Lashina
Lashina is a female comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Lashina was a female member of the race of New Gods where she was a native of the planet Apokolips.
To learn more about the Anti-Life Equation, Darkseid had sent Lashina along with the Female Furies and Parademons to raid Mars. They killed a number of Green Martian manhunters before being driven back to Apokolips. Despite that, they had succeeded in kidnapping M’Yrinn J’Onzz, who had formulated the Life Equation. (Martian Manhunter v2 #33)
Darkseid made Apokolips universally automated, run by machines that protected Apokolips and kept the populace in line, but his elite troops craved the old days of war and glory. In frustration Lashina and the Female Furies took pot shots at Darkseid’s Makkanoids while Orion invaded the planet. Granny scolded them, but they ran her off. Supervisors were ready to execute the Furies for their traitorous behavior, but in deference to their former accomplishments as warriors they were only tortured with energy bursts. (New Gods v2 #6)
Apokolips and New Genesis were fused into one planet, with a barrier separating them. Lashina theorized that the barrier did not extend deep underground, so she gathered the Female Furies, and they recruited Parademons and immense earth-movers and drills to tunnel to New Genesis. The work was slow going, and everyone except Lashina expressed doubts it would work. This led to the usual arguments, and Lashina and Stompa started pounding each other. Bernadeth said it was no wonder Darkseid’s plans failed when he had such rabble working for him. They eventually succeeded, and opened a hole in Supertown, where Parademons snatched a passing youth. (Jack Kirby’s Fourth World v1 #5) The Parademons snatched god of music Harmon, and Mad Harriet butchered him. They continued building new tunnels for more surprise attacks, but Harriet stayed to enjoy her recent kill. She was discovered and apprehended by Lonar, who informed the New Gods. Big Barda felt personally responsible for the reprehensible actions of her former underlings, and joined an assault on them with Mr. Miracle and Orion. Orion slaughtered Parademons until he came upon Bernadeth and staid his hand. Darkseid and Highfather recognized he had a corrupting presence in him, and with the help of Takion they removed it, the influence turning out to be Desaad. (Jack Kirby’s Fourth World #6)
Darkseid had never found the true anti-life equation, but the prophecies that humans would uncover fragments of it came true when Prof. Martin Stein, omne-half of the superhero Firestorm, uncovered a portion of it studying the Firestorm Matrix. Mr. Miracle and Orion came to warn Firestorm, but Darkseid had already sent the Female Furies to take the hero. The villains subdued the heroes, and prepared to load Firestorm into a Boom Tube to Apokolips when Firestorm’s girlfriend Gehenna appeared with super heroine Firehawk. Lashina dove into the Tube while the others fought, but Firestorm recovered, and took advantage of her ego and overconfidence in her dominatrix personality to defeat her and return home. The Furies were vanquished, and Metron appeared inside the Firestorm-matrix, revealing that Stein had not unlocked anti-life, but life itself in understanding the elemental nature of Firestorm. The full life equation would threaten Darkseid, and Metron warned that the villain wouldn’t rest until Stein was in his clutches. (Firestorm v3 #34)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
During the Darkseid War, Lashina and Kanto traveled to Earth to hunt down the renegade amazon Myrina Black. (Justice League v2 #43)
Later, after Darkseid had been enslaved by his daughter Grail, Lashina and the other Female Furies accepted an offer from Big Barda to help defeat Grail as well as to protect Barda's husband, Mister Miracle. Lashina participated in the final battle against Grail and Darkseid, which resulted in the pair's defeat. Lashina then left for Apokolips with the rest of the Furies, including Barda. (Justice League v2 #50)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Lashina has the conventional attributes of all the New Gods. She is extremely long-lived and superhumanly strong, immune to all earthly diseases and resistance to conventional injury. Lashina can lift at least 40 tons and her incredible physiology gives her superhuman endurance. Lashina has had intensive training in unarmed combat. She uses steel whips that she can charge with electricity and also can destroy even metallic objects easily.
Electrically charged steel whips that can extend, retract and wrap around targets.
Lashina is vulnerable to a substance called Radion.
Notes
- Lashina was created by Jack Kirby where she made her first appearance in Mister Miracle v1 #6 (January, 1972).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Young Justice: Outsiders, Lashina appeared in the setting of the animated television series where she made her first appearance in the episode "Influence."
Films
Video games
- In DC Universe Online, Lashina appeared in the setting of the MMORPG where she was voiced by actress Jen Brown.
Other
Appearances
- Mister Miracle v1: (1978)
- Suicide Squad v1:
- Firestorm v3:
- Justice League v2:
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