Jinx is an Indian sorceress whose powers include the ability to command elements such as air, the manipulation of magical energy that she can manifest as offensive force bolts and green flame, the ability to dissolve matter, and create ground tremors.
History
She first encountered the Fearsome Five when that group attacked a research facility that belongs to S.T.A.R. Labs where Jinx and another criminal, Neutron were being incarcerated. The Five were defeated by the Teen Titans, but Jinx and Neutron decided to join the Fearsome Five. Jinx remained with the group even after Neutron subsequently left it. When the team returned they fought Superman alongside new members Deuce and Charger, the group disbanded, and Jinx was incarcerated in the metahuman prison on Alcatraz, along with her teammates Mammoth and Gizmo.[1]
Later, Doctor Sivana freed Jinx, Mammoth and Gizmo from Alcatraz. Having summoned teammate Psimon and having brought her teammate Shimmer back to life after she had been turned into glass and shattered, Sivana put the team to work for him in a scheme to short sell Lexcorp stock by having them steal its accounts from its corporate building in Metropolis, and then driving down the stock by killing all the people in the building.[2] He also had them destroy two other Lexcorp properties. At the latter of the two, a microchip processor factory of Lexcorp's subsidiary, Kellacor, the Five were confronted by the Outsiders. After escaping, the criminally unsophisticated Five urged Sivana to take Lexcorp's nuclear missile facility near Joshua Tree, California. When Sivana refused, Psimon asserted that they would take it anyway, and in response, Sivana killed Gizmo with a laser blast to the head, and severed relations with the remaining four, warning them that he would kill them if they ever crossed his path again. The Five decided to enact their plan to take the facility and fire a nuclear missile at Canada, but were defeated by the Outsiders. Mammoth was returned to Alcatraz, but Jinx and the other members of the Five got away.[3]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Notes
- Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Earth-One era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985–86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and should be considered apocryphal.
- Her co-creator, Chuck Patton, made a small thread on Twitter explaining how he partially came up with the character.
Trivia
- Jinx was described as East Indian but this term has several definitions so it is unknown if it was used to mean that she came from an Eastern region of India or to simply mean she was from the country of India and not a Native American "Indian". A comment about the latter was used in the comic she debuted in.[4]
- She could originally only speak Urdu until Psimon psychically taught her English in Tales of The Teen Titans Issue #57.
Related
- 35 Appearances of Jinx (New Earth)
- 12 Images featuring Jinx (New Earth)
- Quotations by or about Jinx (New Earth)
- Character Gallery: Jinx (New Earth)
Footnotes
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