Ivory

Ivory's History

History

Only a few scattered bits are known of Ivory’s past. Her codename is likely a translation of a childhood nickname, since she has an unusually light skin tone – perhaps hinting at a mixed heritage. According to secondary sources , this skin colour led her to frequently encounter racism during her youth.

She is a Wakandan and received her powers when her body was infused with African Vibranium there. Whether this was an accident or a deliberate procedure is unrevealed. Secondary sources indicate this was the result of an accident during a college experiment, Ivory being present as a teaching assistant.

What happened next is unclear, but she apparently came to the conclusion her country had let her down. As a result, she was recruited by either Angar the Screamer or a Special Operations branch of Roxxon Oil to become a mercenary.

Roxxon has an hostile history with the government of Wakanda (and the Black Panther in particular). Thus, it is possible that K’maria was manipulated to some extent by Roxxon agents and/or Angar.

Roxxon, you don’t have to put on the red light

Ivory was first spotted as part of a Roxxon ops team. It attacked and took control of a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier. The task force, commanded by Angar the Screamer, also included Assault and Battery, Smokescream, Overrider and Mad Dog.

During the operation Ivory, watching the others torture senior S.H.I.E.L.D. officer “Dum Dum” Dugan, had a change of heart. Dugan convinced her to consider defecting. When a S.H.I.E.L.D. team stormed the helicarrier, she did not participate in the fight. K’maria eventually defected by rescuing the S.H.I.E.L.D. forces from Angar’s scream and taking him out.

Fury considered recruiting Ivory and Dugan vouched for her. Within weeks she joined the experimental team that had rescued the Helicarrier – the new Super-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Violence, Knockabout, Psi-Borg II).

Ivory, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Ivory started catching up with field agent training. She got excellent results and seriously learned the procedures. She was much less cocky and gung-ho than her colleagues.

Ivory took part in several missions with the young Super-Agents, personally accompanying Nick Fury in the field for high-stake missions.

This volume of Nick Fury ended weirdly. Suddenly in the last few issues most of the new characters turn traitor and/or die. Ivory turned out to be the only non-traitor of the new Super-Agents, and was killed by the others as she discovered they were actually HYDRA agents.