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Saving the world doesn't necessarily mean you go home happy. How's the mental health of your favorite superhero? A comic aficionado and a board-certified psychiatrist look at the various neuroses of your favorite heroes and villains and provide options for treatment.
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Issue 21 - Typhoid Mary
WE'RE BACK! Season 2 of Capes kicks off with a look at Typhoid Mary, the multiple personality seductress featured in Iron Fist S2 this week! So sit back and enjoy all the South Park references and psychoanalysis you can handle!
Mary Walker, created by Ann Nocenti and John Romita, Jr. in Daredevil #254 (May 1988)
Suffers from multiple personalities - Mary is weak and sickly, Typhoid is impulsive and lustful
Typhoid has low level telekinesis and psionic ability to manipulate men
Hired by Kingpin for her dual abilities - Mary to seduce Matt Murdock, Typhoid to battle Daredevil
Typhoid also seduced Kingpin, although she couldn't control him well
Defeated Daredevil and nearly killed him, until Mary's guilt took over and she saved him
Created additional personality - Bloody Mary - sadistic man-hater who kills domestic abusers
Mary becomes friends with Mary Jane Watson while Typhoid/Bloody Mary fight Spider-Man
Mary regains control and gets treatment
While in institution, each personality hired a mercenary - Mary hired Deadpool to kill her, Typhoid hired Deadpool to break her out, and Bloody hired the Vamp/Animus to break her out for a killing spree
Typhoid joins Deadpool and they have semi-romantic relationship until he tries to reform her
She gets captured and sent to the Raft, where she breaks out and begins working for Kingpin again
Joins Shadow Initiative as "Mutant Zero" and works for Henry Gyrich until she's outed by Taskmaster
"Shadowland" - she joins the Hand and fights alongside Daredevil (who's really the Beast), and then reports to Kingpin who uses code words to reveal he's been controlling her all along
Lady Deathstrike's Sisterhood of Mutants - joins with Enchantress to take down X-Men, but gets defeated by Psylocke
Issues
Multiple personalities
Mary is weak, often sick - sickness is healed when Typhoid takes over - guilt-ridden and suicidal
Typhoid is hypersexual and impulsive
Bloody is misandrous and sadistic
Treatment
In-universe - use Magneto's helmet, try to keep Mary in control
Out-of-universe - help her find her voice, build off small successes