Ogun outmaneuvered himself, though, when he isolated Viper and Logan on a deserted dock to possess Wolverine as the ultimate host for his essence. And if Ogun thought Logan would think twice about attacking his own wife, he grossly misread their relationship. Logan simply told Viper she would have to honor their divorce if she wanted him to get her medical treatment before she bled out.
Left with little choice, Viper agreed to the deal. As reigning princess of Madripoor, Viper responded when activity erupted at an ancient temple on the island. Shaitan, the forward scout for an extra-dimensional invasion force, assembled a set of gemstones that would open the gateway for the soldiers of his master, Khan. Despite the arrival of the X-Men, the portal opened and Madripoor was encased in an impenetrable force field.
Storm of the X-Men personally struck her down, an insult Viper promised she would pay for. Viper came to congratulate the X-Men on their victory, presumably expecting Storm to forgive and forget her earlier attack. That was… unwise. After casually asking Viper if she was wearing armor, Storm shot her square in the chest before receiving an answer.
Needless to say, Viper responded to the unmistakable threat on her life by planning another attack on the X-Men. Viper blamed Sage for humiliating her in their last encounter, and attempted to get her revenge by shooting the woman through the head. Viper goes to jail. Solo again having fallen out with Samurai, when Sidewinder frees the Serpent Squad from jail and brings them into the Serpent Society , Viper stages a takeover of the amalgamated group.
She then starts poisoning those members who refuse to submit to her leadership. Sidewinder himself escapes and finds Diamondback , who tips off Steve Rogers.
Viper flees to Washington DC with Cap on board her aircraft, but is shot down by Diamondback and knocked out by Cap when on the ground. In the ensuing turmoil that breaks out, Viper frees herself and adds to the chaos with a mad shooting spree. She sets the snake-president and first lady on Cap, but is betrayed by Cobra and taken into custody.
While in jail, Viper is visited by Tyrannus , disguised as Dr. He is working for Ghaur and Llyra , who are in possession of the Serpent Crown and are trying to resurrect the God, Set.
Their first plan, to make an army of serpent men by giving the serum made by Slither to the homeless and drug addicts, is defeated by the Punisher and Moon Knight. In response to Viper's failure, Tyrannus uses her as a sacrifice in a ritual to summon Set by himself, without Ghaur and Llyra, in order to take the serpent-men army and Set's power for his own. However, a different demon: Yiggorum , appears and Dr. Strange and Daredevil show up to stop its rampage.
Tyrannus focuses all his efforts on controlling the demon and forgets about Viper, who angrily takes the opportunity to throw him into the pentagram, where he is swallowed by the demon. Somehow Viper ended up behind bars again, only to be freed by the Red Skull , who wanted her as his partner. Thinking this would damage society so badly he could not carry out his own plans, Red Skull hired Silver Sable to stop her and bring her in.
With the help of Captain America, Sable captures Viper. They drop her off at the agreed location, where Skull's agent, Iron Monger comes to pick Viper up.
They listen in as Iron Monger brutally assaults Viper, hoping to get her to disclose the location of her base, but she refuses. Cap, Sable and her team, The Wild Pack , thwart the transmission of the blinding signal. Viper continued to make new alliances to further her own schemes.
Firstly she teamed up with the Secret Empire to create mutant animal-humanoid warriors. Hawkeye , with help from War Machine and Mack Mendelson tracks down her operation and destroys their base in Amazonia. Beast coaxes Viper and Spiral into an argument over whether Karma should be mutated and have her mind wiped or be kept alive, so Viper can have her revenge, and in the massive fight that ensues, the heroes duck out and escape with the help of Gateway.
The most audacious alliance of all was with Wolverine. In order to seize control of a power vacuum left in Madripoor after the death of Prince Baran , Viper claimed a long-held debt with Wolverine - a promise he had made to a dying Seraph to do anything that Viper wanted - and married him! After a time spent married, Wolverine's old mentor Ogun shows up as a wandering spirit, possessing random people in Madripoor and using them against him.
Wolverine desperately tries to prevent Viper from killing the people he takes control of! Things come to a head when he possesses Viper herself and invites Wolverine out to an abandoned dock, wanting to take possession of Logan himself. However, Wolverine's mind proves too bestial and full of horror to stay in, and Ogun is forced back into Viper. Wolverine fatally stabs her and Ogun is forced to flee into the night sky.
Viper, desperate for treatment for her wounds, finally agrees to a divorce. When an extra-dimensional invasion force led by Shaitan , working for their master, Khan , attacks and seals off Madripoor from the rest of the world, the X-Treme X-Men team up with Viper to fight them.
Viper's tendency to execute prisoners angers Storm, leading to Viper brutally clawing her. Once the invaders are finally driven off, Storm gets revenge by shooting Viper, while Sage warns her never to threaten the X-Men again. Viper tries to retaliate by sending the X-Men to Murderworld and trying to shoot Sage, but it turns out Wolverine had disguised himself as Sage and he heals himself from the wound.
The X-Men still have to save the Queen of England from a nuclear bomb right after this, of course! When Viper tries to assassinate Courtney Ross , Courtney makes her a better offer and the two revive the Hellfire Club.
She also re-connects with Spider-Woman although at this point in time, Jessica had been replaced by Queen Veranke of the Skrulls , during the Secret Invasion and manipulates her by restoring her powers. Tony Stark grows concerned about Viper's ability to launch terrorist plots from Madripoor and stages an overthrow of her regime. Viper retained a small operation in Madripoor and confronted Spider-Woman when she was hunting Skrulls.
Viper still believes she is Jessica's mother and "rescues" her from the police by shooting them. When Spider-Woman escapes, Viper orders the building destroyed to hide their activities. Viper then makes one last attempt to regain control of Madripoor by seeking to obtain Predator X's from Kimura of the Facility. Although Predator X's usually only target mutants, Kimura promised they would have the ability to attack anyone Viper wanted. Wolverine, Punisher and Tyger Tiger team up to defeat Viper and set a Predator X on her, forcing her to agree to leave the island.
On discovering that she did not have it, the current Madame Hydra in actuality The Contessa shoots her at close range. The Hive brings her back to life with one of his spawned creatures, giving her a new monstrous, tentacled form.
She once again calls herself Madame Hydra and continues her terrorist actions. The groups strike at the Avengers publicly and physically, and are able to capture Captain America, whom Viper enjoys torturing. However, the few Avengers they manage to imprison are freed and when Osborn, Gorgon and the Dark Avengers are defeated, Viper seizes control of all the assembled groups herself. Viper, who was ousted from her position of command in Madripoor by Mystique and Sabretooth and their allies, heard about the contract set out in regard to the healing factor-less Wolverine.
She found and chained Sabretooth, keeping him as a bet, which speaks to her cunning and vicious ways. The Emerald Queen lured Logan to her location, where he easily killed the guards in her throne room. She set Sabretooth against Logan. Victor almost killed Wolverine, but Lady Deathstrike intervened just in time to take down the brute. In all the chaos, the Green Queen, and former wife of Wolverine, slipped away. She has the strength, agility, and stamina of an Olympic athlete, and is a rigorously trained martial artist.
She also has been trained to use various guns and firearms, and is very talented with knives. She is also shown to be a top-notch swordswoman. Her nihilism and tendency to spread death around her has made it hard for other villains to associate with her.
Only the Red Skull has found it a charming tendency and pursued a relationship with her for a while. The relationship ended when the Skull found out Viper was using his resources to finance massacres with no apparent financial benefit for either of them. However, acting on her own, Pit-Viper 12 became involved with the Punisher during an international crime conference in Las Vegas and later tipped off S. For compromising her anonymity, the Viper personally killed her treacherous double.
Later she blackmailed Wolverine into marrying her as a means to secure her criminal empire in Madripoor. Although this was a marriage of convenience, she did request to consummate the arrangement. Some time later, her body was briefly inhabited by the spirit of Ogun, and Wolverine mortally wounded her as a means of driving the spirit from her dying body.
In return for seeking medical attention to save her life, Wolverine demanded a divorce. It is later implied that she actually had feelings for Wolverine. Viper was then a member of an incarnation of the Hellfire Club, working with Courtney Ross, briefly under the title 'White Warrior Princess'.
She has also associated with the Hand and resumed her ties with the Silver Samurai. She has also retaken the name "Madame Hydra". Telling Harada that he had utterly failed to fulfill Yashida's dying wish, Viper demonstrates her powers on him, and ordered him to continue pursuing Logan and Mariko. Later, After Logan is subdued while attempting to rescue Mariko, Viper restrained him in a machine and revealed the plan to extract his healing abilities from his body, by introducing him to the Silver Samurai , a powered exoskeleton constructed out of adamantium.
When the Samurai awakens, it attempts to cut off Logan's claws, but Logan is saved by Mariko and breaks free, fighting the Samurai off. When Wolverine and Mariko make their escape, Viper tries to subdue them, but Harada shoots her with an arrow, and she falls several stories.
However, Viper awakens and regenerates her skin. During the battle with the Silver Samurai, Wolverine falls onto the same catwalk as Viper and notices her shedded skin. He looks up, only for Viper to spit poison in his face, stunning the him long enough for Viper tear off a bolted down canister and knock Wolverine off the catwalk. Yukio then arrives and engages Viper, with the latter gaining the upper hand. After a vicious fight, Viper attempts to kill Yukio by secreting poison onto her claw, but Yukio manages to wrap an elevator cable around Viper's neck, strangling her up into a lift shaft.
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