Shriek (comics)

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Shriek
Cover to Amazing Spider-Man 391 Art by Mark Bagley
Publisher Marvel Comics First appearance Spider-Man Unlimited Vol. 1 #1 (May 1993) Created by Tom Defalco, Mike W. Barr, Terry Kavanaugh, Ron Lim, Jerry Bingham, and Mark Bagley
Characteristics Alter ego Frances Louise Barrison Species Human Mutant Affiliations Sandra Deel, Carnage "family", Ravencroft inmates Abilities -Ability to tap into people's minds and bring out their inner darkness (fear, anger, hate), making them act in violent manners -Ability to shoot sonic energy blasts from her hands -Ability to shield herself with a sonic buffer field -Flight

Shriek is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. She is an enemy of Spider-Man. She was created by Tom DeFalco, Mike W. Barr, Terry Kavanaugh, Ron Lim, Jerry Bingham, and Mark Bagley in Spider-Man Unlimited volume 1 #1 (May 1993).

Contents 1 Character biography 2 Powers and abilities 3 Video Games 4 Link

[edit] Character biography

Shriek is a dangerous and criminally insane villain with the ability to manipulate sound. She once allied herself with Carnage and several other supervillains who went about New York on a killing spree.

Shriek's origins and real name are uncertain. She was named Sandra Deel in her earliest appearances, but named Frances Louise Barrison in later appearances. According to the Spider-Man Encyclopedia she was born Frances Louise Barrison, but used Sandra Deel as an alias.

During her childhood, she was abused by her mother for being overweight, driving her to drugs and leading to her later fixation on becoming a mother herself. She became a drug dealer, which exposed her to situations that ultimately damaged her sanity; namely, being shot in the head by a police officer, and being put in Cloak's dark dimension. The origin of Shriek's powers is likewise unknown; she may be a mutant, or the powers may have emerged as a result of her time in Cloak's dimension.

Shriek debuted at the start of the "Maximum Carnage" crossover. During Carnage's violent escape from the Ravencroft mental institution, he came across Shriek, who was also incarcerated and wished to join him. He freed her, and the pair embarked on a killing spree. They attracted the company of several other homicidal supervillains (Demogoblin, Doppelganger, and Carrion), and formed a "family," with Carnage and Shriek as the "parents" and the others as their "sons". Shriek also used her mental powers to increase the chaos by causing a number of New Yorkers to violently turn on one another, although the heroes were able to calm the people down before they did anything too serious, such as killing their own children. The killers fought a number of heroes, led by Spider-Man, but succumbed to in-fighting. Carnage slew the Doppelganger and left the others to their defeat and capture, although he was subsequently contained by the Avengers after a clash with Spider-Man, Venom and Black Cat.

Shriek was returned to Ravencroft, and attempted to escape twice. Once, alongside the vigilante Mayhem and a handful of other inmates, she was defeated by Spider-Man and John Jameson before they managed to escape. The second time, she and Carrion escaped and tried to become a family. In the end, she absorbed the Carrion virus into herself to release her "son" from his suffering. She was returned to Ravencroft, where the virus was taken from her by the Jackal. She has not been seen since then and no one knows what became of her, however it's mentioned in the Spider-Man Encyclopedia that she is slowly beginning to respond to psychotherapy.

[edit] Powers and abilities

Shriek has the ability to manipulate sound in a number of elaborate ways. She can harness it for destructive concussive force or use it to disorient and agitate her enemies. She can apparently hypersonically induce intense emotion in those around her (generating fear, hate, or despair). She also has moderate powers of levitation that she can use to make herself fly and possibly some low level of psionic ability.

Presumably, she also has some type of psionic ability that allows her to sense the darkest side to a person's psyche so that she can use her powers to specifically manipulate that persons emotions. Her scarred left eye is also prone to glow whenever she uses her powers (the diamond-mark on her eye seems to serve no purpose, however, and why only that eye glows is uncertain. The eye mark, and her solid white skin, may be a parody of the Czarnian alien race from DC Comics, of which Lobo is a member).

[edit] Video Games

Shriek was among the boss characters that appeared in Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage, which was based on the story-arc that she was a part of.

Shriek will also make an appearance in Spider-Man 3 as one of the minor villains, for the Wii, PS2, and PSP versions.

[edit] Link

• Shriek profile at Spiderfan.org
• The Women of Marvel Comic's Shriek page
• Shriek on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki