League of Assassins
The League of Assassins are a group that feature in DC Comics.
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History
Origin
Under Nyssa Raatko's control, she made Lady Shiva the new sensei of the League and trained a new generation of assassins. (Batgirl v1 #68)
Following their master's death, the order of assassins had splintered with the loyalists following Talia Al Ghul and a fanatical splinter sect going to the Sensei. Once Ra's Al Ghul returned, the loyalists immediately flocked to his banner as he sought to transfer his mind into Damian Wayne's body. (Batman v1 #670) Damian fled from his grandfather and escaped to Wayne Manor where a group of assassins had been deployed to retrieve the boy. (Robin #168) Batman managed to dissuade Ra's from taking his son's body by offering to lead the way to the Fountain of Life in Nanda Parbat where Bruce defeated the Sensei. (Batman v1 #671)
The New 52
After the death of Talia, the League had fallen into disarray with reconstruction being made to the organization and Ra's Al Ghul preparing to get his revenge against Bruce Wayne. (Batman Incorporated v2 #13) With the threat of the Untitled facing the League, Bronze Tiger led his fellow assassins in capturing Jason Todd. This was because it was deemed that the Red Hood would be the only one capable of defeating their god-like foe. Thus, they made him the new leader of the League and asked him to command them against their enemy. (Red Hood and the Outlaws v1 #21)
Overview
A site of particular significance was the secret city of assassins known as Eth Alth'eban, which meant Snake's Nest in Arabic. This majestic beautiful settlement that represented the world that Ra's Al Ghul wanted to bring to the world. (Red Hood and the Outlaws v1 #22) Another base was known as the Cradle which was the closest thing that could be considered a headquarters for the League. (Red Robin v1 #5)
Members
- White Ghost :
- Lady Shiva :
- Bronze Tiger :
- Cheshire :
- Merlyn :
- Onyx :
- Anya Volkova :
In other media
Television
- In Young Justice, they make an appearance in the episode "Infiltrator" where they are called the League of Shadows who captured the scientist Serling Roquette and were forcing her to develop a piece of nanotechnology called the Fog for their use. Red Arrow arrives on the scene and helps in her escape but the device remains in the assassins hands who begin using it to steal vital secrets from various business groups. They also dispatched Cheshire and later additional assassins to eliminate Dr Roquette when she was attempting to shut the Fog down but were stopped by the Team. In "Targets", Ra's Al Ghul dispatched them to apparently end Lex Luthor's peace summit between North and South Rhelasia but its revealed afterwards that the League were working alongside the Light. In "Summit", a number of assassins were summoned to deal with the Team of young heroes only to be overwhelmed by them and ambushed after its shown that several of the heroes were disguised as the League leading to their defeat. In this series, the members of the League included Ra's Al Ghul, the Sensei, Sportsmaster, Cheshire, Black Spider, Hook, and Professor Ojo.
- In Beware the Batman, they make an appearance in the episode "Safe" where Lady Shiva dispatches a number of them to capture the scientist Jason Burr but were thwarted by the intervention of Batman and Tatsu Yamashiro. A surviving assassin gets eliminated for his failure and Shiva dispatches another group led by Silver Monkey to capture the scientist leading to an attack on Wayne Manor. During this time, Silver Monkey fights Yamashiro and reveals that she used to be a member of the League of Assassins. This news intrigues Lady Shiva who despite Silver Monkey's defeat contemplates on their next plan of action.
- In Arrow, the League make an appearance in the episode "Broken Dolls" when an agent of Ra's Al Ghul confronts Black Canary and asks for her to return to his service.
Films
- In Batman Begins, the League of Shadows appears as a group that trained individuals in a number of martials arts including ninjutsu, jujitsu and several forms of Kung Fu. Their leader was a person called Ra's al Ghul and one of their top trainers was Henri Ducard. Bruce Wayne was recruited by them and trained under Ducard for an unknown length of time. Wayne was intended to lead the League to Gotham City where they intended to burn it to the ground in order to remove the corruption inherent in society but he rejected them after he refused to kill a criminal with this being an act to prove his loyalty to the League. Thus, he turned against them and seemingly killed Ra's al Ghul though saved the life of Henri Ducard. In reality, Ducard himself was the real Ra's al Ghul and continued his plan to destroy Gotham and brought his followers to the city on Bruce Wayne's birthday. At this point, Wayne had adopted the guise of the vigilante called Batman and Ra's revealed that he showed that the League worked to restore civilization as Gotham had grown decadent and that they operated by bringing a balance in human history. Their acts included sacking Rome, loading trade ships with plague rats, burning London to the ground and similar events. In Gotham, their plan was to use a stolen Wayne Enterprises microwave emitter to scatter Scarecrow's toxin around the city to cause the inhabitants to kill each other in a state of fear. Batman ultimately managed to defeat the League where Ra's himself was left to die on a train that crashed into building thus seemingly ending their plan of destroying Gotham.
- In The Dark Knight Rises, its revealed that Bane became an inductee into the League of Assassin's after he cared for a young Talia Al Ghul. During their training, Ra's Al Ghul could not accept Bane and had him excommunicated from the League with Talia departing as well. After her father's death, she decides to fulfill his plans and has Bane embark on a mission to steal an experimental power generator in order to turn it into a bomb to destroy Gotham.
Video games
- In Arkham City, the League appears where they accompany Ra's al Ghul in his plans for Wonder City.
- In Arkham Origins, female assassins from the League make an appearance alongside Lady Shiva.
- In Young Justice: Legacy, assassins from the League accompany Cheshire in order to kidnap Dr Helena Sandsmark in Olympia.
Appearances
- Batgirl v1 #68:
- Batman v1 #670:
- Batman v1 #671:
- Red Robin v1 #5:
- Red Hood and the Outlaws v1 #21: (2013)
- Batman Incorporated v2 #13: (2013)
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