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Fictional character biography

Bloodstone

Beautiful and feisty Elsa Bloodstone is the daughter of famous monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone. Following her parents' breakup when she was two years old, Elsa accompanied her mother across Europe. Despite never knowing her father, Elsa remained curious about him. Though ignorant of her father's career, she was plagued by dreams about vampires and other creatures of the night. Shortly after Elsa's 18th birthday, Ulysses died and left his Boston home (the Bloodstone House) to Elsa and her pregnant mother, along with all of its contents, accumulated during his millennia of adventures. Arriving in Boston, Elsa encountered several unique individuals affiliated with her father: Charles Barnabus, a pureblood vampire lawyer and executor of the estate; the clerk Mr. Dluga, his teenage son Tomas and his vampire-hating grandfather Papa Dluga; and Adam, the caretaker of the house. Actually the Frankenstein Monster, Adam helped indoctrinate Elsa into her true heritage, offering her the mystic Bloodstone Choker which bonded with and empowered Elsa. Adam also gave her other items from her father's collection, including a mystic lamp that contained a captured djinn ("genie") and served as an early-warning detection system, glowing whenever a mystical threat was active in the world. Using the lamp, Elsa encountered Dracula in Bosnia and later helped the Living Mummy defeat resurrected Egyptian necromancer Rakses. Elsa then became embroiled in a Nosferati vampire plot to infect Dracula, Barnabus and other pureblood vampires with a virus, turning them into an eternal source of nourishment for the Nosferati. Elsa confronted Nosferatu himself, her Bloodstone Choker destroying the vampire when he tried to bite her. After those events, Elsa and her mother had elected to remain at Bloodstone House, turning it into a curiosity shop run by her mother while Elsa continues exploring the family vocation of monster hunting in between college classes.

Nextwave

Elsa in Nextwave,
art by Stuart Immonen.

Elsa elected to suspend her college studies upon being recruted by Dirk Anger of H.A.T.E. to fight Bizzare Weapons of Mass Destruction (BWMD) alongside Monica Rambeau, Tabitha Smith, Aaron Stack, and The Captain (Nextwave). Shortly after this recruiting Elsa and her teammates found H.A.T.E to be funded by the Beyond Corporation, which is in fact a terrorist organization. Using a stolen business plan of the Beyond Corporation The Nextwave squad travelled across the country destroying hidden BWMDs which included Fin Fang Foom, Mindless Ones, and Forbush Man (although many of these may have been a type of clone, as the Beyond Corporation has shown ability to grow its own foot soldiers and superbeings). After the apparant destruction of the creative power behind the Beyond Corporation, Elsa and the rest of Nextwave next joined up as part of the Iron Man and the government's Fifty States Initiative. Image File history File links Elsaincolor. ... Image File history File links Elsaincolor. ... Nextwave is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics, that debuted in 2006 and was cancelled after issue #12,[1] which was published in February 2007. ... Stuart Immonen is a comic book artist. ...

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 passage 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.) Shan boy undergoing Poy Sang Long initiation A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change in a persons social or sexual status. ... Ulysses Bloodstone (whose real name is unrevealed) is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. ... The Mindless Ones are fictional monsters appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. ...

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 Uzi submachine gun, sometimes stowed in a guitar case. In Nextwave Elsa appears to have dyed her hair red. Remington pump-action shotgun held by a Florida Highway Patrol cadet shotgun, see: Shotgun (disambiguation). ... The Uzi (Hebrew: ) is a family of guns that started with a compact, boxy, and lightweight submachine gun. ...

Despite the appearance of Nextwave characters in other Marvel titles, in 2006 Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada stated that Nextwave's setting was in an universe separate from the main Marvel continuity.^[1] Quesada at the February 7, 2007 midnight signing of The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born at Midtown Comics Times Square, New York. ...

Avengers

Elsa has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the solicited cover of the comic book Avengers: The Initiative^[2]. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 775 × 600 pixels Full resolution (800 × 619 pixel, file size: 205 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Avengers: The Initiative #1 Front to back, right to left: (please fill in remaining with the correct wikilinks!) Iron Man Ms. ...

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.

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.
• In Nextwave, carries a guitar case with a false cover, containing two uzis and rifles.

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Appearances

• Bloodstone #1-4 (2001-2002)
• Nextwave #1-12 (2006)
• Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness #3 (2007)

References

Resources

• Marvel Universe Appendix: Elsa Bloodstone
• Marvel Universe Appendix: Rakses
• Marvel Comics - Marvel Universe: Elsa Bloodstone
• International Heroes entry