#Mantis (Mandy Celestine)

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Obscure Marvel fancast of the day: Jade-Anh Ngo as Mantis! (Note: While Mantis is perhaps not “obscure” given that she’s appeared in the “Guardians of the Galaxy film series, her comic-book counterpart is significantly different than her film version, and seems to still be “little known” to most fans, so I felt she qualified!) Mantis's father is the German supervillain, Gustave Brandt aka Libra. Before he was Libra, Brandt served with the French forces during the Vietnam War. While in Saigon, he met and fell in love with a Vietnamese woman named Lua, and eventually had a daughter with her. However, Lua's mobster brother Khruul was enraged with the interracial coupling of his sister and a European man. He and his men attacked Gustav and his family with flamethrowers. Lua was killed in the ensuing battle, and Gustav lost his eyesight. He brought his daughter to a temple run by the Priests of Pama, who were a religious sect of the Kree aliens on Earth, and left her in their care. The Priests believed that the child might be the Celestial Madonna, a perfect human woman destined mate with the eldest Cotati (a species of tree-like aliens from the same world as the Kree) on Earth to become the mother of the Celestial Messiah, "the most important being in the universe". They trained her to become a master of martial arts, and, upon adulthood, wiped her memory and sent her out into the larger world to gain life experience. She became a bar maid and sex worker in Saigon. While working at the bar where she plied her trade, she met a Frenchman named Jacques Duquesne. Once the costumed adventurer known as The Swordsman, he was now a burnt-out wreck of his former self, and working for none other than her long-lost uncle Khruul, though they did not realize their connection at the time. After a raid gone wrong in which Jacques was shot by rival mobsters, Mantis took him back to her apartment and nursed him back to health. They began a relationship, and he took her with him when he returned to the United States to become a hero again, where the pair joined the Avengers in 1973. Mantis was a valuable member, and during her time with them she discovered the identity of her father and more about her own past, as well as developing an attraction to The Vision...despite being friends with the Scarlet Witch and still involved romantically with The Swordsman. She realized too late just how much she loved The Swordsman when he died to save her from Kang the Conqueror. The prophecy of the Celestial Madonna proved true. Mantis too The Swordsman’s body back to Vietnam, and buried him in the temple where she had been raised. SHe entered a mental communion with the eldest Cotati on Earth, who had been planted in the Temple. This Cotati-Prime reanimated the body of the Swordsman, who had been buried among its roots. He then possessed it, becoming a living man suffused by a green, glowing energy, and she agreed to wed him in this state and fulfill the prophecy. It was a double-wedding, with Scarlet Witch marrying Vision alongside Mantis and the Cotati-Swordsman. Mantis and the Cotati-Prime then turned into pure energy and flew into outer space. Mantis has since resumed physical form and returned to Earth to carry out her pregnany and give birth to her son Sequoia, Quoi for short, who is a human-plant hybrid owing to his mixed Cotati/Human heritage. She has also continued having many adventures. Mantis is unusual in that she is a Marvel character who has also appeared in other comics canons. After her writer Steve Englehart had finished the story in which she became the Celestial Madonna, he left Marvel to work at DC, where he wrote a Justice League of America issue where a pregnant Mantis popped up, though she called herself Willow. When asked where Willow came from, she remarked "this-one has come from a place she must not name, to reach a place no man must know." And when Englehart worked for Eclipse, who should appear but Mantis, now called Lorelei and having given birth to her son. And when he came back to Marvel, so did Mantis and her boy Quoi! Mantis has no known birth name besides Mantis, but has used the pseudonym Mandy Celestine while living as a civilian raising her son. Besides her formidable mystic martial arts skills, she also sports a pair of insect-like antennae and empathic abilities. It is unknown if this is due to being a mutant, the training she received from The Priests of Pama, or her destiny as the Celestial Madonna. After communing with the Cotati-Prime, she also gained the ability to communicate with plant life, control vegetation, and astral-project. Mantis has a notable speech tic in which she refers to herself in the third person as “This one”. For instance, she would say “This one loves you” instead of “I love you” or “This one would like to order a soda” instead of “I would like to order a soda.” Much of her personality and past (mixed-race Vietnam War baby, Asian prostitute, mystical Eastern martial arts mistress, etc) are racist stereotypes and products of the time she was written, but she still has the capability to rise above it in modern times, and is an interesting character nonetheless.

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Marvel Fanfare #51

Writer: Steve Englehart

Art: John Buscema & Jack Abel

Colors: Christie Scheele

Letters: Rick Parker

#marvel fanfare #silver surfer #norrin radd #mantis #celestial madonna #mandy celestine #steve englehart #john buscema #jack abel #christie scheele #rick parker #marvel comics

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Rocket. Do you use fake identities?

Of course! We all do, actually. We only use them for dangerous missions, though. Here’s the list:

Peter- Burt Macklin

Gamora- Bambi Long

Rocket- Rick Raccon

Drax- Arthur Douglass

Groot- Greg Root

Nebula- Nancy Long- Celestine

Ego- Jason Russell

Mantis- Mandy Celestine

Yondu- Robin deBank

Kraglin- Carl Macklin

Carol- Catherine Donovan

Cosmo- Fido

Thor- Dr. Donald Blake

Harley- Harleen Quinzel

Scott- Jack Pym

Brunnhilde- Valerie Thompson

Wade- Dr. Jack Koffer

Logan- Peter Richards

(Admin: Some of these are actually from the comics. I thought it’d be a nice touch)

#gotg #guardians of the galaxy #starlord #ant man #cosmo #ego #gamora #harley quinn #deadpool groot #drax #rocket raccoon #mantis #nebula #valkyrie #thor #wolverine #captain marvel #kraglin obfonteri #yondu udonta #guardians answer

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Starter Call

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is that POM KLEMENTIEFF? no, that’s MANDY CELESTINE she used to be known as MANTIS but now she is just a FREELANCE ARTIST / THERAPIST. if I’m not mistaken SHE is AGE UNKNOWN and she was PRO the hero ban. (Cen/they/she/18/EST)

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EDIT: Occupation updated to FREELANCE ARTIST & BOTANIST

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[enter: Mandy Celestine]

IS THAT POM KLEMENTIEFF? NO, THAT’S MANDY CELESTINE SHE USED TO BE KNOWN AS MANTIS BUT NOW SHE IS JUST A FREELANCE ARTIST / BOTANIST. IF I’M NOT MISTAKEN SHE IS AGE UNKNOWN AND SHE WAS PRO THE HERO BAN.

ABOUT MANDY CELESTINE

--Soft spoken, gentle and kind. Loves all humans, animals and plants alike. Very hard to get her angry, but if you do, beware.

--Her powers are still present, being able to make people sleep with just saying so, plant manipulation, empathy, astral projection, etc. Does not use them though.

--PRO hero ban, due to the destruction they caused. She harbors a lot of guilt from the lives lost, and people hurt at her and her partner’s hands.

-- Not very... In-tuned with social skills, though she can read emotions, she still has a habit of making things very awkward for people sometimes.

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12 Days of Christmas Art Project: Day 12 - Mantis

This one is excited for the new Guardians of the Galaxy film coming out this year. Decided to wrap up the project with an updated version of my Mantis design influenced by her movie design.

12 Days of Christmas

Previous Years: 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016

Sweet Christmas

Fire and Ice

Holtzmann

Vegetto Blue

Harley and Ivy

Sons of Heroes

Mimikyu

THE GREAT PAPYRUS

Amazi-Girl Strikes Back

Nihilego

Oni Genji

Mantis

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