attachments apparently built into her gloves. A brilliant strategist and tactician with extensive combat tactical experience, Viper is highly skilled in the management of criminal organizations and very well connected in the international criminal underworld. She is also a master of stealth and espionage. Perhaps her greatest strengths are her influence, the financial resources at her disposal due to her stature in organized crime, and an uncanny luck which has allowed her to cheat death in situations where lesser people would have died. Viper may or may not have supernaturally augmented longevity. Viper is usually armed with various ray pistols and conventional handguns. She has also used various other special weaponry, including poison-tipped throwing darts, knives, and whips. She has sharpened and elongated canine teeth with hollows inside them. She keeps a special poison in them, to which she has an immunity. Reception Accolades In 2019, IGN ranked Viper 21st in their "Top 25 Marvel Villains" list. In 2020, CBR.com ranked Viper 2nd in their "10 Most Powerful Crime Bosses In Marvel Comics" list, 2nd in their "Marvel: The Council Of Hydra Members" list, and 7th in their "Marvel Comics: Ranking 10 Members Of Hydra From Weakest To Most Powerful" list. In 2022, Screen Rant included Viper in their "15 Best Wolverine Love Interests In Marvel Comics" list. In 2022, CBR.com ranked Viper 7th in their "10 Most Attractive Marvel Villains" list. Other versions Age of Apocalypse In the Age of Apocalypse reality, Viper was married to the Silver Samurai. She and her husband fought their way from the islands of Japan through hordes of Apocalypse's Infinites. Viper was killed saving Samurai's life, leading to the Silver Samurai accepting Magneto's offer to join the X-Men. Exiles One of the alternate dimensions that is visited in Exiles #91-95 has been overtaken by a version of Madame Hydra. This world (Earth-1720) was dominated by Madame Hydra (actually Susan Storm Richards), her lover Wolverine, and their top assassin Slaymaster. However, before the Exiles can exact retribution, Madame Hydra and her lackeys escape into the omniverse to seek out other worlds to conquer. Ultimate Marvel The Ultimate Marvel version of Viper appears in Ultimatum: Spider-Man Requiem along with HYDRA. She attacks Tony Stark's offices in order to retrieve the Iron Man armor, but is subdued by Iron Man with the help of Spider-Man, and taken into custody by S.H.I.E.L.D. In other media Television Viper