Courtney Ross
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Captain Britain Weekly #3 (1976) |
| Created by | Chris Claremont Herb Trimpe Fred Kida |
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| Alter ego | Courtney Ross |
| Team affiliations | Excalibur, Captain Britain |
| Notable aliases | The Ice Queen |
| Abilities | None |
Courtney Ross is a fictional character from Marvel Comics originating in the Captain Britain comics as Brian Braddock's college girlfriend. She was created by Chris Claremont and drawn by artists Herb Trimpe and Fred Kida. In her first appearances, Courtney was a brunette, but it was later revealed that she dyed her platinum blond hair, so she would be taken seriously.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Courtney Ross came from a wealthy family and went to Thames University, London, where she met and started to date Brian Braddock, not knowing that Brian was in fact the superhero Captain Britain. She later found out about his secret life, but the two remained lovers. Captain Britain went missing shortly afterwards and Courtney assumed that he had died. When he returned, Brian fell in love with the mutant Meggan and it would be years before he would meet Courtney again.
Courtney met Brian Braddock again, when he had become a member of Excalibur. She had become a successful city banker nicknamed The Ice Queen. She now no longer dyed her hair, and Brian was surprised that Courtney with blond hair looked exactly like his old acquaintance Saturnyne, her counterpart from another universe.
Brian and Courtney resumed their friendship, shortly before she was attacked by Arcade and the Crazy Gang. Confronted in her offices, she managed to fight through the Crazy Gang's forces, only to be captured by Arcade and taken to a new Murderworld. There she was forced to improvise comedy in order to survive, surprising both herself and Arcade by being sufficiently entertaining to survive until she was rescued by Excalibur. Returning home after surviving Arcade's assassination attempt and enjoying the thrill of danger, she was vaporized by another counterpart from an alternate universe, Opal-Lun Sat-Yr-9. Sat-Yr-9 took Courtney's Ross identity and when last seen still used this identity.
[edit] New Excalibur
Someone claiming to be Courtney Ross has been seen in recent issues of Uncanny X-Men during the House of M crossover, as well as in the early issues of New Excalibur. It is not yet clear whether this character is Sat-Yr-9, the true Courtney Ross (possibly resurrected as a side-effect of House of M), or someone else entirely.
[edit] Notes
- Prior to Sat-Yr-9 assuming her identity in regular Marvel continuity (nicknamed "Earth 616"), Courtney Ross did not have any superhuman or mutant abilities.
- Saturnyne was not originally created as a duplicate of Courtney Ross. This revelation was a retcon.
