
Maya was seemingly saved from the blast by the Mandarin and found by S.H.I.E.L.D. with an experimental localised black hole bomb. Moments after this, Tony arrived in an older model Iron Man armor and a fight ensued, culminating in the destruction of the facility by S.H.I.E.L.D. Maya discovered a lab full of human subjects and was confronted by the Mandarin who admitted that he was planning on killing billions so the few million who survived would be made greater by Extremis. Together they worked on perfecting Extremis so it could be used to heal as Maya had wanted, as well as creating the next wave of Captain America type Super-Soldiers.Īfter a short time working on the project Maya began to suspect that something wasn't right and contacted Jack Kooning who was running the government side of the project to confront him, only to learn he had no idea about the lengths the project had gone to, including making an airborne version of Extremis which was almost 100 percent lethal. to instead go to work for a man calling himself Tem Borjigin who was in fact the Mandarin, masquerading as the CEO of a company called Prometheus Gentech, Inc., whom she believed to have been contracted by the Defense Department.


MandarinĪfter the death of their mentor, Sal Kennedy, Maya blamed Tony and left S.H.I.E.L.D. Later she was paroled and worked under Tony at S.H.I.E.L.D.

After a brief period in jail, Tony broke her free just to fix his brain. Later it was revealed that she was the one who let the samples go. When the samples were stolen and given to domestic terrorists, Maya contacted Tony Stark, with whom she had studied with in college. The original Extremis granted superhuman strength, speed, endurance, reflexes and the ability to project electricity and breathe fire. The virus also gave the body a sort of healing factor. It replaced entire organs making them more efficient. The Extremis was a techno organic virus that completely rewrites the body’s genetic code.

Together they developed Extremis, an attempt to create a new super soldier. Maya Hansen was a brilliant scientist working for the FuturePharm Corporation in Austin, Texas alongside Dr.
