![]() Cooper later aided the X-Men after they broke into the Pentagon searching for scientist Doctor Peter Corbeau. This was later evidenced by her taking X-Men founder Professor Xavier into protective custody after he unwittingly created the psionic creature Onslaught. However, as government-mutant relations deteriorated, Cooper ultimately sided with the government against her former allies. Still, Cooper kept close ties with the team and often cooperated with them on their missions. When X-Factor learned this, they left government service. Aware of her actions but unable to control them, Cooper kept from X-Factor the fact that the government was stockpiling mutant-hunting Sentinel robots. During X-Factor’s clash with the Acolytes of Magneto, Cooper became an unwilling servant of the Acolytes. Cooper acted as government liaison to the team, but eventually she was forced to implement policy that she disagreed with, such as allowing the mutant terrorists Mystique and Sabretooth to join. Following the death of Commission chairperson Douglas Rockwell, Cooper replaced him and, as her first act, reinstated Steve Rogers as Captain America.įreedom Force was abandoned by the government after being compromised during a mission in Kuwait however, Cooper still believed that the concept of such a team was still viable, and soon after made a second attempt with X-Factor, recruiting mutant veterans of the X-Men and related teams. government control over the identity and property of “Captain America,” supervising the recruitment and training of a new Captain America, John Walker, and his then-partner Battlestar, as well as employing the mutant technosmith Forge to devise means for the government to detect superhumanly-powered individuals. Cooper was also involved in the Commission’s assertion of U.S. Selected to serve with the Presidential Commission on Superhuman Activities, Cooper recruited her old college friend Julia Carpenter for an experimental procedure to create superhuman powers, resulting in Carpenter becoming Spider-Woman, and employed the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants as the government-sanctioned Freedom Force. She saw the United States as being in a mutant “arms race” with other nations to develop an effective superhuman mutant corps of its own before they do. Hence, she was a prime supporter of the Mutant Powers Registration Act, though it was later repealed by the government after public outcry against it.Ĭooper also wanted the United States government to be able to protect itself from superhuman mutants, and to fight back if necessary. Furthermore, Cooper disapproved of superhuman crime fighters operating without United States government approval. Cooper believed that superhuman mutants were emerging throughout the world and that both governments and private interests had begun to exploit their abilities. ![]() ![]() President, Judge Richard Petrie, due to her driving concern about dangerous superhuman activity in the United States. Later, Cooper became Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor of the U.S. Doctor Valerie Cooper was employed out of school by an organization she believed to be a government agency, actually the subversive Secret Empire.
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