Fright (DC)
Fright is a female comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Dr. Linda Friitawa
She lost her medical licence because she was illegally experimenting on humans. Cut off, she tried to support herself through other means, but was pretty destitute until she was approached by Oswald Cobblepot, the crimelord known as the Penguin. She was to assist Jonathan Crane with creating a new toxin. Crane, "broke and desperate", according to Cobblepot, offered his services, and was supplied with shelter, a laboratory, equipment, supplies and a "highly qualified assistant" in exchange for a Fright Dust formula that would keep Cobblepot's underlings terrified of him. Due to her albinism, Friitawa slept all day and worked with Crane all night, helping him to perfect his "Fright Dust".
The appearance of a monster dubbed "The Scarebeast," which used Crane's Fear Gas and was targeting Cobblepot's organization, raised questions between the trio (Cobblepot, Crane, Friitawa). The Scarebeast successfully killed off many of Cobblepot's men. Friitawa assured Crane that she believed him when he told her he had nothing to do with the creature. The Scarebeast was stopped by Batman, who, along with Robin and Alfred, discovered it was, in fact, a mutated form of Scarecrow.
Soon, a gigantic creature dubbed the " Scarebeast" began killing off the Penguin's underlings. Although the creature exhaled fear-inducing toxin and resembled the Scarecrow's costume, Friitawa believed in Scarecrow when he claimed he had nothing to do with the creature. Sometime later Batman defeated the creature and discovered that it was, the Scarecrow and then confronted Cobblepot,about that. Cobblepot had hired Friitawa sabotage the Crane's experiments and turn into a monster and then to kill their partners and assume the business, in exchange for which she could use his facilities to work around the negative effects of her albinism, giving herself superhuman abilities and described her profile,Friitawa was a geneticist who lost her license for unauthorized experiments on human beings.
During the conversation, she appeared to confirmed everything that Batman had said and she said that in the next time,he should call her Fright and ran off.
Fright later resurfaced working with the new Black Mask. She and HUgo Strange resurrected the Reaper to distract Batman. When the Black Mask expressed reluctance to continue in his work, Fright used her fear gas to convince him otherwise. She also is in love with the new Black Mask.
After Black Mask was revealed to be Jeremiah Arkham and he was imprisoned, Fright is shown as wearing a new black mask to take the mantle.
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Linda Friitawa
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
According to the Penguin, Fright has the ability to exhale nerve toxins. She also has superhuman strength and agility, the degree of which is unknown.
Notes
- Fright was created by Judd Winick and Dustin Nguyen where she made her first appearance in Batman v1 #627 (April, 2004).
In other media
Video games
- In Batman: Arkham Knight, Fright made a cameo appearance in the setting of the video game set in the Arkhamverse. A wanted poster of Dr. Linda Friitawa was shown where people were told to notify security upon sighting her.
Appearances
- Batman v1: (2004)
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