Smokescreen is a high-tech mercenary and member of the
alongside teammates
,
,
and
. They were hired to eliminate
and confronted him one evening at one of his construction projects. Stark managed to escape from their initial assault and change into
. Smokescreen and the Death Squad failed to destroy Iron Man and retreated.
Creation
Smokescreen was created by
and
in 1998 and first appeared in
# 1. She has no connection to the would-be crimelord in Spider-Man Storm and Power Man Battle Smokescreen, anti-tobacco propaganda from Marvel Comics.
Story Arcs
Smokescreen and the Death Squad reappeared with
and
when
agent
enlisted the aid of Tony Stark regarding some ionic-based murders. The Death Squad, Whiplash and Nitro ambushed Iron Man while he was looking at body of
inside the Long Island Cemetery. Firefight and the rest of the Death Squad retreated in their jet when Nitro kept exploding. Iron Man followed the jet to a castle located somewhere in Siciliy and took down some members of the Death Squad. Smokescreen, the Death Squad and Iron Man were all taken down by an ionic shock produced by the floor they were fighting on. Iron Man discovered that the man who hired the mercenaries to eliminate him was
.
Weapons:
Her primary weapons are designed to baffle sensors.
1.
Smokescreen
2.
Blackout Bombs
– generates darkness, blocks IR, fluoroscopic scanners
3.
Foil releasing Grenade
– neutralizes sensors
4.
UZI submachine gun.