Maya Hansen (Earth-11584)

History
"'Extremis could be the biggest medical breakthrough in modern history. But if it's used on the wrong people, by the wrong people, it could become one of the biggest threats in modern history.'"Dr. Maya Hansen was a research scientist and biological weapons specialist based out of UCLA in California. Having interned in early work with Dr. Betty Ross and Samuel Sterns in Empire State University, Dr. Hansen was a thorough expert on diseases and biological compounds, specifically those that could cause rapid cellular change, for good or ill. While she never intended for her research to be used for weapons development, she was nevertheless unknowingly consulted for various weapons projects by outside groups, most notably AIM.

Her biggest breakthrough came in late 2012, following the Battle of New York, when she developed a procedure that she called Extremis, which was originally designed to rapidly heal cellular damage on a large scale. The procedure worked on most people without any significant damage, but the process (which, unknown to Hansen, involved a procedure to the Terrigenesis procedure used by Inhumans) could cause seemingly random mutations in individuals with certain DNA configurations. These mutations were often painful, and could result in the death of the subject (though at least one, Simon Williams, used the process successfully to become Wonder Man). Hansen's employers, Williams Innovations, at the behest of AIM stole Hansen's data and covered up the crime. They went public with the procedure (at least its civilian use) shortly thereafter, making a few modifications to throw Hansen off the track.

However, Hansen enlisted the help of Tony Stark, who exposed Extremis for what it could be and then exposed Williams Innovations' culpability in the scandal, tanking their stock price. In the end, Hansen returned to the world of Academia, continuing to try and refine her process (and admitting to Stark that one of her intended uses for it was as a possible cure for his heart condition, though unknown to her the microsurgery techniques for this were already being perfected). It is presumed that Hansen remains there to this day.

Powers & Abilities

 * Medical Knowledge: Dr. Hansen is considered a leading professional on the cutting edge of medicine, alongside Dr. Helen Cho and others. Hansen is the inventor of the Extremis process, which has become a basis for some more advanced healing technologies used in the modern day.

Weaknesses
Dr. Hansen is highly naive concerning the way of the world, performing science for science's sake without any regard for how that research could be used for ill gotten gains. While her experience with Extremis should have given her an abject lesson in reality, it remains to be seen if this is truly the case.

Film Details
Dr. Hansen appears in the following films within the Earth-11584 continuity. In all cases she is portrayed by actress Rebecca Hall.
 * Iron Man 3 (2013)