Iron Fist: 5 possibilities for Mary Walker’s future
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3. Typhoid Mary becomes dominant
If my knowledge of the comics is accurate, this unknown third personality responsible for saving Mary from Sokovian captivity and leaving carnage in her wake may possibly be “Typhoid Mary”, well at least the (MCU) Marvel Cinematic Universe equivalent. It could also possibly be the murderous, sadist and psychopathic “Bloody Mary”; a persona more violent and misandristic whereas Typhoid Mary is adventurous, lustful and ruthless. She was created by Ann Nocenti and John Romita Jr. and made her first appearance in Daredevil #254 in the summer of 1988. She was commonly a threat of Daredevil while the pacifist Mary persona served as a love interest for the civilian identity, Matt Murdock.
Walker could be walking into uncharted territory and unintentionally lets out the Typhoid Mary alter, which up until this point has remained dormant. This could do one of two things: either torment and make Mary’s life a living hell emotionally or make Walker obsolete, which is quite possible.
Typhoid Mary, whatever direction Netflix is going with the character, has been a threat in the comics not only to others but himself. Whether or not this live-action of the character will gain any of her psionic abilities like her limited telekinesis and pyrokinesis at some point, is not known, but she will likely not be an Inhuman or an enhanced individual that is altered by an external force to be a reckoned with.
Unlike the MCU iteration shown on the Netflix show, rather than a private investigator and mercenary, Typhoid Mary was more of a professional assassin and criminal. She is usually the most dominant personality in the comics who had been a common hired gun for The Kingpin. She even had a brief romance with the crime lord at one point. No matter how Mary had managed to return, Typhoid had been often not far behind. While the Walker personality is quite formidable in her own right, she may not be a match for this presumed third personality, who is clearly more brutal and the least empathic of the three.