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Damage
Grant Emerson
First Appearance: Damage #1 (April, 1994)
Damage whilst part of the JSA
Damage as he originally looked.
"What I do is who I am ... so call me DAMAGE!"
He is the son of the original Atom, Al Pratt. He has been a member of the Titans, the Freedom Fighters, and Justice Society of America.
- Aborted Arc: During his time as a Titan, Grant began to gain a mentor figure in Roy Harper. Roy empathized with Grant's abandonment issues and tried to look out for him, having learned from Green Arrow's failures as a mentor. It reached a point where Grant was more like a son to Roy and a brother to Roy's daughter Lian, and both Harpers helped Grant talk about the sexual abuse Grant's stepdad put him through. Grant's connection to the Harpers was completely ignored following Infinite Crisis. Following his traumatic encounter and mutilation by Hunter Zolomon, Grant was reluctantly taken under the wing of Hourman and Liberty Belle (Jesse Chambers) in the Justice Society. When the JSA and the JLA teamed up during The Lightning Saga, Roy and Grant never interacted with one another. Even in Infinite Frontier, when Roy encounters several abducted members of the Justice Society and Grant is there, their connection's ignored in favor of Jade recalling that she was on the Outsiders with Roy.
- Acquired Situational Narcissism: When Gog restores his face he begins to become incredibly vain. When told to preach his works he starts with saying "This is what a God looks like" before backtracking it's what a god like Gog can do.
- Action Bomb: Grant has the ability to take the energy that he generates to detonate himself like a bomb. This power is the most dangerous of the abilities he possesses and also the most tied to his emotional state and the most likely to lose control.
- Back from the Dead: In Blackest Night, the JSA were attacked by their fallen members, now reanimated as Black Lanterns. Damage was saved from Black Lantern Al Pratt by Atom, but was then killed by Black Lantern Jean Loring. That said, Grant's death was among those undone in the climax of Doomsday Clock when Dr. Manhattan undoes his tempering of the universe.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Beyond the few years he spent trying to figure out just who his actual birth parents were, the readers discovered that his foster father physically and sexually abused him.
- Mix-and-Match Man: Grant's genetic makeup includes DNA donor samples from various superheroes including Alan Scott, Ted Grant, Martian Manhunter, both of the Black Canaries and Jay Garrick.
- Power Incontinence: If he does not use the energy in the aforementioned manner he is forced to expend it in a discharge, most notably the time he started another Big Bang during Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!(although he only gained the energy necessary to do this thanks to other heroes such as Green Lantern, the Ray and Waverider absorbing and converting Parallax's energy into something that he could then process).
- Radiation-Induced Superpowers: Damage is a living biochemical fusion reactor, that constantly absorbs, builds up and produces energy he can manipulate and use in numerous ways. This energy is able to enhance his strength, durability, speed, and reflexes to superhuman levels.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Twice while being written by Geoff Johns.
- Following his mutilation at the hands of Zoom, Grant became a bitter, self-loathing jerk lashing out at everyone around him thanks to the trauma of needing to hide his face from the world.
- Later, after Gog restored Grant's appearance he became obsessed with his looks in a completely different direction. His hatred of his ugliness was replaced by a belief that he was the most gorgeous thing on the planet, to the point Atom Smasher called him "Vanity Smurf." Once Gog's gift was revoked, Grant reverted back to his self-loathing persona.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: Winds up with a severely disfigured and maimed face, due to being attacked by Zoom in Infinite Crisis. This leads to him wearing a full-face mask to cover up the injuries.
Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)
AKA: Kyle Rayner
Abilities: Green Lantern power ring
Kyle Rayner is the fifth Green Lantern of Earth and a powerful member of the Green Lantern Corps serving as an honor guard. Originally given his power ring by Ganthet of the Guardians of the Universe after his predecessor Hal Jordan destroyed the Corps during Emerald Twilight, he was the last surviving torchbearer for many years until their return.
See the character sheet GL - Green Lantern Corps - Earth Lanterns for more.
Impulse / Kid Flash II
AKA: Bart Allen
Abilities: Super-speed
Hailing from the 30th century, Bart Allen is the grandson of the Flash, Barry Allen and Iris Allen. Originally using the name Impulse and trained by Max Mercury, Bart utilizes the same powers of super-speed possessed by his grandfather and fights crime alongside the Teen Titans, know as Kid Flash and Wally West's sidekick.
See the character sheet The Flash – The Flashes or his own page for more.
Minion
"That is what I've decided to do with my life. I will help those who are in trouble. And I will do it in the name of those who perished on Talyn. That is how I will preserve their memories."
AKA: Jarras Minion
First Appearance: New Titans #114 (September, 1994)
Abilities: Powered Armor
Jarras Minion's planet was destroyed,he escaped with the Omegadrome armor. He came to earth as a Pacifist, his desire for revenge was relaxed when he met the Teen Titans. He gave his Armor to Cyborg.
- Chrome Champion: The Omegadrome armor covered Minion in a shiny silver skin.
- Last of His Kind: The last survivor of the planet Talyn.
Ravager
AKA: Rose Wilson
Abilities: Enhanced strength and reflexes, limited precognition
Rose Wilson is the daughter of Slade Wilson and Lillian Worth, a Hmong woman. She has a complicated relationship with her father, but eventually takes up the Ravager name as both a villain and member of the Teen Titans.
See the Deathstroke character sheet for more info.
Mirage
"Freedom is life."
AKA: Miriam Delgado
First Appearance: New Titans #79 (September, 1991)
Abilities: Illusions
Mirage was originally one of the Teen Titans who came from the future to kill Donna Troy before she could give birth to her son, who, in Mirage's future, became the evil dictator Lord Chaos.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: An amoral seductress with inhuman, exotic features, the power to adopt any human guise, and complicated relationships with the good guys? Mirage sounds a lot like Mystique from X-Men.
- Bed Trick: Mirage once seduced Dick Grayson by shape-shifting into the form of his girlfriend Koriand'r/Starfire. This was a large factor in them subsequently breaking up.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: A heroic example, with her having pitch black sclerae but gray irises. This was averted in her later cameos, however, as colorists have seemed to have forgotten.
- Characterization Marches On: Mirage was a noble character when introduced in the future, but the instant she laid eyes on Dick Grayson of the present (whose future self she was in love with), she went Jumping Off the Slippery Slope and effectively became a Yandere, kidnapped and imprisoned Koriand'r to take her place, using the excuse of Kori's supposed trauma following the team's escapades with the Wildebeest Society to explain away any inconsistencies. It was during this time that she personally changed Dick's looks and slept with him.
- Conflict Ball: Is Mirage thinking about her original mission? Then she's noble, business-like, and somber. Is Mirage thinking about Dick Grayson? Then she's flirty, sexually aggressive, and if Kory's in the room, antagonistic.
- Convenient Miscarriage: She appears to miscarry out of trauma at seeing Deathwing again as he had raped her and gotten her pregnant. Towards the end of the series, the trope is subverted when it's revealed that Mirage decided to mask her pregnancy and fake the miscarriage in order to protect herself from Deathwing. Her illusion finally fails when she goes into labor.
- Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: She committed rape by fraud on Nightwing by posing as Starfire. When the act was revealed, Mirage just joked that he should've known something was off.
- Hilarity Ensues: It was largely the attitude of the story that Mirage's identity theft of Koriand'r and the ensuing abuses amounted to a big prank.
- Karmic Rape: When Mirage, a lover of Nightwing from a Bad Future, came back to the past, she decided to help herself to present era Nightwing despite his current girlfriend Starfire—and to accomplish this, she kidnapped Starfire, adopted her identity, and even slept with Nightwing under Starfire's identity. When she is reunited with her former lover, now Deathwing, Deathwing rapes her and Mirage becomes pregnant with his daughter.
- Leotard of Power: Wears a white-and-gold leotard as part of her second and better known costume.
- Master of Illusion: Mirage's primary power, the ability to alter her appearance into another person. Mostly she used this to masquerade as Koriand'r to do things like sleep with Dick or pose in dirty magazines.
- Retcon: During the Zero Hour crisis, she found out she wasn't from an alternate timeline, but from this one. She was, in fact, a runaway street urchin from Brazil, whom the Time Trapper had kidnapped and implanted with false memories.
- Spot the Imposter: Zigzagged. The Titans never noticed that she had successfully replaced Koriand'r for a sustained period of time until Koriand'r herself arrived to reveal she'd been kidnapped, but Slade was able to pick out foibles like in the difference in her walk. (Admittedly, the latter was after she'd been outed as an imposter).
- Time-Travel Romance: While romance is a bit euphemistic, to say the least, after she and her team travel in time from a Bad Future just before the crossover Total Chaos, she develops an interest in Nightwing as soon as she sees him on television. Later, she uses her illusionary abilities to assume Starfire's shape and sleep with Nightwing.
- Vapor Wear: As the imposter-Koriand'r, Mirage wore an alternate outfit that gave the image of being less showy than Koriand'r's original outfit, but very pointedly featured no cover at all on the sides, from beneath her shoulder all the way down to her knees.
Supergirl
AKA: Matrix / Linda Danvers
Abilities:
A protoplasmic lifeform from a pocket universe, Matrix was able to shapeshift, turn invisible, and use telepathy and telekinesis. She was created by a heroic version of Lex Luthor from a different universe. She was meant to be a savior. She came to this universe and took on the role of Supergirl. She joined the Teen Titans, went into space and fought with Maxima against Brainiac, among other adventures. Later, she gave her life to save Linda Danvers and the two became one girl — the Earth Angel of fire.
See the character sheet Supergirl (The Character) for more info.
Terra II
"I know I'm not your half-sister ... but maybe I'm nobody. The time I'm from doesn't exist anymore. I have to find my own place in life, and I can't do it living in her shadow."
AKA: Unknown (impersonated Tara Markov)
First Appearance: New Titans #79 (September, 1991)
Abilities: Earth Manipulation
The second Terra was one of the Team Titans, future heroes displaced in time. She had the powers, appearance and name as the original Terra, Tara Markov.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Threatened Gar's on-and-off girlfriend Jillian, and was shown to be seething over him being close to Flamebird.
- Dishing Out Dirt: She has the same powers of the original Terra.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: She's immediately forgotten soon after Black Adam kills her, with all attention now focused on the third Terra, Atlee. And since the return of the original in the New 52, she's been made redundant.
- The Mole: Subverted. She was planted in the Team Titans by Lord Chaos as a way of repeating the success of the first Terra's betrayal. Unfortunately for his plan, she turned against him and stuck with the team.
- Retcon: She was originally meant to be a normal girl that was surgically operated on to resemble Tara Markov. An editor later told Marv Wolfman to hint at her possibly being Tara resurrected, by showing the original Terra's grave to be empty (and having the Time Trapper suggest she was from this timeline). Geoff Johns seemed to be heading in that direction, but nothing came of it. Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti went back to the idea that she was a separate entity, but that she was actually a member of Atlee's race modified to resemble the first Terra.
- Ship Tease: With Damage, though their relationship didn't work out too well. She also had a crush on Beast Boy, but he was uncomfortable with how she resembled the girl that betrayed him.
