Atom Eve

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Atom Eve

Bonus pin-up of Atom Eve from Invincible #23 by Khary Randolph
Publication information
Publisher Image Comics
First appearance Invincible #1 (January 2003)
Created by Robert Kirkman
Cory Walker
In story information
Alter ego Samantha Eve Wilkins
Team affiliations Teen Team
Abilities Control over atomic particles

Atom Eve (real name: Samantha Eve Wilkins) is a fictional superhero, who appears in the comic book Invincible, published by Image Comics. Her first appearance was in Invincible #1 (January 2003).

[edit] Fictional character biography

Atom Eve was created by the government to be a weapon. At birth, she was switched with a stillborn, and sent home with a caring family. She was a prodigy in science and received a scholarship to a prestigious school. Her scientific ability turned out to be an early manifestation of her powers. A man approached her one day, warning Eve that her powers may be her downfall and encouraged her to never to use them again[1].

Prior to the first issue of Invincible, Atom Eve joins the Teen Team as an after-school superhero. She soon starts a friendship with Invincible after the two meet saving a shipment of video game consoles from a Mauler twin[2]. Eve and Mark are thought by many to be in a romantic relationship, despite their protests that they are "just friends"[3]. After discovering that Rex Splode, her boyfriend, is cheating on her with Dupli-Kate, she resigns from the Teen Team[4].

Although she does not join the new Guardians of the Globe along with her former Teen Team teammates, she continues as an active superhero for some time. She eventually decides that her talents are being wasted on superheroics and that she could do more good elsewhere. Subsequently she quits superhero work and moves to Africa to engage in aid work.[5] She has come out of "retirement" in response to large threats, like the cosmic villain Omnipotus and a Martian invasion.[6]

In Invincible #34, Invincible meets a version of Atom Eve from 15 years in the future who confesses her undying love for him. She instructs him to either tell her that he loves her or that he hates or doesn't want anything to do with her romantically, so that she could get on with her life.[7] While Invincible is recovering from the incident with the Reanimen, he flies to meet Eve, whom he had not talked to since the fight with Angstrom Levy. After sharing a friendly hug and an awkward pause afterwards, they share a passionate kiss. Immediately afterward, however, Mark apologizes and voices his guilt at going behind his girlfriend's back, and is relieved to be called to fight off an alien invasion.[8]

After hearing that Invincible broke up with his girlfriend, Eve shows up at his dorm asking, "So -- are we dating or what?"[9], but leaves without a word when he tells Eve about his encounter with her future self.

[edit] Powers and abilities

Atom Eve is able to manipulate matter at the sub-atomic level by sheer will power. Organic and inorganic matter can be changed into anything she desires. She can augment normally unhealthy food such as cakes and other sweets into nutritious foods as well as re-arrange the environment. Her costume is easily created by altering her clothes to fashion her Atom Eve suit. She can also fly by lowering the density of the air around her as well as creating force fields.[10]

A downside to Atom Eve's transmutation powers is that she absorbs any unused atoms into her body, which must later be eliminated from her system as waste. She claims that on days when she uses her powers a lot she can "go to the bathroom" six or seven times.[11]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Origin story from the back of Invincible #25
  2. ^ Invincible #1
  3. ^ Invincible #4
  4. ^ Invincible #6 & 8
  5. ^ Invincible #19-20
  6. ^ Invincible #39-41
  7. ^ Invincible #37
  8. ^ Invincible #38
  9. ^ Invincible #43
  10. ^ Invincible #25 (August 2005)
  11. ^ Official Handbook of the Invincible Universe #1 (Dec 2006)
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