Victoria was fired from her job at S.H.I.E.L.D after she questioned director Nick Fury on his soft stance on international crime, and dumped by her girlfriend, an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D on the same day.
Due to her vocal opposition of Nick Fury and Iron Man, Victoria was promoted to Norman Osborn’s second in command when he took over S.H.I.E.L.D and renamed it H.A.M.M.E.R.
Victoria has a level of command over the Dark Avengers, but is primarily in charge of catering to Normans wishes and running operations on a day to day level. She was responsible for bombarding Bruce Banner with increased gamma radiation in order to hasten his future transformation into the Hulk (which his son, Skaar has sworn to kill on the day he appears)
While not amoral like her colleagues, Victoria has strict ideas of punishment and retribution for those who do wrong. It has been suggested that she is ignoring Norman Osbornes increasingly unbalanced behaviour in the hopes that when he cracks she will have his position and be able to mete out justice in any way she wishes.
Created by Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction, and Salvador Larocca. Hand made her first appearance in Invincible Iron Man #8 (volume 2).
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