List of Marvel Comics Characters: H

List Of Marvel Comics Characters: H

Maya Hansen is a scientist in the Marvel Comics universe.

The character, created by Warren Ellis and Adi Granov, first appeared in Iron Man vol. 4, #1 (January 2005), and features as a major recurring character throughout the Extremis arc.

Within the context of the stories, Maya is a scientist who developed the Extremis virus alongside Aldrich Killian. When Killian steals a sample of the virus and sells it to domestic terrorists, she calls up Tony Stark, an old friend of hers, to help recover it. After Tony is severely beaten by Mallen, a terrorist who had been injected with the virus, he convinces Maya to inject him with Extremis, too. Tony defeats and apprehends Mallen, but he discovers that Killian could not have acted alone in selling Extremis. He confronts Maya, who confesses to assisting in the crime, as she knew it would force defense contractors to renew their funding. She is subsequently taken into custody.

Later, Tony believes Extremis is altering his brain functions, so he gets her out of jail to help him. She is placed under his custody. When Sal Kennedy is killed, Maya feels she could have saved him if she had been allowed to continue her research on Extremis. She is unknowingly tricked into giving the Mandarin samples of the virus.

Following the events of Secret Invasion, Maya Hansen disappeared from the series and was not seen again until the relaunch of the Iron Man series during the Marvel NOW! event, where it was revealed that she was kidnapped by A.I.M. to recreate the Extremis serum for them and succeeded. Though she was killed while trying to escape, she accomplishes her failsafe plan by sending a prerecorded message she made to Tony Stark to warn him that the Extremis virus is on the loose again.