Who Is Andromeda? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Andromeda is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Andromeda Attumasen, with over 91 comic issue appearances. The beautiful and heroic Atlantean warrior is a member of the Defenders. Like Prince Namor: The Sub-Mariner, Andromeda defends her people and the surface dwellers with honor and might. She uses a serum that temporarily allows her to breathe air while on land. She has proven her mettle on both land and sea.

Who is Andromeda?

Origin Rise of the Trident The blue-skinned warrior woman from the deep seas of Atlantis is a member of the Homo-mermanus race, and thus grew up underwater. Although the first born to the barbarian warlord Attuma and the Lady Gelva of Atlantis, she was raised as though Attuma was raising a boy. Many years of intense training in the fields of tactical warfare Andromeda surpassed all other males except for her own father in these fields. However despite her growing skills she would always be considered unworthy of being his successor, because she was a woman not a man. Andromeda was frustrated at the unlikelihood that her own father would look beyond the cultural issue concerning her sex apparently deciding to leave her father's kingdom and go to Prince Namor 's underwater kingdom Atlantis. Inspired by tales of Namor the Submariner's adventures among the humans of the surface world, the Atlantean Soldier called Andromeda (a corruption of her true Atlantean name) used a serum that allowed her to breathe air and also changed the color of her skin to allow her to survive above the waves. Now resembling a normal human being, she called herself Andrea McPhee and set out to follow in Namor.

Key facts

Andromeda is of other origin and first appeared in "Another Runner...". The character is published by Marvel. With 91 recorded issue appearances, Andromeda ranks among the most featured characters in comics.