Melee is the code name of a fictional

Fictional character

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 comic book

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 character within Marvel Comics

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' shared universe

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 the Marvel Universe

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. She first appeared in Avengers: The Initiative #8 and was created by Dan Slott

Dan Slott

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, Christos N. Gage

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 and Stefano Caselli

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.

Fictional character biography

A Latino-American

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 girl with previous whereabouts unknown, Melee was recruited into the Fifty State Initiative

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 and sent to its training facility Camp Hammond where she is joined by other new recruits Ant-Man

Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady)

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, Crusader, Proton

Geldoff

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, Dragon Lord, Geiger

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, Red 9

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, and Diamondback

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. During a combat training exercise she was involved with, MVP clone KIA attacks and kills fellow recruit Dragon Lord; in the wake of this assault, she presented Dragon Lord's ashes to his family.

After the Skrull invasion

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, Melee was assigned to further training at Camp Hammond, in order to become a martial arts instructor.

Heroic Age

Melee appears at a meeting held by Prodigy

Prodigy (Ritchie Gilmore)

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regarding magical hammers that have crashed into the earth.

Powers and abilities

Melee possesses mastery of every form of martial arts; whether this is due to an actual superhuman ability or is the result of intense training has yet to be explained.