Joining his Lethal Legion, she assisted in capturing the Vision and in creating a zombie of the Grim Reaper's brother, Simon Williams, in an effort to recreate him as he was before he became Wonder Man.

Through her contact with the Black Talon she met the Grim Reaper and, having found someone with passion and hatred equal to her own, became his lover. Nekra recovered from her injuries more rapidly than her doctors thought possible, and soon escaped. She later established a base at a clinic for emotional research in an effort to understand her powers better, but she was discovered by Spider-Woman and, vulnerable to Spider-Woman's pheromone emissions, was defeated and returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. Coming upon a den of worshippers of the death-god Kali in the tunnels of New York City, she became high priestess of their cult. Exposure to a broadcast of a rally by the second Hate-Monger, though, exposed her to frequencies designed to stimulate rage, which helped her to overcome the drugs and escape. holding facility, Nekra was drugged to prevent her from utilizing her powers.

Though Mandrill escaped, Nekra was taken into custody by S.H.I.E.L.D. Though the group succeeded in taking over the White House briefly, they were ultimately defeated by Daredevil, with the aid of Shanna and the Black Widow. After their failure, Mandrill and Nekra formed Black Spectre, an organization of African-American women committed to overthrowing the U.S. The Nekra became the chief priestess of a personality cult based around the Mandrill, though their plot was frustrated by Shanna the She-Devil. Together they plotted to overthrow three small African governments and consolidate them under their rule. When an angry mob attacked them one evening, the two manifested their mutant abilities for the first time, killing some of their attackers and driving off the rest.ĭuring this time, Nekra grew fangs while Jerome came to resemble a mandrill, leading him to adopt the name as his own. Shunning other people, the two lived together in the desert for the next six years, surviving by their wits and educating themselves with stolen books. Despised by her family, she ran away from home at the age of ten and met Jerome Beechman, the son of another person exposed to radiation in the accident. Though both of Nekra's parents were African-American, she was born with chalk-white skin. Gemma Sinclair was a cleaning woman at the Los Alamos Atomic Proving Grounds in New Mexico who was exposed to a large amount of radiation when an explosion breached the facility's small atomic pile.

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