Maya Hansen

Maya Hansen
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Iron Man vol. 4, #1 (January 2005)
Created by Warren Ellis and Adi Granov
In-story information
Abilities Genius-level intellect

Maya Hansen is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Publication history

Maya Hansen first appeared in Iron Man vol. 4, #1 (January 2005) and was created by Warren Ellis and Adi Granov.

Fictional character biography

Within the context of the Extremis storyline, Maya is a scientist who developed the Extremis virus alongside Aldrich Killian. When Killian steals a sample of the virus and sells it to domestic terrorists, she calls up her old friend Tony Stark to help recover it.[1] After Tony is severely beaten by Mallen, a terrorist who had been injected with the virus, he convinces Maya to inject him with Extremis too.[2] Tony defeats and apprehends Mallen, but he discovers that Killian could not have acted alone in selling Extremis. Tony confronts Maya, who confesses to assisting in the crime as she knew it would force defense contractors to renew their funding. She is subsequently taken into custody.[3]

Later, Tony believes Extremis is altering his brain functions so he gets her out of jail to help him. She is placed under his custody.[4] When Sal Kennedy is killed, Maya feels she could have saved him if she had been allowed to continue her research on Extremis. She is unknowingly tricked into giving the Mandarin samples of the virus.[5]

Following the events of the Secret Invasion storyline, Maya Hansen disappeared from the series and was not seen again until the relaunch of the Iron Man series during the Marvel NOW! event. It was revealed that she was kidnapped by A.I.M. to recreate the Extremis serum for them and succeeded. Though she was killed while trying to escape, she accomplishes her failsafe plan by sending a prerecorded message she made to Tony to warn him that the Extremis virus is on the loose again.[6]

Powers and abilities

Maya Hansen has genius-level intellect.

In other media

Film

Motion comics

References

  1. Warren Ellis (w), Adi Granov (p), Adi Granov (i). "Extremis (Part I of VI)" Iron Man v4, 1 (January 2005), Marvel Comics
  2. Warren Ellis (w), Adi Granov (p), Adi Granov (i). "Extremis (Part IV of VI)" Iron Man v4, 4 (March 2005), Marvel Comics
  3. Warren Ellis (w), Adi Granov (p), Adi Granov (i). "Extremis (Part VI of VI)" Iron Man v4, 6 (April 2006), Marvel Comics
  4. Daniel Knauf & Charles Knauf (w), Patrick Zircher (p), Scott Hanna (i). "Execute Program (Part IV of VI)" Iron Man v4, 10 (September 2006), Marvel Comics
  5. Charles Knauf (w), Roberto De La Torre (p), Jon Sibal (i). "The Initiative: Part 4" Iron Man v4, 18 (July 2007), Marvel Comics
  6. Iron Man Vol. 5 #1

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