ALPHA FLIGHT #41-42 (1986-1987): 1st Kara Killgrave

First appearance of Kara Killgrave–Purple Man’s daughter. 

She’s just a kid whose latent purpleness manifests in her late teen years, in the bathtub.

Her mom explains that her daddy was Purple Man. She meets Northstar at a skiing event and uses her powers to seduce him.

Interesting that whatever the gender, the purple powers generate rapists. I suspect that’s more a product of the men writing about them than the canon of the mind control power itsef.

Of course it ends up with Alpha Flight helping her become a better person.

It ends with her becoming a member of Beta Flight, the training ground for new Alpha Flighters. And Northstar is remarkably forgiving, thinking only that she’s a “little minx.”

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