Elaine Marsh-Morton (New Earth)
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Talks like Jane Seymour, fights like Bruce Lee. 
- -- Nightwing
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History
Overview
Lady Elaine Marsh-Morton is a genuine English Aristocrat, descended from a long line of British soldiers and mercenaries. She is an expert martial artist, proficient with many different kinds of firearms and melee weapons, and works as an assassin-for-hire. The money she earns from her secret career helps prevent foreclosure on her impoverished family estate. Lady Vic sets herself apart from most other supervillains not just by her considerable skill, but by her ruthlessness and determination. She has been shown to be more than willing to kill small children for her paycheck, and in the pages of Birds of Prey once actually jumped out of a plane without a parachute to chase an escaping hostage (Black Canary). She most often appears in Blüdhaven as an enemy of Nightwing, and is frequently employed by gang boss Blockbuster.
Blüdhaven
In her first appearance, she was returning to Blüdhaven to collect a fee for an assignment she had performed for Bludhaven gang boss Antonio "Angel" Marin; she was upset to find Marin missing. She tracked down his lawyer, and threatened to kill the man's young daughter if she wasn’t paid – a threat she definitely would have carried out, if Nightwing had not intervened.[1] Dudley Soames informed her that Marin had been replaced by Blockbuster, and offered to pay her fee, with a retainer to continue working for him. Since then, she has clashed repeatedly with Nightwing.
Elaine was one of several of Blockbuster’s hirelings tasked with tracking down Oracle. When Blockbuster was dying of heart failure, Elaine was the one entrusted with locating Gorilla City in Africa, and finding him a replacement heart.
Lady Vic was later sent to eliminate Blockbuster's ally Tarantula when he learned she had disobeyed his orders. Tarantula defeated Lady Vic, and shot her in the stomach [2]
One Year Later
- See also: One Year Later
A year after the Infinite Crisis, Lady Vic was hired by Doctor Psycho and Cheshire to destroy the Secret Six. She and Double Dare attacked Deadshot when he was in the park with his wife and child (who fled upon their arrival). Unarmed, Deadshot was easily defeated by Double Dare, and Lady Vic was about to execute him when his wife threw him a gun, which allowed him to get the upper hand. Deadshot considered killing the two of them, but allowed them to escape for his daughter's sake.
Most recently, she has been seen among the new Injustice League and is one of the deportee villains featured in Salvation Run.Powers and Abilities
Abilities
Weapons and hand-to-hand combat expert, excellent acrobat.
Paraphernalia
Weapons
Usually two Flintlock Pistols, and any blades and melee weapons of her choice.
Trivia
- Lady Vic has a number of family heirlooms that she considers her most prized possessions; weapons that have been passed down through the years collected by her long ancestral line of soldiers and mercenaries. They include: a matched pair of Bundi Daggers, an antique Katana, a Thuggee strangling cloth, a Maasai javelin, and an old Webley service revolver.
- "Lady Vic" is short for "Lady Victim."
- When not on a job, Lady Vic likes to rest easy in the company of her hulking manservant, Bivens.
- Her drink of choice is Darjeeling tea.
See Also
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