Publisher Marvel Comics Species Extraterrestrial life People also search for Carina, Korvac, Collector | Team affiliations Elders of the Universe Creators Jim Shooter, George Pérez | |
Created by Jim Shooter (Writer)
George Pérez (Artsit) Notable aliases Carina Walters
Lady Carina Korvac
Janet van Dyne Abilities Powerful energy blasts
Matter altering
Minor reality altering
Consciousness manipulation First appearance Avengers #167 (January 1978) | ||
Carina Tivan is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Publication history
She was created by Jim Shooter and George Pérez and she first appeared in Avengers #167 (January 1978).
Fictional character biography
Carina is the daughter of Taneleer Tivan and Matani Tivan. Carina left home to explore the universe while Matani gave up her immortality causing Taneleer to lose his sanity and become The Collector.
She arrived on Earth taking on the name Carina Walters and, under her father's orders, planned to get close to Michael Korvac as Taneleer saw him as a threat to the Elders of the Universe. However, Carina found herself falling in love with Korvac for real, causing Taneleer to come and kidnap the Avengers in a misdirected attempt to "save" them.
Carina and Korvac married and moved to a small neighborhood in Forest Hills. The Avengers and The Guardians of the Galaxy arrived and confront the couple causing Korvac to reveal his true self and fight, but when he realizes that Carina was afraid of him, he commits suicide. Carina, enraged, fights the two teams herself before Thor kills her.
Hank Pym found Carina's dispersed energy and, confusing it for his deceased wife Janet van Dyne, brought her energy and being back together. After her memories are restored, Korvac returns to reclaim her, but Janet's memories cause her to rebel against Korvac and with the Avengers Academy students manage to defeat him once again.
Powers and abilities
Carina can fire bursts of powerful energy, alter matter on a molecular level, sense alternate universes and possible futures and summon matter from these realities. She can place the consciousness of individuals into other bodies and restore them at will. They can however, be hampered by their desires. When she was revived by Hank Pym, she possessed power that was even greater than Korvac's.
Other versions
In the What If...? series, Carina shows full support in Korvac's fight with the Avengers, causing him to kill them and then resurrect them as his pawns. Carina then stays by Korvac's side as he proceeds to destroy the Elders and the rest of the universe.