Elsa Bloodstone is a fictional character appearing in

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s published by

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. She first appears in Marvel's ''Bloodstone''

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of 2001 written by

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and

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. She is the daughter of the previously established

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character

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and the sister of

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. She was a member of

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and

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. As she is a young, female monster-hunter there are potential similarities with

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, although when asked about this the authors claimed "neither of us have seen an episode of ''Buffy'' all the way through! I know we're missing out on some great TV but we've determined to steer clear of Buffy at least while we're doing Bloodstone." Elsa Bloodstone appeared in the

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television special ''

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'', portrayed by

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Publication history

Elsa appeared as the lead character in the ''Bloodstone'' mini-series (December, 2001 - March, 2002) and was created by writer duo

and artist Michael Lopez. She is introduced as the daughter of

and she is a monster hunter just like her father. The miniseries further detailed her origin. Despite her similarities with

, both have claimed to have never seen a full episode of Buffy and were "determined to steer clear of Buffy at least while we're doing Bloodstone." She was a team member in the twelve issue ''

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. At first presented as a counter-terrorist group made up of superheroes and former superheroes, but it is later revealed that their employers were being funded by a terrorist group. The

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refresh of their main line of comics, made it part of the main continuity, which was previously disputed. Elsa and her family featured in the four issue mini ''

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'', that was collected in Bloodstone and the Legion of Monsters. In 2012, she appeared in

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's ongoing and ''

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'' which introduced her long lost brother

, who was trapped in an alternate dimension by their father. In Aug. 2013, Elsa joined a team of superheroes known as the

. At the time of her joining, the roster consisted of

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, Annabelle Riggs, Warrior Woman,

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and

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. The following year, she was part of the

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's Avengers team in the pages of ''

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'', written by

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, they were tied in to line wide ''

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'' storyline. During the ''

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'' event, she showed up in the

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comicbook. She was one of the main characters in the 2017's company-wide crossover story arc '' Monsters Unleashed'', the crossover included a huge cast of superheroes, that consisted of the

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, Moon Girl and

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, Kei Kawade, Leviathon Tide and the

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. In the limited series ''

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'',

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summoned her to be a member of a new version of the

alongside

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, Iron Fist, and

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, a superhero team focused on supernatural phenomena. She returned in

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's ''

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'', she aided the titular character in the first storyarc.

Fictional character biography

Bloodstone

Elsa lives in Bloodstone Manor with her mother Elise and ally Adam the

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. She has befriended Charles Barnabus, a pureblood vampire lawyer and executor of the Bloodstone estate. Together along with

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they defeat Nosferatu and his scourge of vampires.

Marvel Monsters

Pursuing a monster-hunting occupation, she begins an online

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to create an electronic encyclopedic reference guide for the numerous monsters and alien beasts in the

(published by Marvel as ''Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters'').

Nextwave

Elsa Bloodstone has also appeared in ''

'', but the series' connection to the Marvel Universe is unclear - it was initially out-of-continuity and was later implied to be the adventures of tourists from Earth-A. However, ''Civil War: Damage Report'' suggest that at least parts of the adventures of the team were set in the main continuity: the others may have been delusions brought by constant use of drugs, mental conditioning and deceptions by their

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employers. Her delusional state could also account for her "memories" of being routinely subjected to abusive monster-hunting training by her father, like being left alone in childhood with a robotical nanny programmed to torture her whenever she wasn't able to reply to a question regarding monsters, or being forced by her father to kill monsters, as a

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, armed with simple

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. The character elected to suspend her college studies upon being recruited by

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to fight Unusual Weapons of Mass Destruction (UWMD) alongside

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, Aaron Stack, and

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. Shortly after this recruiting Elsa and her teammates found H.A.T.E. to be funded by the

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, which is in fact a terrorist organization. Using the stolen Marketing Plan of Beyond, the Nextwave squad traveled across the country destroying hidden UWMDs which included

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, and

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. She suffers constant abuses by her teammembers, like being confronted by

about her European origins and accent (referred even in the ''Nextwave Theme Song'' as her main characteristic), and constantly ogled by Aaron Stack, attracted by her large chest.

The Initiative

Recently, Elsa joined up as part of Iron Man and the government's

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. Elsa has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear to have signed the

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and become part of the Initiative. She later returns to her monster-hunting adventures: still with her brasher mind-set, seen in her Nextwave days, she vows solemnly to never have children on her own, since she feels the responsibility of being a Bloodstone too heavy to be forced on another living being. Instead, she chooses to end her legacy once and for all, completing the task of freeing humanity from monsters before dying.

Legion of Monsters

Marvel NOW!

As part of the ''

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'' event, Elsa Bloodstone is shown as one of the teachers at the Braddock Academy (the British equivalent of the

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) where she takes her brother

to attend. She gets involved with the

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, when Punisher steals her magic regalia to battle teammate Ghost Rider and again when the team needs magical assistance from her and W.A.N.D. in order to battle Doctor Strange. Elsa Bloodstone is later recruited to join the

Avengers Undercover

Elsa later appears in the pages of ''

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'' where she visits Cullen and argues with him in the S.H.I.E.L.D. detention center after

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seemingly killed Arcade in Bagalia.

AXIS

During the "

" storyline, Elsa Bloodstone is among the heroes recruited by an inverted

to join his team of Avengers. They attempt to protect the innocent citizens of Latveria, who had nothing to do with their monarch's latest problems.

Civil War II

During the ''

'' storyline, Elsa appeared in

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, where she defends the town from an infection that is turning the populace into a swarm of giant bugs. She befriends

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who is running from Captain Marvel due to a vision of the future predicting she will murder an innocent woman named Alice. Elsa takes Nico to meet her contact, Janine, who is harboring survivors and looking for her missing daughter, Alice. Captain Marvel,

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, Dazzler and Singularity arrive and argue over whether to apprehend Nico or not. Eventually they split into two teams: one to find Alice and the other to protect the civilians. Elsa, Nico and Captain Marvel search for Alice in an abandoned mine and are attacked by a giant bug which infects Elsa. Nico learns the bug is Alice who begs Nico to kill her since she is the one infecting the people. When Nico refuses, Elsa threatens to murder Captain Marvel to force Nico into committing murder to stop her transformation into a monster. Medusa, Singularity, and an infected Dazzler are overrun by bugs and regroup with the others just as Bloodstone infects Danvers. After Dazzler infects Medusa, Minoru casts a spell to transform Alice back into a human but it does not cure the rest of the populace. Alice explains that she must be killed and Minoru reluctantly casts a death spell on Alice which transforms the infected back into humans. Alice then remerges in her final form and tells A-Force that she is no longer a threat as she now has greater control of her powers.

Monsters Unleashed

During the '' Monsters Unleashed'' storyline, Elsa is seen in

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and finds a prophecy that tells of the Monster King all the monsters fear. She then discovers that a kid named Kei Kawade is somehow responsible for the invasion and pays him a visit. Elsa then takes Kei to the

to examine his abilities. When another wave of monsters arrive, Elsa and other heroes protect Kei from monsters attacking the Triskelion, a S.H.I.E.L.D. base off the coast of New York City.

Powers, abilities and equipment

Elsa has exhibited superhuman strength, speed, durability and endurance, and a regenerative healing factor. She appears to possess all of the abilities her father once had. In addition, she has demonstrated immunity to vampire bites (her blood will kill a vampire if consumed and the original Bloodgem fragment itself is anathema to vampires). Some of her powers were bestowed upon her by the Bloodgem fragment she wears on a choker, although she does not appear to be wearing it in flashbacks to her childhood training sessions. Elsa has also inherited at least some of the Bloodgem's power genetically from her father. She has also been portrayed as an expert

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. Elsa is able to fire energy blasts from her right hand, and claims that her father ripped off her original hand and replaced it with an apparently magical one. This power was never utilized previously and has not been used since. No explanation has been offered to date. She has been shown to use a removable Bloodgem on a choker as well as a number of artifacts gathered by her father. These include a lamp which contained a

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whom Ulysses had enslaved years ago. This serves as an early warning system, lighting up during times of supernatural crisis, and transporting him to said crisis. In ''Nextwave'', she carries a guitar case with a false cover, containing two

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s and a rifle.

Reception

Accolades

* In 2019, ''

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'' ranked Elsa Bloodstone 10th in their "10 Most Powerful Members of Marvel’s Midnight Sons" list. * In 2020, ''

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'' included Elsa Bloodstone in their "195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic" list. * In 2022, ''

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'' ranked Elsa Bloodstone 4th in their "5 Marvel characters who deserve their own show" list. * In 2022, ''

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'' ranked Elsa Bloodstone 8th in their "15 Marvel superheroes and villains we want to see in the MCU" list. * In 2022, ''

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'' ranked Elsa Bloodstone 9th in their "10 Most Powerful Marvel Comics Horror Characters" list. * In 2022, ''

'' ranked Elsa Bloodstone 3rd in their "10 Best Members Of Marvel's Legion Of Monsters" list.

Other versions

Battleworld

Elsa is the commander of super-powered soldiers manning a wall that keeps zombies from civilization. A teleportation accident leaves Elsa far from safety, hunted by powered zombies and with a strange human girl she dubs Shuttup in her care.

Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas

In an archaeological expedition, Elsa and her team find the stone statue of

. She sells this statue to Tony Stark for the opening of his new casino only for the statue to release the actual dragon himself from his stone tomb.

Marvel Zombies

Elsa Bloodstone alongside the other members of Nextwave show up "in a purely superfluous cameo" in the third issue of the ''

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'' to save

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from a

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, before being "Ruthlessly dispatched off-panel in the most humiliating and degrading ways imaginable" moments later.

In other media

Television

Elsa Bloodstone Elsa Bloodstone is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appears in Marvel's ''Bloodstone'' mini-series of 2001 written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. She is the daughter of the previously ...

appears in the

special ''

'', portrayed by

. This version is the estranged stepdaughter of Verussa Bloodstone.

Video games

* Elsa Bloodstone appears as a playable character in '' Marvel: Avengers Alliance''. * Elsa Bloodstone appears as a playable character in ''

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''. * Elsa Bloodstone appears as a playable character in ''

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''. * Elsa Bloodstone appears as a playable character in '' Marvel: Future Fight''. * Elsa Bloodstone appears as a playable character in ''

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'', voiced by Jeni Dean. * Elsa Bloodstone appears as a playable character in ''

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''. * Elsa Bloodstone appears as a playable character in '' Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order'', voiced by

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Collected editions

Notes

References

External links

Elsa Bloodstone
at the Marvel Universe
Mini-series details
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at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe

at the International Cataglogue of Superheroes {{DEFAULTSORT:Bloodstone, Elsa Characters created by Andy Lanning Characters created by Dan Abnett Comics by Andy Lanning Comics by Dan Abnett Marvel Comics characters who use magic Marvel Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds Marvel Comics characters with accelerated healing Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength Fictional characters with superhuman durability or invulnerability Fictional monster hunters Fictional women soldiers and warriors Comics characters introduced in 2001 Marvel Comics female superheroes Midnight Sons