Corona

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Attributes

Eyes:	Green. Iris, pupil, cornea. Everything. All green.
Features:	Golden skin, surrounded by a glowing green aura, sometimes shriveled, always in a bad mood.
Hair:	Brown. (Gold in her full power form.)
Height:	5'10" (Approximate.)
Weight:	130 pounds (Approximate.)

Powers

Abilities:	Can fly. Has claws in her "husk" form that she can use to slash up the web-slinger.
Equipment:	None, except for the Corona experiment machinery that gave her powers.
Limitations:	Wishy-washy, susceptible to "foam" and "power siphons", and pretty damn dull, really.
Powers:	Green aura that melts any bullets and webbing that are shot at her but doesn't do a thing against energy-retardant foam and power siphons. A force bolt shot from her hands that sometimes transmutes molecular structures and sometimes just blasts things.
Strength Level:	Slightly above normal. Strong enough to climb a wall holding Spider-Man in one hand.

Summary

Citizenship:	Unknown. Has residences in USA and France.
Created By:	Kurt Busiek, Sal Buscema
Current Occupation:	Free and easy super-being.
Education:	Unknown but likely post-graduate.
Former Bases:	South of France (as Dagny).
Former Occupation:	Scientist, part owner of Forrester Holdings and Businesses.
Known Allies:	Spider-Man (sometimes), Lenny "The Operator" Flynn (coerced).
Known Relatives:	Cedric Forrester (brother).
Legal Status:	On the loose.
Major Enemies:	Spider-Man (sometimes), Cedric Forrester, Lenny "The Operator" Flynn, Kersh, Gunther, Fredrick, Franz, Edward and other Forrester lackeys.
Marital Status:	Single.
Place of Birth:	Unknown.
Real Name:	Dagny (Sometimes "Dagney") Forrester.
Usual Bases:	New York City.

Background

”The Love of Power”

Dagney Forrester was born to wealth. She and her brother Cedric became scientists and formed a research company with laboratories in New York and the South of France. Together, Dagny and Cedric develop the Corona experiment that consists of putting a human subject in a big tube filled with a yellow liquid and subjecting them to chemical and radiation treatments which in turn endows them with super-powers. Dagny volunteers to undergo the process but Cedric chickens out halfway through, which turns Dagny into Corona but leaves her with less than the full power she craves. During the experiment, chemicals are flushed into the New York water system. As a result, New Yorkers (including Peter Parker's wife Mary Jane Watson) start contracting a disease that becomes known as SoHo fever. Attempting to help the sick, Spider-Man finds himself caught in the middle of the feud between Cedric and Corona. Cedric has an antidote for the Fever but first wants to make sure Corona is captured so he can experiment on her. Corona wants the antidote to gain her full power, which will also prevent her from exploding like an atomic bomb. In the stalemate that follows, Corona accidentally wipes out the antidote. She doesn't explode but instead metamorphoses into a hag-like "shriveled husk". She blames this change on Spider-Man. (Spectacular Spider-Man (vol. 1) #176)

”Fever”

Eventually, Cedric and Harry Osborn recreate the antidote. Harry’s son, Normie Osborn had also gotten sick from the water contamination. Spidey saves Corona from committing suicide only to have her knocked unconscious by Cedric's armed guards. Spidey wants to help her but he is blocked by a court order that gives Cedric custody of his sister. Cedric gets away scot-free. He hauls Corona off to use as a laboratory guinea pig. (Spectacular Spider-Man (vol. 1) #177)

Once in the lab, Cedric implants a bio-monitor that stabilizes Corona's body chemistry so that she loses the "shriveled husk" look. But the monitor also stimulates the pain centers of the brain when triggered by a remote. This turns Corona into Cedric's slave. Later,though, a cheap hood named Lenny "The Operator" Flynn takes the remote away. Lenny takes over Cedric's business and uses Corona as his bodyguard. Eventually Spider-Man intercedes, the remote is destroyed, Lenny turns tail and runs, Spidey dumps Cedric into a garbage can, and a freed Corona flies away to seek her destiny. That destiny has yet to be revealed. (Spider-Man Unlimited (vol. 1) #3)

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