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Super Villain Origins: Madame Masque


come on Whitney don’t do this we can
figure it out we can make it better
her golden mask hides a villainous smile
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
will explore the comic book origins of
Whitney Frost
aka Madame masque who don’t know
anything about me because you don’t care
as with most comic book characters there
are often reimagining and different
versions to a character’s past we have
chosen to primarily follow the storyline
which unfolded in 1968 iron man number
one and number eight which was expanded
upon in 1969 s iron man number 17 to 18
the villain s known as Madame masque
started out in 1968 as Whitney Frost a
glamorous millionairess who was rescued
from a sinking ship by SHIELD agent
Jasper Sitwell I told you shield doesn’t
negotiate Frost been aboard the ship
hoping to meet Tony Stark a rich playboy
who was secretly the superhero known as
Iron Man
however Frost bestowed her favors upon
Sitwell after he rescued her not out of
genuine love but to use him for her own
purposes it turned out that Frost was a
member of the crime cartel known as the
maggia within how touching that you
remember my ever hands but Whitney is
gone
Madame masque next to you in Ironman
number eight much more was revealed
about Frost she was in fact Big M the
leader of the maggia she had played
Sitwell for a fool and was now
attempting to break into the vault at
Stark Enterprises in a flashback her
whole story was told as the daughter of
the wealthy businessman byron frost
whitney had lived a charmed life she was
beautiful
rich and engaged one of the most
desirable bachelors in the world yet her
life began to unravel when byron frost
died and Whitney learned that he was not
her real father her real father was the
head of the maggia and the super villain
known as count nefaria the maggia will
not lay down for you your magic all
these games the count was determined for
Whitney to join him in leading the magic
but his daughter about returning to her
fiance she was shocked to discover that
he would have nothing more to do with
her being involved with the daughter of
a crime lord would ruin his own future
and thus he abandoned her Whitney was
left with no choice but to rejoin her
father and take on a life of crime I
gave you a second chance I let you go
and you do this Whitney quickly
dedicated herself to her new life
unfortunately she had also developed
genuine feelings for Sitwell along the
way she had second thoughts about how
her robbery of start secrets would
affect sitwell’s career as a SHIELD
agent
so imagine her surprise when she
discovered that Sitwell had been on to
her that she had been walked into a trap
even so she still had feelings for
Sitwell and saved his life and in return
Sidwell let her escape the next year in
a storyline involving Tony Stark’s
cousin Morgan and the villain known as
Midas alive figure appeared on the
screen wearing a solid gold mask she was
a formidable foe who went by the name
Madame masque when Morgan Stark
expressed curiosity about who she was
beneath the mask she showed him and the
shock caused him to faint later we
learned that the woman beneath the mask
was Whitney Frost she had been in a
plane crash from which Midas’s men had
rescued her a surgeon had saved her life
but chemicals from the explosion had
horribly disfigured her face
this had also hardened her heart as she
believed that no man could ever possibly
love her again however working with the
real Tony Stark she came to think that
perhaps she was wrong and thus began the
love-hate relationship between madame
masque and iron man that lasted for
years and continues to this day very
well at hurry
we have much lost time to make up for
madame masque does not possess super
powers but she doesn’t really need them
as the leader of the maggia she has
demonstrated her skills as a strategist
and a commander on her own she is
skilled in hand-to-hand combat and an
expert in martial arts and that mask has
a practical purpose as well it protects
her face from blows and weapons this is
not a person to be trifled with or
underestimated are you a fan of the
mysterious Madame masque for more comic
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look at me admit it
admit it beauty that when my love was
inside you
but you killed it a long time
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