Originally Posted by
JudicatorPrime
Thanks!
If I brought Madeline back, I'd keep some of her history intact, but not all of it.
Her history of fighting in WWII is a keeper.
Her relationship with the Whizzer? Maybe not so much.
Whizzer pursued her romatnically, they casually dated, but she had misgivings about being in a long-term relationship. She ultimately decided to leave him to pursue another romantic interest (and since I'm writing this, yeah, it would be someone that looks like Olympic champion Jesse Owens, lol).
But before Joyce could end her relationship with Frank, Whiz cuts a deal with some questionable parties to control her using the precursor of the Behavior Modification Device (B-Mod) made popular in Gruenwald's Squadron Supreme series. Tom Thumb may have been a hero on 712, but in 616 maybe he was a Nazi sympathizer and an Enclave scientist.
Tom agrees to use his B-Mod device on Madeline in exchange for Whizzer agreeing not to turn him into the authorities. But being irremediably diabolical, Tom double-crosses the Whizzer. His B-Mod device doesn't actually work to control the mind, but it is able to stimulate the mnemonic sectors of the brain and transfer memories from one mind to the next. (I'd suggest that some of the components of this device would be provided by Winston Frost of Frost Industries. Yep, Emma Frost's dad.)
Nevertheless, Tom Thumb successfully kidnaps Madeline with help from the Whizzer, but instead of Tom returning to the Whizzer a behaviorally adjusted, amorously inclined Madeline, Tom instead gives the Whizzer a synthetic woman identical in appearance to Joyce that he engineered using a combination of beta-stage technology pilfered from Horton, Nazi scientists, the Enclave and Wyndham. The "Madeline Joyce" that marries the Whizzer and later on gives birth to Nuklo wouldn't be the real Madeline at all. The real Madeline Joyce would be found still in Tom Thumb's "Hypernaculum" -- yet another callback to the 712 as that Earth's Tom Thumb made use of a suspended animation chamber called the "Hibernaculum."
For decades, Tom Thumb, which is also an alias, uses the real Madeline Joyce's DNA for various painful experiments. One of the products of that ill-gotten research turns out to be the superpowered being initially called Adam. And "Tom Thumb" turns out to be none other than Maris Morlak, one of the original founders of the Enclave. Once his experiments were completed, Morlak discarded Miss America in the Hypernaculum at the bottom of Challenger Deep believing that once the energy cells were depleted, the device would fail and she would perish. He will never know just how wrong he was on that point.
Decades later, Miss America emerges from the Hypernaculum seething with vitality and power. A new creation over a century in the making.