Bella Donna (comics)

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna Boudreaux (Earth-616) from All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol 1.jpg
Bella Donna as depicted in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #2 (February 2006).
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance X-Men (vol. 2) #8
(May 1992)
Created by Scott Lobdell (writer)
Jim Lee (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoBella Donna Boudreaux
Species Human mutant
Team affiliationsAssassins' Guild
United Guilds
Notable aliasesBelladonna
Belle
Abilities
  • Astral projection
  • Plasma blasts

Bella Donna Boudreaux is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Scott Lobdel and artist Jim Lee, [1] the character first appeared in X-Men (vol. 2) #8 (May 1992). [2] Bella Donna is a member of the Assassin's Guild. [3] She has been involved in a star-crossed romance with the superhero Gambit, a member of the Thieves Guild. [4]

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Publication history

Bella Donna debuted in X-Men (vol. 2) #8 (May 1992), created by Scott Lobdel and Jim Lee. [2] She appeared in the 1993 Gambit series, [5] the 1994 Rogue mini-series, and the 2018 Mr. & Mrs. X series. [6]

Fictional character biography

Young street-thief Remy LeBeau met Bella Donna Boudreaux when they were only children, and the pair soon became friends. Unbeknownst to them both, they came from rival Guilds (those of Thieves and Assassins, respectively). As they grew up and the rivalry between the Guilds increased, their fathers arranged for a marriage between the two in the hopes that it would unite the Guilds. Immediately after the wedding, Bella Donna's brother, Julien, lashed out in jealousy and challenged Remy in a fight to the death. Remy won, killing Julien, and as punishment, he was exiled from New Orleans. [7]

A few years later, Bella Donna sought out Gambit to help fend off the Brood, who were attacking the Guilds. Having persuaded Gambit and the X-Men to come back to New Orleans, they battled the new enemy with the aid of Dan Ketch, the second Ghost Rider. [8] Using her new psychic powers, Bella Donna followed Psylocke into the astral plane and expended her energy, before collapsing in Gambit's arms. Believing her dead, he told the Thieves Guild to take care of her, and went off for revenge against the Brood. [9]

As it happened, Bella Donna was not actually dead, but merely in a coma. Gambit risked his life to bring her Candra's Elixir of Life. In the meantime, although she was catatonic, Rogue accidentally touched her and she lost her memories. She woke up without any recollection of who she was, or who Remy was, and was taken away by her father. [10]

Bella Donna's memory slowly returned, and she felt as if her soul had been violated. Enraged and manipulated by Candra, she had Rogue's comatose old boyfriend Cody kidnapped. [11] This led to Rogue trying to rescue Cody in Louisiana. Eventually, Cody loses his life in the fight between Rogue and Candra. [12]

Gambit returned again to New Orleans, ignorant to the multiple hits put up against him in the meantime. Bella Donna herself had taken one of the contracts, though she had no intention of killing him. Instead, she arranged it so that she could meet with him and sort out the conflicting emotions she had about him. After he was elected Viceroy of the Unified Guilds of New Orleans he passed power on to her, and returned to the X-Men. She now rules in his absence, still in love with him.

She briefly entered a relationship with Bandit, a former New Warriors member, eerily reminiscent of Gambit, but Gambit subsequently revealed he was manipulating her.

It has yet to be revealed whether Bella Donna has retained her mutant powers after the events of M-Day.

Bella Donna reappeared, still leading the Assassin's Guild. She dispatches a group of super-villain assassins after Domino.

Much later, she clashes with Kaine who takes on the Scarlet Spider identity.

After hearing of Remy and Anna-Marie's wedding, Bella paid her ex-fiance a quick visit at the newlywed's humble abode right when the Thieves Guild comes crashing into it. Gambit's old flame came to warn him that none in the guilds are all too happy with whom he married and now his subordinates are gunning for both his crown and his head. [13] She would opt to keep the sharks in her den off of his back as long as she could, but could make no guarantees due to their rival sects history before bidding farewell.

Ms. Bordeaux would next turn up in the service of Candra once more as she proposed to unite the Thieves & Assassins Guilds in wake of Nate Grey's devastation of the X-Men and the mutant population. But found herself on the receiving end of her reborn patron's treachery once again when the External offered a choice between her and Rogue as a sacrifice in exchange for power or exile. Gambit would choose neither however and instead opted to free his new wife while working out a new deal between his clan and their mortal enemies while putting his adopted father; Jean-Luc LeBeau in as a regent whom oversees and reports back to him while returning leadership of the assassins back to Bella Donna, who escorts the scheming patron of her clansmen away while joking of sending the now infantile manipulator to school if she does not behave. [14]

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