This is Monster Girl (Amanda) from the comics. For the TV show character, see Amanda (TV).
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History
Amanda is a comic book superhero named Monster Girl from the Image Comics series Invincible.
Origin[]
Amanda had enrolled into a school for academically honored students and was able to afford being a school that was mostly for richer children. She took a class trip to Europe and graduated from school two years earlier than regular students. She fell in love with a boy whose grandmother didn't approve of their relationship. She slept with that boy and his grandmother witnessed it. Since the boy's grandmother was a practitioner of magic, she cursed a strand of her hair. On the plane ride back from the trip she cried after seeing her monster form. She did not initially know how to control her monster form, but eventually with practice would be able to transform at will. However, the effects of her transformation would cause her to age in reverse, resulting in becoming younger with each transformation. She used her transformation to fight crime under the alias Monster Girl and continued to fight crime despite the adverse effects of her transformation.[1]
Guardians of the Globe[]
Monster Girl meets Rex Splode.
After the death of the original Guardians of the Globe Amanda would try out for a position in the new Guardians. There she met Rex Splode, who made fun of her for her looks and name, causing Amanda to transform and severely beat him before being stopped by Invincible.[2] When Black Samson was put in a coma after his fight with Battle Beast Robot suggested Amanda to use his armor in order to limit the number of her transformations.[3]
When Robot created a teenaged body for himself he told Amanda that he did it because her plight inspired him and asked her to go out on a date with him. Despite her initial surprise she accepted.[4] During their date they went to see a R rated movie and the clerk refused to sell them the tickets because of their appearance, but Robot used his intelligence to convince him and the two saw the movie together. The following day she thanked Robot for the nice evening but was saddened to hear that his body would eventually age and Robot replied that he would cure her condition.[5]
Cecil reunited the Guardians and sent them to space to stop the Sequids invasion. During the voyage Robot told Amanda his true name and she nicknamed him Rudy.[6] She then helped the Guardians fight the Sequids but they found themselves losing the battle.[7]
Amanda after returning from the Flaxan dimension.
Attributes
Powers
- Transformation: Due to a curse placed on her, Amanda can transform into a masculine-looking troll-like monster being at will. At first, she wasn't able to control it, but would eventually gain control of it through practice.[8] Her monster form grants her the following abilities:
- Accelerated Healing: When Amanda returns to her human forms all the injuries she suffered in monster form are healed.[9] Her monster form also possesses regenerative abilities that allow her to quickly recover from injury.[10]
- Superhuman Strength: Monster Girl possesses superhuman strength, enabling her to lift in excess of 60 tons. It is conceivable her strength will increase in proportion to her size.[8] She has displayed enough strength to defeat Tether Tyrant with a single blow[11] and dismember Robot's uptated automatons.[12]
- Superhuman Durability: Amanda's transformation causes her muscles to become larger, attributing to her superhuman weight. Her body's skin is immune to most forms of conventional injury, including extremes in temperature and pressure, open flame, severe cold, radiation, and concussive forces such as impacts and explosions.[8] With this, it grants her superhuman strength and makes her skin harder to pierce than a normal Human’s, making her bulletproof.[13] It also increases the amount of punishment she can take to a superhuman level. Despite her great durability she is not completely invulnerable and she can not survive in space for long periods without suffering considerable damage.[10]
Abilities
- Hand-to-Hand Combat: Amanda possesses fighting skills in both human and monster forms.[3]
Weaknesses
- Reversed Aging: When Amanda reverts back to human form, her cells rebuild incorrectly. This had caused her to get younger with each time she uses her monster form. However, her monster form would grow larger as she got younger. When she made her debut, she was 29, but had the appearance of a 12 year-old girl. Robot would soon discover this problem and come up with a solution. Robot gave her a belt that would store part of her original cells when she transforms and keep them until she reverts back, helping her maintain her physiological age. With this and being in the Flaxan dimension for nearly thousand years, she would have a more adult-like appearance.
Paraphernalia
Equipment
- Anti-Reverse Aging Belt: Amanda was given a belt by Robot to combat her reverse aging when reverting back from her monster form.
- Black Samson's Armor (formerly): For a brief period Amanda wore Black Samson armor.[14]
Trivia
See Also
Links and References
References
- ↑ Invincible #25
- ↑ Invincible #9
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Invincible #22
- ↑ Invincible #35
- ↑ Invincible #37
- ↑ Invincible #39
- ↑ Invincible #40
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 The Official Handbook of the Invincible Universe #2
- ↑ Invincible Universe #6
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Invincible #116
- ↑ Invincible #19
- ↑ Invincible #142
- ↑ Invincible #112
- ↑ Invincible #22
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