Gabrielle Doe Marissa Baron Spectrum Violet Harper[1]
Abilities
See list
Aura generation
Violet: Self-healing abilities and resurrection, and can produce empowering mental effects that can give her previous body's consciousness control of their shared body.
Indigo: Tractor beam.
Blue: Hologram generation.
Green: Produce halting stasis beams to stop and manipulate enemies.
Yellow: Light generation
Orange: Concussive blasts.
Red: Energy shield generation, destructive heat beams
The character's origin involves spirit possession, with an alien being resurrected and possessing the body of a recently murdered woman. The alien resurrected the woman. Halo initially suffers from amnesia, having no access to the memories of either the alien or the human host.
Halo has made limited appearances in other media, primarily in association with the Outsiders. Zehra Fazal voices Halo in Young Justice, where she is depicted as a Quraci refugee named Gabrielle Daou who was possessed by a Mother Box rather than an Aurakle.
Barr spoke on the genesis for the character, stating:[4]
"Feeling that an attractive ingénue as a team member never hurt sales with what in those days was presumed to be a largely male audience I reached back to my fan days, and more specifically Batman #134 recalling the cover story "The Rainbow Creature!", about a being whose different auras each had a different power. Combining these ideas gave us Halo".
Fictional character biography
Halo is a gestalt of a human woman named Violet Harper and an Aurakle, an ancient energy being resembling a sphere of iridescent light.[5] The Aurakle species emerged from the Source billions of years ago at the dawn of time. When sociopath Violet Harper was murdered by Syonide, an operative of the 100 and Tobias Whale, the Aurakle, who had been observing her out of curiosity, was sucked into the newly vacant body, reanimating it. The shock of the death and resurrection induced a profound loss of memory in the new combined entity. She was subsequently found and recruited by Batman to serve as a member of the Outsiders. In one early incident, Halo gains access to the memories of the Aurakle and becomes emotional over the tendency of human beings to kill each other. Halo later has to deal with the consequences of her body's previous actions, which required the assistance of the Outsiders to resolve.
The young Halo is initially the legal ward of her friend and Outsiders teammate Katana. During her stint in the Outsiders, she gains a friend in new member Windfall.[6]
After the Outsiders are framed for the murder of Markovia's queen, they are forced to flee the country. Technocrat's ex-wife, Marissa Barron, hires her old associate Ryer to attack the Outsiders. As the cyborg Sanction, Ryer kills Marissa and Halo. Halo's essence is sucked into Marissa's body, reanimating it. Halo later appears back in the body of its original host, Violet Harper, through unexplained means.
Blackest Night
During the Blackest Night event, Halo, the Creeper, and Katana are confronted by Katana's family, who have been resurrected as members of the Black Lantern Corps. Halo's light-based abilities prove to be effective against the Black Lanterns, who she destroys. In a later confrontation with Terra, Halo removes and destroys her ring while Geo-Force petrifies Terra's body to prevent her from returning.[7][8][9]
Batman Incorporated
Halo is later selected as a member of a new team of Outsiders, led by Red Robin and funded by Batman Incorporated.[10] Halo and her teammates infiltrate a satellite said to be run by the villainous Leviathan organization, but this is revealed to be a trap set by Lord Death Man and Talia al Ghul. The satellite is destroyed in a massive explosion, making it unclear whether Halo and the others survived.[11]
In The New 52 reboot of DC's continuity, Halo and the Outsiders survive the explosion, but are assumed dead. They now take advantage of their legally-deceased status to perform covert missions for Batman.[12]
In the "DC Rebirth" relaunch, Halo is a comatose girl under the care of Helga Jace.[13] The organization Kobra captures an Aurakle and plans to weaponize it, leaving the task to Jace. During the Suicide Squad's fight with Kobra's forces, Katana and Enchantress learn that King Kobra had Jace fuse Violet Harper with the Aurakle.[14] King Kobra, Katana, and Enchantress fight Violet, who is now a vessel for the Aurakle under the name of Halo.[15]
Powers and abilities
Halo has the ability to fly and to create auras of the seven known rainbow colors around herself, called halos, which have different effects:
Red: Create a strong energy shield, Levitation and produce destructive heat beams to melt or burn enemies.
Orange: Concussive blasts.
Yellow: Rays of yellow light from hands that can stun or blind enemies.
Green: Produce halting stasis beams to stop and manipulate enemies.
Blue: Duplicate herself and objects into several holographic copies.
Indigo: Tractor beam.
Violet: Self-healing abilities and resurrection, and can produce empowering mental effects that can give her previous body's consciousness control of their shared body.
White: Emit a blinding white light that is strong enough to overcome shadows and dark energies.
Halo appears in Young Justice, voiced by Zehra Fazal.[16][17][18] This version is the product of a Mother Box's spirit reviving the body of Gabrielle Daou, a Quraci refugee who was kidnapped and experimented on by metahuman traffickers and euthanized by Helga Jace after testing negative for a metagene. Initially a blank slate with traces of Daou's personality and memories and limited access to the Mother Box's knowledge and powers, Halo is rescued by Tigress, whom they live with before joining Nightwing's team. They also name themselves Violet Harper, seeing themselves as a new individual; enter a relationship with Brion Markov; and befriend Harper Row. However, they are kidnapped by Granny Goodness, who harnesses their access to the Source to access the Anti-Life Equation before Victor Stone rescues them. In the aftermath, Halo breaks up with Markov after Zviad Baazovi secretly manipulates him into killing his uncle Baron Bedlam. In the fourth season, Young Justice: Phantoms, Halo considers converting to Islam, starts identifying as non-binary, and reconsiders their feelings towards Markov and Row. As of the fourth season finale, Halo and Row have entered a relationship.
↑ 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.136. ISBN978-1-4654-5357-0.
↑ Barr, Mike W. Batman and the Outsiders Vol. 1. DC Comics. ISBN1401268129.
↑ Suicide Squad Most Wanted: Deadshot and Katana #4 (June 2016)
↑ Suicide Squad Most Wanted: Deadshot and Katana #5 (July 2016)
↑ Suicide Squad Most Wanted: Deadshot and Katana #6 (August 2016)
1 2 "Halo Voices (DC Universe)". Behind The Voice Actors. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024. Retrieved May 13, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
↑ Diaz, Eric (July 26, 2018). "Young Justice: Outsiders Creators Talk a Darker Season Full of Metahuman Trafficking". Nerdist. Archived from the original on July 26, 2018. Also just the nature of these newer characters—Forager, Halo, and Geo-Force—these are characters who are truly outsiders. On season one and season two, those were the protégés of the Justice League, inspired by the adult heroes, and then the younger heroes inspired by slightly older protégés.
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