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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jocasta (comics)
Jocasta sacrificed herself once again to blow up the Evolutionary's base, but not before Captain America assured her that she was a true Avenger.
Jocasta's robotic head was later discovered by Machine Man, who had been working on a way to resurrect his lover, when he was attacked by a form of the alien Terminus.
Jocasta's intelligence was placed within Tony Stark's computerized mansion, and she would help him with daily operation of his mansion as well as to procure information as needed.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jocasta-%28comics%29   (1608 words)

  
  Jocasta (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jocasta retained enough of her programming to signal the Avengers and soon teamed with them to thwart the Evolutionary's plans to alter the people of Earth.
Jocasta sacrificed herself once again to blow up the Evolutionary's base, but not before Captain America assured her that she was a true Avenger.
Jocasta's robotic head was later discovered by Machine Man, who had been working on a way to resurrect his lover, when he was attacked by a form of the alien Terminus.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jocasta_(comics)   (1075 words)

  
 Jocasta (comics) Information
Jocasta is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Universe.
Jocasta demonstrating her force field and eye blasters in her classic confrontation with the Taskmaster in Avengers #196.
Jocasta was reassembled some time later by agents of the megalomaniac villain, the High Evolutionary.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Jocasta_(comics)   (1053 words)

  
 Jocasta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to some version, Jocasta has a necklace that she inherited which retains her youth, so she is able to retain her abilitiesof youth and marrying her own son.
However, in the Phoenician Women by Euripides, Jocasta doesn't commit suicide until she witnesses the death of her sons Eteocles and Polynices who have slain each other in a battle for Thebes.
In the Marvel Universe, Jocasta is a superheroine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jocasta   (331 words)

  
 Ultron - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Ultron is a fictional character, an android supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe.
Ultron-8 created Jocasta, but was destroyed by the Scarlet Witch, whose probability-manipulation powers let her disrupt his internal workings.
Some time prior to this, when Ultron was thought dead following the Slorenia massacre, Jocasta, who had come into the employ of Tony Stark, was compelled by the Ultron Imperative that also existed within her to reprogram the Iron Man armor to serve as a vessel for Ultron's rebirth.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ultron   (1209 words)

  
 Jocasta - Marvel Universe: The definitive online source for Marvel super hero bios.
Jocasta never received her promised status as a full Avenger, and only learned from Jarvis of an emergency meeting called about the threat of the Weathermen.
After Jocasta single-handedly faced the power behind the Weathermen, the rogue sentient weather station Samarobryn, the Avengers held a meeting to determine their new membership that same afternoon, and again Jocasta was apparently forgotten.
Both Machine Man and Jocasta were taken to a nearby factory belonging to Sunset Bain (Madam Menace), where Bain covertly duplicated Jocasta's head and returned a sabotaged copy to Machine Man. The head was later stolen by Mechadoom and re-retrieved by Machine Man, who, unaware of Bain's interference, was unable to resurrect Jocasta.
www.marvel.com /universe/Jocasta   (1366 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Deathcry
Deathcry is a fictional Marvel Comics character and a former member of the Avengers team.
Deathbird (Calsyee Neramani) is a Marvel Comics supervillainess, an adversary of the X-Men.
The Vision is a fictional character who appears in the comic books published by Marvel Comics, most notably as a member of the superhero team, the Avengers.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Deathcry   (664 words)

  
 Marvel Heroes Classic Roleplaying Game - Marvel RPG
When Ultron next threatened the Avengers, he recognized Jocasta as a prime threat and mind-controlled Iron Man into disabling her, but she restored herself with the aid of Edwin Jarvis and continued to aid the team against the Yellow Claw, Pyron, the Leader, the Shadow Lord and the Berserker, and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Jocasta never received her promised status as a full Avenger, and only learned from Jarvis of an emergency meeting called about the threat of the Weathermen.
After Jocasta single-handedly faced the power behind the Weathermen, the rogue sentient weather station Samarobryn, the Avengers held a meeting to determine their new membership that same afternoon, and again Jocasta was apparently forgotten.
www.classicmarvel.com /cast/jocosta.htm   (1234 words)

  
 The Unoffcial Marvel Comics Reference HQ
Jocasta was programmed to love Ultron fully, but her personality nonetheless was developed enough to learn that she could never truly join him, and Jocasta helped the Avengers defeat Ultron again.
Jocasta adventured with the Avengers for a brief time, but never felt accepted, and left them just before she, unbeknownst to her, was to be made a member.
Jocasta's robotic head was somehow found by Machine Man, who was trying in vain to resurrect his new lover, when he was attacked by a form of the alien Terminus.
underworld.fortunecity.com /blood/201/marvel/jocasta.html   (871 words)

  
 Sunset Bain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sunset Bain is a fictional villainess in the Marvel Comics universe.
The real Jocasta and false Machine Man left with Baintronics laid in-continuity foundations for the Machine Man 2020 miniseries.
She was still the head of Baintronics, which had leveraged the tech from Machine Man and Jocasta in order to become the predominant mega-corporation of its day.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sunset_Bain   (693 words)

  
 Iron Man #28 Review - Silver Bullet Comics
If Jocasta created a body from stuff and nonsense in the virtual world--it would be a perfectly whole human body.
She would however manifest the image of a unique human body because though she lacks a genetic code, she is for all intent and purpose human.
Not once, does Tony--nor Jocasta, for that matter--connect the cinematic lightning bolt--which incidentally is the most probable, non-discussed cause of Tony's (gasp) heart attack--with the droning armor.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/95349006117968.htm   (1070 words)

  
 All The Rage: Comics Warren Ellis Isn't Reading
One, Jocasta Dribble, is a British-of-Italian-stock-and-doesn't-she-know-it media studies student in a Northern University, who starts the book as normal as can be and then gets dragged Arthur Dent-style into a dimension not of her choosing.
She was at University with Jocasta, posing as a foreign student and then disappeared.
Everyone thought she was dead, turns out she's a mighty ruler in another dimension who got stuck in Jocasta's Earth and had to fit in for a while until the dimensional gate opened again.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /rage/96320065916760,print.htm   (935 words)

  
 The Women of Marvel Comics: Jocasta!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Team affiliation: Jocasta hung out with the Avengers after refusing to help Ultron destroy the group, although she wasn't officially asked to join until Avengers 197.
Powers: Ultron gave Jocasta complete defensive capablities, including a force field, energy beams emitted from her eyes, and some mysterious internal workings that enabled her to resist being disrupted by the Vision's intangiblity powers.
Jocasta was rescued by Iron Man (Tony Stark), though her head was destroyed in the process, and she survived as a disembodied artificial intelligence in Stark's computer systems, acting as a computerized personal assistant to Stark.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/2855/jocasta.html   (371 words)

  
 Will Magnus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doctor Will Magnus is a fictional human scientist in the DC Comics universe.
In an attempt to boost sales of their comic book, the characters underwent vast changes.
Instead sales plunged and the comic wasn't printed for a few years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Will_Magnus   (647 words)

  
 Sequential Tart - The Report Card
The comic is an off-shoot of a funny and warmly human comic called Sleaze Castle (which is not in the least bit Sleazy, but does sort of have a Castle in it somewhere).
The population of this comic book world are people you wish existed in real life just so you could go over to their houses and talk.
Jocasta herself, after a period of sexual confusion in the comic Sleaze Castle, discovered that she was a lesbian.
www.sequentialtart.com /reports.php?ID=85&issue=2006-06-01   (645 words)

  
 Jocasta by Brian Aldiss
His version of the story has been written from the point of view of Jocasta, the mother and wife of Oedipus.
Semele, a witch and Jocasta's grandmother, lives in a hut outside the palace with a pair of griffins for pets.
The last section of Aldiss' novel, 'Jocasta', blends the events of Sophocles' play with the imminent execution of the theatre director, Karimov.
www.computercrowsnest.com /articles/books/2005/nz7574.php   (763 words)

  
 Jocasta (Amalgam Universe)
Mocking Runaway's flesh and bone, Jocasta engulfed her in a blast of energy before she was able to attack Will, sending the metamutant crashing into a nearby building.
Will Magnus was visibly shaken by Jocasta's sudden deactivation, affectionately cradling her disembodied head in his arms as he blamed the metamutant race for tearing away yet another joy in his life.
Will Magnus scoffed at Jocasta's suggestion that his brother was a coward and said her mischaracterization was due to the limits of her artificial intelligence.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/amjocsta.htm   (794 words)

  
 Ultron - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Henry Pym (creator, "father"), Wasp ("mother"), Vision (creation, "son"), Scarlet Witch (former daughter-in-law), Jocasta (creation, "first wife", separated), Alkhema (creation, "second wife", separated)
Ironically, although the Vision fought the Avengers at first, he joined the team soon after, becoming one of their most prominent members and ever leading the team at one point.
Ultron also created a "daughter", Jocasta, who also joined the Avengers, and a "mate", Alkhema the War Toy, whose mind was based on that of Mockingbird.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ultron   (970 words)

  
 Aliens Book Two: DNA War Novel at Big Kid Comics
That secret is that the world is infested with the murderous xenomorphic aliens that have wiped out every life form in their path.
Eager to prove her theory that the aliens can be reasoned with, anthropologist Jocasta Malvaux has set up an observation post on Rosamond 6.
When Jocasta's son Rory races to the planet to save her, she won't leave.
bigkidcomics.com /product_info.php?products_id=93&...   (204 words)

  
 GURPS Robots (Jocasta)
Jocasta was built by the robot Ultron as a weapon against the Avengers.
Jocasta rebelled against Ultron and went on several adventures with the Avengers before being destroyed saving them from a nuclear weapon.
Jocasta was heavily armored and possessed of a polite, helpful disposition.
www.patric.net /morpheus/gurps/jocasta.html   (482 words)

  
 TheForce.Net - Episode II - Quick Review of AOTC Graphic Novel
Overall the comic is well worth picking up, though $18 is a bit pricey.
It is a collection of 4 comics that will cost about $5 each, so it might be a better value.
Those comics should be released shortly with both art and comic covers, so keep your eyes open for them.
www.theforce.net /episode2/story/quick_review_of_aotc_graphic_novel_67821.asp   (541 words)

  
 The Comic Book Discrimination Dossiers: Profile: The Wasp
A blog whose purpose is meant to be similar in some ways to that of Women in Refridgerators, in focusing on comic book characters who've been misused and subject to discrimination by the companies that own them.
But that still doesn’t excuse what was basically an overwrought storyline to begin with, and which, even if Jan and Hank have come back together in past years and reconciled, was still totally uncalled for.
I was born in Pennsylvania in 1974, and moved to Israel in 1983.
cbddossiers.blogspot.com /2006/02/profile-wasp.html   (390 words)

  
 Incredible Hulk-part 8
Marvel Comics Presents #6- The owners of the other casinos have a meeting to discuss taking Fixit out of the picture because all the Coliseum's crime is coming to them.
Marvel Comics Presents #95- Out on a walk in a neighboring town Fixit catches the plane of a kid as the kid accidentally runs into him.
Marvel Comics Presents #45- Hulk sits in the crowd as the wrestler calling himself the Incredible Hulk wins his match.
www.leaderslair.com /gammapeople/hulk8.html   (6118 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Machine Man
In the mid-to-late 1970s, Marvel Comics adapted several science fiction movies into comic book form; then, when they'd gone through the movie storylines, continued with the same characters and situations, in new adventures.
The movie adaptation was done by the legendary Jack Kirby, who created or co-created hundreds of characters in comics, from the lofty heights of Captain America and Doctor Doom all the way down to The Two-Gun Kid and Kobra.
The continuation, also by Kirby, was a regular-size comic book, which began cover-dated December of the same year.
www.toonopedia.com /machinem.htm   (685 words)

  
 YOUR dream team - Captain Comics Round Table
Let's say you've been picked to be writer of a comic book series and you've got free reign to pick any characters for your "team" concept.
I think Jocasta is not "dead" but is currently Tony Stark's major domo.
Since Jocasta was an electronic intelligence anyway, I don't know if she could be classified as dead anyway, but exploring that concept would be interesting.
www.captaincomics.us /forums/index.php?showtopic=10678&hl=   (2398 words)

  
 ROL Comic - Generation 1: Comic
Anyway, somewhere along the play, Oedipus admits (for the first time) to Jocasta (his new wife) that he had murdered someone in a crossroad.
Anyhow, Jocasta put two and two together and somehow comes up with the solution that she is actually Oedipus's real mother.
It used to be called Armistice day, but they changed it after WWII seeing how the treaty ended up creating another world war...so now instead we celebrate all of those who served for our country instead...
www.rol-comic.com /old/comic1/?107   (372 words)

  
 Sales Tools > First Looks > Aliens: DNA WAR
But although it looks like an oasis, the planet harbors a fatal secret: murderous aliens that have wiped out every life form in their path.
Anthropologist Jocasta Malvaux is eager to prove her theory that the aliens can be reasoned with, so she sets up an observation post on Rosamond 6.
Dark Horse, Dark Horse Comics, and the Dark Horse logo are trademarks of Dark Horse Comics, Inc., registered in various categories and countries.
bookstores.darkhorse.com /salestools/firstlooks.php?theid=10-768   (188 words)

  
 The Planet - Noel Neill = Gertrude/Gertrude = Lex Luthor's...mother?
In Greek mythology Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta, the king and queen of Thebes.
Because at his birth an oracle had predicted that he would someday murder his father and marry his mother, Oedipus was abandoned by his parents, but he survived to maturity.
When the truth was eventually revealed to all, Jocasta committed suicide and Oedipus blinded himself.
www.bluetights.net /theplanet/showthread.php?t=12488   (1503 words)

  
 The Marvel Family Web » Who's Who » Jocasta
Jocasta has 1 appearance cataloged not including reprints!
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Shazam and all Related Characters are ™ and © DC Comics.
www.marvelfamily.com /whoswho/whoswho.asp?castid=586   (49 words)

  
 Eteocles — FactMonster.com
Antigone - Antigone Antigone, in Greek mythology, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta.
Oedipus - Oedipus Oedipus, in Greek legend, son of Laius, king of Thebes, and his wife, Jocasta.
Ismene - Ismene (3 syl.) Daughter of OEdipus and Jocasta.
www.factmonster.com /id/A0913184   (91 words)

  
 Ultron
Ultron has since generally remained a solo operative, being too monomaniacally genocidal to willingly work alongside any human for any length of time.
Some time prior to this, when Ultron was thought dead following the Slorenia massacre, Jocasta, who had come into the employ of Tony Stark, was urged by the Ultron Imperative that also existed within her to reprogram the Iron Man armour to serve as a vessel for Ultron's rebirth.
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www.paleorama.com /Marvel-U/Ultron.php   (1328 words)

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