ladies of Iron Man Comics: MEREDITH / MERLIN
Meredith appears for the first time in Iron Man v.5 #02, where we soon find out her story, in a flashback. When she was 21 years old and a genius wonder child, she had been researching force fields for Stark Industries, trying to make them competitive enough against Iron Man’s repulsor technology. Iron Man destroys her prototype, probably not knowing it was the only one and not a test one (and it’s not clear who was in the armor back then or if Tony was drunk), making it impossible for her to continue her research. She became a laughing stock and no one took her seriously again, until Arthur appeared, wanting to create New Avalon and hire Meredith as his Merlin.
In Iron Man v.5, “Merlin” lives in this New Avalon island where certain individuals have the “Grail” (that’s how they call Extremis), in a recreation of Arthur’s knights of the round table. Still angry at Tony and needing to get her revenge, she creates for Arthur the perfect armor suit able to combine with an extremis piloting system well enough to be a match for Tony’s one.
She armors four pilots who call themselves Lancelot, Galahad, Gawain and Percival. They all have Meredith’s shield technology, better and improved enough to make it impossible for Tony to hack it. Still, Tony manages to defeat the knights, realizing that the force fields are light-permeable, thus winning, as previously decided, the Extremis serum Arthur had left. Defeated, Meredith realizes that without Extremis she can’t built other armors.
(previously VOLUME 1: janice cord, marianne rodgers, madame masque part 1, roxie gilbert, pepper potts part 1,victoria snow , madame masque part 2, bethany cabe, rae lacoste, su yin, maria stark part 1, brie daniels,marcy pearson, yvette avril, ling mcpherson, clytemnestra erwin, gretl, mrs. fruitbagel, madame masque part 3,kathy dare, indries moomji, veronica benning, heather glenn, erica sondheim, bethany cabe part 2, pepper potts part 2,bambi arbogast, joanna nivena / VOLUME 3: anna wei, jenna carlisle, stephanie de la spiroza, sunset bain, hannah donleavy,ramona napier, pepper potts part 3, rumiko fujikawa part 1, rumiko fujikawa part 2, ms hancock,abby st. clair,shelly,aislinn / VOLUME 4: maya hansen, suzi endo / INVINCIBLE IRON MAN: pepper potts rescue part 4,maria stark part 2, whitney part 4, bambi arbogast part 2, justine hammer, sasha hammer,pepper potts rescue part 5, bethany cabe part 3)
Arthurian Legends 