Ultra Girl
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Ultra Girl is a fictional superhero published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in Ultra Girl #1 (November 1996), and was created by Barbara Kesel and Leonard Kirk.
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[edit] Publication history
Ultra Girl also starred in a 3 issue limited miniseries of the same name which was also her debut.
[edit] Fictional character biography
[edit] Early Life
Little is known of the childhood of Suzy Sherman apart from that she was raised in California but her father Toby Sherman, and her mother.
In her teen years, Suzy was struggling model in Southern California. Since she was rapidly developing muscles and the agencies thought she was too "buff" to be a model. On an audition, Suzy was suddenly attacked by a Sentinel, a left-over minion from Onslaught[1].
The Sentinel implied that she was actually a mutant Kree-Warrior, though her exact origins are still unclear today[2]. Reporters who saw the fight between Suzy and the Sentinel ran to interview her. During the interview she kept using the term "Ultra", which led to the press dubbing her "Ultra Girl"[3]. Suzy began to receive endorsements, and thought that being Ultra Girl was her ticket to stardom, so she and her friends designed a costume from sports apparel she had received from past modelling jobs[4]. One of Suzy's friends, Amber, tried to convince her to abandon the superhero idea, but Ultra Girl was set on it, even fighting against the villain, Effex, alongside the New Warriors[5]. Together the Warriors and Ultra Girl defeated Effex[6]
After a mission with the Warriors, Ultra Girl learned that Amber was in fact "Ambra", a Kree agent sent to Earth to watch Suzy, whose real name was Tsu-Zana, discovered her friend Amber & other locals were secretly Kree and that they expected her to serve as Kree messiah[7]. Ambra also informed Suzy that many of her friends (even her childhood doctor) were Kree. It was said in the Kree writings that Tsu-Zana was to be the Ultimate Unifier, so she could eventually restore glory to the Kree Empire. They asked her to abandon her superhero career, as to not draw attention to the Kree[8].
[edit] Civil War
The honor of working with the New Warriors is now haunting her, as the Warriors are falsely blamed for an explosion in Stamford which caused the death of hundreds of people, including children. Ultra Girl is one of the New Warriors whose civilian identities were publicly outed on an Anti-New Warriors website[9]. Teaming with the remaining Warriors and She-Hulk, they shut down the website and discovered it was in fact run by former Warrior, Hindsight[10]
Ultra-Girl is currently a member of Captain America's Secret Avengers[11]. She was seen among the super-heroes rescuing Captain America during Tony's and Steve's private meeting to make one more attempt at settling their differences[12].
[edit] Powers and abilities
Ultra Girl is superhumanly strong, capable of lifting several tons, and is highly resistant to physical injury. She is also superhumanly fast, and can move at velocities approaching the speed of sound, and she heals at an accelerated rate. Ultra Girl can also fly at great speeds. Ultra Girl can alter her vision to see in other wavelengths of energy (besides visible light), such as infrared and ultraviolet.
