Sunday, September 4, 2016

Fifty Sue: Deathstroke's #1 Fan/Would Be Killer

DC's 2014-2015 series The New 52: Futures End definitely a polarizing title in that people either kind of, sort of liked it or they absolutely hated it. Critic weren't big fans either as the series' Comic Book Round Up meta-score was only 6.7 with individual issue score ranging from somewhat respectable 8.3 to a dismal 5.0. But one of the coolest things to come out of the title was the character of Fifty Sue.

No offense to Stormguard, but Fifty Sue was the only new character from the Future's End story that was intriguing enough for some fans to want to stick with the series. Making her comics debut in The New 52: Futures End (2014) #5, Fifty Sue was the result of Project Cadmus' first effort to create its own metahuman. Cadmus' scientists bonded together DNA from 52 unique sources—hence her punnish name—resulting in an adorable young girl that was a frighteningly powerful telekinetic, had superhuman strength enough to battle New God Big Barda, possessed cosmic awareness, could simultaneously manifest her consciousness in multiple locations, could project powerful energy blasts, and was most definitely a raging sociopath.

Honoring her fallen mentor, Fifty Sue
claimed his mask and colors and vowed
to kill Brother Eye for allowing someone
other than her kill Deathstroke.
Fifty Sue lived at Cadmus and basically had complete freedom to go anywhere and do anything that she wanted because frankly, no one could make her do anything if she didn't want to do it. She would become emotionally attached to Deathstroke, who was working for King Faraday and Cadmus at the time, and fancied herself a kind of fatal Robin figure to Slade's murderous Batman. The feelings were not mutual as Slade was terrified that someone as powerful and unstable as Fifty Sue would surely someday snap and kill him. King Faraday would eventually send Fifty Sue out on assassination missions with her "partner" Deathstroke.

Her obsession with Slade made life miserable for Cadmus newcomer, Grifter, whom Fifty Sue believed to be competition to her and her "partner" Deathstroke. Sadly, her hero-worship of Slade only lasted until she felt betrayed by him. Then she, of course, wanted to kill her "former partner" in the most unpleasant manner she could imagine. Following Slade's death at the hands of Earth 2's Fury, she began to view Grifter and the Earth 2 Lana Lang as parental figures and would rescue them both when they were captured when the evil Brother Eye took over Cadmus Island. Lang particularly took the motherly role to heart angrily forbidding Fifty Sue from ever using her powers to kill again. Though not at all happy about it, Fifty Sue began honoring her "mother's" wishes.

Pictured below is the Cadmus profile of Fifty Sue.


Pictured below is an example of what Fifty Sue could do.