Cheshire (comics)

Cheshire. Art by J.G. Jones.

Cheshire, real name Jade Nguyen, is a DC Comics villain, one of the world's top assassins and mercenaries.

Biography

Born to a French father and a Vietnamese mother, she had an unhappy childhood and was sold into slavery. This trauma made her psychotic, mentally unstable and paved her way into becoming one of the world's most ruthless mercenaries.

She is a long-standing rival of the Teen Titans, and despite their differences, had a passionate relationship with Roy Harper, AKA the superhero Arsenal. They have a daughter, Lian.

Her single most notorious crime was without doubt the nuclear destruction of a nation. In an attempt to blackmail the world, she stole nuclear weapons from Russia, and to prove she was not bluffing, she obliterated the fictional Middle-East nation of Qurac. Her reasoning being that Qurac was a stronghold of Muslim terrorists, thus western countries would be secretly grateful.

Template:Spoiler In 2005 she appeared in the miniseries Villains United as a member of the Secret Six. At the end of the miniseries, having betrayed the Six to Lex Luthor's Society, she was shot and critically wounded by Deathstroke, who reasoned that "We don't need any traitors in the Society." Her status remains unknown, and the blast likely killed her, but Luthor asks the Society to bring her in if she survived.

Powers

Cheshire is an absolutely lethal hand-to-hand fighter. In Birds of Prey #63, Black Canary calls her "the second most deadly assassin in the world', only topped by Lady Shiva. In addition, she is also an expert on poisons, preferring to douse her fingernails into a vast variety of deadly chemicals.

Animated Series

Cheshire is one of the new villains appearing in season 5 of the Teen Titans animated series. She resembles her comic incarnation, just apparently younger with a cat-like mask.

External links

• Profile at titanstower.com