Candace Southern

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Publication information
Candace "Candy" Southern
Candy as Marvel Girl by John Byrne
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	X-Men vol. 1 #31 (May 1967)
Created by	Roy Thomas Werner Roth
In story information
Full name	Candace Southern
Team affiliations	Hellfire Club Defenders
Supporting character of	X-Men
Notable aliases	Marvel Girl, The Southern Belle

Candace "Candy" Southern is a fictional character most often appearing in X-Men and Defenders stories in the Marvel Comics universe. Writer Roy Thomas created her name by combining the last name of author Terry Southern with the first name of the title character of Southern's novel Candy. She was the long-term girlfriend of Warren Worthington III when he went by the superhero alias Angel.

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Candy was a childhood friend of Warren Worthington III. She reunited with Warren and first met the X-Men at Bobby Drake's 18th birthday party. Candy and Warren then began dating. During this time, Candy learned of Warren's superhero identity. After Warren's second superhero team, the Champions of Los Angeles disband, Candy and Warren began living together.

Warren later joined the Defenders, and Candy began working for the team in a supporting role. She was subsequently named the leader of the Defenders in non-combat contexts. After Warren joined X-Factor, his relationship with Candy became strained. Candy broke up with Warren and left her job with Worthington Industries because she mistakenly believes Warren was having an affair with his teammate Jean Grey.

Candy was later kidnapped and killed by Cameron Hodge, a former friend of Warren and Candy who had betrayed X-Factor as part of an anti-mutant plot. Hodge later dies and joins the Phalanx, a technological based race of shape changers and absorbers.

Warren and Jean, returning to a house familiar to Candy, find her inside. It turns out she is a duplicate of the real Candy, though not fully aware of the circumstance. Hodge returns to battle the two mutants and in the process, kills and destroys Candy's new form.