Cheshire (DC)
Cheshire is a female comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Jade Nguyen was a female human born in the modern age as the daughter of Andre Chaumont and Anna Nyugen with her having a brother named Luke Chaumont. (Showcase '95 v1 #8)
Cheshire
A group of Quraci nationals were willing to pay big money for Cheshire for the nuclear attack she inflicted on their country. KGBeast had his men take Cheshire's daughter Lian Harper hostage, and forced Cheshire to do his bidding, setting up a dropoff with the nationals at Gotham's Eagle Airfield. Arsenal learned that KGBeast had Cheshire, and enlisted Batman's help to save her. Gotham arms dealer Gustave Erhard recently received a shipment of cybernetic parts that KGBeast would need to maintain his body, so they went to see him. KGBeast was there, ready to kill Erhard to keep his presence secret, but he eagerly shot at Batman, looking forward to taking his life. A crane on Gustave's compound knocked out Arsenal, and Batman had to save him from a fall, allowing KGBeast to escape. At the airfield Checkmate, also after the Beast and Cheshire, made their move, but only resulted in slightly delaying KGBeast before he boarded the Quracui's plane. The plane exploded, but Batman suspected he'd blown it up himself, knowing his cyborg body could survive it. Arsenal had spotted 'Cheshire', but she was wearing a wedding ring, and already dead, so he knew she wasn't the real deal. Batman suggested that Cheshire and KGBeast were working together, and Batman located KGBeast's bunker in the sewers. It was laced with explosives, but the heroes survived. Cheshire deposited the money KGBeast received in her Zurich account, and Batman and Arsenal found her there. Arsenal took out KGBeast with a taser when he stepped in a puddle, and Cheshire revealed that KGBeast was forcing her to cooperate. Nightwing saved Lian, and Arsenal thanked Cheshire for keeping Lian alive, but he still had to arrest her. (Batman Plus v1 #1)
Cheshire attended one of the supervillain community's semi-regular gatherings at the Injustice Gang's old satellite headquarters. (Identity Crisis v1 #2)
She came to be one of a number of people brought together by the mysterious Mockingbird who brought a team together known as the Secret Six. Among them also included Catman, Deadshot, Scandal Savage, Rag Doll Peter Merkel Jr. and a rogue Parademon where they were brought together to oppose the Secret Society of Super Villains. At first, she intended to leave but then Mockingbird threatened to kill Cheshire's daughter thus forcing her to comply with the team. (Villains United v1 #1)
Cheshire was consumed by her daughter’s death leading to her becoming sloppy in her job. After botching a hit, the target started to hunt her in return. Deathstroke assembled a team of assassins that he named the Titans. He chose metas with recent personal tragedies, and approached Cheshire, saving her from killers in Bucharest, and offering her a way out of her situation. The Titans were hired by serial killer Dwarfstar to kill the Atom Ryan Choi, and ambushed him at home. Deathstroke stood back and watched as his team tore into the hero, but allowed Atom a brief respite when his girlfriend Amanda knocked at his front door, so he could convince her to go away. Atom was grateful, and Deathstroke assured him that killing him was just business, they weren't looking to harm anyone else. Atom fled to his basement ant tried to activate his JLA signal, but the Titans had disabled it. The Titans wore him down, and Deathstroke made it clear he was about to die, and commended him for not begging. Deathstroke killed him with a sword through his stomach, and delivered Atom's corpse in a matchbox to Dwarfstar. Back at their headquarters Deathstroke chastised his Titans for not working better as a team. Osiris told him they weren't worthy of the heroic mantle Titans, and Deathstroke told him that he had personal reasons for naming them after the heroes he so despised. (Titans: Villains For Hire Special v1 #1)
Tattooed Man and Cheshire went on a Titans mission to take digital schematics from Deftech Industries, but were attacked by assassins in the service of Drago. They defeated them, but Cheshire refused to tell Tattooed Man why they were after her. At the Titans hq Labyrinth Slade watched a fight between Cinder and Osiris. He scoffed that he was working with broken humans, but vowed to mold them into what he wanted. He assembled the Titans and told thewm they’d been assigned to kill Lex Luthor, who’d been reappointed head of LexCorp. In truth Deathstroke had been hired by Lex to ferret out the LexCorp members that wanted him dead, but he needed the threat on his life to seem genuine. The Titans attacked Lex, and after Cinder blew up Lex‘s limo he was forced to flee to the sewers with his LexCorp board members and his bodyguard, and his bodyguard revealed herself as Façade, a LexCorp project set loose on him by the board members to eliminate him. The Titans were angry at Deathstroke for having to lied about the nature of their mission, and Osiris attacked Deathstroke, but was easily put down. The mutinous LexCorp board members Cooper, Dyson and Monroe were killed, and Façade shape shifted into Cheshire in an attempt to escape, but Deathstroke simply shot both him and Cheshire. Cheshire recovered in the Titans medical bay, and Deathstroke accused her of being weak. He reminded her that he saved her from Drago, a target that ended up becoming her boss. She tried to claw at Deathstroke, but he subdued her, and was happy to see her acting more in character after he pushed her. (Titans v2 #25)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
She was among the League of Assassins members that went out to recruit Red Hood Jason Todd to be their new leader. After defeating him, they brought him him back to their base at the city of 'Eth Alth'eban to aid them in their war against the All-Caste. (Red Hood and the Outlaws v1 #21)
Overview
Personality and attributes
She sometimes went by her father's family name of Jade Chaumont. (Showcase '95 v1 #8)
She claimed that she tended to test her new toxins on superheroes mostly. (Birds of Prey v1 #64)
Jade Chaumont was noted for being the daughter of Andre Chaumont and Anna Nyugen with her having a brother named Luke Chaumont. (Showcase '95 v1 #8)
Powers and abilities
It was noted that she was the most brilliant toxicologist since Pamela Isley. (Birds of Prey v1 #64)
She was noted for being a good fighter by Black Canary who thought of her like Picaso in that she struck at strange angles and made a huge impact. (Birds of Prey v1 #64)
Notes
- Cheshire was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez where she made her first appearance in New Teen Titans Annual v1 #2 (August, 1983).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Young Justice, Cheshire appeared in the setting of the animated television series starting from the episode "Infiltrator" where she was voiced by actress Kelly Hu. This version was the eldest daughter of Sportsmaster and Paula Brooks where she was the older sister of Artemis Crock.
Films
- In Batman: Soul of the Dragon, Jade Nyugen appeared in the setting of the 2021 animated film where she was voiced by actress Jamie Chung. She came to be a martial arts student of the O-Sensei where she trained at the hidden monastery at Nanda Parbat.
- In Catwoman: Hunted, Cheshire appeared in the setting of the anime film where she was voiced once again by actress Kelly Hu. This version was similar to her Young Justice incarnation in that she was a League of Shadows member who wore a Cheshire Cat mask, wielded a pair of sai for hand-to-hand combat, a sword, and claws embedded with jellyfish poison. She was noted to had clashed with Selina Kyle before in the past by the time she was hired by Minerva to murder Catwoman but she was foiled by Batwoman and Catwoman.
Video games
- In Young Justice: Legacy, Cheshire appeared in the setting of the video game tie-in where she was voiced once again by actress Kelly Hu.
Other
Appearances
- New Teen Titans Annual v1: (1983)
- Villains United v1:
- Red Hood and the Outlaws v1:
- Aquaman and the Others v1:
- Green Arrow:
- Batman v4:
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