Elsa Bloodstone
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Elsa Bloodstone is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe who first appears in the Bloodstone mini-series of 2001. Elsa Bloodstone was created by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, and Michael Lopez
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[edit] Fictional character biography
[edit] Bloodstone
Elsa's father, Bloodstone, met and married a woman named Elise[1]. Elise gave birth to his daughter Elsa, but Ulysses and Elise separated when Elsa was two years old. Ulysses distanced himself from both, and Elsa never knew him as she grew up. Bloodstone trusted Adam the Frankenstein's Monster to give his daughter Elsa a fragment of the Bloodgem in a choker when she was old enough. After Ulysses left, Elise and Elsa traveled across Europe, settling in England where Elsa is schooled. Elsa began to have increasingly frequent dreams about monsters, such as vampires. Eventually she and her mother learned of Ulysses' death, and they flew to Boston to settle his estate.[1]
As Bloodstone begins, Elsa and Elise arrive at Bloodstone House, where they are given a tour by the executor of Ulysses' estate, Charles Barnabas. Exploring the house, Elsa discovers a secret chamber in which she encounters Adam who tells Elsa about her father. Adam gives her the Bloodstone Choker, which attaches itself to her neck. After grabbing a flashing genie lamp, she is transported to Bosnia in the midst of a struggle between Dracula and the Nosferati.[2]
Dracula recognizes the Bloodgem fragment and attacks Elsa, but is blasted away by the Bloodstone Choker. Dracula is then impaled by the Nosferatu, who take him away, while Adam returns Elsa to Bloodstone House. Adam later designs a costume for Elsa, patterned after her father's. The two then have the lamp transport them to Egypt, where they met N'Kantu, the Living Mummy. Elsa later confronts Nosferatu himself, who bites her but is destroyed by the Bloodgem energy in her blood. She and her allies free Dracula who then exposes the Nosferati to sunlight, destroying them.[3]
Elsa lives in Bloodstone Manor with her mother and ally Adam the Frankenstein Monster; she has befriended Charles Barnabus, a pureblood vampire lawyer and executor of the Bloodstone estate. Pursuing a monster-hunting occupation, she begins an online blog to create an electronic encyclopedic reference guide for the numerous monsters and alien beasts in the Marvel Universe (published by Marvel as Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters, albeit written in a very American tone, in contrast to Elsa's English disposition).
[edit] Nextwave
In Nextwave Elsa says she comes from 'a line of near-immortal monster hunters', and has been trained by her father and an android nanny called 'Hate Mother' to fight supernatural evils since infancy. Her relationship with Ulysses Bloodstone seems to have been wildly abusive. For example, as a rite of initiation her father threw her into a pit with a large monster he had captured called the "Blight Beast of Krakow", telling her that if she were to be a Bloodstone, she would have to defeat it. She was a baby at the time. After baby Elsa somehow managed to kill the Blight Beast with her spoon, her father rewarded her for her accomplishment by having her "circumcise the Hideous Felch-Monster of Bihar Province," which was even larger than the Blight Beast. Her lessons with Hate Mother involved her being quizzed about various monsters and being tortured if she gave an incorrect answer. (It has been noted by readers that Ellis' flashbacks greatly contradict the characters' pasts - in the case of both Elsa and Monica. In Bloodstone, it was established that Elsa had no prior training and had neither seen her father since she was a toddler, nor had she any memories of him at all. Considering the writer's outre comedy take on the Mindless Ones, these alterations were no doubt off-the-cuff and done for effect.)
The 'primer' page in each issue of Nextwave states that her powers of strength and invulnerability were bestowed upon her by the Bloodgem she wears on a choker, although she does not appear to be wearing it in issue #8's flashbacks to her childhood training sessions. She is an expert markswoman, and often carries two shotguns and two handguns, sometimes stowed in a guitar case. In Nextwave Elsa appears to have dyed her hair red.
[edit] Avengers
Elsa and other Nextwave members appear on the solicited cover to Avengers: The Initiative.
[edit] Powers and Abilities
In the Bloodstone series, Elsa claimed that she had inherited at least some of the Bloodgem power genetically; in Nextwave #8 we see her as an infant and as a teenager besting monsters and undergoing combat training without the choker. The original series had been ambiguous as to whether she might retain her supernatural abilities when not in contact with the gem.
She has exhibited superhuman strength, speed, durability and endurance, and a regenerative ability. She has also demonstrated immunity to vampire bites; her blood will destroy a vampire if consumed, and the original Bloodgem fragment itself was an anathema to vampires.
She may possess all of the abilities her father once had.
[edit] Equipment
- Removable Bloodgem on a choker.
- A number of artifacts gathered by her father, including a lamp which contained a genie whom Ulysses had enslaved years ago, which served as an early warning system, lighting up during times of supernatural crisis, and transporting him to said crisis.
- Guns. Lots of guns.
[edit] Appearances
- Bloodstone #1-4 (2001-2002)
- Nextwave #1-12 (2006)
[edit] References
- ^ Bloodstone #1
