| “ | Before he built rockets for the Nazis, the idealistic Wernher von Braun dreamed of space travel. He stargazed. Do you know what he said before the first V-2 hit London? 'The rocket performed perfectly. It just landed on the wrong planet.' See, we all begin wide eyed. Pure science. And then the ego steps in, the obsession. And you look up, you're a long way from shore. | „ |
| ~ Maya Hansen to Pepper Potts. |
| “ | Maya Hansen: Let him go. Aldrich Killian: Hold on, hold on. Maya... Maya Hansen: I said, let him go! Aldrich Killian: What are you doing? Maya Hansen: 1200 CCs, a dose half of this size, I'm dead. |
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| ~ Maya Hansen and Aldrich Killian, with the former redeeming herself to stop the latter. |
Maya Hansen is a supporting antagonist turned anti-heroine in Iron Man 3.
She was a genetic biologist who was the mastermind behind the Extremis project, and later began collaborating with Aldrich Killian to perfect the program under Advanced Idea Mechanics. However, the project began killing people in violent explosions, which Killian framed as terrorist attacks, so Hansen betrayed him and sought Tony Stark's help to fix it. When she attempted to stop Killian after he captured Stark and Pepper Potts in his plan to take over the War on Terror, Killian murdered her.
She was portrayed by Rebecca Hall, who also played Ilene Andrews in the MonsterVerse.
Biography[]
Background[]
Not much is known of Maya Hansen's past, but she later attended M.I.T. and studied in the field of DNA coding. After graduating, she continued her work in the field of genetics.
Switzerland[]
Maye met Tony Stark in 1999 on Switzerland at the new year evening event (the event where Tony met Killian for the first time). Unlike Killian, Maya got Tony's attention and celebrated the New Year. Eventually, Tony left Maya, but not before he gave her the formula which had the potential of fixing the bugs within her Extremis designs. Despite this, Maya became very upset over Tony's departure and teamed up with Killian.
Iron Man 3[]
At the present day, she met Tony again and Pepper Potts at Tony's house. There, she wanted to talk with Stark in a personal meeting but after Killian's main henchman Eric Savin arrived to the place with 5 armed helicopters and finally attacked Tony's house and during the assault, Maya fell asleep and woke up after the attack.
Maya and Pepper drove away from the scene, right before Maya confessed to Pepper that she was involved in Killian's attacks by providing the idea and designs for the Extremis virus. At the same time, Killian arrived and kidnapped Pepper before confronting Maya for heading over to the mansion, to which Maya responded that she only wanted to fix the Extremis virus as she was unaware of the fact that Killian wanted to kill Stark.
After Killian takes Tony hostage, Maya soon learns of Killian's true plot of creating an army of Extremis soldiers to take over the United States (with the help from Vice President Rodriguez), even using Pepper as a test subject. Disgusted by this, Maya refused to help Killian and threatens to kill herself by injecting herself with Extremis that would cause a massive explosion unless Killian frees Stark. However, rather than obliging to Maya's demand, Killian instead pulls out his gun and shoots Maya dead.
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Trivia[]
- Jessica Chastain was in talks to play the character, but dropped out.
- In the Iron Man 3 audio commentary, Shane Black and Drew Pearce revealed that she was meant to be the main villain but decided to make it Aldrich Killian instead.
- She is the only Iron Man movie villain to be redeemed.
