
During the first day of training at Camp Hammond, MVP demonstrated extraordinary speed and agility as he broke the camp's obstacle course record for users without superspeed on his first attempt. He joined the program under the codename MVP, along with old and new characters to make up the cast of the Avengers: The Initiative. He lost his university scholarship when media revealed that his great-grandfather was Dr.

Given Michael's descent from the creator of the super soldier serum, many people came to suspect his athletic abilities to be superpower-related. The events of the 2006–2007 Marvel Comics crossover Civil War required all United States superpowered individuals to register with the American government, with at least some of these individuals being sent to The Initiative's training camp Camp Hammond. Brian used the research during the early life and development of his son Michael, helping him achieve his potential. Brian studied his grandfather's work, particularly his work on growing, preparing and serving the most wholesome and nutritional foods and a challenging experimental program of isometric exercises. Erskine left papers, which covered years of research and findings that the government had not seen fit to classify to his grandson Brian Van Patrick.
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Josef Reinstein" later retroactively changed to a code name for the scientist Abraham Erskine, the developer of the Super-Soldier serum that changed the frail Steve Rogers into Timely Comics's (Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor's) Captain America. Michael Van Patrick origins trace back to scientist "Dr. The first MVP clone appeared in the following issue of the New Warriors series. However, the Scarlet Spiders (Michael and Patrick) became the first clones to appear outside The Initiative when they appeared in New Warriors vol. All that is known about the original character has been revealed in that series, with Van Patrick's (and the first sets of clones) origins being shown in the 2007 Avengers: The Initiative Annual. The original's only appearance outside the pages of Avengers: The Initiative was a brief cameo in an alternate reality What If comic. He was cloned once more, in the Killed in Action story arc when some of the vacant positions in the Initiative teams were filled with MVP clones. They were revealed to be clones in Avengers: The Initiative #7. The next three clones, named Michael, Van and Patrick, originally worked as the Scarlet Spiders, as part of the Black Ops group within The Initiative. The first clone was sent back to Van Patrick's parent's home to prevent them from discovering his death. Abraham Erskine, the inventor of the super soldier serum within Marvel Comics' shared universe the Marvel Universe.

Described by Slott as an archetypal " all-American boy", the character is introduced in the pages of Avengers: The Initiative #1 as the great-grandson of Dr. Although the character died in his debut appearance, he was cloned after his death and his clones continued to play roles within the ongoing Avengers: The Initiative series. The character was created by Dan Slott and Stefano Caselli. Michael "Mike" Ian Van Patrick is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Rachel Van Helsing appears in the Toei Tomb of Dracula anime TV movie ( Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned), voiced by Mami Koyama in the original Japanese and by Melanie McQueen in the English dub. Frank Drake later avenges her death by aiding Doctor Strange in destroying all vampires on Earth.

Overcoming his control, she asks Wolverine to kill her, which he does. She later fought alongside hunters Quincy, Taj Nital, Frank Drake, and Blade, during which time she developed an uneasy romantic relationship with Drake. Harker agreed to the brides' demands, much to Rachel's frustration. On one of her missions, Rachel was held hostage by two of Dracula's brides who phoned Quincy Harker, who was on the verge of killing Dracula, and told him to leave Dracula alone or Rachel would die. She is the granddaughter of Abraham Van Helsing, and trained a vampire hunter since childhood by Quincy Harker after Dracula killed her parents. Rachel Van Helsing is a vampire hunter, created by Archie Goodwin and Gene Colan, who first appeared in Tomb of Dracula #3 (July 1972). Years later, Arnim Zola created a Vamp/Animus proto-husk creature, which would encounter Deadpool on two separate occasions. She is killed by the Scourge of the Underworld. Within the context of the stories, Vamp has an evil alter-ego called Animus and infiltrates S.H.I.E.L.D. The character, created by Roy Thomas, Don Glut, and John Buscema, first appeared in Captain America #217 in January 1978.

Vamp is a Corporation agent in the Marvel Universe. Main article: Valkyrie (Barbara Norris) Vamp
