COREY

Real Name: Corey (surname unrevealed)

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-22732) human

Occupation: Bank teller

Group Membership: Bank staff

Affiliations: None

Enemies: Amadeus

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Seattle

First Appearance: Brilliant#1 (July 2011)

Powers/Abilities: Corey was presumably a capable bank teller with a good grasp of figures. 

Height: 5'6" (by guesstimation)
Weight: 150 lbs. (by estimation)
Eyes: Brown (see comments)
Hair: Blonde

History:
(Brilliant#1) - Corey was a teller in a Seattle bank. One day a man in his early 20s (a college student called Amadeus, though Corey didn't know that) walked up to her counter and told her he was having trouble with his ATM card, adding that it wouldn't give him money. She told him she would see what she could do, but then he instructed her to just give him all the money she could. Corey's pupils contracted into pin-points and she suddenly she had to do as he said, responded verbally in a monotone "all the money in the entire bank." She walked over the safe sitting in the back of the tellers' area and picked up bundles of cash, then began walking back to her counter with them. A manager spotted this and asked her if everything was okay, and when she didn't respond he spoke more forcefully telling her she didn't have the authority to... Before he could finish speaking Corey reached her counter and began shoveling the cash under the screen to the waiting youth. As she cried, apparently aware of what she was doing but unable to control herself, the manager grabbed her arms and shouted at her to stop, at which point she became hysterical and began screaming. As she continued to do so, the manager shouted to the security guards to stop the youth, who was now fleeing with a satchel filled with the purloined loot, but the proved unable to do so.  

(Brilliant#3 (fb) - BTS) - Corey was later interviewed by the FBI. She told them she had felt compelled to obey the robber. The Deputy Director suspected she was lying and really just an accomplice of the thief, but it was pointed out that while fleeing the criminal had been shot in the face only for the bullet to fail to even break the skin, and then when he told the guard who had shot him to shove the firearm up his ass, the guard had obeyed the instruction.

Comments: Created by Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley and Joe Rubenstein.

   Brilliant was an Icon creator-owned series and part of Brian Michael Bendis' Jinxworld group. It concerned a group of college students who discovered how to give themselves superpowers, and Corey's robber, Amadeus, was one of those. The series ran to five issues, ending on a "to be continued"; two more issues were solicited, but never released, and it was presumably intended to run to at least ten issues, given that the five that were released were subsequently gathered into TPB.

   The one clear close-up shot of her face shows eyes that color picker gives the code b3807f, which is apparently a light taupe, a very light shade of brown, or ash rose, a "dusty shade of pink and red." However, she's being mentally coerced/possessed at that moment, so it's possible this might cause a visible color shift in the irises, and so this is not her natural eye color.

   This profile was completed on 09/15/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary's celebratory event to represent Brilliant.

Profile by Loki.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Corey has no known connections to:

• COREY - Warheads Kether Troop, technician--Warheads#1
• COREY - real name of Rodent, Ultraverse--Strangers#16
• COREY - young boy caught up in Doctor Doom's takeover of the U.N. in Reality-20051--Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man II#15
  
• COREY - saved by Squirrel Girl--Unbeatable Squirrel Girl II#1
  
• COREY, BETTY - daughter of Colonel Corey--Combat Casey#16
• COREY, COLONEL - Korean War soldier, father of Betty and Dudley--Combat Casey#16
• COREY, DUDLEY - little brother of Betty--Combat Casey#17
  
• COREY, Dr. RAYMOND - US government physicist, along with James Scully trapped in Bermuda Triangle time warp, antagonized Scully--Skull the Slayer#1
• COREY, DR. - co-worker of Jeff Colt, the Anything Man--Defenders I#69
• FLYNN, COREY - real name or alias used by External Absalom in the Old West--Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files
  
• LEACH, COREY - the vampire also known as Redblood--Spider-Man: Unforgiven#1
  
• or any other "Corey" or "Cory" characters

images: (without ads)
Brilliant#1, p4, pan1 (main image)
Brilliant#1, p3, pan4 (headshot)
Brilliant#1, p4, pan4 (struggling with manager)

Appearances:
Brilliant#1 (July 2011) - Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Mark Bagley (pencils), Joe Rubinstein (inks), Jennifer Grunwald (editor)

First Posted: 09/19/2026
Last updated: 09/15/2026

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