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Background
Alison Mongrain was hired by the Daily Grind coffee bar as a waitress. The
Grind's owner, Shirley Washington, and her staff instantly noticed Mongrain's
hostility. They assessed her as being "chilly", "frosty", and an "ice
queen."
There was definitely something odd about her, as she added an unknown powder
into a bowl of chicken gumbo, which was ordered by a very pregnant Mary Jane
Parker. MJ went into a very "severe and complicated" labor according to the
paramedics that were called to the coffee bar. Aunt Anna Watson tried
paging Peter, but he and Ben Reilly were being kept busy by Gaunt and
his robots.
At the hospital, MJ was greeted by Dr Folsome, who told her that her regular
doctor was out of town and he would be delivering her baby. The delivery was
quick, but painful. At first relieved to be finished with the labor, MJ was
quickly worried when she realized the baby wasn't crying. Dr Folsome gave Mary
Jane
his condolences and left the room with the rest of his staff...including Alison
Mongrain.
Mongrain immediately left for the harbor, bringing a package with her. She
spoke briefly with her employer, who told her to enjoy Europe and to make sure
that the package was never seen again. Her employer? Norman Osborn.
In a subsequent scheme, Osborn took control of the Daily Bugle by threatening
J. Jonah Jameson's family. His purpose was to use the Bugle to exonerate
the Osborn name after Bugle reporter Ben Urich wrote a book naming Norman
Osborn as the Green Goblin. The normally volatile Jameson was reduced to a
lapdog by Osborn, and [[Robbie Robertson]] took it upon himself to take the
Bugle back from Norman.
His investigations led him to Paris and to Alison Mongrain. Though both
Mongrain and Osborn kept their ends of their bargain to each other, neither
trusted the other. Alison considered using baby May Parker as blackmail against
Osborn, and Norman considered Mongrain to be a loose end. To tie that end up,
Norman implanted a painful mind control microchip into the back of the neck of
Mark Raxton, aka the Molten Man. The chip would only stop causing pain once
Alison was dead.
Once Robbie and Alison returned to New York, they were under constant attack
from the Molten Man. Raxton was relentless in his chase, following Mongrain
even after he fell into the harbor after battling Spider-Man. Mongrain,
believing to be safe, wanted to go to the Parker home to tell Peter an urgent
message. The ground beneath her suddenly erupted, as the Molten Man emerged
from the sewer. A block of concrete hit Alison in the stomach, badly hurting
her. Suddenly realizing that the Molten Man was following the necklace that
Osborn had given to Mongrain, Robertson threw it away, where Mark destroyed it.
Their narrow escape took place outside of Peter and Mary Jane's home, and
before she died of her injury, Alison finally told MJ that "May" was still
alive. As soon as Spider-Man returned home, MJ explained what Mongrain had told
her. Despite his wife's pleas to not let Osborn manipulate him any more,
Spider-
Man went to Norman's upstate hunting lodge to find his infant daughter. In the
following battle with the Green Goblin, Norman told Peter that his daughter was
dead. Ignoring his arch enemy, Peter stormed the hunting lodge, only to find
that "May" was really his elderly aunt May Parker, who had supposedly died
nearly a year before.
Ok, bear with me. Not that it really matters, but Mongrain may be alive again.
Peter and Mary Jane ended their marriage by the demon, Mephisto. He made
it so they had never been married in the first place. Since they were never
married, they never had a child. If they never had a child, Mongrain couldn't
kidnap her. If she couldn't kidnap her...you get it.
Thanks To:
Some of the above information is extracted from the various
versions of the Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe and the more recent
Marvel Encyclopaedias.
The assistance of the
Marvel Chronology Project is gratefully acknowledged.
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