Marvel Woman

## **History**

### **Maeve: 1982 - 2004**

[1]The official backstory of Queen Maeve stated that she was born the ruler of a fantastic world, known as the Otherworld (referred to as Netherworld, sometimes), and that she chose to use her incredible power to bring the peace and the harmony her world knew to our own, so hurt by violence and war. Arrived on Earth, she joined The Seven, becoming a feminist icon and without a doubt the most powerful woman on the planet, a true heroine who could be an inspiration for all girls.
[2]Of course, this story is completely fake, a bunch of myths and fables crafted by **Vought-American**, the company that was actually behind Queen Maeve’s birth. As the rest of The Seven, she was the daughter of an unknown poor woman, someone “the world wouldn’t have missed”, and she was injected with huge doses of **Compound V** since she was a fetus.

### **Maeve: 2004 - 2010**

At her birth, she caused the death of her mother with her superhuman powers, and she was raised in a V-A lab until she reached maturity; then, she was presented to the world as a product ready for merchandising, with fake backstory and all. Unlike her male teammates, though, Queen Maeve somehow believed her made-up background, and she wanted to do some good. and that she chose to use her incredible power to bring the peace and the harmony her world knew to our own, so hurt by violence and war. Arrived on **Earth**, she joined The Seven, becoming a feminist icon and without a doubt the most powerful woman on the planet, a true heroine who could be an inspiration for all girls.

She abruptly changed her mind on **September 11th 2001**, when The Seven were sent to stop a terrorist attack aimed at **New York City**. She and the others boarded a hijacked plane, but their intervention, with no expertise nor training, proved to be disastrous, and much to her shock the **Homelander**, the team’s leader, had no plan at all (he believed she had one). Homelander escaped, and as the plane was doomed to crash, Queen Maeve fought to reach an exit… killing innocent passengers with her sword to save herself. The plane destroyed the **Brooklyn Bridge**, causing hundreds of deaths, and Maeve never was the same after that.

### **Marvel Woman: 2010 - 2016**

After 2001, Queen Maeve developed a deep hatred for her teammates, and found two new life reasons that kept her busy: alcohol and sex. She had always some stupid fan who willingly acted as her slave, while she hired body builders to have orgies with them. All the while, she drank unbelievable amounts of gin, spending all of her time drunk and angry with the world. In her mix of alcohol and sex, she sometimes had affairs with other **supes**, such as **Midnight Lightning**, who she had a son with, and **Stormfront**; once, she was also tricked by Homelander to have sex with **Black Noir**, but then it turned out that it was all a cruel and childish prank, and that the Homelander had taken pictures of the entire intercourse and distributed them to all the Seven, humiliating her… and increasing her already deep hatred against him.

Finally, she found an unexpected confidante in **The Legend**, the man who had been responsible for creating and printing all the heroic lies about The Seven and the other supes, building with his comicbooks a fandom empire for them. The Legend was different from the other men she had met, and albeit he was definitely ugly, she eventually started to feel something for him. The two started an affair, and they even had a son together, the boy that would have become **Blarney Cock** of the **Teenage Kix**. The Legend also convinced Queen Maeve to make something with all her grudge and her hatred, and he introduced her to **The Boys**, a group hellbent on destroying Vought-American and expose The Seven for the hoax they were.

### **Marvel Woman: 2016 - Present**

Queen Maeve planted bugs all over The Seven’s headquarters, delivering the recordings to The Boys anonymously, as the less people knew about her betrayal, the less chances she had to be caught by Homelander and the others. This didn’t mean, of course, that she would have stopped with all the heavy drinking and the orgies.

Maeve is on reasonably amicable terms with Wonder Woman. While Diana initially distrusted Maeve and disapproved of her alcoholism and apathy, she warmed up to her after learning about the circumstances that led to Maeve becoming like that and how she sacrificed herself by fighting against Homelander in order to allow Starlight to safely escape. Maeve's alternate personality, being nicer and genuinely wanting to save people even though her experiences have left her jaded, tends to be a more active hero and frequently teams up with Diana.

## **Appearance**

After more than a month of new arrivals in the ongoing tv series, we can come back to breaking down the first trailer for ***The Boys***, and here’s another member of **The Seven**, the only one not doing silly things in the **Vought International** advertisement, but rather striking an epic pose: she’s **Queen Maeve, Empress of the Otherworld**, portrayed by **Dominique McElligott**. As The Seven are a pastiche of the **Justice League of America**, Maeve is clearly a twisted version of **Wonder Woman**, but definitely not as twisted as her teammates. Let’s take a look.

## **Powers, Abilities, Equipment, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Otherworlder Physiology:**

* **Absolute Strength:** Maeve, like all Otherworlders, possesses superhuman strength. She is significantly stronger than any other Valkyrie, and most other Asgardian men and women for that matter. Marvel Woman has shown she is strong enough to defeat opponents like Shemoth. Maeve is the second strongest being in the world, only behind Captain Honor in terms of strength. Her strength is so great that when she was younger, she punched a falling school bus. Her feats include breaking a speeding van in half by standing still, effortlessly flipping a table across an apartment, and effortlessly snapping a man's neck. She also possesses the ability to leap great distances. She was shown to be able to restrain Black Noir without too much effort and overpower Stormfront who both possess high levels of super strength and durability.
	+ **Shockwave Clap:** Maeve can generate by clapping her hands. These vibration waves can push targets over, propel them away, shatter them, even cause earthquakes by shaking the ground or dislodging underground tectonic plates, thus causing earthquakes.
	+ **Supernatural Leap:** Maeve can combine her super strength and dexterity to perform highly accurate super jumps. During her first appearance, she is shown to leap up and down from rooftops with ease. She is also seen leaping out of a building, from a hole in the ceiling.
* **Invulnerability:** Maeve is immune to nearly all forms of physical harm, her durability being the most similar to that of Captain Honor than any other known Supes. Maeve possesses a high resistance to magical attacks. She can withstand falls from great heights, exposure to extremes in both temperature and pressure, high caliber bullets, and tremendous impact forces without sustaining injury. Maeve was durable enough to survive being hit by a speeding armored van, splitting it in half. Her resilience is such that she can be carried by Homelander while flying at his top speed (sufficient to overtake a passenger jet several thousand miles away), and suffer no ill effects from friction or turbulence. Maeve has withstood considerable bludgeoning damage in the form of hand to hand combat with metahuman opponents such as Superman and Captain Marvel.
* **Decelerated Aging & Longevity:** Like all Otherworlders, Maeve is extremely long lived and ages at a pace much slower than that of a human being. However, unlike The Gods who are immortal, Asgardians do continue to age.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Despite her body's great resistance, Maeve can sustain physical injury just like any other Asgardian. If injured, her metabolism enables her to rapidly regenerate damaged bodily tissue faster and more extensive than a human being is capable of. Injuries such as slashes and puncture wounds can heal completely within a matter of hours and broken bones within a matter of days.
* **Supernatural Speed:** Maeve can run and move at speeds that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. She is able to think, react, and move at superhuman speeds. According to A-Train, she can easily keep up with him if he is at regular cruising speed (but not at top speed). Maeve is able to achieve speeds that allow her run along walls of buildings, defying gravity for short periods of time. Running in this manner, she was easily able to overtake and pass a speeding armored vehicle.
* **Supernatural Athleticism:** Maeve's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels that are way beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete. She is able to defeat multiple attackers simultaneously with little effort.
* **Supernatural Stamina:** Maeve's advanced musculature produces considerably less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of a human being. At her peak, she can exert herself physically at peak capacity for about 24 hours before the build up of fatigue toxins in her blood begins to impair her.
* **Supernatural Reflexes:** Maeve reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete. She has been able to react to a barrage of gunfire from multiple opponents at once unharmed. Black Noir noted that her reflexes are superior to that of Captain Honor.
* **Supernatural Senses:** Maeve has heightened senses. She was easily able to detect Jack Jupiter, although he was motionless and invisible in the ladies' room, much to his surprise.

### **Abilities**

**Combat Specialist:** Maeve is the finest warrior ever born among the Amazons. She is a master of armed and unarmed combat, proficient with nearly every weapon ever made (especially the bow and the javelin) and the exotic martial arts styles of the Amazons. Black Noir once remarked that Wonder Woman is the best melee fighter in the world. Maeve is a formidable combatant and has been highly trained in hand to hand combat. She is able to defeat multiple opponents at once while training. In conjunction with Starlight and the Female, she managed to overwhelm Stormfront in combat.

### **Weaknesses**

**Brute Force:** Supes of extreme levels of strength can harm and kill her; however, few are at this level. Maeve has been afraid of Captain Honor, knowing that he is fully capable of killing her--although this could be due to his laser attack rather than his physical strength. Stormfront was able stagger her with her blows, but it isn’t known if she could have beaten Maeve in a one-on-one fight, as Maeve had Kimiko and Starlight backing her up, overwhelming Stormfront.

**Humanity:** Despite being a member of The Otherworlders, and being a hardened cynic, Maeve actually does care about humanity, and deep down wants to be a real hero. She wanted to save the people on the plane and it greatly haunted her to let them die. She also deeply cares for The Legend, and Her has used this to bend Maeve to his whim. She also has a soft spot for Starlight and becomes increasingly willing to help her. Maeve seems to have overcome this weakness by the end of Season 2, and showing much more open admiration for the people she truly respects.

**Magic:** Maeve states that the only thing that can hurt her is the magic of the deities. A creature sent by Felix Faust, was able to wound her despite her skin being bulletproof**. Stormfront was able stagger her with her blows, but it isn’t known if she could have beaten Maeve in a one-on-one fight, as Maeve had Kimiko and Starlight backing her up, overwhelming Stormfront.**