Contents 1 HistoryEdit 1.1 Teen Titans 1.2 Infinite Crisis 1.3 One Year Later and the Doom Patrol 2 Powers and AbilitiesEdit 2.1 Abilities 2.2 Weaknesses 3 ParaphernaliaEdit 3.1 Equipment 4 TriviaEdit 5 Related 6 LinksEdit 6.1 Discover and Discuss 6.2 Footnotes

HistoryEdit

Teen Titans

Scientist Karen Beecher was the girlfriend of Teen Titans member the Herald (a.k.a. Mal Duncan). In order to help make Herald look good in front of the team, Beecher secretly made herself a bumblebee-themed super-suit and attacked the Teen Titans. She escaped without this ruse being revealed.

When she later explained to Mal and the Titans what she had done, they were impressed enough to offer her membership, which she accepted. She and Mal subsequently moved to the new Titans West team, having relocated to San Francisco. When the Titans team dissolved for a time, Karen and Mal married and 'retired' from super-heroics. Karen took a job with S.T.A.R. Labs, where she designs non-lethal weaponry.

They have returned to crime-fighting from time to time to assist the team, most notably during a short-lived revival of Titans West and the JLA/Titans event, which reunited everyone involved with the team. A fight broke out over the fate of Victor Stone, Cyborg. Bumblebee personally fought Zauriel, a member of the Justice League. Despite the assistance of the current Supergirl, Bumblebee was swiftly defeated.

Following this, Mal and Karen briefly joined the latest incarnation of Titans West (now called Titans L.A.), but this incarnation of the team never really got off the ground.

Infinite Crisis

Bumblebee and her husband are among the heroes recruited by Donna Troy to help avert a coming crisis that threatened the existence of the universe. After a battle in space, most of the heroes were trapped by a Zeta Beam Ray that Adam Strange was hoping to use for teleporting away the heroes from the rift in space. Due to the ray interactions with the rift itself, the Zeta Ray altered Bumblebee's physiology, apparently transferring her body mass to Hawkgirl. This left Bumblebee approximately six inches in height and Hawkgirl some 25 feet tall.

One Year Later and the Doom Patrol

Bumblebee is shown to have joined the Doom Patrol sometime in the past year along with her husband (now known as Vox) and Beast Boy. She must now take medicine developed by Doom Patrol leader Niles Caulder to prevent her heart from going into cardiac arrest, due to her tiny form.

Karen is presently a member of the Doom Patrol. Due to medicinal efforts from Dr. Caulder, she has grown to a height of seven inches, and she can live in a dollhouse.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Abilities

• Science: Karen is still a research engineer, though she's never stated which field she specializes in she has a general overall knowledge of scientific matters.

Weaknesses

• Power Instability: Formerly she used her suit to shrink however after an accident with a Zeta Beam she couldn't stop shrinking and this is causing her heart to seize. Without the medicine from the Chief she wouldn't survive.
  

ParaphernaliaEdit

Equipment

• Cybernetic Helmet: A safety cybernetic helmet that has an attachment to Karen's mind and spine. The antennae on the helmet allow for electricity through solar power.

• Eyepieces: Quartz prisms attached to the goggles in her helmet emit an electrical "bee" sting that has a short to long range.

• Exoskeleton: Enables flight through rapid movement on her wings that are attached to her costume, faster movement and a vibration application allow her sonic disruption. It also acts like a body armor that enhances her strength.

• Flight
• Sonic Disruption
• Superhuman Strength: Equipment provided superhuman strength.
• Superhuman Durability: Equipment provided superhuman durability.
  

TriviaEdit

• Karen--along with numerous other DCU heroines--was contacted by Oracle (Barbara Gordon) and asked to join the expanded roster of the latter's team, the Birds of Prey. However, the team disbanded before she participated in any missions.

Related

• 77 Appearances of Karen Beecher (New Earth)
• 10 Images featuring Karen Beecher (New Earth)
• Quotations by or about Karen Beecher (New Earth)
• Character Gallery: Karen Beecher (New Earth)

LinksEdit

 

• Karen Beecher (New Earth) at Wikipedia.org 
• Bumblebee article at Titanstower.com
• Bumblebee bio at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe

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Footnotes

Doom Patrol

Founders The Chief • Elasti-Girl • Negative Man • Robotman Members Beast Boy • Bumblebee • Celsius • Coagula • Crazy Jane • Danny the Street • Doc Magnus • Dorothy Spinner • Dusty Marlow • Faith • Fast Forward • Fever • Freak • Grunt • Kharma • Kid Slick • Lodestone • Mento • Negative Woman • Nudge • Rocky Davis • Scott Fischer • Tempest • Vortex • Vox Enemies AVM-Man • Brain • Brotherhood of Evil • Candlemaker • Cult of the Unwritten Book • Doctor Tyme • Garguax • General Immortus • General Zahl • Kalki • Madame Rouge • Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E. • Mister 103 • Mister Nobody • Monsieur Mallah • Red Jack • Scissormen • Shrapnel • Tenth Circle Comics Volume 1 • Volume 2 • Volume 3 • Volume 4 • Volume 5 Miscellaneous Origins • Publication History • Recommended Reading Creators Arnold Drake • Bob Haney • Paul Kupperberg • Grant Morrison • Rachel Pollack • John Arcudi • John Byrne • Geoff Johns • Keith Giffen This box: view • talk • edit

Teen Titans

Main Aqualad (Garth) • Beast Boy • Cyborg • Kid Flash • Raven • Robin • Speedy • Starfire • Superboy • Wonder Girl Membership Anima • Aquagirl (Lorena Marquez • Tula) • Argent • Atom • Baby Wildebeest • Blue Beetle • Bombshell • Bumblebee • Bunker • Bushido • Captain Marvel, Jr. • Damage • Enigma • Flamebird • Fringe • Gnaark • Golden Eagle • Green Lantern • Hawk and Dove • Herald • Impulse • Jericho • Jesse Quick • Joker's Daughter • Joto • Kid Eternity • Kole • Lagoon Boy • Little Barda • Mas y Menos • Minion • Mirage • Miss Martian • Molecule • Nightwing • Offspring • Omen • Osiris • Pantha • Phantasm • Power Boy • Prysm • Ravager • Red Devil • Red Star • Risk • Solstice • Son of Vulcan • Skitter • Static • Supergirl • Talon • Terra • Young Frankenstein • Zatara Enemies Andre LeBlanc • Antithesis • Arsenal • Blackfire • Brother Blood • Brotherhood of Evil • Calculator • Cheshire • Cinderblock • Clock King • Deathstroke • Deathwing • Ding Dong Daddy • Disruptor • Doctor Light • Fearsome Five • Gizmo • Goth • H.I.V.E. • H'San Natall • Hangmen • Haze • Holocaust • Hybrid • Lord Chaos • Mad Mod • Mammoth • Mento • Mister Twister • N.O.W.H.E.R.E. • Neutron • Psimon • Puppeteer • Shimmer • Superboy-Prime • Tartarus • Terror Titans • Trident • Trigon • The Veil • Wildebeest Society • Zookeeper Teams Team Titans • Tiny Titans • Titans • Titans East • Titans Tomorrow • Titans West • Young Justice Miscellaneous Origins • Publication History • Recommended Reading Comics New Teen Titans (Vol. 1) • New Teen Titans (Vol. 2) • New Titans (Vol. 1) • Tales of the New Teen Titans • Team Titans • Teen Titans (Vol. 1) • Teen Titans (Vol. 2) • Teen Titans (Vol. 3) • Teen Titans (Vol. 4) • Teen Titans: Year One • Terror Titans • Tiny Titans • Titans (Vol. 1) • Titans (Vol. 2) • Teen Titans Go Storylines Beast Boys and Girls • Broken Promises • Changing of the Guard • Child's Play • Coming Out • Dark Nemesis • Deathtrap • Family Lost • Family Reunion • Fractured • Fresh Hell • The Future is Now • Graduation Day • Hunt for Raven • The Insiders • It's Our Right to Fight • The Judas Contract • A Kid's Game • Life and Death • Lockdown • A Lonely Place of Dying • The Lost World of Skartaris • The New Deal • The New Teen Titans • Old Friends • On the Clock • Prime of Life • Team Building • The Technis Imperative • Terra Incognito • The Terror of Trigon • Then & Now • Titans Around the World • Titan's Children • Titans East • Titans Hunt • Titans of Tomorrow • Total Chaos • Universe Ablaze • Villains for Hire • Who is Donna Troy? • Year One This box: view • talk • edit

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