MRINHA MRINHA
Identity/Class: Extradimensional (realm unrevealed; see comments) energy being/symbiote
Occupation: Predator
Group Membership: None known
Affiliations: Formerly Joe
Trinity (aka the Mop Man);
unidentified dog
Enemies: Dallas
Kerr, Ferdinand
"Foxy"
Pertierra, Poison
(Cecilia Cardinale), Sally,
Slug
(Ulysses X. Luggman) and his henchmen, unidentified trio assaulted by
the Mop Man;
it is unrevealed whether Mrinha
has any direct experience with Ylandris
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: "Myrna" (from Joe Trinity,
misunderstanding her name);
"the butcher" (from Poison)
Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
at least formerly Miami, Florida;
at least formerly her native extradimensional realm
(see comments)
First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents I#60/2 (October, 1990)
Powers/Abilities:
Mrinha is an energy being, although little has been revealed about
the nature and origin of this energy. She (see
comments) presumably exists in that form in her
native dimension.
To exist in an Earth-like environment, Mrinha can bond with an inanimate object, although she prefers to symbiotically merge with a human. By bonding to an inanimate object, she can enhance its durability and discharge destructive energies from its form.
For example, within a mop, she could charge the cloth portion such that it striking a human body could render human flesh, causing both lacerations and burns (reminiscent of radiation burns, but lacking in radiation). Further the mop could be used as blunt weapon, readily penetrating an adult male's thoracic cavity and fatally damaging the target's heart, or swiftly melting metal (such as the end of a gun) or melting the hand off on an adult male.
While merged with an inanimate object, she could communicate telepathically with a human, earning his or her confidence and influencing his or her actions. After some time and influence over a person who held an inanimate object with which she had bonded and/or with whom she had communicated telepathically, she could track and locate that person across an unspecified distance. She apparently could only sense that person when he or she was conscious.
By merging with a human host, she could grant him or her superhuman
powers, including flight, projection of Mrinha's destructive energies
(able to sever an adult man's arms), enhanced durability (bulletproof),
strength (enhanced human, at least), and healing. Within a host, she
could continue her telepathic communication.
It is unrevealed if any of these abilities remained
in a host following Mrinha's departure.
She apparently required permission of a potential human host to merge with him or her, but once she had done so, she could telepathically influence her host's actions. Each time her host followed her guidance, she gained a measure of influence over her host, and eventually she could force a host to obey her will, even to the point of attacking allies. Mrinha strategically allowed her hosts to choose the first victim(s), gaining their trust and increasing her influence.
Poison considered Mrinha to be a butcher, rather than a warrior like Ylandris, and to be all danger, no discipline.
Via her experiences with and mutation by Ylandris, Poison was able to withstand Mrinha's assault and attempts to take over her body; Poison felt that other humans could not withstand Mrinha's energies.
Height: Unrevealed (roughly human-sized, likely variable)
Weight: Unrevealed (likely negligible)
Eyes: White or pale yellow
Hair: None
History:
(Marvel Comics Presents I#62/2 (fb) - BTS) - Joe Trinity was successful accountant until he refused to work for the criminal Ulysses X. Luggman (aka the Slug), after which he was fired and his girlfriend,Sally, subsequently left him soon after. When Trinity's former assistant, Dallas Kerr, took the job and started seeing Sally, Joe began to lose his sanity.(Marvel Comics Presents I#60/2 - BTS) - Encountering a trio of men assaulting a small dog, Joe Trinity swung his mop - charged with Mrinha's energies -- across the assailants faces, knocking them all to the ground, after which he slew two of them via shoving the mop into their chests, but he left the third alive.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#61/2 (fb) - BTS) - The two dead men had quarter-sized holes punched into their chests.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#60/2 - BTS) - Later, when Poison questioned Trinity about his ex-girlfriend, Sally, and Dallas, Trinity told her that the matter was his and Myrna's business.
Poison subsequently considered that Trinity had been mentally broken but that he had bonded with something similar to Ylandris, the extradimensional energy being that had empowered her, although it was a butcher rather than a warrior: All danger, no discipline. Never having encountered another such creature, Poison was curious to test its limits against hers. She further considered that if she could have found Joe earlier, perhaps she could have helped him.(Marvel Comics Presents I#61/2 - BTS) - Dr. Alcazar told Lt.
Harris
the only thing he had learned from the the injured man. He further
noted that it looked like someone had jammed he man's head into a bag
of red-hot razor blades and then shaken the bag; both men agreed that
to be unlikely. 
(Marvel Comics Presents I#62/2 - BTS) - JoeTrinity told "Myrna" that he didn't care much for killing, even when the target deserved it, but he noted that she was different, as she shivered when she spotted a "hot one," one she could talk him into doing.
Poison took down on the Slug's hitman who was threatening Joe Trinity. After Trinity shared his professional and personal misfortune, Poison assured Trinity that she could take the pain away.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#63/2 - BTS) - The Slug contracted Foxy Pertierra to assassinate Trinity.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#63/2) - Trinity spoke to Mrinha, noting that it was strange that Poison had not asked why he spoke to a mop, as that was usually everybody's first question. He asked "Myrna" if she thought Poison understood the situation, and he further noted that "Myrna" did not like Poison and wondered if "Myrna" was jealous or something. The discussion was interrupted by Sharona, who warned him that people were asking about him.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#63/2 - BTS) - Receiving a report that the two slain men they had investigated had paint residue and pine splinters in the holes in their chests and what appeared to be radiation burns on their faces, but with no trace of radiation, Lt. Harris considered that the story the survivor told about the "dementoid with the mop" may have been accurate.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#64/2 - BTS) - As Foxy Pertierra shot Joe Trinity through the chest repeatedly, Poison sensed his pain.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#64/2 (fb) - BTS) - Animating the mop, Myrna leapt out of Trinity's hands, melted the end of Foxy's gun and then melted his right hand.
Trinity was taken to the hospital and taken to surgery, where the bullets were removed.
Trinity was eventually brought into the same room as the survivor of the trio Trinity had previously assaulted. Seeing Trinity, the man sat upright, screamed, and then died.
Dr. Alcazar subsequently told Lt. Harris that the man whose presence had terrified the survivor of the previous assault had been found sitting in his own blood and clutching a mop...
(Marvel Comics Presents I#64/2 - BTS) - Doubting Foxy's story and concerned that he hadn't walked into a flame-thrower while pursuing a side account, the Slug had Dr. Krislov examine him.
Standing over the sedated Trinity, Lt. Harris asked about the mop, as
it was apparently a murder weapon, and Dr. Alcazar suggested that it
had likely been left in junkyard where Trinity had been found. 
Watching Trinity from outside the hospital room, Poison sensed that the thing Trinity called Myrna was searching for him, just as he was searching for it. Poison considered that the bond between them could not be severed by distance, and she was further intrigued by the danger this "Myrna" presented.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#65/2) - Calling to Joe Trinity and locating him as he awakened, Mrinha and the mop traveled to him. Sensing this, Poison considered that the butcher hid its killing frenzy while it seduced, using a gentle voice and a soft and loving touch. Mrinha asked Joe if he would trust her, noting she could mend his wounds if he allowed her to enter his form; trusting her and figuring there was nothing else within him, Joe readily accepted. As her energy form bonded with him, Mrinha noted that they would never be closer than at this moment of joining. As Joe noted that he was a lucky guy to have a friend like her, Mrinha clarified her real name.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#66/2 (fb) - BTS) - Overnight, Trinity not only healed from his wounds, but his body gained an appearance and physiology of a man half of his age.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#66/2 - BTS) - Harris questioned Trinity, who refused to divulge further information, but -- in an odd voice -- he told them he believed they would be brought to judgment. He further noted that hope was like a flower that bloomed in the soul with roots that bored into the heart and sucked it dry.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#66/2 (fb) - BTS) - Foxy Pertierra later burst into Trinity's room and peppered his bed with his automatic weapon, after which Mrinha's powers severed both of Foxy's arms.
Punching his way past Harris, Trinity pursued the fleeing Foxy, who got in a car with Dallas Kerr and took a car back to the Slug's place. Observing this, Poison appreciated that Mrinha was more clever than she had thought, as by not seizing control of her host all at once and allowing to choose the first victims, it gained his trust. She considered that Mrinha would assert itself a little more progressively, meeting no resistance until it devoured him whole.
Mrinha's power allowed Trinity to rush into the Slug's estate, resisting the Slug's men's weapons, and he told her that they were aiming right at the heart of the problem.
Observing this, Poison considered that she (Poison) would break the vandals who swarmed around and inside of Trinity, and that she would trample their spirits as they did to his.
(Marvel
Comics Presents I#67/2) - As Joe Trinity confronted the Slug, tossing
him high into the air, he shared Mrinha's words about him: "Gelatinous
parasite,
scarcely able to breathe without assistance...a monument to
overindulgence...fit only for deathing, Joe...kill it!"
However, Trinity instead attacked his personal enemy, Dallas, until Poison stopped him, leading the frenzied Trinity to turn on her instead. Poison explained that while she knew he did not actually want to punish her, the thing inside him did. Poison further explained that Mrinha wanted to punish everything that lived and that each time he helped it, it devoured a little bit of him.
Following a distraction by the Slug's men, Trinity went after the
fleeing Dallas, threatening to kill him. When Poison told Trinity to
show Dallas and Sally no mercy, and to make them live with the truth of
what they now were, Mrinha told Joe that this was a lie, as death was
never mercy. Although Trinity believed Poison, he was unable to stop
Mrinha from forcing him to attack her. 
Catching Trinity by the neck in mid-air, Poison instructed Mrinha to abandon Trinity or die with him, as she would not let him live as its slave. Accepting this, Mrinha exited Trinity but then tried to possess Poison instead; however, Poison's experiences (and presumably physical and mental changes) from her time with Ylandris enabled Poison to resist Mrinha, and she cast out the creature, seemingly dispelling it.
Poison subsequently told Trinity that when he awakened, he would find that his nightmare had ended.Comments: Created by Steve Gerber and Cindy Martin.
The "a" in Mrinha should have an umlaut over it, but using special
symbols like that fails with my html editor; maybe another editor can
fix it...
Regardless, her name should sound more like
Mrinheh or Mrinhuh than Mrinhah...
It is unrevealed how/why either Mrinha or Ylandris ended up on Earth, and it also unrevealed whether the two beings knew each other. It seems most likely to me that Mrinha and Ylandris are from the same realm, but I don't think that is actually confirmed. Poison noted Mrinha to be a "something similar to Ylandris."
Joe Trinity refers to Mrinha was a female, perhaps just because he misunderstood the name as Myrna, or perhaps because Mrinha adopted a feminine voice to earn his confidence. Poison consistently referred to Mrinha as "it." There is not evidence that there are male or female members amongst Mrinha +/- Ylandris' people, but I'm referring to Mrinha as her in the profile, because it just seems right to me.
Mrinha's realm has not been identified. I suggest "Simsotsulirosiu," as long as it is the same realm as Ylandris'. If not, I guess we need another name...
This profile was completed 06/22/2022, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary 's celebratory event.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Mrinha should be distinguished from:
Appearances:
Marvel Comics Presents I#60/2-61/2
(October, 1990) - Steve Gerber (writer), Cindy Martin (artist), Kelly
Corvese (assistant editor), Terry Kavanaugh (editor)
Marvel Comics Presents I#62/2-63/2 (November, 1990) - Steve Gerber
(writer), Cindy Martin (artist), Kelly Corvese (assistant editor),
Terry Kavanaugh (editor)
Marvel Comics Presents I#64/2-67/2 (December, 1990) - Steve Gerber
(writer), Cindy Martin (artist), Kelly Corvese (assistant editor),
Terry Kavanaugh (editor)
First posted: 09/23/2026
Last updated: 07/20/2022
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