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 and resurrected her. 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 who originates from the Source.[5] After Violet is murdered by Syonide, an operative of the 100 and Tobias Whale, the Aurakle resurrects, possesses, and empowers her.[6]
In Batman Inc., Halo joins a new team of Outsiders led by Red Robin.[9] Following an explosion, the Outsiders are declared legally dead and use their status to perform covert missions.[10][11]
Powers and abilities
Halo can fly and create auras of the seven rainbow colors, called halos, which have different effects. She can heal and resurrect herself and generate light, fire, holograms, teleport and stasis beams.
Halo appears in Young Justice, voiced by Zehra Fazal.[12][13][14] This version is the product of a Mother Box's spirit reviving the body of Gabrielle Daou, a refugee from Qurac who was kidnapped and experimented on by metahuman traffickers and euthanized by Helga Jace after testing negative for a meta-gene. 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.
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.
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