Jeannette (DC)
Jeannette is a female comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Jeannette was a female human born centuries ago into a tenuous lineage of Hungarian nobility. Noble but poor, her family sold its belongings so that it could send her at the age of nine to the Castle Csejtein order for her to serve Countess Bathory and learn the ways of the court. What no one outside the castle realized was that Countess Bathory was perhaps the most horrific female serial killer of all time. Jeannette was forced to watch as the Countess and her four assistants horribly tortured, mutilated and killed young girl after young girl. The horror was so great, Jeannette lost the ability to speak. She was told that she was the favorite and would therefore being saved for last. Eventually, the Countess and her assistants were tried and punished. Jeannette managed to have herself remain the Countess' servant to care for the dark lady while she spent the rest of her days locked away in a room, bringing meals and removing the waste. But the truth of it was Jeannette sprinkled tiny quantities of broken glass into every meal. The process took years, but soon Countess Bathory could not experience even a day without pain. Medical attention was denied, and she went mad from the endless torture Jeannette inflicted upon her.
It was said that the executioner was drunk with Jeannette paying him in only the jewelry she could keep on her with this including her mother's necklace. (Secret Six v3 #12)
Several centuries later, she came to run a casino in Las Vegas in Nevada. (Secret Six v3 #4)
Centuries later, Jeannette was still very much alive and running a Las Vegas hotel-casino known as Nocturne. She had acquired for herself a large and loyal staff, very much like her own private army. But this life must have begun to bore her. She took up an offer from an old friend, Scandal Savage, to join the Secret Six and help them on their job to deliver the Get Out of Hell Free Card to Gotham City. She housed the team at Nocturne when the arrived in Las Vegas, helping to protect them from the horde of super villains after the bounties on their heads. Then, she left with them for Gotham. Along the way, Jeannette made her sexual intentions towards Deadshot very clear. She cornered him in a rest stop restroom, telling him the story of her past with Countess Bathory as she began to have her way with him; however, he shot her. This was the beginning of Deadshot's plan to take the card and bring it to Gotham City on his own. But being shot was only a small bother to Jeannette.
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
She could manifest her true form which was that of a Banshee where her features changed to reflect herself. In this form, she could emit an ungodly noise that was a cry of the dead as she relived her own decapitation. The cry was capable of even harming an Amazon and leaving them unconscious and drooling after hearing it. (Secret Six v3 #12)
It was shown that she sometimes fell into unconsciousness upon managing to regain her former form. (Secret Six v3 #12)
Notes
- Jeannette was created Gail Simone and Nicola Scott where she made her first appearance in Secret Six v3 #3 (January, 2009).
Appearances
- Secret Six v3: (2009)
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