Ellen Brandt

"Is that all you've got? A cheap trick and a cheesy one-liner?" "Sweetheart, that could be the name of my autobiography!"

- Ellen Brandt and Tony Stark

Ellen Brandt was an agent of A.I.M. and an enemy of Iron Man. She was killed by Stark.

Biography
"You walked right into this one. I've dated hotter chicks than you."

- Tony Stark Ellen Brandt was an amputee, missing her lower left arm, when she was approached by Aldrich Killian to trial the experimental Extremis virus. She endured the pain of the infusion long enough for her body to accept the compound, and watched it regrow her missing limb. A fellow trial subject was not so lucky, and exploded in her vicinity, yet Brandt was able to recover and subsequently entered into the service of Killian.

One of Brandt's assignments was to recover a set of documents from a Rose Hill bar, documents that detailed the death of another Extremis subject Chad Davis in that area. When she arrived, she found that Tony Stark had arrived and had inadvertently collected them already. Brandt, posing as, and Eric Savin attempted to apprehend Stark, but ultimately failed.

Even without his armor, Stark was able to outsmart the Extremis-empowered agents and he killed Brandt by placing metal dog tags from Chad Davis file in a microwave, luring her near it and puling a gas line that was ignited by Brandt's own power and the exploding microwave.

Powers
Thanks to Extremis, Brandt temporarily displayed various superhuman abilities, such as strength, agility, an enhanced healing factor, and the ability to genereate intense heat.
 * Superhuman Strength:
 * Enhanced Agility:
 * Healing Factor:
 * Exothermic Manipulation: Hosts of the Extremis virus are able to consciously raise the temperature of parts of their bodies. The effect can be controlled to the extent that it might only scorch skin, or increased to the point where it can cause steel to turn into a molten state. Brandt used it to super heat a metal law enforcement badge and used it to burn the face of a sheriff that got in her way of taking Stark.

Allies

 * A.I.M.
 * Aldrich Killian † - Leader
 * Eric Savin †

Enemies

 * Tony Stark - Killer
 * Mrs. Davis - Contact

Trivia

 * In the comics, Ellen Brandt is the ex-wife of Man-Thing and the scar on her left cheek is a reference to the scar Man-Thing created by his acid.