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Real Name: Mary (last name unrevealed)
Occupation: Former actress, criminal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a criminal record
Identity: Known to the authorities
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Employee and companion of the Kingpin
Known Powers:
Telekinesis: Typhoid has Typical strength Telekinesis that can be used at a one area range. She can manipulate only one object at a time, but with fine precision. As a Power Stunt, she has Poor rank Pyrokineis, the ability to start small fires.
Mind Control: Typhoid is able to telepathically broadcast commands to others, giving her Good Mind Control. Her victims usually do not realize they are being manipulated. She only gives simple commands (such as "Look at me" or "Fire your gun"), and rarely uses this power on her opponents once combat has begun. Out of combat, she can make a man fall in love with her if she succeeds in a Power FEAT against her target's Psyche, taking a - 1CS penalty. Typhoid seems willing to spend Karma on this roll.
Alter-Ego: Typhoid Mary is a schizoid, a character with two separate personalities. Typhoid is aware of the Mary persona, and can even exert her Mind Control powers when Mary is dominant. However, Mary possesses none of Typhoid's other powers, nor is she even aware she has them. She can, however, summon up Typhoid if she wishes to do so, for instance, to save her life. Mary has the following statistics:
| F | A | S | E |
| Pr | Ty | Pr | Ty |
| Health: 20 | |||
Equipment:
Weaponry: Typhoid carries two machetes, which do Excellent Edged damage.
Talents:
Mary has the Acting talent. Typhoid is a Weapons Specialist with her machetes, a skill probably augmented by her telekinesis. She knows Martial Arts C and D (Typhoid's psionics allow her to use this talent without the two rounds of study). Typhoid is skilled in Tumbling as well.
Contacts:
Typhoid has been the associate of the Kingpin.
Role-Playing Notes:
As Mary, she is quiet, loving, and gentle. When she found out that she had an evil alternate persona, she made a decision to commit suicide, sacrificing her life to keep the evil at bay. As Typhoid, she is a wild seeker of pleasures, caring little for human life and nothing at all for Mary's moral qualms. While she often finds men to wrap in her charms and do her dirty work for her, Typhoid is certainly not shy about entering combat herself.
History:
The early childhood of Typhoid Mary is not well documented. It is known that she spent most of her life in one institution after another as doctors attempted to diagnose or cure her dual personality complex. In her Mary persona, she was fragile, sickly, and prone to epilepsy and other medical disorders. As Typhoid, she was utterly unapproachable and uncontrollable. Also, Typhoid seemed to have none of the ailments, including epilepsy, that haunted Mary.
While Typhoid had always known of Mary and her activities, Mary remained unaware that she had an alter ego. More amazing, the two personae had completely different heart rates, alpha waves, electroencephalogram readings, and even different scents. In fact, Typhoid constantly runs a moderate fever. Typhoid did cooperate with her doctors once when they trained her in telekinesis as a test. Typhoid excelled in her talent to move small objects. Mary manifested no such powers.
After several years, Typhoid Mary escaped her institutions and disappeared for a significant time during which she was presumably learning hand-to-hand combat skills. She turned up later as an extremely successful stage actress. After a short but highly acclaimed career, boosted perhaps by Typhoid's ability to control people's minds, she fell out of sight again. Some time later, she appeared in Chicago as Typhoid, operating as a thief and blackmailer. She turned to New York City, Hell's Kitchen in particular, to prey on criminals. Her change might be explained by Mary's buried influence on the Typhoid persona.
Here she came to the attention of the Kingpin, who offered her a million dollars to break Daredevil's heart. She accepted, but found her Mary persona falling in love with the costumed crime-fighter. Worse yet, the Kingpin had fallen under Typhoid's charms and changed her assignment to a simple assassination. But Mary had grown stronger through the love she had for Murdoch and Typhoid found herself unable to carry out her assignment. She looked through the Kingpin's files on Daredevil and chose to enlist an army of Daredevil's more recent and powerful enemies to serve as her army, beating Daredevil to the brink of death before allowing Typhoid to kill him herself. By this time, Mary had been made aware of Typhoid's existence and sought to kill herself by jumping oft a bridge. Coincidentally, this had been the same bridge from which Typhoid had dropped Daredevil days before. Mary looked down to see Daredevil fighting for his life against a demon-possessed vacuum cleaner. She rushed to his aid, only to instinctively call up Typhoid when the vacuum exploded.
Typhoid Mary's current whereabouts are unknown.