Quicksand (Nguyet | Marvel) (Comic Book Character)

Gender:Female
Age:Unknown
Location:Unknown


Real Name: Unknown
Current Alias: Quicksand
Identity: Secret
Alignment: Bad
Affiliation: Ally of Mongoose. Masters of Evil
Universe: Earth-616
Gender: Female
Height: 6' 8" 5'4" (In human form)
Weight: 500 lbs (227 kg) 100 lbs (In human form)
Eyes: Yellow, Brown (In human form)
Hair: Ocher, Black (In human form)
Unusual Features: In her transformed state, her body is composed of a malleable sand-like substance
Citizenship: Vietnamese
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Criminal; former scientist
Origin: A nuclear accident transformed her
First appearance: Thor #392 (June, 198


Bodily Transformation: Quicksand has the ability to transform the tissues of her body into a malleable substance very similar to sand. In this form, her frame gains an additional 16 inches n height and the sand-like tissues are much denser her human tissues, increasing her overall mass by an additional 400 pounds. While transformed, she possesses various superhuman attributes.

Shapeshifting: Quicksand is able to alter the shape of her body in a variety of ways for various purposes. She is able to essentially sculpt her body to create blunt weaponry, such as transforming her hands into large hammers or transfiguring her body into a cage. She is also able to alter her human shape and appear as a pile of sand, which can enable her to potentially squeeze through exceptionally small spaces and then reform herself at will. Quicksand is also able to disperse her body and, through some unknown means, generate intense winds over a small area. Essentially, she creates a sand storm by using her own body.

Superhuman Strength: Quicksand's transformation grants her a body that is vastly stronger than her human form, or the form of any ordinary human. She possesses sufficient superhuman strength to lift at least 80 tons.

Superhuman Speed: Quicksand is able to run and move at speeds that are beyond the natural physical limits and capabilities of the finest human speciman.

Superhuman Stamina: Quicksand's musculature is more efficient than that of an ordinary human. While her muscles aren't composed of the same organic tissue as a human's, they still produce some form of fatigue generating material causing her to tire. However, this material is signifigantly less than the fatigue toxins generated by organic muscle tissue. At her peak, she can exert herself for at least several hours before fatigue begins to affect her overall capabilities.

Superhuman Durability: Since her body is composed of a very malliable sand-like material, Quicksand is virtually invulnerable to most forms of physical injury. She can alter the density of her body to literally make it rock hard, sufficiently so to withstand high caliber bullets and conventional bladed weaponry. She is also able to withstand great impacts such as being repeatedly struck with superhuman force or falling from great heights without sustaining injury. Even if she were to be shattered or grounded into an inert form, her consciousness would be completely unharmed and she would simply reform herself. She could still reform herself even if the material of her body was spread out over great distances, it would simply take longer.

Superhuman Agility: In spite of her body's increased density, Quicksand's agility, balance and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the natural physical limits and capabilities of the finest human speciman.

Superhuman Reflexes: Quicksands reflexes are similarly enhanced and they're superior to those possessed by the finest human speciman.

Although she's had no formal training, Quicksand is a formidable combatant. Her great physical strength combined with the natural durability of her body, and with her ability to manipulate it, make her difficult opponent.

Weaknesses
Quicksand's powers are very similar to those possessed by the Sandman and, as a result, she may be vulnerable to heat based attacks. For example, since her body is composed of sand, it is possible that her tissues could crystalize and become glass if exposed to temperatures as high as 3,500 degrees Farenheit. It is also possible that she's vulnerable to water. If so, being wet could possibly transform her into little more than a mindless pile of mud until she was able to dry out.


Of Vietnamese descent, Quicksand was once a scientist working at a nuclear facility when an accident transformed her body into a sand-like substance. Petty and selfish, she had a hard time adjusting to her transformation. She called herself Quicksand and attacked the nuclear reactor in rage and in hopes of revenge, hoping to force it to shut down. She was confronted by Thor but nonetheless succeeded in causing the reactor to meltdown. Thor prevented disaster by using his hammer to transport the entire facility to another dimension, and Quicksand escaped.

She was later contacted by Mongoose, on behalf of Tagar, who desired a cell sample from Thor in order to create a race of gods. She wanted nothing to do with Thor but was persuaded to battle him once Mongoose showed her a device that supposedly would transform her back to normal. Quicksand barely managed to hold her own against Thor, and once Mongoose collected the tissue sample, she escaped once more.
Since then, Quicksand had apparently resigned herself to her transformation, and even, in fact, to revel in the power and profit she has enjoyed as a super-criminal. She served for a time with Superia's Femizons until the organization was shut down by Captain America and Paladin. Later, she somehow came to the attention of the rogue Egyptian god Seth, who dispatched her, Bison, and Mongoose to steal a sample of Inferno-42 from the intelligence agency SHIELD. In the course of this mission, they battled Thunderstrike, SHIELD agent Alex DePaul, and hero-for-hire Luke Cage. During the battle, a conscience-stricken Bison turned on his partners, defeating Quicksand and saving the life of DePaul, who let Bison go free in gratitude.

At some point, she was invited to join the Crimson Cowl's Masters of Evil, and she accepted, hoping to get rich through the Masters' blackmail scheme using global weather control. The team was defeated and apprehended by the Thunderbolts, and Quicksand was among those remanded to custody.