Candy Southern

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caption=Candy Southern
Art by John Byrne
comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Candace "Candy" Southern
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="X-Men" vol. 1 #31 (May 1967)
creators=Roy Thomas
Werner Roth
alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0
full_name=Candace Southern
supports=X-Men
alliances=Hellfire Club Defenders
aliases=Marvel Girl, The Southern Belle
powers=|

Candace "Candy" Southern is a fictional character most often appearing in X-Men and Defenders stories in the Marvel Comics universe. Writer Roy Thomas created her name by combining the last name of author Terry Southern with the first name of the title character of Southern's novel "Candy". She was the long-term girlfriend of Warren Worthington III when he went by the superhero alias Angel.

Fictional character biography

Candy was a childhood friend of Warren Worthington III. As an intern at the United Nations, she reunited with Warren, and first met the X-Men, at Bobby Drake's 18th birthday party.cite book | last = Sanderson | first = Peter | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City | publisher = Pocket Books | date = 2007 | location = New York City | pages = 62-63 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 1-14653-141-6] Candy and Warren then began dating. During this time, Candy learned of Warren's superhero identity. After Warren's second superhero team, the Champions of Los Angeles disband, Candy and Warren began living together.

Warren later joined the Defenders, and Candy began working for the team in a supporting role. She was subsequently named the leader of the Defenders in non-combat contexts. After Warren joined X-Factor, his relationship with Candy became strained. Candy broke up with Warren and left her job with Worthington Industries because she mistakenly believes Warren was having an affair with his teammate Jean Grey.

Candy was later kidnapped and killed by Cameron Hodge, a former friend of Warren and Candy who had betrayed X-Factor as part of an anti-mutant plot. Hodge later dies and joins the Phalanx, a technological based race of shape changers and absorbers.

Warren and Jean, returning to a house familiar to Candy, find her inside. It turns out she is a duplicate of the real Candy, though not fully aware of the circumstance. Hodge returns to battle the two mutants and in the process, kills and destroys Candy's new form.

References

External links

* http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/candysoutherndef.htm