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Ava Starr
Marvel Cinematic Universe character
First appearanceAnt-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Based on
Ghost
by
Adapted by
Portrayed by
In-universe information
AliasGhost
SpeciesHuman mutate
Affiliation
WeaponGhost suit
Family

Ava Starr is a fictional character portrayed by Hannah John-Kamen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise, loosely based on the Marvel Comics character Ghost as a gender flipped version. Depicted as the adopted daughter of Bill Foster, Starr is recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. as an assassin codenamed Ghost after gaining intangible abilities in a quantum energy explosion.

Desperate for a cure, Starr clashes with Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne, before being semi-cured by Janet van Dyne. Now having more control over her powers, Starr becomes a contract killer working for CIA-director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. She later joins a team of other contract killers working for de Fontaine, who dub themselves the Thunderbolts, in defeating the Void. The team are later rebranded into the New Avengers.

She has appeared in the films Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Thunderbolts* (2025). An alternate zombie version appeared in the Disney+ miniseries Marvel Zombies. John-Kamen's role as the character has received generally positive reviews with praise often given to her portrayal of a sympathetic villain. A reimagined version of Starr also made her comic debut in 2025.

Concept, casting and creation

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In 2016, director Peyton Reed announced that he was working on a sequel to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Ant-Man (2015).[1] In June 2017, Variety reported that English actress Hannah John-Kamen had been cast for a "key role" in the sequel then having been revealed to be titled Ant-Man and the Wasp.[2] At the time of the reporting, Marvel Studios were keeping John-Kamen's character secret, as Variety also reported that she had been sitting down and meeting with Marvel over a period of a few month before finally accepting.[2] On her casting, producer Stephen Broussard stated that they wanted to cast a lesser-known actress to help maintain the mystery of the character.[3]

By July 2017, it was revealed at the San Diego Comic Con of that same year that John-Kamen would be playing an iteration of the Marvel Comics character Ghost, who first appeared as a supervillain who fought Iron Man in 1987.[4] Upon taking the role, John-Kamen noted that since the comic version was a male, she could "start from scratch" and reimagine the character.[5] As a comic fan, John-Kamen praised the freedom and open dialogue with Reed noting that she did not feel restricted from inputting her own ideas.[3]

Characterization

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Depictions and appearances

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John-Kamen first appeared as Ava Starr in Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).[6][7] In the film, Starr is a former S.H.I.E.L.D. assassin and the adopted daughter of former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Bill Foster.[8] She hunts Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne for their quantum technology which she wants to use to heal her condition.[9] John-Kamen noted that there was "so many layers" to her, adding that "her situation is not black and white. It's not about world domination or good and evil".[3] Kevin Feige added to this saying that Starr's need for the technology is not about "taking over the world but for making her tangible".[3] Producer Stephen Broussard added that its her need for survival that makes her the film's villain.[3] He added that because there was no tangible backstory to the character in the comics, the writers of the film "had the freedom to extrapolate [Starr] into fresh new territory".[3] On doing her own stunts, John-Kamen noted that it was really important to her to do as much as she physically possibly could "because the character is what you bring to it".[10] She added that, "it's not just emotional, it's also physical [...] We all have different powers and different styles of fighting".[10] Additionally, RaeLynn Bratten portrayed a younger version of Starr in the film.[11]

In the miniseries Secret Invasion (2023), Starr's DNA was harvested by Skrulls working for Nick Fury in a vial called the Harvest, which was later administered by Skrulls G'iah and Gravik who gained various abilities, including that of Starr's.[12][13] Game Rant writer Amanda Bruce noted her confusion on this revelation, as Starr did not appear in Avengers: Endgame (2019) which depicted the Battle of Earth where the Skrulls later took DNA for the Harvest.[14] Both Bruce and Comic Book Resources writer Jordan Iacobucci theorised that despite it being "unclear exactly how Fury obtained Ghost's DNA [...] since she was initially a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, it is possible that her DNA was already on file prior to the invention of the Harvest".[13][15]

In my drafts, [Dreykov] lived out the movie, and she had a bit of a subplot with Ava/Ghost. They'd both been raised in labs, and Ava big-sistered her into how to break free and be her own person.

—Thunderbolts* script writer, Eric Pearson, on his original script where Starr had a larger role and bonded with Antonia Dreykov.[16]

In 2022, during Marvel's D23 Expo panel, it was announced that John-Kamen would reprise her role in the film Thunderbolts* (2025), eventually released on May 2, 2025.[17][18][19] Screen Rant writer Karlis Wilde praised Starr's return calling John-Kamen "an effective performer", and that she could "be an excellent recurring force" in future films.[20] Prior to the film's release, John-Kamen felt that Starr had evolved since last seeing her, calling her a "lone wolf, and she's very much stubborn with that".[21] The film depicts Starr as being a contract killer for Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.[22] After killing Antonia Dreykov for de Fontaine, Starr teams up with Yelena Belova, John Walker, Alexei Shostakov and Bucky Barnes in defeating the evil alter-ego of Bob, the Void.[22] De Fontaine rebrands the team as the New Avengers.[23] After the film's release, writer Eric Pearson revealed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that his original drafts for the film initially included Starr bonding with Dreykov,[24] and and later told IGN that some versions also involved Bill Foster in Starr's storyline.[25]

An alternate zombie version of the character appeared in the Disney+ limited series Marvel Zombies on September 24, 2025, continuing the story established in the What If...? episode "What If... Zombies?!".[26][27] Starr is introduced as part of the Queen of the Dead's zombie army, and attacks the Black Widows.[28] The fight was described as "fast-paced, intense and thrilling" with Comic Book Resources writer Joshua Patton deeming Starr "unstoppable".[28] She is later killed by Blade Knight.[29] In March 2025, it was announced that John-Kamen would be reprising her role in Avengers: Doomsday (2026).[30]

Powers and costume design

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Starr has a condition she describes as "molecular disequilibrium", and is intangible having the ability to walk through walls and objects.[3][31] Forbes writer Mark Hughes wrote in an analysis that he felt Starr's powers served as a metaphor about "feeling disconnected from the world and from ourselves, unable to hold and touch and feel the same way, after tremendous personal loss".[32] Her Ghost suit in Ant-Man and the Wasp was described as "terrifying" with the suit stabilising her form, "allowing her to control phasing through any object".[3] Talking about the practical costume, John-Kamen noted that it was "made of neoprene with a hood and this crazy mask. It's definitely menacing and different. I haven't seen anything like it yet in any other Marvel film. What's amazing about the suit is its construction. It's all built together with such intricate detail".[3]

For Thunderbolts*, Starr dons a jet black suit,[33] with a white mask and subtle white lights.[34] Forbes writer Tim Lammers noted that the outfit is the "polar opposite of her white, ghostlike attire" in Ant-Man and the Wasp.[33] On the comparison, John-Kamen explained that the original was practical, and was made by Foster to help her "not flicker away to death", while the new suit "was made for Ghost's abilities", describing it as "elevated" and "scarier".[33] On Starr's evolved powers, John-Kamen noted that the character is no longer "volatile" or "vulnerable", and that now because of the quantum energy given to her by Janet van Dyne, she has control and is "stronger than ever, which is dangerous".[21] In the film, she also utilises her intangibility and invisibility powers,[22] and can phase out for up to a minute.[35]

VFX and special effects

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In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Peyton Reed wanted Starr's visual effects to contrast with Van Dyne's Wasp as they are "combatants who both try to harness the energy of the Quantum Realm".[36] Starr's effects were edited by Scanline VFX, under the supervision of Stéphane Ceretti, with Ceretti finding it challenging to "convey [Starr's] physical and emotional instability".[36] Ceretti cited quantum mechanics as an inspiration for how to approach the character, noting that there "there was no single method for it" but rather used "multiple takes of a shot and we kind of combine that together with some timing and rhythmic things".[37] Ceretti added that the "tricky part was varying the effects (ghosting and vibrating) so it wouldn't be predictable or annoying".[36] DNEG created the blueprint for Starr's effects before being shared with other vendors, and called her the "most complex asset that [they] shared due to her phasing effect".[38]

In Thunderbolts* Starr's special and visual effects were done by Digital Domain and were heavily upgraded from her effects in Ant-Man and the Wasp.[35] Digital Domain VFX Supervisor, Nikos Kalaitzidis, noted that the team watched Starr's footage in the film and created her effects "similar but subtler".[35] To create her "Ghost" effect, the team also rebuilt walls in 3D so Ava would appear to phase through them realistically, rather than simply dissolving.[35] Kalaitzidis explained that early tests with long shutters made her look like she had super speed, so they reduced motion blur to refine the effect, which required layering multiple "leaves" of her figure with varying opacities, blurs, and depths, choreographed like a dance to capture the complexity of her phasing in and out.[35] Visual Effects Society writer Trevor Hodd also noted that Starr's helmet utilised "nanomite technology", which has been seen throughout the MCU and justifies why they can open and close so fast in a matter of four to six frames.[35]

Differences from the comics

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Original comic derivations

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See also: Ghost (Marvel Comics)

Throughout the mainstream Marvel comics set in the Marvel Universe (Earth-616), the comic supervillain Ghost first appeared in Iron Man #219 (June 1987) and was eventually drafted as a member of the Thunderbolts.[39] The character's real name is unknown with comparisons made to The Joker, and his true origins are unclear although he has claimed to have been a technology researcher with his key driving factor being financial greed.[40] He was ranked at number seven as one of Iron Man's deadliest villains by Comic Book Resources in 2020.[41][42]

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Ghost is a gender flipped version of her comic counterpart, and was changed to continue the Ant-Man franchise's theme of fathers and daughters.[43] On the swap, John-Kamen noted that its freeing to be able to take that character and go, "Yeah, that can be played by a male or female", and described it as "forward thinking".[44] Additionally, Starr's father is named after the comic supervillain Egghead / Elihas Starr.[45]

Comic inception

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See also: Ava Starr (Marvel Comics)

In 2025, Ava Starr / Ghost made her comic debut in Marvel Comics' Superior Avengers #1 (June 2025) written by Steve Foxe and drawn by Luca Maresca and Kyle Hotz, as part of the One World Under Doom event.[46] This version of the character is introduced as part of a Superior Avengers team assembled by Doctor Doom's son, Kristoff Vernard, alongside variants of Erik Killmonger, Abomination, amongst others.[47] Starr was a victim of her timeline's original Ghost, eventually murdering and stealing their technological suit.[48] In her timeline, she also helped the Superior Avengers kill their universe's version of Doctor Doom who had become the Sorcerer Supreme, unbeknown to Vernard.[46]

Fictional character biography

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Early life and S.H.I.E.L.D. assassin

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Ava Starr was born to S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist Elihas Starr, who is later kicked out of the organisation by his colleague Hank Pym who claimed Elihas stole his research. While he was continuing his research with Quantum technology, Starr was caught in an accident in her father's laboratory. While the explosion killed her parents, Starr gained molecular disequilibrium and the ability to become intangible, with the first-aid responders unable to touch her.[49]

Placed in an orphanage, Starr was approached by her father's ex-colleague Bill Foster who promised to find a way to cure her and became a surrogate father to her. He also developed a quantum chamber to stabilize her body. Recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D. by Foster, Starr is trained as an undercover assassin to take on threats too difficult for normal operatives. Under the codename Ghost, S.H.I.E.L.D. developed Starr a suit to allow her to harness her abilities which allowed her to phase through objects and walls and turn invisible. In exchanging for working for them, S.H.I.E.L.D. promised Starr that they would cure her.[49]

After the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D.,[a] Starr was taken back in by Foster and the two began researching a cure for her condition after she began to deteriorate.[49]

Fighting Ant-Man and the Wasp

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Further information: Ant-Man and the Wasp and Home (Secret Invasion)

In 2018, Starr tracked down her father's old colleague, Hank Pym, who was building a quantum tunnel to find his wife, Janet van Dyne who was previously lost to the Quantum Realm. She attacks Pym's daughter, Hope van Dyne and steals the final piece in completing the tunnel off her, while also stealing Pym's mobile laboratory. Pym, Van Dyne and Scott Lang track Starr down, only to be incapacitated and held captive by her. After waking up, Foster and Starr explain their plan to rescue Janet before them and extract her quantum energy to permanently fix Starr's displacement.[49]

After the heroes escape, Starr initially decides to threaten Lang's daughter much to the dismay and disapproval of Foster who says he will not help Starr if she touches her. She ends up tracking down Lang's colleagues and interrogates Luis who tells him where Pym's mobile laboratory would be. After tracking them down, she steals the mobile laboratory off the FBI and attempts to ready the chamber with Foster to extract Janet's quantum energy. Defeated by Pym, Van Dyne and Lang, Starr and Foster fails to extract any energy and Starr watches as Janet is reunited with her family. Janet apologises to Starr expressing sympathy, and uses her quantum powers to momentarily heal Starr. Starr later escapes with Foster.[49]

Pym, Janet, Van Dyne and Lang later attempt to retrieve quantum energy for Starr's condition. However, the Pym family fall victim to the Blip,[b] preventing Starr from receiving any help for five years.[49] By 2023, Starr's DNA was harvested by former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury and used by the skrulls Gravik and G'iah.[50]

Joining the New Avengers

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Further information: Thunderbolts*

By 2027, Starr works as a contract killer for Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. De Fontaine sends Starr to a covert facility to eliminate Antonia Dreykov, in an effort to cover up her illegal activities with the O.X.E. Group. Unbeknown to Starr, Dreykov and other operatives Yelena Belova and John Walker had also been sent by de Fontaine to same facility to kill each other. After a fight ensures, Starr shoots Dreykov fatally in the head, before the remaining three come across another man, Bob. Upon realising that they were all sent by de Fontaine to be incinerated along with any evidence of her illegal activities, the four escape from the facility. Bob creates a diversion allowing Starr, Belova and Walker to escape.

The three are stranded after their car is totalled, before being rescued by Belova's father, Alexei Shostakov. Shostakov dubs the group the "Thunderbolts" after Belova's childhood soccer team. They are later apprehended by Bucky Barnes who intends to have them testify in de Fontaine's impeachment proceedings. Starr and the team travel to New York City and infiltrate the former Avengers Tower now known as the Watchtower, to find that de Fontaine has turned Bob into a powerful superhuman known as the Sentry. They are overpowered by the Sentry and manage to retreat. Sentry later turns on de Fontaine, unleashes his evil alter-ego the Void, and plunges the city into darkness, turning people into shadows.

After temporarily disbanding from the team, Starr returns and helps rescue citizens from the Void. Starr encourages the team to follow her and save Belova who had entered the Void to try and reach Bob's consciousness. Starr and the team save her, but struggle to overpower the Void. Ultimately, the team's unity gives Bob the strength to reclaim control over the Void, restoring the city and its citizens. Afterwards, the team prepare to apprehend de Fontaine but she manipulates public perception by staging a press conference and rebranding them as the New Avengers.

In 2028, Starr, the rest of the New Avengers and Bob, are present when a distress signal from a spacecraft is received.[c]

Alternate versions

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Zombie outbreak

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Further information: Marvel Zombies

In an alternate 2018, Starr is infected with a zombie virus. Her mind is taken control of by the Queen of the Dead. Starr joins her army lead by Okoye, alongside Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, and Emil Blonsky. Okoye sends Starr to infiltrate the Ohio S.H.I.E.L.D. base various survivors including Kamala Khan, Blade Knight, Melina Vostokoff, Alexei Shostakov, and Yelena Belova, are hiding out in. Starr kills and infects the remaining Black Widows working under Melina, but is later killed by Blade Knight.

Reception

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Critical reception

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Hannah John-Kamen (pictured) promoting Ant-Man and the Wasp in 2018

John-Kamen's role as Starr in Ant-Man and the Wasp received generally positive reviews with critics often praising her portrayal of Starr as a sympathetic villain.[d] Empire writer Dan Jolin called John-Kamen's portrayal "semi-etheral",[53] while Forbes writer Mark Hughes praised John-Kamen's "right blend of distress, rage, and mystique" which he stated worked together to make the villain "intimidating and wicked while never losing sight of her humanity so we can still sympathize with her even while we recognize she must be stopped".[32] As an actress, Rolling Stone writer Peter Travers felt John-Kamen had unexpected gravity,[55] while The Independent writer Geoffrey Macnab also called John-Kamen promising.[56]

Starr's character has often been perceived as misunderstood,[57] with We Live Entertainment writer Aaron Neuwirth praising John-Kamen for effectively capturing the character's essence of "personal survival as opposed to world-threatening destruction".[58] In a retrospective analysis of the Ant-Man film villains, Collider writer Liam Gaughan felt that Starr was a more more empathetic antagonist in contrast to Darren Cross and Kang the Conqueror and found that it was a "contrast to the wackier vibe of the story".[59] Contrastingly, Eddie Possehl, writing for the same publication, felt that her character was undeveloped, noting that "all it takes is poor development for the audience to dislike a character".[60]

Starr's portrayal in Thunderbolts* has been described as underwritten and underplayed by various journalists.[e] Screen Rant writer Nicolas Ayala noted that the film "shifts attention away from Ghost after the vault sequence", adding that her "abilities are completely useless against Sentry and the Void".[22] RogerEbert.com writer Brian Tallerico opined that this did not allow John-Kamen to make much of an impact as the character.[62] The Daily Beast writer Nick Schager praised the film but called Starr "more of a neat gimmick than an interesting character".[63] Collider writer Ross Bonaime opined that John-Kamen's Ghost was a much better character in Thunderbolts* than she was in Ant-Man and the Wasp, but felt she did not have much to do.[64] Bonaime went on to praise John-Kamen and the character's inclusion in the team, opining that "it does feel like she can get lost in the mix at times".[64] Writing for the same publication, Collier Jennings agreed opining that she should have had an interaction with Bob's darker half, the Void where he forces the rest of the team to "relive their darkest fears".[16] He noted that "Ant-Man and the Wasp reveals that she used to work in black ops for S.H.I.E.L.D., meaning that she has plenty of regrets that could be explored, like a mission gone wrong or a job she carried out that she regrets. But she isn't given that chance".[16] Jennings also added that "John-Kamen is a talented actress who could have delivered some compelling emotional material" in relation to the film's original script regarding the bond between Starr and Antonia Dreykov.

In other media

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Video games

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  • Ava Starr / Ghost appears as a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 via Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp DLC pack.[65]
  • A female incarnation of Ghost appears in Iron Man VR (voiced by Chantelle Barry).[66][67] This version is depicted as a computer hacker seeking revenge against Tony Stark, but later helps him defeat a rogue A.I. called the Gunsmith. The character was described as "combination of both the comic book and movie version" of Ghost.[68]

Merchandise

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Two funko pops of Starr was released in 2018 as part of the Ant-Man and the Wasp wave; this included a standard version and a Walmart-exclusive translucent version.[69] A Marvel Legends action figure of Starr was released in 2019 as part of a two-pack alongside Luis.[70][71] Lego also included the character as a Lego minifigure in their 2018 "Quantum Realm Explorers" set.[72]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ As depicted in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
  2. ^ As depicted in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
  3. ^ Identified off-screen as the Fantastic Four's spacecraft, arriving in Earth-616 from their home reality.[51]
  4. ^ Various publications who cited Starr as a strong, sympathetic villain include Screen Rant,[52] Empire,[53] Comic Book Resources,[54] and Forbes.[32]
  5. ^ Various publications who cited Starr as underwritten and underplayed include Business Insider,[61] Screen Rant,[22] RogerEbert.com,[62] The Daily Beast,[63] and Collider.[64]

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