection from the other X-Men.
Not long after, she was kidnapped to the island nation of Genosha, where scientists tried to strip her personality and make her a slave. Her dormant power awoke and she lashed out, killing the men who we trying to enslave her, but not before she'd been altered. Her emotional instincts, specifically her maternal instincts had been erased. Her persona as the Goblin Queen was cemented, and she reached out, making an additional deal with another demon. Find her son.
During this time, she became closer to Scott's brother, Alex. Alex felt guilty that his brother had abandoned his wife and he was feeling to loss of his own love, Lorna. friendship quickly became more and the two started an ill-fated affair.
At this point, Marvel rewrote Madelyne's history entirely. The demon N'astirh led her to a hidden laboratory, owned and operated by Mr. Sinister, whose Marauders had taken her son. Bound and chained while the demon retrieved her son, Maddie discovered the awful truth. Her life was an illusion, her childhood, her teenage years, were all a sham. The echoes of memories that belonged to another woman. She was nothing more than a clone of Jean Grey, cleverly placed to meet Scott, fall in love, and have a child. Her awakening came when the Phoenix died, its essence trying to return to Jean, but targeting Madelyne instead. Maddie? Was not amused. What was left of her sanity crumbled and she stood with the demon and his plan to sacrifice her son to open Limbo to the world forever.
The X-Men, following Madelyne and the evidence that Jean may actually be alive - and X-Factor, the team Scott had helped create with Jean, all congregated in New York. Maddie, having transformed Jean's parents into demons, set them on her, offering Scott a final choice. Save her, and their life together, or save Jean. He tried to do both, but went for Jean first. Alex, on the other hand, went after Maddie and ended up standing with her for a time, under the sway of her power.
The X-Men and X-Factor eventually stopped the demons and in a last-ditch effort to get revenge, Maddie entwined her mind with Jean's, committing psychic suicide and trying to take Jean with her. The remainder of the Phoenix force intervened and Jean was saved, absorbing the memories of both the Phoenix and the now-deceased Madelyne.
But Maddie doesn't know that, she was 'ported to the City just before she started her suicidal rush.
PERSONALITY:
Madelyne (pre-Goblin Queen) was a strong-willed woman. She had opinions and wasn't afraid to share them. She was justifiably proud of her skills as a pilot, and courageous. At one point she makes mention that she's helped rescue fellow pilots and passengers following a dangerous crash. She can be cool under pressure, even when faced with things that are way outside her realm of experience... like the X-Men. She's passionate and very loyal to those she cares about, and expects that that loyalty will be reciprocated.
The only thing that really shakes her is Scott. She loves him, but the knowledge that she resembles Jean so closely undermines her confidence in their relationship. She gets irritated, worried and a bit jealous. As a result, she lashes out with flares of temper. But she loves her son deeply and is wounded when he's taken.
The Goblin Queen is that anger and jealousy rampant. Any positive emotions are suppressed. She can be irrational, focused only revenge and willing to make deals to that end, even with demons. Which isn't to say she's not capable of expressing other emotions because she can and does in order to manipulate and tempt people to her cause. She feels her pain and abandonment, but not remorse for her actions. To destroy as she's been destroyed is a goal and her own survival is optional if she can take everyone with her.
Somewhere in between was the woman that had her affair with Alex and worked with the X-Men. Hurt and angry, but still not wholly evil. She was grateful for what she still had, shambles though it was, and she genuinely wanted to help her friends. She was looking for someone to love her again, love her for herself, someone who wouldn't betray her and Alex fit that bill. He was protective and supportive... and gullible. To an extent she knew he would be useful as leverage. It was the best of many worlds.
There is the idea that Maddie still exists within the Goblin Queen, but she's buried deep. Very deep.
POWER:
For the most part, all of the following were powers the Goblin Queen possessed in the comics, just adapted or altered to fit better within the mechanics of the game.
General Magic/Spell-casting
Madelyne can wield magic, thanks to the powers the demons granted her. She can cast spells that, among other things, can create fire, create unbreakable bindings, teleport from one prepared location to another, and "encourage" people to follow their darker/baser instincts. Certain powers will, of course, be subject to other player approval because of the info/god-modding implications. The effectiveness of these powers will be relatively small in scale.
Transfiguration
Maddie can change parts her environment to become her own subset of Limbo/Hell, up to one City block. This includes people, but I'll get to that in a minute. Transfigured locations respond to her as if they were alive, upon command, elevators will eat people, mailboxes will chase and eat people, white picket fences will impale... and eat people. There are three limiting factors to this ability. Firstly, she (or one of her created minions) must actually be ON the property in order to hold it, so going block by block, transforming the city is not really an option unless there's something that artificially boosts her power. Secondly, regardless of who's holding it, she has to recast the spell weekly for it to stick or the location will revert. Finally, the more she does it, the weaker she becomes, ditto the longer. She can manage one property indefinitely (a home base as it were) but anything more than that starts to get tiring very quickly.
Corollary for human transfiguration: Like she did with Jean's parents, Maddie can turn a person into a demon and make him/her a slave. The person retains some memory of who they really are, but it's passive and they are wholly her servant while they're transformed. But it's not a point and shoot kinda process like it was in the comics. Here, it takes twenty-four hours to make a servant initially and she's limited to two at a time. They have the ability to hold her locations for her, they have super-strength, big teeth and sharp claws and are very difficult to kill/maim. However, aside from being able to hold her lands, they have no magic of their own. They remain hers until they die or she releases them. Like the locations, she has to refresh the spell every seven days, but once cast, refreshing only takes a few minutes.
So at MOST, she could hold three city blocks with two minions, but it's doubtful she'd be able to hold it for more than a few days before she became so exhausted that she'd loose control - at which point the locations and the minions would revert and she'd be powerless for a time.
Exceptions for iron-clad characters (aka - Marvel's logic FAIL): For whatever reason, Marvel used Colossus' steel form as an excuse to not have him affected by Maddie's power. As such, characters with iron or steel armor can resist her magic (in all forms) so long as they have the armor on. (Why this didn't extend to buildings with steel frames or cars is anyone's guess - but that's how it worked, so that's what I'm sticking with.) I will go so far as to add that iron or steel weapons CAN be used to disrupt her spells, but only at the spell's point of origin, for example: cutting through magical bindings, undoing a transfiguration by piercing the point where the spell was cast, or running through the person transfigured (ouch).