Joanna Dark
Joanna Dark is a female video game character who features in Perfect Dark.
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Biography
Joanna Dark was a female human born in Atlanta, Georgia on March 18, 2000 where she was the daughter of Jack Dark. She was born with a rough beginning. Her mother died after giving birth to her and had severe spinal damage, which would require specialized experimental treatment throughout most of her childhood. The experience would haunt her subconscious for years. It wasn't until she was five years old that she could walk on her own. She never knew her mother, who died shortly after she was born. When she was 7 years old, the young Joanna's father, Jack Dark, began teaching her to fight, including how to properly operate firearms. Jack was a bounty hunter, and he took Joanna with him as he tracked criminals across the world. She briefly attended an American school in Beijing, China, but was expelled after hospitalizing another student following a bullying incident. As a result, she was homeschooled by her father, including some online and remote teaching, and tutoring by AI lecturers. Her innate curiosity filled in most of the gaps. As a teenager, Joanna did not directly assist Jack in his missions. She was left to regularly perform weapon maintenance, provide secondary assistance, and train on the HoloMan and DeathMatch VR systems.
In 2020, Joanna and Jack ran into financial trouble. Needing the money, Chandra signed Dark Bail Bonds onto a contract to apprehend Nathan Zeigler, with the reward being $475,000. They tracked and subsequently chased Zeigler across the globe. They finally tracked him to Hong Kong, where he was captured by a Triad gang. Joanna was to assist Jack on her first field op, hanging back while Jack extracts Zeigler from Killian's nightclub. She is inserted by Chandra Sekhar via speedboat on a dock. When Jack gets into trouble in the nightclub, Joanna fights Killian's thugs as she moves through the building. Joanna arrives to assist, but she throws Jack's guard off and Killian is able to escape. Zeigler refuses to go anywhere without his research documents, and Jack has been injured, so Joanna is sent to recover them. After quickly dispatching a group of bikers, She moves through the streets of Hong Kong, sneaking past and dispatching Killian's thugs as she does so. She retrieves the research documents from a safe house and meets up with Jack at the rendezvous point in a subway. Joanna can only watch as Zeigler implants Jack with his information and dies. Jack and Joanna then move to the rooftops, hoping to meet Chandra at the extraction point. Due to Killian's interference, Jack and Joanna are separated and Joanna covers Jack from the rooftop as they make their way to the extraction point. A dataDyne assault team impedes their progress, assisted by Killian in his dropship. After an intense fight, Joanna is able to bring down Killian's drop ship, with the following explosion killing him. Joanna escapes with Chandra, but Jack is captured by dataDyne.
The tracker in Jack's null suit pinpoints him to Zhang Li's mansion in China. There, she able to perform the then-unheard-of feat of infiltrating the mansion. She stumbles in on a DeathMatch session in progress but is taken by surprise when one of the contenders dies as a result of losing. Zhang Li notices Joanna and mistakes her for a professional player. Mai Hem, Zhang Li's daughter, challenges her, and Joanna readily accepts, entering into a virtual reality duel with Mai Hem in a small chamber. Joanna defeats Mai Hem, but Zhang Li stops the game before his daughter can be killed. As medical support is called for Mai Hem, Joanna moves deeper into the facility.
Joanna finds Jack in a cell. She notices he's been tortured, and he has a brief bout of speaking random coordinates to Joanna. Jack and Joanna then fight their way out of the complex. They steal a hovercraft, and with Joanna piloting they make their way down the river, arriving at the airbase. Before they can escape Mai Hem appears with a security team. Jack and Joanna are pinned down, and they come to the conclusion they were not going to make it out. Joanna is taken by surprise as Jack steals her weapon and charges the security team. Joanna takes advantage of the moment and runs to the dropship. Joanna watches her father be executed by Mai Hem. Joanna maneuvers the vehicle near Mai Hem and sets her on fire as an act of revenge before escaping. Joanna pursues Zeigler's lead and traces Dr. Eustace Caroll to the Trinity Research Platform. Shortly after arriving Joanna loses contact with Chandra. She is ambushed by two bounty hunters hoping to cash in on killing her. She dispatches them and proceeds into the station. Dr. Caroll then uses the neuro drive technology to extract the memory of the words Joanna's father muttered concerning Zeigler's work. Chandra arrives and kills Dr. Caroll. She reveals she was working for Zhang Li, having been made a large offer. She then prepares to kill Joanna, only for Jonathan Steinberg to foil her plans by blowing down the door.
Jonathan and his team take Joanna to the CPU where they download the Zeigler information. The team then fights to the surface, and they escape in a dropship. Jonathan introduces Joanna to Daniel Carrington, who informs the group that dataDyne is moving a large number of their forces to a temple in the Amazon rain forest. Joanna agrees to come along. Not long into the mission, Joanna's dropship is shot down by dataDyne. Joanna and the drop ship pilot defend the craft from a wave of dataDyne forces. The area having been secured, Joanna sets off into the jungle. She steals a jet pack to fly over to the Peruvian temple, the focus of the dig site. There, she discovers that dataDyne has excavated an ancient artifact. She plants a tracking device before stowing away aboard a dropship.
Overview
Personality and attributes
She operated under the code name of Perfect Dark that was made in honor of her flawless performance in training tests.
Powers and abilities
She was described as being a highly skilled marksman, a lethal close combat fighter, and an expert pilot and driver.
Being a professional bounty hunter to a secret agent, Joanna is a highly skilled marksman, a lethal hand to hand combat fighter, and an expert pilot and driver. She has incredible reflexes and an ability to sniff out trouble. Her technical skills stretch as far as wiring up a charge, picking a lock, or hacking a basic system. She also has an innate ability at 'being who people want her to be', which has allowed her to become an expert at keeping a false identity, suiting her for undercover operations. Joanna is incredibly enduring, in one case after being shot she continued doing her mission even though the wound worsened, having even been torn open several times, and developing an infection.
Her firing range training scores are so high, she has the grade of A++.
Notes
- Joanna Dark was created by Rare where she featured in the setting of the Perfect Dark universe.
- The character was originally devised by video game designer Martin Hollis who found inspiration in a number of fictional heroines such as FBI agent Dana Scully from television series The X-Files and the eponymous femme fatale of the film La Femme Nikita among others.
- Her Perfect Dark Zero model was redesigned by manga artist Wil Overton.
Appearances
- Perfect Dark:
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