Marvel's Newest Thunderbolt is the Daughter of a Despicable MCU Villain
An upcoming relaunch of the Thunderbolts team, featuring a crew of good guys led by Hawkeye, will include Kara Killgrave among its roster, the daughter of long-time Marvel Comics villain the Purple Man, and nemesis of Jessica Jones in the MCU series of the same name. Kara, first called Purple Girl, then Persuasion, then Purple Woman, and now back to Persuasion, has a complicated history with her deranged father to say the least, and seems like the perfect addition to Jim Zub's new Thunderbolts team.
The Thunderbolts moniker has been used many times throughout Marvel Comics history. It's typically applied to teams of «reformed» supervillains operating as anti-heroes, usually under the direction of a government agency. The newest iteration of the Thunderbolts spins out of the recent events in Devil's Reign, a comics crossover that has seen Mayor Wilson Fisk finally enacting his plan to destroy the Earth's Mightiest Heroes (and the Met Gala), partially with the forced help of the Purple Man and his «Purple Children.» Kara Killgrave, first introduced in 1986's Alpha Flight #41 as a 13-year-old who had just discovered her powers and the nature of her true father, has mainly been a hero but has had to content with her darker side throughout her publication history. Having Persuasion join the Thunderbolts appears to be an ideal choice, seeing as her character is intrinsically associated with her evil father due to their shared purple skin and innately manipulative powers.
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After her introduction in the '80s Kara became an integral part of Beta Flight, and eventually Alpha Flight, and while her father Zebediah Killgrave was apparently killed by Captain
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