Black Alice (comics)

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Black Alice
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Black Alice as depicted in Birds of Prey #76 (January 2005). Art by Ed Benes.
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Birds of Prey #76 (January 2005)
Created by Gail Simone
Joe Prado
Ed Benes
In-story information
Alter egoLori Zechlin
Species Metahuman
Team affiliations Secret Six
Coven of Three
Abilities

Black Alice (Lori Zechlin) is a DC Comics character introduced in Birds of Prey #76 (January 2005). She uses her magical powers to prey on drug dealers in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio. [1]

Contents

Fictional character biography

Origin

Lori Zechlin is a teenager and practicing Wiccan who lives with her father John and her mother, who dies of an overdose. In her grief, Lori manifests the ability to steal the powers of any magic user she comes into contact with, while also leaving her host temporarily powerless. This motivates her to adopt the name "Black Alice", using her newfound power to avenge her mother on the dealers who sold her drugs. [2]

Black Alice later encounters the Birds of Prey, who bring her to Doctor Fate so she can learn to control her powers. [1]

Day of Vengeance

In Day of Vengeance , Shadowpact recruits Alice to battle the corrupted Spectre and Eclipso. After the Spectre kills the wizard Shazam and destroys the Rock of Eternity, Alice declines to formally join Shadowpact.

In Infinite Crisis , Alice helps combat a global prison break orchestrated by Alexander Luthor Jr.

The Society

Talia al Ghul, Felix Faust, and Cheetah approach Alice with an offer to resurrect her mother in exchange for her joining the Secret Society, but she refuses. Alice then usurps the Helm of Nabu, becoming a new incarnation of Doctor Fate. However, when Nabu manages to easily overpower her will so he can punish those he considers wicked with her powers, Alice wrests back control of her own body and abandons the Helm. [1] [3]

Alice later becomes addicted to antidepressants, which interferes with Darkseid's attempts to suppress her will. [4] [5] [6]

Reign in Hell

In the Reign in Hell storyline, Alice travels to Hell to retrieve a stolen portion of her powers. An encounter with Satanus ends with Alice taking some of his power, which ends up being just enough to tip the scales in his eternal struggle with his sister Blaze, who then defeats him and assumes rulership of Hell.

Secret Six and Blackest Night

During the Blackest Night event, Alice joins the Secret Six. [7] [8] In May 2010, she began co-starring in a back-up feature in Teen Titans alongside fellow teenage magic-users Zachary Zatara and Traci Thirteen. [9] [10]

New 52

In The New 52 continuity reboot, Alice's origin is altered; her power now comes from a demon who inhabited her body when she was seemingly killed in a car accident that claimed the lives of her parents. [11]

Powers and abilities

Black Alice can temporarily steal the magical powers of any being regardless of how powerful they are, leaving her targets powerless in turn. While the maximum range of her ability is unknown, it is potentially limitless; Alice has even been shown capable of taking the power of Phantom Stranger and the Spectre. Additionally, her clothes and physical appearance change to reflect any attributes of the person whose powers she took (for example, when she took Blue Devil's power, her skin turned blue and she grew horns out of her forehead). [12] [13] [7] [14]

In other media

References

  1. 1 2 3 Wallace, Dan (2008), "Black Alice", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The DC Comics Encyclopedia, London: Dorling Kindersley, p. 49, ISBN   978-0-7566-4119-1
  2. ↑ Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Korte, Steve; Manning, Matt; Wiacek, Win; Wilson, Sven (2016). The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe. DK Publishing. p. 41. ISBN   978-1-4654-5357-0.
  3. ↑ Birds of Prey #115–116 (April–May 2008)
  4. ↑ Birds of Prey #118 (July 2008)
  5. ↑ Birds of Prey #121 (October 2008)
  6. ↑ Birds of Prey #97 (October 2006)
  7. 1 2 Secret Six (vol. 3) #16 (February 2010)
  8. ↑ Secret Six (vol. 3) #21–22 (July – August 2010)
  9. ↑ "DCU | Comics". Archived from the original on 2010-03-07. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
  10. ↑ Wonder Woman #600 (August 2010)
  11. ↑ Secret Six (vol. 4) #10
  12. ↑ Birds of Prey #76 (January 2005)
  13. ↑ Day of Vengeance #5 (October 2005)
  14. ↑ Secret Six (vol. 3) #18 (April 2010)


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