Shiera Sanders
Shiera Sanders is a female comic superhero that features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Princess Chay-ara was a female human who was born in the time of ancient Egypt long ago. She was the daughter of Khea Taramka and her father was the younger brother of the Pharaoh. At some point, her homeland was stricken with a terrible plague that killed her father and the Pharaoh's wife. Afterwards, her mother married the Pharaoh under the pretence of introducing her daughter to the rulers son, Prince Khufu. The pair had been in love with one another for many years and their union was deemed inevitable. (Brightest Day v1 #13) Her heritage meant that she was one of the Hykos who had conquered Egypt long ago and adopted its culture as their own. Their reign was said to had been one of oppression against the native Egyptians with Princess Chay-Ara being against the ruling dynasty. In this time, a vigilante dressed in the guise of the god Horus came to operate and inspired rebels against the Hykos rulers. In reality, this figure was Prince Khufu who was using a hawk mask and anti-gravity wings to inspire the people against the tyrannical Pharaoh. (Hawkman Annual v3 #2)
After the discovery of Nth Metal, her mother attempted to convince the Pharaoh to use it as a weapon of conquest and to make Egypt the centre of the world. He, however, did not have the stomach for warfare and did not desire to use the metal for warfare. Khea later found an ally in the priest Hath-Set where the two worked in secret to circumvent the Pharaoh. This culminated in them murdering him where Khea forged a letter claiming that he took his own life out of grief for the death of his former wife. In the aftermath, her mother was declared as Queen Khea and the new ruler of Egypt where she worked alongside Hath-Set to murder her daughter along with her mate Khufu. They then used the enchanted dagger to make Hath-Set and herself immortal whilst her daughter and her love reincarnated in new bodies over the centuries. (Brightest Day v1 #13)
Later, the actions of Boris Nickaloff attracted the attention of Hawkman when the sculptor used a substance to craft a living golem called Czar the Unkillable Man. Nickaloff intended to make an army of such creatures with Czar abducting Shiera with Hawkman freeing her whereupon he killed the two villains. (Flash Comics v1 #7)
In the battle against Nekron, Hal Jordan used the power of the life entity to restore a number of the Black Lanterns to living beings again. Hawkgirl was resurrected where she revealed that she now remembered all her reincarnations and was no longer Kendra Saunders but rather Shiera Sanders. She was reunited with her love Hawkman after Nekron and his Black Lanterns had been defeated. (Blackest Night v1 #8)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Across her life, she had reincarnated across multiple bodies across the universe with these including:
- Chay-Ara : an Egyptian princess living long ago in ancient Egypt during the time of the Pharaoh. (Brightest Day v1 #13)
- Lady Celia Penbrook :
- Nayara : a past incarnation who was active in Spain in the year 1650 where she was a travelling doctor wearing a plague mask in Seville. (Hawkman v5 #23)
- Cinnamon :
- Sheila Carr :
- Shiera Sanders :
- Kendra Saunders :
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Shiera Sanders was created by Gardner Fox and Dennis Neville where she made her first appearance in Flash Comics v1 #1 (January, 1940).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
Appearances
- Flash Comics v1: (1940)
- Hawkman:
- Hawkman Annual v3:
- Brightest Day v1:
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