Night Nurse (comics)

Linda Carter is the daughter of a doctor in Allentown, New York. After moving to New York City and moving in with roommates Christine Palmer and Georgia Jenkins, she meets and falls in love with Marshall Michaels, a wealthy businessman. When he forces her to choose between marrying him or staying at Metro General as a nurse, she chooses her career.[10] In the following two issues of the series, Linda demonstrates that her skills are not limited to nursing practice, as she performs detective work to help expose an incompetent surgeon and prevents a hitman from murdering a patient. By the time the series was canceled, she had started a budding romance with Dr. Jack Tryon, a young resident doctor. Palmer is the protagonist of Night Nurse #4, with Carter making a one-panel cameo and Jenkins not appearing at all.

Carter reappears in Daredevil (vol. 2) #58 (May 2004), takes care of the seriously injured hero following his defeat by the Yakuza.[11][12][13] Having been rescued by a superhero and wanting to pay the superhuman community back by ministering to heroes' health, often pro bono, she becomes a character that superheroes—including Luke Cage and Iron Fist—seek out for off the record medical care.[12][13][14][15][16] During the superhero "Civil War" over government registration, the Night Nurse takes Captain America's side against the registration act, and joins his resistance group. Though she is difficult to recognize in Civil War #2 (August 2006), editor Tom Brevoort stated that it was Carter welcoming the superhero team the Young Avengers at the new headquarters.[17] Carter teams with Doctor Strange in the five-issue miniseries Doctor Strange: The Oath (December 2006-April 2007),[18][19] By the end, Carter and Strange enter into a relationship, which later ends.[20]

Carter then treated the ninja assassin Elektra, who had been severely wounded after being abducted and tortured by the shapeshifting alien Skrulls during the Skrull Invasion. After Elektra's subsequent imprisonment by the newly formed H.A.M.M.E.R., Carter and Elektra form a bond.[21]

Georgia Jenkins is an African-American nurse who comes from an inner city neighborhood, blocks away from Metro General Hospital. On her days off from work, she provides free medical care to the people on her old block. She discovers that her older brother Ben was conned into nearly blowing up the hospital generator.[10] Even though Ben has a change of heart and is shot while trying to protect the nurses, Georgia finds out in issue #3 that Ben has been sentenced to 10-to-20 years in prison. She angrily compares the harshness of his sentence to the fact that powerful mob criminals walk around freely.

Christine Palmer leaves her home in "an exclusive Midwestern suburb" against her father's wishes, intending to "make a new life without her father's money".[10] In issue #2, her father comes to New York to try to convince her to return to her life as a debutante, threatening that "if you don't come home by Thanksgiving, then don't come home at all!" Though she considers his offer, she elects to stay in New York and becomes a surgical nurse for Dr. William Sutton. When Dr. Sutton's career ends in disaster, she leaves New York City and her friends behind, and travels the country, finding a job as a private nurse for a paraplegic at a spooky mansion. However, this particular position is short-lived. Palmer ends up returning to Metropolitan General Hospital, where she first encounters Storm and Nightcrawler of the X-Men. It is revealed in the Nightcrawler series that her mother lives in Tucson, Arizona.

• Christine Palmer appears in Doctor Strange (2016), portrayed by Rachel McAdams.[22][23][24] In the film she is depicted as a fellow surgeon, ex-girlfriend, and ally of Stephen Strange. Palmer initially tries to help Strange move on with life following his car accident, which permanently damaged his hands. However, she later leaves him after he accuses her of pitying him. She later performs an emergency medical procedure on Strange following a critical injury he sustained while battling Kaecilius and his Zealots at the New York Sanctum. Later on, she tries to help save the Ancient One, but was unable to as the latter's wounds were far too severe.

• In the Netflix exclusive Marvel Cinematic Universe web television series Daredevil, Rosario Dawson plays a nurse named Claire Temple, a character with composite attributes of the Night Nurse and the comic book character with the same name, a doctor primarily associated with Luke Cage.[25][26][27] Daredevil showrunner Steven S. DeKnight noted that the character was originally "going to be the actual Night Nurse from the comics ... we had her name in a script and it came back that it was possible [the film side of the MCU] were going to use her" and "had plans for her down the road", necessitating the change to using the more obscure comics character Claire Temple as her name.[28][13] He added, "We just switched to another character that was very much kind of the same realm of Night Nurse".[13] Dawson reprised the role in the series: Jessica Jones,[29] Luke Cage,[30][31] Iron Fist, and The Defenders.[32][33] In Luke Cage, Claire is dismissively referred to as "Night Nurse" by a gangster named Sugar, who is portrayed by Sean Ringgold.[34]
• Linda Carter is referenced in The Defenders episode "The Defenders".[35] She is on the whiteboard of Misty Knight's hospital room at the time when Colleen Wing was visiting her.

• In the turn-based mobile game Marvel Strike Force, the Night Nurse is an unlockable hero character that can join the player's team. She is armed with a gun that fires hypodermic needles, but primarily acts as a healer for the team.