Height: 5'8"
(by approximation)Weight: 250 lbs. (by approximation)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red
MIRANDA WILSON
Real Name: Miranda Wilson
Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Earth-92131) human cyborg
Occupation: Actress
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Mysterio (Quentin Beck)
Enemies: Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Mary
Jane Watson
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: Tiffany West
Base of Operations: The catacombs beneath Wonder
Studios
First Appearance: (Behind the scenes) Spider-Man cartoon episode, "The Menace of
Mysterio" (February 25, 1995);
(full): Spider-Man
cartoon episode, "Partners in Danger, Chapter 9: The Haunting of Mary Jane
Watson" (July 19, 1997)
Powers/Abilities: Wilson was a cyborg. Her mind was
hooked into Mysterio's equipment, allowing her to control all his
computers, robots and illusion-casting devices. She could also mentally
access other computers. Although the vast majority of her body was
apparently mechanized, she appeared to lack mobility in her legs,
confining her to a mobile command chair.
Height: 5'8"
(by approximation)
Weight: 250 lbs. (by approximation)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red
History: (Spider-Man cartoon episode - "The Menace of Mysterio"
(fb) - BTS /"Partners in Danger, Chapter 9: The Haunting of Mary Jane
Watson" (fb)) - Miranda Wilson was a popular film actress,
renowned as a great beauty. While starring in an action movie as
super-agent Tiffany West, Wilson filmed a scene where she was to drive a
speeding sportscar across the Brooklyn Bridge, pursued by explosions. To
give the scene more realism, special effects technician Quentin Beck
used real explosives. The explosion
crashed the camera helicopter, knocking Wilson off the bridge into the
water below. Horribly scarred and badly injured, she washed up on the
shore; unwilling to let anyone see her like this, she crawled into the
caverns below Wonder Studios, where she survived for some time. However,
her injuries worsened, and she began to die. Eventually, Beck discovered
her; feeling guilty, he purchased Alistair Smythe's high-tech robotic
technology from the Kingpin and rebuilt Wilson as a cyborg, saving her
life.
(Spider-Man cartoon episode - "Partners in Danger,
Chapter 9: The Haunting of Mary Jane Watson" (fb)) - Learning
that production on the movie had begun again with Miranda Wilson
lookalike Mary Jane Watson filming the two remaining scenes at Wonder
Studios, Wilson began to plot. She had Beck build her a machine that
could exchange minds, putting her mind in Watson's young, undamaged
body. Tapping into city computers, she researched Watson, learning that
her father had abandoned the family at a young age.
(Spider-Man cartoon episode - "Partners in Danger, Chapter 9: The
Haunting of Mary Jane Watson") - Wilson used a robot duplicate
of Philip Watson to call out to Mary Jane in her dressing room and
beckon her to come with him through a trap door in the floor. She
followed him through it and into the caverns but Spider-Man grabbed her
before they could go any further. Soon afterwards, Wilson arranged an
accident where Watson was knocked into a water tank during a hurricane
scene, then sucked down a drain. The Philip Watson robot found her, and
led her deeper into the catacombs again. While Spider-Man followed her,
Wilson sent robotic duplicates of his greatest foes against him,
including Mysterio, Lizard, Dr. Octopus, Rhino, Carnage and Venom; the
real Mysterio aided him in battling them. Meanwhile, the robot led
Watson to Wilson's command center. Once she was there, Wilson revealed her
presence to the would-be actress and captured her, strapping her to a
slab and revealing her history and plans to her. As she prepared to
activate the transfer device, Spider-Man burst in. She grabbed him with
a robotic arm then began the transfer, only for Mysterio to smash a
console with a chair and tell her that the machine had never been
intended to work and, indeed, that building such a machine would be
impossible. He had only built it because Wilson's hope was the only
thing keeping her alive and he had fallen in love with her. She
dismissed his love but insisted that they would be together forever as
she activated the self-destruct device. She released Watson and
Spider-Man, and remained with Beck in the crumbling complex as it
exploded.
Comments: Created by John Semper, Virginia Roth, Meg McLaughlin, and Marvel Films Animation (see Appearances list for full list of artists).
Miranda Wilson, aging actress obsessed with her lost
beauty, and Quentin Beck as a younger man who enables her delusions,
makes me wonder if this episode wasn't a loose homage to Sunset
Boulevard - except it's the '90s Spider-Man cartoon, so there are
cyborgs and mind-transfer devices and a robot Carnage. It's a weird
direction to go in with Mysterio - and, as this was near the end of the
series, his apparent demise here stuck. His death was even referenced on
a later episode, when the Vulture joined the Insidious Six to take his
place.
Wilson was voiced by veteran TV actress Beverly Garland (My Three Sons, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Remington Steele).
In the light of Superior Spider-Man, Beck's assertion that
mind-exchange technology is "a scientific impossibility" is pretty
amusing.
Profile by Minor Irritant.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Miranda Wilson has no known connections to:
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Spider-Man cartoon episode, "Partners
in Danger, Chapter 9: The Haunting of Mary Jane Watson"
screenshot (all images in this profile)
Appearances:
Spider-Man cartoon episode,
"The Menace of Mysterio" (February 25, 1995) - Marv Wolfman, Stan
Berkowitz (writers), John Semper (writer, story editor), Del Barras
(character design), Wayne Schulz (prop design), David Bullock
(additional character & prop design, additional storyboard art),
Jeff Snow (additional character & prop design), Lawrence Kim, Steve
Lyons, Brad Morris, Fernando Tenedora (background design), June M.
Micu, Rustico T. Roca, Jr., Joan Igawa (background painters), Karen Ann
Anderson, Kuni Bowen, Floro Dery, John Dormain, Thom Enriques, Dan
Faucett, George Goode, Stark Howell, Larry Latham, Steve Lyons, Stephan
Martiniere, Jim McLean, Phillip Norwood, Bill Riling, Dick Sebast,
Jason So, Bob Souza, Clint Taylor, Gary Graham (storyboard art), Moon
Choi, Steve Gordon, Eduardo Olivares, J.C. Ponce, Jim Schumann, Mike
Swanigan (additional storyboard art), Kronos (3D backgrounds), Ernie
Rinard, Larry Paolicelli, Andy Koo, Lisa Kim (modeler animators),
Mohammed Davoudian (modeler), Yoshio Chatani, Koji Miura, Nobuyuki
Koyanagi (key animators), Tomoko Sakai, Toshihiro Kawada (computer
painting), Dennis Venizelos, Yukihiro Yokoyama (art directors), Frank
Andrina, Richard Bowman, Bob Kirk, Larry Leichliter, Joe Morrison,
Kevin Petrilak, Mike Svayko, Bob Treat, Tim Walker, Alan Wilzbach,
Noburu Takahashi (animation directors), Yukio Suzuki (director)
Spider-Man cartoon episode, "Partners
in Danger, Chapter 9: The Haunting of Mary Jane Watson" (July
19, 1997) - Virginia Roth (story), John Semper (story, teleplay,
producer, story editor), Meg McLaughlin (teleplay), Del Barras
(character design), Wayne Schulz (prop design), Donn Greer, J.C. Ponce,
Moon Choi (additional character & prop design), Lawrence Kim, Brad
Morris, Enzo Baldi, Fred Carrillo (background design), Floro Dery, Gary
Graham, Bill Riling, Dick Sebast, Bob Souza, Clint Taylor, Rick Hoberg,
Jim James, Ken Laramay, Hank Tucker, Kuni Bowen, Toshihiko Masuda,
Kenji Hachizaki (storyboard art), Jerry Eisenberg, John Ahern, Jason So
(additional storyboard art), Dennis Venizelos (art director, background
painter), Richard Wolf (3D animation & technical coordinator),
Kronos Digital Entertainment Inc. (3D computer backgrounds), Joseph
Lampone Jr. (producer/animator), Mak Soo Ma, Amie Hong (Yi), Darrek
Rosen, Chuck Suong (animators), Young Hee Lee (BG art), Myoung-Ju Kwan
(layout art), Richard Bowman, Frank Andrina, Bob Kirk, Mike Svayko, Bob
Treat, Joe Morrison (animation directors), C.K. Horness (editor)
Last updated: 08/01/17
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