Typhoid Mary
AKA: Mary Walker. And, when she's in a really foul mood, Bloody Mary. All her alternate personalities seem to have left this plane of existance, however, leaving Typhoid in charge and itching for a piece of Deadpool--any ol' piece of Deadpool...
First appearance: DareDevil 254.
Typhoid Team affiliation: You're kidding, right? From DareDevil to Wolverine to the Ghost Rider, Mary's relationships tend to be ... adversarial. She even set the Power Pack tikes at odds! Only Spider-Man, with his unshakable determination to do the right thing whatever the personal cost, ever got through to her.
Powers: A low level psionic ability Typhoid uses with surgical precision. She has made such strong-minded individuals as DareDevil and the Kingpin think they were attracted to her. She is also capable of telekinetics and pyrokinetics.
Favorite quote: "He thinks he owns me now ... While the fire burns, they never see too clearly. But when the smoke clears, he'll see who owns who." (DareDevil 261 after Typhoid got -- ugh -- way too close to the Kingpin. As for who owns the Kingpin; well, the answer to that little riddle is in DareDevil 263. It isn't Mary!)
Favorite storyline: Spectacular Spider-Man 214, where Mary Walker takes responsibility for the actions of all her personalities. Something so rare in comics -- or real life -- that I thought it deserved special mention.
Least favorite storyline: The Ghost Rider team-up in Marvel Comics Presents. Couldn't make up its mind if it wanted to be a supernatural horror story or a morality tale about taking the war between the sexes too literally. And that was on those rare occasions when it made sense!
Editorial Comment: Ya wanna know something really weird? I don't like Mary. I mean, I should at least feel some sympathy for her, she had a terrible childhood that resulted in her various psychotic personalities but ... I don't. She always struck me as an exploitative character, created to cash in on the inherently offensive "bad girl" craze, coated with a bunch of pseudo-pyschobabble. Yet (this is just as weird), I like Shriek (well, "like" may be the wrong word), a character just as psychotic with rather similar psychic capabilities. What is the main difference between the two, you ask? Hmmm...when in her Bloody Mary personae, Typhoid wants to destroy all men. Shriek simply wants to destroy everyone at all times. There really is no logical accounting for taste, is there?