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Part of the fun with MCU is watching the heroes and villains in action. This is important because we know that the basis of the Contessa’s drive is a desire to not let the deaths of her parents be in vain.

However, her parents are killed by (presumably) Russian agents, after which Leviathan recruits her. Their purpose was to quell a local resistance effort against the USSR. Her parents worked for a secretive terrorist organization named Leviathan but were posted in Italy (hence the Italian name) during the Cold War. The Contessa and her family are originally from Russia. feature in 1967’s Strange Tales #159 as a jet-setting, European socialite.īut of course, this is Marvel and there’s a tragic backstory behind the couture.

Her first appearance was in the Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. The Contessa was created by Jim Steranko, the legendary Nick Fury/S.H.I.E.L.D. While the MCU hasn’t given us too much to go on, we do have a wealth of information from the comics. I’m sure we’ll also be seeing both Belova and the Contessa on Hawkeye when it premieres on Disney Plus. We could also speculate that she’d be the mirror to Nick Fury if she is in fact putting together her own team of Avengers.

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In the Contessa’s first appearance in the MCU on the penultimate episode of the Disney Plus series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, she appears to be forming a team of her own (perhaps of antiheroes) that includes former Captain America John Walker.