 She is revealed to be Isabel "Izzy" Kane, a college student and astronomer from Iowa.After finding a pair of high-tech goggles that had been left behind in a cornfield by Vril Rokk when he crashed to the Earth to warn the X-Men about Cassandra Nova, Izzy becomes the new Smasher and Earth's first member of the Imperial Guard.Izzy is introduced to Captain America by her grandfather Dan Kane, an acquaintance from World War II.