So why is it purple in this series? Well, it looks as though the MCU is combining Val with another character who does have purple hair streaks: Victoria Hand, the co-founder of the Dark Avengers. and Hydra from within, and it almost succeeded.Īs for why Val has that purple streak in hair? It’s actually white in the comics. However, this was all part of her and Leviathan’s plan to destroy both S.H.I.E.L.D.
Val also switched sides to join Hydra, as well, and became their new Madame Hydra.
Oh, and she also had a thing for Steve Rogers, too, primarily just so she could drive Fury jealous whenever he kept going back to his other on-again, off-again interest, the former Hydra agent Laura Brown. And of course, she really made an impression on Fury, as evidenced by one of the most famous (and infamous) comic book pages of all time from Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. ranks to the point where she even led her own squad called Femme Force, which included Sharon Carter. Due to her excellent martial arts skills, marksmanship, and all around use of tradecraft, Val quickly rose through the S.H.I.E.L.D. recruited Val during the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union, not realizing that she was a member of Leviathan – a super-secret organization with ties to the KGB. To simplify her convoluted backstory, S.H.I.E.L.D.