Lady Mastermind
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Lady Mastermind (Regan Wyngarde) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. She first appeared in X-Treme X-Men #6 (December 2001) and was created by Chris Claremont and Salvador Larroca.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Lady Mastermind is one of two daughters of Jason Wyngarde, the original Mastermind. She has an intense hatred for her half-sister, Martinique. She was originally involved in a plot created by Sebastian Shaw to have his revenge against Tessa and gain control of the Sydney underworld.
In an attempt to make Tessa work for Shaw again, Lady Mastermind placed her in a series of illusions. However, with the assistance of Lifeguard, Sage was able to break the illusion and reflect Regan's powers back against her, leaving her in a vegetative state.
Regan is one of few mutants that retained their superhuman powers after M-Day. In X-Men vol. 2, #188, Cannonball and Iceman find a comatose Regan, along with a partially disassembled Karima Shapandar. It was stated that Regan fell victim to scientists of the Fordyce Clinic who were trying to determine if a person can catch mutation like a disease.
Regan finally awakened from her coma after her powers had been temporarily hijacked by Serafina. She is now part of Rogue's strike force/field team, but Rogue told Regan that she is only wearing the X-Men uniform because she was found with nothing more then a white sheet. Soon afterwards, the team was ambushed by Pandemic's forces, who captured Rogue and teleported to an unknown location. Eventually, Karima Shapandar was able to restart the teleportation device, but things did not go exactly as planned. Regan was teleported up high into the air and fell from an enormous height. Luckily, Iceman managed to catch her before she hit the ground. Mystique, who was also teleported by the machine, was not as lucky as she was, and vanished. Regan and Iceman soon regrouped with Karima Shapandar, and the trio began to search for Pandemic.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Lady Mastermind possesses the mutant power to project extremely convincing and realistic illusions into the minds of others, the same ability her father had.
Her illusions are hypnotic, and her victims tend to accept them as fact, even when the images and scenarios they are confronted with involve sudden changes to the world around them, or are inconsistent or improbable (for example, Rogue, when under Lady Mastermind's control, did not question the sudden existence of a multitude of Vargases, or the random jumps in location and time she was experiencing).
As such they can be used as a very effective brainwashing tool.
Regan's powers can also kill, as her victims' bodies respond as if her illusions are real. She confronted Viceroy with the illusion that he was drowning, and believing it to be real, he suffocated, despite having no physical injuries and being in a room with sufficient oxygen. Heather Cameron's body also responded in a similar way, bleeding through the pores in her back when she was under the illusion she had been stabbed.
In addition, unlike her father, both Regan and her half-sister Martinique have limited telepathic abilities that enable them to read their foes minds and make their illusions all the more accurate for it.
Regan's illusions have also been shown to persist even after she has been rendered unconscious.
She also carries two handguns in the belt of her X-Men uniform.
[edit] Trivia
- Regan is responsible for the murder of Heather (Lifeguard) and Davis Cameron's (Slipstream) father, Miles Warbeck (the mob boss known as Viceroy).
- In X-Men vol. 2, issue #194, Regan jokes that the only man who was ever able to beat her at a drinking contest was a man named Calvin Goynes after beating another man in a drinking contest through her illusions. Calvin was the scientist who "cut pieces out of" both Regan and Karima Shapandar.
