[Captain Nash]

Quote:

Originally Posted by VonPooten

This is Englehart, quoted from Sean Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story...

"Basically, Mantis was supposed to be a hooker who would join the Avengers and cause dissension amongst all the male characters by coming on to each of them in return [...] She was introduced to be a slut."

In a nutshell, he's "always been a big fan of sex," (okay dude) and wanted the men to have someone they could fool around with. Luckily editorial scrapped that idea of his, so he could never make her his fantasy sex slave for the Avengers men, but unfortunately the prostitute aspect did make it into her origin. So, yeaaaaaah. Not the greatest vision for a character, and sadly I can't see her as anything other than a big perv's yearning to get sex into the Avengers.

Haven't read DnA's Guardians run though, so, can anyone say if she's portrayed well in that?

Well, we had Moondragon and Tigra for that later on...so the idea was still there.