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..Killgrave the Purple Man is now a character who can only be used in certain circumstances after Alias established him as a mind-controller who gets off on sexually humiliating female superheroes. There have been one or two Marvel head-grabbers who've gone part of the way down that route before (e.g. Mesmero) but not as far. Now whenever he appears in a book with a female hero the writer has to explain why she's still wearing clothes and not sitting on his lap.
He was sort of a rapist anyways...his daughter the Purple Girl happened because he manipulated a woman into sleeping with and marrying him.
On a side note...it was implied heavily in New Thunderbolts he also raped/sexually assaulted Andreas Strucker aka Swordsman with his powers.
Andreas narration captions say "especially after what was done to me. What he MADE me do...after a lifetime of debauchery, how can I justify feeling debased?" and the picture is a shirtless Purple Man with a wine glass.
Another issue had the Purple Man ordering the Swordsman to lick his shoes.
So Purple Man apparently is an equal opportunity rapist.
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Perhaps change this by having his powers transferred to a woman?
He has a daughter with the same pigment and powers...but I thought they killed her off. She was in Alpha Flight when it got really lame.
