Nekra Sinclair (Earth-616)

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Nekra

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Real Name

Nekra Sinclair

Current Alias

Nekra

Aliases

Adrienne Hatros

Identity

Secret

Alignment

Bad

Affiliation

Black Spectre, Lethal Legion

Relatives

Buck (father, deceased), Gemma (mother, deceased)

Universe

Earth-616

Base Of Operations

Mobile

Characteristics

Gender

Female

Height

5' 11"

Weight

145 lbs (66 kg)

Eyes

Black

Hair

Black

Skin

White

Unusual Features

Nekra has chalk white skin and sports elongated canine teeth. She isn't a true albino, however, as she has pigmentation in her hair and eyes.

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

Occupation

Cult priestess

Origin

Origin

Mutant

Place of Birth

Los Alamos, New Mexico

First appearance

Shanna the She-Devil Vol 1 #4

History

Decades ago, Gemma Sinclair was an African-American cleaning lady at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While she is pregnant, an exploding lab experiment bombards Gemma with radiation, causing her unborn child to mutate. Nekra is born an albino with vampiric features. Loathed by her parents and community, Nekra runs away into the New Mexico desert to live alone when she is fourteen years old.

She soon encounters by chance another child who has been mutated by the same explosion. Although his parents were white, he had been born dark-skinned and had developed fur and baboon-like features, for which he had named himself Mandrill. For six years they live by theft and scavenging, until they are attacked by a lynch mob that thought they were monsters. While filled with rage, Nekra discovers she is invulnerable to the mob's attacks. Slaying a few of their persecutors, the two escape and come to regard each other as if they were siblings.

The two later leave to Africa, as part of the Mandrill's ambitious scheme to overthrow multiple nations through Black Spectre, a cult of personality powered by the Mandrill's pheromonal control over women. This effort is thwarted by Shanna the She-Devil. The two eventually escape, kidnapping Shanna's father in the process, and eventually killing him.

Their next plot is of similar means, whereby they use the Mandrill's powers to raise a cult of black women to overthrow America. They are eventually defeated on the White House lawn by Daredevil, the Black Widow, and Shanna. Abandoned by Mandrill, Nekra is captured by authorities.

Nekra is held captive and drugged in a S.H.I.E.L.D. hospital, until a subliminal message from Hate-Monger inadvertently gave her the rage necessary to break free. While in the New York sewers, Nekra encounters a cult of Kali, whom she persuades that Nekra herself was the reincarnation of Kali. She then moves to the West Coast where she kills and replaces Adrienne Hatros, the reclusive sponsor of an emotional research clinic where Nekra hopes to overcome her own dependency upon emotions. This plot is foiled by the first Spider Woman.

Escaping again, Nekra falls in with the voodoo-master the Black Talon as voodoo tutor, and with the Grim Reaper as her lover. When the Grim Reaper dies in combat, Nekra is able to briefly reanimate him as a zombie, so lifelike that even the Grim Reaper does not realize he is dead. When Nekra's love becomes greater than her hate though, the Reaper dies again. Nekra takes his corpse with her, in hopes of reanimating him again.

Nekra then had run-ins with Spider-Man, Henry Pym, and then Alpha Flight.

Nekra finally manages to re-animate the Grim Reaper again, but this time there is a caveat: he has to kill one person every 24 hours in order to stay 'alive.' The Reaper then promptly chooses Nekra as his first victim and kills her.

Sensing the potential threat of Doctor Druid, Daimon Hellstrom uses his magics to reanimate Nekra, and sends her to investigate him. First she seduces Dr Druid, which negates his powers, but he manages to regain them via sacrifice. Nekra then shoots Dr. Druid in the forehead, killing him.

Nekra recently resurfaces in Loners #1. She is donating genetic material to an M.G.H ring that had sprung up in L.A. after the death of The Pride. She is defeated by Ricochet, Darkhawk, and the third Spider-Woman. She later returns at the Loners' meeting place to get her revenge on them, as seen on the final page of issue four. In issue #5, Nekra easily battled and defeated all of the Loners and precedes to strangle Mickey, when she is struck from behind by a mysterious lady named "Namie".

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Nekra possesses a variety of superhuman abilities.

Emotional Empowerment: Neka is able to grant herself various superhuman physical attributes by harnessing violent emotions within her, especially the emotion of hate. The precise nature of how she's able to do this isn't known, but it is possible this ability is partially psionic.

• Superhuman Strength: Given sufficient emotional passion, Nekra's physical strength is increased sufficiently to lift 10 tons. She is capable of increasing her strength to much greater levels for brief periods of time while her aggressive feelings are at their peak.
  

• Superhuman Speed: Nekra can run and move at speeds that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.
  

• Peak Human Stamina: As her powers depend upon her negative emotions, Nekra is capable of exerting herself at peak efficiency for up to 1 hour before she's no longer able to sustain her emotional intensity.
  

• Superhuman Durability: With her powers at their peak, Nekra's body is highly resistant to most forms of physical injury. High caliber bullets typically bounce off of her and most blades break against her skin. She can also withstand falls from great heights, exposure to temperature extremes, and powerful impact forces usually without sustaining injury.
  

• Superhuman Agility: Nekra's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.
  

• Superhuman Reflexes: Nekra's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete.
  
  

Abilities

Nekra is a formidable hand to hand combatant, even without the use of any of her powers. She is also proficient in various voodoo rituals, particularly the creation and manipulation of zombies. She's developed her own unique hybrid of voodoo practices, namely combining teachings of Black Talon and the Cult of Kali.

Strength level

Unknown.

Weaknesses

Nekra's powers are based upon drawing upon her negative emotions and can only harness sufficient emotional stability to gain those powers for an hour. If she is exposed to mood altering drugs or pheremones, her emotional stability can dramatically shift to the point where she is no longer able to access her violent emotions and is thus is stripped of her powers.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

• Former common-law wife of Mandrill. See:
• Druid Vol 1, No. 2-4 June-August 1995; Featuring: Doctor Druid, Daimon Hellstorm

Trivia

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See Also

• Appearances of Nekra Sinclair (Earth-616)
• Character Gallery: Nekra Sinclair (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Nekra Sinclair (Earth-616)
• Quotations by Nekra Sinclair (Earth-616)

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