Cupid (DC)
Cupid is a female comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Carrie Cutter was a special ops soldier, working for a top-secret program called COBALT, who thought her husband Ross had abandoned her. (Green Arrow and Black Canary v1 #15) During a mission in Georgia she encountered something that deeply disturbed her. She volunteered for a program that would make her fearless. It also turns her emotions up to the extreme when it comes to falling in love. Other effects included memory loss and increased strength. She fell off the radar for a long time. Years later, she found out that her husband Ross was still alive, tracked him to Star City and killed him. Green Arrow thought that the unknown man was abusing his wife so he shot an arrow at him. Cupid picked up that arrow which began her obsession with Green Arrow. (Green Arrow and Black Canary v1 #16)
Cupid first showed up in Star City at a scene of one of Green Arrow's fights. She picked up a broken tip of one of his arrows and carved the infamous heart with an arrow through it on her chest. She began killing off some of his notable enemies in the hope that she may begin to fulfil his heart's desire. She is mentally unstable as upon getting a new haircut, she cut out the eyes of the hairdresser, for the hair was cut so perfectly that she did not want anyone else to ever have the same perfect hair. (Green Arrow and Black Canary v1 #2)
She then began targeting Green Arrow's foes where she was responsible for killing a number of small-time enemies including Big Game, Death Dealer, Vengeance, and Slingshot. (Green Arrow and Black Canary v1 #24) This brought her to the attention of Star City's crime boss, Brick. When he learned of these killings, he sent his men to find out who was behind them. Within minutes of sending a street junkie out to find Cupid, she shot the junkie in the head and proceeded to fire upon Brick himself. As this did not work, she had a back-up plan in the form of a wrecking ball suspended from a crane. The crane cut through the building Brick was in and left him dead, cut in half at the waist. She had captured Merlyn from the police department, drugged him and lured Green Arrow to Star City Museum. Cupid had it arranged that Green Arrow, with a new-found darkness within him, would kill Merlyn and help himself achieve his hearts desire. Green Arrow did not follow through with Merlyn's death after seeing a way out of it and instead incapacitated him. This angered Cupid, who triggered an explosion. We next see her waking Green Arrow up underground. (Green Arrow and Black Canary v1 #23)
She had chained him to the subway tracks and planned on dying with him in her arms so that it may be a romantically famous death, but Black Canary rescued him. Before admitting defeat, Cupid slit an unconscious Merlyn's throat. Knowing that Green Arrow and Black Canary would not let him die despite him being one of their worst and most destructive enemies she used that chance to escape. She has started to aid the city during a riot, using a bow, that she admits she needs practice with. This was done so to mainly impress Green Arrow but had not succeeded. (Green Arrow and Black Canary v1 #27)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Cupid was created by Andrew Kreisberg and David Baron where she made her first appearance in Green Arrow and Black Canary v1 #15 (February, 2009).
In other media
Television
- In the Arrowverse, Cupid made a number of appearances in the shared continuity setting:
- In Arrow, Cupid appeared in the live-action television series where she was portrayed by actress Amy Gumenick. This version is a former member of the Star City Police Department's S.W.A.T. team who was forced to leave because of an attachment disorder. Amidst Slade Wilson's attack on Starling City, Cutter was saved by Oliver Queen / Arrow, leading to her developing an obsession with him and seeing herself as his partner in life. Taking the name "Cupid", she stalks Queen and uses his skill set to kill criminals in an attempt to show him how "right" they are for each other.
Appearances
- Green Arrow and Black Canary v1: (2009)
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