History Characters / SecretSix

* NiceHat: A fuzzy white bowler hat.

* MsFanservice: Her first appearance includes her naked with a ModestyTowel, and every single one of her outfits has AbsoluteCleavage at the very least. Taken UpToEleven with her Skartaris outfit, [[{{Stripperiffic}} which is essentially a few black straps covering her naughty bits]].

Better known as ComicBook/TheJoker's PerkyFemaleMinion. Briefly joined the Six in one of their earlier outings under their own command. Quit the team when she decided to reform. See Characters/BatmanHarleyQuinn for more.

%%* TookALevelInBadass: [[invoked]] ''Like you would not believe.''

%%* WaifFu

* BeautyMark: Has one over her lip.

* BeautyMark: Bellow her right eye.

* TheAtoner: He's not proud of his former dependence on the super-steroid Venom.
* BerserkButton: Mistreatment of Scandal Savage. Don't hurt her or even threaten her in front of Bane.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Despite being TheAtoner, his morality's incredibly skewed. While his first impulse on finding a Get Out of Hell Free card is to destroy it, and frowns on slavery, he's also willing to work with Dwarfstar (though he still makes it clear that he's disgusted by him and is just barely tolerating him), and [[DisproportionateRetribution beat a man's face to pulp for disrespecting a stripper Bane's only just met.]] This comes back to bite him in the ass when the Six briefly visit Hell to retrieve the Card, and he finds out that he's damned for his lifetime of murder and brutality, and he's ''genuinely confused'' that he's slated for damnation. Apparently he had assumed that following his own code of honor meant that he was a fundamentally a good person, not realizing that making up your own moral code is not the same as following an objective morality.
%%* CombatPragmatist: What else would you expect from him?
* TheComicallySerious: As a result of being TheStoic.
* {{Determinator}}: Bane shrugs off bullet wounds, even arterial ones after he applies a modicum of pressure. See also. Junior's entry for SadisticChoice.
* GeniusBruiser: Bane's mental abilities and philosophical mind are at the fore front of his characterisation here. He even leads the team after demoting Scandal.
* LightningBruiser: Bane is huge and incredibly fast for his size.
* MoralMyopia: Believes that following his own moral code is the same as being good. He's wrong.
* NoSocialSkills: Due to being raised by thugs, rapists and murderers in the worst HellholePrison in South America, Bane is violent, vicious and intelligent, but has virtually no social skills and has no idea how to behave in a non-criminal setting.
* OverprotectiveDad: Even though he's not actually Scandal's father, he's quite protective of her, even [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments interviewing her dates.]]
* PapaWolf: Threatening Scandal around him is a good way to end up a bloody stain. [[spoiler: It's the only reason he still keeps any Venom around at all.]]
* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Bane was given a life sentence ''in utero''. Look at him now.
%%* TheStoic
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: A skewed example. After finding out in Hell that his "personal code of honor" didnt make him a good person and he's damned for his crimes in life, he decides that if he's damned anyway, he might as well go all out back on Earth, not realizing that he's been evil the entire time, he just assumed that avoiding certain KINDS of evils was the same as not being evil at all.
* VillainDecay: Mostly removed. While not ''quite'' up to the level in ''Knightfall'', where he was the Evil Doc Savage, he's so far proven to be highly competent.

%%* AcquiredPoisonImmunity
* ArchEnemy:
** The closest the Secret Six has to one, but mostly to Catman in particular.
** She's also Roy Harper's.
* AsianBabymama: Once with Arsenal, and once with Catman.
* AxCrazy: The fact that she nuked Qurac [[ForTheEvulz because she could]] offers some pretty good insight at how utterly deranged this woman is.
* BadassNormal: Doesn't have any powers but can match meta-humans pretty easily.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: She's merely a BadassNormal and not any kind of enhanced meta-human. In the Batman story ''Their Dark Designs'', Cheshire gets ''hit head on by an 18 wheeler'' during a fight with Batman and somehow doesn't die from it. The worst that happens is that she looks injured, with some cuts, and can't move but can otherwise carry on a conversation with Batman in the middle of him apprehending her.
* TheChessmaster: What's the best way to manipulate a superhero and a supervillain who both hate your guts? [[TheBabyTrap Have their kids.]] She also once set up a convoluted revenge scheme in ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' that started off with Jade framing ''herself''.
* TheChewToy: Any time Gail uses her, Cheshire inevitably gets her ass handed to her. She's been thrown out of a helicopter, tortured, shot in the chest, forced to eat Solomon Grundy's cooked flesh, beaten within an inch of her life by Jeannette and then kicked upside the head by Tarantula, left as a bloody heap on the floor by three mercenaries hired to steal her son, [[spoiler: and then told said son was killed when he's really alive and been adopted by a loving couple]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Unfortunately for her the Society [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves aren't idiots.]]
%%* DarkActionGirl
* DirtyCoward: Any time she gets cornered by Roy Harper or Thomas Blake she's quick to make some mention of the fact that she had their respective children. Also, for all intents and purposes, we've seen that while Jade is quick to dish out some extreme punishment, she's barely able to receive any back without pulling tail. See her encounter with Jeannette.
%%* DragonLady
* EvenEvilHasStandards: An inversion of sorts. Deathstroke shot her after she divulged the location of the Six because she sold out her own team.
* EvilerThanThou: When the only other villain you're listed with under "(Worse) Villains" is '''Junior''', you ''know'' you're a monster. Gail Simone's stated Cheshire is one character whom she never writes with any redeeming qualities and cites her nuclear genocide of Qurac as the reason why.
* EvilIsPetty: The woman had a child just to torment the father for walking out on her and committed nuclear holocaust just to prove she could. It doesn't get any pettier than that.
* EvilMatriarch: She set out to murder ComicBook/BlackCanary because she's taken care of Lian, and the girl comes to see Canary as more of a mother than Cheshire. Of course, whether or not her love for her child is genuine is still up for debate. Given how she genuinely didn't seem to care that [[spoiler:Lian was being used as leverage, or that she died]]... Hell, she's so bad, even at age 4 Lian is perfectly aware of and ashamed of how horrible her mother is. When Lian's babysitter revealed that her grandparents died in the Qurac explosion, Lian got so angry at her mother she threw Jade's picture at the wall shouting "BAD MOMMY!"
%%* FemmeFatalons
* FreudianExcuse: She was sold into slavery at a very young age.
* HateSink:
** Whenever she's written by Creator/GailSimone, there's nothing good, redeemable, or likable about her. Whereas other writers have her be caring and loving towards Lian (and to an extremely lesser extent Roy), Gail writes Jade as a repugnant, self-admitted sociopath whose horrific actions make the readers cheer when she inevitably gets beaten up.
** She's this in-universe, as most of the DC Universe believe she's a vile, underhanded monster who can't be trusted. Even the people who love her, like Roy and Lian, have reached a point where they know she's awful too.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Jade started as a mercenary who had a clear code of ethics, but her desire to prove how dangerous she is has destroyed her morals while ruining any and all chances she had for interpersonal relationships. Roy left her both because he couldn't bring himself to get her arrested and because he knew he could never have a life with Jade. Lian still loves Jade but know she's horrible and believes she needs to be punished for hurting people, especially Roy and her babysitter Chanda. Ironically, Jade's biggest fear has always been the fear of becoming trapped like she was as a child and she's no one but herself to blame for the trap she's made of her life with the lengths she's gone through to never be enslaved again.
* IHaveAFamily: She's invoked this a couple of times. A standard defense is to remind Roy Harper that she is the mother of his child, which was useful even after Lian died. In ''Secret Six'', she attempted this on Jeannette while being dangled off a building. Jeannette could ''not'' have cared less.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She has no regard for anyone else unless she can use them.
* KarmaHoudini: Averted multiple times, at least when Gail Simone's the author.
%%* LackOfEmpathy
* LaserGuidedKarma: See TheChewToy. If Creator/GailSimone's the writer, Cheshire will always get what's coming to her.
* ManipulativeBitch: She purposefully nuked Qurac because she knew if anyone would try to call her out on it they would have to remember she destroyed a country considered to be the terrorist capital of the world and may have considered it a blessing. She basically killed millions just to troll everyone.
* MasterPoisoner: Poisons are her specialty and she enjoys gloating about creating some positively awful concoctions to unleash upon her victims. In one instance she bit off a man's lower lip, and then he started foaming at the mouth before he died implying she's internalized a number of poisons.
* MaternallyChallenged: Subverted. When she was taking care of Lian, and later Tommy, she didn't exactly mistreat or abuse them. But the general implications are that she only does so to carry on the facade of actually caring about them so she can keep using and hurting their fathers. If it looks like she doesn't love her kids, then there's no reason for their dads to give a crap about her. Her original plan for Lian was to use her mere existence to torment Roy Harper as revenge for walking out on her, and Tommy's conception was so she'd at least have one child after leaving the Six and so Catman would have a reason to protect her when she betrayed the team. Gail Simone describes Cheshire as having a lizard-like mentality with her kids: the moment they become a detriment to her freedom, all bets are off.
* TheMillstone: Almost any time a story is being done about Roy and Lian Harper, chances are the main source of drama will come from their relation to Cheshire. Roy will angst over the fact that he was in love with a genocidal maniac and that Lian will have to deal with the fact that her mother is a manipulative bitch who could never stop hurting others even if she wanted to (which is not very likely). Some authors have tried to get Roy to move past his old relationship, while others have ignored those movements forward for the sake of cheap drama. ''The Trial Of Cheshire'' in the first ''Titans'' volume is a decent example of this.
* MoralityPet: Her daughter Lian, and later her son by Catman, Thomas Jr.. [[spoiler:Now Lian is dead, and Catman convinced her that her son was too, so the MoralityChain may be severed]]. However, when Lian's safety was held over head to ensure her cooperation with the team, she was more than willing to conceive a replacement child just to leave the Six and betray them.
* MoralEventHorizon: In-universe it's usually considered to be her nuking {{Qurac}} ForTheEvulz in ''Deathstroke #19''.
* MuggingTheMonster: The mercenary who went after her and tried to rape her probably should have read up on her history first. Let's just say it doesn't end well for him.
-->'''Cheshire''': To be fair, he ''does'' have the kind of face that looks better in rictus.
* PoisonedWeapons: Tends to use her fingernails, among other things.
%%* PsychoForHire
* PunchClockVillain: In the 80s, before [[MoralEventHorizon she nuked a country.]]
* SexGoddess: According to Roy Harper during ''The Rise of Arsenal'' arc, next to Kendra Saunders, Cheshire was the best lay Roy has ever had and keep in mind that he's a ladies man who has had sexual flings with many women, including [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]], ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, and other bodacious superheroines.
* TheSociopath: Has referred to herself as a "Well-known sociopath," and there was increasing evidence she truly didn't care about anyone, not Roy ''or'' Lian, if it wasn't convenient for her.
* TokenEvilTeammate: When she was part of the Six.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Jade always had a rather eloquent vernacular, but following ''Rise of Arsenal'' and starting in ''Villains for Hire'' her vocabulary suddenly became extremely limited and she started swearing more frequently.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Well, Toxic Ex-Girlfriend Influence on Roy Harper. She eagerly manipulates their past relationship and the fact that she had his daughter just about every time they meet, with key moments being in ''Rise of Arsenal'' and the second ''Titans'' book. In the former Jade had shown up to kill Roy because of Lian's death, but if she hadn't said "our baby is gone" after she'd been cornered, Roy may have very well killed her. In ''Titans'', Roy only joined Deathstroke's team because Cheshire said he "owed" her for Lian's death.
* TragicVillain: Jade is a deeply unhappy and angry woman whose efforts to prove how much of a threat she is as well as her efforts to make sure she's never held captive again have only driven away anyone who might've cared about her. As a result of the Qurac bombing, the only two people who ''don't'' wish she was dead are Roy and Lian and even they are both aware of what a horrible person she's become. By the time of her trial, she lashed out at Roy and tried to kill him so she could escape from Blackgate which only cemented to him that Jade will never change. In ''Villains United'' she gave up Lian's life to be free from the blackmail arrangements keeping her in the Secret Six and made herself an enemy of Catman and the rest of the Six, while also proving to most of the villain community she's an unreliable backstabber.
* {{Troll}}: It doesn't get any pettier than blowing up the terrorist capital of the world just to prove you could and for laughing in the face of global hypocrisy.
* WomanScorned: This is the whole reason she had Lian. The next time she met Roy Harper after their relationship ended, she told him about their child, a child she was never going to let him see as revenge. And when Roy ''did'' meet Lian, Jade changed her plan to taunting Roy by giving him the barest of details on Lian's development but never letting him see her again.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In ''Villains United'', she was blackmailed into compliance by threats against Lian's safety. Over the course of the miniseries she successfully seduced Catman and managed to conceive a replacement baby in order to betray and leave the Secret Six with Lian's welfare no longer being an issue (that she cared about). It turned out the threat was false, but she didn't know that.

%%* BaldOfEvil

* BaldWoman: [[spoiler:With her face exposed, she is shown to only have a few strands of hair. The majority of it was lost due to her mutilating her scalp.]] Also a case of BaldOfEvil.

An old man with a magic fiddle; he was one of UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|of Comic Books}} [[Franchise/TheFlash Flash's]] enemies. One of the first recruits into the Secret Six, the Fiddler proved a liability in his first outing, so Deadshot executed him on Mockingbird's orders, and he later returns as an undead Black Lantern during the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' crossover to get revenge on the Six. See Characters/TheFlashOtherVillains for more.

* AbusiveParents: It's a wonder he isn't more fucked up when you consider [[spoiler:the state Junior's in]] and the fact that in comparison [[spoiler: she]] got off ''lightly''.

* BerserkButton: Mistreatment of Scandal Savage. Don't hurt her or even threaten her in front of Bane. Remember what he did to [[ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} good 'ol Bats?]] He'll do that to you. Seriously, don't fuck with Scandal in front of Bane.

* BrownNote: Her scream will ''seriously'' fuck you up.

* HateSink: Giganta and Lady Vic are {{Punch Clock Villain}}s and generally decent people, and King Shark isn't that bad a guy either. Dwarfstar, on the other hand, is a gigantic piece of shit who clearly exists to be despised by the audience and precious little else.

* TheJuggernaut: He's huge, monstrously strong, and quite durable even without his healing factor, and his fighting style can best be summed up as "charge in and fuck shit up".

* DepravedBisexual: Mentions "forced relations" with both men and women, but this may have more to do with how ''severely'' fucked up Junior's concept of sexuality is, thanks to the below FreudianExcuse.

* FullFrontalAssault: Spends a portion of their time attacking while completely naked.[[{{Squick}} vomits]]

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: [[spoiler: Was seemingly meant to become a ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey villain, but the DC reboot cut it short]].

* AsianBabymama: So nice she did it twice: once with Arsenal, and once with Catman.
* AxCrazy: The fact that she blew up a country [[ForTheEvulz for simple shits and giggles]] offers some pretty good insight at how utterly deranged this woman is.

** Whenever she's written by Creator/GailSimone, there's nothing good, redeemable, or likable about her. Whereas other writers have her be caring and loving towards Lian (and to an extremely lesser extent Roy), Gail writes Jade as a repugnant, self-admitted sociopath whose horrific actions make the readers cheer when she inevitably gets the shit kicked out of her.

* MaternallyChallenged: Subverted. When she was taking care of Lian, and later Tommy, she didn't exactly mistreat or abuse them. But the general implications are that she only does so to carry on the facade of actually giving a shit about them so she can keep using and hurting their fathers. If it looks like she doesn't love her kids, then there's no reason for their dads to give a crap about her. Her original plan for Lian was to use her mere existence to torment Roy Harper as revenge for walking out on her, and Tommy's conception was so she'd at least have one child after leaving the Six and so Catman would have a reason to protect her when she betrayed the team. Gail Simone describes Cheshire as having a lizard-like mentality with her kids: the moment they become a detriment to her freedom, all bets are off.

* TheSociopath: Has referred to herself as a "Well-known sociopath," and there was increasing evidence she truly didn't give a shit about anyone, not Roy ''or'' Lian, if it wasn't convenient for her.

* ProudToBeAGeek: His love of B-movies and the fact that his main complaint [[EyeScream when his eye is torn out]] is that [[FelonyMisdemeanor he won't be able to watch]] ''Film/{{Avatar}}.''
* [[RealMenEatMeat Real Shark-men Eat Meat]]

* [[spoiler:BaldWoman]]:With their face exposed, they are shown to only have a few strands of hair. The majority of it was lost due to them mutilating their scalp. Also a case of BaldOfEvil.

* MsFanservice: Her first appearance includes her naked with a ModestyTowel, and every single one of her outfits has AbsoluteCleavage at the very least. Taken UpToEleven with her Skartaris outfit, [[Stripperiffic which is essentially a few black straps covering her naughty bits]].

** BladeOnAStick/CarryABigStick: She once wielded a pair of Zulu weapons, an asegai spear and knobkerrie club, in a duel with Batman.

%%* EvilBrit

%%* KatanasAreJustBetter
* LeftForDead: Gets her knees blown out by Deadshot and is abandoned in [[DeathWorld Skartaris.]]

%%* RevolversAreJustBetter

%%* SelfMadeOrphan

%%* GeniusBruiser

%%* SizeShifter

* InstantExpert: She seems quite skilled at using the magic powers she borrows, but it is eventually subverted when she reveals [[spoiler: that she tried to use healing magic to cure her father's asthma, but accidentally messed up his insides and gave him cancer]]. It's also further subverted when she clarifies that she suffers from PowerCreepPowerSeep, with exceptional levels of power being difficult to maintain for more than a few moments, and in the difference between calling upon people with limited or natural magical abilities, and someone who requires training -- Doctor Occult's one of the least powerful people she's tapped into, but his abilities proved too difficult to use reliably.

%%* PowerCopying

* RatedMForManly: [[AwesomeMcCoolName Tom Blake]] reporting for [[CrazyAwesome lion-punching]], [[NoSocialSkills raw steak-eating]], [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirt-removing]] and Franchise/{{Batman}} beating-up duties, SIR!

* MadeOfIron: Bullets just slow her down a little. Fans speculate that decapitation might kill her. (see MinorInjuryOverreaction below)
* MakeMeWannaShout: A particularly nasty one; she screams waves of death that can incapacitate even Franchise/WonderWoman. Turns out the scream is actually a form of MindRape that forces the person that hears it to suffer the way Banshee did in her original life.

Better known as ComicBook/TheJoker's PerkyFemaleMinion. Briefly joined the Six in one of their earlier outings under their own command. Quit the team when she decided to reform. See Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart1 for more.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Despite what's mentioned in FreudianExcuse, the comics make it clear that does it ''nothing'' to excuse or wipe away all of the horrific acts Junior has committed. The only person who feels ''any'' sympathy for Junior is [[spoiler:Ragdoll, her brother, and all his sympathy gets is him is Junior cutting off his fingers.]]
%%* FullFrontalAssault: *[[{{Squick}} vomits]]*

%%* BoisterousBruiser[=/=]TheBrute
%%* GoOutWithASmile