  valerie "val" cooper is a fictional character in the marvel comics universe who works for the office of national emergency. she is most notable for her work as the liaison for mutant affairs in the united states government. she once claimed to have been inspired to government service by the interesting cases her brother, an fbi agent, encountered in his work. (it was implied, but never stated outright, that her brother was dale cooper from twin peaks.x-factor vol. 1 #71) ==publication history==  valerie cooper was created by chris claremont and john romita, jr., and first appeared in uncanny x-men #176 (december 1983). dr. valerie cooper received an entry in the official handbook of the marvel universe update '89 #2. ==fictional character biography== dr. valerie cooper was originally a special national security advisor on national security issues, which include metahuman affairs. originally, valerie cooper took a hard-line concern on the problem of the threat that superhumans and mutants posed to the united states. ===freedom force=== this position changed slightly when valerie cooper oversaw mystique's team, the former brotherhood of mutants, which operated as government agents under the new name of freedom force. around this time cooper was also involved in a project to create government sponsored superheroes which resulted in the creation of the second version of spider-woman(julia carpenter) as well as three villains that would become her enemies deathweb. carpenter would subsequently be assigned by cooper to join freedom force. meanwhile, valerie cooper and the commission were directly involved in the events of the government demanding the identity of captain america under the argument that he was their property. with steve rogers giving up the identity of captain america, cooper supervised the recruitment of john walker and battlestar. the two of them became the new captain america and the new bucky, respectively. valerie cooper's next duty was to hire forge, to create a machine t
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