Lady Vic
Lady Vic is a female comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Elaine Marsh-Morton
Lady Vic was later sent to eliminate Tarantula after it was learnt that she had disobeyed orders. Despite her skill, Lady Vic was defeated by Tarantula who shot the mercenary in the stomach. (Nightwing v2 #95)
Selina ran for mayor as her next phase of taking Manhattan, and hired a woman named Diane as her assistant. She did well in the polls, and mafia member Mr. Sergeyevitch wanted her killed and his own pawn councilman Murty put in office, hiring a number of mercs to get the job done. Selina held a rally at the Statue of Liberty she was confronted by Lady Vic and had to make a quick costume change into Catwoman. They fought atop the Statue of Liberty, and she defeated Vic, who'd been posing as her assistant to get close to her. (Catwoman v2 #68)
After forming Tartarus, Vandal Savage came to use Lilith Clay's prophetic abilities to assemble a team of villains for him. Among its recruits was Lady Vic but unknown to Savage this team was gathered so that their clash of personalities would result in their failure. (Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant v1 #1)
Later on, she was shown to had joined the ranks of Luthor's Society. (Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special v1 #1)
Lady Vic was hired by Mr. Demidov to kill Anton, a witness at his trial. She was foiled by Red Arrow, but unnerved him by telling him about how Cheshire talked about her old flame. He retaliated by comparing her profession to prostitution, which she saw as a slight not against just her, but the long line of killers she came from. She escaped, but Red Arrow tracked her to her headquarters. Red Arrow was distracted during their fight, he kept worrying about being a good enough father to his daughter Lian, and Vic got the drop on him, and almost choked him to death with a chain. When he recovered and bested her he felt murderous rage, thinking about Lian growing up without him, but he calmed himself down, remembering that he was a father, not a killer. (Titans v2 #19)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Overview
Personality and attributes
It was known that she was an heir to a long and distinguished line of British mercenaries. She used her earnings to forestall the foreclosure on her family's estate. (Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
Elaine is a highly skilled martial artist and athlete, and equally skilled with firearms. She has a sentimental preference for a collection of antique weapons handed down by her ancestors, souvenirs of their colonial exploits: a matched pair of katar (कटार), a Japanese katana, a Thuggee strangling cloth, a Maasai javelin, and a Webley revolver.
It was remarked that she had masterful swordmanship skill and fighting prowess. (Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant v1 #1)
She was well known for her use of exotic and frequently antique weapons. (Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant v1 #1)
Notes
- Lady Vic was created by Chuck Dixon and Scott McDaniel where she made her first appearance in Nightwing v2 #4 (January, 1997).
Alternate Versions
- In Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies v1 #2 (2011), an alternate version of Lady Vic appeared in the reality of the Flashpoint.
In other media
Television
- In Titans, Lady Vic appeared in the setting of the live-action DC Universe television series where she appeared in the episode "Lady Vic" and was portrayed by actress Kimberly-Sue Murray. Sometime before 2016, Lady Vic acquired a partner. In 2016, Lady Vic and her partner were working on infiltrating one of Gotham City's art museums when they ran into a masked Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson. During the battle, Lady Vic slit Barbara's leg, though her partner was killed in the conflict, leaving her in mourning. After losing her partner, Lady Vic, through unknown means, was able to deduce who Barbara and Dick were, as well as their connection to Bruce Wayne. By 2020, Lady Vic became an assassin-for-hire. During one assignment, she sabotages the engine of a police car belonging to her two victims outside a restaurant's parking lot. Walking into the restaurant, she briefly talks to one of the waitresses when she lays eyes on her victims, two off-duty police officers who were flirting together. After reminiscing on how she lost her own partner, she follows the two as they return to their vehicle. Noticing that the car was refusing to start, the male officer attends to the engine, finding the pipes slashed, when Lady Vic attacks him from behind with a blade, killing him in front of his female companion before moving on to kill her too.
Appearances
- Nightwing v2: (1997)
- Catwoman v2:
- Titans v2:
- Batwing v1:
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