Mastermind (Martinique Jason)

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Mastermind
Mastermind, art by Sean Phillips.
Publisher Marvel Comics First appearance Wolverine/Gambit: Victims #1 (September 1995) Created by Jeph Loeb Tim Sale
Characteristics Alter ego Martinique Jason Species Human Mutant Affiliations X-Corps Brotherhood of Evil Mutants ally of Arcade Abilities Illusion generation

Martinique Jason, also known as Mastermind, a fictional mutant supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. She first appeared in Wolverine/Gambit: Victims #2 (September 1995) and was created by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. Martinique is the daughter of Jason Wyngarde, the first Mastermind and member of the first Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and the half-sister of Regan Wyngarde, also known as Lady Mastermind. Like Regan, Martinique is a mutant with the ability of creating telepathic illusions, a power both women inherited from their father.

Contents 1 Character biography 2 Powers 3 Bibliography 4 See also

[edit] Character biography

She teamed up with Arcade to frame Wolverine for several murders in London. One of the victims had been a friend of Gambit's. Gambit went to London, where he was pitted against Wolverine by Martinique. Martinique eventually turned the tables on Arcade by giving him a recurring nightmare.

Martinique later joined an incarnation of the Brotherhood of Mutants led by Mystique. This Brotherhood was involved in another assassination attempt on the Senator Robert Kelly, who at the time was running for the United States presidency. The Brotherhood were defeated by the X-Men and a dying Pyro, who sacrificed his life to save Kelly. During the encounter, she was placed in a coma by Cable.

She was later removed from a hospital by Multiple Man, for use in Banshee's paramilitary mutant police group, X-Corps. Martinique's powers were employed to keep the supervillain members of the group, Blob, Avalanche and Fever Pitch under Banshee's control. She was eventually awoken by Mystique, who had infiltrated the group under the disguise of the mutant Surge. The two women then "freed" the villain members of the X-Corps and used them to lay waste to Paris. They were defeated by the X-Men.

It is unknown Martinique retained her mutant powers after M-Day.

[edit] Powers

Like her father and sister, Martinique Jason is a mutant psion with the ability to create sensorial illusions that affect all five senses of those the illusion is cast on. Her powers do not affect any surveillance devices because they do not affect machines, only the mind.

[edit] Bibliography

• Cable #87
• Daredevil #352
• Uncanny X-Men #401-406
• Wolverine/Gambit: Victims #2-4
• X-Men vol. 2, #106
• X-Men Unlimited #26

[edit] See also

• List of fictional characters who can create illusions