Fictional character biography
Tanya Sealy was born in Chicago. A former call girl, she was chosen by the Roxxon Oil Company to partake in a covert operation to retrieve the Serpent Crown. The executives at Roxxon had a device surgically implanted in Sealy's brain which granted her superhuman abilities. Working together with three other snake-themed villains, Sidewinder, Anaconda, and Death Adder, she became a founding member of the Serpent Squad. [2]
Black Mamba later joins Sidewinder's group, the Serpent Society, intending to have a steady source of income. [3] While in the Serpent Society, Black Mamba becomes close friends with Diamondback and Asp. The three later form the mercenary group BAD Girls, Inc. [4] She also briefly serves in Superia's all-female group, the Femizons, but betrays the group to aid Captain America and Paladin. [5]
For some time, Black Mamba served in Crimson Cowl's Masters of Evil in hopes of a large profit while battling the Thunderbolts. [6] She later returns to the Serpent Society. [7]
During the "Civil War" storyline, Black Mamba appears along with Diamondback and Asp as a member of Captain America's anti-registration group. [8] She takes part in the final battle of the "war", but does not accept the offer of amnesty that came with Captain America's surrender. [9] [10]
During the "Dark Reign" storyline, Black Mamba is revealed as a member of the Women Warriors, the Initiative's Delaware-based team. [11]
Black Mamba is one of the assassins tasked by the Assassins Guild to collect the bounty on Domino's head. She attempts to use her powers on Wolverine, causing him to perceive his late lover Mariko Yashida. She is later stabbed in the chest by X-23, but is healed by Elixir, to Wolverine's chagrin. [12]
In "All-New, All-Different Marvel", Black Mamba appears as a member of Viper's Serpent Society under its new name Serpent Solutions. [13]
Powers and abilities
Black Mamba has limited telepathic abilities that allow her to scan the minds of others nearby. The extent of her telepathy is unrevealed; it is unknown if she possesses other abilities possessed by most telepaths, such as mental communication. She uses this power to extract and project illusions of loved ones into her victims' minds while placing her target in a sedated trance-like state in which they are fixated upon the mental image she has created.
Mamba can generate a cloud of tangible Darkforce energy that she uses to ensnare her victim, constricting them with potentially fatal force. The victim, however, is unaware, and views the Darkforce energy as the loved one she has projected into their mind. Trapped in Mamba's ecstatic trance, the victim is completely unaware that they are being strangled and can die in minutes. She can also use her Darkforce to surround herself, disguising herself as whomever she wishes to look like.
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