Regan Wyngarde (Earth-616)

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Lady Mastermind

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Real Name

Regan Wyngarde

Current Alias

Lady Mastermind

Identity

Secret

Affiliation

Marauders, formerly the X-Men, Hellfire Club

Relatives

Mastermind (father, deceased), Mastermind II (half-sister)

Universe

Earth-616

Base Of Operations

Formerly Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York

Characteristics

Gender

Female

Height

5' 9"

Weight

133 lbs (60 kg)

Eyes

Blue

Hair

Blonde

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

Occupation

Former Mercenary employed by Sebastian Shaw

Origin

Origin

Regan Wyngarde is a mutant, born with her special powers.

First appearance

X-Treme X-Men #6
(December, 2001)

History

Lady Mastermind was one of two daughters of Jason Wyngarde, the original Mastermind. She had an intense hatred for her half-sister, Martinique, for reasons unknown.

Regan Wyngarde was behind Gambit's framing in Australia. Lady Mastermind, acting under the orders of Sebastian Shaw, used her telepathic illusionary powers to assassinate Miles Warebeck; alias Viceroy. This plot was created by Sebastian Shaw to gain revenge against Sage, his prized former secretary. Tessa was placed inside the Hellfire Club, as a mole, for Charles Xavier, where the two had originally met and bounded.

Lady Mastermind

In an attempt to make Sage work for Shaw again, Lady Mastermind placed her in a series of illusions. However, Sage received help from Lifeguard to fight the illusions that Regan had woven. Sage was able to turn Lady Mastermind's powers against herself, and as a result Regan was left catatonic in a public hospital located in Sydney, Australia.

Regan was one of few mutants that retained their superhuman powers after M-Day. Cannonball and Iceman found a comatose Regan, along with a partially disassembled Karima Shapandar. It was stated that Regan fell victim to scientists of the Fordyce Clinic who were trying to determine if a person could catch mutation like a disease.

Regan finally awakened from her coma after her powers had been temporarily hijacked by Serafina. She became part of Rogue's strike force/field team, but Rogue told Regan that she was only wearing the X-Men uniform because she was found with nothing more then a white sheet. Soon afterwards, the team was ambushed by Pandemic's forces, who captured Rogue and teleported to an unknown location. Eventually, Karima Shapandar was able to restart the teleportation device, but things did not go exactly as planned. Regan was teleported up high into the air and fell from an enormous height. Luckily, Iceman managed to catch her before she hit the ground. Mystique, who was also teleported by the machine, was not as lucky as she was, and vanished. Regan and Iceman soon regrouped with Karima Shapandar, and the trio began to search for Pandemic. They found Pandemic and defeated him but Rogue was infected with Strain 88. The team went to Cable's island Providence to find a cure for Rogue. While there they fought a monster called Hecatomb and defeat it.

When Rogue's team of X-Men went to one of Mystique's safehouses an intruder alarm later went off. The X-Men couldn't find anyone and Lady Mastermind later revealed that she had been working with the Marauders and was keeping them hidden from the X-Men.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Known Powers: Lady Mastermind is an Alpha-Level mutant.

Telepathic Illusions: Lady Mastermind possess the mutant power to project extremely convincing and realistic illusions into the minds of others, a stronger variation of the same ability her father had.

Lady Mastermind searching for her psyche invader.

Her illusions are hypnotic, and her victims tend to accept them as fact, even when the images and scenarios they are confronted with involve sudden changes to the world around them, or are inconsistent or improbable (for example, Rogue, when under Lady Mastermind's control did not question the sudden existence of a multitude of Vargases, or the random jumps in location and time she was experiencing). As such they can be used as a very effective brainwashing tool. In addition, unlike her father, both Regan and her half-sister Martinique have limited telepathic abilities that enable them to read their foes minds and make their illusions all the more accurate for it. Regan's illusions have also been shown to persist even after she has been rendered unconscious.

• Psychosomatic Symptoms: Regan's powers can also kill, as her victims bodies respond as if her illusions are real. She confronted Viceroy with the illusion that he was drowning, and believing it to be real, he suffocated, despite having no physical injuries and being in a room with sufficient oxygen. Heather Cameron's body also responded in a similar way, bleeding through the pores in her back when she was under the illusion she had been stabbed.
  

Abilities

None known.

Strength level

Unknown.

Weaknesses

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: A pair of handguns.

Notes

Lady Mastermind (Regan Wyngarde) was initially intended to be the Mastermind II (Martinique Jason) that had appeared previous in such comics as Daredevil. However, both Chris Claremont and Peter Milligan intended to use the character at the same time so an editorial decision was made to differentiate the two.

Trivia

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